Dongguan'S Local Leading Shoe Companies Want To Build Shoes City In Africa

The Ethiopia Huajian international light industrial city, which is invested in Huajian group in Africa, is expected to invest 400 million US dollars.

The news raised concerns and debates at the sixth world footwear development forum held in Houjie in January 20th.

At the forum, many participants also expressed a lot of worries about the relocation of shoes enterprises, which might lead to the hollowing of shoes industry in Dongguan.

In this regard, the former Secretary General of the Boao forum and Long Yongtu, Vice Minister of the Ministry of foreign trade and economic cooperation, suggested that Dongguan footwear industry should attach importance to the integration of industrial chains and strengthen the development of producer services. At the same time, it urged the government to act in a timely manner to help enterprises tide over the difficulties of pformation.

Liu Zhijun, chairman of Taurus leather group, has frequently run between Ethiopia and Dongguan. He is now building a material procurement base in Ethiopia, which will be pported to Africa after the purchase of leather materials in Africa. In the future, we will consider establishing a manufacturing factory in Ethiopia.

Like Jinniu leather, Dongguan footwear enterprises, which are attracted by resources such as cheap labor force, low labor cost and preferential investment policy, are increasing.

The gradient pfer of labor-intensive industries is a universal law, and this phenomenon is becoming more obvious for shoemaking industry.

Among them, it is estimated that the total investment will be 400 million dollars, and the Ethiopia China Huajian international light industrial city with a building area of 1 million 200 thousand square meters is a typical representative.

The sixth (2015) world footwear development forum and the opening ceremony of world footwear headquarters base were held at Houjie, world shoe headquarters.

It is reported that the forum will be jointly organized by the China Leather Association, the Asian Footwear Association, the Taiwan footwear industry association, the Hongkong Footwear Association and the Guangdong Footwear Manufacturers Association.

At this forum, Zhang Huarong, chairman of Huajian group, said that with the global economic slowdown, the risk and impact of the footwear industry is far ahead of expectations.

His investment in Ethiopia is accidental and inevitable.

"There are many advantages of setting the factory to Ethiopia."

Zhang Huarong said frankly, first of all, African labor costs are low, tariffs are low, and they can give cadres more room for promotion.

Zhang Huarong got the "highest courtesy" in Ethiopia. With the strong support of the local government, Zhang Huarong set up a factory of 500 people in Ethiopia in 3 months, and then continued to expand its scale.

According to the analysis of the industry, the pfer of the current shoe industry to Southeast Asia, India, Africa and other places is changing from a few enterprises to a number of enterprises or even the industrial chain.

Wang Zhongming, Deputy Secretary General of the National Federation of industry and Commerce and executive vice president of the China Private Economy Research Association, also said at the forum that the domestic labor cost and capital cost were very low in the first 30 years of reform and opening up, but now that wages have gone up and the cost of financing is high, enterprises going out is the product driven by the market economic law and an irresistible trend.

Dispel doubts: "going out" will not lead to hollowing out.

Dongguan shoe enterprises "go out" in the venue, causing the industry to Dongguan industry hollowing concerns.

In this regard, Long Yongtu believes that industrial diversion will not lead to hollowing out.

"For the labor-intensive manufacturing sectors, the developed countries are still engaged, indicating that there are still headlines.

Because of the many factors such as the structure of talents, low end manufacturing can not be pferred to foreign countries in reality, and how much should be changed and how much should be decided by the market?

Long Yongtu predicted that under the current situation of huge Chinese market and low per capita income, the government should not rush to "manufacture", but should see the positive side of labor intensive industries in solving employment and maintaining social stability.

"In the new normal economic situation, it is very important to stick to the manufacturing industry."

Long Yongtu said that a country and ethnic group did not pay much attention to manufacturing industry. For example, in the financial tsunami of 2008, the United States suffered a great loss in the manufacturing sector accounting for less than 10% of the economic share, while Germany, which had developed manufacturing industry, suffered only minor impact.

Long Yongtu appealed to the manufacturing industry as the foundation and root of the economy. Without the success of the manufacturing industry, there would be no economic development.

Tsinghua University professor Zheng Li also believes that the huge domestic market determines that a large part of the manufacturing industry needs to stay at home and meet the domestic market demand in the most suitable way of market regulation.

At the same time, in the process of development, enterprises will gradually develop to the high end of the industrial chain, forming the format including headquarters base, R & D, and so on.

This high level format is a capital intensive and technology intensive industry, and it is not easy to move away like a labor-intensive shoemaking link.

Zhang Huarong also admitted that although he was pferring the manufacturing business of Huajian group to Ethiopia, his factory in Dongguan and Jiangxi still had about 12000 workers, mainly in high-end manufacturing.

Long Yongtu said that the pfer process of industry is also a process of upgrading the industry.

In the past, the footwear industry in Dongguan was dominated by low-end manufacturing. If we did not pfer part of the low-end manufacturing, we could not afford the necessary space and resources for the pformation and upgrading of the footwear industry.

At the same time, Long Yongtu believes that the footwear industry in the process of pnational industrial pfer is actually the process of globalization of enterprises and industries. It is also a good opportunity for enterprises to further integrate resources and improve the industrial chain.

In addition, the low end industries will not bring about the industrial burden of environmental pollution and waste of resources, which will not benefit the pformation and development of the industry.

Long Yongtu believes that there are two very praiseworthy phenomena in Dongguan footwear industry. First, Dongguan footwear enterprises such as Huajian group began to integrate the industrial chain resources with the manufacturing industry as the core, and the two is the rapid development of producer services.

Long Yong said that the future footwear industry in Dongguan should adhere to the deep integration of the industrial chain and make more articles in promoting producer services.

One industry insider said that the biggest advantage of turning the enterprise out is the greatly reduced manpower cost, but the biggest disadvantage is that it is easy to bring some problems because of different cultures.

For example, workers in some places in India will disappear after one month's salary, and will not be back until they have spent their money.

In this regard, Long Yongtu said that to invest in the world, we must attach importance to and develop local talents.

If there is no talent localization, there will be no internationalization of enterprises. Do not think that Chinese enterprises go out, all management personnel must be Chinese talents, so as to truly enable enterprises to take root in the region and rely on local talent.