China'S Foreign Trade Once Again Encountered "Cold Current", The Textile Industry Is Facing Enormous Pressure.

At present, the textile and garment industry is gradually completing the survival of the fittest through structural adjustment and industrial integration.

Many enterprises have increased investment and upgrading of sophisticated equipment, effectively improving product quality and production efficiency.

By changing the growth pattern, we changed from extensive emphasis on quantity to intensive growth with quality and efficiency.

"We are not living very well now."

At the 119th Canton Fair, Zhang Xinmin, vice president of the China Textiles Import and Export Chamber of Commerce, said to reporters, "enterprises generally reflect that textile and garment exports face multiple pressures, and the situation is not optimistic."

Last year, China's foreign trade suffered another "cold spell". The first time in 6 years since the outbreak of the global financial crisis in 2009 was double decline.

As a representative of the labor-intensive products, textile and clothing were the first to bear the brunt. Exports decreased by 4.9% throughout the year and imports dropped by 3.5%.

Zhang Xinmin said that unlike exports in 2009, the drop in exports in 2015 was due to the structural decline caused by the disappearance of China's traditional export advantages and the disadvantageous internal and external environment. The decline in imports should be mainly attributed to the slowdown in domestic economic growth and insufficient demand.

Exports of all major markets declined.

Exports to the three traditional markets, the European Union, the United States and Japan, fell by 9.2%, 0.3% and 4.5%, respectively, to 8.6%, 1.3%, 7.5% and 25.9% for emerging markets ASEAN, the Middle East, Africa and Latin America.

"Labor costs remain high.

The contradiction of shortage is becoming more and more prominent.

The labor cost of our country has increased by more than three times in the past 10 years. At present, the cost of labor in the textile industry in the coastal areas has exceeded RMB 4000 yuan per month.

Zhang Xinmin said.

In addition, since 2012, China's working age population has declined for three consecutive years at the rate of 23 million per year, and the number of labour force has entered the downward track, and the demographic dividend of labor-intensive industries has gradually disappeared.

At the same time, the textile and garment manufacturing industry is becoming less attractive to the younger generation of rural labor force. The difficulty of recruiting and skilled workers is the main problem faced by most production enterprises.

Judging from the overall pattern of the world free trade area, China has no tax exempt treatment in the three big markets of the United States, Europe and Japan, making our enterprises obviously in a competitive position, and our main competitors enjoy different degrees of preferential treatment in the same market.

For example, in the US market, the textile and garment industry in Vietnam has been developing rapidly under the encouragement of the TPP negotiation prospect. In the EU market, Kampuchea, Burma and Bangladesh are enjoying the preferential tax arrangement for EU exports because they are the least developed countries. In the Japanese market, they benefit from Japan ASEAN FTA, and ASEAN enjoys preferential tax exemption policies for Japanese exports. Besides, Japan also grants tariff free treatment to the least developed countries such as Bangladesh.

"We can't change the world, only make ourselves stronger."

Zhang Xinmin said, "from an enterprise point of view, we should actively carry out structural adjustment and pformation and upgrading.

At present, the textile and garment industry is gradually completing the survival of the fittest through structural adjustment and industrial integration.

Many enterprises have increased investment and upgrading of sophisticated equipment, effectively improving product quality and production efficiency.

By changing the growth pattern, from the past extensive attention to quantitative growth to quality and efficiency

Growth shift. "

We should try our best to extend the industrial chain, enhance the value chain, pay attention to the differentiation of services and products, and foster new competitive advantages.

Zhang Xinmin said that textile and garment enterprises should adjust their product structure and trade mode.

We should improve product design and R & D capability, cultivate our own brand and establish an international marketing network, so as to enhance our position in the product value chain and foster new competitive advantages.

"We have many excellent enterprises, and we should actively and steadily push forward the strategy of" going global ".

With the continuous increase of China's costs and the reduction of labor force, the pace of "going out" of Chinese enterprises has been accelerating, investing overseas more actively, rationally distributing global resources, and carrying out global layout.

Zhang Xinmin told reporters: "many enterprises establish overseas production bases in ASEAN countries, establish R & D and distribution centers in developed countries, make full use of the tariff preferential policies of free trade agreements and overseas cost advantages, and strive to gain the most benefits in the process of globalization."