Kampuchea Garment Industry Now Signs Of Recovery, Factory Registration Increases

< p style= "text-align: left >" in January this year, "a href=" http:// www.91se91.com/news/index_p.asp "> Kampuchea > /a > massive demonstrations broke out, resulting in bloodshed, which led foreign garment investors to dare to add and expand the scale of investment.

However, recent figures show that a lot of registered garment factories have been registered in Kampuchea.

< a href= "http://? www.91se91.com/news/index_f.asp > > garment industry < /a > is a pillar industry in Kampuchea. The increase in the number of registered factories is a good omen for the industry.

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< p > recent reports showed that data from the Kampuchea Ministry of industry and handicrafts showed that at the end of June 2014, there were 1200 garment factories registered in Kampuchea, an increase of 8% over the previous 6 months.

The report also revealed that by the end of last month, the number of people employed in the clothing industry had reached 733 thousand and 300, compared with 677 thousand and 600 at the end of last year.

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"This is a good omen for the clothing industry," said Mean Sophea, Vice Minister of industry and crafts, P.

However, in January this year, garment workers demanded a minimum wage, and a nationwide demonstration was launched.

During the clashes, police opened fire, resulting in 5 deaths.

The vice minister declined to comment.

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< p > Ken Loo, Secretary General of Kampuchea Garment Manufacturers Association, said that Kampuchea's clothing industry still has business opportunities, but the number of business registration is only increasing. In fact, after demonstrations in January this year, factory owners are still doubtful about new investment and expansion.

"Our membership is indeed increasing, but compared to last year, the growth rate is much slower."

He added.

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The "P" Kampuchea clothing association has 500 clothing and shoe factory members.

Of course, Kampuchea's clothing and < a href= "http://www.91se91.com/news/index_x.asp" > shoes factory < /a > quantity is far more than these, because some factories did not join the association.

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Most of the garment factories in Kampuchea (P) are processed simply, and almost all garment factories are foreign invested. The investors are mainly in Taiwan, Japan, Korea, Hongkong and Mainland China.

Kampuchea garment factories are mainly concentrated in Phnom Penh and Sihanouk. Most of the clothing and footwear raw materials in Kampuchea are imported from Asian countries, especially from China, Japan and Korea.

At present, Kampuchea garment factory has the technological level of water washing, nail bead, tie dyeing, embroidery and so on, but the dyeing and finishing ability is not yet available.

The minimum wage of clothing enterprises in Kampuchea is US $83 per month, but the average wage is around us $110-120 per month.

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< p > Kampuchea has a very low salary level, which has great attraction for clothing and other labor-intensive industries.

In recent years, due to the rising labor costs in China, a considerable number of Hong Kong and Taiwan funded enterprises, foreign-funded enterprises and even some mainland enterprises have shifted their production to low wage countries such as Kampuchea and Vietnam.

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< p > but low wages will also cause workers to rebel. Kampuchea clothing workers staged a mass protest in January this year and killed 5 people.

After this incident, the order of clothing factories in Kampuchea had a certain degree of decline.

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