At about 9 a.m. on February 22, with a temperature of less than 10 degrees, the hundreds-meter-long Qiaonan New Street in Datang Village, Haizhu District, Guangzhou City was crowded and bustling. The people coming and going are all garment workers looking for jobs. After they and the person in charge of the garment factory who is standing on the roadside to recruit workers briefly understand the type of work required, the unit price of the process, and the quantity of supply, if they are suitable, they can follow the person in charge to the factory and start. It’s time for a new year of work.
Every year around the Lantern Festival, you will see such a lively recruitment scene in Datang Village, Kangle Village and other places around the Zhongda Textile Business District. However, due to the temperature, this year’s peak garment season has not yet arrived, and the “recruitment boom” has “cooled down” a little compared to previous years.
Phenomenon:
The cold weather is hard to stop the recruitment boom, and large and small garment factories are rushing to make orders.
“The process of this product is simple, but the collar is a little more difficult to make.” It was cold weather. A Liang and his companions, wearing thick down jackets, stood in front of Sister Li. They touched the pure white shirt in Sister Li’s hand and put their heads together to discuss in a low voice. After learning that more than 1,000 pieces of this shirt were to be made and the unit price per piece was 5.5 yuan, they decided to take the order. “The two of us divide the work and work together. We can make about 80 pieces a day, and each person can get more than 200 yuan. It’s almost noon now, and we have to start work quickly.” After talking to the reporter in a hurry, A Liang put his hands back in his pockets. He and his companions followed Sister Li to the factory to start work.
In Datang Village, this recruitment model is very common. Every year after the Lantern Festival, when a large number of new spring clothes are put on sale, garment factories of all sizes in the village receive urgent orders and go to the streets to recruit odd jobs.
But this year things are a little different. “It’s been cold this year, and business hasn’t picked up yet. In the past, it was impossible to walk here. Although it’s crowded this year, there are still gaps.” Sister Zhang from Tianmen, Hubei, shared with reporters her experience of finding odd jobs in the past week.
Mr. Gong’s garment factory is one of the largest garment factories in Datang Village. The entire factory covers an area of about 1,200 square meters and has nearly 90 garment making stations. “The orders this year are a little less than the same period last year, but there are also urgent orders. Starting from February 10, I have been recruiting workers every day, and I have hired 7 or 8 workers today,” he said.
reason:
Peak order periods lead to seasonal shortages,
Things will get better in two weeks
“National fabrics look to Guangdong, and Guangdong fabrics look to Zhongda.” Zhongda Textile Business District has more than 60 markets, including Guangzhou International Textile City, Pearl River International Textile City, and Guangzhou Hongmian Zhongmen. It is the hub of my country’s textile and clothing industry chain and an important industrial resource allocation center.
Liang Xiaoxu, secretary-general of the Zhongda International Innovation Ecological Valley Textile Industry Federation, said that Guangzhou is my country’s fashion trend leader and has a complete textile and clothing supply chain system and a strong industrial foundation. Therefore, one of the biggest features of Guangzhou’s clothing is fast fashion and the pursuit of The word “quick”. Clothing companies can complete the entire process from design, fabric selection, pattern making, and finished product samples to Zhongda Textile Business District in as little as one day. After purchasing fabrics from the Zhongda Textile Business District, they need to produce clothing as quickly as possible, which gave rise to the Zhongda Textile Business District. Garment processing and manufacturing industry in Datang Village, Kangle Village and Lujiang Village surrounding the large textile business district.
“Since the garment industry is closely related to seasonal changes, seasonal peak seasons often lead to work shortages during peak order periods for spring and summer clothing around the Spring Festival and September for autumn and winter. Now is the time for new spring clothing, and some workers have not yet returned to work. situation, so you can see the person in charge of the garment factory urgently recruiting workers. This phenomenon will last for about two weeks and normal order will be restored.” Liang Xiaoxu said.
He believes that due to climate influence, the temperature in most parts of the country did not rise significantly after the Lantern Festival this year, and the launch of spring clothing was hindered to a certain extent. The order volume of garment factories was not as “hot” as in previous years, and the recruitment boom in surrounding urban villages has also “cooled down” slightly. “. “As temperatures continue to warm across the country, the real spring clothing season is about to arrive.”
Breaking:
Develop a recruitment platform for the garment industry to improve the efficiency of supply and demand docking
long termRecently, seasonal labor shortages in the textile processing industry around the Zhongda Textile Business District, especially after the Lantern Festival, have been plaguing garment companies in Guangzhou.
This year is the fifth year that Mr. Fang from Anhui has opened a garment factory near the Zhongda Textile Business District. According to him, during the peak order period every year, a large number of small workshops often outsource skilled workers to individual contractors after receiving orders. To complete order production, they are used to holding up signs to recruit workers in the morning and taking workers to produce in the afternoon. However, the efficiency of recruiting workers through placards is low, and sometimes no suitable technicians can be found in a day.
In May last year, Haizhu District successively developed and introduced online professional recruitment platforms for the clothing industry such as “BaoMaoRen” and “BuYiHui” to help clothing companies and industry practitioners recruit and find jobs without meeting in person to improve the efficiency of supply and demand docking. “We joined Buyihui. I didn’t know how to operate it at first, but the staff taught me step by step how to post jobs and check resumes. It became more and more convenient to use it. Now I can recruit workers with just a few clicks,” said Mr. Fang.
According to statistics, the above-mentioned platform has more than 8,000 registered entity users, more than 24,000 registered individual users, more than 5,000 job information published, and more than 27,000 people have communicated and connected through it.
At the same time, employment assistance service stations were set up in Fengyang, Ruibao, Jianghai, Nanzhou, Huazhou, Guanzhou and other streets where the garment industry is concentrated, and “daily recommendation” activities for employment services were organized. “In the near future, we will hold special recruitment activities through multiple channels based on changes in labor demand in the garment industry, and provide services such as skills training docking, policy consultation, etc.” said the relevant person in charge of the Haizhu District Human Resources and Social Security Bureau.
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