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Qinghai Tibetan Carpet Industry Exports Face a Crisis in Emerging Consumer Markets Birth

The global financial crisis, export orders dropped almost as many companies, the biggest difficulty, highly dependent on the international market for Chinese enterprises, especially the carpet. Sellers are loot at home and abroad of China’s domestic market a piece of “fat”, but an export domestic remedies are not necessarily eliminate all diseases. For someone who used to export enterprises, in the process, must learn to endure the throes of transformation.

Do not hear sound but see children loom hee.

Because after the rain, cars began to look at highway bumpy dirt road in the mud before the trip, which is blocking access to Long Huang County Town of Red Lam Tsuen only route. Huangzhong County is in Xining, Qinghai, Hung Lam 20 kilometers from Xining, however, but the road was gone for nearly an hour. Poverty in the typical western village, no decent homes, end of the village with a compound of this workshop has been part of Tibetan carpet landmark. Tibetan carpet Honglin Li Choi-processing plant manager told reporters that the village shop was built in 2006, a total of 10 looms.

Now is the busy time to shop the farmers to work less, a total of 29 individuals, if the winter slack time, this village of 400 families is the most popular place this small workshop, and to finding a carpet in a working Hung Lam position as the most complacent of women do. Hung Lam bear workshop is hand-woven Tibetan carpets which the procedures. Tibetan carpet weaving patterns made in the design is completed and stained after a good line drawings sent to here.

Tibetan carpet weaving is the longest production process is the most cost manual. Local women to weave carpets are on a Tibetan carpet factory after round of free specialized training at least three months before induction, the wages paid piece rate, according to weave a different dimension of difficulty and complete the level.

Yu-Fang Chen has been working here for over a year, as a “technical director”, she will check again every day workshop at the completion of the situation is to ensure product quality. Her workshop for women to get 200 yuan a month to wage ranging from 500 yuan, accounting for 60% of family income over all, so come to shop to work very status of women in the family.

Workshop with the normal sense different workshops around the red end of the village in Lam Tsuen, children everywhere play figure. Most of these children less than school age. Finance Director Li said: “We’ve got to work more flexible, able to bring their children, so that the children at home unattended. Busy time at home to help her husband on the farm, when you can slack since the carpet.”

According to report, in Qinghai Province such as the red carpet shop in Lam Tsuen, nearly 400 farmers and herdsmen to provide close to transfer 33,000 jobs. Carpet weaving in average annual income of farmers reached 3,000 workers or more (an average of 8 months of work per year), the basic realization of the farmers to convert from one person, family stability goal of poverty.

This is in a crisis situation six years ago is still in the Tibetan carpet industry was not easy. Carpet exports in Qinghai Province after the founding of new China and some traditional items, but the planned economy era, in order to make most of the state-owned carpet production Ding Xiao enterprises have been closed down 90 of the last century. Although private enterprises were born carpet, but the throes of change makes the carpet weaving industry in Qinghai to leak to other areas, the industry faced a crisis.

Qinghai carpet to see the loom by a neighboring truck sold at low prices in 2003, Qinghai Provincial Department of Commerce report on the revitalization and development of Tibetan carpet industry, the provincial leadership of the report handed it desk. Through research, Qinghai and industrial raw materials and labor traditionally has an advantage. So then the Government on the development of the province Qinghai Tibetan Carpet Industry Development goals, strive to cultivate leading enterprises.

Regard to funding, the government must devote greater efforts to support the agricultural and pastoral areas of Jianshe Tibetan carpets Bianzhi workshop, weavers and the training of professional and technical personnel, technology and new product research and development, opening up new markets.

Handmade Tibetan carpets are labor-intensive industries, with the land but not leave their homes and production layout characteristics of combining centralization and decentralization. After several years of exploration, Qinghai’s Tibetan carpet production out of a “company + shop + farmers” business model and formed a 11 Tibetan carpet manufacturer of industrial clusters.

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