The Shoe Industry Is Facing A Crisis Of "No Good Blue Collar Workers".

Recently, the China Leather Association has released the world in the next five years.

According to the data provided by China Leather Association, last year, the annual output of Chinese shoes was 13 billion pairs, the labor cost was 1.3~1.5 dollars / hour, the annual output of India was 2 billion pairs, and the labor cost was 0.65 dollars / hour. In Brazil last year, the annual output of all kinds of shoes was nearly 900 million pairs, and the labor cost was 4.35 dollars / hour; Vietnam last year produced nearly 800 million pairs of shoes, and the labor cost was 0.48 dollars / hour.

From the data, it can be seen that among the most competitive countries in China, the cost of shoemaking labor is higher than that of India and Vietnam, and the competitive pressure of China's footwear industry is further increasing.

At the same time, the China Leather Association also pointed out that these countries need to replace the position of China's shoe giants in ten years. However, the competitive pressure on China's development in the future is still great. We must speed up the restructuring, pformation and upgrading, completely abandon the development mode that relies on speed, scale and price to compete, and change to the development mode that relies on quality, standards, technology, service, innovation and brand influence. This can also prove that our footwear industry is still the best opportunity for development in the next ten years.

Manufacturing risk: no good blue collar workers

From this year's statistics, many enterprises in Dongguan have failed.

For such an industry involving multiple personnel and complex industrial chains, what should Dongguan shoe enterprises do?

Long Yongtu said that the problem of enterprise failure should be "specific analysis of specific problems". Some of them are poor in their own business, and some are caused by external environment. This should be specific to enterprises, but not general generalization.

As a labor-intensive industry that has been developing for more than 30 years, the forum is also discussing how to pform and upgrade shoes industry and how to survive. I think the government should give support to such industries.

The support of an industry is not only to see whether its products can create high value, but also to see how many jobs it has created, how many posts have been brought, and how much contribution it has made to social stability.

In terms of specific support, I think the government should do something about taxes and subsidies to enterprises.

In fact, subsidies for traditional industries are more urgent after China's accession to the WTO.

After China's accession to the WTO, we subsidized and supported the peasants. We also abolished the agricultural tax in the last few years. In recent years, the government has been supporting the development of agriculture every year.

For labor-intensive traditional industries, the government should consider from the perspective of people's livelihood and employment.

Shoe companies should strive to retain excellent blue collar workers.

In the face of the global procurement President Brown of the US footwear industry, Charlie said that in the next 5 years, Chinese footwear enterprises may face low productivity, and Chinese enterprises must strengthen their training for employees, otherwise the competitiveness of Chinese shoe enterprises will be difficult to sustain.

What do you think of this assertion?

Long Yongtu believes that the low efficiency of Chinese enterprises and the possibility of competition with Southeast Asia and Africa may be very disadvantageous.

In the past decades, China's urbanization has no experience, and there is a tendency of pseudo urbanization.

Migrant workers have come in batches, and migrant workers are the greatest contributors to China's reform and opening up in the past 30 years. They have devoted their youth to manufacturing, but they have not made life better.

To consolidate the achievement of urbanization, it is how to leave workers who work outside the country to become local residents and enjoy the fruits of economic development.

The manufacturing industry in Japan and Germany is very strong because they have left behind a lot of blue collar workers.

If China fails to cultivate and retain blue collar workers, some excellent blue collar workers will not be able to become local residents and managers. China's manufacturing industry is still facing risks.