【South China Morning Post】China's factory owners pick robots over job-hopping workers
发布时间:2017-07-03     字号: [小] [中] [大]

编者按:2017年6月21日,South China Morning Post 报道了中国企业-劳动力匹配调查报告成果,现将全文转载如下:

 

Reflecting a fundamental change in China’s labour market, insufficient labour supply has become a primary concern for factory owners, according to a survey of 1,200 Chinese manufacturers.


Rising labour costs are producing a high turnover rate among factory workers. During the two years of the survey conducted by China’s Wuhan University at factories in Guangdong and Hubei provinces, as much as 26 per cent of workers in the Pearl River Delta had changed jobs.


Average monthly wages of Chinese workers reached 4,126 yuan (HK$4,721) in 2015, or US$635, still far behind the US, but almost matching Brazil and significantly higher than other emerging economies such as India and Vietnam.


As costs rise and the business environment turns hostile, more than a third of Chinese factory owners are chasing political blessings from the state or the Communist Party to gain easier access to subsidies and tax benefits.


About 23 per cent of factory owners have served in local parliament and political consultative committees. Thirty-nine per cent are Communist Party members, although they are private business owners, according to the survey.
 
Tracking more than 11,300 employees and their employers in 2015 and 2016 in Guangdong and Hubei, the survey found that government support, often in the form of tax exemptions and refunds, has become critical to the survival of many Chinese factories and exporters grappling with rising costs and sluggish demands.


More than half of the surveyed manufacturers received government subsidies, which on average accounted for 2.6 per cent of their sales revenues. Although there was a higher chance for state-owned factories to get subsidies than others, private businesses relied more on these benefits for boosting their revenue, the survey said.


Coping with rising wages, factories have turned to robots or automation to improve productivity. The survey said about 40 per cent of manufacturers in Guangdong and Hubei use automated machines for production.


But research and development spending as part of industrial upgrading has slowed in recent years. In particular, the number of foreign companies with R&D investment dropped to 38 per cent in 2015 from close to 60 per cent a year earlier.


Premier Li Keqiang has stressed that China needs to improve its business operating environment to bring in more foreign capital and talent.

 

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