Wenzhou small workshops go from here? Labor shortage driving shoe clothing small workshop economy

“When leading companies gradually dilute production, pay attention to brand building or other investments, they bring opportunities for the development of small and medium-sized enterprises and even small workshops. Especially for industries with a low threshold, a group of small factories will emerge.” Wenzhou Wu Bangdong, president of Zhuangji Group, said this. Production enterprises in coastal cities are in a special period of shifting to the echelons of the Mainland. Small workshops of various forms of shoes and apparel are extremely active. He Guoliang, secretary general of the Wenzhou Ouhai District Shoe Leather Association, said that as an extension of the production companies, small workshops have always existed, but the rate of increase has been particularly rapid this year.

Production enterprises "single and few people"

"There are orders, no one does." Almost the most popular word for shoe and apparel manufacturers in 2010.

He Guoliang said that with the gradual improvement of the overall economic situation this year, workers in processing factories in coastal cities are difficult to recruit, and a large number of companies have to find OEMs outside. Li Yanhui, a consultant of the Wenzhou Clothing Industry Association, stated that after the international financial crisis in 2008, a group of small and medium-sized garment manufacturing enterprises were forced to stop production, workers were increasingly difficult to recruit, and the processing factories in the coastal cities were currently in a special period of transfer to the inner echelon. Wenzhou The city’s clothing production capacity is quite inadequate. According to statistics from Wenzhou Customs, from January to October this year, the export of clothing and clothing accessories in Wenzhou increased by 19.52%. Li Yanhui said that this proves that Wenzhou's orders have not decreased. To a certain extent, small workshops have added some strength to the production of shoes and apparel in Wenzhou City.

Yu Qiangchun, chairman of Zhejiang Weixishi Garments Co., Ltd., believes that as the employment situation becomes more and more severe, the city will continue to develop large-scale large-scale plants that are becoming more and more difficult, and small-scale processing plants will become protagonists. Developed countries like the United States, Britain, Italy and other places are hardly able to see thousands of large-scale factories, and more are small factories with hundreds or dozens of people.

Employment and cost advantages are obvious

Wenzhou Bohai, a garment processing factory owner with more than 100 workers, Mr. Wang calculated a cost account for the reporter, took a casual jacket and clothing processing fee is 200 yuan (can be considered medium-high) as an example. For the processing plant, the costs to be paid are: parking worker wages (45 yuan), ironing (2 yuan), cutting (3 yuan), rear road (5 yuan), rent (5 yuan), management fees (40 yuan), fabric accessories cost (85 yuan)......and taxation, development costs, kind of clothes and so on. A garment processing profit of up to 25 yuan is considered good, while the cost of large companies is even higher.

There is no pressure on management costs, taxation, etc., but only pay for workers' wages, utilities, and rent. Many migrant workers who have a certain level of technology in the company are eager to start a small factory with a few friends or fellow villagers and dozens of people together. Wu Yixiang, secretary general of the Foreign Trade Branch of the Wenzhou Garment Merchants Association, said that the advantages of such villagers and relatives in the small workshops will also encounter difficulties in recruitment.

Migrant workers passion for entrepreneurship rose

In March this year, the reporter conducted a sample survey of eight shoe and clothing companies in Wenzhou City. The results showed that among the related private shoe-wear enterprises in Kangnai, France, and Joydon, the new generation of migrant workers accounted for about 70% of the total number of workers after the 80s. .

Wu Bangdong, president of Wenzhou Zhuangji Group, said: “The entrepreneurial passion of the new generation of migrant workers is another major reason for the small workshop phenomenon.” He said that the workers in Wenzhou City are completely different from those in the past, and the management of the younger generation in the company’s director level or above Many are university students. They have higher expectations for themselves and have a passion for entrepreneurship. In such a place with a strong entrepreneurial atmosphere in Wenzhou City, the emergence of a large number of small processing plants is also an inevitable phenomenon of the development of the times.

Mr. Hubei Renke, a 30-something, is a member of the small workshop army. Last year, the couple invested 300,000 yuan and bought more than 50 machines to rent a private house in the Bohai Sea. In a small workshop where only 20 workers can be recruited, he will raise food for the off-season next year during the peak season. His business card has been carefully designed and there are brand logos (trademarks have not yet been registered). He hopes to be able to operate like a clothing owner in Wenzhou: To be a processing factory with research and development capabilities. Ke said frankly, he had almost no profit last year, but Wenzhou is a place worth learning, hoping to change...

In the army of such a small group of workshops, it is to continue the "triple play" guerrillas, or transform itself into a pioneering hero. Wenzhou small workshops go from here?