Guangdong'S Export Growth Slowed Down And Adjustment Intensified.

"I have been exporting enterprises in the Pearl River Delta for 17 years. This year is the coldest year."

Dongguan Sheng Bai Ji shoes industry Co., Ltd. deputy assistant Zhang Jinfa said.

The shoemaking enterprise, which has more than 6000 employees, is one of the largest processing enterprises in Changan town of Dongguan. It mainly produces OEM for Puma and other international brands.

But this year, the company's orders have been greatly reduced.

"It's not that we can't get the bill, but we can't earn money and dare not take too many orders."

Zhang Jinfa said that many factors such as the rising price of raw materials, the appreciation of the renminbi, the increase in exchange rate losses and the increase in labor costs and other factors superimposed, "it is very difficult for enterprises to control costs, and this year there will probably be losses".

In fact, in the Pearl River Delta, shoe factories such as Sheng Baiji, which are large and have regular customers, can still maintain production, and many small and medium-sized shoemaking enterprises have ceased production or pferred to the domestic market.

According to Guangzhou customs statistics, the Pearl River Delta footwear export enterprises fell to 2617 from 5043 in the first half of this year, with a drop of 48.1%.

Export difficulties are not limited to one industry of shoemaking, but industries such as toys, textiles, clothing, plastics, hardware and so on are all facing a difficult situation because they are faced with the same international and domestic environment: the weakening of international consumption, the adjustment of export policies such as domestic processing trade and export tax rebates under the influence of the US subprime crisis, and the appreciation of the RMB against the US dollar has eaten most of the profits of the enterprises.

In the first half of this year, China's exports continued to grow.

Data from the Customs show that the national export was 666 billion 600 million US dollars in the first half of this year, up 21.9%, and the growth rate fell 5.7 percentage points over the same period.

In Guangdong, which accounts for nearly 30% of the total exports of the country, the signs of export decline are more obvious: in the first half of this year, Guangdong exported 187 billion 830 million US dollars, an increase of 13%, lower than the national growth rate, down 13.5 percentage points from the same period last year.

The export growth of Guangdong Province, which has always taken the lead in foreign trade import and export, has dropped sharply, which is related to the foreign trade structure of the province. On the one hand, the proportion of processing trade in Guangdong's foreign trade is larger. Under the background of internal and external difficulties, the processing trade mode of "two out of the outside", low value-added and low bargaining power is most squeezed and the living space is greatly reduced.

On the other hand, Guangdong's export target market is more concentrated, and exports to the United States, the European Union and China's Hongkong area account for more than 60% of the total volume, of which the United States is the largest export market of Guangdong province.

Because of its strong dependence on the US market, Guangdong's exports in the first half of this year were deeply affected by the slowdown in the US economy.

Since the outbreak of the subprime mortgage crisis in the United States, Guangdong's export growth to the US has decreased from 15.5% in the first quarter of 2007 to 9% at the end of the year.

According to the latest statistics of Guangzhou customs, the total volume of foreign trade between Guangdong and the United States was 42 billion 640 million dollars in the first half of this year, an increase of 7.2%.

Among them, exports to the US amounted to 35 billion 560 million US dollars, an increase of only 5.6%, less than half of the overall export growth.

Companies are deeply aware of the drag on the US market.

Barbara, chairman of Foshan Nanhai Shoes Co., Ltd., Zhan Yongrui, said that the shoes produced by the company are mainly exported to the European and American markets.

Since this year, orders in the US have been reduced by 30%.

In the past, American purchasers set up several stores in a year and planned ahead of schedule every three months.

Now it's different. Sometimes it's only four or five months before the next order, and the order is small, and the delivery time is very urgent.

Under heavy pressure, export enterprises began to accelerate the pace of adjustment.

Liao Mingzhong, general manager of Dongguan Humei plastic products factory, said that this year, the company has invested funds to increase the automatic spraying equipment. The aim is to improve and stabilize the quality of products and strive for the trust of buyers.

"This year may be a watershed."

He said, "enterprises will do better or better, or they will stop doing business."

Under the worsening export environment, many enterprises are trying to cultivate the domestic market.

Zengcheng Xintang town is a famous cowboy clothing production base in the country. Last year, cowboy clothing accounted for about half of the country's total exports. However, the clothing export of the town dropped sharply this year, but its output value still increased.

Wu Zhongjun, vice mayor of Xintang Town, said that sales at home could at least reduce exchange rate losses, but the enterprises accustomed to export operations still face many difficulties and need to make arduous efforts to turn them into domestic sales.