Su Chaoying: The International Practice Of Enterprises In The Service Industry

The fourth member congress of China Light Industry Federation was held in Jingxi Hotel, Beijing.

Su Chaoying, chairman of the China Leather Association, was invited to make a typical speech entitled "international practice of service industry enterprises" at the meeting.

The following is the full text of the speech, which is hereby published for readers.

Distinguished leaders, delegates:

I am very pleased to be able to attend this conference, and I am also honored to take this opportunity to report to you on the main work done by the China Leather Association in promoting the internationalization of the industry and winning the right to speak in the industry.

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First, the location of the world's leather power determines that the industry associations must be internationalized.

China's leather industry is made up of supporting industries such as leather making, shoes making, leather clothing, leather products, fur and its products, leather machinery, leather chemical industry, leather hardware, shoe materials and other supporting industries.

Since the reform and opening up, great progress has been made. It has become a world recognized leather producing country, a big exporter and a big consumer country.

According to statistics, in 2015, the sales income of leather, fur and products and footwear industry in China reached 1 trillion and 360 billion yuan, an increase of 6.12% over the same period last year, accounting for 5.88% of the total sales revenue of light industry and eighth of the light industry.

In the past twenty years, the output of light leather, shoes, bags, leather garments and fur garments has always ranked first in the world.

In 2015, the output of shoes was 14 billion pairs, accounting for more than 60% of the world's total output, and the output of light leather was 600 million square meters, accounting for more than 20% of the world's total output.

In 2015, the total import and export trade of China's leather, fur and products and footwear industry totaled US $95 billion 700 million, ranking first in the world.

The position of the world's leather power and the internationalization process of the industry decide that the industry association must take the international road to win greater participation and more discourse power, and it is possible to create a better development environment for China's leather industry.

At the same time, a wider internationalization will also help promote the pformation and upgrading of China's leather industry and achieve a leap from big country to powerful country.

Two. Practice and exploration of internationalization of China Leather Association

Summing up the work in recent years, it can be said that as the representative of China's leather industry, China Leather Association has actively participated in various international organizations, participated in international conferences, organized tours and participated in international trade, fully fulfilled the rights and obligations of the big leather countries and played an increasingly important role in the leather industry of the world.

1. Participate in international organizations and strive for positions.

Since 1995, the China Leather Association has participated in important international organizations in leather industry. Representatives from the China Leather Association or representatives of industrial enterprises have held important positions in international organizations.

Mainly include:

- Chairman and vice chairman of the international leather trade association (ICHSLTA)

Chairman of the International Federation of Leather Technologists and Chemists Association (IULTCS)

- chairman of the international tanning Committee (ITC)

Director of the International Fur Trade Association (IFF)

Executive Board of the Federation of international footwear technicians (UITIC)

Member of the world Footwear Association (IFC)

Member of China ASEAN Business Council (CABC)

- the chairman of the China ASEAN footwear Cooperation Committee (CAFICC)

2. Actively sponsoring, hosting or organizing international conferences.

In recent years, the China Leather Association has continuously participated in important leather international conferences, forums and exhibitions. At the same time, it has hosted or hosted some important international conferences, aiming at mastering the trend of science and technology, understanding the development trend of the industry, and discussing the hot issues.

(1) leather international conferences, forums and exhibitions sponsored or hosted

In September 2006, Shanghai hosted the twenty-fifth international footwear industry conference, which was held in China for the first time.

In October 2006, Chengdu hosted the seventh Asia International Leather Science and technology conference.

In October 2009, Beijing hosted the thirtieth International Federation of leather industry teachers and Chemists Association, which was held in China for the first time.

In January 2012, Beijing hosted the thirteenth Asian fur conference.

In September 2012, Shanghai hosted the eighteenth leather and leather products working group meeting of the United Nations Industrial Development Organization.

In November 2013, the eighteenth international footwear technology conference was held. This is the highest level summit of the international footwear industry, and it is also the first time to convene in Asia.

In August 2017, Shanghai will host the third world leather conference, which will also be held in Asia for the first time.

In addition, in 1998, the annual China International Leather Exhibition was held in Shanghai. The world leather authoritative publication "word leather" evaluated the exhibition as a barometer for the development of the international leather industry. In September 2007, the annual leather International Forum held in Shanghai will be the tenth session this year. It has become one of the important platforms for the world leather industry to exchange and dialogue.

Adhering to the characteristics of large international conferences held in China, several large leather international conferences held by China Leather Association have won wide acclaim from the international industry.

The number and the number of speeches and papers, topics and events involved in the conference are basically the largest and record in past sessions, highlighting China's great power.

For example, in October 2009, the thirtieth International Conference of Leather Technologists and Chemists Association (IULTCS) was held in Beijing.

This is the first time since IULTCS held its first meeting in Paris, France in 1949, it has been called "the world leather technology Olympics".

From the United States, France, Italy, Britain,

A total of more than 300 scientific research institutes, tertiary institutions and related enterprises in more than 20 countries and regions, including Germany, India, Japan and China, attended the conference.

This session is not only attended by a large number of people, but also has many countries. There are many lectures and posters, involving a wide range of research fields, and excellent speeches on the stage, positive questions on the stage, and colorful exchanges and cultural activities after the conference. It has become the largest and most intense conference held by IULTCS in history.

(2) group participation in leather International Conference, forum and exhibition.

The annual international leather trade association annual meeting, the international leather committee annual meeting, the international footwear industry annual conference, the Asian fur conference, the Hongkong Asia Pacific Leather Exhibition (APLF), the Italy BISS (LINEAPELLE), the Korea international advanced footwear and shoe materials exhibition, etc.

The two year International Congress of leather industry and Chemists Association, Asia International Leather Science and technology conference.

Three years of international footwear technology conference.

Two times a year, the Governing Council of the International Fur Association, the Las Vegas shoe exhibition, etc.

Irregularly the world leather Congress, Milan international leather goods and bags exhibition, Russia fur exhibition and so on.

For the International Conference on large leather, its organizers or contractors usually entrust the Chinese leather association to organize the participation of the mainland delegation, assist in the collection of papers, help enterprises to register, and jointly represent visas. Delegations from a dozen people to nearly a hundred people have become an important group of major leather international conferences, forums and exhibitions.

(3) funding of leather technology and standard chemical authors to participate in international conferences

According to the implementation measures of subsidized scientific and technological personnel participating in international scientific and technological conferences, and the implementation measures of subsidized leather industry standardization work, the China Leather Association subsidized 4-6 young scientists and technicians and standard workers every year to go out, attend international conferences, participate in international exchanges, display the latest achievements of leather technology and leather standards in the world, understand the development direction of international leather technology and standards, and continuously improve the level of scientific research and standardization.

Since 2014, a new designer has been sent to Italy to attend a three month design training in order to grasp the trend and trend of international fashion design in a timely manner, and lead and enhance the level of product design and development in China leather industry.

3, strive for more voice in international standards and rules revision.

(1) in nine years, China has made a series of breakthrough in footwear standards.

The Chinese delegation has regularly participated in the international footwear Standards conference since 2004, and its participation and discourse power have been continuously upgraded.

From the initial international counterpart only as a counterpart of domestic technology, to assume the role of EU Observer, International Secretariat and international convener unit, the first footwear international standard ISO 16187, China's leading international footwear standard, was officially released in August 2013, which indicates that the contribution rate and voice power of China in the field of international footwear standardization has been significantly improved.

In the joint efforts of the national footwear Standardization Technical Committee unit, the China Leather Association, the Secretariat unit, the China leather and footwear industry research institute and the whole industry, in October 2014, 6 international standards were set up by China's leading application and successfully passed the vote in the fields of physics, chemistry, microbiology and footwear terms. This means that China has led the formulation of international standards in the whole work scope of ISO/TC 216.

In the same year, after two years of hard struggle in China, China's application was finally approved at the 137 annual meeting of ISO/TC. China led the revision of ISO 9407 "Shoe sizes - Mondopoint system of sizing and marking" (shoe size and logo of the Mond point) series standard.

As the largest user of the world shoe number, China can win the revision of the international standard, which ensures that China can improve the accumulated experience in the implementation process to international standards, and also highlight the remarkable improvement of China's footwear technology and standardization level.

(2) grasp the hot spot of the industry and put forward

Method of defining carbon footprint

In September 2012, the eighteenth China United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) leather and leather products working group meeting was held in Shanghai by the China Leather Association.

A total of more than 100 leather experts and representatives from more than 20 countries and regions from the United Nations Industrial Development Organization and China, the United States, the United Kingdom, Italy, Spain, Australia and so on gathered together to discuss the environmental issues generally concerned by the industry, and how to minimize chemical waste in the process of industrial development. They also provided reference programs and professional training for industry organizations, enterprises and relevant research departments, and exchanged the latest information on pollution prevention and control of leather processing, footwear and leather products.

The number of participants and countries were the most important since the conference was held. A series of substantive achievements have been made at the conference. Among them, a preliminary conclusion on the definition of carbon emissions, which is most concerned by the international tanning industry, has been made and submitted to the European Commission for discussion as an important text, which has aroused great concern of relevant international organizations and media, and has also made a more scientific basis and explanation for assessing the impact of tanning on the environment.

(3) make full use of the platform of international organizations to promote the "leather logo" of natural leather.

On November 2011, at the first world leather Conference (WLC) held in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil, the three international organizations of the international leather trade association (ICHSLTA), the International Federation of leather craft and chemist associations (IULTCS) and the international leather tanning Committee (ITC) agreed with the China Leather Association's proposal to promote natural leather and operability.

The three major international organizations agreed to jointly promote the natural leather (the "real leather logo") as an example, and signed a memorandum of cooperation for the cooperation: CO ordinating the development of a strategy applicable to the world to clarify laws and standards related to the definition and name of leather and leather goods, and work together to promote the natural leather logo work and its correct use in market identification, leather and leather products.

4, sign a memorandum of cooperation and initiate bilateral or multilateral consultations and negotiations.

In recent years, China Leather Association has successively worked with Spain.

A memorandum of understanding was signed by the United States raw leather association and the Ethiopia Leather Association, and the China ASEAN Business Council jointly established the China ASEAN footwear cooperation committee. The purpose is to promote exchanges between the two leather enterprises, to ensure that the leather trade between the two countries is smoother and to provide communication channels for the members of the two countries to resolve disputes that may arise in the trade, and to create a fair and harmonious, mutually beneficial and win-win trade environment, so as to finally achieve the goal of promoting the healthy development of the global leather trade.

In April 1, 2014, Su Chaoying, chairman of China Leather Association, signed a memorandum of understanding with Stephen Sothmann, President of the American raw materials Association, at the Hongkong International Convention and Exhibition Center on strengthening trade cooperation between members of the two trade associations.

The two countries' associations will formulate their own settlement procedures to coordinate possible trade disputes.

The two associations will communicate through the hotline and share information so as to find mutually acceptable solutions.

Since April 2015, the price of raw materials has fluctuated greatly, and some enterprises have failed to comply with the contract of raw material trade in order to reduce economic losses.

To this end, the China Leather Association issued a proposal on adherence to the International Convention on the trade in raw leather trade and the establishment of a market environment for good faith management in May 19, 2015.

China Leather Association helps enterprises to communicate with raw material suppliers, suppliers' associations and international leather trade association to help solve many raw material trade disputes.

It not only safeguarded the legitimate rights and interests of Chinese enterprises, but also gained the understanding and cooperation of the US side.

In March 2016, the Leather Association of China initiated and sponsored the round table forum of Sino US leather making and raw materials industry.

As the world's most important supplier of leather making and raw material supply, Chinese and American trade associations and business representatives have openly discussed the trade disputes, China's inspection and quarantine system, market development trend and so on. They have reached a preliminary solution to some long-standing pending trade disputes, and the conference has made important achievements.

The two sides decided that the roundtable would be held annually in China and the US. Such activities highlight the unique role of trade associations in solving international trade disputes.

5. Take the press conference as a platform to interpret the development and policy guidance of China's leather industry comprehensively and objectively.

As a highly internationalized country

In the industry, the development trend of its industry and the introduction of every national policy and measures will arouse great concern in the international media. The international society caused by information opaque and asymmetric has misread the development of leather making and footwear industry and related policies in China.

To take the opportunity of regular press conferences, two regular press conferences for overseas media are held every year in March and September. From an objective and impartial perspective, the industry's development and policy measures are interpreted with authoritative voice, covering many major events and relevant national policies, including: anti-dumping, processing trade policy, China's subsidy policy for industries, import tariffs, trade smuggling, tannery industry access conditions, business failures caused by the elimination of backward production capacity, industrial pfer, the closure of enterprises caused by large-scale tanning and environmental protection in North China, the fluctuation of raw material prices in the international market, the inspection and quarantine system of leather products, the definition of leather inspection and quarantine system, the definition of leather and synthetic leather in the Chinese market, and many sensitive topics such as unfair competition and international trade disputes. To this end, Hongkong and Shanghai leather exhibitions gathered by foreign mainstream industry media.

Through the comprehensive and objective interpretation of China Leather Association, the international community has effectively alleviated the misunderstanding of China's leather industry and policies and measures, and played a positive role in promoting the industry and national policies and measures.

6, face up to anti-dumping, and win the battle against anti-dumping by perseverance and perseverance.

In 2005, the European Union planned to take anti-dumping measures against China's footwear products, and imposed a 16.5% anti-dumping duty on China's leather shoes since October 2006.

In response to this case, the Chinese government and the footwear industry have begun to respond to the three main lines of the WTO dispute settlement mechanism, which are organized by the association, the appeals of individual enterprises represented by AOKANG and the appeal of the Chinese government departments to the EU dispute settlement mechanism.

In the eight years of the war on anti-dumping and rights protection, the association has always been faced with the whole industry. It has mainly done the following aspects: (1) holding a number of seminars in key areas to give an early warning on possible anti-dumping actions by the European Union, and at the same time, cooperate with the Ministry of Commerce in doing research work on responding enterprises, including export price analysis, and the influence of different final tax rates on the economic efficiency, employment situation and export of enterprises, and consult different opinions on different ways of closing cases.

(2) the legal advisory group of China Leather Association was set up to train enterprises in litigation and so on. Finally, 60 enterprises participated in the lawsuit.

(3) the association actively raises funds in the whole industry, with a total amount of 340 thousand yuan, and the organization makes no damage defense.

(4) during sunset review, the association went to Europe with the Ministry of Commerce to exchange with the industry and lobbied in Belgium, Greece and Austria.

(5) in order to do a good job in the follow-up work on the expiration of the anti-dumping duty on leather shoes, the association organized enterprises in Wenzhou to hold a follow-up meeting on the trade frictions of shoes products in China with the support of the Ministry of Commerce, so as to ensure a smooth pition after the expiration of the measures.

In February 2012, the WTO dispute settlement body (DSB) adopted the report of the panel of experts, and pointed out that certain provisions under the European Union's anti-dumping investigation were in violation of WTO related rules.

In November 18, 2012, the AOKANG shoe Limited by Share Ltd of Zhejiang formally received the verdict from the high court of the European Union. The final judgment was that China AOKANG won the lawsuit.

This indicates that AOKANG has made a plea at the legal level to defend the EU's anti-dumping on leather shoes.

This case has been highly appraised by the Ministry of Commerce and has been identified as a successful case for Chinese enterprises to deal with anti-dumping.

At this point, China will end all three main lines of EU anti-dumping duties against Chinese leather shoes.

The association's response in this case has won praise from the industry at home and abroad, and has been highly praised by the Ministry of Commerce. It has won the title of fair trade advanced units and advanced individuals in import and export.

Leaders and delegates, facing the new normal of economic development and the new requirements of decoupling reform, the industry associations must speed up their adjustment and pformation and promote the optimization and upgrading of the industry.

There is a talent for doing something.

China Leather Association has carried out some exploration and practice in internationalization, but there are still many uncertainties and shortcomings. We hope to strengthen exchanges and cooperation with all fraternal associations in the future and jointly promote the development of all kinds of work.