China Fair: $1 Billion 245 Million For Textile And Clothing

"Yesterday (4) when the premier came, I said, so many people in this industry, lost the market, the first round is the loss of employment, the second round is the destruction of the competitiveness of enterprises."

Zhang Xiaoji, member of the National Committee of the Chinese people's Political Consultative Conference and Minister of Foreign Economic Research of the development research center of the State Council, said.

In Zhang Xiaoji's view, at present, it is important to maintain the importance of foreign trade growth.

Yesterday, after the eleven session of the CPPCC National Committee two session of the group discussion ended, Zhang Xiaoji to "First Financial Daily" said, to protect the export market, protect enterprises, is to protect employment.

Zhang Xiaoji further said that on the 4 day when Premier Wen attended the CPPCC economic and agricultural joint conference, he also talked about the importance of "protecting foreign trade", and emphasized that protecting enterprises and keeping employment is the foundation of maintaining domestic demand.

In the face of the sharp decline of external demand and the severe situation of the rise of international trade protectionism, it is not difficult to achieve stable export growth.

According to the statistics of the General Administration of customs, the total value of China's imports and exports in January 2009 was 141 billion 800 million US dollars, down 29% from the same period last year, of which exports were US $90 billion 450 million, down 17.5% from the same period last year.

This year's China East China Import and Export Fair (hereinafter referred to as "China Fair") has attracted many exhibitors to feel the cold spell of the financial crisis.

As the "barometer of the international market", the total export volume of the nineteenth China Fair has just ended 2 billion 240 million US dollars, down 39.06% from the previous one.

Among them, the textile and garment category clinch a turnover of US $1 billion 245 million, a decrease of 32.47% compared with the previous one, and the turnover of light industry technology class is US $898 million, which is 43.67% lower than the previous one.

Other commodities traded at $97 million 860 thousand, down 59.13% from the previous one.

"Old customers come 40%, new customers are coming to see, no order."

Huo Yingzhu, chairman of Inner Mongolia Guang Ye Textile Co., Ltd. told our reporter.

Xu Yuhong, the four manager of Shandong Hai Jin International Trade Co., Ltd., said that the volume of the China Fair was 30% lower than before.

At present, nearly 60% of China's exports are directly or indirectly oriented to the US, EU and Japan markets. Consolidating and stabilizing these traditional markets is the basis for diversification of export markets.

However, demand for the three largest economies has shrunk dramatically.

According to statistics, the largest volume of pactions in China's fair was Japan, with a turnover of 656 million 890 thousand US dollars, a decrease of 27.53% compared with the previous session. The European Union ranked second, with a turnover of US $524 million 360 thousand, down 40.36% from the previous session; the US turnover was third, with a turnover of US $310 million 570 thousand, a decrease of 46.70% over the previous session.

4 days, in the eleven session of the eleven session of the CPPCC National Committee, the 32 group of economic group discussions, Wei Jianguo, former Vice Minister of Commerce, said that from the perspective of emerging markets, Latin America, Africa and some neighboring countries still have great potential and should be vigorously explored.

"For example, Africa needs an electric fan, it needs eight million nine million units a year, and about 10000000 refrigerators, and our home appliances go to the countryside only about 30000000 units.

If we can open the African market, there are electric motorcycles, bags, shoes and hats, and so on.

During the "75" plan period, we put forward the diversification strategy of export market, and officially launched in the "85" plan period.

The Chinese Foreign Trade Fair has also done its homework in developing new markets, especially the Japanese version invitation letter, which is convenient for Japanese businessmen to read and understand.

In addition to the addition of Japanese and Korean versions, the website also added Arabic version to facilitate Middle East customers. In addition, it also added Thailand, India, Korea and Singapore investment agency outlets.

However, the effect seems to have not yet appeared.

Liang Wenqin, general manager of Shanghai rainbow Garment Co. Ltd., told reporters that the order was less than 1/3 last year.

But he is not eager to open up new markets.

"The raw materials of these garments are acceptable to people in Europe and the United States, and the market is mature. If we want to open up new markets such as Africa and the Middle East, we must have a certain market incubation period."

Wang Yongzheng, chairman of the CPPCC National Committee, vice chairman of the Tianjin chamber of Commerce and chairman of the Yongzheng tailor group, told the first financial daily that despite the spread of the financial crisis, the Yongzheng tailor group did not lose orders from European and American customers.

"Our products do not rely on mass production, but rely on high technology, high handwork and irreplaceable nature."

Wang Yongzheng said.

In Wang Yongzheng's view, "textile industry adjustment and revitalization plan" came out very timely.

Although the textile and garment industry is a relatively traditional labor-intensive industry, the industry has also undertaken a large number of employment.

"We need not only high-end industries, but also basic labor intensive industries."

Wang Yongzheng said, "Yongzheng is also upgrading the technology level in the field of labor-intensive low-end industries."

The information from the current China Fair is also known as a large proportion of the brand products.

Among them, more than 60 Chinese famous brand export commodities which were mainly cultivated and supported by the Ministry of commerce were exported to the famous brand enterprises and nearly 700 brands, and more than 20 thousand new products, new styles and new technologies and new processes were included.

But for many exhibitors, it is not easy to upgrade the product level and brand.

Zhou Junping, the Commerce Department of Jian Jian group, told reporters that the clothes they produced were mainly mid-range products, and now they did not plan to turn them into high-end products with high added value.

"During the economic crisis, a lot of high-end demand will be pformed into low and middle demand, and we have not done a high-end market to do it rashly, and now is not a good time."

He said that the company's strategy is to remain unchanged.

Many enterprises also expressed concern over the shift from export to domestic sales to meet domestic demand to boost domestic sales.

"The way of export and domestic sales is totally different, and we must slowly and steadily push forward."

Cai Caifeng, a clerk in the business department of Huzhou New Century International Trade Co., said that because of lack of experience and channels, it would be very difficult.

Lu Bo, deputy director of the world trade and Economic Research Department of the Ministry of Commerce, suggests that enterprises with good industrial foundation and good operation can try to improve their production chains and develop their own market.

Those enterprises that only produce components can try to dock with domestic enterprises.

In order to alleviate the pressure on enterprises, since August last year, the state has increased the export tax rebate rate of some commodities for five times, involving nearly 4000 products, of which more than 160 have reached 17%, and the export tax rebate rate of textile products has also been raised to 15%.

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