"One Belt And One Road" Helps Textile And Garment Industry Go Abroad

The textile and apparel enterprises that concentrated on the coastal areas have chosen to migrate factories after various explorations, which are divided into two types. One is to migrate to the mainland with more labor and lower wages. The other is to choose "go global", and actively utilize the resources of the international market to reduce production costs and achieve further development of enterprises.

The latter are mainly export processing enterprises, with more external orders.

In an interview, the reporter learned that the "going out" of Chinese textile enterprises has gone through two stages.

The first stage is from the end of 90s to the beginning of this century.

Because in the past, countries such as the United States and the European Union had quota restrictions on our country, a group of enterprises went to Southeast Asia to build factories in order to avoid quotas, but at that time there were more Taiwan funded enterprises and Hong Kong funded enterprises.

This is also the first small climax for Chinese enterprises to build factories in Southeast Asia.

The second stage began in 2009.

Since 2009, the domestic production cost has been increasing. In order to reduce costs, export oriented

Companies have gone to Southeast Asia to build factories.

In addition to improving the domestic cost, these export enterprises also have an important reason for the problem of cotton.

The price of cotton in Southeast Asia is lower than that in China, so this has also attracted some enterprises to Southeast Asia.

It can be seen that the domestic textile and garment enterprises have "gone out" for a long time.

However, even in the second stage, those who have the strength to go out are also some large enterprises that are ranked high in the industry.

Most of these "go out" enterprises are in the coastal areas, basically export oriented enterprises, with orders from foreign trade.

The reason for their going out is mainly to reduce production costs, including the cost of production factors such as land, labor and raw materials.

And that's all in China.

Problems encountered by the processing plant.

Gao Yong, vice president and Secretary General of China Textile Industry Federation, believes that textile enterprises "go out" to build factories is both progress and challenge.

He pointed out that nowadays, the "going out" textile and garment factories mostly build factories in Southeast Asia. These types of enterprises are labor-intensive enterprises.

With the rise of labor costs, this labor-intensive enterprise has been pferred to low labor countries, which is an improvement for the industry.

But at present, the textile enterprises to build factories in Southeast Asia is still a passive "going out". The middle and low order orders have been flowing from China to Southeast Asia, China.

Exports of goods have also been greatly affected, which is a challenge for us.

However, many problems encountered by many enterprises that built factories in Southeast Asia can not be ignored. This has discouraged many small and medium-sized enterprises that have no direct strength to negotiate with local governments. First of all, the investment environment in Southeast Asia.

In some countries, political instability and frequent changes in state leaders have also changed their policies of attracting foreign investment and economic development. The incoherence of such policies directly affects the development of overseas investment by domestic enterprises, and at the same time, it greatly increases investment risks.

The second is labor quality.

Although it is the basic industry of the people's livelihood, it has higher requirements for production technology, technical facilities, quality control and so on, while some Southeast Asian countries are short of talents in this area, so to a certain extent, it restricts the development and growth of textile enterprises.

Reporters previously interviewed a number of enterprises also learned that many processing plants responsible person said that the Southeast Asian region can only complete the relatively primary processing, if it is fine category clothing products, or need to be completed at home.

The three is infrastructure.

Southeast Asian countries are not very developed economically. Therefore, some infrastructure construction is not perfect.

Especially in logistics, pportation, electricity and other aspects, it has made a great impact on the production and operation of textile enterprises.

In 2015, China's textile and garment exports showed a double drop in volume and price.

And after hard 2015, domestic

Facing the more severe situation in 2016, according to the data of the first three quarters, the situation of export decline in 2016 has been decided.

Gao Yong pointed out that although the current policy is to maintain domestic demand, exports must be maintained.

From the order, we have to strive to maintain our market share in the international market.

In any case, "going out" has become the trend of the times.

What follows is policy support.

In March 2015, the national development and Reform Commission, the Ministry of foreign affairs and the Ministry of Commerce jointly issued the vision and action to promote the construction of the Silk Road Economic Belt and the maritime Silk Road in twenty-first Century, marking the formal launch of the strategy of "one belt and one road".

China's "one belt and one way" strategy has more and more development paths and layout for textile and garment enterprises: to plant cotton in Africa, build processing bases in Southeast Asia and South Asia, and lay up overseas logistics networks.

By integrating the resources along the "one belt and one road" line, we can achieve the global layout of the industrial chain.

Liu Yaozhong, deputy director of the Ministry of trade and investment promotion of the China Council for the promotion of international trade, believes that the "one belt and one way" will effectively reduce the cost and political risk of China's textile industry in the layout of its neighboring countries, and at the same time, tap more trade potentials to create a favorable environment for the internationalization of enterprises.

This has made the medium and small enterprises that are still hesitant become active and open.

Under the background of "one belt and one road", many local governments have encouraged local enterprises to choose factories to set up factories along the "one road area". Through the docking between the government and the government, they have set up guidance funds, implemented supportive policies and set up working mechanisms to provide effective safeguards for textile and garment enterprises to settle down.

Wang Tiankai, President of China Federation of textile industry, pointed out that going global and internationalization are means and objectives, and serve to enhance the core competitiveness of enterprises.

We should pay attention to calculating the comprehensive cost and giving full play to the advantages of investment destination when we go out.