Affected By Many Factors, The PRD Shoe Export Volume Increased In May.

"Take boots as an example. Last year, the labor cost of a pair of shoes was 20 yuan, which has risen to 30 yuan this year.

The cost is increased and the selling price has increased by about 20%.

Yang Junsheng, chairman of Guangzhou Shengji footwear industry, has revealed the current state of the industry.

"The export average price has increased, but the added value of exports still needs further improvement."

Customs officers said that in the 1~5 month of this year, the Pearl River Delta exported 940 million pairs of shoes, down 25.7%.

Guangdong exported 1 billion 350 million pairs of shoes, 15.5% lower than the same period last year (the same below), and the export value was $3 billion 970 million, an increase of 9.4%.

Due to the continuous appreciation of RMB, the rapid rise of labor costs and the sharp rise of raw material prices, the Pearl River Delta footwear enterprises have also taken positive measures to improve product quality and added value. Therefore, the average export price of footwear exported to the Pearl River Delta region has shown a great growth this year.

It is reported that since 2007, under the multiple attack of factors such as the export tax rebate reduction and processing trade policy adjustment, the continuous appreciation of RMB, the rapid rise in labor costs and the increasingly fierce competition in the footwear industry, a number of shoe factories with insufficient internal force began to shift to areas outside the three corners of the Pearl River or withdraw from the shoemaking industry.

In the 1~5 months of this year, there were 2428 footwear export enterprises in the Pearl River Delta region, a sharp decrease of 2331 over the same period last year. Nearly half of the PRD footwear export enterprises have no export performance this year.