International Cotton Fair: The Difference Between Domestic And Foreign Cotton Prices Is Even More Pressure For The Industry.

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At present, faced with unfavorable factors such as insufficient external demand, increasing costs and increasing competition from neighboring countries, the whole country's small and medium-sized textile enterprises are generally having a hard time.

Among them, the difference between domestic and foreign cotton prices is more pressure for the industry.

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Less than p ago, the 2013 China International Cotton Conference was held in Qingdao. Nearly 1000 experts, scholars, government officials and cotton textile producers from 17 countries and regions discussed the development of cotton and textile industry.

High price difference seriously injured cotton textile enterprises.

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< p > compared with previous years, the topics discussed by the participants were concentrated on the temporary cotton purchase and storage policy.

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< p > 2011, in response to the impact of the financial crisis, preventing cotton prices from falling and protecting the interests of cotton farmers, China began to implement the temporary cotton purchase and storage policy. At that time, about 3000000 tons were sold at the price of 19 thousand and 800 yuan / ton.

Later, this policy continued, and cotton prices began to fluctuate around the price of temporary storage and storage.

However, due to the continuous impact of the financial crisis, the international market demand is insufficient, the price of cotton in the international market continues to decline, and the price difference between domestic cotton and the domestic cotton has increased to around 4000 yuan / ton.

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< p > "the difference is four thousand or five thousand yuan, it is very difficult for textile enterprises to digest alone."

Ding Haowu, general manager of the national cotton exchange market, said that the cotton temporary purchase and storage policy has stabilized the cotton prices, and the cotton growers are basically satisfied. However, the follow-up links of the whole industrial chain, including circulation, processing, textile and so on, are under great pressure. Especially for cotton textile enterprises, the price difference far exceeds the affordability. Many enterprises are forced to use chemical fibers instead of cotton.

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< p > Zhou Shengtao, President of China Cotton Association, admits that China's textile industry has gone through unprecedented difficulties under the influence of domestic and foreign cotton price differentials. The pressure of operation has increased, profits have declined, and international competitiveness has been weakened.

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< p > a new change is that under the constraints of raw materials, the division of operation between domestic textile enterprises is obvious, showing that the order of large enterprises is relatively good, and the operating rate of small enterprises is obviously declining.

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< p > "big enterprises benefit mainly from import quotas, and they can be maintained. Small enterprises do not have import quotas, which is relatively difficult."

Zhu Beina, President of China Cotton Textile Industry Association, said.

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< p > "I think the temporary purchasing and storage policy can be brakes."

Du Min, director of the rural development research center of the Ministry of agriculture's rural economy research center, said.

"The industry has seen that the purchase and storage must not continue, which will be disadvantageous to the whole industry.

A while ago, the relevant departments held a meeting, and the government was making great efforts to change the situation.

Zhu Beina revealed.

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"P >" as the official of the competent department, Liu Xiaonan, deputy director of the economic and Trade Department of the national development and Reform Commission, has become the focus of attention.

People in the industry want to know the trend of China's cotton policy from his speech, so as to judge the market changes in the cotton season and the lower cotton season.

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< p > "there is room for improvement and improvement in the current cotton policy system."

Liu Xiaonan said that the basic starting point of cotton temporary purchase and storage policy is good and has achieved the main goal.

But any policy has its limitations.

It is also objective that the policies reflected by people reflect the pressure of purchasing and storing, weakening the market regulation, and impeding the price linkage between the international and domestic markets.

He disclosed that the national development and Reform Commission and relevant departments have already held a meeting to study this matter. The theme is how to improve and perfect the existing regulatory mechanism, and explore a long-term mechanism to promote the healthy development of China's cotton industry.

But he also said, "at present, the relevant government departments believe that the stability and continuity of existing cotton regulation policies should be maintained.

The policy of putting and importing reserve cotton should continue to be stable. "

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< p > at the same time, there is also a voice that considers that the interests of cotton farmers should be taken into account in the adjustment of the cotton policy.

Among them, the most direct reference is direct subsidy to cotton farmers.

This is because China's cotton farmers have low production scale and low risk tolerance, so they need support from the state.

Although the current purchase and storage price has played a basic protective role for cotton farmers, it is not enough to mobilize the enthusiasm of farmers to increase production area.

In 2013, China's cotton planting area continued to decline, which is expected to reduce by 6% or so to the lowest level in nearly ten years.

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< p > Zhou Shengtao said that in the policy design, we should find a balance between the three interests of agriculture, industry and commerce. We should not only consider the income of cotton farmers, but also take into consideration the factors such as the affordability of textile enterprises and the reasonable profit margins of circulation enterprises.

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Less than p days ago, the seven departments of the national development and Reform Commission jointly issued the "cotton temporary purchase and storage plan for 2013". They continued to open up and store cotton. The price of temporary storage and storage was maintained at the standard level of 20 thousand and 400 yuan / ton, and the quality of the purchase and storage and the grade difference rate were implemented according to the new standard.

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< p > "from the industrial point of view, the problem of cotton price difference at home and abroad has been well known. At present, there is no way to change it. Especially this year, we must continue to collect and store temporarily. Cotton spinning enterprises can only prepare themselves well and keep up with it."

Zhu Beina said that in addition to using cotton, more and more textile enterprises began to use non cotton fibers such as chemical fiber, wool and hemp. In recent years, the use of non cotton fibers has increased greatly.

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< p > Ding Haowu introduced that the highest annual consumption of cotton in China has reached 11 million tons, and now it has dropped to 8 million tons. If the policy is not able to keep pace with the times, the cotton textile industry will continue to run difficulties and the consumption of cotton will be less and less. This is the whole industry will not want to see.

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< p > some people believe that the traditional competitive advantages of domestic textile enterprises are weakening, and some orders in the international market have begun to pfer to neighboring countries such as Southeast Asia.

Due to the lack of necessary capital, technology and talent accumulation, some enterprises are weak in risk bearing capacity, so it is urgent to accelerate pformation and upgrading.

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