Export orders have shrunk substantially. About 60% of the clothing companies are not satisfied

As Pinghu, Zhejiang, which is one of the important export bases of Chinese clothing, the current situation of garment enterprises in the region can be described as “dismal”.

An entrepreneur engaged in clothing OEM in Pinghu, Zhejiang, said to reporters yesterday: “Pinghu has no orders, and there are probably more than 200 companies. Only I have identified at least dozens.” He told reporters that the closure Not all of them are private workshops. There are many factories that are 100 to 200 people. This year, because there are no orders and the costs are too high, they can only be closed down. In the first half of this year, Pinghu suffered a loss in the entire industry. The half year is more severe than the first half.

Another person in charge of OEM companies said: "Pinghu is now 60% to 70% of garment companies do not have enough orders to start."

There are about 1,600 garment companies engaged in industrial and commercial registration in Pinghu, most of which are operating modes for processing materials, which are then processed and exported to customers. According to data from the Pinghu Development and Reform Bureau, in the first half of this year, as one of the pillar industries in Pinghu, the apparel industry’s profits dropped by 76% year-on-year. According to another government department of Pinghu, as of May this year, Pinghu’s clothing industry’s total loss was 21.77 million yuan.

A company official with an annual income of over 100 million yuan said: "We used to eat dry rice. We can only eat porridge this year. Last year, our profit was 4 million to 5 million yuan, and this year it was less than 1 million yuan. It may finally be tied. There is almost no profit. You think that this year's cotton has dropped from 30,000 yuan per ton to 20,000 yuan. Although the raw material cost is low, Other labor, financial costs, and transportation costs have not been lowered or even increased."

Analyst Wang Qiang said: "According to enterprises in Jiangsu, Zhejiang, and Guangdong, only 7-80% of the previous year's factory recruitment, or even less than 50%, companies can only increase their salaries. After the substantial salary increase last year, the Yangtze River Delta, beads The general wage this year in the triangle rose by 20% to 30%, and it showed a trend of continued rigid rise."

In addition, the tightening monetary policy that has been frequently introduced causes the cost of textile and clothing ** to increase too quickly and interest expenses to increase significantly. According to data from China First Textile Network, from January to June 2011, the financial cost of China's textile industry increased by 35.36% year-on-year, far higher than the growth rate of main business income (30.50%) of 4.86 percentage points over the same period. Among them, interest expenses increased by 37.77% year-on-year.

Not only the export of small and medium-sized garment enterprises is under pressure, even if the clothing companies with strong younger artists are also facing the pressure of shrinking performance, the Younger Garment export amount in the first half of this year was 1.049 billion yuan***, compared with 1.34 billion yuan in the same period of last year, a decrease of nearly 300 million yuan. .

Customs data show that from January to September this year, the cumulative export value of China's clothing and clothing accessories reached 115.23 billion US dollars, an increase of 23.3%.