Guangzhou is a well-known clothing production and sales base in the country and even the world. It continuously produces a variety of clothing almost 24 hours a day and sells it to all parts of the country and the world. Therefore, it attracts garment talents from all over the world to come and find employment. It is called the “Golden Triangle” in the Pearl River Delta, forming a unique industrial chain.
Every year, there are always companies, large and small, lining up on the roadside or in industrial areas, recruiting employees with sample clothes at high prices. Employees bargain with the company and go to work immediately when they find a “favorite price”. After finishing the work, they can pay the bill, and then find another company with a higher price. Workers call it speculation. If you are lucky, employees can earn 6, 700 or even thousands of yuan a day.
This phenomenon of employees picking on companies has also attracted attention and reports from domestic and foreign media. Some foreign media even reported at length, calling it “migrant workers in the new century”. This is in huge contrast to the previous selection of employees by companies.
However, as the COVID-19 epidemic has occurred around the world in the past two years, this “Golden Triangle” hot scene may slowly change.
Ruibao Village Recruitment Plaza
It has only been 11 days since the New Year in 2022. Some clothing talent trading centers in Guangzhou, such as Datang Village, Houjiao Village, Ruibao Village, and Xiao Beijing Road (Lujiang Kangle Garment Street,) have already seen a huge flow of job seekers. Different from the long queues of companies waiting for employees to be selected in the past, this year there is obviously more people and less food. Few companies come out to queue up to recruit workers.
Although it was raining outside and the temperature was as low as 5 degrees on February 19, Ruibao Recruitment Plaza in Haizhu District was already crowded. A large number of job seekers are looking for recruiting companies, hoping to find their favorite target. Keep walking around the square. Some tired workers gathered in a group to discuss this year’s market conditions.
A laborer from Jiangxi Province said he came to Guangzhou on the sixth day of the Lunar New Year and didn’t work a shift until the Lantern Festival on the 15th. Thinking that there was a lot of goods to make, the factory owner called a few people to go to work. Each person made only two bundles of goods, and then there was no goods for the early shift. I thought I could just work for one day and have a good start on the first day of the new year. I didn’t expect such a market situation, which is really disappointing.
Ruibao Village Recruitment Plaza
Some workers said that their boss is still in Zhejiang and has not come to Guangzhou. The factory is not open yet. If the external order has not been placed, it should not come so soon. It’s rainy, low-temperature weather and the epidemic. It’s not surprising that there are no orders. Even Zhongda Excipients City only started construction on the 13th of the year. There are no business owners to come out to recruit workers or it is not yet time, so construction will start late this year. If this continues, I’m afraid I will have to join a factory or change careers.
Then the author walked around the recruitment plaza and found that there were only about 20 companies recruiting workers. The clothing samples I took were either woven or weird-looking sweatshirts. Compared with the large-scale single-neck sweaters that were made in previous years, it is obviously difficult to make and there are many processes.
Even companies that have round-neck sweaters only give the unit price of 0.65 yuan many years ago. It’s still a few cents short of the usual 1 yuan for a round-neck sweater in the new year. Many workers looked at it and shook their heads: “It would be difficult to make hundreds of dollars a day at such a price!”
Ruibao Village Recruitment Plaza
The rainy weather and the epidemic around the world have not ended or are factors affecting the apparel industry.
A boss from Jiangxi said that there were no orders at the beginning of this year, and the Thirteenth Bank Wholesale Market started construction late. They are all doing the same thing last year. It is natural that the unit price cannot go up. If you don’t do it, there will be a lot of people doing it. But if no orders come next month, I might be in trouble.
Some other bosses said that the garment industry is under pressure this year, and many places are “cold shots” due to the epidemic. For example, bosses in Baise have not come to Guangzhou to start work due to the epidemic, but even if they come to start work, there will be no orders.
In addition, in 2021, Europe announced that it would cancel my country’s preferential country status starting from January 1, 2022.
At the same time, during the period from December 2021 to the start of the New Year in 2022, continuous rain and snow weather occurred in many places in the country, such as Guangdong and Guangxi in the south. In January and February 2022, there were only 10 sunny days, and the rest were almost rainy. .
According to weather forecast data, the rainy weather in Guangzhou may end at the end of February or the beginning of March.
A hemming worker said: “If there is no single production of short-sleeved round-neck sweaters in March, the market may be like this this year. It seems that we have to change careers. The golden era of easy money in the garment industry is gone forever. .”
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