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The Major Shoe Enterprises Are Facing The Challenge Of "Labor Shortage And Wage Increase".

2010/7/23 12:01:00 44

"Traditional industrial cluster" has a specific meaning in the economic context of China. In most cases, it refers to a limited local area.

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It is highly concentrated and forms a dense industrial network around a specialized product or a specialized division of labor chain.

Since the beginning of reform and opening up, with the great success of China's export-oriented economic development strategy, the proportion of total economic volume and import and export volume in the southeast coastal area has been rising. At the same time, through the accumulation of more than 30 years, a number of special industrial clusters with strong competitive advantages and high popularity have been gradually formed.

Such as sports shoes in Jinjiang and Wenzhou.

leather shoes

Shaoxing.

Textile and other light industries

Haining.

Leatherwear

Wait.

In Zhejiang Province, the most developed industrial cluster in China, according to statistics, in 2008, there were more than 810 industrial blocks with an annual output value of more than 100 million yuan, distributed in 175 industries, such as shoemaking, textile and clothing, and the total number of enterprises was 30.84, accounting for 64% of the total industrial output value of the province.

The small industries that are small and unfamiliar seem to be out of sight, but together they form the growth engine of Chinese manufacturing industry and even the whole national economy.

At the same time, although each industry cluster involves different fields and products, it has many common characteristics: most of them are at the end of the global industrial value chain, while the scale of enterprises in the industry is different from the large factories of thousands of people to the small workshops of several people, but it is generally labor intensive.

This also makes China's large and small industrial clusters and entrepreneurs everywhere facing a common challenge: shortage of labor and wage increases.

Foxconn's jump gate and Honda strike gate were finally passed to factory employees.

Pay rise

30% in order to solve the problem, and in recent years, the minimum wage has been raised everywhere, people feel that a wage storm has suddenly swept through.

However, for those companies in traditional industrial clusters, the tense employment situation has long intensified their psychological expectation of raising salaries.

Reporters contacted a number of labor-intensive enterprises and learned that since 2006, "

Labor shortage

The problem is serious every year.

Deputy General of a well-known foreign electronics production enterprise in Jiangsu told reporters that "now we have signed employment contracts with secondary school students and technical school students who will graduate soon after the winter vacation. Even so, every time a large number of orders come into the" critical period ", the management of the company still has to go to the labor market to get a high salary.

During the Spring Festival every year, most workers who work in the southeastern coastal cities will go back to the festival and relocate their jobs and jobs after the festival. According to the reporters, some enterprises in order to enable workers to return to work on time, some very intelligent enterprises use the way of "tender card" and "friendship card" to send the year-end bonus and welfare to the workers before the Spring Festival. They hope that they can have a sense of belonging to the factories that have been working for several years and come back voluntarily in the coming year. Others are adopting the opposite strategy. In order to avoid the loss of workers, they are required to pay the bonus only after the Spring Festival, and the bonus amount is higher than the average level of the industry.