Textile Enterprises Shift Overseas Into A Trend. What Should Chongqing'S Textile Industry Do?

Not long ago, New York Times published a piece of news that "the industrial chain has been reversed, and China's cotton mill has landed in the United States".

According to the article, because of the long term upside down of domestic and foreign cotton prices and the rising cost of labor, some textile enterprises in China's coastal areas moved their production lines to the United States.

Some people believe that the textile industry is a microcosm of large-scale and low labor cost manufacturing. Domestic textile enterprises gradually shift their production lines to Southeast Asian regions with lower cost and even set up factories in developed countries. This shows that the comparative advantage of China's textile industry is accelerating and vanishing.

Is this really the case? Is there such a shift in Chongqing's textile industry? If so, what should Chongqing's textile enterprises do?

Southeast Asia's main battleground for textile enterprises to pfer overseas

"The pfer of domestic textile industry to the US is only a case."

Wang Tiankai, President of the China Textile Industry Federation, said that in the New York Times news, the production line was moved to the United States by a private textile enterprise in Hangzhou.

However, the factory in the United States only produces rotor spinning, and the product is the least employed and the most mechanized product in all textiles.

"But it should not be overlooked that the current pfer of domestic textile manufacturing to overseas has indeed become a trend, and the pfer enterprises are expanding from garment manufacturing to upstream yarn, printing and dyeing in the industrial chain, and their pfer destinations are more concentrated in Southeast Asia than in the United States."

Wang Tiankai said.

According to the news from the Federation, it is different from previous years' investment in Southeast Asia, and now more textile enterprises in China have begun to take action.

A notable sign is that in recent years, more and more clothes labels have been replaced by "MADE IN CHINA", which we are familiar with, and gradually replaced by "MADE IN VIETNAM" (made in Vietnam) and "MADE IN THAILAND" (made in Thailand).

At the beginning of this year, a textile company in Guangdong went to Bangladesh to take part in the textile and garment exhibition, and made a deep investigation of the textile industry's employment market and development prospects.

During the inspection period, the company found that many of its counterparts from China were carrying out similar "stepping stones" with the same goal.

"At present, enterprises located in the Eastern Textile industry base have become the trend of investment opportunities in Southeast Asia."

Wang Tiankai analysis, because the difference between domestic and foreign cotton per ton of cotton reached the highest price of about 5000 yuan, and the labor cost increased year by year, the textile industry as a labor-intensive industry, the labor cost of enterprises increased year by year by 15%, and often encountered "labor shortage", these factors have become the cause of the pfer of the textile industry to Southeast Asia.

In addition, the successful effect of some "going out" textile enterprises has made more textile enterprises have the impulse to "go out".

The China Textile Import and Export Chamber of Commerce said that domestic enterprises mainly investing in Southeast Asia were mainly textile and garment enterprises. They built factories in Thailand, Vietnam and other industrial parks with low labor cost and raw materials, and built large scale processing bases in lower cost Kampuchea and Burma, so as to reduce production cost pressure.

"Cost push" brings industrial pfer as a natural economic phenomenon.

For the overseas pfer of textile industry

Some people exclaim: the competitiveness of China's manufacturing industry is declining.

However, in Wang Tiankai's view, with the pressure brought by changes in the domestic and foreign economic environment, the pfer of textile and clothing industry to the central and western regions and Southeast Asia in eastern China is actually a manifestation of optimization and upgrading of industrial structure.

"The experience of developed countries shows that after the economic development has reached a certain stage, the industrial pfer caused by cost is a natural economic phenomenon."

Gao Yong, Secretary General of the China Federation of textile industry, said that through industrial pfer, effective allocation of resources and market development, the selective pfer of production and processing links to areas with low cost or near the terminal market is an inevitable process of any industry development including textile enterprises.

He believes that the focus of international industrial pfer has shifted from raw materials to processing industries, from primary products to new industries, from manufacturing to service industries.

At present, the industrial structure of coastal areas is pforming from labor intensive industries such as textiles to high-tech industries such as electronics and machinery. Such an industrial restructuring is bound to accelerate the pace of its textile and garment industry pfer.

That is to say, the pfer of textile industry is not only driven by the market environment, but also promoted by the "visible hand" of the government.

"If only the market environment is bad, maybe the enterprise will also hope to pass through the loan, but the government's attitude makes us understand that we are already" unpopular "here.

An interview with the head of a garment enterprise in Dongguan, Guangdong, said that as the labor-intensive industries were gradually replaced by capital intensive and technology intensive industries, the textile industry has not been as important as the early stage of reform and opening up in the eastern coastal areas.

Under the promotion of the central and local governments, the pfer of textile and garment industry is a foregone conclusion.

Chongqing needs to undertake innovation well.

Although the overseas pfer of textile industry in coastal areas has become a trend, the textile industry in our city has not been affected.

The City Textile Industry Federation responsible person said, because our city textile clothing industry scale is small, the gathering degree is not high, in this textile industry shift tide, our city mainly plays the role of "undertaker".

According to the Municipal Commission of statistics, there are more than 3800 textile and garment enterprises in the city, and the annual sales revenue is about 46 billion yuan.

In order to promote the development of textile and garment industry, in recent years, our city has provided support.

A number of development plans, including the construction of Textile City in Western China with Wanzhou as the center, and the construction of high-grade and high-grade chemical fiber production base with longevity and Fuling as the center, take the Shizhu, Youyang, Xiushan and Qianjiang as the center to construct the production base of textile and garment processing trade in Southeast Chongqing, build the garment industry base with Yubei and Banan as the center, build Hechuan West and Jiangjin as the center to build the textile and clothing creative base in Western Chongqing.

"At present, Chongqing already has many conditions to develop the textile industry."

Ai Wanzhong, deputy director of the Municipal Commission of letters and commissions, said that the development of textile industry depends on many factors, including raw material supply, industrial matching, market demand and logistics corridor.

As one of the national bases to undertake the pfer of Eastern Textile Industry, our textile industry is relying on the existing base, comparative advantage and special resources to cultivate 100 billion textile and garment industrial clusters. To achieve this goal, it is most critical to undertake innovation when undertaking the pfer of the Eastern Textile Industry.

He believes that at present, the central government encourages the pfer of textile industry to the central and western regions, and the pfer of enterprises to China and abroad spontaneously. This is determined by the pformation of China's textile industry from export driven to domestic demand.

In the process of industrial pfer, it can be divided into three types: gradient pfer, including labor force and other cost factors; technology pfer, that is, the pfer of production technology; fusion pformation, that is, to build a perfect industrial cluster, purchasing power market pfer.

At present, the pfer of Eastern Textile Enterprises to domestic and foreign countries has involved the above three pfer modes. Then, when undertaking industrial pfer, our city can not simply "bring ism" to the side, but also needs to undertake innovation on the one hand.

Yang Jianming, vice president of the Federation of textile industry, suggested that

It is necessary to pform from production to production and service enterprises. Conditional textile enterprises should go up to both sides of the "smile curve", outsourcing production to other enterprises, and concentrate their efforts on R & D and sales.

At the same time, it also needs financial support from the government level, such as guiding social capital to the textile industry, setting up industrial support funds and building factor markets.