Textile And Garment Imports Decline, Industry Development Needs Urgent Transformation

Xu Wenying, vice president of China Textile Industry Federation and honorary president of China Cotton Textile Industry Association, said that the rising cost of labor costs is inevitable, and the introduction of relevant national policies has made the labor force return from the eastern coastal areas to the mainland, resulting in the reduction of labor force in the coastal areas and the tight human resources of cotton textile enterprises. He said that enterprises should accelerate the process of transformation and upgrading so as to get rid of all kinds of factors limiting labor force.

Someone in charge of the enterprise thinks that Cotton spinning The rising cost of labor employment is not necessarily a bad thing, but the key is how to overcome it. Insiders also said that the rise of labor costs in China is an inevitable trend. The urgent task is to speed up transformation and upgrading of enterprises, strengthen technological transformation, improve production efficiency and reduce employment through advanced equipment, and gradually get rid of over reliance on labor.

　　 Rising labor costs Staff age Bigger and bigger problems

In the spring survey of China Cotton Textile Industry Association in 2014, cotton textile enterprises in most parts of the country reflected that there were difficulties in recruitment and labor shortage, and the age structure of employees was too large. According to the introduction, the main reason is that young workers are unwilling to work night shifts, even if the treatment is slightly higher than other industries, and they are unwilling to engage in textile production. China Cotton Textile Industry Association found that many cotton textile enterprises are generally over 40 years old, and the average age of employees is over 35 years old.

The difficult employment problem in the cotton textile industry has brought great trouble to the daily production of the enterprises. Most cotton textile enterprises have taken the improvement of working environment, living environment, raising wages, free shuttle buses to pick up workers to work and so on to attract workers. Even so, recruitment difficulties remain widespread.

With the return of the labor force in the eastern coastal areas to the mainland, the shortage of textile female workers is becoming more and more serious. The enterprises in the central part of the country mainly come from the surrounding areas. Relatively speaking, the number of employees is stable. Industry related personnel said that the current wage level in the textile industry increased by nearly 1000 yuan per person per month compared with the previous two years. Now the average wage of the ordinary workshop workers is about 3000~3500 yuan / month, and some areas even exceed 4000 yuan / month. Even so, young people are reluctant to enter the textile workshop.

Cotton textile enterprises have high labor intensity, high temperature and humidity, high noise and frequent night shifts. According to a survey conducted by the China Cotton Textile Industry Association, a large proportion of young people who are unwilling to enter the textile factories after 80 and 90 are due to night shifts. At present, cotton textile enterprises generally adopt a three class working mode, often requiring workers to work night shifts, so these young people prefer to choose lower paid restaurants, supermarkets and other service industries, and do not want to enter the three class textile enterprises.

The increasingly prominent employment problem in the cotton textile industry also shows that the transformation and upgrading of cotton textile industry, improvement of working environment and improvement of workers' treatment have become urgent problems to be solved.

　　 Labor cost Rising is not always a bad thing.

"At present, the wages of Chinese textile workers are rising rapidly, but this is not necessarily a bad thing. High wages mean that the economy is developing well, the key is how to overcome it." Che Ketao, vice chairman and chief executive officer of Yida group, has a unique view on the rise in labor costs.

At present, China's cotton textile enterprises are facing many pressures, such as poor cotton prices, labor and taxes, and so on. Many enterprises begin to "go out" and seek overseas road. In this regard, Che Ke Tao said that many cotton textile enterprises began to build factories in low labor countries, but the current situation is that Indonesia, Vietnam, Bangladesh, India, or even Burma, nearly 2~3 years of labor wage increases are higher than China's. So he believes that the relocation of enterprises to cheap labor can not solve the problem completely.

A professional institution has found that the higher the price on the market is, the lower the internal cost of labor is. In other words, the more high-end products, the smaller the proportion of wages, and the more competitive they are. Che Ketao said, at present, enterprises should not only see the wage increase of workers unilaterally, but should calculate the wages divided by the output of employees. As long as the output of employees is rising continuously, the enterprises with rising wages are still competitive. With the development of the economy and the improvement of the living standard of our country, the wage increase is inevitable. At present, the wage is about 3500 yuan, and it will definitely rise later. What companies need to do is to improve the output of their employees. If every employee's productivity increases, then there is no need to be afraid of rising wages.

This is the unremitting goal of the cotton textile industry. As the industry has said, under the multiple unfavorable factors, China's cotton textile industry is realizing product structure adjustment and regional adjustment, and the process of industrial upgrading and two integration is accelerating. It can be said that the rapid rise of labor costs has gradually become the normal shortage of labor shortage, and is forcing enterprises to transform and upgrade.

　　 Upgrading equipment to reduce dependence on people

Jiangsu Dasheng responsible person said that at present, the labor costs of enterprises have increased significantly, and employment is also more intense. The first measures taken by enterprises are to speed up the transformation of technology and equipment and upgrade the level of advanced technology. The industry also said that at present, enterprises should pay attention to using advanced equipment to reduce employment, change the past only focus on improving the output and quality of products concept, we should focus on improving the level of equipment and employment.

Ring spinning frame is a large quantity of equipment in cotton spinning production process. It is also a problem of concentration of labor force and intensity of labor in textile enterprises. The spinning long car with collective doffing is an important link in improving the productivity of cotton spinning enterprises. According to Zhang Shuming, deputy chief engineer and equipment manager of vroge group Limited by Share Ltd, all the new projects of the company adopt the combination of CMT1800 thickness and intelligent full-automatic roving frame of Qingdao global group. The effect of saving labor is obvious.

He introduced that the former roving machine used by the group of Roshi group needed 11 truck operators, 1 record workers and 3 yarn pullovers, with a total of 15 people, while the new size combined intelligent full-automatic roving machine needed only 4 people, one class reduced the number of workers to employ 11 people, and three classes reduced 33 persons. According to the current wage standard in Shandong, each person had more than 3500 yuan per person (excluding insurance, near, welfare and so on) of about 500 yuan. In this way, the company can save only 1 million 600 thousand yuan per person per year.

Facing the pressure of employment, eliminating backward production capacity and selecting efficient, energy-saving and automatic production equipment will be an important aspect of the development of textile enterprises, in order to make up for the shortage of personnel and the defects of management. The original cotton mill of the group, because of its low yarn size, small orders, and many other equipment is single machine, so the running cost is very high. The original company's 10000 spindles employ about 110 people. Through the use of advanced equipment such as large volume, thickness and so on, there are less than 50 workers in 10000 spindles, which effectively relieves the difficulty of recruiting workers in textile enterprises. In addition, the realization of network and electronic management can greatly improve management efficiency, reduce management staff, avoid overstaffing, and reduce human factors in management and reduce dependence on people.