Today from shenzhen Customs was informed that the first two months of this year, the textile and garment export at Shenzhen port to accelerate recovery. According to statistics, in 2010 the first 2 months, via Shenzhen Port textile and apparel (including textiles, fabrics and yarns and garments and clothing accessories) exported 3.33 billion U.S. dollars, compared with 48.1% same period last year.

According to report, in 2009 china’s textile and garment industry, technological improvements and efficiency effects of downsizing significantly, moderate expansionary fiscal policies are conducive to business transformation to accelerate the pace of adjustment of the export tax rebate rate increase for the latter part of the accumulated repeatedly play a role in promoting recovery in exports. In January 2010 China’s manufacturing purchasing managers index showed that export orders index was 53.2%, up by 0.6 percentage points from the previous month, of which, garments manufacturing sector PMI index remained above 50%, exports to the good trend is expected to further maintenance, coupled with January 1 this year, the China – ASEAN Free Trade Area fully operational, with the major countries of ASEAN imports of textile products from China’s overall tax rate significantly lower, “the textile industry to restructure and revitalize the planning” in the export strategy of market diversification policy has been further implement to drive this year, textile and clothing exports via Shenzhen Port to accelerate recovery.

Insiders pointed out that, while the external market demand is gradually warmed up, but the cost pressures facing the textile and garment industry is growing. Textile and apparel industry is labor-intensive industries, require large amounts of labor resources, but with a sound social security system and the mainland to improve the treatment of second and third line cities of labor, shortage of manpower in labor-intensive enterprises in Guangdong Province. Shenzhen City, “the fourth quarter of 2009, the labor market supply and demand situation analysis” shows that the city’s demand for labor in the fourth quarter of last year, the number reached 1.944 million, the number of 1.125 million job-seekers, employment gap was 81.9 million, the PRD employment gap more than 2 million. Among them, textile and garment workers, mostly concentrated in the Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Chongqing and Sichuan, in the wake of these regional development, after the end of this year’s Spring Festival, many workers choose to stay at home or other higher income jobs in the trade, leading to the phenomenon of increasing employment is difficult.

This Shenzhen Customs proposed: We should further implement the “plan to revitalize the textile industry to adjust,” actively guide the enterprises to speed up structural adjustment, raise the industry’s profit margins to ease the upward pressure on costs; while strengthening the financing of small and medium enterprises and other preferential policies to support efforts to promote the product structure pluralism, to enhance the overall competitiveness of products; should also strengthen the monitoring of textile and clothing exports warning, pay close attention to the important trading countries and regions, the test releases and access system for the enterprise implementation of the strategy of going out and also need to examine the local economic and political situation and avoid making mistakes in investment decisions.