Wenzhou Shoe Enterprises And Other New Models To Alleviate Labor Shortage

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Coincidentally, the latest employment supply and demand situation of third days after the opening of the Wenzhou Vocational Service Center to reporters showed that 1596 enterprises entered the field for 11745 posts, 1005 migrant workers signed the intention employment agreement successfully, but 10740 jobs remained to be filled, and the employment situation of the enterprises was still tense.

In response, Zhou Dewen said: "to alleviate labor shortage is to enhance the value of labor force and innovate the development mode. Now it is imminent to create a new" Wenzhou model ".

Yesterday, this newspaper published the Wenzhou representative industry "shoe leather industry" lack of labor status, in fact, in Wenzhou, also in the labor intensive industries such as electronic appliances, clothing and lighters, which is also a large number of employed workers, "labor shortage" phenomenon is very common.

According to the data published in the January 26th Wenzhou economic and Trade Commission's "major difficulties and problems in Wenzhou's industrial economy in 2010", nearly 70% of enterprises in Wenzhou are short of work, which is ranked second in the "difficult" option.

According to Li Xiongwei, director of the comprehensive operation Department of the Commission, the "70%" data were obtained after investigating 855 enterprises in 18 industries such as leather making, plastic weaving and metal smelting in Wenzhou.

Among them, 10% of the enterprises were short of labor, accounting for 43%, 20% of them were 15%, 30% of them were 9%, and more than half of them were 1.5%.

According to the statistics of Wenzhou talent center, the employment gap of Wenzhou enterprises has been expanding since 2010. In the first three quarters of this year, the Wenzhou talent center held 46 job fairs, providing more than 110 thousand posts, but the total number of job applicants was 80 thousand, and the imbalance between supply and demand was serious.

Li Xiongwei recalled to reporters the scene of "ten jobs in one post" in Wenzhou in the 90s of last century, lamenting that today, there are "migrant workers" in Chongqing and other places in the West. In the East, Wenzhou enterprises are going to the railway station to grab people and send soya bean milk to the railway station. The old staff bring a new employee into the factory and award a prize of 100 yuan. "China's human resources have said goodbye to the era of unlimited supply."

Li Xiongwei said.

Free training of 50 thousand migrant workers every year

Why does labor shortage come into being? The Midwest economic development absorbs part of the rural migrant workers. After 80 and 90, the new generation of migrant workers "low quality of the heart" and the state's policy of benefiting farmers are all reasons.

Many experts and scholars put forward the "underestimation of China's labor force" has also become a "proof of view".

Reporters in the actual interview found that at present, Wenzhou enterprises "surge in wages" surging, the wages of migrant workers rose 10% to 20% every year, but on the other hand, in the labor market, if migrant workers do not have a skill, their own "labor price" is difficult to improve at any rate, only to be a general worker, to earn hard money by hard work, which is not developing, and the migrant workers are not satisfied with it.

How can we get out of this strange circle? The story of He Gang, a 34 year old "new Wenzhou man" in Sichuan, may be useful. He has changed his value from a general worker to a technical expert.

In 1995, He Gang, who had just arrived in Wenzhou, "the biggest dream at that time was to work hard for a few years to earn hard money and then change to a decent job".

Later, he entered a construction company and worked as a construction worker. He did the work of reinforcing bars, and the monthly salary came to thousands of yuan.

However, the young He Gang was not willing to take such steps in situ. Instead, he continued to study hard and participated in various kinds of training run by the government and enterprises. He studied with great concentration. Over the past decade, although He Gang had done the work of "reinforcing bars", he had produced art.

By chance, He Gang took part in the Wenzhou construction industry vocational skills competition and won the first place. Then he successively took the first place in the province, the first in the country.

Finally, from 2006 to 2007, He Gang was awarded the national first five year labor award and the ten largest working youth in the country.

As a result, He Gang not only got the Wenzhou account, but also received the treatment of affordable housing and enjoyed the government subsidy from the State Council and Wenzhou.

In this regard, Jin Fan, director of the Training Department of Wenzhou labor and Social Security Bureau, said that Wenzhou will spend 20 million of its funds on free training for more than 50 thousand migrant workers every year, so as to improve the skill level of migrant workers.

"From a small perspective, this lays a good foundation for the peasant workers to acquire skills, improve their labor value and extend their future development, and also lay a foundation for upgrading Wenzhou's industrial development and innovating the mode of development. This will help fundamentally alleviate the shortage of labor."

Getting rid of labor shortage requires innovative mode

As the saying goes, manpower has become a talent, and the most important condition for the upgrading of enterprises and economic development.

"Wenzhou enterprises or Chinese enterprises have always been developing a low wage, low price labor and low added value development path. This mode relies on the low skilled labor force, but it has decided that the products made by this model can not sell well, the profits of the enterprises are thin, the bigger cake can not be allocated to the employees, the employees are dissatisfied, they will jump, and the employment of the enterprises will be scarce. Now is the time to make changes."

Zhou Dewen said.

In this regard, Wenzhou Shoe Leather Industry Association executive chairman Xie Rongfang is also deeply aware.

"Wenzhou shoes are famous, but most of them are low and medium grade goods. Their profits are very thin, and their employees ask for higher wages. This year, enterprises will increase by 10%, and it will be difficult to ask for another rise tomorrow, because there is no room."

What to do? "Only pformation, making high-tech shoes, making environment-friendly shoes, making high value-added brand shoes, on the one hand, high technology will make enterprises less dependent on labor force. On the one hand, it can also make enterprises make big money, divide big cakes to employees, employees taste the sweetness, and naturally they will not jump around."

It is understood that a series of changes are quietly taking place in the footwear industry in Wenzhou.

For example, red dragonfly has introduced nano shoe, light and breathable through scientific and technological innovation, and Kangnai has launched comfortable shoes and healthy shoes according to the requirements of human health.

In addition, the environmental performance of Wenzhou shoes is getting higher and higher.

"From leather to glue, we require all raw materials to be environmentally friendly so as to ensure the quality of the export of Wenzhou shoes."

Xie Rongfang said.

Zhou Dewen believes that, unlike the old Wenzhou model, the new Wenzhou model must take the road of high technology, deep processing and high added value.

"Simply raise the salary for employees, this way to cure labor shortage, and solve the problem, the fundamental way is to innovate and innovate the Wenzhou mode, so that enterprises can finally get rid of the impact of" labor shortage "and maintain lasting vitality and development ability.

Zhou Dewen said.