Into December, Hangzhou, there will be the feeling of winter, a few days ago ushered in the first winter heavy snowfall. "Very cold, we have no heating here, the clothes have to choose a special warm blanket." Miss Li, who lives in Hangzhou West Lake Road, told reporters that she recently visited a lot of textile stores, want to buy two silk was, but after the turn Only to find out, silk is much more expensive than you expected. "I want to be a quilt about four or five pounds, but four pounds of silk plus cloth, then a quilt to do almost 2,000 yuan." Miss Lee while feeling while saying: "I heard that because of the reduction of raw materials this year , Raw silk less, many manufacturers are out of stock. "Cocoon volume reduction correspondent called Hangzhou West Lake Road near a textile shop, the shop staff told reporters that silk prices this year is very powerful, last year's silk about 360 yuan to 370 yuan / Kg, about 390 yuan per catty this year. Mainly because of this year's production of cocoon to reduce a lot, "This summer is not high, especially in July and August, when a lot of mulberry trees are dead, the survival rate of silkworms." In addition, the textile shop staff also told reporters that silk Is the price of other home textile products, there are seasonal factors, today's cold weather, with a variety of holidays, it is the sales season. "Not only silk prices, water and electricity artificial, which is not up ah." Zhejiang Huzhou City, the Silk Industry Association branch statistics show that in 2013 the purchase price of spring cocoon in Zhejiang Province generally higher than the national cocoon do 1750 yuan guidance price, Hangzhou-Jiaxing-Hubei cocoon per share price of 2200 yuan or more, Huzhou region, the cost per share is more than 2,400 yuan. Autumn cocoon situation is not optimistic, according to monitoring data show that the late autumn cocoon Jiaxing area in Zhejiang Province rose about 20%. Reporters learned from the Price Bureau of Zhejiang Province, Jiaxing City, this year's late autumn silkworm rearing stock 141,000, down 15.9%. The current center of cocoon price of about 1830 yuan per 50 kg, up 25.5%. In addition, this year's autumn cocoon also appeared less yield and low quality, mainly because of drought during feeding, mulberry leaves old, cocoon smaller, and even appeared a lot of "silkworm." Many farmers said that the yield and quality of silkworm cocoon had a downward trend compared with that of last year. Faced with the plight of the silk industry is insufficient orders, one side is the raw material prices and shortages, the end of this year, the silk industry is destined to usher in a harsh winter. In an interview, the reporter learned that due to the unsatisfactory foreign trade orders this year, many silk production and processing enterprises have no single issue. Luckily, some companies that received the orders faced the problem of poor cocoon yields and high prices. Sometimes they could not even buy raw materials at high prices. Finished products sold after processing of raw materials may not even come back to cost. Zhejiang Lanzhou Textile Industry Association Ling Lanfang speech also illustrates this issue. Ling Lanfang said that there is no order to find orders, orders to worry raw materials. Due to the rapid rise in the cost of producing silk in recent years and the lack of skilled workers, the equipment of enterprises is also lagging behind. The silk industry in Zhejiang is rapidly declining. It is reported that in 10 years, Zhejiang silk production has dropped from the first in the country the fourth, accounting for 20% to 10%. According to Li Lingling, secretary-general of Huzhou Textile Industry Association in Zhejiang Province, according to the calculation of per ton price at about 125,000 yuan after the cocoon is roasted in Huzhou area, the cost of raw silk cocoon is 385,000 yuan per ton, with labor, water and fuel, Ton processing cost of 75,000 yuan, minus the by-product recycling 35,000 to 40,000 yuan per ton, the actual cost per ton of raw silk has reached 420,000 ~ 425,000 yuan. According to the market price of less than 400,000 yuan per ton of raw silk to calculate, for every ton of silk production, it is necessary to loss of 20,000 yuan.