The employment gap is huge! Foreign trade here is booming and exports hit new highs! Government departments are “poaching” people across the country! ! !
At the beginning of 2020, a sudden COVID-19 epidemic brought an unexpected impact to the global economy. Under the epidemic, China’s foreign trade has experienced unprecedented ups and downs. From the “shortage of orders” at the beginning of the year to the “surge of orders” at the end of the year, changes in the foreign trade market can be said to have affected the nerves of China and even the global economy.
As the domestic epidemic prevention and control situation stabilizes, orders for the foreign trade industry have been scheduled from 2020 to 2021. However, behind the boom in orders, what are the foreign trade companies facing? Unknown difficulties? The international epidemic situation is still severe. What kind of hidden worries do foreign trade companies have? With these questions in mind, the reporter explored the underlying reasons for the development of foreign trade companies from the “tip of the iceberg” where orders are booming.
Every year on the eve of the Spring Festival, as a large number of migrant workers return to their hometowns, the manufacturing industry will face labor shortages. The Yangtze River Delta region is one of the areas with the highest concentration of manufacturing industries in my country, especially for some foreign trade enterprises. With the increase in export orders, the shortage of workers in the manufacturing industry has further intensified.
With rising orders and a shortage of workers, foreign trade companies are “more than willing but not able enough”
In a medical supplies company in Huzhou, Zhejiang, quality inspector Dai Juan is inspecting the outer packaging of oxygen masks. She told reporters that many people have gone home early during this period. Normally, there are twice as many workers in this dust-free workshop as there are now. Workers who leave their posts early make the production, which is already short of workers, even more tense.
The reporter learned that this company is a foreign trade enterprise, mainly OEM for foreign brands , which produces disposable respiratory and anesthesia supplies. In 2020, orders increased significantly due to the epidemic, and the company’s output value doubled. Hui Yu, general manager of a medical device company in Zhejiang: If there were more employees, the output value this year would be higher, because our current orders have basically been scheduled until May and June, but most of the employees have gone home early to celebrate the Spring Festival. , there has been a labor “shortage” again, especially in January.
The phenomenon of labor shortage also exists in Jiangsu. At an electronics company in Jiangsu, the personnel recruitment specialist said that recruitment is a long-term task for the company, and most of the department leaders and colleagues are currently recruiting people from other places. Wang Jinchao, HR Recruitment Specialist of an electronics company in Jiangsu: Basically the entire department is recruiting outside. It is expected that at 12 o’clock in the evening, two buses of employees will arrive, all of whom have been recruited from outside through various methods.
In the production workshop of Giant Jiangsu factory, the person in charge told reporters that since the epidemic, bicycles have been selling like hot cakes at home and abroad, and they are recruiting workers. The speed cannot keep up with the growth of orders. Wu Yong, production, supply and marketing manager of a bicycle brand’s Jiangsu factory: Recruitment is very tight in the entire East China region. Just like our bicycle industry, there is an imbalance between supply and demand. The demand side is huge, but the supply side is relatively small, so the company is struggling to recruit people.
Exports have a “V-shaped” rebound, and leading companies are now short of 10,000 people
Kunshan, Jiangsu Province is home to thousands of foreign trade companies and is one of the main export ports for domestic electronic products. In 2020, with the “V-shaped” reversal of export orders, the employment of Kunshan’s foreign trade enterprises has also experienced huge fluctuations. Currently, due to the continued popularity of foreign trade orders, the employment situation is still tense.
In the human resources market hall in Kunshan, Jiangsu, early in the morning, there are already many companies Recruitment information was posted, but the number of job seekers on site was not ideal. According to recruiters, especially foreign trade companies, there has been a labor gap since the third quarter of 2020.
In 2020, affected by the epidemic, the export business of foreign trade companies experienced ups and downs. From a period of production stagnation to later full orders, employment also experienced roller coaster fluctuations. According to the employment situation chart of key leading enterprises in Kunshan, the number of employees represented by the red line in 2020 increased significantly in July and August.
Kunshan has gathered many leading companies in the electronics industry at home and abroad, including many large companies with more than 10,000 employees. At that time, the doubled labor demand created a huge gap.
At a large mobile phone parts company in Kunshan, the person in charge said that the company supplies camera modules to mobile phone brands such as Huawei and Samsung, and usually employs about 10,000 people. In August 2020, with the launch of new machines, the company had a short-term employment gap of more than a thousand people. Operation and management of an electronics enterprise in JiangsuSupervisor and Financial Director Cai Yun: We urgently took two measures. The first was to increase the recruitment of order classes and naming classes in some schools we cooperate with; the second was to connect with relevant departments and let them make the connection. Recruit more new employees in the market.
According to customs data, Kunshan’s single-month export value reached 46.04 billion yuan in November 2020, a year-on-year increase of 23.8%, setting a record high. Exports continue to improve, causing labor shortages to continue to this day. The epidemic situation has tightened again recently, and many companies are actively mobilizing their employees to “stay in Kunshan for the New Year.” Currently, many large companies have secured more than half of their workers to stay in Kunshan for the New Year.
Wang Jinchao, HR recruitment specialist of an electronics company in Jiangsu: In addition to three times the national standard salary, we will also reward each person with an additional 150-200 yuan/day. This kind of additional reward , can also be regarded as a kind of subsidy.
Strategic agreements provide government departments with designated locations to “poach people” across the country
In fact, in recent years, Difficulty in recruiting workers has become the norm in the Yangtze River Delta region. Since 2020, affected by the epidemic, the difficulty in recruiting workers has further intensified. It can be said that relevant departments have gone to great lengths to recruit workers for local companies.
In the government office of Deqing County, Huzhou City, Zhejiang Province, Yang Sheng, deputy director of the Human Resources and Social Security Bureau of Deqing County, Huzhou City, Zhejiang Province, introduced the local recruitment situation to reporters.
Yang Sheng told reporters that in the fourth quarter of 2020, Deqing County provided about 6,000 jobs. The number of registered job seekers is only about 2,100, and the employment ratio, that is, the supply-demand ratio, has reached 2.9. There is still an obvious shortage of labor. At present, the recruitment work has entered a period of accumulation, and a special job fair will be held in Yunnan at the end of the month to prepare for post-holiday employment.
Yang Sheng, deputy director of the Human Resources and Social Security Bureau of Deqing County, Huzhou City, Zhejiang Province: At least as a co-runner, we will go to those who have established cooperative relationships from now on. At labor cooperation sites, conduct preliminary visits and interviews, and recruit if conditions permit.
The reporter visited many places in Jiangsu and Zhejiang and learned that government departments generally attach great importance to the difficulty of enterprise recruitment. In order to attract local talents, they have been visiting schools in central and western provinces and cities for a long time, striving to establish long-term cooperation. relation.
Xu Jihua, Deputy Director of the Human Resources and Social Security Bureau of Kunshan City, Jiangsu Province: We have established strategic cooperation agreements with more than 80 human resources and social security departments, which are labor import and export agreements. We have established agreements with more than 200 human resources and social security departments. All technical colleges have established a government-school-enterprise cooperation agreement. Yang Zhixiang, a member of the Party Committee of Kunshan Human Resources Market in Suzhou City, Jiangsu Province: Actively cooperate with Yunnan, Henan and other regions and actively cooperate with them. Now a reservoir of human resources protection has been established, with more than 100,000 people.
In 2020, many cities in the Yangtze River Delta introduced new settlement policies to lower the threshold for settlement; Nanjing and Suzhou achieved mutual recognition of social security accumulation years. In addition, a few days ago, nine cities in the Yangtze River Delta G60 Science and Technology Innovation Corridor have just signed a million-dollar science and technology innovation talent attraction agreement. In recent years, major cities in the Yangtze River Delta have continuously introduced new policies for talents, relaxing the threshold for settling in, increasing subsidies for renting and purchasing houses, and improving service guarantees for all types of labor.
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