Leather Industry Upgrading: Need To Re Study Old Topics

In from August 11th to 13th, a research team headed by the Bureau of Commerce Department officials rushed to Guangdong to investigate the bottlenecks of processing trade and labor-intensive SMEs in the Pearl River Delta region.

It is reported that this is the textile export tax rebate period earlier, the Ministry of Commerce once again conducted research on labor-intensive enterprises.

Since the beginning of this year, the domestic and international economic situation has changed dramatically. The global economic downturn has been accompanied by the continued appreciation of the renminbi, the rising cost of raw materials and labor, the suppression of financing and exports, and the news of the fragmentation of a large number of enterprises' capital chains.

The latest statistics show that in the first half of this year, 6.7 SMEs in China were closed down.

As the labor intensive industry represents the textile industry, small and medium-sized enterprises have collapsed more than more than 10 thousand, and 2 / 3 of textile enterprises are facing restructuring.

In the past few years, small and medium-sized enterprises characterized by labor-intensive industries were very hard to get hurt.

In the early August, the textile export tax rebate increased by 2 percentage points. The words of minister Chen Deming of the Ministry of Commerce represented the idea of macro regulation and control: "China still supports exports of labor-intensive products, but labor-intensive export enterprises should pay attention to adjusting the product mix and seize the right time to change the economic growth formula."

Many years of pformation and upgrading of labor-intensive industries have been given new expectations.

Transformation is imminent. "Survival of the fittest is the rule of the market. A large number of bankruptcies have opened up more space for the development of new modern manufacturing and high-end service industries."

Zhao Yumin, director of the International Market Research Institute of the international trade and Economic Cooperation Institute of the Ministry of Commerce, said in an interview with the China Economic Times reporter that this is the only way for China to realize the optimization and upgrading of its industrial structure.

After the vigorous development period, the original mode of industrial growth has lost momentum, and the pformation and upgrading of industry has become a waste of time.

Zhang Hanlin, director of the WTO Research Center, believes that China is undergoing major economic structural adjustment. Any country's economic restructuring will be accompanied by upgrading of the industry. China is no exception.

He believes that the vigorous development of China's labor-intensive industries at the initial stage is based on cheap labor, excessive waste of resources and excessive sacrifice of the environment. This kind of extensive and inefficient development mode is no longer in line with the future direction of China's economic development and must be upgraded.

"Industrial pformation and upgrading is imminent. It will not be conducive to the long-term development of China's economy for too long."

Lu Jinyong, a professor at the University of foreign trade and economic cooperation, pointed out that the passive pformation and upgrading is actually a little late, and the reason why it has been delayed is that China's huge market and favorable macroeconomic policy environment still retain a large living space for labor-intensive enterprises.

It is impossible to achieve a phoenix in the first place.

From the recent situation, under the pressure of double tightening of market and policy, the development of labor-intensive industries is facing many difficulties.

According to the insiders, although the survival of the fittest in the textile and garment industry is an inevitable trend from the perspective of optimizing the industrial structure, this does not mean that in a very short period of time, the whole industry will undergo a purgatory drastic adjustment.

Zhao Jinping, Vice Minister of the Ministry of foreign affairs of the State Council Development Research Center, believes that the pformation and upgrading of labor-intensive industries is a long-term goal. In order to achieve this goal, we need to adopt a gradual, gradual and continuous way instead of taking one step at a time. In the specific operation process, we must consider the affordability of the enterprises, and put the industrial pformation and upgrading in the macro economic environment flexibly to prevent the ups and downs of the economy.

In fact, this phenomenon has been shown in the first half of this year.

Under the dual pressure of market and policy factors, pressing for success will only bring greater pressure and difficulties to labor-intensive industries.

From the 1 to May of this year's industrial statistics, the biggest drop in sales revenue growth is basically the export related labor intensive industries such as textiles, clothing, leather, fur and so on.

In addition, half a million SMEs went bankrupt in half a year, resulting in unemployment of hundreds of thousands of people and unprecedented pressure on local governments. This shows that the difficulties faced by labor-intensive industries are beyond their affordability.

He Weiwen also believes that the government and academia have been constantly instilling industrial pformation and upgrading as the only way out. However, it is not easy to achieve this goal. It is unrealistic to expect the economic structure to be perfect overnight. The migration of industries and enterprises follows the natural economic laws. Therefore, the government and the industry should be patient and give the necessary guidance.