The Collapse Of The Textile And Garment Industry Is Revealed: Small Businesses Leaving Large Enterprises To Upgrade

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The news is rampant, and some even estimate that the upstream and downstream industrial chain's employment population is as high as 170 million, or tens of millions of people will come home early for the new year.

Rumors like tigers, but no one can deny it, because the listed companies are indeed closed down, and many smaller businesses are quietly disappearing.

It is understood that textile enterprises, especially small and medium-sized enterprises, are facing unprecedented pressure this year. We can say that many enterprises are front-line of life and death.

But recently, many people in charge of large textile enterprises have come to know something else, even with the situation of small and medium-sized textile enterprises. Not only does the increase in labor costs not cause too much impact on them, nor does it lead to orders pfer, or even orders.

Environmental pressure

12 on the morning of 10 February, the last half day of the red haze warning in Beijing. On the 2015 annual conference of China's textile and garment industry social responsibility, people from the textile industry and environment-friendly industries from all over the country began to laugh at the fog and haze of Beijing.

Because even Shaoxing, Foshan and other places where textile enterprises are concentrated have not seen such a serious fog and haze, we must know that the textile industry has always been a high energy consumption and high pollution industry.

Feng Fanhua, deputy secretary of the Linyi Municipal Environmental Protection Bureau of Shandong Province, uses "headache" to describe his attitude towards textile enterprises, which is difficult for big enterprises to manage, and small workshops are difficult to manage.

He has repeatedly raided the textile industry in the middle of the night, and has also had a headache for how to compete with enterprises.

Since the beginning of this year, the Linyi Environmental Protection Bureau has investigated and dealt with 1254 environmental violations altogether, fining 73 million yuan altogether.

Feng Fanhua said that the use of half a year's time, basically "control", and now Linyi textile enterprises emission targets have reached the standard.

Feng Fanhua said, what he most wants to know now is how other environmental protection bureaus manage, so he consulted Wang Chongyu, deputy director of the Environmental Protection Bureau of Keqiao District, Shaoxing, who was sitting next to Zhejiang.

As a large textile County, Shaoxing has the reputation of "sunrise and broad silk" in history.

The China Textile City located in Keqiao is also the largest textile distributing center with the largest facilities and the largest variety of business in China.

Textile enterprises in Keqiao also bring pressure on the environment while supporting the economy. About 500 thousand tons of wastewater are discharged each day.

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Unlike Linyi, the textile enterprises in Keqiao are more concentrated and the total amount of environmental pollution tends to be saturated.

Therefore, the Environmental Protection Bureau of Keqiao district has introduced a series of measures for environmental control.

We have to increase environmental spending.

"Many small and medium-sized enterprises fail now, and they can not afford the pressure of capital, and the pressure from environmental protection."

Lu Tai textile deputy general manager Zhang Jianxiang said, "the atmosphere ten", "water ten" have been promulgated, "earth ten" is also about to come out, the environmental protection department's investigation and treatment efforts have begun to increase, textile enterprises in environmental protection pressure.

Fortunately, Lu Tai textile has long been aware of this problem. It began to layout several years ago, so now it does not feel too much pressure.

Chen Haiying, chief representative of Beijing Representative Office of Yida China, said that Yida and Lu Tai began to layout environmental protection measures several years ago, and the expenditure on environmental protection has been increasing in recent years.

"Facing the new environmental regulation and control, the survival pressure of enterprises is bigger and bigger, especially small and medium-sized textile enterprises."

Hu Wenwei, director of the WWF's Yangtze River project, said that enterprises can only solve these problems by pformation.

Two days of ice and fire

Although the textile industry has been complaining about the increase in labor costs and the outflow of orders, the two most important words they mentioned this year are "capital" and "environmental protection", but this seems to be a problem for large enterprises.

"This is a misunderstanding."

Wang Chenhua, assistant president of Bosideng Limited by Share Ltd, said that many enterprises believe that labor costs in Southeast Asia are relatively low, but that workers in Southeast Asia are not well managed, and that their technology level is limited and they can not undertake high-end orders.

Wang Chenhua disclosed that Bosideng's orders this year were not only reduced but increased.

Lu Tai textile has already begun to take shape in Southeast Asia, but Zhang Jianxiang said that setting up factories in Southeast Asia is not to pfer domestic industries to Southeast Asia, but to expand production capacity.

Their biggest worry now is not the increase in labor costs, but the new generation of young people who are unwilling to engage in workers' jobs.

Zhang Jianxiang also mentioned that high-end orders can not be undertaken by Southeast Asia.

He pointed to the shirt he was wearing and told the reporter: "this is the shirt we made ourselves."

According to his introduction, Lu Tai not only does his own brand but also undertakes some luxury business. This part of the order has not been reduced.

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Of course, large enterprises are not without pressure. Zhang Jianxiang takes the spinning industry as an example to say that cotton costs account for 70%, and domestic and foreign cotton price differences still exist, while import quotas are few.

"Over the past 30 years since reform and opening up, our greatest asset is talent."

Chen Haiying agreed with Zhang Jianxiang's remarks. She told reporters that the increase in labor costs came from the demographic dividend. However, with the increasing education level and the increasing number of skilled workers, the pressure of rising labor costs has been offset.

Cheng Peng, general manager of Yida group knitted fabric factory, also said.

It is a labor-intensive industry, and 70% of the process still needs manpower to complete. But they hope that through the pformation and upgrading of the future, the proportion of technical posts and management positions can be increased, so as to achieve the increase of employees' income.

At present, the Yida group has developed robot automatic inspection and robot pfer technology, which must be completed manually by manual workers. The robot can be completed by robots, and the efficiency can be increased by 60% and 30% respectively, each of which can save 4 personnel.

On the one hand, large enterprises should deal with various costs rising with pformation and upgrading. On the other hand, small and medium-sized enterprises are forced to choose to leave.

Gao Yong, vice president of China Textile Industry Federation, said that the annual output value of Enterprises above Designated Size in the textile and garment industry will exceed 7 trillion yuan this year, and the output value of the whole industry will exceed 9 trillion yuan.

Hu Wenwei also said at the meeting that at present, there are 23 SMEs in the textile industry, and 3.8 Enterprises above designated size.

That is to say, although the number of small and medium-sized enterprises is large, the enterprises above Designated Size still undertake most of the capacity of the textile industry.

These enterprises will not be as fragile as small businesses in the face of difficulties.

"The developed countries have not withdrawn from the textile and garment industry. They still regard it as an important industry."

Sun Ruizhe, vice president of China Textile Federation, said that from the global perspective, the global industrial trade pattern has not been fundamentally changed due to the withdrawal of developed countries and the full entry of new countries. The developed countries not only did not withdraw from the textile and garment industry, but also stood in the high-end position of the global textile value chain division of labor.

According to Sun Ruizhe, China ranked first in global textile and clothing trade last year, accounting for 37% of Global trade, but second and third are Italy and Germany, not Southeast Asian countries that are undertaking industrial pfer.

Perhaps this is also the future direction of China's textile and garment industry.