It is the beginning of another year, and labor-intensive enterprises in coastal areas have reproduced labor shortages, is the demographic dividend really over? The Pearl River Delta, once a place where migrant workers went south to find their dreams, here

It is the beginning of another year, and labor-intensive enterprises in coastal areas have reproduced labor shortages, is the demographic dividend really over?

The Pearl River Delta, once a place where migrant workers from the south looked for their dreams, there are countless labor-intensive and processing enterprises. At the beginning of the new century, the employment situation here will not be as bad as it is now. In order to recruit workers, some enterprises gave salaries and benefits that were unimaginable in the early days of reform and opening up. At that time, it was the factory recruiters who picked the employees, and now it is the migrant workers who pick the factory. Why is that?

Some people say that the reason for today's contradiction between supply and demand is attributed to the fact that the era of demographic dividend has passed, and some people say that the treatment and labor intensity given by factories are exploitative. I think such a statement exists to be partial.

Most of the early migrant workers were born in the 1970s and 1980s, and there were many brothers and sisters in the family, and they had suffered a lot since childhood. After the package production reaches the household, the vast rural land has a huge number of surplus labor, which is the so-called demographic dividend era. These migrant workers are willing to suffer hardships and hardships, and they leave their homes to find work. The working environment is not picky and thin, and the salary and treatment are not too demanding, it is purely to find a job to reduce the burden on the family. Therefore, there was no labor shortage in the employing enterprises at that time.

In the 1920s and 1920s, the working population has undergone a qualitative change. Affected by the family planning policy and the decline in the willingness of the Chinese people to have children, the vast majority of families are only children, and a small number of families have a second child. Just imagine, this batch of only children who have been pampered at home since childhood have suffered hardships? Can you adapt to the boring robot-like work on the assembly line of labor-intensive enterprises? The answer is yes, this generation of migrant workers has lost the stoic and hard-working spirit of their parents.

With the development of the times and the strong rise of the Internet economy, our society has spawned more jobs that can provide employment opportunities. For example: couriers, takeaway workers, real estate agents, live broadcasts, online sales, beauty salons, night shows and various direct sales, pyramid schemes, etc., how much labor does it take up? These jobs are well paid, and the labor intensity is not as big as the factory, which is much better than the boring robot-like working environment in the factory assembly line! In such a realistic context, who wants to go to the factory?

How to solve the dilemma of factory labor shortage? How can the state boost manufacturing? How to bring sufficient labor to the majority of small and medium-sized enterprises? I think it is impossible to reverse the labor shortage in the short term. Unless the state intervenes administratively, strongly bans the takeaway and express delivery industries, and cracks down on entertainment venues such as night shows, it may be possible to alleviate the shortage of labor in enterprises. Otherwise, people go to high places, water flows to low places, where salaries are high, and the working environment is relaxed and free, people will flow to wherever they go, which is undeniable.