China Shoes Capital: 6000 Shoe Enterprises Are Facing A Shutdown. Where Is The Foreign Trade Foundry?

Huidong County Bureau of human resources and social statistics, since this year, the county has more than 60 shoe factory owners in arrears of wages, but the industry believes that more than half of the more than 6000 shoe enterprises have gone out of business, the boss over 200 people, and the situation in the coming months is more grim.

According to statistics, during the heyday, Huidong has more than 6000 shoe enterprises and 260 thousand employees, with an annual output of about 900 million pairs.

However, from the beginning of this year to the spring, there is a "Chinese Red Bay" corner.

Huidong, known as the capital city, is experiencing an unprecedented severe winter.

Insiders estimate that more than half of shoe companies are in a semi closed state, and hundreds of shoe factory owners are fleeing.

However, the data provided by the Huidong County People's social bureau is that there are more than 60 cases in this county since January this year.

The boss absconded with wages for about 6 months, reaching 8 at a peak.

And no matter which data is more credible, "how can we get through this year?" the early foundry is still lacking in strength, and it is difficult for the domestic brands to be forced to pform, and where is the shoe industry in Huidong? No one can predict where it will go.

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Only a month's work was done in half a year.

Dependence on OEM orders for foreign trading companies is just like a poison, which makes Huidong's shoe making industry look like it can't stop.

In 1981, a Hongkong native named Li Binghao returned to his hometown of Huidong to start her own business. He started the first shoe factory in Huidong in Huang Bu Town. Up to now, thousands of shoe companies in Huidong have rarely broken the limitations of their family workshops, and are still playing the role of OEM.

Qin Hua is located at the shoe factory beside the waterfront avenue of Huang Bu Town. It belongs to the most common handmade shoe factory in Huidong. When the workers started to work around the humble wooden platform, the upper and sole were bonded. In order not to make the workers feel tired, some of the rhythmic music was played in the speakers.

In the past 10 years, the operation mode of Qin Hua is like this: first take orders from the trading companies from Guangdong, Shenzhen and Dongguan, and then find suppliers who sell shoes materials on Huang Bu street, and then instruct the printing masters to print the edition according to the women's shoes model of the trading company, and then order dozens of male and female workers to work overtime according to the sample.

In good condition, 100 thousand pairs of shoes can be made in one month, and the price of each pair is about 40 yuan, 4 million yuan.

He can earn 100 thousand yuan from material and artificial money.

However, if the 100 thousand yuan is to be put into its own pocket, it will be necessary to go with the wind. The risk is that the trading company will probably tell him that "shoes are not qualified" and "delivery time is delayed". Even more frightening is that the trading company will not give him a cent, and he owes hundreds of thousands of dollars to the workers and shoe suppliers.

If unable to repay, Qin Hua's only way out is to take his wife's belt away from Huang Bu Town when no one is paying attention.

Qin Hua said that from the beginning of this year to the present, he received the trade OEM list, less than "six months only to do the past month's work."

The trade orders of old customers are decreasing, and the new small trading companies dare not pick up them. They have become the "new normal" of many shoe factories in Huidong.

Qin Hua said, according to him,

Huang Po and Jilong have about 50% of the size shoe factories. This year, the Spring Festival has been in a "half closed" state.

Qin Hua was also worried about Liang ya, who did not wait for the arrival of Middle East merchants after the Eid al AdhA Festival.

Liang didn't be surprised by the failure of businessmen in Europe, America, Russia and Ukraine this year, but it was different for merchants in the Middle East.

"No more orders, this year it's gone."

In the face of the reduction of direct orders from foreign businessmen, Liang intends to make a "round trip". The target is a foreign trade company established by the northeast people. The sales direction of the products is Russia, which means that the difference in price is very small.

Liang Zhao said that in all trading companies, the credibility of European and American businessmen is relatively high, and the lowest credit rating is the domestic trading companies that have been established after their plation.

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The highest peak runs 8 days a day.

In November 5th, an emergency report was delivered to the Huidong county political and Law Commission, the Huidong County Public Security Bureau and the Bureau of human resources and social affairs.

According to the report, Huang Buwei source shoe factory operator Chen Binfu owed hundreds of workers to pay 840 thousand yuan from September 2014 to October and fled.

According to official inventory, the shoes factory run by Chen Binfu owns four or four floors of its own factory, with an area of about 800 square meters. There are two production lines in the factory, and more than 200 workers are normally started.

In the eyes of outsiders, this year, the plant started a production line, recruiting more than 100 workers, and the factory was in the state of starting and shipping profits.

But what we didn't expect was that by the end of October, Chen Binfu had written off his business license. At the same time, $140 thousand of the money was remitted from abroad, but the $140 thousand disappeared with Chen Binfu.

After escaping from hiding, Chen Binfu owed a total of 840 thousand yuan of workers' wages.

The family behind him plays a decisive role in the footwear industry in Huidong. Chen Jingbo, the brother of the president of the leather industry association of Huidong County, has great reputation in the local footwear industry, making this incident the most famous arrears of arrears of wages this year.

Huidong's relevant departments later found relatives of Chen Binfu, asking them to take part of their wealth from the family's wealth to pay wages for workers.

Finally, under Chen Jingbo's lead, the Chen family paid 95% of the workers' wages for Chen Binfu.

Shen Bo, director of the shoe factory owner, has a deep understanding of this shoe factory boss. He believes that the reason why Chen Binfu has run away may be credulous as a domestic trade company acting as an intermediary for international trade.

Unlike Chen Binfu, who had a solid foundation, he rented three floors of Lou Lou in an alley beside the Yellow harbour Boulevard.

In October 8th, he posted a very sad announcement on the wall. Besides listing the about 400000 yuan owed to the workers and shoe suppliers, he also announced several items: "I did not do well in the business for three years because of the opening of the factory, and I was cheated off by running a sum of money, and I was also deducted by the trading company for a lot of money. I lost about 1 million 500 thousand yuan in the current calculation, and I lost all my money everywhere. Now I can not get the money to start again, and I am forced to make the announcement.

Grief! "

When the boss goes on the road, he not only talks about material suppliers and workers, but also worries about the government departments.

According to a reporter's observation, most of the activities of Huidong's most intense rights protection activities such as blocking roads and placards are mostly caused by shoe factory owners' running.

According to the Bureau of human resources and social affairs of Huidong County, since January this year, there are altogether more than 60 shoe factory owners in Huidong who have lost their wages in arrears, which are about 6 monthly average, reaching 8 at the peak.

However, there are many shoe factory owners who doubt the statistics of the Bureau. They believe that there are more than more than 60 shoe factory owners in Huidong, and there should be more than 200.

According to the characteristics of shoe factory owners' running on the eve of the Spring Festival, the situation is expected to be grim in the coming months.

[public opinion]

Illiteracy is no longer a shoe age.

This year, the phenomenon of Huidong shoe bosses running around is showing a trend of development. The labor department will step up supervision to ensure that workers' rights and interests are maintained.

- Zheng Huoming, deputy director of the Huidong people's social Bureau

Only the bankrupt enterprises, the industries that have not disappeared, we should see that shoe factories have gone bankrupt, and there are also new shoe factories. The overall situation of Huidong women's shoes is still good.

- Qin Feifan, deputy director of Huidong SME Bureau

The status quo of Huidong women's shoes cottage and Europe and America should be changed. We can't do other people's OEM all day, and copy other people's designs all day.

It is hoped that colleges and universities in Huizhou will establish women's shoes design major and train more local designers.

-- Product Designer Lin Yanbin

Almost all of the first generation of shoe factories in Huidong were farmers without any culture. The reason why Chen Binfu, the boss, was on the road was that he became a trading company.

Some of the former plators were familiar with the trade process and opened their own trading companies, but they were too bad.

The shoe industry in Huidong needs a cultural person to do the original brand in the domestic market.

- Huang Buwei, director of shoe factory, Shen Bo.

Huang Po and Jilong's boss are always reluctant to change. They can try the electricity supplier. The boss of Daling town is more flexible. At present, Daling is active in hundreds of electric providers.

-- Zhong Zhanhui, a local media owner.

In 2014, the Huidong government first wrote the report on the report of the government work report. The pformation process must be very painful, but e-commerce may be one of the opportunities for the shoe industry to overtake the curve.

- Zhao Shifei, President of Huidong electricity supplier Association