China's Shoes And Clothing Leather Industry Is Facing "Cost Increase" And Other Problems.

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China's leather industry is facing many severe challenges when the world becomes hot and China becomes the world's largest leather industry.

Data show that in 2012 1-6, China's scale leather, fur and products and footwear industry completed 493 billion 759 million yuan of industrial output value, an increase of 14.58% over the same period last year, and the growth rate dropped 11.68 percentage points over the same period last year. In 1-5 months, the gross profit of leather, fur and products and footwear industry in China's scale was 22 billion 487 million yuan, an increase of 20.35% over the same period last year, and the growth rate dropped by 12.49 percentage points over the same period last year.

The analysis shows that this is the adverse impact of domestic and international price fluctuations, low international demand and rising labor costs.

According to WTO's latest report on world trade, China has surpassed Germany to become the world's first export power and exports account for 10.4% of the world's total exports.

However, in 2012 1-6, China exported 4 million 80 thousand leather garments, 210 million US dollars, down 28.9% and 23.4% respectively compared with the same period last year. In the same period, the export of semi finished leather in China was 4253 tons and 15 million 810 thousand US dollars, down 24.5% and 8.2% respectively.

Under the background of economic globalization, the global manufacturing industry is also facing a globalized trend. The global economic trend will have an impact on China's leather industry.

The output value is 400 billion.

How to occupy a favorable position in the division of labor in the global industry is a major test that will affect the future development of the industry.

We see that after decades of development, China's manufacturing industry still has not been rid of the embarrassment of the global giants' production base.

So is the leather industry. In the eyes of Americans, a shoe factory with tens of thousands of people in the Pearl River Delta may be the core factory of a multinational shoe company.

The immediate consequence of such a situation is that although more and more leather products are flowing from China's factories to the world, the Chinese brands of overseas markets are hard to see or even disappear.

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What is more serious is that such a weak position in the global industrial division is caused by many problems existing in China's leather industry itself.

First of all, due to the lack of technology, the leather industry in China has not only the manufacturing links in the middle, but also the tannery technology, environmental protection technology, design originality, and the rear end of the front.

The brand building and so on are all quite different from that of the West.

For example, on environmental issues, the EU's registration, assessment, authorization and restriction regulation of chemicals (REACH), which was introduced in December 1, 2008, restricts the entry of Chinese related products including leather into the EU market by limiting chemical content.

At the same time, because of environmental problems, some local governments that have made leather industry as a pillar industry have begun to support green emerging industries, even leather industry.

The backwardness of technology and the lack of core technology are the biggest bottlenecks restricting the development of leather industry in China.

In addition, structural contradictions are another important issue affecting the healthy development of China's leather industry.

In terms of product mix, whether it is luggage or footwear, there are surplus products in the middle and low grade products, less products with high quality and less brand influence. In terms of enterprise structure, the tannery production layout is relatively scattered, the scale of enterprises is small and the quantity is large, and a large number of backward production capacity will be phased out. In the coastal area of Guangdong, Fujian and the Yangtze River Delta, the industry in the central and western regions, especially in the western region, is less, and the regional and market and resource advantages are not fully realized. In terms of talent structure, the proportion of high-end talents in technology, design and marketing in the whole industry is relatively small.

Leather industry is the oldest industry of mankind. The history of leather industry development is the history of human skill progress.

Since the reform and opening up, China's leather industry has been developing vigorously, and the status of China's leather industry is unbreakable.

However, it is still necessary for China's leather industry to work together from the big country of leather industry to the power of leather industry.

China Leather Weekly has been committed to promoting the healthy, orderly and rapid development of China's leather industry, and has always been thinking about the future of the industry in an objective and rational way.

We hope that China's leather industry can withstand external and internal multiple tests, break through the tight encirclement of traditional manufacturing industry, and move towards a healthy and healthy development track.