Xinjiang'S Textile And Apparel Small Frontier Trade Needs To Be Upgraded.

At the beginning of this year, the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region put forward 200 international freight trains plan to open up Eurasian market.

"Now more than 100 columns have been opened, and we can say that we have completed the planned 2/3."

Peng Ji, deputy director of the Xinjiang autonomous region, said: "we are very confident about the future export of Xinjiang's textile and garment industry. When the industry grows, it is very likely that we will set up a special train of textile and clothing."

Industrial development needs export

Liang Yong, Deputy Secretary General of the the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region people's government and director of the office of the leading group of the development of textile and garment industry in the autonomous region, also said that the development of Xinjiang's textile and garment industry is not a dream, but a goal.

As far as the present situation is concerned, only by strengthening exports can the whole market form a virtuous circle.

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According to the data of the chamber of Commerce, Xinjiang textile and clothing exports totaled 1 billion 678 million 861 thousand US dollars in the 1~6 months this year, or about 10 billion 580 million yuan, down 39.22% from the same period last year.

Among them, the border trade volume was about 9 billion 80 million yuan, down 35.07% from the same period last year, accounting for 85.89% of the total export volume.

Liang Yong explained: "there are two reasons for the sharp decline. One is the currency depreciation of the ruble and other neighboring countries. Two, last year, Kazakhstan cracked down on illegal smuggling activities and rectified the wholesale market of clothing. At the same time, the normal trade in textiles and clothing between China and Kazakhstan was also seriously affected."

For a long time, the total export volume of textiles and clothing in Xinjiang is very small in the whole country.

"At this stage, our clothing production capacity is relatively low, a small number of real estate clothing sold to neighboring provinces and cities, and exported to Central Asia, Russia and other countries.

Over the past two years, a number of garment enterprises have been put into operation. However, due to limited technology, lack of orders and poor market development, some enterprises are unable to reach production, and they can only rely on local school uniform orders or employment training expenses to maintain production or partly start.

Some time ago, we made a survey and found many new things last year.

The operating rate is only about 70%, mainly due to market constraints.

In view of this, it is difficult to release production capacity only by the local market, uniform orders and tooling processing in the autonomous region. We must vigorously develop the surrounding provinces and cities and Central Asian and Russian markets, and actively strive to export to the EU and other markets.

Liang Yong said.

According to him, in the short term, Xinjiang's main export market is still in Central Asia.

At present, the market share of locally produced products in Xinjiang is only about 10%.

"The surrounding market capacity is still there. Our goal is to increase the market share of Xinjiang's real estate clothing to 30% or even 50% in recent years.

By 2023, we plan to produce 800 million garments, which will be about 8 times the current annual output, and export will account for 2/3 of total production.

In addition, in the long run, the Central Asian market is limited in terms of population and consumption. Therefore, the long-term goal of Xinjiang's textile and garment export industry is to continue westward and expand western Asia and Europe.

This is an important reason why we strongly import and export processing enterprises. "

Compared with ASEAN, there are advantages.

To Liang Yong's delight, there have been many export processing enterprises originally intended to move to Southeast Asia since the beginning of this year, diverting the industry to Xinjiang.

"One belt and one road" is a national policy. The strategic vision of the core area and the five major centers of the Silk Road Economic Belt has become a solid foundation for the interconnection between Xinjiang and Central Asia and European countries.

Under such a macro policy, Xinjiang is very attractive.

Although the processing cost of Xinjiang garment industry is 10%~20% higher than that of Southeast Asian countries and regions, compared with the mainland, Xinjiang's processing cost is still relatively cheap, which is about 10% lower.

Liang Yong said so.

So, since the cost of production is higher than that of Southeast Asia, how can we attract mainland enterprises to pfer the industry to this? Liang Yong explained: "first, although processing costs are higher than those in Southeast Asia, the flow of resources in Xinjiang and the mainland provinces is more convenient in terms of technology, raw materials, logistics and other aspects.

Secondly, at the present stage, the main products of Xinjiang's textile and garment industry are cotton yarn, viscose yarn and other products, that is to say, our upstream supporting industry is very developed, which is very important for the development of downstream enterprises.

Finally, Xinjiang is increasing training efforts to improve the quality and efficiency of employment, and it is gratifying that progress is faster than we think.

Of course, in addition, there is a hard index in assessing Xinjiang's export strength and comparative advantage with ASEAN, that is freight capacity.

The opening of international freight trains not only sent Xinjiang's products to more countries and regions, but also attracted more exports from the mainland to Central Asia, Russia and Europe.

Setting up factories for investment in Xinjiang will help build China into a bridgehead and export processing base for textile and clothing exports to the West.

The completion of the processing base will further promote the operation of international freight trains, which complement each other.

Freight list is most important.

As Peng Ji said, since the first international freight train to Central Asia was launched in March last year, Xinjiang has launched a number of international freight trains this year, and has gone to Georgia, Russia and Turkey.

"At present, any product has been able to reach Europe and Asia successfully. On the one hand, it is a freight train specially opened by Xinjiang. On the other hand, it is a freight train originating from Chongqing and Wuhan with the help of our cooperation agreement.

In pportation, Xinjiang's position is not merely a channel, but a hub.

We will actively promote the construction of the central Europe and Urumqi train assembly marshalling center and the distribution center for import and export goods, and actively promote the construction of the land port in Xinjiang, and truly build a pportation hub and a trade logistics center.

Last August, Xinjiang Korla Turkey Mersin international freight train was tested and operated, and the export of viscose fiber Xinjiang limited Fiber Co., Ltd. participated.

Wang Minglong, deputy general manager of the company, once said: "the company imports about 100 thousand tons of raw materials from Turkey every year, and exports 100 thousand tons of cotton pulp products.

Logistics pportation is an important part of enterprise operation cost.

Previously, textile export companies located in Xinjiang mainly relied on highways combined with maritime pport, which had higher logistics costs and limited pport volume. Therefore, opening up westward markets such as Central Asia and Russia was faced with challenges and difficulties.

It is reported that since the opening of the international freight train, the time from Xinjiang to Almaty has decreased to 2.5 days from the previous 15 days, and it only takes about 12 days to go to Europe, which is more than 30 days of pportation time than shipping. Freight cost is only 1/10 of air freight.

Liang Yong said: "Xinjiang's textiles and clothing are mainly pported through the road by the way of border trade, and the volume of pportation is restricted.

The international freight trains greatly improve the modern logistics system and reduce the logistics cost, which is of great significance for promoting the development of Xinjiang's textile and garment industry.