Huajian Group Zhang Huarong: "One Belt And One Road" Provides A Broader Platform For Enterprises.

He is also a member of the CPPCC National Committee.

Chairman of the board, chairman of the world footwear base, and so on, "the godfather of Chinese women's shoes" Zhang Huarong is very busy.

Just returned from Huajian international Ethiopian factory, and when he was caught in a cold, he continued to write proposals. He then came to Beijing to attend the two sessions.

"I want to make a proposal for" one belt and one road "in the two sessions.

This important strategy has not only become an important strategy for China to build a new pattern of all-round opening up in the new era, but also provides an excellent opportunity for Chinese enterprises to "go out" and expand the new space for economic development.

Zhang Huarong told China Economic Weekly - an interview with the economic network.

The opportunity of "one belt and one road"

At the end of last year, the central economic work conference formally designated the "one belt and one road" as a regional economic development strategy focused on 2015.

In 2015, it was regarded as the key year for the implementation of the "one belt and one road" landing.

Nearly 60 countries along the border, mostly emerging economies and developing countries, have a total population of about 4 billion 400 million, and the total economic volume is about 21 trillion dollars, accounting for 63% and 29% of the world respectively.

This group of data has excited all countries and economies concerned about "one belt and one road", especially for Chinese enterprises.

Resource rich Highlands, vast market potential, low-lying land of wage costs, tourist attractions, and the countries along the way bring a good blueprint for Chinese enterprises.

Zhang Huarong believes that if these resources can be constructed through "one way and one way" cooperation to achieve interconnection, and investment and trade facilitation will be realized according to the planning of Hayes, then the countries along these lines will become reliable resources for China's resources and the best place for China's market development.

For these countries, China's industrial pfer will bring them a strategic opportunity for industrialization and modernization.

In recent years, the development of enterprises in China faces many factors, such as rising labor costs, resource and environmental pressures, and so on. It is necessary to explore the market, seek cheaper labor, strive for technological resources and break through trade barriers through "going out".

Zhang Huarong said.

The implementation of "one belt and one road" opens a gateway to the world for Chinese enterprises seeking pformation.

As a result of the development of the reform and opening up to the outside world, Zhang Huarong said frankly that in the first 30 years of reform and opening up, domestic labor costs and capital costs were very low. But now that wages have gone up and the cost of financing is high, enterprises going out is a product driven by the laws of market economy, and it is a trend that can not be blocked.

In conducting research on proposals for the two sessions, Zhang Huarong found that there are two opportunities for China's economic development in the future: first, overseas mergers and acquisitions; two, the pfer of labor intensive industries from Chinese enterprises to overseas, and the labor-intensive processing industry in the future will inevitably lose their competitive edge. Therefore, we must "go out" and leave behind a few enterprises, leaving behind two ends to do brand marketing and development.

Many labor intensive industries in China have come to the time of going out.

Sample of Huajian group "going out"

Going out and going out seems to have sped up Chinese enterprises throughout the country.

So where will the enterprise go and what to do?

At the beginning of this year, Yifu Lin, a famous economist, pointed out at the seminar on the strategy of "one belt and one road" that China is a big manufacturing country. According to the third industrial census released in 2014, the number of employed persons in China's manufacturing industry is 124 million, equivalent to 12 times that of Japan's labor-intensive industries in 1960s.

This huge volume has only 1 billion people and about 74% of the population in the countryside.

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With the proposal of the "China Africa community", the best choice for the pfer of industry in Africa or China coincides with Zhang Huarong's ideas.

In fact, Huajian group has already gone ahead, providing samples for Chinese enterprises to "go out".

Huajian group now has 47 modernisation.

More than 2.4 employees have more than 20 million pairs of shoes per year.

Among the top 50 top ranked women's shoe brands in the world, 15 are loyal customers of Huajian group.

As the largest footwear manufacturer in the world, Huajian has been the focus of attention.

In 2011, Meles, then Prime Minister of Ethiopia, went to Shenzhen to attend the opening ceremony of the World University Summer Games. Then he went to Huajian group to investigate and put an olive branch on Huajian group.

After a comprehensive consideration, Huajian group started to invest and set up factories in Ethiopia, becoming the first Chinese footwear industry to enter Africa. In the first year, it created 2000 jobs for the local people.

At present, 3500 posts have been provided.

Labor costs are low, leather resources are abundant, and there is a global preferential import and export zero tariff policy. The government attaches great importance to foreign exchange businesses such as foreign exchange earning and resettlement, which is an important factor in Zhang Huarong's decision to invest in Ethiopia.

On the other hand, Zhang Huarong has his own feelings and aspirations.

From the perspective of enterprises, going out is inevitable. It is an investment and a valuable thing.

Investing in Africa, as an entrepreneur, is a great thing for ordinary people. If Africa succeeds, it is indeed a great thing.

People oriented, serving humanity. "

On May 2014, Premier Li Keqiang visited Ethiopia to inspect the overseas Chinese firm Ethiopia factory with Ethiopia Prime Minister Haier.

Li Keqiang affirmed the contribution made by Huajian and other enterprises to Ethiopia, and encouraged more Chinese enterprises to invest in Ethiopia.

From "made in China" to "made in Africa", Zhang Huarong not only made a simple industrial pfer, but he tried to create a more complete shoemaking industry for Ethiopia.

It is understood that Ethiopia China Huajian international light industrial city covers an area of 126 hectares, with an overall development volume of 1 million 369 thousand square meters, of which 638 thousand and 600 square meters of industrial development, 538 thousand and 800 square meters of residential development, 191 thousand and 600 square meters of commercial development, and ready to develop into footwear industry clusters in the next 3-5 years, plans to employ 30 thousand people, while the whole cluster may employ 100 thousand people.

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Institutionalization is the key

Go out, right.

It is not just a simple three words. It contains the flavour of sadness and joy, such as opportunity, challenge, risk and danger.

In his three years in Ethiopia, Zhang Huarong also felt that "going out" is not easy.

"Going out is not about policy, it is about suffering.

To understand the laws of local market economy, understand the law, make full preparations, slowly mature, be calm and persistent, and make adequate preparations.

At present, there are still many problems that are not compatible with "going out". The institutional arrangements for investment and trade facilitation in some countries are lagging behind, the security system for overseas investment is not perfect, and financial, legal, accounting and other services can not keep up. Therefore, there is a certain blindness and disorder competition in enterprises going out, and it is necessary to fully innovate and adapt to the "going out" system.

With the promotion of "one belt and one road", Zhang Huarong saw more hope.

There is no limit to the prospect of cooperation along the belt and road. We should seize this important historical opportunity, enlarge the positive effect of the "one belt and one way" national strategy, and refine the relevant supporting measures as soon as possible, so as to help the "belt and road economy" become a new engine for China's new round of opening up and become an accelerator for Chinese enterprises to go abroad.

Zhang Huarong told China Economic Weekly.

In order to promote the "one belt and one road" landing more quickly, Zhang Huarong called for the establishment of the core principles of the common construction of the countries along the border and the great power headed by letting profits.

In his view, to promote cooperation in the construction of the countries along the border, we should uphold the spirit of openness, establish the correct concept of justice and interests and the overall situation, and combine our foothold with the concerns of the countries along the line to seek the "greatest common divisor" of cooperation.

Making full use of the existing cooperation mechanism and platform, pforming the advantages of politics, geography and economy into a new advantage of practical cooperation, and gradually forming regional cooperation from point to point and from line to film.

After a comprehensive analysis of the success or failure cases of regional economies at home and abroad, Zhang Huarong believes that the key to Hayes strategy is to be institutionalized.

If we can take the lead in the establishment of the "one belt and one way" cooperation committee, take the high level operation at the national level, build industrial parks, pportation trade parks, logistics parks, cultural exchange centers with the theme of "one belt and one road", and set up state-level exhibition forums to deepen Haisi strategy through these high-level platform construction.

"The belt and road" is a vast platform, which is a rare opportunity for US private enterprises.

It is suggested that the government should promote the development of "one belt and one road" and provide full support for business, politics, diplomacy and services for the enterprises going out, so as to escort Chinese enterprises faster and better.

Zhang Huarong said.