Guangdong Garment Industry: When Export Is No Longer Proud

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Can you briefly talk about the general situation of Guangdong's textile and clothing export and the status of foreign trade in the entire Guangdong textile and garment industry?

Guangdong has always been a major exporters of clothing, and garment exports account for half of the entire garment industry. However, with the outbreak of the financial crisis in 2008, some export enterprises began to pay attention.

What challenges and opportunities did Guangdong's textile and garment industry bring to China in the past ten years with the integration of the global economy in the past ten years?

Liu Yueping: first of all, the gradual abolition of quotas has brought broad market space for Guangdong's clothing products to enter the international market in an all-round way. The export volume of clothing in Guangdong has been more than 3.7 times the total export volume from 9 billion dollars in 2000 to 33 billion 922 million dollars in 2007.

At the same time, due to the dependence on exports, the global market contraction caused by a financial crisis directly caused a huge blow to Guangdong's clothing industry. In 2008, Guangdong's clothing exports dropped to 25 billion 354 million US dollars, a direct decrease of 8 billion 568 million US dollars from the previous year.

Therefore, the fluctuation of the international market is a great challenge for Guangdong's clothing industry.

Foreign trade processing has always been an important part of the clothing industry in Guangdong. What changes has taken place in the garment foreign trade processing in Guangdong province in the past ten years after China's entry into the WTO?

Liu Yueping: in the past ten years since China's entry into WTO, Guangdong's clothing trade, processing and export have also undergone some important changes.

For example, before joining the WTO, Guangdong's clothing export was mainly made up of three to one complement of simple processing and low-end sample processing OEM OEM processing mode, almost without involving the content of independent design.

However, with the entry into the WTO and deep participation in international competition, some garment export enterprises began to set up their own R & D team and carried out the ODM cooperation mode, which promoted the core competitiveness of their products in the design content and other aspects, and also increased the added value.

In the light of the changes in the domestic and foreign economic situation, what are the plans for the export of Guangdong's garments?

Liu Yueping: with the frequent occurrence of trade friction, our clothing export in Guangdong has begun to consider how to promote trade balance.

For example, our mode of cooperation with South Korea is to introduce Korean fabrics to the Korean fabric exhibition in Guangzhou. Through the international fashion collection platform, we can help Korean brands enter the Guangdong market. At the same time, we have established a good relationship with the Seoul East Gate sightseeing SAR agreement, allowing Guangdong's clothing to enter the Korean market through the east gate clothing business circle.

At present, the proportion of clothing imports and exports between South Korea and Guangdong is about 1 pieces of Korean clothing sold in Guangdong, and there will be 3 pieces of Guangdong clothing sold in Korea.

Now, we are also exploring how to cooperate with American designers to improve trade balance and enhance the competitiveness of Guangdong's clothing products market.

In your opinion, what are the advantages of Guangdong's textile and garment industry?

From the national perspective, the advantages of Guangdong's textile and garment industry are mainly embodied in three aspects.

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What is the direction of structural adjustment and industrial upgrading of Guangdong's garment industry in the future?

Liu Yueping: in the past two years, especially after the global financial crisis, the Guangdong provincial Party committee and the provincial government put forward to actively expand domestic demand, emphasizing the "three promotion and one maintenance", namely, promoting the ability of independent innovation, promoting the pformation and upgrading of traditional industries, promoting the construction of a modern industrial system, and maintaining steady and rapid economic development.

As one of the dominant traditional industries, Guangdong garment industry is faced with a serious problem of how to upgrade and pform the modern garment industry through independent innovation.

In this critical period of pformation and upgrading, we should follow the laws of economic development, grasp the development opportunities of traditional advantageous industries, rely on modern service industries, increase the application of information technology, e-commerce, automation technology and software development in the clothing industry, develop the modern urban garment industry with high added value and high growth, and further enhance the competitiveness and sustainable development of the industry. It is an efficient engine for the upgrading, pformation and development of Guangdong's garment industry.

From February 6, 2007 to 16th, the Guangdong apparel and apparel industry association went to the United States to take part in the Las Vegas ASAP garment processing order exhibition.

The delegation visited the Hawaii state government and visited the Western headquarters of WAL-MART, JC-PENY, KOHLS and other companies in Losangeles. They also visited the major shopping malls to understand the procurement standards, inspection standards, sales status and purchasing trends.

On -6 September 2, 2008, Guangdong clothing and clothing industry association, Guangdong Clothing Designer Association, Guangzhou Yuexiu District economic and Trade Bureau, Guangzhou Haizhu Zhongda Textile Industry Chamber of Commerce jointly organized the Guangdong Province Textile and clothing entrepreneurs, designers visit and exchange group, as well as Guangzhou Liuhua mineral clothing business circle and South Korea Seoul East gate clothing market trade cooperation negotiation group, a line of 45 people went to Seoul for 5 days in Korea to carry out a 5 day tour, inspection, exchange and business negotiation activities.

The delegation included entrepreneurs and designers of Daewoo, Zhongfu, Liansheng, Longzhi, swart, Xinrong, Liyao, win win, Xin Yu, new products, magic fish, cross border, Tai'an, Sheng Mei, Lin Sheng and other textile and garment companies.