Raw Cotton Prices Rose Three Times &Nbsp; Qingdao Textile Industry Is Facing "Extremely Cold".

Despite the controversy over the "extremely cold year", the fact that textile prices are jumping is an indisputable fact. From underwear, footwear to autumn and winter clothing, from bedclothes to sofa curtains, a "crazy disease" has begun to spread in all areas related to the word "textile".

Gradually, the traced eyes are on the cotton producing area, which seems to be the main culprit of this "group price increase syndrome".

Indeed, the purchase price of seed cotton has increased from less than 2 yuan per catty last year to 6.2 yuan per kilogram, or even higher.

It turned into a 25000 yuan per ton of goods, but when reporters visited several major cotton producing areas in the province, they found that the real driving force of the current price rise seems to be hidden in the deeper part.

Although the aura of "blue sky" has long been dim, the textile industry is undoubtedly an important part of Qingdao's industrial structure. Nearly 800 Textile Enterprises above Designated Size and numerous small and medium-sized textile enterprises create tens of billions of industrial value annually.

However, this year's cold wind has blown the textile industry of Qingdao too early. The first adverse reaction is small and medium-sized enterprises, followed by large cotton mills also appeared a "heavy cold."

"Bottom of the box" sells better than new ones.

In October 19th, when the reporter entered the City South District love shopping plaza, it was already a "chill". Compared with the same period last year, the new autumn and winter clothing had a collective price rise, and the increase was astonishing.

"The October was the best time for the autumn dress to be sold, this year.

The impact of this "Millennium cold" is much more than that.

Small and medium garment factories encounter "cloth cold"

Because of the rising price of cloth, Cui Xianzhe of Qingdao Sen Shan clothing company had to reduce production.

As a small garment processing factory in Chengyang, Cui Xianzhe has just pformed from a purely foreign trade processing enterprise to a domestic garment enterprise in the past few years, and also owns his own clothing brand.

For this year's fabric prices, Cui Xianzhe said he was more terrified than the economic crisis of 2008.

"Although the economic crisis in 2008 has been sluggish, my factory has not stopped production, and received fewer foreign orders, but earning a single piece of money can make me pay a single loss this year."

Cui Xianzhe told reporters that the small and medium-sized garment processing enterprises in Qingdao mainly rely on the support from the southern cloth. The influence of local finished cloth can basically be ignored. Therefore, there is no say in the pricing of raw materials, and it can only be admissive.

"This year's fabric prices are too scary, many processing plants have not developed new models, but keep the production of old clothes last year with stock cloth, and some simply let workers shift production, and even more serious or even stop production and business."

Cui Xianzhe said that for the price of raw materials, garment factories bear the role of buffer zones, so the price pressures they bear are far greater than those of retail terminals.

Qingdao has a large number of large cotton mills, which can produce large quantities of grey cloth, but the processing capacity of finished products is dwarfed. For the breakpoint of this industry chain, the head of a medium-sized garment processing plant in Chengyang is deeply impressed by the fact that because of the excessive price increase of the finished cloth, his factory now only accepts scattered orders, and he can only feel powerless now for the large orders that require hundreds of tons of finished cloth.

"A long time ago, the textile industry in Qingdao took the road of overall development of textile printing and dyeing, but now printing and dyeing has become a weakness in Qingdao's textile industry."

Gou manager said that the grey cloth produced by several large cotton mills in Qingdao is basically exported or exported to the outside world. After being processed, the finished cloth was sold back to Qingdao at a price of several times the price of grey cloth, which resulted in huge internal logistics consumption. It is a short board for the development of Qingdao's textile industry. "Now my finished products are mainly from the south, such as Jiangsu and Nantong. They basically have mastered the circulation of cloth in China."

For the domestic textile industry that once was involved, Gou manager said that he was afraid to contact him now. "Compared with the price rise of cotton, the price rise of finished cloth is even more serious."

The small home textile factory only has the "bottom card".

In October 19th, only 1.2 tons of cotton were left in the warehouse of Zhengyi textile mill in Qingdao. They were the last "cards" of the small home textile mill.

"Now I dare not start work. If I use the last cotton, I will go to the top."

Mr. Wang, director of the plant, told reporters that he had spent a lifetime dealing with cotton and did not expect cotton to rise to this point today.

Mr. Wang, who worked as a leader in a large cotton factory in Qingdao a few years ago, is very familiar with the development of Qingdao's textile industry.

"They used to sell cotton for cotton, but now they are upside down."

Wang recalled that until the 80s of last century, Shandong is still one of the main cotton producing areas in the country. From Jiaozhou, Pingdu to Gaomi, Zibo, from Binzhou to Dongying and Heze, white cotton fields can be seen everywhere. With the change of the rural industrial structure, cotton prices continue to be weak. The cotton growing areas in various areas of Shandong are eaten up by economic crops, industrial parks, residential buildings and development zones. Pingda and Gaomi, the two cotton producing counties in the past, do not see a cotton field nowadays.

Nevertheless, the textile industry has never seen such a "cotton shortage" phenomenon this year, and the price of cotton has maintained a relatively stable state.

The first price earthquake occurred in 2008. Under the influence of the global economic crisis, cotton prices had a big decline in that year. The purchase price of seed cotton fell to 1 yuan per catty, which severely dampened the enthusiasm of cotton growers, which also laid the root of the "cotton shortage" after two years.

"Last year, I set a price once a month with several fixed cotton suppliers, and then became a weekly fixed price. Now it's just a phone call in the morning and a phone call in the afternoon."

Mr. Wang told reporters that thanks to the industry sensitivity that he had trained for many years, he bought 100 tons of cotton ahead of schedule before the cotton price has risen this year. Only one home textile mill can be maintained until now, but this "family base" has gradually been used up. "If cotton prices do not go back again, I have to go out of the last resort."

Mr. Wang told reporters that unlike the clothing industry, the home textile industry is more directly affected by cotton, so the pressure of the price is even greater. The large factories can withstand the risk of small factories.

Large cotton mills mostly use "outer cotton".

As Mr. Wang has said, the situation of individual large cotton mills in the island city is not as bleak as the outside imagination, but it is also faced with the test of tight encirclement.

In October 19th, the reporter went to an interview with a large cotton mill in Qingdao and heard the rumble of spinning wheels in the workshop.

Entering the front spinning workshop of the factory, it is a busy scene. A bundle of cotton is first knitted into cotton knits, then woven into cotton yarn, and then repeated two shares and one magic. The final product is a white cloth with a shaft.

"The cotton price increases this year will have an impact on us, but we believe we can go ahead."

Gu Jun, director of the trade division of the plant, told reporters that at present, the cotton stocks in the factory are indeed tight, but it can still maintain normal operation for a period of time. But for specific inventories, Gu director said that it is inconvenient to disclose business secrets.

But from the clues of production links, we can still see the serious impact of "cotton shortage" on this large cotton mill.

In a spinning workshop, the reporter saw that two large machines were breaking up the lint of the stacks and carrying out preliminary treatment. But the other two machines in the same workshop were in a state of shutdown. In the spinning workshop, the reporters saw the same phenomenon, and nearly half of the automatic spinning machines did not start.

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In a shed that handles waste cotton, the reporter saw a pile of cottonseeds and impurities that were piled up from lint. A worker here told reporters that before such a waste cotton was pulled down by the farmer to compost it. Now many small factories are scrambling to collect these waste cotton, and pull back and work again to fill in the pillows.

And every workshop, reporters saw women workers responsible for cleaning the ground cotton wadding, and then concentrated storage.

In addition, in a processing workshop, the reporter also saw an assessment form, which clearly listed the saving standards of each process, and strictly controlled the waste of cotton in the whole process.

Light "throttling" is not enough, and more importantly, open source.

A Cui surnamed engineer told reporters that most of the cotton used in the factory now relies on imports, mainly from the United States and Canada, and cotton in the province is very small.

The statistics of Qingdao customs also confirm the importance of outer cotton to these large cotton mills.

According to statistics, in the first 7 months of this year, Shandong Port imported 739 thousand tons of cotton, an increase of 65.1% over the same period last year, and the average import price was 1776 US dollars per ton, up 39%.

To a certain extent, if there is no advantage in the port city and the lack of "foreign aid", the large cotton mill will also face the dilemma of cooking without rice.