Recently, commissioned by Guangdong Provincial Development and Reform Committee, Guangdong Toy Association (GDTA) has made a questionnaire survey to 17 representative toy export enterprises on the industrial transfer and the regional space layout in Pearl River Delta. The aim of this survey is to cooperate with the research work of the industrial transfer and the regional space layout in Pearl River Delta, which are now carried out in Guangdong and wholly and precisely understand the enterprises’ intent on industrial transfer and promote the industrial layout in a reasonable way.

There are altogether 17 toy export enterprises which are mostly SMEs that received the survey this time. Among them, 70% has less than 500 employees and 24% has employees between 500 and 1,500. Their toy products are mainly exported to the countries and regions like US, EU, Japan and Middle-East.

Employing workers become difficult problem.

What is the main problem that the toy enterprises face nowadays? We have got the clear answer through the questionnaire: employing workers is more and more difficult and has become a protruding problem most enterprises facing (over 94%, only one enterprise did not answer), which will influence the enterprises’ production and formal running especially in the hot season of toy market. Nearly 50% of the enterprises have suffered from the lack of land and electric power which reflects that the actuality of the land resource in Pearl River Delta will limit the future development of these SMEs.

Where will the new productivity settle on? There are 9 enterprises that decide to move out and look for new producing bases and only 4 choose to stay and enlarge their producing scale. This shows that a majority of enterprises do not satisfy with the present production environment and hope that they can obtain larger developing space through looking for places of better environment and condition when they have the chance to enlarge the scale.

On the selection of places of the industrial transfer, many enterprises choose Qingyuan and Zhanjiang in Guangdong province and Zhaoqing, Shaoguan and Heyuan in the province are also hot places. What is surprising is that some provinces besides Guangdong, like Hunan, Guizhou, Sichuan and Anhui do not attract the interests of these surveyed enterprises and only one chooses these areas.

Government support is critical.

The effect of the government is indubitable on the industrial transfer, to which enterprises attach much expectation. They expect government can help perfect the destination region’s infrastructure and expect destination government to harmonize the relationship with the original region and help to contact with the destination region.

The survey shows that in the industrial transfer, the problems that the enterprises attend are whether the infrastructure is in good condition, whether the relating favorable policies are realized and whether the public security is good. Meanwhile, supporting service related to toy business is also in concern.

As for in which aspects they hope the government constitutes favorable policies, many enterprises expect for favorable policies on land, tax, water, power and management expense, as well as fund support in the aspects of oversea market exploitation, enlargement and transfer of intrastate and product research. Some enterprises indicate that the local government should have compact and transparent working procedure and stable taxing policy. The government should put an end to extra charging and reduce the tax on the transferred enterprises as while as strengthen the support on them. There are also some enterprises that put forward that whether a professional organization should be established to study and deal with the difficulties in toy export and let it become a platform of communication between enterprises and government and between enterprise and enterprise.