Haizhu District, Guangzhou: "Clothing Village" Recruits Workers

Before the Lantern Festival, Kangle, Lujiang, Datang, Ruibao, Tuhua and other urban villages in Haizhu District, Guangzhou were very busy, and the clothing industry recruitment season arrived as scheduled. More than 200000 garment industry practitioners live in these villages. With the arrival of orders after the New Year, the most urgent thing for bosses is to recruit workers. The recruitment square, streets, etc. The places related to recruitment in the village are crowded everywhere. The boss with the sample clothes eats hot and dry noodles while recruiting workers, for fear of missing out on good skilled workers. Clothing workers lament that in the spring, there are more orders and fewer workers. This is a time when they can "wilfully" pick and choose, and they look forward to a good future this year.

At less than 10 o'clock on the morning of February 23, the third floor and the third floor of Kanglu New Recruitment Square surrounded the employers and workers looking for jobs. Free shuttle buses in the village constantly transported the clothing related employees from Kanglu District to here. Master Sun from Sichuan stood at the corner of the square, holding a shirt and skirt, waiting for the garment workers to come to inquire. Due to the heavy snow in Hubei, several workers with long-term fixed parking spaces in the factory could not return to Guangzhou in time from their hometown. Master Sun had to go to the recruitment square to recruit 20~30 odd jobs to fill the vacancy. "Since the beginning of the new year, orders have come in succession, but the workers have not yet fully returned." Master Sun, who has been working for 20 years, told reporters that these days are the "peak season" for odd jobs. There are more bosses than workers, so workers can slowly choose jobs that they think are cost-effective.

On the morning of February 25, a similar scene was staged in the recruitment street of Datang Village. Bosses often hold clothing samples in one hand and small cards with recruitment requirements and unit price of single clothing in the other hand to attract odd jobs; The workers who came to look for jobs looked around in the ranks, looking for the most cost-effective jobs. "The advantage of finding a job here is freedom. You can do it today if you want, and you can do it tomorrow if you don't want. Like buying vegetables at the vegetable market, we look at which vegetables we want to buy, and then we buy them." Master Zeng, a skilled lathe worker, did not return to his hometown in Hubei this Spring Festival, and stayed in warm Guangzhou with his family for the Spring Festival. He believes that the spring season is the best season for garment workers in a year. There are many orders but not many workers, so they can choose the jobs they like.

"We returned to Guangzhou on the seventh day of the lunar calendar, and started work on the eighth day of the lunar calendar." Ms. Li, from Jingzhou, Hubei, opened a garment factory with an area of more than 100 square meters in Lujiang, which had more than 70 parking spaces at its peak. "Since the children will start school on the tenth day of the lunar new year, we returned to Guangzhou early to avoid the ice and snow in our hometown." Ms. Li's factory specializes in pants. Skilled long-term workers can work with quality and quantity guaranteed, but because many long-term workers have not returned to Guangzhou at present, and the factory is in urgent need of shipping, so we have to raise the unit price to find odd jobs. "Now the unit price of working hours is twice as high as usual, and there are still not enough people to recruit." As March approaches, the roar of machines in textile and garment processing plants becomes louder and louder.

"Guangdong is the textile industry of the whole country, and Guangdong is the textile industry of Guangdong." The Zhongda textile business circle located in Haizhu District, Guangzhou City, is world-famous. More than 20 years ago, depending on the mature industrial supply chain around the textile market, the garment processing industry began to appear in the nearby villages in the city, gradually forming a huge industrial cluster.

At present, Haizhu District optimizes the urban spatial layout in combination with the reconstruction of old villages and the upgrading of business districts, to provide space guarantee for the future development of Zhongda Textile Business District. We will further accelerate the transformation and upgrading of the Zhongda Textile Business District towards the goal of developing into a Zhongda International Textile Fashion Center, a digital creative design center, a scientific and technological fabric research and development base, a trend release base, and a brand incubation headquarters base.

(Source: Guangzhou Daily)