Yantai's oral business encounters two difficulties

Editor's note: It is understood that since 2012, many foreign trade processing factories such as electromechanical products, aquatic products, and garments have encountered two difficulties: difficult work and difficult orders, workers cannot recruit, can't start work, and have no orders for work. Can be accessed, even if there is an order, do not dare to answer.

It is understood that since 2012, many foreign trade processing factories such as electromechanical products, aquatic products, and garments have encountered two difficulties: difficult work and difficult orders, workers cannot recruit, can't open a job, and have no orders to open. Even if there is an order, I dare not pick it up.

Recruiting is more often than looking for workers. According to the usual practice, it usually passes the fifteenth of the lunar month. Many migrant workers go out to look for work, and the difficulty in finding employment will be greatly eased. However, the reporter learned from relevant sources in the past few days that in the first month of the Lunar New Year, in addition to some large-scale electromechanical, aquatic, and garment enterprises, the city’s labor force is slightly better due to better human resources maintenance, and some small and micro enterprises have started halfway. Can not reach, so that there are more skilled workers than to find workers, most export companies still face the phenomenon of underemployment.

“We haven’t recruited enough workers for the 47 electromechanical companies.” said Yantai, the head of the Yantai office of Shandong Branch of China Export Credit Insurance Corporation. Ding Yongguang, chairman of Haiyang Guangxin Knitting Co., Ltd., said that the labor price in the knitting industry is relatively high. In recent years, Haiyang in particular, the increase in wages of workers has greatly exceeded the growth rate of corporate profits. The employees of Guangxin Knitting Factory The average salary is already around 2,000 yuan.

“This level is not worse than the wage level of similar jobs in Qingdao. Now it costs less than 100 yuan to hire. People don’t do anything. I inquired about the same kind of factory wages in Yantai city.” Ding Yongguang Say.

Some companies' orders have shrunk by nearly half. According to the practice, after the beginning of spring, the climate is warming, and orders for foreign trade companies will gradually increase. However, this year's situation is somewhat special.

"Although the data on the month of the Spring Festival each year is ugly, it is not as ugly as this year," said a person in charge of a foreign trade company that exports mechanical and electrical products to reporters.

When you hear the word “European debt crisis” come from the mouth of a middle-aged rural woman who only has junior high school, you should realize how much the European debt crisis has affected the foreign trade export industry. Ding Yongguang said: “This year's situation is not very good, and now it is coming to an end in February. From the overall point of view, export companies in January and February are very difficult. In previous years, order sales were generally around 5 million to 7 million, and the first two months of the year There are only about 2-3 million sales."

Not only can orders not be received at the moment, but the odds of problems with orders already handed in are also rising.

According to statistics, the rates of orders from Europe and the United States are relatively high, mainly in the United States, Greece, Italy, Germany and other countries. Last year, the export products of 17 foreign trade companies in Yantai were set aside by the export credit insurance companies, and the largest value of more than 4 million US dollars was not recovered. "The reason is very simple. The importer has chosen to reject the payment. The underlying reason is that the debt crisis has caused the demand to shrink," analysts said.

“Actually, the financial crisis including the debt crisis in Europe has been affecting us for several years, and while countries are grabbing energy, imports have also shrunk. Some countries have launched trade wars, green warfare, and other trade barriers against Chinese companies. And technical barriers. These factors also caused some companies have no single access, there is no single contact, there is no single ability to pick up, once the order is likely to lose money the status quo. "Xun Song said.

The domestic situation is also not optimistic. The increase in human resources costs and raw material costs, and the credit crunch on the other hand, have made it more difficult for enterprises to expand production. Although the deposit reserve ratio is lowered, whether the funds released can be used for small and micro enterprises that mainly rely on foreign trade exports. It is not yet clear.

As the level of labor rises, the product cost of the company goes up. In the trade negotiation with foreigners, it is usually entangled for a few cents.

In the flourishing clothing trade, a piece of clothing can earn a dollar or more. “Now a piece of clothing can make a profit of a few cents. The previous processing fee was about three yuan. According to the current rising labor cost, the processing fee should be four to five or five blocks, but in reality the foreigners gave The processing fee is only about one to five," said Ding Yongguang.

Relying on the instability of the trade in the OEM industry To get rid of the predicament, from the micro perspective, export companies have come up with various ways to reduce the risk. "Guangxi Knitting Exporting Countries are mainly concentrated in the United States, Italy and other European and American regions, and South America and the Middle East. The situation in Europe and the United States is not optimistic. We are increasing our strength in South America and the Middle East," said Ding Yongguang.

Ding Yongguang said that although the current conditions are not very good, but as long as the order can earn labor costs to even if there is no profit, we must take orders. After receiving the orders, the workers will have wages and wages will keep their jobs. "This is our company's guarantee for people's livelihood and stability. The development of things is wave-like. It cannot always be in the valley. The economy always has a good day. When it is good, the workers we retain will have a role to play."

New technology and new materials are also adopted in the process. "Like the previous product, we can't produce it. Take new materials and new processes like modal and bamboo fiber."

Professionals from the macro analysis of the export prospects relying on OEM trade bleak: "When the traditional trade model must be changed, we must change the mode of growth, adjust the structure of foreign trade exports, can not do this kind of foundry trade, relying on the export of OEM trade It is very unstable. Yantai manufacturing is our strength, but the creation of Yantai is still insufficient. From the current situation, creating its own brand is the way out."