China: tanners to move inland too
08/09/2011
Speaking at a press conference at the start of the All China Leather Exhibition on September 6, Mr Su told leatherbiz that China’s footwear manufacturing landscape was still changing, with shoe factories opening in newly industrialised areas in the interior, but that this change was happening gradually. He said rising labour costs in the east and in the Pearl River Delta region in the south were the main reason.
“It is changing step by step,” Mr Su said, “and tanners will follow their customers and gradually move in inland too. But it takes time and companies will move when it suits them, depending on their own judgement. There is no external pressure on them to do so. Market forces are driving this.”
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