Unprecedented Resistance To Silk Industry Development In Zhejiang

The sky is black, Huzhou. Spin Ling Lanfang, chairman of the association and chairman of the Silk Road Group, and Mr. Robert, a European large silk client, are also doing business negotiations in a five star hotel. Robert explicitly told Ling Lanfang that the total procurement volume in the second half of this year should be reduced by about 20%. The reason is that the sales of some top brands in Europe have dropped by about 25%, due to the anti luxury effect of China since the end of last year.

As a leading enterprise in the national silk industry, he has many troubles: no order for orders, orders for raw materials. His company specializes in high-end export products, but in addition to the Qiandao Lake in Zhejiang, there is no qualified raw material to produce high-grade silk. In addition, the rising cost, the shortage of skilled workers, the backwardness of equipment, and the heavy tax burden have brought Zhejiang's silk reeling industry to a rapid decline. Zhejiang cocoon silk from the first to fourth, accounting for 20% from 10%, just ten years.

With the reduction of orders, the price of cocoons as raw materials rises and rises again. According to the statistical data of Huzhou Textile Industry Association silk branch, in 2013, the purchase price of spring cocoons in the whole province was generally higher than that of the National Cocoon wire office at 1750 yuan per guide. The price in Hangzhou Jiaxing Hu area was above 2200 yuan per load, and the price in Huzhou area was more than 2400 yuan.

Li Lingling, Secretary General of the association, calculated an account to reporters: after the cocoon was roasted to dry cocoon in Huzhou area, the price per ton was about 125 thousand yuan / ton. According to the calculation of reeling 310, the cost of raw silk cocoons was 385 thousand yuan per ton, plus the processing cost of 75 thousand yuan per ton, such as labor, water and fuel, minus 35 thousand to 40 thousand yuan per ton of by-products, and the actual cost per ton of raw silk had reached 420 thousand to 425 thousand yuan. At present, the raw silk price in the market is less than 400 thousand yuan, so the reeling enterprises lose 25 thousand yuan per reeling per ton of silk. Even if the quality cocoons are purchased from Qiandao Lake, Yunnan and Sichuan, the raw silk can be sold for more than 10 thousand yuan per ton, and the loss of raw silk per ton will still be as high as 20 thousand yuan after the cost and loss of logistics are removed.

Market downturn, demand is not strong, coupled with the steady increase in raw silk prices, but also to the silk industry's net profit growth and gross margin of products has declined. Jiaxin silk is the only silk stock listed in A-share in our province. clothing Enterprises, reporters from the company's financial data released found that the company's net profit in recent three years has increased every year, but the growth rate is decreasing year by year. In 2010, the net profit growth rate was 18.75%, 14.40% in 2011 and 5.04% in 2012, while the net profit growth rate in the first half of this year was -6.02%. In addition, the gross profit margin of silk, silk, clothing and other products also declined.

At the same time, the cost of raw silk continues to rise steadily, and the cost pressure of downstream industries such as weaving, clothing, silk quilt and home textiles is obviously greater than that of previous years. "Some clothing companies have no choice but to choose fabrics such as cotton and chemical fiber instead of real silk, especially when silk has been experiencing rapid growth in the past few years, and the first half of this year has also experienced negative growth." Wang Wei, Secretary General of Zhejiang Silk Association, told reporters.

Silk enterprises seek transformation

China's silk production accounts for more than 75% of the world's total. Zhejiang is a strong silk province. It ranks first in the country's export and quality is the first. Besides the production of cocoon silk, the total silk products such as fabrics, garments, home textiles and so on are the first in the country.

The industry is mainly distributed in four cities in Hangzhou, jiaxhu and Shaoxing. Among them, Huzhou produces 1/3 of the total silk and raw silk consumed in China. Hangzhou Jiaxing's silk clothing exports accounted for more than half of the country's total. Silk in Shaoxing Clothes & Accessories And home textile production exports accounted for more than half of the country's similar products. Silk is obviously the dominant traditional industry in Zhejiang.

However, reporters learned that the advantages of dominant industries no longer exist, and the bottleneck of constraints is obvious. In recent years, the phenomenon of homogenization and competition of low-end products in Zhejiang silk is very serious, resulting in many silk enterprises in the predicament of high cost, low efficiency and high risk. Many enterprises stop production and business, which seriously affects the sustainable development of silk industry. Faced with many difficulties, some textile enterprises in the province have begun to seek their own way of transformation and self-help based on their own actual conditions, or by taking the road of high-end, scale and differentiation, or through technological innovation and transfer of basic industries.

At the end of the "eleven" long vacation, the reporter saw colorful flags flying in the Silk Road Group's silk garden, and the pile driver was rumbling. Ling Lan Fang said he wanted to build a forty thousand square meter silk center here, and it would be linked to three hundred acres of large production area. Asked what the silk center was for, Ling Lanfang wrote a long list of words: Trading Center, exhibition center, testing center, electricity supplier center, training center and technology center. It seems that Ling Lanfang wants to combine silk manufacturing with silk service. At this time, he will invest in silk industry.

Like the Silk Road Group, innovation driven, transformation and upgrading are the common actions of some famous silk enterprises in Zhejiang. Kay is trying to build the front of the industrial chain and consolidate the former road. Daly and WAN Shi Li put silk together with culture and tourism, and walked out of a new path. While upgrading the industrial chain, BABEI is thinking about the industrialization of sericulture and extending to an industry. Jin Fuchun went to Hubei to develop silk, and he went to Sichuan to promote the industry. Tongxiang silk industry group is determined to think hard, determined to rebuild integrity and restore consumer confidence; Tonglu silk knitwear is also trying to improve technology to make fine products; Deqing silk scarves should bid farewell to low-level foundry, try high-end brands.