Chinese Shoe Companies Enter Africa To Build Industrial Clusters

< p > recently, there were media reports that China's "a href=" http://www.91se91.com/news/index_c.asp "shoes enterprises" /a "orders" were mostly occupied by Southeast Asian countries, such as Southeast Asia and other countries. The main reason was the price deviation of production costs, and the rise of labor costs in China led to the loss of orders. Most domestic enterprises have moved to build factories abroad, making use of cheap labor resources abroad. < /p >
< p > site selection is very important. Considering the neighboring countries, Vietnam or Kampuchea have a relatively small population and low market capacity. If you want to find a region that can accommodate China's labor-intensive industries, it is "a href=" http://www.91se91.com/news/index_p.asp "Africa > /a". < /p >
< p > < < a href= > http://www.91se91.com/news/index_p.asp > > Huajian shoes > /a > three layers of netting, which has been built in Ethiopia recently, now employs 600 people and puts two production lines. Its products are mainly exported to the US market, and are expected to develop into a footwear industry cluster in the next 3 to 5 years, and finally employ 10 million people. < /p >
The labor cost of < p > year-on-year, on the statistics of 2010, only reached 1/8 or 1/10 in the country, which is equivalent to that of Vietnam, and labor productivity is estimated to be 70% of the domestic level. < /p >
Yifu Lin, honorary president of the National Development Research Institute of Peking University, has visited Africa many times during his post as vice president of the world bank. He often encouraged Chinese companies to invest in EVA films in Africa during their participation. Yifu Lin said that Chinese enterprises go to Africa to open up three main fields: first, Africa is rich in resources and is involved in the development of resources; the two is the infrastructure sector, Africa is in the period of infrastructure construction; three is the manufacturing industry, and the backward productive forces in Africa, almost all rely on imports, and the profit margins of products are relatively high. < /p >
< p > it is reported that Africa has a vast market, and has 1 billion people at the same time. Its labor resources are cheap and abundant, just like the shoe adhesive used in the early 80s of last century. The labor force will become the thrust of the rapid development of the national processing trade industry. < /p >