Dongguan Shoe Manufacturers And Other Export Enterprises

In Dongguan, the Pearl River Delta, there is a saying: "if Dongguan goes to Shenzhen on the highway, there will be 70% of the global shortage of computer products in the world."

Dongguan is the largest IT product manufacturing base in the world. Besides, Dongguan's shoes, furniture and clothing export is also famous.

However, since the second half of last year, with the appreciation of the renminbi, the adjustment of the national export tax rebate and the soaring price of raw materials, Dongguan's export enterprises have suffered from the unprecedented pressure.

Many export enterprises have already suffered losses due to various factors such as RMB appreciation and so on. Some enterprises even went bankrupt and bankrupt. I am surrounded by such an enterprise. Now the factory name has been scraped away, but we can still see the handwriting of Chen Hong Shoes Co., Ltd..

Like many enterprises in the PRD, the factory premises are also leased.

Now that the factory is down, the owner has posted advertisements for rent.

On the way to the interview, we can often see such a factory to rent advertisements.

Zheng Xiantao, the office director of Jin Wo Niu company, told us that the situation here is not what it used to be.

"In the second half of last year, it became more prominent.

We have been here for so many years. I have been here for five or six years, six years.

The factory building is also built up. Now there are more vacant factories, which are no rent, no one to rent.

There are thousands of large and small export factories in Houjie town of Dongguan. Zhang Yu, a young worker who works here, told reporters that several factories have been collapsed in the town recently.

"This is the newly fallen garment factory."

"The newly fallen garment factory?

It was just closed in March 4, 2008. "

"The factory owner has run away."

"The factory owner has run away?"

"Yes.

After he had run away, the local village committee laid out the wages of the staff.

"Is it that all workers at that time did not get paid?"

"No, no salary.

It's been a few months. "

Chen Xuejian, deputy director of the Dongguan intermediate people's court, who is responsible for the liquidation of bankrupt enterprises, told us that he and his colleagues obviously felt the crisis of export enterprises.

"Obviously feel it.

For example, last year we dealt with a case called "Jin Wan Plastic Co., Ltd." in a town in Humen, Dongguan. Last year, there were about six or seven thousand employees at the most time. The factory floor area should have more than 20 mu. The building area of that factory building and dormitory building was more than 80000 square meters. Such a large enterprise was not well managed last year. For various reasons, the case left behind is just our court case. It should have been in our Humen court last year. There are more than 240 cases in the light factory. Our court accepted it, because we have different jurisdictions, and there should be more than 10 cases in the middle court.

Chen Xuejian brought us to this export enterprise in Humen.

This is a toy factory in the locals, and it has been shut down in the crisis of export enterprises. Because of no money to pay, hundreds of suppliers have brought the company to court, and only more than 240 cases have been handled by Chen Xuejian.

"When we came to seal up, when we came here, the situation was very chaotic."

"How to mess up?"

"At that time, there was no end to it. There were vehicles everywhere. All the vehicles and vehicles were in disorder. Because everyone was worried, they were all suppliers seeking debts."

After the US subprime mortgage crisis, signs of consumption decline appeared in the European and American markets.

Clothing, footwear, furniture and other export enterprises feel the strongest.

Take leather shoes for example. In the first 2 months of this year, Dongguan exported 35 million 780 thousand pairs of leather shoes, a 15.6% drop compared with the same period last year.

Among them, 14 million 480 thousand pairs of exports to the United States, compared with the same period last year, down 19.7%.

In order to know more details, we went to Dongguan foreign trade and Economic Cooperation Bureau and met with deputy director Cai Kang.

"There are indeed a number of enterprises, because this cost increase has led to the loss of this situation, this is also there."

"Is there any statistics that, at the present time, due to these factors, how many of our export enterprises and foreign trade enterprises have gone bankrupt recently? How many of them have fallen into debt disputes?"

"The collapse and pfer of this enterprise is a rather complicated problem. It can only make a thorough investigation of an enterprise, so it is difficult to form a very accurate figure.

In 2007, we probably had 909 foreign-funded enterprises shutting down or closing down. That's a total, which includes those pferred to the field. "

Cai Kang told us that over the past year, a series of export policies and measures to promote enterprise pformation and industrial upgrading have been introduced, which makes some low value-added labor-intensive export enterprises less comfortable.

"One is to reduce the tax rebate rate of exports, and the second way is to add a portion of the goods to the processing trade restriction category.

In this case, lowering the tax rebate rate will certainly directly increase the cost of export, and the tax rebate rate will drop.

In other words, this commodity is added to the restriction category. In accordance with this regulation, when the enterprise imports raw materials again, he must pay the deposit accordingly, that is, the deposit of the bank account, which will also occupy part of the operation of the enterprise capital and increase the seriousness of its backlog.

The Bank of China Dongguan branch also provided such a set of data to reporters: at present, nearly 1/3 of the increase in export costs of export enterprises in Guangdong is caused by the appreciation of the renminbi.

In 2007, the appreciation of RMB made Guangdong's general trade export lose 19 billion 520 million yuan, of which private export enterprises lost 9 billion 200 million yuan.

It is estimated that in 2008, Guangdong's general trade export will lose 52 billion 450 million yuan, of which private export enterprises will lose 25 billion 340 million yuan.

Cai Kang said, "why does such a factor of RMB appreciation cause such a big impact on the export of this foreign investment enterprise? Because it is really very, very difficult to predict, and many foreign businessmen tell us that when we talk with customers about the order price, because there is no way to predict the extent of appreciation of the renminbi at the time of delivery, the customers will not accept the demand raised by this price increase, so this is indeed a difficult situation."

What impact does the crisis of export enterprises bring to the upstream suppliers of the industrial chain?

We tried to find answers in 500 suppliers of Jin Wo Niu.

However, during the interview period, neither the suppliers of Jin Wo Niu, or the small factories supplied by the local export enterprises, were unwilling to face the lens directly.

After a series of setbacks, a supplier of accessories for export furniture factories in Huizhou expressed willingness to be interviewed.