Textile And Garment Manufacturing Industry: "Too Many People" And "No Hiring At The Moment"

Whether it is the year before, at the end of the year or at the end of the year, employment is always a topic that can not be passed by employers or unemployed workers. It is either a poor market, a tide of layoffs and bankruptcies, or a large number of workers in the peak season.

Wen Jiabao, premier of the State Council, visited the Chengdu city of Sichuan province to investigate the current economic situation and held a forum on the economic situation of five provinces and autonomous regions in Henan, Hunan, Guangxi, Sichuan and Shaanxi. At the meeting, Wen Jiabao suggested that we should do everything possible. Expanding employment 。 At present, we should pay special attention to the employment of university graduates. We should continue to do well in the employment of migrant workers and urban employment personnel.

What is the pressure on the job market? Data from the Ministry of human resources and social security show that the first half of this year has achieved good results in the first half of this year, the number of new jobs in urban areas is higher than that in the same period last year, and the number of new jobs in the central and western regions has increased rapidly. But the dangers can not be ignored. The interview was informed that after the "labor shortage" at the beginning of last year and the "shortage of orders" at the end of the year, some manufacturing export enterprises along the coast were not having a good time this year.

Recruitment under layoffs

"Hiring this year is easier than last year." Lin Jie told the Morning Post reporter, although the treatment has not been higher than in previous years, still maintained at around 3000 yuan / month, but the number of orders is shrinking than in previous years. Lin Jie owns a trading company in Jiangsu and has opened a business in Anhui. clothing Processing factory. Lin Jie explained that due to the reduction of orders, many garment factories were laying off or even closing down, resulting in an increase in the number of unemployed workers on the market, so enterprises easily recruit people and do not have to raise wages. But the above-mentioned "easy job" does not mean that employment is easy. Lin Jie disclosed that because of the reduction in orders, his own business is just maintaining its original size. "From last year to this year, there are no new recruits, even if employees are gone, they will not fill the vacancy position."

Lin Jie said that although the price of raw materials did not rise, the price of foreign trade orders this year was 20% lower than that of previous years. Even if orders were received, prices were relatively low. The whole garment industry was even worse than in 2008. "If we do not shut down factories, we will not expand the norm, and there are still some layoffs, though not many."

Lin Jie predicted that next year's situation will be worse than this year, "the number of orders this year has been half less than last year."

"Everyone has gone to the service industry."

Compared to the Yangtze River Delta region, another block. manufacturing industry In the densely populated area, enterprises in the Pearl River Delta have not been able to go anywhere. Zhang Zhouyuan, President of the Shenzhen Association of Taiwan businessmen, told the Morning Post reporter that, despite the current summer job, his electronic device business has not been recruits for one or two months. Zhang Zhouyuan owns a furniture processing plant in Shenzhen and an electronic device factory that produces lamps and lanterns.

"Now there are more summer jobs, so it's good to hire people." Zhang Zhouyuan said. But only two months' summer job is a flash in the pan. Zhang Zhouyuan said that the traditional industries like furniture processing are hard to recruit because of their heavy manual labor. Although the electronics industry is better, they are now running to the service industry, especially young people, who do not want to do heavy work.

Both Zhang Zhouyuan and Lin Jie are facing the same problem. The decline in orders has led to a reduction in demand for workers, or that the economic downturn has made it impossible for enterprises to expand their production scale, but only to maintain the status quo or even lay off workers to survive. China's GDP growth rate dropped to 7.6% in the second quarter of this year. Although Zhang Zhouyuan said that orders for this year were almost the same as last year, they remained between 10 million and 15 million dollars, but the last one or two months were no longer hiring unless there was a departure.

Employment in the service sector is indeed different. The yum restaurant group, which owns KFC and pizza hut, claims that its number of employees in China is 400 thousand, increasing at an annual rate of around 40 thousand. The company announced an increase of 17% in the first quarter of 2012 compared with the same period last year.

Zhang Zhouyuan said that more and more veteran traditional workers chose to go back to their hometown instead of continuing to engage in manual labor. "Many enterprises in the PRD are traditional industries, and now they are having a hard time."