The Pattern Of World Footwear Industry Is Tilted From China To Southeast Asia.

According to domestic authoritative financial media reports, due to China manufacturing industry With the rising cost, the world footwear industry is tilting from China to Southeast Asia. Since the 2008 financial crisis, Southeast Asian footwear industry has taken nearly 30% of China's foreign trade processing orders. The industry is worried that if the transfer of overseas orders to speed up, will trigger more than 20 million people in China's footwear industry is facing impact.

Southeast Asian countries, especially Indonesia and Vietnam, are driven by the reform of current situation and dividend policy. In recent years, the footwear industry has developed rapidly. At the request of the vast number of footwear practitioners in China, the shoe net in China has lasted for more than two months. After careful planning, market research, special interview with people, material collection and so on, it will be introduced in Southeast Asia in the near future. footwear A series of reports on the development of production countries will explain the characteristics and current situation of footwear industry development in Southeast Asian countries from various latitudes.

According to the official leather and luggage Association of Vietnam, according to incomplete statistics, as of the end of 2014, Vietnam now has 812 enterprises involved in shoemaking, bags and other business areas, including 516 shoe making enterprises, 33 leather enterprises, and 263 bags manufacturing enterprises.

From the perspective of regional distribution, Vietnam's footwear production is mainly distributed in three major cities in Vietnam: Hu Zhiming, Hanoi and Haiphong. Hu Zhiming shoes factory is mainly high-end leather shoes, the capital of Hanoi is the production of vulcanized shoes are mostly, as for Haiphong City, there are some larger footwear factories.

Ye Chengjie, vice president of Vietnam leather and luggage Association (Lefaso), said that as the world's fourth largest supplier of footwear, the footwear industry has become Vietnam's third largest export industry, after coal and rubber. In 2014, foreign exchange earnings from footwear exports exceeded $12 billion, an increase of 18% over the same period last year. The main export markets of Vietnam footwear products are the United States and the European Union. The main export products are high-grade leather shoes and sports shoes.

Vietnam's footwear industry development advantages

1. low labor cost

Footwear processing is a traditional labor-intensive industry. The cost of manpower is relatively large in the cost of shoe enterprises. If we can control the cost of manpower, this will greatly enhance the competitiveness of enterprises in the market. China can become the "world factory" today, and the advantage of low labor cost plays an important role.

Then, with the deepening of reform and opening up and the fading of demographic dividend, wages of Chinese shoemaking industry increased by nearly 3.5 times compared with that of ten years ago. Some people have compared the monthly salary of workers in the eastern coastal areas of China to about 500-600 dollars, while Vietnam only has about 250 dollars. The cheap labor advantage is helping to open up the "world factory" to Vietnam with ninety million people.

2. international environment: GSP preferential tariff rate

In recent years, with China's shoe making Industry With the rapid development of China's footwear industry and the increasing export of footwear exports, China's footwear industry has encountered large-scale anti-dumping in the European and American markets. International trade barriers have been further expanded, and footwear trade barriers such as anti-dumping and trade quota restrictions are frequently encountered in the international market. Vietnam has enjoyed a number of preferential policies in exporting to the United States, the European Union and ASEAN. It is one of the countries that are less affected by international trade restrictions and anti-dumping, especially exported to the United States and the European Union. Vietnam has been enjoying GSP preferential tariff rates for a long time, which has become an important reason for Vietnam to attract a large number of investors.

MattPriest, chairman of the Footwear Distributors and Retailers ofAmerica, said that the value of Vietnam's exports to the United States has increased at an annual rate of 20%-21% since 2001. Insiders said that after the signing of the trans Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP) in 2015, Vietnam's footwear exports to the United States will grow more rapidly.

3. geographical advantages

Vietnam is one of the best natural conditions to develop the economy in the world. Compared with other Southeast Asian countries, Vietnam is a long strip country with rich mineral resources and a coastline of 3260 kilometers, which provides natural geographical advantages for its development in foreign trade and economy. Secondly, Vietnam has nearly 1/3 of the land in the plain, and it has two deltas, the Red River Delta and the Mekong Delta.

4. policy guidance for government setting up

In order to speed up the pace of reform and opening up, the Ministry of industry and trade of Vietnam issued the guidance plan for industrial development in 2020 and the 2030 outlook in July 2014 to promote domestic demand and enhance the competitiveness of Vietnamese industries in the global market. This plan, approved by the Vietnamese Prime Minister, will include textiles, clothing and footwear into one of the next pillar industries in Vietnam.

By the end of 2014, Vietnam's Ministry of industry and trade had formulated the "overall development plan for Vietnam's footwear industry in 2020" by the year 2025, especially on the development of footwear industry. From the policy support, investment promotion, domestic sales, government public relations and other aspects, it was proposed that the footwear industry should become the pillar export industry of the national economy by 2020.

Li Peng, secretary-general of the Asian Footwear Association, pointed out that compared with Southeast Asia, China's investment environment and workers' quality have gained the upper hand. Although some factories in China have been shut down, they are mainly caused by their own internal management problems, rather than external factors such as politics.