Hongkong Li Naixi: There Are 1 Pieces Of Shirts In The United States, Which Are Made In 6 Garments.

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< p > in the 80s of last century, when Li Naixi took over the Hongkong Garment Group "a href=" http://sjfzxm.com/news/index_s.asp "joint garment" /a "(TAL), one of the challenges he faced was bribery.

Joint garment production for many of the world's major brands "a href=" http://sjfzxm.com/news/index_s.asp "shirt" /a "and trousers.

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< p > in Kowloon, which is separated from Hongkong Island, "a href=" http://sjfzxm.com/news/index_s.asp "> Li Naixi < /a >, sitting in her simple office, she said," there are still many unjust deeds.

Someone gave me 3 sheets of paper, which says how much percentage we want to pay to the client and how much to pay to that customer.

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At the beginning of P, the company's night activities in Tsim Sha Tsui in Kowloon are as famous as the shirts it produces.

In Tsim Sha Tsui, there were hawkers selling custom clothes.

The company's entertainment fee is HK $200 thousand per month.

"If you go to the best Chinese restaurant, order a very good table, including shark fin...

The cost is less than HK $1000.

Li Naixi said, "where did all the other money go? What do you say, woman?

We are famous in all the night clubs in Hongkong.

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Li Naixi, now 71, changed his culture. He reduced his monthly entertainment expenses to HK $15 thousand, and spent 30 years building a joint venture into a large group with revenues of up to $800 million, 25 thousand employees and 11 factories in all parts of Asia. P

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Although P is not very famous outside Hongkong, the company has now become the world's largest a clothing manufacturer /a, producing 56 million garments a year.

In a factory in Dongguan, for training purposes, there is a wall hanging with shirts ordered by every customer.

On that wall, from Eddie Bauer, Banana Republic, Gio Van Kors (Gieves & Hawkes) to Bobby (Burberry), they all rank in a list of "high street" fashion companies.

< a > Booker brothers < /a > (Brooks Brothers) is also a major customer of joint garment.

Today, joint clothing can claim that 1 of the shirts sold in the United States now consist of 6 garments.

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Li Naixi P eventually became a well-known businessman in Hongkong, but this happened almost by accident.

When he was young, he went to the UK to study electronic engineering, and then went to the United States for further studies, earning a Ph.D. degree from Brown University (Brown).

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< p > his uncle Li Yongxi decoy him back to Hongkong for a holiday with a return ticket, and then persuaded him to join in the industry.

At that time, founded in 1946, originally for family business joint garment, is already a very famous textile enterprise, because it is one of the enterprises that made outstanding contributions to Hongkong's economic development after World War II.

However, the reason why the company took root in Hongkong was not deliberately planned, but rather due to chance coincidence and Mao Zedong.

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3 years ago, when Mao Zedong established power in China, Li Yongxi's father, Li Zhenzhi, founded the South China Textile Limited in Shanghai, P.

At that time, there were several prominent family of textile in Shanghai.

But in the last few years before the Communists and the war of liberation in 1949, the current situation had an impact on industrialists in Shanghai.

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At P, Li Zhenzhi ordered a batch of textile equipment from the United States to be shipped to Chongqing factory.

However, due to some problems encountered when applying for import license, the machines were dumped in Hongkong.

Later, the father of 7 children moved to Hongkong, a British colony, where the first textile mill in Hongkong was established, paving the way for some other industrialists who fled the Chinese Communist regime.

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"P >" in this way, our family business began to take root in Hongkong.

The textile industry has become a major industry in Hongkong and has absorbed a large number of jobs.

Li Naixi said, "at that time, there were mainly two gangs in controlling Hongkong's textile industry, Shanghai gang and Guangdong Chaozhou.

We are the Shanghai gang. "

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< p > Li Naixi said that during the first days, money was not hard to earn because the labor cost in Hongkong was very low.

Japan's textile industry was destroyed in the war, which also benefited Hongkong enterprises.

For example, TOYOTA (Toyoda) family (later known as TOYOTA Toyota) lost all textile factories in the war.

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In the 60s of last century, the situation became more complicated because the United Kingdom and the United States began to worry that imports from Hongkong (and then Japan's industrial recovery) would lead to the bankruptcy of its own textile factories.

In the period of President John Kennedy (John F Kennedy), the US government introduced a quota system that will last until 2005.

Li Naixi said that this prompted the joint garment industry to start factories in other parts of the country.

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< p > Li Naixi said: "at the beginning, we came from Hongkong to Taiwan, Thailand...

Look for areas that are not subject to quotas. "

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< p > Malaysia is also a goal of joint garment expansion business.

Shortly after returning to Hongkong from the United States, Li Naixi was sent there to run a factory where there was a loss. His wife from Cuba was born with him.

Later, he was sent to another factory in Malaysia, which had 3000 employees, 1500 looms and 100 thousand spindles.

"I sat there, facing the big table, and I was very frightened.

Factories lose a lot of money every day. It's crazy. "

Li Naixi said, "I sat there without any clue.

I have never seen a spinning machine before.

That's how I started.

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< p > but after the fact that a > Li Naixi < /a > can bring these factories back to life, he was recalled to Hongkong at the end of 1979, and took over the clothing business, because the former responsible person and his uncle's partner set up a portal, and also dug many employees.

"The clothing department has been completely emptied."

Li Naixi said, "he is very friendly, but he has taken a lot of people from us."

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< p > the development of joint garments is good, with a profit margin of around 20%. But in the face of cheaper labor in other regions, the fate of Britain and the United States decades ago finally came to Hongkong.

So he decided to set up factories in the mainland of China.

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< p > "my uncle came to Hongkong because of the Communist Party, so he did not believe in the Communist Party at all.

But by 1995...

We have no other choice.

Labor costs everywhere are rising, so we basically decided to have a try. "

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Li Naixi said the move was helpful at the time, but now the factory in the mainland and another factory nearby are again falling victim to this pressure, which has forced the textile manufacturing industry to turn from the west to East Asia, and has recently shifted to cheaper countries such as Bangladesh. P

"The situation is very bad now.

We can't recruit people, the turnover rate is very high, and the wages of workers are very high.

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< p > although Li Naixi is now in a quasi retirement state (he gave his CEO Roger to Roger last year), he still retained the position of chairman and came to work every day.

He also manages his old client, Sister M Laetitia, 81 years old.

She has been resting in a convent in Ohio for nearly 60 years.

He purchased cloth from Hongkong and sent it to the nuns, who made 15 suits and costumes for the barefoot women who prayed all day in the Monastery of the Poor Clares monastery.

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< p > Li Naixi visited the nun. She must be guardrail from her visitors.

She is his elder sister.

Even today, he remembers the day 58 years ago when his father learned that he could no longer embrace the biggest child.

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< p > "that is the only time I saw my father cry.

It's really sad. "

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