2012 leather industry can achieve steady development

Recently, the China Leather Association organized a press conference on the annual economic operation of China's leather industry. A series of data released by it showed that the growth rate of a series of indicators in China's leather industry slowed down last year, but it was generally stable.

This year, China's leather industry is facing rising costs, falling export orders, frequent trade frictions, business model constraints, increased environmental pressures, rising financing costs, excessive corporate taxation, and difficult overseas market expansion. Striving for development.

Production growth slowed in 2011

According to the data released by the conference, the growth rate of China's leather, fur and products industry slowed down in 2011, but the improvement of the efficiency indicators showed that the structural adjustment of the industry was steadily advanced, and the transformation and upgrading received practical results. The industry has performed well throughout the year, production has grown steadily, and the benefits of brand enterprises have been outstanding. The growth rate of major economic indicators showed a slowdown, with the growth rate of the three indicators of output value, profit and import and export all slowing down.

In 2011, China's leather, fur and products industry achieved a total industrial output value of 857.9 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 25.1%, and the growth rate slowed by 1.8 percentage points;

Affected by factors such as weak demand in the international market, rising raw material prices, rising labor costs, and appreciation of the renminbi, profit growth slowed down. The total profit was 58.8 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 29.3%, slowing down by 9.3 percentage points; the sales profit rate was 7.1%, up 0.3 percentage points year-on-year; the export orientation of China's leather industry was already lower than when the 2008 financial crisis broke out, but externally Dependence is still high. In 2011, China's exports of leather, fur and products reached US$65.7 billion, a year-on-year increase of 22.0%. Imports reached 7.4 billion US dollars, an increase of 20.4%. The surplus was 58.3 billion U.S. dollars, a year-on-year increase of 22.25%, accounting for 37.61% of China’s total trade surplus. The export of leather, fur and products in China is mainly based on general trade, and the proportion is increasing, and the growth rate exceeds the average level. In 2011, China's general trade in leather, fur and products accounted for 67.2% of the total exports of leather, fur and products, up 4.7 percentage points over the previous year, up 31.2% year-on-year; processing trade exports accounted for 24.3%, down 3.9 from the previous year. Percentage point, an increase of 5.1%.

Foreign trade is blocked, domestic sales are popular, and the growth of the industry is indispensable. The industry's production and sales rate is high, reaching 97.9%. Among them, the proportion of domestic sales value to sales value increased continuously, from 49% in 2005 to 71.8% in 2011.

Strong performance in featured areas

As far as enterprises are concerned, small enterprises accounted for the highest share of total output value, reaching 45.5%, and the fastest growth rate was 33.6%. However, the profit margin of large enterprises is the highest, at 12.2%, and the profit margin of SMEs is lower than the industry average.

As far as the region is concerned, the eastern special zone is still the mainstay of the industry development, and the central and western regions (especially the central region) are rapidly emerging. The total industrial output value of the eastern region was 687.7 billion yuan, up 20.7% year-on-year, accounting for 80.2%; the central region grew by 48.3%, accounting for 14.3%; the western region grew by 42.5%, accounting for 5.5%. Regardless of the eastern or central and western regions, the characteristic areas have contributed. The 24 featured areas in the professional market in terms of area, number of enterprises and transaction volume increased significantly year-on-year, achieving a total sales income of 336.1 billion yuan, an increase of 18.1%.

The acceleration of the transformation of the industry from the central and eastern regions to the west, especially in Hebei, Jiangxi, Anhui, Sichuan, Chongqing and other provinces and cities, has achieved a rapid development of “from scratch” and will provide a broad space for the sustainable development of the leather industry. And become an important support to ensure the balanced operation of the leather industry.

"Index" shows steady

In August 2011, China Leather Industry Association and China Light Industry Information Center formed a strategic partnership to jointly carry out the trial operation of the “China Light Leather Boom Index”. It is intended to respond to the changing economic environment, comprehensively quantify the overall operating trend of the industry, and help enterprises to make effective product and market decisions.

At the press conference, the “China Light Leather Boom Index” also met with the public for the first time. The index system consists of an overall operating prosperity index and five classification prosperity indices, with output value, sales, exports, assets, and profits as the classification index. The index is based on the dynamic real-time data of the National Bureau of Statistics and the General Administration of Customs. It is based on the Chinese light industry economic operation and forecasting and early warning system. It shows the development trend of the leather industry from multiple angles.

In 2011, the overall performance of China Light Leather's prosperity index was stable, and all six indexes were in stable operation. In March of this year, the light and light leather prosperity index was 104.71, which was mild and moderate.

Striving for stability in 2012

Since the second half of 2011, the fluctuations in the prices of raw and auxiliary materials, the tightening of monetary policy, the appreciation of the RMB exchange rate, and the increase in labor costs have gradually emerged. The growth rate of the leather industry has declined and the economy has been operating in the first quarter of this year. It has appeared.

In the first quarter of this year, the overall operating speed of China's leather and footwear industry has slowed down. Among them, the above-scale enterprises have completed a total industrial output value of 220.8 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 20.5%, down 5.2 percentage points from the end of 2011; the industry exports 14.18 billion US dollars, an increase of only 1.13%, down 20.67 percentage points from the end of 2011; From January to February, the total profit of the whole industry was 7.5 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 23.4%, down 5.9 percentage points from the end of 2011.

The China Leather Association said that the data remained stable overall, but faced with many problems such as shrinking international market, slowing domestic market and rising production costs, the situation in the first half of the year was not optimistic. Accelerating structural adjustment and transformation and upgrading, striving for national policy support, reducing operational risks, and promoting steady economic growth are an arduous task facing the leather industry.

Internationally, the financial crisis and the European debt crisis are still spreading. The economic recovery of developed countries is insufficient, the unemployment rate is high, the employment structure is deteriorating, and consumer confidence is low. The problems have not been effectively resolved, which has lowered the demand of the international market.

This year China's GDP growth target is lowered to 7.5%, and consumption growth is bound to be affected. The inflationary pressures coexist for a long time. With the rise of external oil and other commodities, the rebound of prices may occur at any time. The pressure brought by rising raw material costs is difficult to alleviate in a short period of time; it is difficult to recruit, difficult to retain, etc. It shows a rigid upward trend, which has become an important factor restricting the development of enterprises; especially the survival environment of small and medium-sized enterprises is still not optimistic, export processing enterprises are more difficult, financing difficulties, order instability, exchange rate risks and other factors continue to squeeze enterprises Living space, the industry is facing a new round of reshuffle.

Despite the tougher problems, under the control of the state, the leather industry has continued to improve its ability to resist risks and labor productivity through structural adjustment and transformation and upgrading, and the industry can maintain steady development. In 2012, China’s macroeconomic policy adhered to “stable progress” and continued to implement a proactive fiscal policy and a prudent monetary policy. The fiscal policy puts more emphasis on optimizing the expenditure structure, structural tax cuts and tax reform, and the energy of the domestic market will be further released. The corporate financing environment is still tight, but it is expected to improve.

At the press conference, experts at the conference said that from the aspects of environmental protection, brand, technology, standards, discourse rights and intellectual property protection, it is to improve the competitiveness of China's leather industry and ensure that China has leapt from a leather country to a leather country and realize China's leather industry. The only rule of economic benign operation.