Coastal Garment Enterprises To Reduce Workers To Become A Problem

The CCTV News survey program broadcast from Shanghai to Zongyang in April 30th.

Over the same period: there has been a long history of labor shortage in southeast coastal areas of China.

Over the same period: the Ministry of human resources and social security indicated that the normal wage growth mechanism and payment guarantee mechanism should be established and improved.

Commentary: here is less than a year to start the Shanghai Hongqiao station. It is said that it is the largest railway passenger transport center in the world. From here, people can see the fact that China's economic development is modern and its infrastructure is convenient and advanced.

The high speed train from Anhui arrived punctually. The tired looking passenger named Ge Bin. The journey just ended was for a career he and his wife worked together, a clothing company.

Reporter: why should we consider entering the textile and garment industry?

Ge Bin (general manager of Shanghai Textile Co., Ltd.): on the one hand, there are family reasons. The most important factor is from childhood. I like it, that is, clothes. Second, I also want to create a brand of my own.

Commentary: "making brand" seems to have become a common term in Chinese business circles. But how to set foot on the brand is a difficult question to answer, especially in the present. Some experts say China's economic development suffers from "Lewis turning point". This means that with the gradual transfer of surplus rural labor to non-agricultural industries, the surplus labor force in rural areas is gradually decreasing. So, how is the current situation of China's rural labor force from the surplus labor force to the turning point of shortage? Is the "Lewis turning point" really coming? And what kind of reality will Ge Bin face when he founded the company?

Reporter: didn't you think it was serious before?

Ge Bin: I think only if it is for him (workers), to give a higher salary, and then set up the culture of the enterprise, this should not be a big problem, but this is really beyond my expectation.

Commentary: here is the industrial park of Zhou Pu, which is only more than 20 kilometers away from downtown Shanghai. At first, Ge Bin wanted to put Garment processing The factory is located here.

Reporter: why do you have such a consideration?

Ge Bin: overseas buyers and buyers in China may come to Shanghai at the first stop, which is the strong point of China.

Commentary: the rent of an industrial park is not a problem for Ge Bin, but...

Reporter: so what do you see that makes you feel beyond your expectations?

Ge Bin: like Jiangsu and Zhejiang, we now have 20 suppliers who are making orders for us, and the loss of their workers is very, very serious.

Commentary: in November of 2010, in this building, Ge Bin found the ideal factory building.

Reporter: how many workers and equipment can be accommodated like this?

Ge Bin: because it is nearly 1500 square meters. Sewing You can put 200 machines. That is to say, at least 200 people can be accommodated.

Commentary: the conditions of area, rent and surrounding traffic are all in line with Ge Bin's request. But eventually he had to give up the idea of setting up factories here.

Reporter: then why didn't we settle down here?

Ge Bin: I have a good friend, he is also doing this piece of textile, he said you must not rent, you can not recruit people, I was very strange at that time, I do not think so, because I said there are many clothing factories around this, he said you go to see now, after listening to his words, I did a detailed understanding.

Reporter: what do you know about the situation?

Ge Bin: at that time, the workers in Shanghai were very hard to recruit, especially the textile workers, especially the workers. Garment factory The workers are very, very difficult to recruit.

Commentary: at that time, Ge Bin asked four times to find out that there was not a textile and garment processing enterprise in such a large industrial park. Ge Bin's experience just confirms the plight of the clothing industry in China's coastal areas, which is "labor shortage". Then, where should Ge Bin go?

In Shanghai, the industrial transfer of manufacturing industry has a more profound background. As early as the 90s of last century, the city had begun large-scale industrial adjustment and transfer. So what are the stories of people who have undergone great changes in that era? Do they have the desire to start upgrading after industrial adjustment?

This is Yangpu District, Shanghai. We have seen Hou Wenzheng who worked in Shanghai textile and garment industry for many years.

Reporter: is this place your original job?

Hou Wenzheng (general manager of Shang street fashion lifestyle Park): Yes, this is the original fifth wool textile mill in Shanghai.

Reporter: how long has this been going on?

Hou Wenzheng: This is probably the house in 1900 about the time, brick wall. {page_break}

Reporter: what about your office?

Hou Wenzheng: my office has been pulled down now.

Commentary: Hou Wenzheng used to be the chief financial officer of the fifth wool textile mill in Shanghai. The factory he worked for was once the earliest factory opened by foreign capital in Shanghai in the early part of last century. In the middle of last century, it has become one of the leading enterprises in Shanghai's textile industry in the planned economy era.

Reporter: how many people were there in this factory when it was brilliant?

Hou Wenzheng: at most, nearly 5000 people, the largest factory in the Far East.

Commentary: in the era of planned economy, the textile industry once had boundless scenery. Even now Pudong Lujiazui and Oriental Pearl have been warehouses of textile factories. However, in the 90s of last century, the textile and garment industry in Shanghai had to face the painful choice of comprehensive adjustment.

Reporter: finally, how many people are left behind?

Hou Wenzheng: 20 people.

Reporter: will there be some loss?

Hou Wenzheng: Yes.

Explanation: the choice of market and the law of economy can not be reversed by Hou Wenzheng. Just a few years after the wool mill was shut down, Shanghai was developing rapidly in the years when he stayed behind in the huge and old factory building. When this city becomes the center of finance, trade and service in China and even in the future Asia. What is the way out for Shanghai's textile and garment manufacturing industry? Where do Hou Wenzheng and those buildings that carry the history of China's 100 year wool industry go?

Commentary: here is Zongyang County in the middle and southern part of Anhui Province, about more than 500 kilometers from Shanghai. With the wave of industrial transfer in the Yangtze River Delta region, Shanghai and Shanghai are different from the previous ones. In the past, Zongyang's economy had been famous for fishing and farming as a "land of fish and rice". In recent years, Zongyang county has focused on the development of industry. The number of scale industrial enterprises in the county has increased from 72 in 2005 to 217 in 2010, and the per capita GDP has exceeded 10 thousand yuan.

This is an ordinary town in Zongyang county. The reporter came to see it first, and what he saw and heard was a bit surprised.

Same time: Hello, where is the boss?

Same time: downstairs.

Same time: downstairs.

Same time: basement.

Reporter: we were looking for a job at the door just now in the street. So you want to come in and ask, how did you think of coming to Zongyang?

A factory owner: many factories on the coast are not working now? That's the way it should be.

Reporter: is this year?

Owner of a factory: this year.

Reporter: how much less is it like this year?

A factory owner: according to our colleagues, less than 2/3.

Reporter: 2/3?

A factory owner: some factories, for example, you have one hundred people. Maybe there are only twenty or thirty people now. There are twenty or thirty people, and now there are only seven or eight people.

Commentary: there are widespread difficulties in recruiting workers in coastal areas after the Spring Festival. At the same time, there are many similar small factories in various towns and villages in Zongyang county.

Interviewer: what's the main purpose of this?

Boss of a factory: children wear shoes on the heel wearing bright.

Reporter: how are things going?

Boss of a factory: there are quite a lot of people now. It's too messy.

Interviewer: how much do you plan to recruit?

Owner of a factory: about one hundred people.

Reporter: now?

A factory owner: now should not stop, but see who can stay, see who can not stay down do not know.

Reporter: are they able to operate these things skillfully now?

Owner of a factory: not yet. It's still a mess. These are the old workers I invited from Guizhou. They used to be old workers with me.

Commentary: the product is the small colored lantern used in the sole, and the price of one pair is less than 1 yuan RMB, and the labor of the worker is simply assembled.

Reporter: in general, the radius of the transportation is enlarged, right?

Owner of a factory: Yes, it has been expanded.

Reporter: if in this sense, then you artificially save the cost and the cost of the logistics?

A factory owner: can be destroyed, the whole plant can sustain. If you do not have workers, you say that your cost is lower, that will not work. The cost is not high.

Commentary: according to statistics, the population of Zongyang is about 960 thousand, of which nearly 300 thousand are migrant workers. So, how many people are willing to stay in their hometown when they are accustomed to going out to work? What is the difference between going out and staying behind for migrant workers?

Same time: This is the canteen, the morning is steamed bread, the steamed bread is at noon, the rice is in the evening, the rice is in the evening, in principle, it is two dishes and one soup, but there are two meals a week.

Commentary: This is a garment processing plant located in Zongyang Industrial Park. The director is introducing the situation. The same content before and after the Spring Festival this year, she has repeated hundreds of times to the workers who came to apply for the job.

Huang Guihua (production director of Anqing Huamei Garments Co., Ltd.): we have rented four buses in our factory. It's four p.m. every Saturday. Take these four routes (people) home. Pick up on Monday morning. But if you can't take a shuttle bus. Without the shuttle bus. We subsidize 40 yuan per month for petrol.

Commentary: his name is Zhang Xinli, 24 years old, and this is his fiancee Wang Juan.

Zhang Xinli: four people, a room, regardless of what marital housing?

Huang Guihua: husband and wife, there are couples, we provide couples room.

Commentary: and Wang Juan's brother.

Huang Guihua: if we don't work on Sunday, we have every Sunday off.

Commentary: they have three years of experience in garment factories. But before that, they went out to work in Jiangsu and Zhejiang every year.

Wang Juan (Yang Shi Village, Jinshe Township, Zongyang County, Anhui): I am in Suzhou, where I am neither a city nor a country, just like our hometown, the suburbs.

Commentary: Zhang Xinli and Wang Juan's family are in the village of Datang, Zongyang county. After graduating from junior high school, Wang Juan followed her mother to work in Suzhou.

Reporter: how many people are there in your factory?

Wang Juan: there are twenty or thirty in all.

Reporter: do you think it would be difficult to apply for a job at the garment factory?

Wang Juan: it's not difficult. Just have confidence.

Zhang Xinli (Anhui Zongyang County Jinshe Township Yang City Village): to do clothing, it does not require you to have a diploma, it does not see your diploma, as long as you learn, you do how much it gives you, you may slow down a little bit, you do more to give you (more), piece system.

Reporter: for example, how much money do you get in a month?

Wang Juan: after being proficient, more than two thousand a month.

Commentary: Zhang Xinli's experience is similar to that of Wang Juan. After he graduated from high school, he went out to work with his father. On that day, Zhang Xinli and Wang Juan greeted the air conditioning master at home.

Zhang Xinli: this house was built by me and my dad. How about it?

Wang Juan: it's not fully covered yet.

Zhang Xinli: how is the house covered? Is it all right?

Wang Juan: not good.

Zhang Xinli: it's not good if it's not good. If you don't feel good, then you'll cover better.

Commentary: according to Zhang Xinli, the house in the house took seven or eight years before it was built. He earned almost all of his money from working with his father in the house, and the mother who stayed at home was responsible for all the farm work. In Chapter Zhang Xinli, when they install air-conditioning at home, Zhang Xinli's father is working at the Township Central Primary School.

In the same period: Zhang Tong Sheng is here, is it on this? Is it convenient for him to come down?

Same period: Yes.

Reporter: Zhang Tong Sheng? Is it disturbing you? We are from CCTV.

Zhang Tongsheng: I know. Did you go to my house?

Reporter: Yes, I went to your home. We just came over from home. Did you have a rest at noon?

Zhang Tongsheng: I had a rest at noon.

Reporter: have you eaten lunch?

Zhang Tongsheng: I have had lunch.

Reporter: what are you doing here?

Zhang Tongsheng: to be a mason. It's only a few days in here. When I wait for my son to get married, I want to go to eight in early February. This is just at home. I was going to go out after the Spring Festival. If it weren't for my son's marriage, I would go out. I wouldn't be at home.

Commentary: after the Spring Festival this year, the reason why neither father nor son had gone out was to manage the marriage of Zhang Xinli and Wang Juan. Lao Zhang worked on construction sites all year round and earned more than 3000 yuan a month. After a year, the father and son could bring home thirty thousand or forty thousand yuan together.

Reporter: for example, did you ever think of letting your son do this job?

Zhang Tongsheng: no thought, now let the children do this thing, he might as well go to the factory to find a job, a month to get a few thousand dollars, it is hard to do masonry, a dry sun, two hot, rainy days stand on the top (Lin Yu), that is more bitter, bricklayer is the most bitter.

Commentary: Zhang Xinli did not inherit his father's craft to be a mason. He worked with Wang Juan in a garment factory.

Reporter: what kind of harvest do you have in clothing? What can you learn? {page_break}

Zhang Xinli: because clothes, after all, there are many places throughout the country, many of which are done. You can go to any factory to do it, including you are tired of outside, you want to go home, you can do it at home. In the future, if your parents are old and have children in your family, you have to leave a person at home and learn this skill at that time. You can go back and do it at home. If you work outside, you have to live in the same year. Spending money in that big city is another matter.

Commentary: at noon, Zhang Xinli and Wang Juan warmly reserved the teachers. Eating at home may also be a migrant worker. They can understand each other's hardships. In fact, Zhang Xinli and Wang Juan both understand that although jobs are not a problem, they have better opportunities to master skilled and comprehensive skills, and they want to return home to take care of their families and have their own careers one day.

This year, they did not return to Suzhou's factory immediately after the Spring Festival.

Reporter: are you satisfied with the house?

Zhang Xinli: the house (the woman's house) did not say anything else, that is, sloppy.

Commentary: in the small building built by Zhang Xinli and dad's two workers, the best layer is left for the couple.

Reporter: who bought this furniture?

Zhang Xinli: furniture was bought yesterday.

Reporter: what does Wang Juan marry at your house?

Wang Juan: my home, this air conditioner, and this TV, and the washing machine.

Reporter: how much did these dowry spend?

Wang Juan: more than 30000.

Reporter: just like a wedding on such a good house.

Zhang Xinli: in the countryside, the house is first built and then married. If you do not have a house, who will marry you.

Reporter: so if he doesn't have a house, will you marry him?

Wang Juan: definitely not married. No, there must be a house.

Commentary: in the village, many young migrant workers choose to marry their countrymen or even villagers. Zhang Xinli and Wang Juan feel that this marriage is more realistic and safe, and this undoubtedly strengthens their ties with their hometown. While they were preparing for their marriage, village cadres took the initiative to mobilize them to stay in the area.

Reporter: what did you say to them?

Zhang Xinli: for example, you are also a craftsmen, making costumes, especially clothes. It seems that last year (wages) have gone up a lot. That is to say, a lot of enterprises have come over. He said where the factory came from, and what benefits it has, that is, you can take a test.

Reporter: have you ever been tempted to have a look?

Zhang Xinli: it's not true. Her mother has been there once, and if she is like her family outside, she must choose to do it at home.

Commentary: this afternoon, Zhang Xinli and Wang Juan brothers and sisters came to this garment factory not far from the county seat.

Reporter: how do you feel? What have you just seen in this circle?

Zhang Xinli: it is OK to see the overall welfare. I want to develop it on the technology first, because in the big factory, it may be strict in technology, it is only unilateral and incomplete, that is, it only trains you to use it.

Reporter: in fact, your mind is that you are not an ordinary operator. Is that so?

Zhang Xinli: it can be said that the great competition is that you must surpass him, which is really necessary.

Commentary: visiting the completion plant, Zhang Xinli firmly decided to go back to Suzhou to learn the determination of technology, while Wang Juan's younger brother saw the atmosphere of many young people here. Wang Juan also hoped that the whole family could work together so that they could take care of each other. The three young people have their own ideas and expectations.

Reporter: like these three young people, will you call them later?

Huang Guihua: I will call them. I will do their work and let them come. I sometimes drive my car to the workers' office and invite them in person.

Commentary: Zhang Xinli or Wang Juan, this generation of workers is quite different from their parents. Their demand for themselves and their work is not so simple as making money to support their families. The local factories are also considering how to increase their production capacity and increase their competitiveness. So what will the workers' return and the relocation of factories bring to us? Please continue watching the news survey.

Commentary: This is the recruitment Hall of Zongyang County town. Weekly recruitment is in progress.

Same time: Hello, what are you doing?

In the same period: recruitment and recruitment.

In the same period: here is the recruitment notice. Are you the manufacturer?

In the same period: Yes, we are responsible for recruitment, in the company in charge of human resources.

In the same period: there is no job fairs today. Why didn't you join us?

In the same period: Yes, we have arranged for people to participate in it.

In the same period: I see that you can recruit enough workers. The ordinary worker of this assembly line has to recruit one thousand people. Is that ok?

In the same period: recruitment now has some difficulties. The original age to 35 years old has now been relaxed to 45 years old.

Commentary: Li Tianhua is the director of Zongyang County Investment Promotion Bureau, but a few years ago, he worked in the Department responsible for labor export.

Li Tianhua (director of Investment Bureau of Zongyang county): at that time, I worked on the export of labor services. At that time, because of the larger choice of labor resources and abundant labor resources, I did not remember which one (enterprise) recruited a waiter, and did not recruit a lot of attendants. It was like 80 people.

Reporter: what year was it?

Li Tianhua: 1988. At that time, so many people signed up, that is, work is hard to find, especially difficult to find.

Reporter: so when did you feel that something changed?

Li Tianhua: it is the tide of migrant workers in the past nine years, and now it becomes a shortage of migrant workers. This is a big change.

Commentary: it may not be a good idea to recruit workers after the Spring Festival, but every enterprise is working hard to deal with it.

Same time: is anyone registering here now?

In the same period: not yet.

The same period: because we still need new factories, now we are all recruited workers.

In the same period: when will it start?

Over the same period: it should be the end of the year.

In the same period: at the end of the year, people will start recruiting.

In the same period: from now on, no one has come to register now.

The same period: are you optimistic?

Same time: This is a bit urgent.

Commentary: even in Zongyang, a big county where labor force is exported, it takes a lot of thought for enterprises to hire workers. In January 2010, the State Council formally approved Wanjiang City Belt undertaking industrial transfer demonstration area planning. Small Zongyang county has also become one of the cities to undertake industrial transfer in the Yangtze River Delta, and more factories in coastal areas will move into the future.

Reporter: according to your expectation, is the park basically built?

Li Tianhua: there must be a scale, not five years.

Reporter: what kind of industry is eager to shift?

Li Tianhua: you are like the traditional labor-intensive type. This land occupies a relatively large area. It is eager to transfer. You are like this capital intensive and technical type. It has at present, but much less.

Reporter: now, for example, in the process of introducing enterprises, will we consider the distribution of the upstream and downstream industrial chains?

Li Tianhua: this has been considered now, but it can not be done now. After all, we are still in the initial stage of development. We urgently need enterprises to invest.

Reporter: at present, if you want to ask, is it difficult to have high end in this industry?

Li Tianhua: unrealistic, this threshold can only be gradually raised the threshold, but the principle can not be lost, environmental problems can not be lost.

Commentary: according to the "12th Five-Year plan" of Zongyang County, the number of industrial enterprises in the county will reach 330 by 2015, and the number of new employment in cities and towns will also expand from 4000 to 25000.

Zhan Ping, director of the labor and Employment Administration Bureau of Zongyang County, Anhui Province: last year, there was an enterprise (settled down), the thousand Lai Gang down jacket, which was then proposed to help it recruit workers.

Reporter: then how did you respond to this request?

Ping Ping: at least, we must ensure that its production is running normally.

Interviewer: but how do you solve this problem?

Ping Ping: at that time, we set up a recruitment leading group. It should be said that the specifications are relatively high. Our county magistrates and county Party committee secretaries are leaders, and then we play the role of township platforms and increase publicity. One is the old people. For example, children, this is a problem of age. Under 25 years old, you are doing a job, and he is not willing to stay. But at the age of 35, this person who has already got married and has children, if there are more suitable posts, he will remain, mainly to do the work of these people.

Commentary: Xiaoli is the part of people who are willing to stay at home. She works in a garment factory in Dang Tang. She only has twenty minutes to ride an electric bike home. It looks like a little girl Xiaoli has a three year old daughter.

Reporter: now, when you work at home, what do you think is the greatest convenience?

Wu Xiaoli (Datang Village, Qian Qiao Town, Zongyang County, Anhui): it's convenient to go home, and then I want to see that children can come back and have everything.

Commentary: Xiaoli and her husband were two townsmen. They used to work in Ningbo, but when they had children, Xiao Li could never feel relieved.

Reporter: can she (your daughter) give you up?

Wu Xiaoli: she could not bear it. When I was in the car, she kept shouting, "don't go away, mom."

Reporter: How did you feel then?

Wu Xiaoli: in the end, she was very upset. Then she left her. I remember my father told me that she was looking for me everywhere in the house. She couldn't find me. She didn't speak for three or four days, neither laughed nor spoke.

Commentary: Xiaoli once tried to bring her daughter to Ningbo to live together, but it turned out that her daughter was totally unsettled and her family was spending too much money. She felt more tired herself. After the Spring Festival this year, Xiaoli decided not to go out and work in the town. Her daughter was sent to kindergarten by her parents every day. And Xiao Li could go home at any time and visit her daughter.

Interviewer: I asked you just now that there are several relatives in your workshop.

Wu Xiaoli: he's my brother and my cousin. Most of them know each other. They are all family members. They all know each other.

Reporter: everyone used to work outside?

Wu Xiaoli: some of them are from home, and sometimes they work from outside. They are pretty good at home, and their children are at home, and then they come back.

Commentary: Xiaoli's factory is actually the first factory in the real town which is called the front axle.

Reporter: before that, for example, is there any industry in this area like your town? {page_break}

Tian Liwen (Party Secretary of Qian Qiao Town, Zongyang County, Anhui province): there is no blank in industry. The biggest advantage of the front axle is human superiority, rich in human resources, we have nearly sixty thousand people, there are twenty thousand people outside the labor force, three thousand of them are engaged in the clothing industry, and the second is our government's integrity. We can provide all aspects of services for you (enterprises) one hundred percent.

Commentary: in 2010, two garment enterprises settled in the former town. At that time, in order to retain workers and support the start-up of factories, towns and townships did fulfill their commitments to provide services.

Tian Liwen: at that time, I told him (business owner) that I had to take three measures. One measure is to make thematic films for him, to advertise in the TV network of our county, and to publicize widely; the second is to engage him in a large scale publicity Promotion Association in the whole town.

Reporter: the town government is dedicated to a factory.

Tian Liwen: Yes, for a factory, we held a recruitment promotion meeting. Our county magistrate attended it personally. The county's discipline inspection committee secretary also came to join him. He was encouraged by him (business owner). Another thing was that when we used the end of the year to go home, we gave eleven villages to the eleven villages, and gave them the task and the hard targets. I want you to look for them one by one. When the workers who are working outside the country return to the countryside, they should catch up with them for the first time, and do enough work for them to keep him and stay in the local area.

Commentary: according to the statistics of the town leaders, the average monthly wages of the workers in the two enterprises last year were around 1800 yuan. Over the past year, the total wages of all workers actually received about 4000000 yuan, while the tax paid to the town was about 3000000 yuan. Town leaders believe that as time goes on, the number of factories in the town will increase, and the number of workers left will also increase.

As night fell, the workers were working overtime when the new clothing factory visited Wang Juan and the workers in the factory, and the boss of the factory, Yin Fanglong, had more plans.

Yin Fanglong (general manager of Anqing Huamei Clothing Co., Ltd.): we are going to carry out the single piece water flow, the same manpower, but its output is increased by 30% to 50%, which means saving manpower. In fact, give workers a pressure?

Reporter: that is to say, changing the state of workers' work is more stressful.

Yin Fanglong: Yes, but single piece running water is now in China, and many developed areas have already implemented it, and there are few in our area.

Reporter: is it a change of management mode?

Yin Fanglong: Yes, the improvement of management mode.

Commentary: Yin Fang Long's idea of changing management mode will be put into practice in this clothing factory. He said that the factory orders are flowing continuously, but it is not easy to recruit more workers. It is more feasible to increase productivity by increasing efficiency. In this wave of industrial transfer, whether they are bosses, workers or local governments, they are trying to seize their opportunities and get more wealth. For Zhang Xinli, this generation of workers, they have more choices and freedom than their parents. For local governments, they have accelerated industrialization.

The possibility and condition of urbanization. So, for hundreds of kilometers away, what do they mean by Ge Bin and Hou Wenzheng in Shanghai? Please continue watching the news survey.

Commentary: in 2004, the US Time listed the "recommended places of visit" in the world. There is also a place in Shanghai, which is called "Shanghai fashion landmark". It is the 50 Moganshan Road, Shanghai.

Hou Wenzheng: since the beginning of 2003, Shanghai has begun to appear in the Creative Industrial Park, or the first batch of such parks that are similar to or originated from the creative industries. It has been on the cover of Time magazine in 2004. It already has a relatively clear and independent theme, and then attracts artists from all over the world, including artists from all over the world, including the people who come here. It's very clear that I want to see Shanghai's contemporary art, M50. Then we also go to visit and learn, of course we have to think about this problem.

Reporter: is your personal impact big?

Hou Wenzheng: for my personal impact, I should say that I have learned a lot.

Commentary: at that time, Hou Wenzheng, who was still in the bewilderment of the old wool spinning workshop, suddenly felt that maybe he would change from now on. In 2005, Hou Wenzheng was sent to another old factory building in Shanghai Textile Group to carry out a transformation project to create a pioneering Industrial Park.

Reporter: in fact, it has entered another field.

Hou Wenzheng: Yes, it's all about fighting in a new place.

Commentary: a few years later, it has been transformed into a creative area for costume design.

Hou Wenzheng: our business street, Le Fu Park (Shanghai), is a design and Incubation Platform for clothing and clothing design. It is a series of help for designers, providing design and display for clothing and clothing brands, including its business office activities and training. There is such a common platform that we can gather these resources on this platform and share and share with each other. This is the biggest difference between us and others.

Commentary: with the rise of creative industrial parks transformed by old factories, the once brilliant Shanghai textile and garment industry seems to have found a new starting point. So, has the original manufacturing industry been abandoned? Can the new upgrade really be realized?

Xi Shiping, chairman of Shanghai Textile Holding (Group) Company: moved the cotton spinning equipment to Dafeng, Jiangsu, we bought about 800 mu of land, then built an industrial park, Shanghai textile Dafeng Industrial Park. In that new manufacturing base, the whole Shanghai textile holding company has a group of more than 400 manufacturing enterprises in history. In the loop, we do not have a manufacturing enterprise. All of them have been adjusted to an end.

Reporter: now, for example, how much more is engaged in this textile main business?

Xi Shiping: first of all, I want to say a concept. We first talked about spinning, namely spinning and weaving. Our concept of textile and industrial chain has been extended. It is not only the manufacturing industry, but also the most labor-intensive one in the manufacturing industry. The whole textile industry chain is getting longer and longer. It has been starting from raw materials, design, research and development, and finally has been doing business, international trade, brand marketing, service, and then fashion industry. For example, the show, such as fashion media and so on, as well as our international clothing culture festival, are all the textile industry chain, and even extend to the present, education.

Commentary: in Shanghai, there are countless brands of clothing. Maybe every year there will be many brands coming out. There will also be many brands disappear. In this seemingly modest little clothing factory, an employee from a Japanese clothing company is supervising the production of the garments.

Reporter: are you coming to China, and more importantly, are you looking at the cost of labor in China?

Employee: No, we are now looking at the market in Shanghai.

Interviewer: do you think Shanghai's spending power will be strong?

Staff: I feel that they have a high spending power. In general, our clothes are so cheap. In fact, in Japan, we are not cheap. Even if it is medium, ten thousand yuan a day (eight hundred yuan), but it seems that for today's Shanghai people's living standard, they feel very cheap.

Commentary: the Japanese clothing company, which the woman is working on, will soon set up its own brand counters in the high level shopping malls in Shanghai. As a matter of fact, when Chinese manufacturing enterprises are striving for industrial upgrading and brand building, China's market has long been a competitive arena for big and small products in the world. China is no longer a "world factory" but a "world market". So are Chinese enterprises ready for this?

Reporter: so what do you think of China? Now these garment enterprises are trying to upgrade, but what should they do?

Employees: if you want to upgrade, you must be patient. First, learn and see the market. Why do you see the brand of others?

Commentary: not long ago, Ge Bin finally found the right place to start his wife's first garment factory in Zongyang, Anhui province. From then on, between Zongyang and Shanghai became Ge Bin's daily work.

Reporter: for example, like Shanghai and Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces, it has not taken the textile and garment industry as a leading industry, and labor shortage has forced you to move constantly. In this process, will there be a feeling of being abandoned?

That's not true.

Ge Bin: I think the market economy should be like this. I think if a certain industry or an industry is not in line with the law of development, then I think it is inevitable. I think that for our textile industry, you will eventually have to strive for upward movement.

Reporter: some people say that industrial upgrading is a difficult word.

Ge Bin: Yes, everyone says brand building, how I can play a brand, everyone is very good to say, but from my periphery also has the brand, in this process of making brand is eliminated. Well, from my own point of view, I am now in the initial stage of creating a brand, I already feel that it is very difficult, and I don't know if I can do it well in the future. People often say, say a hard work, a ploughing, a harvest, then on the brand road, I think you may work hard, do not necessarily have such a harvest, this possibility is very large.

Commentary: Although there are still many difficulties to face, we need to solve more puzzles. But from Ge Bin, we can see the reality of Chinese manufacturing enterprises in the process of making efforts. We hope that when the spring comes, people will have more choices and better answers on how to solve the problem of "labor shortage".