Footwear Industry Has Become The Largest Pillar Industry In Jinjiang

Reporters learned from the relevant departments, 1-6 months, the footwear industry in Jinjiang achieved above scale industrial output value of 14 billion 949 million yuan, the current price increased by 39.7%%, continuing to exceed the textile and garment industry, and jumped to Jinjiang's largest pillar industry.

Since the beginning of this year, the footwear industry in Jinjiang has achieved rapid development through overcoming the adverse effects of RMB exchange rate appreciation, raw material prices, labor costs and capital shortage.

Scale output growth increased by 6.3 percentage points compared to the same period last year, accounting for 25.9%% of the total industrial output value above all scale and 3.3 percentage points higher than that of the same period last year.

At the same time, thanks to the promotion of export unit price, the export delivery value of footwear industry has also achieved a synchronous and rapid growth. In 1-6, the total export value of the footwear industry enterprises above Designated Size reached 3 billion 69 million yuan, an increase of 43.9%%.

Jinjiang inspection and Quarantine Bureau statistics show that in the first half of this year, Jinjiang exported a total of 241 million 200 thousand pairs of shoes and 803 million 120 thousand dollars worth of goods, down by 0.99%% and 11.62%% respectively compared with the same period last year, and the unit price of shoes exports was 3.33 US dollars / pairs, an increase of 12.88%% over the same period last year of 2.95 US dollars / double.

The data show that although the export volume has declined slightly, the export price has increased by more than 10%%, and the total amount has maintained a relatively large increase.

According to the analysis of relevant personages of Jinjiang Statistics Bureau, Jinjiang is only a small area of adjustment and pformation compared with the large number of shoe factories in Guangdong and Zhejiang. The Jinjiang footwear industry is still developing steadily. Besides the brand advantage and industrial chain advantage, the scale advantage of the footwear industry in Jinjiang is also the main factor to support the rapid development of the industry.

At present, the number of shoemaking enterprises in the statistical scale above 270 has reached Jinjiang. The industrial output value of the 1-6 month footwear industry exceeds 43 yuan, and the output value is 10 billion 385 million yuan, an increase of 52.8%%, which is far higher than the 25.4 yuan percentage increase in the total output value of over 100 billion yuan enterprises.