Recently, the novel coronavirus pneumonia epidemic has swept across the country, and the confirmed cases updated every day always remind us of the danger of this epidemic. The most responsible thing for society, families, and individuals right now is to stay at home and reduce going out, gatherings, etc. The central and local governments have also issued corresponding policies to postpone the Spring Festival holiday in order to postpone the post-holiday return peak and reduce the flow of people, thereby achieving the purpose of controlling the spread of the epidemic.
In response to the national call, many companies have begun to implement policies to postpone the start of construction. , which also includes our textile industry. Because the textile industry has a large demand for labor and the workers come from all over the country, it is urgent to postpone the start of work to reduce the risk of epidemic spread. However, for textile people who have not yet emerged from the textile off-season in 2019, the start of the entire industry chain was delayed in early 2020, which may extend the textile off-season to some extent, which means that the textile winter may last longer than imagined. , even more difficult.
Factory production capacity decreases and costs increase
In previous years, the average reporting time for workers in textile factories was around the eighth day of the Lunar New Year, while the production capacity After a week of preparation, it will be basically restored around the fifteenth day of the first lunar month. This year, most areas require resumption of work and business around the 15th day of the first lunar month. Coupled with the necessary preparations, the restoration of factory production capacity takes about a week compared to previous years. This is still based on the current epidemic situation, and it may be based on the epidemic in the future. Adjust to changes.
There are 52 weeks in a year, late One week is equivalent to reducing production time by nearly 2%. For most factories, rent, equipment depreciation, etc. will not be exempted for a week. Invisibly, the cost of production of the enterprise is rising. In addition, the early inventory and raw material preparation also need to be kept in the warehouse for at least one week, and the speed of capital withdrawal is also decreasing.
Customer orders shift, demand drops
As the world’s largest textile producer, my country’s textile industry has an absolutely huge impact on delayed production. . Usually, after textile factories limit or suspend production due to various reasons, there will usually be orders bursting and production backlogs. However, many textile orders on the market this year may not have time to wait for the textile industry to resume production. Some customers will definitely look for alternative production locations internationally, especially foreign trade customers.
In the past year, due to the overall downturn in the global economic situation and the Sino-US trade friction Due to various factors, our foreign trade orders are generally lacking. The delayed start of factories caused by the pneumonia epidemic in early 2020 will undoubtedly make things worse. The traditional textile peak season production time in March and April will be squeezed, and some orders will not be completed in time. Foreign trade orders will be transferred to Southeast Asia and other countries capable of producing textiles. . Textile companies may experience reduced orders and insufficient operating rates after starting production.
And once some customers adapt to foreign textile products , even if the epidemic is over, we may not place any more domestic orders. This impact is not a short-term order reduction, but a real loss of customers.
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The delayed start of textile factories will directly affect the workers. Normally, it would be a good thing to delay the start of work and extend the rest time, but for ordinary textile workers, it is not. Because they basically don’t have paid breaks, especially during the Spring Festival, they don’t get any income for more than a month’s leave.
And even if the factory starts operating this year, there is a high probability that it will continue the off-season of 2019, and orders will The shortage and lower operating rate will inevitably lead to a reduction in the number of workers, and it may become more difficult for ordinary workers to find jobs. When workers’ incomes decrease and jobs are difficult to find, they will return to their hometowns or change careers. In the long run, this will lead to labor shortages in the textile market. When the textile market picks up and orders increase, it may affect the development of textile .
The postponement of the start-up time of textile factories has directly affected the issuance of customer orders. The reduction of orders and the reduction of production time have affected workers’ income, and changes in the employment situation have also affected Will have a negative impact on factory production.
The impact of this epidemic on our textile industry is obvious, but when the epidemic is over, there will be a rebound in demand in the market, and a large number of orders will revitalize the entire textile industry. industrial chain. Of course, what we urgently need to do now, no matter where we are or in what industry, is to reduce mobility and fight the epidemic together.
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