Chinese Shoe Companies Can Move To Central And Western China

After entering twenty-first Century, the manufacturing cost of the Pearl River Delta in the world's largest shoemaking base has risen rapidly, and some foreign shoe enterprises that have been rooted in the PRD for many years have begun to launch a new wave of moving to Asian countries such as Vietnam, India and Bangladesh. There are also some moving inside, the emergence of "South shoes north, East shoes westward shift" spectacular scene.

For Nike, Adidas and other brand OEM footwear production giant Baocheng industry side to Anhui, Jiangxi, Henan and other central and western regions to transfer to Southeast Asian countries, in recent years in Vietnam and Indonesia, the production line has increased year by year, and in the Pearl River Delta production line is gradually compressed. Among them, in 2012, 51 production lines were cut down in mainland China, and the production lines in the Pearl River Delta region were greatly reduced. Adidas, a professional Taiwanese foundry company that manufactures Adidas sports shoes, set up factories in Guangzhou in 1991. After that, the factory moved to Qingyuan to set up Wan Guo shoes (fresh) Co., Ltd., and then set up factories in 2006. Brazil international trader, Monte Monte has transferred half of Dongguan's business to Sichuan, Qingdao and other places, and has also built a shoe-making production line in Chongqing.

In an interview with reporters, Zhou Shijian, executive director of the China International Trade Association, described the fate of the labor-intensive OEM products, such as the footwear industry, with "no alternative". He thought Improvement trade Now its historical mission has been completed, and primary processing is doomed to be eliminated.

　　 Zhou Shi Jian The world's industrial transfer will not stop. Leather shoes on the US market, in 1976, 53 pairs of 100 pairs are produced in the United States, while in 2006 only 1.5 pairs remain. The footwear industry basically "euthanasia". China's low-end footwear industry is also unable to escape this fate. The world's shoe making pattern is being highly concentrated in China and gradually diverted to Southeast Asia and other regions.

Data show that from 2003 to 2013, China Shoemaker Wages have increased by about 3.5 times, while the central parity of the RMB against the US dollar has appreciated by more than 30%. At present, the wages of workers in the eastern coastal areas of China are about 500 dollars, while Indonesia is about 300 dollars, while Vietnam has only about 250 dollars.

According to the findings of the footwear association of Asia, since the outbreak of the financial crisis in 2008, with the rising cost of manufacturing in China, the footwear industry in Southeast Asia has already taken 30% of China's orders. Li Peng, Secretary General of the Asian Footwear Association, expressed concern that if the transfer of overseas orders had not been accelerated, most factories in the coastal areas would be transferred or closed in 5~10, and the footwear industry, which has about 19000000 employees, will face a huge impact.

However, the road of relocation is not smooth. On the one hand, the manufacturing industry needs to play the effect of industrial clusters, and the production matching needs relatively long time. On the other hand, some countries in Southeast Asia are unstable and frequent strikes, which also affect industrial transfer. In addition, some Southeast Asian countries have relatively small population and can not undertake large-scale industrial transfer.

Huajian group, one of China's largest female shoe manufacturers, has opened factories in Vietnam to deal with trade frictions. However, due to the lack of local shoe matching facilities, low production efficiency and workers' strike, the factory in Vietnam finally ended up closed. And WAN Bang's factory in India has just started for several years. Due to the lack of local production support and the shortage of skilled workers in India, the scale of production is difficult to expand.

Workers strike frequently in Southeast Asian countries, which brings many troubles to industrial transfer. At the end of last year, a strike in Kampuchea spread to normal production of many shoe factories and garment factories. Until these factories agreed to raise workers' monthly salary from 80 dollars to 100 dollars from February 1st this year, the strike has subsided.

Wu Zhenchang, chairman of Guangzhou Chuangxin Shoes Co., Ltd., yesterday said that although the labor force in Southeast Asia is cheaper than the Pearl River Delta, the investment risk is large, and these risks are difficult to control, and there are too many uncertainties. In 1990, he moved the factory from Taiwan to Guangzhou. In recent years, he was troubled by the cost of labor. He deliberately shifted part of his capacity and visited Southeast Asia for many times. However, he had been holding back. Southeast Asia's political instability and frequent strikes by workers were the main reasons for his hesitation about investment in Southeast Asia. He said that after the end of this round of elections, such as Southeast Asian and South Asian countries, the situation will be clear before making a decision. In contrast, he prefers to shift the footwear industry to the west wing and East Guangdong wing.

Li Peng said that compared with Southeast Asia, China's investment environment and the quality of workers were even more dominant. Although some factories in the country had been shut down, they were mainly caused by internal management problems of their own companies, rather than external factors such as politics, and eventually they could be solved. The closure of Yuyuan shoes factory in Baocheng, Dongguan, was the largest shoe industry ever since, but it was quickly resolved and resumed production. Foreign shoe companies investing in some Southeast Asian countries are likely to be destroyed by a strike or a political operation that has led to many years of operation.