Farewell Dongguan

2007, 909 foreign-funded enterprises in Dongguan collapse in 2008, is still accelerating. Officials said that every day are not afraid of inverted 10, vacant land because they can introduce high-tech enterprises. Government in promoting industrial upgrading, but the escalation of such non-market success »

Dongguan farewell

It is time. Summer was very grand.

The first generation of foreign workers in Dongguan, they faced a "Jiang Buchu farewell."

Dongguan on their own, must have the courage Huibie yesterday.

China's market economy in the history of the development, Dongguan is a miracle. Zui city of Seoul to absorb the millions of foreign workers and created a few hundred times to enlarge the output value and the highest per capita disposable income. Mainland China which seldom heard a few remote villages in the name of Dongguan, Dongguan has become even said that some flows in the inland Chinese blood in the gene.

But the miracle is not perfect synonyms, manufacturing profits were on the other side of the lower labor and the environment, land and raw materials costs, is the low exchange rate, the miracle of the establishment of such costs in the gap on the formation of depressions. Gradually raise the local base, the gap getting smaller and smaller profits, Dongguan miracle will become non-singular. And there can not be reconciled from the prominent position on the decline in Dongguan, yesterday to bid farewell to the past will not re-divide and create in excess of the average economic base, as access to the escalation of relying on profits.

At this point, the original "foundation" - foreign workers and the lowest cost to maintain the small and medium-sized factories, low-end service industries reached the junction of embarrassment, even though they had to rely on the land Dongguan too deep, but had to leave the.

When China's market economy has started to deviate from ultra-low-cost era, many have become successful bid farewell to the stage drama, only more dramatic in Dongguan. This is not necessarily the tragedy of Dongguan, because when the economy than the average of the upgrade become a common demand for access to the excellent market position and profitability, will become the next chase was a miracle.

Manufacturing profits in the last miracle in the competition, Dongguan, with its location and a successful policy advantages. However, this round of industrial upgrading in the chase, Dongguan what means are there Zhongcai »behind the Zhongcai, who is of a heavy heart withdrew» how watered down this huge group withdrew the shadow left, making the color of industrial upgrading will not become the first Mirage, but true The sun »

This is not the subject of Dongguan.

The first generation of foreign workers curtain call

These more than 10 years of service workers are facing the left

Migrant workers have "service"? »If so, the first generation of migrant workers in Dongguan of the" service ", are in more than 10 years.

Since the end of 2007, this group has "10 years of service," the workers who are facing the same outcome - to leave.

Lai Caiyun is one of female workers. April 23, received a dismissal notice, she owned shoe factory in the building before the cement floor collapsed.

And her companions, Dongguan also a difficult transition, but the Bible from their most directly bear the cost.

Layoffs storm

April 23, 2008, letter of the footwear industry in Dongguan Tangxia plant.

Lai Caiyun Pudao women workers in the cement board, face the blood, teeth Shuaidiao five…… All this two days ago due to the "layoff notice."

April 21, including Lai Caiyun, more than 400 letters of the footwear industry employees received a notice of resignation contract expires. Showing its contents: the footwear industry and the staff letter signed labor contracts, in the April 22, 2008 Maturity expired, no longer renew their contracts. Compensation is the way regardless of age, half a month per person compensation wages. "CD" of more than 400 people mostly in the service four years to 11 among the staff, including 87 staff working life to 10 years.

Sudden dismissal notice. More than 400 not psychologically prepared for the staff have gathered in the office of the letter before the footwear industry, hoping to get the factory said. The anxious Wucuo Lai Caiyun, is at this time Pudao in the office before the cement board. Afterward, she was taken to hospital workers.

More than 400 people did not disperse, they began to organize themselves and seek Tangxia town government departments of labor and labor arbitration, but has failed.

April 29, they finally get the Dongguan City Labor Bureau said: 87 years of work for more than 10 years of the staff shall not be dismissed, the rest of the dismissal of employees compensation more 500 yuan per person.

Footwear final of the letter accepted the outcome of arbitration.

This 87 employees, 30 more than in accordance with the "Labor Contract Law" to renew the labor contract without a fixed period, more than 50 things that make them so "very chilling" and refused to renew.

Look, "layoffs storm" come to an end, but occurred after a number of unusual things.

As the letter Footwear Tangxia plant security captain, who Yongzhou in Hunan Gong yuan text of the letter in the footwear industry has been working for 13 years and three months. April 21 "list of layoffs," Gong yuan, and not the name, but he surprised that the factory suddenly from the security company employed a number of full-time security, replacing the 19 he led the security work. This mobilization, as a security captain Gong Yuan-wen, have not been able to get the factory's explanation.

Then, the evening of May 8, the letter Tangxia plant's leather footwear industry, and other raw materials, all by a pickup truck, the Treasury has been basically empty. "Dalang sent to the factory," the letter of the footwear industry employees say for sure.

A variety of communication open to argument: "Changzi not!" "Heard that there are a number of final goods, done, we can only get 770 yuan minimum wage! This is not a rush for people!" " Direct-you leave half a year, and so you come back, Changzi not, Whom do I contact to see you "……

"This year the situation in Dongguan is a common." 40-year old Cheng Jun staff said.

Premonition that come true

"Liaowang Dongfang Weekly" reporter tried to contact the Hong Kong capital of the letter boss Lin Jinghao footwear industry, but has failed. According to staff, Lin Jinghao rarely seen, day-to-day managers of a manager surnamed Chen. But Mr. Chen in Shanghai recently has been on leave, the letter footwear factory in Tangxia is a responsible person named Guofeng Sheng charge of the production.

Footwear letter of the employees know that their Changzi the operation.

Founded in 1985 in the letter Footwear Company Limited, is the first batch of Hong Kong enterprises in Dongguan. Beginners and the Pearl River Delta economic miracle, the letter footwear industry is only the beginning more than 10 individuals of small workshops. To the 2000-2003 period, this small factory in Dongguan has become slippers industry boss, the staff once reached 2,200 people. Its products in the United States, Japan, South Africa on the international market, such as the visibility is quite high.

But this year, because the international market downturn, the rising raw material costs and the appreciation of the renminbi and other factors, shoe factories two years ago, much less thriving.

"2007, the letter is a loss of the footwear industry." One country on condition of anonymity letter in the shoe industry executives told reporters that "compared with last year, light up on the soles of the cost has more than doubled!" And 4 On 21 notice of layoffs, involving more than half of the old shoe factory employees, more than 900 workers to be laid off more than 400, the resignation of more than 100. The remaining staff, 80% work more than 10 years old employees, the average age of 36-year-old, already the largest nearly 50-year-old, the youngest 29-year-old.

May 24, the reporter was informed that the following three years of service of staff of the letter had also been shoe factory End Conference, a group of shoe factory only 10 years old seniority of the employees.

All of this, the letter to the footwear industry employees feeling anxiety. They could not wait to obtain a result: the collapse of compensation, or continue to work.

"I will give six months of salary as compensation, I had to Contentment." Gong yuan, the work does not have any hope. "Saturday, Sunday did not go to work at night or overtime, the workers did what this means!" Has been more than 40-year-old Pan Jun (a pseudonym), expressed the desire to continue to work. But they could not always be the factory's explanation.

Into June, the staff were worried that the final into reality. 14, the letter footwear industry has cut more than 200 "old staff" of food, 16, of the letter to each employee compensation of three months wages, most employees are required to sign; 17, the letter to 90 per cent dissatisfied with the number of signatures The grounds that no compensation on the 18th, more than 100 "old staff," said protest, gathered in the boss Lin Jinghao Tangxia Township in another factory - the letter plastics factory's gate, and then, Tangxia Township in Dongguan government petition Office proposed that the letter had been looking for less than the boss, the letter from the footwear industry of the industrial park employees compensation for the month of wages, repatriation of these "old staff."

It is understood that Lin Jinghao may have returned to Hong Kong, and his son in Dongguan, Dalang opened by the shoe factory, because of different legal persons, not involved in the dispute. As time, the more than 100 "old staff," the letter are still waiting for the plastic factory representations.

10 years curtain call

Experience "layoffs storm" of the country far more than a letter footwear industry.

"Too many disputes, I can not remember how many times. Every day, sometimes several a day!" Tangxia Town, Dongguan City, law and order in the same time members of Wang Dongsheng (a pseudonym) Shenyoutikuai, because every time Disputes, they had to Ganqu the scene to maintain order. "Not so much the original! From the 2007 end of last year, started and more, mostly because the old Changzi to cut staff, not on the question of compensation arising from the Nonghao."

"The first quarter of 2008, labor arbitration rose 4.5 times." Dongguan City Labor Council Labor Relations Branch deputy chief Wu Deyang told "Liaowang Dongfang Weekly" reporter, "In fact, every year, but did increase the first quarter of this year A relatively powerful. For three reasons: First, the implementation of the labor contract law, the arbitration charge, and three enterprises is difficult to survive. "

"Tiantian Kan newspapers here layoffs where disputes, did not expect to reach their own heads." Cheng Jun Menmen said, "I've been among the more than 20 days."

Cheng Jun are not farmers, is the city of Chongqing Jiangjin District household registration population, in 1997 after the laid-off workers to the letter the footwear industry, has been in 11 service. April 21 "layoff notice" on his name, he joked with the faithful, said: "Cheng Jun was the second time this laid-off!"

"I have over 60-year-old man and two children, a high school, a primary school, how do you say I» "Cheng Jun for a lot of white hair, his wife Yuan Ho gave him four of the Ranhei In order to "become more young, Haozhaogongzuo."

May 20, Cheng Jun from the Dongguan, Chongqing back to take care of the earthquake disaster in more than 60-year-old's parents, and intend to work in Chongqing.

"Leave" the story is being staged at the Dongguan, a dyeing factories from the stain of a senior master old Liu. Old Liu is the Sichuan Daxian, in the early 1990s, because Reading can not afford books, but also the old Liu minors and the village, "the young labor force," visited the South. But then the South the opportunity to work and not so much in the imagination, old Liu and can not find a job "Mangliu army," one, spent the night under the flyover and avoid the investigation of temporary accommodation permit members of the law and order, Luanfen Gang of sleep…… With the The factory Laoxiang relief work to live, can not guarantee that every day until no longer eat a steamed bun. Some of them started stealing and robbery, the hungry pay a two-day old Liu, fortunate to be a workshop for the hiring of dyeing factories.

From start-dyeing factories, old Liu gradually become a senior master staining. However, since the second half of 2007, export processing based on the PRD clothing enterprises by the appreciation of the renminbi, the raw material price hikes and other factors, one to one to close down. Garment factory collapse, directly off the supply of dyeing factories, but also some "Paolu" garment factory owners also Qianzhuo dyeing factories in processing fees.

March 2008, the closure of the dyeing factories, old Liu disappeared.

"No one has heard of is go home. Wage is the case, Changzi no, not the people." Story about those weeks Lanting said.

The loss started again

"We know they are passing through, sooner or later, in the left, but did not expect it so soon!" Gong yuan text of the original plan, Zaigan 35 months, savings of more capital, home to open a Mucai Chang.

No one seems to want to go back to farming in rural areas no longer living. But again looking for work, these "foreigners to work", its degree of difficulty beyond imagination.

I spent Habitat, the 36-year-old, Sichuanese, in the letter footwear industry nine years of work, April 21 retrenched. 20-year-old children in their home school, and her husband work in another factory. Habitat lost their jobs to spend every day I go out looking for work. 10 days have passed, more than 20 candidates Changzi, no one is willing to accept her. The reason is simple: the letter footwear is a pair of slippers do the other traditional manufacturing industries, such as general shoe factories, garment factories and so that her "skills inappropriate" and electronic factories, and other labor great enterprises, because small parts, operation Micro, the only recruit young people under the age of 25.

"No to the past Kunshan, Suzhou and other places to see it», "" how to ah! Used to be over 20 years old, now 40 years old! "In the face of reporter's question, Pan Jun Lianzhang De red.

Pan Jun their group, the letter arrived in Dongguan a time when the footwear industry workers are 20 lead, the youngest of the two-Peng was only 17 years old. They are here working and living for more than 10 years, formed a 50 to 60 couples, most of the children in a nearby primary schools. This year has been 29-year-old Peng Kim has more than seven months pregnant, she and her husband is from my colleagues for development of the typical husband and wife. The 28-year-old Chen Jian and his 50-year-old mother to work together in this Changzi have 10 years, now both mother and son have been made redundant.

"These are our people, watching the development of the small workshop." Hunan Deng Chunhua is our "Big Sister" and "We do over 200 per month 10,000 pairs of shoes, 23:00 overtime to be less. 1996 To that period in 1999, go to work every day are 7:00, 0:30 or 1:00 to shift more, wages only Liuqi Bai yuan. The low season, won 200 yuan every month. We never know basic salary What is. Until 2006, we have the talent part of the capital at the end of 690 yuan. "

According to the Guangdong Zhitong talent Cai Xiaomei, Dongguan, now most of the wages of foreign workers in 1,200 yuan to 1,500 yuan between. For the labor market situation, Deng Chunhua said: "We subsidize the wages of the entire overtime Altogether, there are now received the 1,500 yuan. Gong yuan, such as the middle, you can get a 2,000 yuan. However, this figure, We only took five months, which let us leave the Juan Pugai »"

These "urban guests" were very aware of their disadvantaged position, but no one willing to nothing home.

"This is the detailed policies and regulations do not consider the place. Dongguan and the whole Pearl River Delta factories are mostly small and medium-sized manufacturers can not suddenly come up with tens of millions of retirement payments, which can only create greater conflict." Former Dongguan , Chairman of the Association of Taiwan businessmen in Hong Ye lights, told reporters that "people are the older the better, and we hope that treating the workers, but across the board on policies and regulations, retroactively past, which can not become a thing."

Bid farewell to the workers in Dongguan

Dongguan, the number of foreign workers «Some people say that over 800 million, some people say that already more than 10 million, no one can give an accurate figure. Dongguan, in the end the number of "wage 10 years," the foreign workers «even more is the answer to the unknown. After all, many of the rural youth, have "to Dongguan wage" as a chance to change the destiny of the individual.

Today, Dongguan has been different the past. April 9, "Dongguan Times," the "new people Licheng Wando began quietly," reported that the current Dongguan, to be unloaded a heavy burden, to stride forward, and reduce the population, improve the quality of the population has become imperative. Who go, who to stay »to politicians, experts and scholars in the recent series of remarks seem to have been able to find the answers: the possibility of taking a low level is labor-intensive enterprises of the labour force.

"Dongguan is now more than 800 million people from outside, at least over 400 million living in Jiucun, the old factory." Dongguan City LI Yu said that all the media, many Jiucun poor conditions, security, law and order hidden dangers, "we can The old factory, Jiucun the transformation, to achieve the population reduction in the number of Dongguan. "

Dongguan in transition, the PRD upgrade. Left to become the first generation of migrant workers in Dongguan's fate.

In examining the situation of labor scholars, the PRD is not a large number of unskilled labour, lack of competitiveness of ordinary laborers. The beginning of reform and opening up, they rushed to the hard labor here in order to support their families, now a hard-won social security, they were eliminated. No previous work experience can give them under the capital accumulation, they again reached the crossroads of life.

Now the village, for most migrant workers are concerned, or a place to go back. Although not the agricultural tax, but people in rural areas is still more small, low income. Relatively speaking, higher income, more opportunities for the city undoubtedly more attractive. In 2007 alone survey shows that more than half of the villages to work on the youth have been out of the labor force. China's urbanization continues, the economy is still growing, the attractiveness of the rural population continues. This is also a section of Dongguan before the child was rescued child labour in the incident refused to return home to the background.

With increasing age, the older generation of migrant workers to watch on the "we can not rely on intelligence to eat, we can not rely solely on physical strength to eat" stage. However, Dongguan, the first generation of foreign workers less than the majority, the process of urbanization is still a lot simple labor. Mainland cities of the further development, will give more employment opportunities for them. Like the workers to return to his home in Chongqing Cheng Jun, never without hope. Construction sites, restaurants, restaurants…… those who do not have any threshold of jobs, and can also absorb them.

"In a few years old, the old-age home, relying on his son Yang Zhao!" And make the 30-year-old Gong yuan, Pai Lepai only 7-year-old son Gong Hongwei the buttocks, and laughed.