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China is the largest cotton producer in the world, and is also the largest producer of cotton < a target= "_blank" href= "http://www.91se91.com/" > textile < /a >, which guarantees the competitive position of China's textile giants.

however, since 2011, the temporary cotton purchase and storage policy for the city to fight fires has broken this balance.

The normalization of the interim policy has kept the price of cotton at home and abroad high.

Coupled with the historical burden caused by the import quota system, the tax policy of high taxes and low taxes, the cotton industry chain collectively fell into the embarrassment of "no farmers but injured workers".

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Less than P, 8% of the country's textile production capacity has been left unused in unfair competition, and the high price difference between domestic and foreign countries will be the textile industry's life /p.

since this year, Chen Jiaolan, general manager of Guangdong Qingyuan tatai Textile Industrial Co., Ltd., has found that more orders are placed in the company, and the withdrawal is fast.

After many visits, Chen Jiaolan learned that the old customers now prefer Pakistan cotton yarn.

"it's not the quality of Pakistan's cotton yarn, but the price of a ton of cotton yarn shipped to China, plus tariffs, which is 2000 yuan cheaper than Chinese cotton!" Chen Jiaolan, who has been in the 30 year, successfully broke through many difficulties such as textile spindles, financial crisis and so on, but was unable to cope with the bad cotton price at home and abroad. "Now the business is to stay alive. There will be a large number of cotton spinning enterprises shutting down and dying in the next two years."

not only is the small and medium-sized enterprises such as Thailand suffer from the pain of cotton prices, even large state-owned enterprises such as Huarun are at the end of life and death.

"First quarter orders are not anxious, domestic sales are good, export is good, but is no profit, barely live."

Di Hui, deputy general manager of Huarun textile (Group) Co., Ltd., said that the price difference between domestic and international fine wool cotton per ton is between 3000 and 4000 yuan, and the price difference of long staple cotton is as high as 5000 to 8000 yuan.

The results of the survey of China Textile Industry Federation show that the annual consumption of cotton in China is about 10 million tons. Last year, domestic cotton consumption was only about 8 million tons, and the gap of 2 million tons was made up of imported cotton yarn or chemical fiber instead.

This means that the whole country's 10 million spindles of cotton cars are shut down, which is equivalent to 8% of the country's textile production capacity has been idle in unfair competition.

Among them, SMEs were the most affected, and 40% of the small businesses under ten thousand were forced to close down. In Xinjiang alone, about 2.4 employees were invisible.

"high cotton price is not the key issue. The key is cotton price difference. The high price difference between domestic and foreign will bring the life of the textile industry to life.

At present, in the international market, the yarn of 40 or less cotton made in China is no longer competitive.

Yang Shibin, director of the office of the cotton Working Committee of the China Federation of textile industry, said that over 60 of natural fiber yarn is high count yarn, which is mainly for high-grade fabrics, and the market demand is relatively small.

"The loss of yarn market below 40 yarns means that China's cotton textile industry has been defeated in the international market."

Where does the cotton price difference of up to four thousand or five thousand yuan per ton come from strong >

"cotton price mechanism at home and abroad is the main reason for the difference in cotton price at home and abroad.

International cotton prices fluctuate according to market demand and supply, while domestic cotton prices are supported by the purchase and storage price and import quotas.

Wang Tiankai, President of China Textile Industry Federation, said.

from September 2010 to August 2011, the international cotton price has gone through a round of ups and downs.

In order to ensure the cotton farmers' income and enhance market confidence, in September 2011, our country normalized the measures of temporarily collecting and storing lint in the main cotton producing areas, and established a temporary cotton storage and storage system.

At that time, the state bought and sold about 3100000 tons of lint at the price of 19 thousand and 800 yuan per ton.

However, the temporary purchase and storage system has not ended, and China's cotton purchase and storage price has been raised to 20 thousand and 400 yuan per ton this year.

At the same time, the international cotton price has continued to decline due to insufficient international market demand and the expected high yield, leading to a high domestic and foreign cotton price difference. Today, the price difference is still between 3500 and 4000 yuan per ton.

in the face of the high cotton price, Chinese enterprises can not freely use the overseas raw material market to "cut the peak and fill the valley".

According to the WTO agreement, China will import 894 thousand tons of cotton per year and 1% preferential duty, and 5% to 40% of the imported cotton imported from quotas.

The Levy of sliding tax is equivalent to setting the bottom line for the import cotton price. The purpose is to reduce the impact of imported cotton on domestic cotton market and ensure the cotton farmers' income.

However, because import quotas are far less than demand, enterprises that are not able to get quotas or quotas are even facing unfair competition even if they import cotton.

"we are participating in international competition with the cost of raw materials higher than rival 1/3, which is difficult to digest by technological innovation and efficiency improvement, and is lost at the starting line."

Zhu Beina, President of China Cotton Textile Industry Association, said that the abnormal cotton price difference actually made foreign enterprises pick up the cheap.

More and more enterprises directly purchase cotton yarn from India and Pakistan, and maintain the high profit margins of foreign cotton yarn enterprises, so that they can have large amounts of funds for technological progress and industrial chain improvement.

"The textile industry is a fully competitive market economy, while cotton is a planned economy. This dislocation is a devastating blow to the textile industry."

a headache for national storage cotton

a year, the cost of collecting and storing is 100 billion, and the quality of worrying cotton makes the enterprise worse than ever.

despite the current situation, cotton temporary purchase and storage system has not shown signs of loosening as soon as possible. However, many people in the industry believe that this policy has come to a difficult time.

on the one hand, cotton enterprises are closing down.

China Textile Industry Federation data show that from 1 to April this year, the textile industry added value increased by 10.4% over the same period last year, down 4 percentage points from the same period last year.

At the same time, China's share of the major international markets, including the European Union and Japan, has continued to decline.

The head of Hubei's Xiao cotton company revealed that the factories with capacity below 30 thousand ingots have been basically shut down.

"If this situation is not profitable and there is no money for technology upgrading, it will be difficult for the industry to continue."

on the other hand, the demand for national cotton reserves is also shrinking.

"Unlike food, not all cotton can be digested domestically. We must compete with the international market and consider whether the international market can be accepted."

Chen Tao, chairman of Louis Da Fu China company, said that after 2010, China's consumption dropped by more than 20%, due to a 8% drop in global cotton consumption, as the cost of acquiring and storing was much higher than the average international market.

Chen Jiumei, director of China market of P PCI fiber consulting company, also said that after nearly two years of market regulation, a considerable share of the cotton market has been replaced by polyester and viscose, which brings great challenges to how to digest national cotton reserves.

"If the cotton purchase and storage policy remains unchanged, China's cotton inventory will exceed 40% next year. How to inventory will become a thorny problem."

From P to the beginning of the year, the national cotton market has been trading lightly. According to the current auction progress, by the end of July this year, the national cotton reserves will be as high as 7 million 500 thousand tons. According to the purchase price of the standard new cotton in 2012, the state will spend more than 100 billion yuan on the purchase and storage.

"no matter whether it is collected or stored, a ton of cotton is subsidized by about 3000 yuan, which is a heavy financial burden.

Moreover, cotton will drop by one level every year, and the loss will be greater. "

Yang Shibin said.

to alleviate the pressure of inventory, the pressure of cotton spinning enterprises has also been reduced to a certain extent. This summer, the state will link the import quota with the captured reserves proportionately, that is, cotton spinning enterprises will acquire 1 tons of imported cotton quotas for each 3 ton of national cotton reserves.

however, textile enterprises do not pay for the new deal. One of the most important reasons is that the quality of national cotton stored with quotas has been decreasing year by year.

according to national standards, only grade 4 cotton can be collected and stored by the state.

However, in 2011/2012, the average grade of cotton new fine cotton is 3.28, and the average grade of Xinjiang cotton is over 3.

As a result, blending high-grade cotton and low-grade cotton became the industry's hidden rules.

"after last August, Henan, Hebei, Shandong and other places all mixed the grade 5 cotton with the 2 grade cotton bought by Xinjiang to sell it to the country. At present, the testing instruments in our country do not have fineness index, and do not carry out Fineness Measurement talents, so we can not detect cotton bags at all."

Yao Mu, academician of the Chinese Academy of engineering.

worrying cotton quality has created new burdens for enterprise production.

Hubei Xiao cotton, which uses three thousand or four thousand tons of cotton per month, is one of the top cotton producers in China.

The responsible person reflected that the color of the stored cotton was yellow, and the color of each bundle was inconsistent, resulting in the low output rate of the national cotton and the increase of the cost of the enterprise.

"We have a lot of opinions on a branch factory, producing only one ton of combed yarn, only 1.3 tons of cotton and Australian cotton, and 1.5 tons of cotton for national storage.

If this is to be collected and stored, the quality will be difficult to control, and even low-end ordinary yarns will not work.

"you buy 4 grade cotton, the result is 60% grade 5 cotton and 40%2 grade cotton mixed together to bind."

Chen Jiaolan reflects that there are not only high and low grade "blending" problems in national cotton stores, but also a lot of impurities, such as hair, plastic bags, chicken feather and duck feather.

policy protection should not be an injury -- /p >

in anticipation of the adjustment of raw material structure, we expect to improve the cotton control policy and realize cotton farmers' direct subsidy .

in the face of the cotton crisis, textile enterprises have launched a new round of "self rescue". Many enterprises have adjusted the raw material structure to resolve the risk of cotton.

Since this year, the non cotton fiber products of Jiangsu Dasheng have increased from 80% to over 90%. At the same time, more and more blended products are being produced, and the batches are getting bigger and bigger, so as to avoid the cotton problem as far as possible.

At present, 30% of Huarun's textile capacity has turned to non cotton products, trying to stabilize the existing market by opening up new markets.

however, under the background of the national cotton regulation policy unchanged, the risk that enterprises can resolve is very limited.

At the 2013 China International Cotton Textile Conference held recently, more than one textile enterprise shouted, "the government's intention to stabilize cotton prices is good, but the extensive planned economy means of storage and quota have led to the loss of the international competitive advantage that the textile industry has been fighting for over 30 years.

If no enterprise buys cotton, how much will it depend on the state's support market? How long will the interests of cotton farmers last? "

in fact, the purchase and storage policy failed to mobilize cotton growers' enthusiasm for planting cotton, and the planting area of cotton in China is decreasing year by year.

According to the data, the cotton planting area decreased by about 6% in 2012 to about 74 million 80 thousand mu, and according to the May cotton production survey of China cotton information network, the sowing area of cotton in 2013 was 70 million 650 thousand mu, which was 4.6% lower than that in the same period last year.

import quota itself has also become a speculative commodity, disrupting market order and pushing up the cost of cotton.

According to the insiders, some enterprises applying for quotas did not have substantial cotton spinning production or trade. After they got the quotas, they sold them at a high price. Some also falsely reported the volume of production trade, applied for cotton import quotas higher than the demand of enterprises themselves, and sold surplus quotas again.

to solve the current predicament, "cotton farmers direct subsidy" has once again become a new policy expected by the textile industry.

Cotton farmers' direct subsidies, that is, state subsidies are no longer returned to farmers through circulation enterprises, but refer directly to subsidies to farmers according to the direct planting subsidy policy.

At present, the US has been monitoring and subsidizing cotton planting area through satellite system.

In the past ten years, because of the reduction of intermediate links, raising the efficiency of capital use and enabling farmers to really benefit, the call for cotton farmers' direct subsidy policy in China has been increasing.

However, in view of the fact that cotton planting in most parts of the country still belongs to the household type and decentralized small-scale peasant economy, it has not been able to come up with a set of maneuverable schemes in determining the planting area and the possible false reports.

"subsidizing farmers is feasible.

We have investigated and calculated in the Yangtze River Basin and Xinjiang and other places. Besides seed subsidies, the subsidy per mu is about 100 yuan to 120 yuan, which is much more cost-effective than the state's purchase and storage.

Direct subsidy can start from Xinjiang. "

Zhu Beina said.

in addition to the direct subsidy mechanism, enterprises also suggest that the state should, as soon as possible, from the perspective of win-win agriculture and industry, from the perspective of straightening out the relationship between upstream and downstream industries, and from the perspective of resource allocation in two domestic and international markets, we will study and introduce a long-term mechanism for cotton regulation.

"if the purchase and storage policy and quota policy remain unchanged, can we consider the dynamic adjustment of the purchase and storage price and stabilize the price difference between 1000 and 1500 yuan?"

Ma Xiaohui, general manager of Jiangsu Dasheng group company, and other entrepreneurs suggested that the state should set the price of the world market in accordance with the cotton price in the international market, rationally determine the amount of storage and collection, and flexibly carry out the storage and storage of the market according to the fluctuation of market prices, so as to play a role in stabilizing the cotton prices in the market.

"We hope that the policy adjustment will start this year. We can't afford it in time, but we can't afford it."