How Long Can Shandong'S Leather Industry Stay On The Fence?

In recent years, all kinds of leather cities have settled in Shandong. Although in the past few years, most leather cities seem to be traveling around Shandong in the light of lanterns, but leaving behind a colorful and lively scene, they also left a topic for people in Shandong to talk about: why do the Zhejiang people come to Shandong to build one leather city after another, while the Shandong people themselves can only sit on the fence?

"Leather city gathering in Shandong has both special geopolitical factors and business practices and experiences of Zhejiang business associations in the operation of specialized markets." Shandong provincial Macroeconomic Research Institute deputy director and guidance commentator in Jihai analysis, Shandong leather industry do not need to see the business skills and business profits of Zhejiang businessmen, more importantly, think about how to improve the industrial chain, other industries should get some useful enlightenment from the Zhejiang leather industry cluster's complete development and the formation of strong tension. Why is the Shandong market popular?

Reporters learned from the China Leather Association that China's leather industry pattern can be roughly divided into two parts: the north and the south. The southern part is composed of Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Fujian, Guangdong, and southeast coastal areas. The southern plate is composed of sheet shaped leather industrial clusters. The northern part is characterized by punctuate distribution, consisting of many large enterprises such as Shandong, Hebei and Liaoning.

"Due to historical reasons, there has been a spatial dislocation between the domestic leather industry cluster, the specialized market and the target consumer market." Li Yuzhong, vice-chairman of the China Leather Association, told the reporter that this is manifested in the long-term export of leather products in China. The domestic market has been neglected by the fur industry in China for a long time. The other is the northern provinces that are rich in raw materials. The development of the leather industry is lagging behind, and the southeast coastal industrial clusters even import raw materials from abroad for a long time.

In recent years, due to the obstructed export of fur products, a large number of leather enterprises have turned to the domestic demand market. The traditional market of fur products is mostly distributed in the relatively cold north, so the direction and flow are basically from the south to the north, and only in some big cities in the South.

It is not hard to imagine that Shandong has become a target market that fur industry can not ignore in the rush of the northern expedition.

"It's not difficult to explain why there are so many leather cities in Shandong." Li Yuzhong said that with the development of industrial clusters and the extension and perfection of industrial chains, the professional market will emerge as the times require. This is the industrial law that has been repeatedly verified by Zhejiang's economic development process in the past 20 years. The reporter noted that it is the rapid rise of Zhejiang's leather industry sector in the past 20 years, giving birth to a special business group specializing in the professional market of fur products, such as Haining China Leather City, Haining. Calm and hidden worries

Seeing all kinds of leather cities coming up in the big cities of leather industry in Shandong, and enjoying the tragedies and tragedies in the "business arena" of their own sites, how do the people in Shandong leather industry feel?

"Our products are mainly made of upper leather and upholstery leather, which are mainly supplied by the major brand shoe manufacturers in China, and do not have much business with leather city at ordinary times." Feng Zhonghe, general manager of Dezhou Xing Long (Xing Long monopoly store) leather products Co., Ltd., told the Herald reporter that Xing long leather is located in Lingxian County, Dezhou, with annual sales of several hundred million yuan.

At the age of 50, Zhang Honggang worked in a famous leather chemical company in Europe as the head of the Shandong market of the company's China branch. He spent years wandering between Shandong leather enterprises to provide chemicals for leather processing.

He told the guide. Reporter The leather industry in Shandong is mainly concentrated in Huantai, Dezhou, Yantai, Weihai and Binzhou. And he knows Guangdong, Fujian, Zhejiang and other places have a piece of block distribution, including thousands of large and medium-sized enterprises of various sizes of leather industry cluster is different, the content of Shandong leather industry is almost equal to the more than 100 large and medium-sized enterprises with punctuated distribution, and the products are mainly based on upper products such as upper leather, sofa leather and automobile cushion leather. The only exception is Yangxin and Zhanhua in Binzhou, where there is a certain scale of industrial clusters, but it is obviously not the same as Guangdong, Fujian, Zhejiang and other industrial clusters.

Professor Wang Quanjie, director of the doctoral supervisor of University of Science and Technology of China and director of the national leather technology research and Extension Center, said that Shandong is a large animal husbandry province, and the leather industry relies on this resource advantage to develop and has its special historical origin. Over the years, the leather industry in Shandong has been famous for its high quality raw materials and leather technology. It is the traditional advantage of Shandong leather industry.

" Shandong It is impossible for the leather industry to form a comprehensive industrial base and terminal product distribution center like Guangdong, Fujian and Zhejiang. Feng Zhonghe said fur industry is part of the garment industry. It needs strong design and R & D power, strong financial support and mature brand promotion team as the background. These precious economic elements are currently concentrated only in the Pearl River Delta, and even Fujian and Zhejiang can not afford to look forward to it. Foster professional market and enlarge industrial clusters

To some extent, the current situation of leather industry in Shandong is a microcosm of many industries with a certain scale in Shandong.

"Resource scarcity of Zhejiang, because raw materials import from other provinces and industrial chain division and cooperation mechanism, has spawned raw materials professional market; and the large number of manufactured goods export has formed a large scale specialized wholesale market around major industrial clusters." Zhu Liming, director of the Macroeconomic Research Institute of Zhejiang development and Reform Commission, explained the relationship between industrial clusters and professional markets in Zhejiang.

The phenomenon of "leather city gathering in Shandong" is positive for Shandong's economy. Yu Jihai said that with the transformation of China's economic operation mode from production decision to circulation leading mode, the commodity trading market has risen from the terminal industry to the leading industry. The mutual support and linkage development between the professional market and the regional characteristic industrial cluster has become the major trend of the industrial development, and the dependence of the regional economic development on the professional market and industrial cluster is growing. At present, there are many large scale industrial clusters in Shandong. Among them, Jimo garment industry cluster and Changle jewelry industry cluster are all industrial clusters that have enough influence on the domestic local market. Linyi, which is in the professional market, is also caused by the market. pull Effect, relying on the professional market, there are some different scale industrial agglomeration phenomenon. Shandong needs to rely on the existing industrial clusters to cultivate more specialized markets, so as to stimulate the existing industrial clusters to become bigger and stronger.