Textile And Garment Exports Stabilized In April Textile Enterprises Are Optimistic About The Second Half Of The Year

According to the latest data released by the General Administration of Customs, driven by China's steady foreign trade policy, supply chain recovery, accelerated delivery of orders and a low base, China's textile and clothing exports continued to grow year-on-year in April in dollar terms, with a slight decline in month on month. Among them, clothing exports increased by 14.3% year on year, driving the cumulative growth of clothing exports from negative to positive, and the overall decline of textile and clothing exports further narrowed. From January to April, textile and clothing exports totaled US $92.88 billion, down 2.9%, of which textile exports totaled US $44.81 billion, down 8%, and clothing exports totaled US $48.08 billion, up 2.5%.

　　 "The reasons for the stabilization of exports are: first, the domestic economic growth has stabilized and recovered, and the stabilization of the economic situation has led to the improvement of the internal environment facing production and foreign trade. The production and logistics links of the textile and clothing industry have been restored smoothly, and the ability to ensure supply has been comprehensively restored. Second, with the help of the government and industry organizations, export textile enterprises have seized the opportunity to go to the sea at the first time to participate in the conference, see customers' orders and other lines The initiative has achieved results. Third, China's policy of stabilizing foreign trade has achieved remarkable results. " Zhu Yuxing, head of the Information Department of the China Textile Import and Export Chamber of Commerce, told the reporter of China Textile News that the order of textile and clothing production and export is stabilizing, and the confidence of export enterprises is gradually recovering. With the further consolidation of favorable policies, it will effectively promote the stability and improvement of foreign trade.

Policies continue to work to boost exports

"Since this year, the Wuxi Municipal Government has cashed various foreign trade policy funds for more than 400 foreign trade enterprises, including us, which has effectively eased the pressure on production and operation of enterprises. In the first quarter of this year, the export volume of enterprises has increased by 10% over the same period last year." Zhang Jun, chairman of Jiangsu Wuxi Zehua Economic and Trade Co., Ltd., said: "Domestic and overseas exhibitions are an important platform for foreign trade enterprises to explore the international market. In the first quarter of this year, the Wuxi Council for the Promotion of International Trade organized more than dozens of foreign trade enterprises to participate in several international exhibitions to help foreign trade enterprises expand the international market. We participated in the Las Vegas Textile and Garment Fair in the United States. During the three days of participation, about 10 customers clearly expressed their intention to cooperate, and achieved surprises Results. "

Since this year, the export textile enterprises in Changxing County, Huzhou City, Zhejiang Province have gone abroad to various international exhibitions, which is also inseparable from the active guidance of the government departments. Zhao Junfu, director of the production plant of Zhejiang Shengfa Textile Printing and Dyeing Co., Ltd., said, "Since New Year's Day 2023, the production line has been in full load. The main products include flat screen printing, rotary screen printing and dyeing, and the daily output can reach 250000 meters. Only at the German Frankfurt Home Textile Exhibition, the enterprise has received more than 1 million dollars of new customer orders." In recent years, Zhejiang Shengfa Textile Printing and Dyeing Co., Ltd. has continuously improved its "internal skills" and invested a lot of money in 54 projects involving environmental protection, intelligence, research and development in the production process of automatic batching system, power system, etc. Zhao Junfu said: "In the second half of the year, we will actively explore the South American market, and it is expected that the output value will increase by nearly 20% this year."

It is understood that in order to encourage enterprises to actively "go global", Changxing introduced a policy to help the first quarter "get off to a good start", gave subsidies to enterprises to participate in overseas exhibitions, increased support for enterprises to participate in overseas exhibitions and expand the market, and timely released the first batch of international exhibitions supporting domestic and overseas exhibitions in 2023, including 20 overseas exhibitions, The exhibition area covers traditional markets such as Europe, America and Japan, and RCEP emerging markets such as Thailand and Indonesia. In addition to the encouragement and support of real gold and silver, Changxing has strengthened its guarantee. For example, through the timely release of exhibition information by foreign trade enterprise groups, enterprises are organized to go abroad to participate in market expansion, and export credit insurance companies are linked to provide enterprises with free services such as overseas buyer directory inquiry, overseas customer in-depth credit report, to help enterprises expand the market, grab orders, and stabilize foreign trade.

Recently, the General Office of the State Council issued the Opinions on Promoting Stable Scale and Optimal Structure of Foreign Trade, which proposed 18 measures from five aspects: strengthening trade to promote market expansion, stabilizing and expanding import and export scale of key products, increasing financial support, accelerating innovative development of foreign trade, and optimizing the environment for foreign trade development, to provide positive policy support for stabilizing foreign trade. The implementation of the new policy and measures will further enhance the ability of China's textile and clothing export enterprises to cope with the global supply chain adjustment and market fluctuations.

　　 "The China Chamber of Commerce for Import and Export of Textiles recently learned through research that export textile enterprises generally hope that governments at all levels can further consolidate 18 measures, and continue to provide enterprises with optimized arrangements in terms of opening up international exchanges, promoting the safe and orderly recovery of international passenger flights, improving export convenience, and promoting the development of cross-border e-commerce, with greater policy strength to help Export textiles stabilize orders and expand the market. " Zhu Yuxing said.

Textile enterprises deeply participate in international cooperation

The latest data released by the Industrial Economics Research Institute of the China Textile Industry Federation shows that since this year, the production and living order of China's textile industry has accelerated to recover, the overall situation of textile enterprises' resumption of production is stable, the industry's overall prosperity and development expectations have rebounded, and the positive factors have been accumulating.

There are more than 3000 textile enterprises in Shengze, Jiangsu, covering the whole industrial chain from spinning and weaving to fabric development, clothing design and garment processing. Statistics show that in the first quarter of this year, the total import and export volume of Shengze Town's textile and clothing and other foreign trade reached 636.9 million dollars, rising steadily, of which the export volume in March increased by 20% over the same period last year. "In order to speed up the overseas layout, Shengze's first public overseas warehouse will soon be established in Bangladesh, covering a total area of 3000 square meters, which means that Shengze's fabrics will be directly pushed to the garment factories in Bangladesh." Lu Ziping, deputy mayor of Shengze Town, said that Shengze textile and clothing enterprises are looking for their own positioning in the tide of global industrial transfer and industrial upgrading, Keep improving core competitiveness.

The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and the Ministry of Commerce recently jointly issued a notice on launching the 2023 textile and clothing supply optimization and upgrading activity, which requires relying on the complete advantages of China's textile and clothing industry chain supply chain, supporting enterprises to deeply participate in global division of labor and cooperation, making good use of both domestic and international markets and resources, and forming an efficient and collaborative industrial system with other countries and regions.

Zhejiang Xin'ao Textile Co., Ltd. recently announced that it plans to build a 50000 spindle high-grade worsted ecological yarn textile dyeing and finishing project in Vietnam. After the completion of the project, the annual production capacity of about 6500 tons of worsted knitting yarn will be gradually formed. The first phase of 20000 ingots will be started in 2023, and is expected to be completed and put into production in 2025. Shen Jianhua, its chairman, said: "It is expected that enterprises that put into production in Vietnam will accelerate to expand their overseas market share and promote the profitability to enter the upward channel."

"In the first quarter, the export was 80 million US dollars, and the main revenue was 1.3 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 17.32%; printed fabric orders had been placed until June, and the orders for high-end iron free shirts, woolen overcoats, and professional clothes were fully placed in the second quarter, which has started to place orders in the third quarter." Wan Bin, general manager of Shandong Linqing Sanhe Textile Group Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "Sanhe Group"), said: "As a large foreign trade enterprise, Sanhe Group's leading products, calico, are all exported, with an annual production capacity of 600 million meters. It is the world's largest calico production base, accounting for 30% of the African market."

Behind the good market response is Sanhe Group's continuous innovation, intelligent production transformation and upgrading, and the continuous layout of the whole industrial chain over the years. Taking calico as an example, Sanhe Group has set up a special research and development team. According to the cultural traditions and customs of African countries, more than 200 patterns are designed every day, and more than 50000 patterns are designed throughout the year. At the same time, through refined and intelligent production management, Africa is provided with more high-quality fabrics, and the products are popular in more than 30 countries and regions in Africa.

Canton Fair refracts new market opportunities

On May 5, the 133rd China Import and Export Commodities Fair (hereinafter referred to as "Canton Fair") ended. This is the full resumption of offline exhibitions after three years of the Canton Fair. Both the exhibition area and the number of exhibitors have reached a new high, giving full play to the positive signal of the recovery of foreign trade.

In the third phase of the Canton Fair, the textile and clothing exhibition area can be the main force: the exhibition area is 220000 square meters, there are about 4800 exhibitors and more than 9000 booths. Guangdong Textile Import and Export Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "Guangdong Textile") has established stable trade relations with customers from different countries and regions relying on the Canton Fair. At this Canton Fair, Guangdong Textile set up 16 booths in three brand exhibition areas, namely, casual clothing, men's and women's clothing, and underwear, and achieved good results. "At the meeting, we communicated with more than three customers," said Su Xianhua, the head of the company's Canton Fair affairs. Su Xianhua found that this year there were especially many new customers from emerging markets such as Russia and South America

Hebei Ningfang Group has contacted 200 customers successively, reached an intention order of 3 million meters, and had an effective exchange with the clothing enterprises participating in the upstream exhibition. Zhao Yuntao, General Manager of the Import and Export Company of Nanjing Textile Group Co., Ltd., said: "The overall effect of the exhibition is good! At the same time, I caught some changes. Among the purchasers of the exhibition, the number of visitors from Europe and the United States has decreased, while the number of visitors from Asia, Africa and Latin America has increased significantly." At present, the demand for "Made in China" from RCEP member countries and countries along the "Belt and Road" is growing. At the Canton Fair, many exhibitors had a heated discussion with purchasers from RCEP member countries, and reached many cooperation intentions. Many enterprises also strengthened their confidence and determination to expand the RCEP market after feeling the policy dividends brought by RCEP and the huge potential of member countries' markets.

In addition, products with high added value and leading the green transformation have become the new driving force for the growth of foreign trade exports. Environmental friendly fabrics and functional fabrics have become the "darling" of this Canton Fair textile and clothing exhibition, and many new products and technologies have been unveiled. "Many buyers in Europe and the United States will require clothing to use environmentally friendly fabrics, including renewable fabrics." Zhang Zizi, the business manager of Fujian Jinjiang Jiali Garments, said, "In addition, we have developed underwear with heating function. These innovative products that cater to the trend have increased our leverage in obtaining new orders." Zhang Zizi said that the effect of this exhibition was better than expected, The enterprise has accepted many intentional orders on site, and the market is expected to be better in the second half of the year.