Footwear Industry Is Facing The World, And China Is Making Overseas Doors.

The sixth world footwear industry

In January 20th, held in Houjie, Dongguan, the forum focused on the topic of "made in China going out" and "sustainable development trend of the world footwear industry" and so on. Thousands of industry experts, guests, media and other people from 16 shoe making countries all over the world participated in the forum.

Member of the Advisory Committee of the Boao forum for Asia, Long Yongtu, Vice Minister of the Ministry of foreign trade and economic cooperation, Zheng Li, Professor of lean manufacturing research, Professor Lu Feng of the National Development Research Institute of Peking University, Charles Gillman, President of global sourcing of Brown shoe industry, Mo Hanyi, executive director Mo Hanyi of France's West disis CTC, PEter T. Mangione of global footwear partners, President of Italy footwear trade association, Massimo Donda, and other global industry giants, bringing the new round of global vision of innovative thinking to the industry. "Gillman"

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The development forum is jointly sponsored by China Leather Association, Guangdong Footwear Manufacturers Association, Taiwan footwear industry association, Asian Footwear Association, Hongkong Footwear Association and other units. The world shoe industry headquarters base, Dongguan Leather Footwear Association, Dongguan City

Joint undertaking by other units.

Forum launching ceremony

The Organizing Committee of the forum is awarded the best strategic partner of China Leather Association, Guangdong Footwear Manufacturers Association, Taiwan footwear industry association, Hongkong Footwear Association, Dongguan Footwear Association and other units.

Guan enterprises "go out" into a trend

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.

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

Zhang Huarong, chairman of Huajian group, admitted that the cost of labor in Africa is lower, and the tariff is lower.

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.

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Going out rather than running away

Dongguan triggered by "going global"

The worry of "hollowing out" has attracted wide attention.

In this regard, Long Yongtu and other experts and scholars pointed out that the manufacturing industry to go out is the trend of the times, and the footwear industry in Dongguan will not "hollow", instead, it will be upgraded space.

Huajian group developed very fast in Africa, largely due to the sudden drop in labor costs, and the cost of wages dropped from 22% of total domestic cost to 3%, and productivity was 70% of the domestic level.

Although the cost of logistics has increased from 2% to 8%, the total profit margin has increased substantially.

At present, in addition to Huajian group's investment and construction in Ethiopia, Dongguan is attracting more and more foreign resources such as cheap labor, low labor costs and preferential investment policies.

At the forum, Wang Zhongming, Deputy Secretary General of the National Federation of industry and commerce, said, "30 years ago, labor costs were cheap. Now 30 years have passed, labor costs are rising, and financing costs are high. Chinese enterprises have become an irresistible trend to go out because they are driven by the laws of market economy and the laws of competition."

Long Yongtu pointed out: "in the past, the purpose of Chinese enterprises going out was to obtain local resources, such as oil, timber and minerals. Now the purpose of Chinese enterprises going out is to merge with local economy and manufacturing industry, making China an integral part of the global economy. China's economy has been able to integrate with the world through going global."

In the view of Lu Feng, in order to deal with the law of market competition, in the pformation of traditional manufacturing industry, "the supply chain should go to the high end, and the technical level should go to the high end. Finally, the layout of enterprises should go global."

"Hollowing out" and peeling regeneration

Zheng Li said at the forum that the huge domestic market decided that a large part of the manufacturing industry needed 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 towards the high end of the industrial chain, forming a capital intensive and technology intensive format, including headquarters economy, R & D, and so on, and it is not easy to move away like a labor-intensive shoe making link.

Zhang Huarong also admitted that although he was pferring the manufacturing business of Huajian group to Ethiopia, there were still about 10 thousand workers in Dongguan and Jiangxi factories, and high-end manufacturing.

Compared with Dongguan, the development of footwear industry in France and Taiwan has effectively demonstrated the development of Dongguan's footwear industry.

According to PierreBonnet, chairman of the Federation of French shoemaker technicians, at the end of last century, although the French manufacturing industry had shrunk in the process of industrial pfer, many global high-end luxury shoe brands and companies were retained, and these companies were good results of investment in North Africa in those years.

Zhang Yongming, chairman of Taiwan Meiji Business Co., Ltd. also said that although the shoe industry had been pferred out, the footwear industry in Taiwan has been reduced in popularity. However, the competitiveness of the enterprises has been improved, and every link of the industrial chain can be well done. And through a period of running in, the manufacturing industry pferred to the outside world can also form an industrial chain suitable for its own development.

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.