Chapter 2436 Improvement of Labor Quality

The first thing Xiao Xu and Xiao Qi discussed was the problem of urban congestion control.

But this is not what Xiao Xu most wants to talk about today.

What he wanted to talk about was another, more important topic.

"About the Nike factory closing the Taichang factory in March, do you know?" Xiao Xu asked.

"I know." Xiao Qi nodded, "The Taichang factory with 1,400 employees is Nike's only shoe factory in China. After closing, they focused their shoe manufacturing on the Philippines and Indonesia, and even went to Vietnam, These places in Cambodia."

"So did you know that Adidas is going to do the same?"

"Huh? So early?" Xiao Qi blurted out.

"Why so early?" Xiao Xu was a little puzzled.

"No, nothing."

The boy smiled and didn't say much.

He remembered that in his previous life, Adidas closed the last factory in Huaguo in 2012. How come this life was brought forward to 2009?

Xiao Xu ignored his son's bewilderment, and continued: "Nike and Adidas left Huaguo one after another. On the one hand, it shows that the manufacturing crisis in Huaguo is continuing. On the other hand, it also shows that after so many years of development in Huaguo, artificial When various costs increase, there is no longer a competitive advantage in price. Compared with the former, the impact of the latter is more extensive."

Xiao Qi understands Xiao Xu's worries, even in his previous life, he heard more worries about this aspect.

The simplest labor-intensive factories in the world have always flowed with capital.

In the 1960s, labor and other costs in the United States rose, so most of the factories moved to Japan. When Japan also experienced rising costs in the 1970s, factories moved to Taiwan and South Korea.

Then for the same reason, these factories moved to Huaguo in the 1980s.

Up to now, Huaguo is the same as Japan and South Korea back then, so factories have moved to cheaper labor-intensive regions-Southeast Asia.

Capital is profit-seeking, when profits are getting less and less. Of course they will change.

If one day the cost in Southeast Asia also rises, then they will also leave. Find the next cheaper place.

So this kind of thing is inevitable.

Xiao Xu knew the history of this factory's changes, so he was filled with emotion. He never thought that after enjoying the demographic dividend of Huaguo for more than 20 years, he would encounter such a big setback.

How did Huaguo get its good life now?

Isn't it just relying on hundreds of millions of peasants who traveled from the central and western regions to the coastal cities, and worked hard to make shoes, clothes, lighters, etc., and earned it with one hand and one foot?

Otherwise, you think it’s just about doing business. Selling things from Shuchuan to the northeast and selling things from eastern Guangdong to the west of Shanxi can boost the economy of the entire Hua Kingdom?

yes.

Whether it is Japan, South Korea or Taiwan, they all survived in the end and developed very well.

But China is such a big country, and its technical reserves are not as strong as those of Japan and South Korea. If Xuebaodao does an OEM in Southeast Asia, it will involve direct competition with businessmen in Baodao, who have decades of OEM experience. Definitely not going well at first.

What these manufacturing businessmen in Huaguo lack is patience.

You didn't see the previous subprime debt crisis, and the current prosperity of antiques. These businessmen can't hold it anymore, do they want to get out directly?

If they are allowed to continue high investment for several years. If the return is not too fast, I really don't know if they will shrink back directly.

No one can tell when this kind of matter is involved, so Xiao Xu is a little worried.

"'It's going to rain, mother is going to get married', what we can do is to create a good environment for them as much as possible, and let them go for the rest." Xiao Qi pondered, "Now at the mansion, In addition to curbing the boom in the antique market as much as possible, there are a lot of actions in terms of tax support and loan assistance. It can be said that the situation is much better than a year ago.

Even if the entire labor-intensive industry is relocated, it will not be fully completed in one or two years. During this period of time, they can actively look for new directions, such as increasing profit growth points, such as creating their own brands, such as upgrading technology...as long as they are willing to think and do it, then there will be no way out. "

What makes Xiao Qi very gratified is that, with the efforts of himself and his father, in this life, there is no so-called 4 trillion yuan infrastructure construction plan, no overall blind investment of tens of trillion yuan across the country, real estate, cement, steel, shipbuilding, etc. And so on, there is no blind expansion. The goal of the country is correct from the beginning, that is, to give support to export enterprises as much as possible, so that they can survive and survive.

Therefore, in the previous life, 90% of bank loans were occupied by state-owned super-large enterprises, small and medium-sized enterprises, especially private small and medium-sized enterprises, loan financing is a bitter and bitter experience.

It was better on weekdays, but after the financial crisis in 2008, basically these private small and medium-sized enterprises did not make much money, and they all relied on starting work to stabilize their factories, otherwise they might go bankrupt.

Under such circumstances, their capital chain is even more tense.

There is no way to get money in the bank, so they have no choice but to find private loans every year—that is, loans in the way of donkey rolling.

Of course, many loans that you call usurious are actually not counted. For example, in 2008 and 2009, the interest rate of 10%-20% was the most common, and even 20% was rare.

But later, as the funds of these factory owners and real estate developers became more and more tight, in order to borrow more money, they were completely reckless and dared to offer 30%, 50% or even 100% of the loan interest. Get others to lend them money.

There are always so many people who want money and don't want to die, and they are greedy for high interest to be fooled, so in the end the whole private lending exploded directly, the borrowers couldn't pay back the money and fled, and the people who lost all their savings were also hysterical...

Xiao Qi prevented such a thing from the beginning. When talking with Xiao Xu, he focused on the important responsibilities and roles of the state and banks in this crisis.

Niu Ruzheng, Yu Chengsheng, and Boss Bian all attached great importance to these opinions expressed by Xiao Xu. In addition, Xiao Qi, a great talent with "unparalleled forward-looking vision of world economic strategy", of course they considered carefully. Banks have also exerted pressure to direct more funds towards small and medium-sized private enterprises.

Although the bank has a bit of a tradition of obedience and obedience, but a few super bosses said so, they still took out 50% of the loan funds to support those small and medium-sized private enterprises.

Under such circumstances, the life of small businesses is naturally much easier, and there is absolutely no wave of large-scale bankruptcy.

Xiao Xu was very dissatisfied with his son's words in such a general way, so he said directly: "Please be more specific, how can we get through the difficulties."

Xiao Qi smiled and said: "It's very simple. On the one hand, we learn from Japan and South Korea and develop projects with our own advantages, such as the clothing and footwear industry. Aren't Septwolves and 361 doing well? When it is difficult, we also put some energy in the domestic market, impressing the Chinese people with our good products, so as to increase profit points and maintain the enterprise.

Then there is the most important third, we don't need to panic at all. What kind of factories are those transferred factories? They are all primary processing and manufacturing industries with ultra-low added value, ultra-low technological content, and high pollution. Over the past few years in China, don't they all despise these companies and want to let them all move away? "

"You can't say that..." Xiao Xu pointed to his son, "If you see how many local governments are reluctant to part with those factories with high pollution and high energy consumption, you know that the actual difficulties still exist now."

"So, it happened that foreigners helped us." Xiao Qi shrugged and said, "When they leave, we can use our own advantages to find some new orders to do."

"Advantage? A new list?" Xiao Xu was stunned.

"Yes, we have worked so hard for decades, but it's not that we don't have any advantages." Xiao Qi smiled, "The real so-called industrial workers don't just do simple work, they must have a certain level of knowledge in order to form The factory system of the entire system. It is like being a soldier. In the modern army, which one is more effective than an educated army or an uneducated army?

Huaguo spent decades to equip the new generation of workers with knowledge and basic common sense such as mathematics and physics. So they can do better processing. Therefore, there is no way for major European and American manufacturers to relocate factories because of salary increases. For example, the mobile phone OEM of the Red Sea Factory, such as precision instruments, there is no way to transfer them away.

Because the group of workers in Southeast Asia can also count and work, and they don’t even have basic knowledge of mathematics and physics. No matter how they are taught, they will not have these skills that require the use of the mind! Otherwise, look at why labor costs in Japan are so expensive, and why do Japanese automakers and electronics manufacturers keep a large number of production lines in Japan? Why does the United States still have factories for petroleum, chemicals, automobiles, and heavy machinery? This is all because it is irreplaceable!

Yes, the price of our labor force has risen, but at the same time the quality of our labor force has also improved! In the past, Chinese workers could only do rough machining, but now we have these industrial workers, they can be upgraded to complete tasks in some factories in South America and Eastern Europe! Compared with them, our cost is much cheaper, right? Why not compete for their orders at a cheaper price? "

Xiao Xu became very interested when he heard it.

Xiao Qi said this theory, he has heard it before, but he has never understood it in such detail before.

If this is the case, then Huaguo's industrial upgrading seems to be a matter of course! ?

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