China'S Clothing Exports Fluctuate Sharply In The First Quarter, And Enterprises Seek Transformation And Upgrading.

Southeast Asia is emerging as a market power. Labor cost It has great advantages over China. At present, the starting point of Kampuchea labor force's monthly salary is about 120 dollars, while the Yangtze River Delta region is basically between 600 and 800 dollars. It is really a big cut. Liu Weiru, deputy general manager of Suzhou Hengrun import and Export Co., Ltd. is saying.

Wu Weiqing, sales manager of Fu Xi Textile Co. Ltd. said that even after considering overtime and other expenses, the monthly income of workers in Southeast Asia is around 220 dollars, which is still much lower than that in China. At present, the company has more than 200 domestic factories, and two overseas factories have more than 1000 people, forming a "upside down" situation.

But unlike external speculation, labor prices are not the main driving force for Chinese enterprises to develop factories overseas. Many enterprises told reporters that the lack of industrial support, the local hydropower infrastructure remained to be improved, and the number of workers' labor skills increased greatly. Take Hengrun as an example, overseas factories are mainly responsible for the final garments, all the fabrics and spare parts are transported from China, while the high-end products are still left at home. In Fu Xi, the production efficiency of domestic factories is about 2.5 times that of overseas factories, which almost completely disappears the labor cost advantages of individual workers.

"In our industry, it is not necessary to view overseas factories with capacity transfer, because the fact is that Shanghai and domestic factories are not substitute relations, not overseas and domestic ones. Overseas factories are more new capacity and new channels for Chinese garment manufacturing, and they are more complementary to domestic capacity. " Liu Wei said.

In fact, most of our country Textile and garment enterprises For example, the trade access threshold of the developed countries such as Europe and the United States is the main reason to attract them to accelerate the pace of factory construction overseas. A number of domestic apparel enterprises have said that at present, the European and North American market places zero tariff policies on labor-intensive products such as clothing, shoes and hats in some Southeast Asian countries, and maintains more than 10% import tax on similar products in China. This makes overseas buyers more inclined to purchase goods from overseas factories of Chinese enterprises, thereby greatly reducing their selling costs.

"This is more like a natural adjustment in the global market, and also a domestic one. Transformation and upgrading of enterprises A channel. As a traditional industry, we are going through a climbing period. One of the elements of transformation is to achieve better market layout on a global scale. Liu Wei said.

Liu Wei said that over the past few years, domestic enterprises have been accelerating the shift of products to high-end products. The innovation of product capability and the leading level of technology are the fundamental guarantee for the co-existence of overseas factories and domestic enterprises. Wu Weiqing said that transferring and transferring production to the northwest and Northeast China is also an effective way. "After all, there is no need for the industry to break down, and only the enterprises that have been lost will continue to persist in the clothing industry."