With the support of Chinese logistics and transportation companies, Cambodian garment factories have sufficient raw materials.
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China News Service, Phnom Penh, December 8th (Reporter Ouyang Kaiyu) With the reopening of Cambodia, economic activities in various fields are gradually liberalized, and the clothing industry, one of the pillar industries of Cambodia's economy, has also resumed its former busy scene.
The factory is currently engaged in the production of children's clothing, and its output has returned to its pre-epidemic level.
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A reporter from Chinanews.com recently visited a member unit of the Cambodian Garment Manufacturers Association in Phnom Penh, the factory of GREAT NEW TALENT FACTORY (GNT), and synchronized with other local garment factories. The output here has returned to the level before the epidemic.
The garment factory resumed its former busy scene.
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It is known that Cambodia’s garment industry is Cambodia’s largest export industry, creating a large number of jobs-approximately 1,100 factories employing 750,000 workers.
During the severe period of the epidemic, the Cambodian Garment Manufacturers Association and many other chambers of commerce issued a joint statement stating that due to the impact of the new crown pneumonia epidemic, about 400 garment and travel goods companies have ceased production, affecting about 150,000 workers.
With the large-scale inoculation of the new crown vaccine in Cambodia, the epidemic has gradually been brought under control, and the number of new cases has continued to decline. Cambodia officially announced that it has established a herd immunity barrier and restarted the social economy, and factories have resumed work and production.
Raw material workshop of garment factory.
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Huang Yiyun, general manager of Cambodian GNT company, told reporters that during the severe epidemic in Cambodia, Phnom Penh adopted a city closure policy, and almost all garment factories in Phnom Penh were closed.
After unblocking at the end of May, fewer than 40% of the workers returned to the factory.
Thanks to the Cambodian government’s listing of workers as a priority group for vaccinations, workers have returned to work one after another and completed the accumulation of orders before the shutdown. At present, the garment factory's production has been restored to its pre-epidemic level.
A Cambodian garment factory worker working in front of a sewing machine.
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Huang Yiyun said that the factory environment, crowded dormitories and transporting workers are all potential risks that lead to an outbreak in the factory.
As a Chinese-funded private garment manufacturer, it strictly implemented local epidemic prevention measures and actively cooperated with official control. There has been no mass infection.
The Cambodian GNT garment factory has formulated strict measures to prevent the epidemic.
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In addition, according to the Cambodian Garment Manufacturers Association, most of the raw materials for the Cambodian garment industry are imported from China.
Affected by the new crown pneumonia epidemic, there have also been difficulties such as shortage of raw materials. In this regard, China COSCO Shipping Group, Orient Overseas Container Line Co., Ltd. and many other companies have formed a joint guarantee force for the transportation of textile raw materials and delivered them as quickly as possible. Reach the Cambodian factory to minimize the loss of the Cambodian garment industry.
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