The number of confirmed cases of new coronavirus pneumonia has soared to more than 24,000 in recent days. The urgency of the epidemic has far exceeded everyone’s expectations. The resumption of work and school in various regions has been greatly affected. Our textile industry, which is densely populated with workers, is the first to bear the brunt. Of course, the postponement of the start of work is already expected, but the continuous postponement of the start of work is still a bit unexpected.
Postpone the start of construction
The opening time of the textile industry in Shengze area has been postponed from February 10, announced not long ago, to February 20, 10 days later. However, this time is still based on the current development of the epidemic. Once the epidemic situation changes later, it is impossible for the start time to change again. After canceling the opening date originally scheduled for February 6, Guangdong’s Zhongda Textile Market directly postponed the opening of the market “indefinitely”.
There is a specific start time, and there is still hope. However, if it is postponed indefinitely and it still happens in the Zhongda Textile Market, it will have a negative impact on the national textile industry. The industry is a blow.
The vast Zhongda Textile Business District covers an area of approximately 3 million square meters m, covering 59 sub-markets, 23,000 shops, more than 100,000 direct employees, more than 2 million people in related industries, and an estimated annual transaction volume of more than 200 billion yuan. Such “huge” data has made everyone feel the importance of this market to the national textile industry.
The current start date given by Zhongda Textile Market is “unlimited”, but you must not have any illusions: they will start earlier than other textile markets or at the same time. There are more than 150,000 migrant workers in the Zhongda Textile Business District, and most of these people are from Hubei, which is the area where the pneumonia epidemic is most severe. All people coming from the place where the epidemic occurred will be quarantined for 14 days. observe. Therefore, the opening time of Zhongda Textile Market will be later than any other textile market in the country.
Textile boss: The order from Guangdong is gone
The fabrics for Guangdong Zhongda Textile Market come from all over the country. As the national textile market is in a state of suspension of production, the impact of Zhongda’s suspension of production is not apparent. However, the start date of Zhongda Textile Market will definitely be later than other textile markets for a long time, which will make many textile people who rely on Zhongda fabric orders miserable.
Take Shengze area as an example. Many chemical fiber fabrics in the Zhongda market come from Shengze area, and there are even many larger companies. There are offices, warehouses, etc. in Shengze area. Their annual demand for cloth is tens of millions of meters, and their turnover is hundreds of millions or billions of yuan.
More importantly, the fabric products they involve are mostly concentrated in mid- to low-end fabrics such as polyester taffeta, pongee, and Shumei silk. We must know that these fabrics are varieties with serious overcapacity and surplus production. Once orders from Guangdong are reduced, the imbalance between supply and demand of these conventional fabrics will inevitably be exacerbated.
Clothing customers: The low-priced fabrics from Guangdong are gone
Guangdong Zhongda Textile Business District not only needs to purchase fabrics from various places, but more importantly, it needs to sell these fabrics. In other words, Guangdong Zhongda Market is actually a fabric distribution center. Because Zhongda is larger in size and can place larger orders for fabrics, it has more say in fabric price negotiations and can often obtain fabrics at lower prices. However, at the same time, their fabric inventory far exceeds that of the ordinary textile market. .
According to market research, most of the current start-up times for terminal apparel customers are on February 10, and there is a “long time” between the start-up time of Zhongda and the indefinite start-up time. “The hollow period. Those textile merchants with fabric inventory will be completely blocked. They have goods and orders but cannot ship them. The mid-to-large and low-price fabrics that customers yearn for may not be available at all in a short period of time. If customers shift to certain higher-priced textile markets, it will even affect the terminal clothing sales price in the long run.
The textile market has been in bad shape in recent years, and this year’s pneumonia epidemic can be said to be even worse. This time, Zhongda Textile Market has no choice but to postpone the start of construction “indefinitely”, which not only simply affects the economic income of the entire textile market, but also a blow to the future confidence of textile people.
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