New Blueprint For Leather Industry

As the world's largest producer of leather goods, China Leather Industry How to develop in the next 5 years is expected not only for domestic enterprises but also for international counterparts. Recently, the China Leather Association has unveiled the mysterious veil in Shanghai. The leather industry's "12th Five-Year plan" guiding opinions (hereinafter referred to as "opinions") have been released by the industry.

"Opinion" outlines the blueprint for China's leather industry in the next 5 years. During the "12th Five-Year" period, China's leather industry should achieve 8 goals through structural adjustment, accelerating the transformation of development mode and vigorously improving the quality and efficiency of industrial development, so as to promote industrial upgrading, and strive for more initiative and discourse power in the new round of international industrial transfer and strategic adjustment, laying a solid foundation for China to enter a leather power country from a big leather country.

The latest information from China Leather Association shows that in the first half of this year, China Leather Industry We have achieved good results. In 1~6 months, the gross domestic product value of the leather, fur and products industry with a sales income of over 20 million yuan was 328 billion yuan, an increase of 26.3% over the same period last year. But the rising figures are still difficult to conceal the rising costs and environmental pressures faced by China's leather industry. According to the data provided by the Zhejiang Leather Industry Association, the price of a pig skin has risen from 40 yuan last year to 80 yuan, and sheepskin has risen from 24 US dollars to 29 dollars, and the price of cattle has risen to the highest level in nearly 10 years. While the cost of raw materials has risen sharply, the labor cost of the domestic leather industry has increased by about 20%. Moreover, more and more stringent environmental assessment conditions also test the viability of the leather industry.

In addition, the added value of products is not high. Brand export Less volume has always been a bottleneck for the development of China's leather industry with high dependence on foreign trade. This is evident from the quantity and output value of China's import and export footwear products in the first half of this year. In 1~6 months, China exported 5 billion 110 million pairs of footwear products, worth 17 billion 930 million US dollars, up 4% and 21.6% compared to the same period last year. The import footwear products were 20 million 60 thousand pairs, valued at 540 million US dollars, up 34.8% and 53.76% respectively over the same period. According to the conversion of quantity and output value, the average price of each pair of shoes exported to China is US $3.5, while the average price of imports of each pair of shoes is 26.9 US dollars, and the difference between them is 7.69 times. This development situation urgently needs our leather industry to change by increasing scientific and technological innovation. Because of this, the newly released "opinions" determined that China's leather industry should strive to achieve the 8 development goals during the "12th Five-Year" period.

First, steady growth in production efficiency. Driven by stable export and expanding domestic demand, we must ensure steady growth in production and sales, enhance overall industry efficiency, and maintain an average annual increase of 12% in total industrial output value. The two is the structural adjustment and optimization of export products. We should encourage exports of high technology and high added value products, continuously increase the proportion of independent brands' exports, transform from the quantity expansion type to the quality benefit oriented economic development mode, and maintain the total export volume of the industry by an average annual growth of 7%. Three, the ability of independent innovation has been significantly enhanced. We should set up an innovation system that takes enterprises as the main body, market orientation, industry university research as a combination, industry organization promotion and government policy support to form a number of technologies, products and brands with independent intellectual property rights. The four is the significant increase in the share of independent brands. The formation of regional brands and brand teams at different levels has significantly increased their share in the international market and striving to create 3~5 internationally renowned brands. A number of enterprises with a certain scale and strength will be listed. The five is the steady improvement of characteristic regional construction. We should pay attention to the classification and guidance, enhance the quality and level of the existing characteristic areas, and actively cultivate new characteristic areas, so that the total output value of leather characteristic areas will account for more than 60% of the total industrial output value of Enterprises above the scale of the whole industry. The six is the formation of industry talent echelon.

We should establish and improve a scientific and effective mechanism for cultivating echelons of talents in industry, and actively train excellent business management talents and middle and senior technicians, especially professionals and international talents in scientific research, design, patents, standards, trade rules and so on. The seven is to achieve actual results in energy conservation and emission reduction. There are 5~8 mature and perfect tannery centralized production bases in the country with qualified conditions to comprehensively promote cleaner production technology. The water recycling utilization increased by 10% compared with the end of 11th Five-Year, the COD emissions of major pollutants decreased by 8%, ammonia nitrogen emissions decreased by 10%, and the discharge of wastewater decreased by 10%. The eight is the transformation and upgrading of industrial structure. We should actively promote the major industries such as leather making, shoemaking, leather goods, fur and their products, leather industry machinery, leather chemicals, leather hardware, shoe materials and other supporting industries, as well as e-commerce, logistics network, training system, culture and creativity, etc., to upgrade and upgrade the core competitiveness of the industry.

At present, China's leather industry has begun to take active actions in the field of new technology and high-end products. In early September, the 2011 China International Leather Fair, China International Footwear Fair and China International bags and Qiu Ji costumes and costumes exhibition ended in Shanghai. Among them, AOKANG group, the leader of shoemaking industry, released a new series called Shu Shang to the market. This product is one of the masterpieces of AOKANG group in the past two or three years, by improving the manufacturing process to lower manufacturing costs and increase the added value of product development.

At present, AOKANG group has business relations with more than 40 countries in the world, but "all of them are processing orders. We are considering making brand export." The group's head of international trade said so. Leather chemical and leather machinery, as the two wings of China's leather industry to take off in the future, have also shown excellent performance at this exhibition. Many products with high technology elements are coming on the stage, becoming a booster for the leather industry to accelerate transformation and upgrading. Such as Emma company has 3 core technology of computer upright six station coarse last carving machine, can save a lot of material cost automatic feed leather cutting bed. China's footwear design competition awards ceremony, which aims to enhance the domestic footwear products at the forefront of the fashion front, is a sign that Chinese shoe manufacturers no longer value the increase in quantity. They are looking forward to a breakthrough in design and the same starting line with the international footwear giant 2011. {page_break}

Zhang Shuhua, chairman of the China Leather Association, added that in order to reduce costs and achieve industrial transformation and upgrading, China's leather industry has also accelerated the pace of shifting from east to West in recent years, so that the leather industry base in central and Western China has sprung up, trained talents and adjusted its structure.

In the 1~6 month of this year, the total output value of leather enterprises above Designated Size in the central and western regions represented by Henan, Sichuan, Jiangxi and Hunan was 42.2%, 19 percentage points faster than that in the eastern region. This healthy development momentum has injected new strength for China's leather industry to achieve its development goals in the next 5 years.