Status Quo Of Talents In China'S Knitting Industry: From Big To Strong, Who Will Take The Responsibility

From the perspective of supply and demand, spin Professional students are undoubtedly the happiest, but they are not happy because of this, and even feel that the road is narrow. Xu Kunyuan, vice president of China Textile Industry Association, was very worried about the loss of talents in the industry: "Donghua University was once the cradle of textile engineers, and now 60% and 70% of students change careers after graduation.

A few years ago, Ge You solemnly said in "No Thieves Under Heaven": "What is the most expensive thing in the 21st century? It is talent!" This joke, because it contains a certain philosophy, quickly became popular throughout the country. A few years later, this remark has long been forgotten, but the problem of talent scarcity is becoming more and more serious, especially in the manufacturing industry and the textile industry.

Talent shortage, from top to bottom

In April this year, one yarn After receiving an interview, the boss of the enterprise suddenly said in the chat: "You reporters have contacted many people, help me find a CEO, even if we divide his assets of two or three hundred million yuan." His description of the intended partner is: "In his 30s and 40s, those who have run textile enterprises before and don't want to work alone can join hands." Like many textile entrepreneurs in China, he and his wife worked hard for more than ten years and finally created this industry, but he was lucky enough to be No.1 in this field.

Although he is still in his prime of life, quick in thinking and excellent in memory, after acquiring one enterprise after another, the scale of the company expands rapidly, and he is inevitably tired of running south and north every month. However, the children are still young, and succession is not on the agenda. But looking at China, it is not easy to find the right candidates.

The scarcity of talent at the top is common to all walks of life. As a secondary industry, textile has its own pain. At the beginning of this year, during the tea break of a sock industry conference, the chief engineer of a sock enterprise in Rui'an, Zhejiang Province, proposed to the reporter: "Can you help us build a talent pool, introduce professional and highly skilled talents or R&D personnel you know to us, work here or give us some guidance regularly?"

The lack of talents made the engineer quite anxious. As the largest sock industry enterprise in Wenzhou, its annual export volume has reached hundreds of millions of yuan. New factories and projects are about to be put into operation. Although the hardware facilities are very advanced, the problem of talent shortage has become a constraint for further expansion of the company.

Of course, these are still high-end talent problems. For the industry, the most embarrassing thing is that it is difficult to guarantee the number of front-line workers. After the Spring Festival every year, factory entrepreneurs go to the talent market or provinces with rich labor resources to recruit workers in person, which is not a new topic; And the ways that enterprises try to retain workers are also becoming more and more diversified, which are either impressed by humanized management or attracted by favorable treatment. In such industries as civil servants, finance and real estate, the scene of dozens of people competing for a position can only make textile giants envy and envy.

Happy is also painful

On the one hand, they can't sell at a low price, and on the other hand, they can't recruit people at a high salary. This is the dual living condition of today's liberal arts and engineering graduates.

Now is the time for college graduates to go to work clothing The employment situation of the students in the dyeing and finishing majors in some colleges and universities is still encouraging. The employment rate of the students in the dyeing and finishing majors in some colleges and universities is not only 100%, but even 200% of the gap. Wuhan Textile University has 5700 graduates this year, but at an autumn campus job fair held last year, 230 units provided 7500 jobs, and the supply and demand ratio of some textile majors reached 1:7.

From the perspective of supply and demand, students majoring in textile are undoubtedly the happiest, but they are not happy because of this, and even feel that the road is narrow. "The Beijing Institute of Fashion Technology has a value orientation that girls would rather set up a stall than go to a factory after graduation," a BFC alumnus's current media colleague told reporters. There are 32 students majoring in ready to wear design in the school in 2009. Now, less than 1/3 of them are engaged in garment design in enterprises. Some of them go abroad for further study, some are engaged in advertising media publishing, some are in designer studios, and some are at home. Only a few students who are admitted from other provinces with excellent artistic skills have gone to garment enterprises, and this choice is also a helpless move. "When going to factories, especially some small private enterprises, the rest time is not guaranteed. Sometimes they have to work on weekends, and after going to the station store, they may have to start. Many factories are located in the suburbs, and the working environment is not ideal," said a student majoring in ready to wear design in Beifu. Before they applied for this major, they did not know the real employment situation, mostly out of romantic fantasy about the title of fashion designer.

Xiao Han is an authentic student knitting She graduated from the equipment major in the middle and late 1990s to catch up with the textile industry, when many textile workers were laid off. So she and some students changed their majors through the postgraduate entrance examination. At present, there are few students who are still in the textile industry. Even in enterprises, they are not engaged in technical work, but in sales, Or some become small owners of textile mills through their hard work. "At the last meeting, some students also said that if they persist, they will become the technical backbone of the enterprise now, and the annual salary of 200000 yuan is no problem." But Xiaohan did not regret his choice, because the social status of workers is not high, and they will retire at the age of 45. Although her younger martial brothers and sisters are living in the new era of the great development of the textile industry, as far as she knows, few of them are willing to work in the textile factory.

Xu Kunyuan, vice president of China Textile Industry Association, was very worried about the loss of talents in the industry: "Donghua University was once the cradle of textile engineers, and now 60% or 70% of the students have changed careers after graduation." The result of the change of career is that there is a large number of technicians and technicians in factories, which is not commensurate with the booming development of China's textile industry over the years. Now China is building a textile power, and the core competitiveness of the power is talent. {page_break}

Migrant workers use their skills to change their destiny

After more than 30 years of reform and opening up, those who took the lead in gold mining are aging, and the "second generation of rich people" have stepped onto the historical stage; The migrant workers who came out to work around 1990 have also returned to their hometown to spend their old age. Their descendants return to the city with different dreams. How to integrate the urban dream and career of the "second generation of rich people" with that of the "second generation of farmers" is a topic that many people are studying today. Yang Shibin, president of China Knitting Industry Association, is one of them.

This year, the China Knitting Industry Association launched the 2011 National Textile Industry "Baiyuan Cup" Weft Knitter Vocational Skills Competition, which is intended to "improve the theoretical level and operating skills of weft knitting workers and promote the continuous improvement of product quality in the knitting industry" as pointed out in the press release of the press conference. In addition, Yang Shibin regarded the skills competition as "turning migrant workers into technicians" Catalysts and platforms. This is win-win for the industry and the improvement of migrant workers themselves.

Xu Kunyuan has his own definition of the concept of "modern industrial workers". He believes that they should first have knowledge and culture. Take the big round knitting machine, an important model in the knitting industry, for example. After a brief business explanation and demonstration, a new worker can operate those fool devices, just like operating a fool camera. Now the computer jacquard and computer controlled big round machines are gradually entering the factory. It is hard to imagine how a newcomer who has no culture and knows nothing about computers can get started. Unfortunately, at present, various MBA, accounting, English and other trainings are all over the country, the skill training of textile talents is not paid enough attention, university education is divorced from reality, and distance education is very weak. So how can a person who has just walked out of the countryside into a factory acquire the skills necessary for work and then grow into a skilled talent? This burden falls on industry organizations and enterprises.

For the new generation of migrant workers themselves, in addition to improving their wages and working environment, it may be more attractive to change their identity and let them take root in the city. For the first generation of migrant workers, although they have shed sweat and dedicated their youth in the city, they do not belong to the city and the city is not ready to accept them. The second generation of migrant workers are not satisfied with this. They are eager to find their own position in the city and equal with others. When some students hope to "change their destiny with knowledge", migrant workers may also have to "change their destiny with skills".

There are not many vocational skill competitions now. If these competitions can really change the fate of many people like the college entrance examination, and let those highly skilled people find their own positions in enterprises and cities, then the attraction of textile enterprises will undoubtedly be greatly enhanced.