China's Garment Industry Should Speed Up R & D

China clothing Spin The advantage of the industry lies in its complete industrial chain. At present, China is still the country with the largest number of garments exporting in the world. However, this situation is changing quietly. In recent years, due to the low labor cost in Southeast Asia, China's garment manufacturing industry has shifted to Southeast Asia, and some garment related industries are also considering shifting to the region. In response to this trend, some analysts have pointed out that China's clothing and textile industry urgently needs to "change the cage and change birds" to achieve industrial transformation and upgrading, improve the added value of products, and shape its own clothing brand.

Transfer enterprises are mainly oriented to order production in Europe and the United States.

Opening an advertisement version of a Chinese newspaper in Kampuchea will find that the recruitment notices of garment enterprises take up a lot of space. In the suburbs of Phnom Penh, there are more and more Chinese advertisements for land sales. According to Shen Chen, chairman of Kampuchea Heng Rui Textile Co., Ltd., almost every day there are new Chinese enterprises coming to Kampuchea. The factories in the industrial park in Phnom Penh have been rented out. Only some areas and factories in remote areas outside the urban area are being leased.

The main reason why Chinese clothing and textile enterprises are so fond of Kampuchea is that the minimum monthly wage in Kampuchea is only 80 dollars. Two, the cost of plant rental in the country is only equivalent to that of China's 1/5. Three, the clothing products produced in Kampuchea enjoy preferential treatment for the EU's duty-free exports.

Utana Simpsonvi, executive director of Thailand Garment Manufacturers Association, told reporters that China's clothing exports accounted for 35% of the world's clothing exports, ranking first. The proportion of all Southeast Asian countries is about 10% to 12%.

Jiang Hui, President of the China Textiles Import and Export Chamber of Commerce, told the newspaper that the transfer of orders to Southeast Asia was partly transferred from Europe and the United States clothing brand manufacturers directly from China. Clothing brand After the order, we will lease the factory in Southeast Asia or purchase the shares of local garment enterprises to produce.

"We design garments with European and American customers. European and American customers take samples of clothing back to Europe, and buyers decide the quantity of orders. We then purchase raw materials from the designated suppliers of European and American customers to export duty-free garments to the European Union." Kuang Lanfen, deputy manager of sales Planning Department of strength garment processing (Kampuchea) Co., Ltd., told the reporter that this is the typical business mode of Kampuchea garment export enterprises.

　 Facing many challenges to build factories in Southeast Asia

In Southeast Asia, rising labor costs, inadequate generating capacity, shortage of infrastructure and inadequate legal and land systems will be a constraint on the development of enterprises. Shen said that in Malaysia and Singapore, labor costs rose from 30 to 40 dollars a month to 60 dollars a month for 15 years. However, as foreign companies compete to raise prices to attract workers, the cost of labour in Kampuchea rose from $60 to $120 a month for 2 years. Since 2011, labor costs have risen at an alarming rate.

The survival environment of high-end textile enterprises in Kampuchea is more difficult. Shen told our reporter that the number of high-end products of European famous brand clothing was limited and the number of batches was much higher, resulting in higher cost of customs clearance from China. However, the productivity of workers in Kampuchea is relatively low. If the quality of clothing produced by them is not up to the required standard, they will have to re import their fabrics and remake them. "Only enterprises with larger orders will have room for survival".

Song SA SSU Su Pan Wei, chairman of the Thailand Federation of national textile industry, pointed out to our reporter that Kampuchea lacks the raw materials needed to develop the textile industry. Due to the lack of fabric in Kampuchea, many Chinese enterprises can only produce fabrics in the country and print and dye them, then bring buttons and yarns to Kampuchea, which are finally sewn by local workers. According to Kuang Lanfen, in recent years, there have been some agents and traders in Kampuchea, who can provide accessories such as zippers, buttons and yarns for local clothing enterprises. Kuang Lanfen said: "this can only solve the urgent problem. If we want to import large quantities, we have to import from China."

China's garment industry should speed up R & D

Reporters noted that most of the clothes sold in some big markets in Southeast Asia are low-end. Brand clothing The middle and high end boutique garments with complicated processes are mostly made in China. "3 to 4 years later, the Asian garment industry will have a clear market segmentation. China, Thailand and Vietnam will focus on high-end clothing, while Bangladesh, Burma and Kampuchea will mainly produce low-end clothing." He told the newspaper reporter.

Jiang Hui believes that China's garment manufacturing industry should strive towards fabric functionalization and fashion design, and use surplus funds to develop new fabrics with high technology content, such as high fiber, non iron and nano technology. Lu Qijian, Secretary General of Kampuchea Garment Manufacturers Association, pointed out to our newspaper reporters that the proportion of garment manufacturing industry in the clothing industry will be smaller and smaller in the future.

Gu Qingyang, an associate professor at Li Guangyao School of public policy, National University of Singapore, told reporters that China Garment manufacturing The industry should speed up R & D, enhance the level of its own manufacturing industry in Asia, and lay a good foundation for upgrading the high-end industrial chain.