Saying: Black And White Declassified

Under the background of "shortage of migrant workers" in China, some Southeast Asian civilians have entered illegal employment in China through various underground channels.

Reporter survey found that following the Pearl River Delta, the economically developed Yangtze River Delta region or will become "black job" Nuggets preferred.

Behind it, reflects the pformation and upgrading of SMEs is imminent.

The workshop is coming.

"I didn't expect to go to work with a group of foreigners" every day. Xiao Li is an employee of a textile and garment factory in Zhuji. When she talked about the "black job" incident that happened in the factory some time ago, she said she was 23 years old. "For the first time, I heard that foreigners were working in China."

Xiao Li has been working in rural Jiangxi for two years.

The "foreigners" in their eyes are a group of Vietnamese workers. "Most of them do not understand Chinese, nor speak Chinese or English. They only play simple gestures".

There are 28 Vietnamese workers who can only play simple gestures. They seldom communicate with outsiders. There are nearly 400 employees in the textile and garment factory. These foreigners live in their own tribes and receive more than 1000 yuan in monthly wages.

In this group of "foreigners", Wei Wentong is the only one who can speak Chinese.

Wei Wentong is 21 years old, 1 years ago, through friends, illegally infiltrated into China from the Sino Vietnamese border and worked in private enterprises in Guangxi and Guangdong.

In early May of this year, Wei Wentong returned to his home in Vietnam. At the end of the month, he went to work in the textile and garment factory in Zhuji with his fellow countrymen.

In recent days, the regulation by the relevant departments of Zhuji was carried out.

"Working in China can earn RMB 900 yuan per month. We like it very much."

In the survey, Wei Wentong said, "in Vietnam, the same job can earn RMB 400 yuan a month, so many people in our country want to work in China."

When it comes to desperation and illegal employment, Mr. Yang, general manager of Xiaoli's textile and garment factory, said it was because he could not recruit domestic workers.

It is understood that Yang's textile and garment factories are small and medium sized enterprises in the region. Due to insufficient investment in equipment pformation and technological innovation, the same quantity of products is produced, and the factory needs more workers than other large-scale enterprises.

Therefore, under the background of shortage of migrant workers, the problem of "recruitment difficulty" in the textile mill is becoming more and more obvious.

"We have many foreign trade orders. Every time a foreign trader orders, we have to ask for quantity. If the volume is too large, we will not accept it."

Yang said that because of the lack of workers, many local factories like them to "restrict orders" while many machines were idle.

At the end of May this year, when Yang talked about business in Vietnam, the local labor agency said that the wages of Vietnamese workers were low.

"At that time, we were in urgent need of people, so we moved to employ Vietnamese people and bring them back to work in factories."

Yang said.

According to reports, when Vietnam's intermediary companies issued the recruitment news, hundreds of people came at once.

Worried about the legality of these workers' work in China, Yang Cong enrolled 28 people and signed a tourist visa for one month to enter the territory of China in the name of tourism.

"Before, we went abroad to work and do business quite a lot. Now foreigners come to China.

But not long after the relevant departments came to the scene, in addition to sending all 28 foreigners out of the country, the administrative penalty for the factory was more than 20 thousand yuan.

Testing the "black job" in the labor market

It is understood that during the 2008 financial crisis, some export-oriented enterprises were hit hard, some enterprises went bankrupt and foreign workers were forced to go home.

With the warming of the external environment, the economic production in all parts of the country was busy again last year, and the phenomenon of "recruitment difficulty" and "shortage of migrant workers" were frequent.

Because Vietnam and Burma are geographically connected to China, the border peoples have always had contacts.

On the 1020 kilometer long border between Guangxi and Vietnam, Vietnamese only need to walk for a few minutes to enter China. After evading inspection by various means, they can buy a ticket to reach the big cities.

As a result, many Vietnamese and Burma workers came to work.

"Many of our fellow townsmen think of working in China. Hundreds of people have come. This time, dozens of them have smuggled across the country, mostly in Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces."

4 Burma "black workers" said.

In Vietnam and Burma, wages are only half or even less than that of Chinese workers.

They are more attractive than the current labor costs in China.

"Our business is at the end of the chain of industry, and the profits are very low, and if the country allows, I would like to welcome Vietnamese workers to work."

Yang said.

Like Yang's textile and garment factories, many enterprises have expressed their willingness to recruit foreigners through this underground form. "They do not need to pay various kinds of insurance, nor will they raise their wages. Nor will Chinese workers like that.

It is understood that "foreign black workers" appeared many years ago in the Pearl River Delta region.

In Guangdong, Zhuhai, Guangzhou and other places, "black job" is a tacit understanding of many small and medium-sized enterprises.

In recent years, with the rapid development of textile, clothing, machinery, hardware and other labor-intensive economies, the Yangtze River Delta has become a new target of "foreign black workers" for gold rush.

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But how many "black workers" are there? The relevant departments say that the overall data are hard to count because the "black jobs" are secret use.

"However, judging from recent inspections, the employment of" black workers "by individual small businesses is expanding.

Related personnel said.

This statement was confirmed by Yang.

"The labor intermediary company that I contacted with Vietnam is very small, but they export more than 400 people to China every year.

In the past, mainly to Guangdong, and now go to the Yangtze River Delta region more. "

It is understood that by the end of 2009, the registered unemployment rate of urban areas in China was 4.3%, and there were 9 million 210 thousand urban registered unemployed persons.

Human resources experts point out that under the current circumstances, "black and white" will pour into China, which will bring great challenges to China's low-end labor market.

However, many small and medium-sized enterprises like "foreigners" can enter our factories to work legally?

The reporter consulted the regulations on employment management of foreigners in China, which clearly stipulates that foreigners employment certificates and occupational visas should be handled, and the requirement for jobs is "there should be special needs, and there is no suitable candidate in the country at the moment, and it does not violate the relevant provisions of the state".

According to the introduction, the above stipulates clearly that "if enterprises need to introduce foreigners, they can only be middle and high end talents, while foreign low-end labor services can not be imported."

As for the "black job", the "Regulations on Employment Administration of foreigners in China" expressly request that the employing units that employ foreigners without authorization shall, at the same time terminate their employment, impose a fine of more than 5 thousand yuan or less than 50 thousand yuan for the employing units, and order them to assume the full cost of sending foreigners who are employed privately.

The problem of "black workers" has attracted the attention of relevant departments.

Under the unified arrangement of the Ministry of public security, the Zhejiang provincial public security departments have carried out "three non" special operations to mobilize the masses to provide and report "three non" clues.

According to the provisions of the Ministry of public security, any alien who is an illegal entry or illegal resident, regardless of whether he is registered with the United Nations High Commissioner for refugees, has to "find one, investigate one and send one".

Therefore, the crackdown has increased unprecedentedly.

For example, in June 2009, Shaoxing County investigated and dealt with two illegal "black workers". In April this year, 4 Burmese went to a stocking factory in Zhuji to make hosiery workers, and they were all sent out of the country by mid June.

SMEs urgently need to break through

After the repatriation of 28 foreigners, Yang's factory has more vacant equipment. He still faces the dilemma that domestic workers can not recruit and "foreign black workers" can not be introduced.

The reporter calculated an account. For example, 28 textile workers hired by a textile factory in Zhuji, with a monthly salary of less than 600 yuan per person than domestic workers, can save 17 thousand yuan a month in terms of wage expenses alone.

According to the insiders, under the current situation of "recruitment difficulty" in China, labor costs will rise further, and more enterprises, especially those with low technological content, may be risked by the risk of fines and illegally employ "black workers".

Experts pointed out that with overseas low-cost labor force, so that the reduction of production costs can be reduced, this is the fundamental reason why "foreign black workers" repeatedly prohibit.

This reflects the urgency of pformation and upgrading of labor-intensive enterprises.

In fact, many small and medium-sized enterprises have strong desire for pformation and upgrading, but their capabilities are very limited: low profits, low efficiency and difficult recruitment.

The reality is placed in front of Yang, in addition to idle machines, there is a beautiful vision of pformation and upgrading.

In economics, there is a concept of "smile curve". Patents, technologies, brands and services are located at both ends of the profit curve, while assembly and manufacturing are at the bottom of low profit.

Most of the labor-intensive small and medium-sized enterprises in China are at the bottom of the "smile curve", facing the unfavorable situation of "low profits, low production efficiency and low brand technology".

Nowadays, influenced by many factors such as resource constraints and labor costs, some enterprises in the low end of the industrial chain are struggling.

Experts believe that in order to pform small and medium-sized enterprises from "production workshop" to "enterprise headquarters", brand building should be on the agenda in addition to improving production technology.

When we are no longer hovering at the low end of the industrial chain and occupy the two ends of the "smile curve", many small and medium enterprises in China may smile happily.

And there is still a long way to go.

In the interview, reporters learned that in addition to enhancing brand awareness and enhancing product competitiveness, some enterprises also began to try to "go out" and establish production bases in Vietnam and other countries.

It is believed that this can not only eliminate and avoid the adverse effects of trade barriers in the international market, but also enjoy preferential policies and cost advantages of human resources abroad.

Take Shaoxing as an example. In recent years, the Yue Mei Group, Daheng Group and Hai Liang group have built Nigeria Textile Industrial Park, Botswana Textile Industrial Park and Vietnam Longjiang Industrial Park abroad.

There are 9 Chinese enterprises in Vietnam's Longjiang Industrial Park. There are many labor intensive enterprises such as Zhengyuan socks and Shuang Da wood industries.

This is a way for Chinese enterprises to break through.