Dongguan Gradually Gets Rid Of The "World Factory" And Initially Realizes Pformation And Upgrading.

< p > a well-known international media recently published a report entitled "world factory myth shattering Dongguan pformation and affecting China", which attracted the attention of domestic public opinion.

The article focuses on the achievements and problems of Dongguan a href= "//www.sjfzxm.com/news/index_c.asp" > pformation and upgrading < /a >, and holds that Dongguan has been affected by factors such as shrinking export market, rising raw material and labor costs and RMB appreciation in recent years. The profits of enterprises have been declining and factories have been evacuated. The myth of "world factory" is being shattered.

The article also quoted companies as saying that if the pformation and upgrading failed, Dongguan could become a "empty city".

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< p > however, according to the reporter's investigation, the real Dongguan is not so.

Over the past few years, local pformation and upgrading has been getting rid of over reliance on foreign capital and entering the new stage of "a href=" //www.sjfzxm.com/news/index_c.asp "double wheel drive /a".

A number of data released last week show that Dongguan's GDP growth rate is expected to reach 9.7% in 2013, and Dongguan's economy, which has been in a low position, has achieved steady and rapid development.

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< p > the short board made in Dongguan has been revealed after the 2008 financial crisis.

When the economy in Europe and the United States was in a downturn, the export oriented economy that Dongguan depended on was suddenly flagging, the foreign market development was weak, and the domestic market lacked cultivation.

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< p > industrial structure adjustment and pformation and upgrading have become the main keynote of Dongguan's economy since then.

Dongguan took the lead in exploring the pformation mode of material processing enterprises on the spot and pforming them into three funded enterprises in the whole province, so that the pformation of the processing enterprises was accelerated obviously.

Over the past few years, nearly 60% processing trade enterprises in Dongguan have successfully pformed, and the proportion of export processing enterprises has dropped from 37.1% in 2008 to 14.7% in 2012.

The Dongguan Municipal Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation Bureau has said that the pformation and upgrading of Dongguan enterprises has been consolidating and the quality of development has been continuously improved.

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< p > at present, there are 1.2 foreign-funded enterprises in Dongguan, close to 8 of the number of foreign-funded enterprises before the financial crisis.

It is worth noting that with the gradual deepening of pformation and upgrading, a number of foundry enterprises that produce low value-added products have been eliminated, while the number of high-tech enterprises has significantly improved.

Data show that at present, there are more than 4000 science and technology enterprises in Dongguan, and the total number of state-level high-tech enterprises and provincial private technology enterprises reaches 610 and 1080 respectively.

In 2013, the provincial high and new technology enterprises found that the number of Dongguan enterprises exceeded Guangfo, ranked second in the province.

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< p > it is also worth noting that in order to optimize the business environment, Dongguan took the lead in exploring the business registration reform in the national level cities, lowered the threshold for market entry, vigorously cut down the examination and approval matters, and released the obvious reform bonus.

This year alone, Dongguan has added 106 thousand new market players, an increase of 21.4%, of which 32 thousand new registered enterprises, an increase of 34%.

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< p > as for factories to evacuate Dongguan, a senior Taiwanese footwear manufacturer said that due to the rising labor costs in Dongguan, there was indeed a trend of shoe companies moving to Southeast Asia in the past few years, but now they have not. Some of the relocation enterprises have even moved back to Dongguan.

The reason lies in the low efficiency of labor and the imperfect matching of industries.

Huajian group, China's largest female shoe manufacturer, has closed its factory in Vietnam some years ago.

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< p > > a href= "//www.sjfzxm.com/news/index_p.asp" > Dongguan < /a > is also opening up new markets.

In July this year, Dongguan enterprises appeared in South America, and in Argentina, Brazil and other countries, "Dongguan cyclone".

At present, the Brazil China Trade Promotion Association has settled its headquarters in Dongguan. After the completion of the project, it will expand the import and sales business of South American products in addition to handling the procurement business, and expects to achieve annual sales of 1 billion to 2 billion yuan.

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< p > data show that as of October 31st, there were 141 overseas investment enterprises in Dongguan, involving a total investment of US $323 million 760 thousand.

Next, Dongguan will support hundreds of quality enterprises to implement the strategy of going global and open up emerging markets such as ASEAN, South Africa and the Middle East.

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< p > the relevant departments in Dongguan believe that with the accelerating pace of domestic and foreign markets, Dongguan will gradually get rid of the high dependence on the external demand market and step out of a new pattern of internal and external development.

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