What Should We Do To Get Rid Of The Plight Of The South African Garment And Textile Industry? Increasing Employment Is The Way Out

Southern African Clothing and Textile Workers (Sactwu) pointed out that in the past 1 years, manufacturing, clothing, textiles, footwear and leather manufacturing has entered a relatively stable and relatively high growth period, and the number of industrial employment has increased. Among them, the garment sector has created 676 new jobs, and the textile and leather sector has created 1197 and 268 new jobs respectively.

South Africa's clothing industry, textiles, footwear and leather manufacturing industry has recovered steadily and increased employment. It is mainly benefited from the government's policy of supporting the industry since 2009. As the industry is a labor-intensive industry, the Ministry of trade and industry of South Africa (DDT) has been listed as a priority industry in the industrial policy action plan to help enhance industrial competitiveness and improve productivity.

In addition, in the mass production of bulk garment sector, the market will encounter the influx of cheap textiles from mainland China, Vietnam, Madagascar, Lai to to and Shi Hua Ji LAN.

Manufacturing, clothing, textiles, footwear and leather manufacturing industries are mainly employed in South Africa, especially in many provinces and factories, such as Western Cape and other provinces.

According to the latest employment statistics released by the National Bureau of statistics of South Africa, the employment growth of the industry has increased by 1.8% over the past 1 years ending in September and has been growing for the 2 consecutive quarter.

In the past 10 years, the industry has been hit by cheap imports from mainland China and other Asian countries, and has lost 50 thousand jobs in the past 20 years.

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Today's textile and garment industry is in a critical period of industrial development. The industry is accelerating pformation and upgrading, and rapidly and comprehensively optimizing the industrial structure.

The five concepts of innovation, coordination, green, sharing and opening are also a brilliant blueprint for the long-term development of the industry.

At this important moment, the industry should take this as a starting point to accelerate development and achieve a new leap forward.

In the fifth Plenary Session of the 18th CPC Central Committee, the five development ideas of innovation, coordination, green, openness and sharing were put forward for the first time, and a new blueprint for China's "13th Five-Year" and even longer period of development was put forward.

At this annual meeting, Sun Ruizhe made a keynote speech entitled "a new blueprint for the development of industry under the goal of" two hundred years "under the new starting point: a comprehensive analysis of the changes, challenges and opportunities faced by the textile industry, and a new blueprint for China's textile industry.

At present, China's textile industry is in a special period of historical convergence. Standing on the new starting point of "speed change, structural optimization and dynamic pformation", it shows as follows: the scale efficiency is growing steadily, the speed of development is changing from high speed to high speed; the characteristics of structural adjustment are obvious, and the overall optimization has become the theme of the industry development; the process of industry pformation and upgrading is speeding up, and the driving force of development is shifted from factor driving to innovation driven.

Since 2010, the growth rate of China's textile industry's total economic indexes, such as total fiber processing, operating income, total profit, export and industrial added value, has dropped significantly, showing a medium and high speed growth.

Although the growth rate has slowed down, the development situation is better than the overall national economic situation.

In 2009~2014, investment in fixed assets of Enterprises above Designated Size in textile industry maintained an increase, but the growth rate decreased.

The total investment in 1~10 month in 2015 was 978 billion 185 million yuan, an increase of 15% over the same period last year. In 2009~2014, the proportion of fixed assets investment in the total social investment of textile industry above designated size increased steadily, and in 2015, the proportion of 1~10 months accounted for 2.19%.

In terms of export structure, market diversification is obvious.

2013

More than Japan has become the third largest market for textile and garment exports in China. In 2014, the European Union, the United States, ASEAN and Japan accounted for 55.11% of China's textile and clothing exports.

The export of knitted garments was faster than that of knitted garments and accessories in 2006, and exports of knitted fabrics and garments exceeded 100 billion US dollars in 2013.

The proportion of general trade continued to increase, reaching 76.18% in 2014, 1.75 percentage points higher than in 2010.

In addition, according to the study of Ping An Securities, 70% of the 80 listed companies in the textile and garment sector have cross boundary development, and the cross-border capital market has achieved good performance.

Diversification extension provides a capital reservoir for bigger and stronger main businesses, but we should be vigilant against the tendency of capital operation to lead to the hollowing of real industries.

The industry encourages enterprises to base themselves on industry and to "

"Life style and natural extension in the field of cultural creativity.

In terms of raw material structure, in 2014,

Accounting for 82.2% of the total fiber processing in China, 12.2 percentage points higher than that in 2010. In terms of product mix, in 2014, the proportion of three major end fiber processing products in clothing, home textiles and industry was 46.8:28.6:24.6, of which industrial textile fiber accounted for 4.6 percentage points higher than that in 2010. In terms of regional structure, the proportion of the main business income in the western region has increased from 22.5% in 2010 to 22.5%, while overseas investment has been increasing rapidly. In terms of industrial organization structure, the industry's advantageous resources have gathered to the leading enterprises, while a number of small, specialized, refined and special enterprises have increased and developed healthfully;