Guangdong denim industry status and development

Reform and opening up 26 years ago, Guangdong,dyeing equipment, mostly pulp dyeing combination
Guangdong textile industry as the country's reform andmachine, using the device The dyeing process could
opening up with cutting-edge formed by first-movereasily lead to color flower, color, species and changes
advantage, adjacent to the geographical advantage ofin the market can not meet demand, while the bundle
Hong Kong and Macao and overseas Chineseof good quality dyeing dyeing process, but the bundle
compatriots in Hong Kong and Macao popular withof Guangdong have little dyeing machines, accounting
many advantages, access to high-speed developmentfor about 1% of pulp dyeing equipment, less than 5
of the golden age of industrial output in 1978 theproduction lines.
development of the country ranked No. 15 to the first3, businesses small and scattered, low management
three, seven consecutive years of export Wenju firstlevel, state-owned and private enterprises were
in the country; while knitting, denim two sectors ofgranted international certification denim little information
production volume and export volume ranking first intechnology is not perfect
the country. Guangdong is now on the denim industry,4, the shortage of talent
the status quo and development of the next report toIn recent years, cowboy, the rapid development of
the National counterparts.garment enterprises, a number of large enterprises
    First, the industry status quogathered a group of highly educated, high-quality
Since Guangdong did not produce cotton, spinning thanpersonnel; state-owned enterprises in general a higher
weaving, weaving a long time to knitting, yarn-dyedproportion of people, but the loss of serious; small and
main varieties are primarily the yarn-dyed plaid andmedium private enterprises to production and
denim. The early eighties, the Guangzhou No. 1 Cottontechnology management, product design and
Mill first in the form of compensatory trade Weelockdevelopment, and marketing, and other advanced
Textile Co., Ltd. from Hong Kong to the introduction ofdegrees, high-quality personnel are extremely scarce.
air spinning, denim pulp dyeing, weaving and finishing    
equipment, to produce denim fabric and Buffalo Jeans;    Second, the future development of
from 1985 began, has launched a joint venture ofDenim Garment Industry Development in Guangdong in
state-owned enterprises, foreign-owned, private andthe future the guiding ideology is: fully implement the
other multi-channel development of manufacturingParty Shiliu Tai proposed path of sustainable
enterprises denim craze.development path, establish and implement the
    1,2003 denim industry in Guangdong's industrialscientific concept of development, rational use of both
output value, sales revenue, total profits and taxes,domestic and foreign resources, and through
export and production capacity, product yield weretechnological advances, institutional innovation, structural
highest in history, in which denim annual productionadjustment, supporting the development and rational
capacity of approximately 1.5 billion meters, yield 1.2distribution, out of a high technological content, good
billion meters, about accounting for about 40%, wereeconomic returns, low resources consumption, little
ranked first in the country.environmental pollution and the development of denim
    2, denim industry, advanced equipment in thefabric, apparel new ways to achieve from the denim
country a leading position in production levels andfabric, apparel province to province changes.
product quality continuously improve    1, to accelerate the pace of reform to improve
Denim processing enterprises in Guangdong mainlythe ownership structure
products are mainly exported, in order to adapt to theThe first concerns the public enterprises should speed
international market demand, companies invest a lot ofup the withdrawal of state-owned capital, the pace of
money to introduce advanced equipment. Adoption ofreform to achieve the ownership structure adjustment
new and continuous technological innovation, hasand optimization, such as Foshan East Asia such as
formed a group from spinning - pulp dyeing - weaving -the domestic stock companies have greater visibility of
Finishing - Clothing - Wash denim full supportingthe business, should accelerate the pace of conversion
large-scale enterprises, and gradually form amechanisms; The second is the joint road to
large-scale industry, the cowboy.market-oriented, capital as a link to the leading edge
    The existing open-end spinning equipment,enterprises, through joint, mergers and joint ventures
50000, 80% is the introduction of advanced equipment;and other forms of foreign investment, promoting
the province is about 600 jeans enterprises, 30,000strong alliance, the formation of internationally
looms, shuttle-less rate of more than 95%, of which 2 /competitive large enterprise groups, the enterprises
3 for rapier weaving machine; pulp dyeing line of notbigger and stronger; 3 is the number of product
less than 200, pre-shrinking line 100 (the United Statesfeatures, the development potential of small and
Morrison and the French doors Fuji about each 50%),medium enterprises, strive to cultivate them on a "small
special finishing line (silk, woven velvet, punching,and specialized, small and specialized, small but
coating, etc.) about 30 . Advanced equipment toexcellent" path of development.
improve the denim product grade, quality, and lay a    2, enhancement of training in jeans town to play
good foundation.industrial cluster effect, promoting local economic
    3, denim industry has begun to take shapedevelopment
design, development, production, marketing, brand aDenim apparel industry is a high degree of
combination of various related industries industry chain,dependence on foreign export trade, for the current
have their own denim brands and new products.problems in denim apparel industry, the need to
    4, forming a group of denim industry clustersstrengthen industry self-regulation, guidance, standards,
town, effectively pushed the local economicconstraints, cowboy business investment,
developmentredevelopment projects, can no longer blindly follow
Industry cluster development of textile industry inredundant construction, low-level expansion old.
Guangdong Province, the structural characteristics of    To this end, we must strengthen the training
denim industry cluster is particularly prominent. Chinajeans town, we should take the industrial upgrading of
Textile Industry Association, by the end of 2002 andthe main theme, to improve industry cluster level,
early 2004, has released two batches of 69 industrialintegration of resources, focusing on sustainable
clusters in the pilot units, a total of four bases indevelopment, industrial innovation platform for product
Guangdong cities (counties), 15 characteristics of theresearch and development to enhance and improve
city (town), accounting for 27% of the total, while thevalue to their products, give full play to industry the
Guangdong 15 characteristics of the city (town), thecomprehensive advantages of the cluster to improve
given name of the town of China, there are jeans bythe attractiveness of the cluster to attract superior
New Urban Town, Zhongshan City, Tai Chung Town,enterprises in the surrounding area to attract
Shunde Junan and the Town of Kaiping City, three ininternational capital and technology to become bigger
four, in addition to production and sales were relativelyand stronger industry cluster. According to the
denim also focused on Xiqiao Town, Foshan City andcomparative advantages of industrial clusters would
Guangzhou City, Huadu District, Xinhua Zhen and soalso benefit the transfer of some industries to form a
on.reasonable gradient, to improve overall economic
These industrial clusters upstream and downstreamefficiency.
industries not only played an active role in stimulating,    3, emphasis on green production, the
but also a strong impetus to all levels of governmentimplementation of brand strategy
(cities, counties, towns) To implement policies"Green Fort" will become one of the greatest
conducive to the development of industrial clusters,post-quota era of non-trade barriers. Through local
effectively promoted the rapid development ofgovernment, industry associations, industry clusters and
industries and enhancement of the industrial capacityother promulgated relevant preferential policies,
for sustained development.regulations, and vigorously promote the enterprises to
    5, denim, denim clothing market coverage ofdevelop international standards for consulting,
the world's major countries and regions, marketing andcertification, prepared to deal with "green bastion" of
sales network has been formedthe preparatory work to meet the challenges of the
According to statistics, Guangdong, denim, denimglobal green revolution.
garments are mainly exported to the United States,    4, speed up the pace of personnel training
Mexico, Canada, the Caribbean region; Europe, Russia;Denim apparel industry, according to the present
the Middle East, Southeast Asia; South America, Japan,situation, to strengthen personnel training and the
Taiwan, South Korea and Hong Kong. Internal controlintroduction of the province should make full use of
of the South China region, leading southwest andexisting resources in the textile colleges and universities
northeast regions, the central, northern and easternto develop textile and specialized personnel; give full
regions of radiation. Are concentrated in Guangdongplay to the advantages of the province adjacent to
Province, Guangzhou City, Station Road, Garment City,Hong Kong and Macao, through the recruitment of
the large regions Xintang areas; Foshan City Shundeoverseas talent to absorb, especially in marketing and
Junan area, the South China Sea Ping area, Xiqiaomanagement personnel.
areas; Humen, Dongguan City, area; Zhongshan CityNot only should pay attention to the training and the
Bay area ; shops in Shenzhen City in 4000.introduction of high-quality personnel, but also through
    However, Guangdong's denim industry therethe Provincial Textile Association and jointly established
are the following main issues, constraints denimWuyi University, Jiangmen, received the approval of
industry to further the development of a higher grade:the Provincial Labor and Social Security Department,
1, the product structure is irrational, can not adapt toGuangdong Province, will monitor workstation textile
market needsvocational skills to enhance the training of personnel in
Over the years, Guangdong's denim, apparel since thethree areas: First, fabric and clothing design,
material, sample processing-based, independentdevelopment, and raising the grade of denim fabrics
research and development capacity is weak, the lackand garments; second is the training of marketing
of intellectual property brand.personnel; third, senior technician. But also continuously
    Denim products industry cluster mostly middleimprove the key processes of production line quality
and low, the product identical, 70% of thick products,and level of skilled workers.
30% for thin and light products, middle and low    5, enhancement of information-based
products accounted for more than 85% of total output,construction
especially small and medium enterprise quality, grade,Information is an important means to promote industrial
variety and international level there is more thandevelopment. Accelerating the transformation of
obvious gap; competitive edge is low, profit marginstraditional industries, industrial upgrading process, the
small, basically rely on the creation of productionneed to speed up the building of information technology
efficiency. In today's denim oversupply, the domesticto improve information technology application level, the
cotton price rise and the post-quota era of internationaluse of information technology-driven industrial
markets, a variety of restrictive measures taken byrestructuring jeans, development and industrial
the importing country's situation, small and mediumupgrading.
enterprises have emerged denim reduced orders orFirst to guide enterprises to establish information
no orders, in a semi-shutdown or shutdown situation.technology, organizational forms and management
    2, the use of advanced technical equipmentpractices of a modern integrated development of
needs to be improvedthree modern thought; followed an information network
Guangdong Enterprises has a large number ofamong the industry cluster interconnection, etc.; key
advanced denim shuttle looms, but before and afterenterprises are also encouraged to develop
the equipment is not complete, failed to give full play toinformation technology in the overall planning, sub - step
its effectiveness, there is middle and low advancedby step and capabilities, seek practical results.
equipment to produce only products, such as pulp