Thirty Years Of World Famous Shoe Manufacturing In South China Sea

In June this year, nearly 20 enterprises in the sea held a delegation to attend the exhibition of Guangzhou international footwear, leather and industrial equipment.

"It was too simple to run a shoe factory at that time, ten thousand or twenty thousand pieces would be enough, a sewing machine would be more than 1600 yuan, and a few pieces of wood would be able to knock, and then buy a box of leather to come back and start work."

He Ruhai, a native born in the past 60 years, began to set foot in the footwear industry in 1985. He once served as the director of Verbatim shoe factory in the prime of life. He witnessed the rise and fall of the shoe industry in the South China Sea in the past 30 years.

In 1980, 30 people from Ping Xi village, Ping Zhou, studied shoe making in Fangcun, Guangzhou, and soon returned to the first shoe factory, Ping Xi shoe factory, and then expanded to two factories and three factories.

He Ruhai said that following the rapid development of the spring breeze of reform and opening up, shoemaking enterprises flourish everywhere, and in the heyday, there are more than 200 shoe factories in Shan Ping Ping Xi Cun.

In addition to domestic sales, shoe factories also produce OEM products such as Adidas, red dragonfly and other famous brands.

"At that time, the shoe industry in the South China Sea has another feature, namely Taiwan funded enterprises and Hong Kong funded enterprises are pouring in to form the situation of letting local and foreign enterprises flourishing."

Lin Jianyi, Secretary General of the footwear industry association of South China Sea, said that in the 80s and 90s of last century, thanks to the policy support of "three to one subsidy", more than 100 Taiwan funded and Hong Kong footwear industry entered Ping Zhou and quickly promoted the rapid development of Ping Zhou shoe industry.

"At that time was purely hand-made, the entire industry chain has more than 1000 enterprises, a shoe enterprise can drive several industries to develop, such as printing, packaging, hardware, chemical glue."

By the end of the 90s, some of the shoe makers in Ping Chau and Guangzhou began to expand to the inner waters, making Lishui rapidly becoming a new place in the shoe industry.

The South China Sea has gradually formed the shoe industry map of "nangui City North Water".

Among them, the main production of leather shoes is women's shoes. Ping Zhou mainly produces men's shoes, and gradually formed a complete and mature industry chain of shoemaking machines and shoes.

At present, there are nearly 2000 shoe related enterprises in the South China Sea, including fashion shoes, shoes machines, shoes and electricity suppliers. The total annual output is about 120 million pairs of finished shoes, with a total scale of 1/5 of Guangdong's total annual production value of more than 10 billion yuan.

With the growth of local enterprises, the "migratory birds factory", such as Taiwan and Hong Kong funded enterprises, has been developing to Southeast Asia and other places due to the "three to one subsidy" policy support.

At present, there are only dozens of Hong Kong and Taiwan funded enterprises. "The rest are local shoe factories and localized shoe factories."

In the 60s and 70s of last century, the world's shoe making centers were developed in Europe and the United States and other developed countries. In 80s, they moved to countries and regions with relatively low manufacturing costs such as Japan, Taiwan, Korea and so on. In 90s, they moved to coastal areas such as Guangdong, Zhejiang and Wenzhou, where production costs were lower.

Since 2004, the domestic shoe industry has also seen the trend of "shifting East shoes to the west".

From 2007, the world

It has begun to shift to countries with lower labour costs, such as Vietnam and India.

Lin Jianyi said recently that the association visited enterprises and found that the production of this year was generally down by about 30% compared with the same period last year, and the decline of the finished footwear enterprises was serious.

Improvement has almost become the biggest burden for enterprises.

"The factory is sandwiched cake, workers wages rise, social welfare treatment has been required, the price of guest orders is declining.

Since the beginning of this year, the wages of workers have increased by 200 yuan, and the average wage has risen to 4000 yuan.

Gan Shaozhou, chairman of Foshan synchronized shoe industry technology Co., Ltd., counted out an account for reporters. According to the company's over 100 employees, the monthly wage increase has increased by more than 20 thousand yuan this year, and the company has more than 240 thousand yuan a year.

The company's sales last year were less than 20 million.

Despite rising wages, there is still a big gap in high-end talent.

"Even if I get a monthly salary of 20 thousand yuan, many people prefer to stay in Shenzhen with a monthly salary of only 15 thousand yuan.

Two or three Tsinghua doctors were recruited before they left.

They feel that in the two or three tier cities, there will be little room for future development. "

Guo Huazhong said that the problem of talent is the biggest problem at present.