Threading, sewing, combining, packing...
On May 8, the reporter walked into the production workshop of Hengtaiyuan Garment Co., Ltd. in Guanzhou Town and Hezhou Community, Yanhe Autonomous County, Guizhou Province. More than 140 workers were busy making down jackets. In order to ensure that the down jackets could be exported on time this month, the company is working With full power to catch production and rush orders, it has shown a good momentum of vigorous development.
"Our garment factory is now rushing to make orders for down jackets. About 40,000 to 50,000 pieces are produced in a month, all of which are exported to the United States. The more than 1,300 boxes of clothes behind me are about to be shipped." Heng, Yanhe Autonomous County Fu Fen, chairman of Taiyuan Garment Co., Ltd.
It is understood that Hengtaiyuan Garment Co., Ltd. is a garment enterprise specializing in garment design, development, processing, sales, and import and export trade. It is located in the resettlement site of Hezhou Community, Guanzhou Town, covering an area of 10,000 square meters and a production workshop area of more than 6,000 square meters.
In an embroidery poverty alleviation workshop in Puwang Town, Yinan County, Linyi City, Shandong Province, workers are producing textiles for export to the United States. At present, the company's overseas orders have been placed in August.
According to China News Agency: China Textile Import and Export Chamber of Commerce disclosed on the 9th that from January to April this year, the national textile and garment export was 95.84 billion US dollars, an increase of 8.6% year-on-year, a decrease of 2.6 percentage points from the export growth rate in the first quarter. Among them, textile exports were 48.82 billion US dollars, an increase of 11.1% year-on-year; apparel exports were 47.02 billion US dollars, a year-on-year increase of 6.2%.
In April, China's textile and apparel exports reached US$23.59 billion, a month-on-month increase of 7.0% and a year-on-year increase of 1.6%, showing strong resilience. Among them, textile exports were 12.26 billion US dollars, an increase of 0.9% year-on-year; apparel exports were 11.33 billion US dollars, a year-on-year increase of 2.4%, but the growth rate dropped by 8.5 percentage points from the previous month.
According to reports, since the second quarter, China's textile and garment industry has been affected by the epidemic in many places, and foreign trade has been under greater downward pressure. Only from the export performance in April, under the influence of the upgrading of epidemic prevention and control measures in Shanghai and surrounding areas, the obstruction of production and logistics, and the resumption of work and orders in Southeast Asian countries, although China's textile and apparel exports still maintained growth, the growth rate slowed down. In April, the growth rate of China's textile and apparel exports (up 1.6% in US dollars) fell 15.2 percentage points from March.
Looking ahead, China will increase macro policy adjustment, stabilize market players, and implement a package of relief and assistance policies for industries, small, medium and micro enterprises and individual industrial and commercial households severely affected by the epidemic. These measures will help the textile industry in the next stage. Provide support for the development of foreign trade.