Xinjiang'S Textile And Apparel Trade Needs Industry Support

Xinjiang is rich in land and abundant in resources.

The sun on the top of the earth roasted everything on the ground. The dark skinned old man squatted in front of the warehouse and smoked in the shade.

"It has been closed, and in the afternoon, the customs staff will come and take a sample."

Lao Wang rose and walked in the middle of the 7 storage warehouses which he had leased. He was counting a bundle of goods that were waiting for sampling and loading.

Lao Wang's freight forwarder has been in Urumqi western region light industry base for more than 10 years.

The western region light industrial base is the two type of entry and exit port of the country, and the largest distributing center for the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region's border trade.

"These goods, including textiles, clothing and daily necessities, are basically goods in the coastal areas."

Lao Wang told reporters, "most of the frontier trade in Xinjiang are logistics freight forwarding companies, which only earn agency fees and freight charges.

Xinjiang

Lack of industry dependence

Due to its special geographical position, Xinjiang's border trade imports and exports occupy half of the proportion of Xinjiang's foreign trade, from 94 million 360 thousand US dollars in 1991 to 17 billion 642 million US dollars in 2008, accounting for 79.4% of the total import and export volume of the region, accounting for 57.1% of the total import and export volume of China's border trade.

However, the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, which is rich in land and abundant in resources, seldom has its own industry. "Compared with the coastal areas, our local industry is short and there are few enterprises engaged in production and processing."

A local foreign trade businessman told reporters.

Most of the foreign trade enterprises in the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region and BINGTUAN mainly take the agent's export of inland products and agent's customs declaration and tax refund business as the main way of operation. They only get a small amount of agency fees and tax rebates, though the export volume is very high, but the business efficiency is poor.

Because of fierce competition, they often lose money when they write off foreign exchange.

"Strong border trade leading enterprises are less, local product exports are relatively low, and the added value is also low.

Take the Construction Corps as an example, the self produced products of the BINGTUAN border trade are mainly agricultural products and resource-based and high energy consuming industrial primary products.

A local official told reporters, "it is difficult for Xinjiang to attract investment."

In Xinjiang, the distance between the city and the city is more than 500 kilometers, and the distance between the cities and counties under the jurisdiction is at least more than 100 kilometers.

"Time is spent on the road."

Lao Wang said.

The long traffic line has increased the pportation cost of enterprises.

Due to the tight traffic, Kazakhstan has poor capacity to relocate, which restricts the pportation of export commodities from border trade. Because of the fact that the surrounding countries do not allow our vehicles to load and return goods, they can only return empty cars and increase the pportation costs. At the same time, the pportation cost is unforeseeable and the international pport plan is often unable to meet, which not only restricts some exports, but also makes many import businesses difficult to operate or take greater risks.

"Our goods have been piled up for two months since April 25th and have not yet gone out."

Lao Wang complained.

"There are more port charges, slower customs clearance, and many infrastructure construction needs to be improved."

The official said.

Infrastructure and materials can be available, but the biggest problem in attracting investment is talent and industry matching.

Few young talents can take the initiative to enter Xinjiang.

Without complete industrial support, Xinjiang enterprises will be trapped in "isolated island".

Xinjiang is a large cotton producing area. The development of garment and textile industry has certain advantages. However, due to the fact that the matching printing and dyeing industry can not be introduced by high cost enterprises, Xinjiang can only serve as a raw material supplier for coastal textile and garment bases for many years.

There are many problems to be solved.

Many logistics and freight forwarding companies interviewed by reporters showed that some of the current policies do not tally with the actual situation in Xinjiang.

These companies are concerned about the issue of foreign exchange cancellation in the export trade.

Tourism shopping is a special trade mode in Xinjiang's border trade.

Logistics and freight forwarding companies often act as agents for export declarations, tax rebates and other businesses, rather than producers and traders who earn foreign exchange directly, but they have to bear the burden of foreign exchange verification.

As a result, the foreign exchange fund in the black market is surging and has a relatively large scale.

Although the departments concerned decided in April of this year to set up two pilot companies for foreign exchange settlement in Xinjiang, there were only two pilot projects in the vast Xinjiang. Most companies still had a drop in the bucket.

The above officials said that the export purchase trade export under the "Xinjiang border trade" is best to take the policy of exempt from foreign exchange verification, and only register in the foreign exchange department, that is, the "foreign trade verification" under the "travel and purchase trade" will be "idling".

"Or to introduce new ways of agency."

A logistics company responsible person suggested.

Many local officials told reporters that the current policy of border trade import and export management does not meet the needs of border trade development.

The quota and qualification management of border trade goods are too strict, such as the qualification and quota management of commodities such as crude oil, refined oil, chemical fertilizer, wool, cotton and wheat, which restrict the import of the above products.

"Preferential policies for border trade have little effect on importing resources from neighboring countries."

An official pointed out that the commodities that the state encouraged to import and offered discount support did not cover all the resources needed by the country and the frontier areas with import advantages, such as sulphur and phosphate fertilizer were not included in the supporting catalogue.

For example, in processing trade and export tax goods, the characteristics of the border areas are not considered, and there is no direct pulling effect on the promotion of trade and economic development in border areas.

"A 40% tariff on the export of real estate coke under border trade causes the coke production in Xinjiang to be uncompetitive in the international market and has a negative impact on the development of ladder shaped industries."

The official said.