Ethiopia Considers Importing Raw Leather From Neighboring Countries To Meet Manufacturing Needs

The government expressed disappointment at the export earnings of manufacturing industry in the first 6 months of the fiscal year.

From July 2014 to December, the export earnings target of the Ethiopian government was $505 million, but the actual export revenue was $191 million in sum.

Ahmed Abitew, Minister of industry of Ethiopia, said.

The shortage has affected Ethiopia's manufacturing.

He mentioned Ethiopia's leather industry in particular: the government is studying new measures to import raw leather from neighboring countries to meet domestic manufacturing needs.

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There was a shortage of raw leather, resulting in a suspension of production.

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In Zhong Hongxing's impression, the first World Internet Conference held in Tongxiang last November seems to have just come to an end. Wuzhen's Internet critics seem to be listening.

As a representative of Tongxiang shoe enterprises, Zhong Hongxing, chairman of Jiaxing Sheng Dan Li Shoes Co., Ltd. also attended the event.

"I thought at that time that the vane of the Internet development is here, and this is an opportunity."

Zhong Hongxing said.

Tongxiang Shimen is a famous women's shoes production base in the country. The number of leather shoes is 35% of Zhejiang's.

In the shoe industry of Shimen, Zhong Hongxing is the big brother in everyone's eyes, and has the most advanced vision and strategy.

How can he take advantage of the opportunities brought by the Internet?

Now in Tongxiang, a group of businessmen like Zhong Hongxing have been keen to capture the trend of the Internet and keep up with the tide.

Zhang Chengchao, a post-90s kid from Tongxiang, has presented "Internet sweater" to Ma Yun as a hot spot at the world Internet Conference.

As the helmsman of the "air Pu court" of the sweater business, he holds the resources of many high-quality buyers and the best dealer resources in the country.

Chau Chuen Zhang Jian, who started business for only 3 years, was the champion of Taobao's silk sales.

Chau Chun town has set up a silk business platform for the development of silk fabrics. Zhang Jian became the representative of Tongxiang's young generation of silk entrepreneurs.

Under the double favorable conditions of industrial base and policy, a group of entrepreneurs are playing a more and more important role in the development of Internet in Tongxiang.

From 1 to November 2014, the e-commerce volume in Tongxiang was about 60 billion yuan, of which the retail sales volume was about 12 billion yuan.

Tu Jianzhong, director of the Tongxiang Municipal Bureau of Commerce, said that Tongxiang relies on the advantages of traditional industrial clusters such as sweaters, fur, silk quilts, home textiles and so on. It has upgraded the Internet by 1.5.

"Tongxiang in the future also plans seven characteristics of the electronic commerce industry cluster area, by 2018 to strive for the annual e-business paction volume of 130 billion yuan."