| After the reform and opening up, China’s southeast coastal areas have actively undertook labor-intensive industries-garment manuacturing industry transferred from the developed countries or regions. Consequently the economy developed rapidly, and China won the reputation of "world’s factory ". However, in recent years, with the rising of domestic labor cost, raw materials cost, land cost, and others’cost, and the appreciation of RMB exchange rate, the cost advantage of China diminishes, leading to the emergence of China’s garment manufacturing industry transferring to other Asian garment supplying countries, and then obstruct China’s apparel foreign trade development. So, how to deal with the dilemma of orders’transfer, profits shrinking and external competition increasing is key issues to think about when China’s apparel industry and enterprise restructuring and upgrading.Based on the background that the global garment processing industry presents a new round of gradient transfer, through the establishment of apparel industry international competitiveness evaluation system and evaluation model, to analyze the development status quo of Chinese apparel industry and other major Asian garment supplying countries, summarize the relevant national costume industry development path, and try to provide recommendations for the transformation and upgrading of China’s apparel industry and the future development direction.The main contents are as follows.(1) Analysis present situation of the global apparel industry development①Elaborating the economic development, apparel consumption and clothing imports condition of the developed economies in Europe, America, Japan and etc, to clarify the global economic environment and situation which our country and other apparel suppliers in.②Choosing clothing suppliers in Asia who have great competition with China’s garment processing industry-India, Bangladesh, Vietnam and Cambodia, as case study in this paper. Four aspects of the case countries’apparel industry will be elaborated, garment exports, type of enterprise and employment, and related policies, describing clearly the advantages and disadvantages of China’s garment manufacturing industry and the challenges and threats facing possibly, to provide ideas and direction for the transformation of China’s apparel industry upgrade.(2) Construction and Application of apparel manufacturing industry interna-tional competitiveness evaluation system and scoring model①Based on Michael Porter’s national diamond model, relying on features of garment processing industry in developing countries to revise the model, using expert interviews and a questionnaire survey form, taking the overall correlation coefficient means and statistical analysis, to determine the final indicators and construct the evaluation system includes four indicators.②After the evaluation index system passing validity detection, through the use of SPSS analysis and principal component factor analysis method, set weights for each index of the evaluation system, and establish the eventual evaluation scoring model.③Get each case corresponding indicators data from World Bank, WTO, official websites, related books, documents and other channels, to be applied to the garment manufacturing industry international competitiveness evaluation system and scoring models. Meanwhile, use some regular competitiveness evaluation index, as aided analysis.(3) Several recommendations for garment manufacturing industry trans for-mation and upgrading based on gradient transferBased on the status of domestic apparel industry gradually transfer, combined with the application of the evaluation system and scoring models, relying on quantitative analysis, qualitative analysis and evaluation assisted analysis results, to provide some suggestions for the future development direction of China’s garment industry garment manufacturing industry and apparel industry transformation and upgrading. |
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