Dongguan: Garment Industry And Other Labor-Intensive Industries Are Short Of Labor.

"Now there's much less rent than before." Tan Bo, who lives in Zhenxing street, Changan Town, Dongguan, has been very depressed recently: no tenant has found him. In October, temporary rental was good, and by December, the rental of temporary housing was obviously worse.

Dongguan Zhitong talent market Xie Zhaoxiang of the planning department also has an obvious feeling: this year recruit The popularity of the society dropped much faster. In the past 1 years, the workers are in the same period of time. Job wanted The rate will gradually decrease. However, from this year's situation, the downward trend of job hunting for workers has appeared one month ahead of schedule.

"The rise in labor costs has reached the limit."

In mid February, a survey conducted by Zhitong talent market showed that the supply and demand ratio of factory workers in Dongguan was 1:2.25, which meant that a job seeker could have two jobs. In the past, the number of job seekers in civilian jobs was far higher than the number of job requirements. However, the survey results show that the supply and demand ratio of civil service has been 1:1.07, and the demand has exceeded the ratio of applicants.

In November 20th, the talent market organized more than 30 enterprises in Dongguan to recruit workers in Wuhan. Zhang Mingming told the newspaper that the recruitment was mainly made by workers who did not have much work experience. And the intention of holding this job fair is to reserve talents.

In November 30th, the mayor invited the NPC deputies' forum, Huang Wei, deputy director of the Dongguan Municipal Bureau of human resources, said, "recruitment difficulties" is still not optimistic. In the second quarter of this year, the demand for various types of labor was about 187 thousand, and the demand for employment in the third quarter was about 225 thousand. At present, the most serious shortage of workers is general workers in labor-intensive enterprises such as electronics, furniture, clothing, toys, etc.

In the past, there was a common understanding of the shortage of workers. "From the trend, these two kinds of workers are missing." Zhang Mingming said.

Fenggang town human resources branch recently carried out a survey of the employment demand of 263 enterprises in the whole town. According to statistics, the total number of these enterprises is short of 9638 workers, and the gap rate is 11%. Among them, the gap rate of general practitioners is 85.06%, which is still the main body of the shortage of workers and the rate of skilled workers' gap is 14.94%.

In Zhang Mingming's view, the lack of general practitioners is not only due to orders, but also the sharp drop in the base of general workers. "It is difficult for the new generation of workers to enter the general workers' group, which means that the supply of general workers is less and less." Zhang explains.

At present, the shortage of employment in Dongguan has extended to various industries. It is understood that there are varying degrees of labor shortage in the three industries of Dongguan's mould, electronics, footwear industry and even restaurant workers.

Another major reason for the lack of jobs is that local wages are no longer attractive.

"According to my understanding of a lot of sweater companies, it is not so easy to get more than 2000 yuan monthly salary." Chen Yaohua, President of Dongguan textile and garment industry association, said.

Hengda clothing company, a small clothing enterprise in Houjie Town, has made 5 recruitment campaigns this year. "Now is the long and continuous recruitment." Boss Wang Luzhen said that even if the monthly salary of 1800 yuan treatment, did not retain many people. The company has a total of 60 people, but the labor gap is still around 30.

Workers' expectations for the construction period have generally increased significantly. And how much wages can be mentioned is quite difficult for enterprises.

Chen Yaohua said, now, a foreign order in Dongguan textile enterprises, gross margin is probably the level of 8%-15%. After all kinds of expenses were eliminated, the net profit margin of ordinary enterprises was around 3%, which was 2 points lower than that in 2008. Companies on the scale will be better, but most of them are relatively small at present. "The rise in labor costs has reached the limit." {page_break}
 

Mainland capacity to absorb workers

"My judgement is that lack of work will be a problem for a long time in the future. Nowadays, there is little difference between the treatment of the migrant workers in the coastal areas and the inland areas, and the state is spreading all over the country to make strategic plans. In situ employment will cause the diversion of the coastal labor sources. " An analysis was made by the Dongguan Municipal Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation Bureau.

According to the survey, many industries in coastal areas have accelerated to the central and western parts of the country, and have brought a lot of difficulties to the recruitment of traditional industries in coastal cities such as Dongguan.

Take the central province of Anhui. "Let's not talk about the supply of labor, but now our labor force is not enough." Sun Jinlong, Secretary of the Hefei Municipal Committee, told reporters not long ago that Hefei has increased investment in recent years, and domestic and foreign industries have significantly increased investment in Hefei, and the demand for workers has increased year by year.

"We used to supply labor force every year, but now our labor force is in short supply." Sun Jinlong said.

Under such circumstances, the substitution of artificial machines in manufacturing industry is obviously a major trend.

"In the first half of this year, computer flat knitting machines and sewing machines were in short supply." Chen Yaohua said that the tight supply of these two machines reflected two messages. First, the existing labor force could not meet the needs of the order; two, the upgrading of equipment was accelerating.

At the beginning of this year, at the beginning of the labor shortage, Wang Luzhen spent about 600000 imported 2 computerized flat knitting machines (automatic spinning machines). He calculated a book to the newspaper. Generally speaking, the output of an automatic machine is equivalent to two manual hand-held flat knitting machines. The manual hand-held flat knitting machine is one person, and now a worker can manage 6 to 10 automatic machines at the same time. According to one person management 8 computers, the computerized flat knitting machine replaced the manual hand flat knitting machine, and it could be worth fifteen six workers.

"Machine substitution is definitely a trend, but it is hard to say how long it will take to turn it around." Zhang Mingming analysis.

Xiang Lifan, vice president of China and international consultancy, believes that for coastal cities, traditional industries will gradually enter a "dead end". We must conform to the trend of international industrial development and accelerate industrial transfer and upgrading.