China'S Labor Cost Advantages Disappear, Textile And Clothing Exports Increase Pressure

Recently, the 2014 China clothing convention, which is known as the annual festival of China's clothing industry, was successfully held in Urumqi, Xinjiang.

China Apparel Association revealed at the meeting that China's clothing exports continued to maintain steady growth in 2014, with an increase of less than 10%.

Experts at the meeting said that the economic recovery of the developed economies has raised market demand and has made positive contributions to China's clothing exports. But in the long run, China's clothing exports still face many difficulties.

Statistics released by the Chinese Customs show that in 2013, China completed the export of clothing and accessories 178 billion 224 million US dollars, an increase of 11.28% over the same period last year, an increase of 6.75 percentage points over the same period in 2012, and 31 billion 359 million clothing exports, an increase of 8.46% over the same period last year, an increase of 9.53 percentage points over the same period in 2012.

The industry expects that the volume and volume of clothing exports will increase faster in 2014 than in 2013.

At the clothing conference, the situation of China's clothing export is complicated, favorable conditions and unfavorable factors coexist in the next few years, and it is still faced with difficulties such as insufficient demand, excessive intra and extra cotton prices, rising production costs, too much pressure on emission reduction, and further intensification of international competition.

Yuan Xiufan, vice president of the Wenzhou chamber of Commerce in Xinjiang, said that although the cotton policy has changed this year to narrow the gap between domestic and foreign cotton prices, cotton quotas have not been released. Enterprises can only purchase high priced and poor quality national reserves, which is not conducive to improving the quality of products. At the same time, the per capita monthly wages of enterprises in the eastern region have reached more than 700 US dollars, far higher than those in Southeast Asian countries.

Chen Dapeng, executive vice president of China Apparel Association, said that last year, the export volume and export volume of Chinese clothing increased substantially compared with the same period in 2012.

The reason for the two party's face is that the global economy has recovered moderately and the demand for the international market has recovered. Last year, the growth rate was greatly improved, based on the low base in 2012.

In the international market, the inherent price advantage of our products gradually disappeared.

At the same time, Vietnam, Kampuchea, Indonesia and other neighboring countries' textile industry has developed rapidly, undertaking some of the garment industry in China.

A few days ago, Sun Ruizhe, vice president of the China Textile Industry Federation, said in an interview that the development of textile and garment enterprises should emphasize multiple integration. The rapid development of the current network technology, cloud platform, huge amounts of information and mobile payment and other information technology and rapid response, new lifestyle marketing and other diversified integration in the field of clothing industry, the promotion and stimulation of the industry is very obvious, especially the clothing e-commerce online consumption has 30%~40% growth rate every year.

Wang Tiankai, President of the Federation of industry and commerce, believes that textile and garment enterprises should grasp the "big trend" and focus on the future.

With the shift of the global economic gravity center, it is bound to bring about the formation of new consumption groups and new consumption markets. At the same time, it will bring about a series of changes in the layout of productive forces. Textile and garment enterprises should focus on the shaping of core competitiveness in the medium and long term, and compare with some of the international brand enterprises in the domestic market, and find out the gaps.