Advantages Fade Away Yue Mountain Shoe Industry Is Facing Development Bottleneck

There are more than 20 large and small shoemaking enterprises in the town of Yue Shan, and many of them have grown into modern enterprises. However, the development of these enterprises has been restricted by the "bottleneck" of talents, information and materials. Where is the way of shoe industry?

The leather shoes made by Yue Yue Shan are sold well all over the world. In the urban area of Kaiping, it is not difficult to see such a picture in the streets and alleys: a group of middle-aged women or old women sitting on a small square stool with scissors, clipped the denim cloth with a scissors cut.

They make use of their spare time to cut the thread of the denim factory and help them to make ends meet. At the same time, they virtually add strength to the construction of the national textile industrial base in Kaiping.

Reporter recently saw a similar picture in the town of Yue Shan: on the moon hill town, a group of middle-aged women or old women sitting on a small square stool, holding a needle and thread in their hands and concentrating on leather shoes.

It turned out that after 30 years of development, Yue Shan leather shoes manufacturing industry has more than 20 local leather shoes factories. Its output value reaches tens of millions of yuan a year, and its products sell well all over the world. But even so, the leather shoes manufacturing industry of Yue Shan has not gained any title yet.

The local government and footwear enterprises say that the leather shoes manufacturing industry has made brilliant achievements in the development of over 30 years, but at the same time, it has encountered many difficulties and bottlenecks in its development.

Development: from the small family workshop to the modern enterprise, the head of the economic office and the boss of several shoe companies told reporters that before the reform and opening up, there was the first shoe factory in the mountain area.

In 1976, Yue Shan town opened a collective enterprise Yue Qiao shoe factory. The predecessor of the shoe factory was the Yue Ming shoe factory launched by Yue Shan Yue Ming brigade.

"At that time, the workers who worked in shoe factories were all the masses of Yue Shan town.

They work in shoe factories or calculate their work points.

There are about 40 workers in the factory. "

Xu Xikun, director of the Economic Office of Yue Shan town, said that when they were in primary school, they had shoe factories. When there were other collectives in the town, they liked to use the name "lunar overseas Chinese".

"People who earn their jobs in the shoe factory have learned from the shoe factory the technology of making leather shoes imperceptibly.

With the spring breeze of reform and opening up, people who learn technology and have enough courage have opened up a shoe factory and opened a road of development with the characteristics of the moon mountain.

The boss of several shoe companies told reporters that in the early 80s of last century, Mr. Xu, a resident who worked in the Yue shoe factory, launched the first private shoe factory in the town of Yue Shan, boldly in Huaxin shoe factory.

Yue Shan leather shoes industry insiders say that the development of Yue Shan's shoe industry has a family's "blood vessel" and has gone out of its unique development path for more than 30 years.

The embryonic form of leather shoes manufacturing is mainly family workshops, and a few families are all shoe factories. They gradually develop into small factories, invite relatives to come back to help with processing, develop into a modern enterprise with a certain scale, and recruit a large number of shoemaking workers, and the production and specialization of machinery are strengthened.

The leather shoes manufacturing industry in the moon mountain town is not smooth sailing.

The collective Yue Yue shoe factory was reformed in 1989, and the private owner took over the shoe factory to make the shoe factory continue to exist and develop.

"The boss who took over was ambitious to make the shoe factory bigger and bigger. After taking over, he introduced several production lines, including the production line of sports shoes, but for many reasons, the shoe factory of Yue Yue went bankrupt in 1995 or so, and the shoe factory area has now been razed to the ground."

Xu Xikun said that by the end of the 80s of last century, there had already been a number of shoe companies that had begun to take shape.

"At the end of the 80s, the moon mountain attracted a Zhongshan boss to come to the shoe industry. But because of the problem of" acclimatized "in terms of technology and sales, the boss moved back to Zhongshan in the 4 year of the factory.

In recent years, due to market factors, some of the less competitive shoe companies have failed.

Generally speaking, Yue Shan's leather shoes manufacturing industry is developing.

At present, Xu boss, who founded Huaxin shoe factory, has handed the "baton" made of leather shoes to his 3 sons.

His 3 sons, after taking the father's relay baton, tried to "split the leaves". Besides the Huaxin shoe factory, one of its sons continued to operate, the other two sons had already opened similar shoe companies.

Cai Wen long shoes industry Co., Ltd. is also the son from "Laozi" to take over, and a few brothers work together, together the company has become the largest shoe company of the moon mountain, the output value exceeded 10 million yuan last year.

In addition, more than 20 shoe companies have gone through the development path from small to large, and each shoe factory has an average annual output value of about 1 million 500 thousand yuan.

Gao Feng: at most, you have more than 40 shoe factories and walk on Yue Shan Wei Town. It is easy to see many shoe companies, such as Wen long shoes, Tai Zi Long shoes, Huaxin shoes, foot Shun shoes, Pak Shun shoes, Rong brothers, Audi shoes.

The vast majority of shoe factories in Yue Shan are local people in the moon mountain. There are now more than 20 large shoe companies, and about 40 at the most.

The responsible person and several bosses of Yue Shan Economic Office said that the business of leather shoes has been difficult to make in recent years, so the number of shoe factories has decreased.

Reporter learned that most of the shoe factories in the moon mountain produce leather shoes. These shoe factories come to the outside world to pick up accessories, make shoes in the moon mountain, and then enter the sales channels, both for export and domestic sales.

At the height of the peak, there are more than 40 shoe factories with large and small sizes on the moon hill, and 90% of them are on the moon hill.

"When we originally planned to declare a professional town in 2004, we declared that it was a professional manufacturer of leather shoes. However, considering that the output value of leather shoes manufacturing industry is not large, these shoes factories have a majority of annual output value of 100-200 yuan, and they do not add up to 100 million yuan, so they have not declared."

Xu Xikun said, on the whole, in the 80s and 90s of last century, there were more shoe factories in Kaiping than in Heshan, but in recent years Heshan's footwear industry has been rapidly clustering and becoming a rising star.

The only one of the early development of Yue Shan's shoe industry was founded in Yue Shan Jin village. It passed the path of individual development to a certain scale of private enterprises. It was one of the successful businesses in the family business. There were 300 workers at the peak and 500 thousand yuan in taxes last year.

Xu Wenbiao, the boss of the company, said that they mainly made leather shoes and started selling at home at the beginning, and mainly exported for nearly 10 years, and exported to the UK, France, Russia, South America and other parts of the world.

Insiders pointed out that the quality of domestic leather shoes is not as high as that of exports. At present, many shoe factories are mainly engaged in domestic sales.

"Every factory has its own niche market, and there is no positive competition.

Even when a shoe factory receives orders, it will make the other shoe factories nearby help them develop, and the development of enterprises is more harmonious.

Bottleneck: lack of talent is the main problem. "Business has been difficult in recent years. Due to the appreciation of the renminbi, only a price has been lost to the settlement."

"At present, wages are rising, materials are rising, but the prices of customers are dropping."

"It's hard to recruit workers now, let alone recruit talents."

Many shoe enterprises boss spat to reporters.

"We also want to make the shoe manufacturing industry bigger and stronger, but we can't find a way, or find a way to go."

Yue Shan Economic Office and a number of shoe companies responsible for such a feeling.

They say that there are many problems involved in the development of footwear industry. The most important thing is the talent problem. But it is very difficult to bring talents to the moon mountain at present. This is very related to the area of Yue Shan.

In addition, information, materials and brands are all the bottlenecks restricting the development of Yue Shan leather shoes manufacturing industry. Because the moon mountain is always a small town, the biggest advantage may be that local labor is relatively cheap and local people possess skilled footwear technology.

At present, these advantages are gradually disappearing, and shoe companies are hard to recruit.

"Many local people are reluctant to work in leather shoes manufacturing, especially young people.

They can't do this for a long time.

Few workers lost in previous years, but the loss of workers has been particularly serious in recent two years. "

Now a lot of factory practice is to make part of the leather shoes manufacturing process to go out, let the ordinary people do in the home, so there appeared similar situation with the Kaiping three port city mass cut cowboy wiring head.

"They don't need to go to work in factories, they can make some money to help their families with their spare time, so the factories also make full use of the surplus labor force to ease the pressure of recruitment."

At present, many shoe companies of Yue Shan rely mainly on shoe factories to train their own shoemaking talents.

The local government and some bosses have considered inviting some industries related to shoe industry to come to the development of the moon hill factory to extend the industrial chain of the leather shoes manufacturing industry of the moon mountain, and to strengthen and help the leather shoes manufacturing industry.

The industry pointed out that technological innovation may be a way for the development of leather shoes in Yue Shan, but it is difficult for all shoe factories to go in the same direction at present. This requires the guidance and support of relevant government departments and the joint efforts of entrepreneurs.

At present, some shoe factories have independently developed new technologies, and applied for national patents, creating "environmental leather shoes".