Yiwu Market in August, Christmas goods industry has entered a busy period of strong sales, purchasing, production, shipments and other links are in tension in overtime, with business owners as saying that "too busy to get sick do not have time" .

A change: an increase in orders ahead of season

Christmas supplies industry has a convention every year after Christmas next year, a succession of orders and stocking period. In recent years, as the global economic recovery, the confidence of buyers purchasing countries rise, the amount of orders for Christmas goods industry are increasing year by year.

Space Crafts Co., Ltd. Yiwu Chen Yu-Min staff, told reporters: "In past years, the factory began in May to work overtime producing around Christmas, in March this year after another since the overtime." It is understood that, due to the gradual recovery of demand in Europe and America market expansion , this year's Christmas comes early orders than in previous years, but also to much. "According to incomplete statistics, the industry, as of July this year, Yiwu Christmas exports more than one percent over the same period last year." Association Secretary-General Chen Jinlin Christmas goods industry, said.

Increase in new international markets for goods industry Yiwu Christmas brought a lot of orders. Yiwu Christmas goods are sold around the world, including in the United States, Russia, Netherlands and other countries have a large number of long-term and stable customers. Chen Yu-min said: "This year, one after another of the several groups of Indonesia, India and other countries of the customer, orders more ideal situation."

Two changes: the currency exchange rate fluctuations will not receive a large single-enterprise

Order to increase the most direct response is the production line has been busy. It is understood, industries and enterprises in Yiwu Christmas present most of the production line has been saturated, a temporary increase in orders is extremely difficult.

Contrast the past three years the attitude towards a large single, one business owner said, "changes in exchange rates of RMB against the U.S. dollar more" is the "big house wanted stability," an important reason. In 2009 the company had several hundred million yuan in Europe took orders in 2010, has directly rejected the other large orders for 100 million euros. Yiwu Christmas Industry Association Vice President Cai Qin Liang said: "In order to avoid exchange rate risk, companies generally are required to use the RMB settlement, or settlement in accordance with the exchange rate that day, so be willing to accept foreign big one."

Chen Jinlin said: "In a big exchange rate fluctuations, commodity supply and demand will both increase the risk, companies do not take big orders to avoid major risks the same time, enterprises in the production line is saturated, then the probability of a large single will be reduced into a few." Many business owners said that the current export production is close to saturation, some products can only take a single style or product line with the current high degree of product overlap style orders.

Three changes: employment was up tight price

Artificial Christmas supplies and raw materials are produced in Yiwu, the two main cost components of the project, a direct impact on product prices. According to Chen Jinlin said, plastics, cotton, iron and other materials prices, the cane, you need to manually picking pine cones, have become the raw material price increases the incentive. In addition, this year, employment continued tight, companies invariably choose to pay to keep people, but also intangible costs being increased a lot.

"Because of recruitment difficulties, lack of work has been in a state enterprise, the peak last year, there were about 100 temporary workers working towards the product, then increased to 200 this year." Chen Yu-min said, growing ranks of temporary workers is a natural response to tight labor. Chen Jinlin told reporters that production costs have been broad based, 15%, factory Shique only a small price increase, only 5% -10% range. "The industry in recent years prices have been more transparent, due to the homogenization of the industry competitive, companies dare raise prices." Chen Jinlin that take into account the mood of buyers, most companies choose to reduce product margins and stable cooperative relationship with customers.