Foxconn is a world-renowned parts and assembly foundry, and its founder, Taiming Gou, is one of Taiwan's richest people. Foxconn's scale is not only all over Taiwan, but also has many branches in the mainland, specializing in helping multinational companies such as Apple and Samsung assemble smartphones and then sell them around the world.
With the disappearance of the mainland's demographic dividend, the mainland's previously cheap labor costs have also risen year by year, and many foundries intend to withdraw from the Chinese market and turn their targets to cheaper India and Southeast Asia, as does Foxconn. But what is strange is that when Foxconn announced its withdrawal from the mainland, it actually wanted to return to the mainland market.
Is China's demographic dividend gone?
In terms of strict academic scope, the mainland's current demographic dividend is indeed gradually decaying, but this does not mean that China is lagging behind in market competition. To thoroughly understand what the current competitive environment on the mainland is, it is necessary to take a good look at this so-called "demographic dividend."
In the field of economics, the demographic dividend refers to the fact that a country has a much lower labor cost than other countries, and it is easier to attract entrepreneurs from other countries to invest in these countries to build factories.
In addition to the high costs left for these enterprises, it can also drive the local economic development, like the mainland just reformed and opened up in the period of time has a huge demographic dividend, so the world's enterprises have run to China.
At present, with the aging of the Chinese population, and the gradual improvement of the protection of workers' rights and interests by labor, the mainland's external demographic dividend is indeed slowly disappearing, and some economists have done an experiment and found that the cost of hiring an employee in China is no less than the cost of hiring employees in the United States, which naturally allows us to gradually fall behind in this human resources war.
But this does not mean that the mainland has lost its competitiveness, with the continuous improvement of the mainland's independent research and development capabilities, more and more domestic enterprises have begun to gradually achieve autonomy, parts and processing and other work can be completed internally, no longer need to rely on cheap labor costs but compete with others.
Therefore, with regard to competitiveness, we can rest assured that China is no longer the situation that was subject to people as before.
Foxconn's own bad deeds are spotty
In fact, as far as Foxconn's performance in the mainland is concerned, it is not the level that a world-renowned large enterprise should have, and it has to be said that Foxconn's management in the Chinese mainland is full of problems.
Not only is there the famous "Foxconn Triple Jump" incident, its high-intensity work pressure and work intensity are also famous in the Chinese mainland, many local workers in Shenzhen will tremble when they mention Foxconn, calling it a "sweatshop that eats people".
If you have learned about Foxconn's headquarters in Taiwan, and then compare the branches in Chinese mainland, you will feel that there are different changes.
Whether it is the working environment or the intensity of work, Taiwan's local companies are far better than their branches in the mainland, which reflects the differences between Foxconn's treatment of different employees, employee discrimination can already be said to be a very serious problem within Foxconn, but those taiwanese top managers turn a blind eye to this and ignore it.
In such a working environment, the employee's work mentality and work enthusiasm will be greatly weakened, and even the idea of resigning will arise.
In fact, Foxconn's employee turnover rate is very high, which is far higher than that of the average enterprise. For such a phenomenon, Foxconn's managers do not care at all, then naturally, the reputation of the world-renowned foundries in the mainland is getting longer and longer, and the loss of talent is also very fast, which also indirectly creates the consequences of being squeezed out of the market by local factories.
In fact, for Foxconn, these branches in the mainland actually carry a large number of profit sources. It can even be said that if there are no these foundries in the mainland, then Foxconn will never be able to compete with other foundries in the world with such a high production capacity, and its attitude towards the mainland branch is so cold, it is really difficult not to go out of business.
Funny, in this context, in February this year, the Internet circulated the layout of Foxconn's desire to withdraw from the mainland. Although the company debunked the "withdrawal" incident, from its various practices, it is like punching itself in the face.
Withdrawing from the mainland market will only lead to its own destruction
However, more than 2 months after the "withdrawal" incident, Foxconn wants to return to the mainland to recruit workers, is it possible?
To put it bluntly, foxconn left the mainland market in the first place, and now it is almost impossible to come back.
First of all, Taiwan's various behaviors have hurt the hearts of peace-loving Chinese.
What's more, if foxconn's own problems are not improved, the vast number of job seekers in China and related partners will not be willing to cooperate with Foxconn.
China has so many excellent and production is not inferior to Foxconn's local foundries, so why choose Foxconn full of discrimination and oppression? If Foxconn has lost its competitiveness in the same industry, then who can talk about returning to the market Chinese mainland?
The shallow strait between the people on both sides of the strait cannot stop their desire for exchanges and cooperation.
Since the Taiwan authorities opened up Taiwan compatriots to visit their relatives on the mainland in 1987, Fujian Province has attracted a large number of Taiwan compatriots to the mainland to seek their roots. This peaceful atmosphere is a good start for people of the same lineage on both sides of the strait.
However, today's Foxconn's behavior can be said to have completely broken this good start, and we can only hope that in the future, the two sides of the strait can break the current stalemate situation and start to cooperate with each other again, so that the two sides of the strait can truly achieve family affinity.
epilogue
Since ancient times, China naturally hates "eating Chinese and smashing Chinese bowls. This behavior, and Foxconn's Gou Taiming is obviously doing such a thing, and this will undoubtedly only make him fall into China, into the contempt of countless people who long for the same cross-strait, and his Foxconn will gradually lose the market and become uncared for."
China is a peace-loving country and a country that hopes that others will be able to do business with us in good faith. We Chinese never speculate on others with malice, but instead complain with virtue, hoping that people like Gou Taiming will realize this and deeply reflect on how ridiculous they are doing.
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