Building Huajian Light Industrial Park To Help Ethiopia Improve Its Industrial Chain

Starting from the Boole International Airport in Addisababa, capital of Ethiopia, about 30 kilometers away, there is a modern production Industrial Park, Dongfang Industrial Park, which is the world leader.

Here is the Ethiopia international shoe city, a manufacturer of Huajian group.

If you ask the local people of Addisababa, they know the Huajian shoe city in the industrial park, because the local people have benefited from it.

Dongguan Huajian is in agreement.

In August 2011, when he was Prime Minister of Ethiopia, Meles went to Shenzhen to attend the opening ceremony of the World University Games.

In fact, his more important purpose in China's trip is to make China's labor-intensive.

Bring back the motherland, give full play to the low price advantage of esse's production factors, and develop its own light industry to solve the problem of nearly half of the population's unemployment.

Employees who are busy working on the production line

At the suggestion of economist Yifu Lin, he went to Dongguan, Guangdong, and inspected OEM for developed economies.

The Huajian group of commodities invited them to invest in Ethiopia.

Then, in September 2011, Zhang Huarong, chairman of Huajian group, was invited to take a tour to Ethiopia.

In January 2012, the two sides signed the contract and began production in only three months.

Employees are checking products carefully.

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The cooperation between Ethiopia and Huajian should be mutually beneficial and win-win.

As a labor-intensive manufacturing industry, Huajian needs a lot of cheap labor and raw materials. Ethiopia, as the second largest country in Africa, is rich in high-quality leather, and the unemployment rate is close to 50%. It urgently needs the entry of Huajian's labor-intensive enterprises.

Since its commissioning in 2012, Huajian has more than 4000 employees in Ethiopia, of which more than 3800 local employees have been employed.

In factories, they have a clear division of labor and do their jobs.

The staff can skillfully carry out leather cutting, bonding, sewing and other shoemaking processes, and they can produce more than 6500 pairs of shoes per day.

At present, Huajian group owns six modern production lines and shoe material fields in Ethiopia, and the number of women's shoes exported annually can reach 2 million pairs, with an annual profit margin of 10%.

Training staff to teach people to fish

Earlier, Western media reported that Huajian's management of Ethiopia employees was too harsh and strict.

Regarding this, Song Yiping, deputy general manager of Huajian international shoe city Ethiopia limited liability company, said that strict and efficient management is a necessary condition for training advanced shoe making talents.

Owing to the different working concepts between Africans and Chinese, Huajian paid tuition fees in the initial stage of Ethiopia.

At that time, shoemaking was a new field for the Ethiopians. Although the cost of the labor was relatively low, the efficiency of the staff was much lower than that of the domestic workers in China.

To cope with this problem, Huajian has done enough work in personnel training.

For the training of new employees, they have set up specialized training classrooms, and hand in hand teaching of handcrafts and equipment by experienced Chinese teachers in many ways. For those excellent local employees, the factory is also providing them with training opportunities to go to China Huajian Dongguan general department and Huajian Ganzhou technical school to learn equipment operation, business management and Chinese.

At present, a batch of employees returning from school have already set up a bigger position in the more important positions and participated in the management work.

There were Ethiopian local media asking this question: "Huajian has been in Ethiopia for four or five years. When can the Ethiopian be the top management of the company?" Song Yiping smiled bitterly.

He said that we are working hard to cultivate local cadres, but this is a long time experience and technology accumulation, and can not be achieved overnight.

If you want to be top, you need to be proficient in everything. The top floor needs more than ten years to develop. Although it's just shoes, it's not that simple.

Song Yiping is directing employees.

Building Huajian light industrial park to help Ethiopia improve its industrial chain

At present, the Huajian group, the first to enter Ethiopia, has set an example for labor-intensive enterprises in other parts of the world.

At the same time, they are making their career in Africa bigger and stronger.

Song Yiping said that at present, the political environment in Ethiopia is stable, the economic development momentum is good, the urbanization process is constantly advancing and the consumer market is also expanding. In order to further expand the enterprises, Huajian has launched the construction of the Huajian International Light Industrial Park in Dongguan, China in April 2015. The park will mainly manufacture light industries such as clothing, shoes and hats and electronic products. It is expected that the first phase of the plant can be completed by the end of this year, and the project will be completed in 2020.

According to introducing, at that time, enterprises involved in shoemaking and clothing upstream and downstream supporting industries will enter the park, thus improving the industrial chain of the Ethiopian leather industry. The number of workers is expected to reach fifty thousand.

After the completion of the project, part of the labor-intensive industries in Dongguan will be pferred to the park. More than 60% of the products of Ethiopia shoes and garments will be from Huajian light industrial park.

The customer representative (right) is communicating with employees.