Collapse Tide Hits South Of Jiangsu Textile And Garment Enterprises

In the morning of late autumn, the alarm bell rang on time at 5 in the morning at a rental house in Hutang Town, Wujin District, Changzhou, Jiangsu province.

Shi Yan groped out of bed to find a long sleeved shirt and put on a simple wash. She painted her eyebrows in front of the mirror and hurried out.

"It can be simple and simple. Now workers like us can't eat much breakfast."

She is eating instant noodles at noon, and the steamed bread is pickled vegetables for dinner.

When he was 20 years old, Shi Yan came to work in Changzhou from Guanyun. In the past 8 years, she has been working as a truck driver in textile mills.

Since the reform and opening up, Chinese private enterprises have been developing rapidly. Hundreds of millions of rural youths, like Shi Yan, left the land and poured into cities. They became a special group of migrant workers. They worked overtime, wages were low, no social insurance, no holidays.

Relying on the cheap labor cost, China's private enterprises are booming. The traditional industries with low technology content, such as textile and clothing, are mixed with the cost of migrant workers, and become the leading industry of China's foreign trade rapidly.

But in Shi Yan's view, it is hard to work in a factory, but it is better than farming at home.

Changzhou, located in South of Jiangsu, is a Chinese silk town and a gathering place for modern textile and garment export enterprises in China.

Since the reform and opening up, it has become one of the most developed regions in China. The Yangtze River Delta has become a leading position in China, and its products are exported all over the world.

But in the end of the year, under the influence of the American subprime mortgage crisis, the financial crisis and the domestic industrial upgrading, the textile and garment industry of South of Jiangsu has entered a cold winter and faces another round of tests.

In June of last year, the black kiln worker incident in Shanxi was uncovered. The treatment of migrant workers finally broke through many obstacles. The labor contract law, which aims to protect the legitimate rights and interests of migrant workers, began to implement this year. Enterprises should pay social security for workers and double overtime wages.

The implementation of the labor contract law makes Shi Yan a little excited. They can enjoy the same treatment as workers in the city.

But soon, a bad news is also beginning to spread in enterprises, and a large number of enterprises in the "Pearl River Delta" have gone bankrupt, especially the labor-intensive export enterprises.

At the beginning of this year, some enterprises in the town stopped working and went bankrupt, and the business owners began to stop.

There is a bit of anxiety in Shi Yan's mind. She is worried that the business will fail and will she lose her job?

Under normal circumstances, Shi Yan has 20 classes a month, works 12 hours, rests for 24 hours, and pays 1500 yuan.

At the beginning of the year, the factory continued to operate.

In August, she worked for 18 days and got 600 yuan salary.

Yan sighed, "what is enough to eat and drink? I brought 2000 yuan from my family, and now I spend more than 1000 yuan."

From June, several sisters who worked with Shi Yan in the factory went away in 00.

Half a year ago, there were 17 people in the factory, and finally reduced to 6.

Half a month ago, the day finally came. The boss sold the 24 machines in the factory, and she lost her job.

Shi Shi goes to work in the recruitment market opposite the Hutang town hospital of traditional Chinese medicine every day for half a month.

She found that in recent days, fewer people were walking along the road, and the rented houses around the house were gradually empty. Many people moved away. "If this happens again, I will return to my hometown in a few days."

More and more businesses are closing down, more and more people are out of work, and employers are demanding more and more jobs.

Shi Yan also went to several textile factories. He worked too long and got low wages.

These days, Shi Yan has been very anxious.

At this point, she would rather have no social security and double overtime pay than unemployment.

Peng Haiying, the old man of Shi Yan, is in a more miserable situation: the couple and his son in grade six are crowded in a room less than 20 square meters this year.

In mid September, Peng Haiying came out of the textile mill that had been working for 13 years, only 6 classes in July, and fewer in August.

The husband and wife add up to less than 2000 yuan a month, and life is in a predicament.

In addition to the necessities of life, expenses can be saved. "Children in the family are growing up and have no money to nourishment."

Peng Haiying said, tears rolling in her eyes.

Peng Haiying's husband's factory was also sluggish. Although he started to stop, he stayed. After all, there was still 80 yuan in the last class.

Peng Haiying said that many people are struggling so hard that she still has more than 3000 yuan of wages not brought back.

In September 25th, in the talent market of Wuxi Labor Bureau, Pei Hongyun, 39, had been unemployed for three months.

In June of this year, she was laid off with more than 500 workers in the factory.

"After all these years, I suddenly lost my job and I felt empty."

Pei Hongyun inquired about many factories, ran 6 labor Hall's service halls, and ran more than 10 career intermediaries, each time disappointed.

Primary school diploma, she can only find some manual work, many intermediaries think she is too old to do heavy work.

According to government sources, this year, Changshou City has reduced nearly 100 thousand migrant workers compared with last year, and Wuxi has reduced 60 thousand migrant workers in the first half of this year.

Shi Shi Yan and his companions are very confused. How will they live in the future?

Go home?

Life in the countryside is no longer habitual. What can we do when we go back?