Ningbo'S Textile Industry Is Facing Industrial Restructuring And Upgrading.

In the early morning of February 4th, Li Hongfeng, a 39 year old villager of Changzhou village in Poyang County, Jiangxi Province, was turning around on the three or four fixed recruitment columns in Ningbo's Jue Xi Town for five years. Ningbo is one of the ten largest foreign trade cities in China. It has formed many industrial clusters such as clothing, electronics, machinery, light industry, chemistry and so on. The existing more than 8000 import and export enterprises have reached 84% dependence on exports. However, as the global financial crisis spread to the real economy such as manufacturing industry, it has a direct impact on its industrial exports. "When the financial crisis is spreading to the real economy, the opportunity of internal restructuring and industrial upgrading will emerge at the same time." Huang Fuxing, a researcher at the Institute of economics, Shanghai Academy of social sciences. He believes that the typical industrial cluster in Zhejiang is a lump economy in the county economic environment. Most of them are engaged in low-end industries and produce low value-added products. They mainly rely on low cost to gain competitive advantage and are at the initial stage of industrial clusters. Jue Jue Town, with an area of 32 square kilometers, has gathered more than 600 knitting enterprises, such as giant eagle and Yongnan, with an annual output of 400 million knitted garments and one of the largest export bases for knitwear in China. The three sides are surrounded by mountains and one side by the sea. This small town, which is a fishing town, is China's "knitting town" and a prominent place for Zhejiang's regional massive economy. The town of Jue Xi has a population of over 1, and nearly 30 thousand people come from outside. Most of them work in knitting enterprises. At the beginning of nine, the whole town was silent, and no more than 600 factories in the town started. "The construction is late, and this year will be after the Lantern Festival." Li Hongfeng said. Li Hongfeng, who has lived in Jue Xi Town for nearly five years, is already a skilled knitting factory worker. He can get 3000 yuan a month when the factory is booming. "The situation is not very good. In October last year, I had a month's rest, only 100 yuan for living expenses. I went to work until January 20th." "This year, the number of recruitment jobs has declined." Gong Gaofeng, deputy director of the Ningbo employment service center, said that service posts such as waiters and drivers became the main force of recruitment. Under the financial crisis, many enterprises are facing the test of life and death. Industrial upgrading has become an inevitable choice. Zhang Xiaofeng, vice president of Ningbo Garment Association, said. Industrial cluster is an important feature of Zhejiang's economy. Zhejiang economic and Trade Commission survey shows that in 2007, the county (city, district) as the basic unit, with the total industrial output value of more than 500 million yuan as the statistical scope, Zhejiang has the total number of industrial clusters has reached 462. The industrial cluster economy achieves 2 trillion and 520 billion yuan of industrial output value, accounting for 53.4% of the total industrial output value, supporting the half of Zhejiang's industry. "Before the lack of power to upgrade the industry." Zhang Xiaofeng said that for textile and clothing, for example, the initial purchase of several sewing machines began to start, there are not many barriers to start. Imitation and OEM production are also very easy, orders are received, and then people are organized to start production. Over a long period of time, everything was very successful, thus forming a path dependence of low-level industries. Some leading enterprises in some industrial clusters are taking action. Zhejiang Giant Eagle Group, the largest knitting enterprise in Jue Xi Town, is expanding its own industrial chain. As early as 2004, the Xinjiang Akesu Tuofeng cotton company was annexed, which made Xinjiang high quality cotton as the stable supply base of jexi knitting industry, and the introduction of the most advanced production lines in the world. Huang Fuxing, a researcher at the Institute of economics of the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences, believes that after a small number of small and medium-sized enterprises have collapsed, some enterprises in the industrial cluster will eventually promote the transformation of the entire industrial cluster from low cost to innovation through internal restructuring and industrial upgrading. Wang Xiaonan: editor in charge