National ** representative calls for policies to support garment industry

Editor's note: "Transition is not a career change, upgrading is not abandonment, and labor-intensive industries need state policy support." Representative Gao Dekang, representative from China, and Bosideng Group, expressed to the media that they need policies to support the apparel industry. It is understood that last year Bosideng spent 300 million yuan. *** Purchased a building near Oxford Street in London, England, and plans to open a flagship store for seasonal products including menswear and down apparel before the London Olympics this year, and set up the company’s European headquarters.

Gao Dekang said: "As the country's industrial restructuring accelerates, and the appreciation of *** to a certain extent, some textile and apparel companies have no profit margins, they can only opt out of the export market; and those who advance the layout, and actively improve product quality, create their own brand Enterprises will gain greater room for development."

As the largest down apparel manufacturer in China, Bosideng’s major background in seeking government support through this opportunity is that, as the economic structure continues to adjust, the apparel industry faces rising prices of raw and auxiliary materials, *** appreciation, and rising labor costs. Difficulty, development is difficult. Entering the 2012 foreign trade order season, more orders were transferred to low-cost peripheral countries such as Bangladesh and Indonesia, which made the domestic apparel industry very "injured."

In fact, for the textile and apparel companies how to return to the fast-growing track, the industry has reached a consensus: we must change the model based on cost-oriented competition and price competition, shift to relying on the increase in value-added products in the international market to win new competitive advantage.

This year’s Central Economic Work Conference and the “Government Work Report” both mentioned supporting labor-intensive industries, which gave Gao Dekang a glimmer of hope. Gao Dekang stated that he hopes that the government can give special support to the research and development of key technologies required by labor-intensive enterprises, relax and simplify the conditions and approval procedures, set up special preferential policies to promote the development of labor-intensive enterprises, and promote labor. Intensive companies are directly involved in financial markets.

"Now many companies are eager to pursue lucrative profits and abandon the industry to investment or even speculative industries, which is very short-sighted. Only by relying on independent innovation, and constantly creating core competitiveness, can companies achieve real long-term development," said Gao Dekang. . Many enterprises understand “transformation and upgrading” as “transition upgrades” and blindly pursue profiteering, which to a certain extent has inhibited the investment in industrial innovation and the development of high-tech industries.