Adjustment Of China's Industrial Layout To The West

In recent years, The labor With the increase of cost and the rising price of raw materials, our manufacturing industry orders such as tanning, shoes and clothing began to shift to Southeast Asian countries such as Vietnam.

With the per capita GDP of more than 6700 US dollars and entering the level of middle-income countries, China's labor cost advantage is slowly disappearing, and it is facing "double extrusion" from the international development of high-end manufacturing and neighboring countries to attract low-end manufacturing industries. On the 25 day, the Executive Council of the State Council decided to formulate policies and measures to promote industrial transfer and key industrial layout adjustment. It proposed to combine the "one belt" and the Yangtze River economic belt construction to guide the industry to shift to the central and western regions, and to open up an industrial platform to the West in the western region.

In recent years, due to rising labor costs and rising raw material prices, orders for leather making, footwear and other manufacturing industries in China have begun to shift to Southeast Asian countries such as Vietnam. The survey results of the Asian Footwear Association show that since the outbreak of the financial crisis in 2008, manufacturing costs in China have risen steadily, and the footwear industry in Southeast Asia has already taken about 30% of China's orders.

Here background Under the guidance of the eastern industrial transfer, not only conducive to short-term steady growth, to deal with the downward pressure on the economy, but also to adjust the layout of the industry and coordinate regional balanced development. Before that, China has issued a number of major strategic plans to guide the 100 million people in the central and western regions to make urbanization nearby, to build the Silk Road Economic Belt and the Yangtze River economic belt. The premise and core of the strategic planning of these countries is to transfer the industry to the central and Western regions, which is also an inevitable requirement for the construction of new urbanization.

The executive meeting proposed to create a "hard environment" and "soft environment" to undertake industrial transfer and play a leading role in the market. Premier Li Keqiang emphasized that industrial transfer can not be promoted by the government, nor can it be forced to do so. We must follow the laws of the market and use low-cost and convenient business environment to attract enterprises to transfer independently.

From the micro level, whether enterprises transfer or not often consider factors such as cost, market and so on. The central and western regions have the advantages of resources, labor costs, and huge domestic demand. With the improvement of transportation, logistics, information and other infrastructure, we have an advantage in attracting labor-intensive industries and processing and assembling capacity. In the future, more enterprises will be transferred inland along the main lines such as golden waterway and railway.

Many years ago, some experts suggested that instead of attracting large numbers of labor force from the inland areas to the coastal areas, it would be better to move the factories to the mainland and send jobs to areas rich in labour resources, so that the employment opportunities of the local people could be improved and their personal development opportunities could be achieved. However, in this process, the inland area can not have the mentality of "waiting for employment opportunities". We should actively invest resources to improve the quality of local labor force, so that employment opportunities can be entered and retained.

Industrial transfer is not to transfer backward production capacity, but to integrate with industrial upgrading. In many parts of the Midwest, the environment is fragile, so it is impossible to take the old road of "pollution first and post governance". Coastal industrial transfer needs to be combined with the development of local characteristic industries. For example, in the western region, the construction of coal and modern coal chemical industry should be promoted, hydropower development in the southwest and wind power development in the north.

At the same time, attention should also be paid to the balance of economic structure in the central and western industries transferred to the region, rather than one-sided expansion of a few industries with local resources, costs and location advantages, so as to avoid the emergence of new regional and structural labor bodies, and at the same time promote the upgrading of the consumption ability of the central and western regions, and promote the digestion of finished products in situ.

To a certain extent, industrial transfer is the process of optimizing industrial layout. In the future, our country should stride across the "middle income trap". Coastal economy needs to play a leading role, realize the development of factor driven innovation, develop high-end manufacturing and high-end service industries, compete with developed countries, and the central and western regions need to undertake the coastal industrial transfer and combine the advantages of local resources to accelerate the industrialization process and narrow the gap with the coastal areas. This will form an industrial gradient development mode, which will undoubtedly greatly enhance the economic development in China.