The Garment Manufacturing Industry Has Two Point Nine Four Months' Orders On Hand.

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According to the "comprehensive index of quarterly market orders", respondents generally agreed that Hongkong, the United States, mainland China and Canada were relatively better performing markets, while the export market in Africa had the worst performance in the second quarter and the situation was poor.

For the export outlook for the next six months, the surveyed companies with optimistic export prospects dropped from 28.4% in the previous quarter to 15.7% in this quarter (12.7 fewer points). Among them, 2.6% thought that there would be a "substantial increase", and that 13.1% would be "slightly increased".

The weak companies rose from 29.7% in the previous quarter to 43.9% in the current quarter, compared with 26.9% in the same period in 2011. The number of small businesses also increased by 17 percentage points, and 28.3% and 15.6% respectively were considered "slight reduction" and "substantial reduction".

The number of respondents who thought it would "stagnate" dropped slightly from 41.9% in the previous quarter to 40.4%.

The above figures show that manufacturers' confidence in future export prospects has declined.

In terms of labor employment, respondents said that the number of people engaged in export related industries decreased by 5% and 15.3% respectively compared with the previous quarter and the same period in 2011.

On the other hand, 54.7% of the respondents said there was a shortage of personnel, which was slightly higher than the 53.5% in the previous quarter, but lower than 65.2% in the same period in 2011. This shows that the number of employees in the manufacturing industry is decreasing, and the demand for personnel remains at 50 or more points.

The manufacturing sector was more significant, accounting for 63.3% of the respondents in the industry, slightly lower than the 64.3% in the previous quarter, but higher than 58.6% in the same period in 2011.

According to the findings of the survey, 31.8% of export enterprises consider that "insufficient orders" are the biggest problems they face, and they are considered to be "problems".

The price increase and the "field price competition" account for 14.9% and 8% respectively.

In addition, in the second quarter of 2012, 65.8% and 65.4% of the respondents were faced with the problem of "shortage of personnel" and "rising prices of raw materials", while 61.2%, 53.8% and 43.1% respectively met the problems of "price competition in the field", "insufficient orders" and "wage increase".

For the outlook for the next three months, 53.2% of the respondents said that the "raw material price increase" was the main concern of enterprises, followed by the "shortage of personnel" and "insufficient orders" and so on, with a ratio of 46.9% and 36.2% respectively.