The employees of Stanley Baide Precision Manufacturing (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd. have moved out of the company, and there is no personnel flow at the gate of Jiehe Industrial City in the factory area
China Times (www.chinatimes.net.cn) reporter Sui Lou lou Yang Shi province Shenzhen photo report
Recently, the world's largest tool and hardware company, the American Stanley Baldur Group, has set off a discussion in China for the sudden dissolution of its factory in Shenzhen.
"The employees are gone, and now the factory is closed." Check it out very strictly, and you must make an appointment to enter. On November 5, the security guard at the gate of the Jiehe Industrial City factory where Stanley Baide Precision Manufacturing (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "Stanley") is located told the China Times reporter that a week ago, when Stanley had just issued a dissolution announcement, there were a large number of recruitment intermediaries at the entrance of the factory to recruit departing employees.
Today's factory is cold, and only the manpower of another manufacturing company, Shenzhen Sunwoda, is recruiting: "We are a listed company, there are more than 5,000 people in it, and we will not suddenly dissolve like Stanley." ”
The factory dissolution sparked two discussions. One is that Stanley offers employees compensation schemes that are higher than the legal standards, some people think it is illogical, and some people look at it with envy; the other is to explore whether Shenzhen is facing the dual dilemma of enterprises and talents fleeing. You know, just a month ago, Stanley also as a benchmark enterprise in Shenzhen, on the occasion of the celebration of the 40th anniversary of the Shenzhen Special Economic Zone, received a special report from the Guangdong Economic Science and Education Channel.
"The so-called outflow of talents and enterprises after the high land price in Shenzhen is actually a common phenomenon in many cities, and the key lies in whether there can be a new type of industry suitable for survival in Shenzhen after the 'cage for birds'." Now Shenzhen is in the big change pattern of the alternating old and the new, which is inevitable a bit chaotic, but it does not affect the overall development, so I still have confidence in the future of Shenzhen. Song Ding, deputy director of the China Urban Economic Expert Committee and senior researcher of the national high-end think tank CDI, told the China Times reporter.
The factory will be moved to Suzhou
Judging from stanley's announcement, the reason for the early dissolution of the company is that "the overall market environment has changed and the competition in the industry has intensified, and the group has had to reorganize its business resources to enhance market competitiveness based on strategic development needs". According to Stanley's former manager told the media, part of the reason for Stanley's move out of Shenzhen came from rent pressure.
"The land in Suzhou is our own, and it is rented here. We have been here for ten years, next year the lease will arrive, the rent has risen too high, now we want 38 yuan a square, simply can not accept. The manager said that after the dissolution of the factory, it will move to Suzhou and merge with Baide (Suzhou) Power Tools Co., Ltd., and employees who are willing to go to Suzhou can also move.
Employees who choose to leave Stanley will receive a compensation plan that is higher than the statutory standard provided by the company: based on "n+1", "n" calculated according to the average salary; there is also a seniority allowance, more than five years of three months, 2-5 years of compensation for two months, 1-2 years of compensation for one month, if the earlier signed up to negotiate the compensation plan there is a reward of 2,000 yuan.
Regardless of where to stay, Stanley has given employees a perfect solution, such as more than 20,000 yuan for workers who have worked for 8 months, and more than 30,000 yuan for workers on the assembly line who have worked for four years.
In fact, as a wholly-owned subsidiary of an established tool manufacturer, Stanley is also quite optimistic about the operation of the epidemic, with orders of $370 million in the first three quarters of this year, exceeding the previous annual order volume of about $320 million. In August this year, Stanley Shenzhen was commended by Bao'an District as "Adhering to Advanced Manufacturing Benchmarking Enterprise". According to public information, among the existing 790,000 commercially listed entities and 50,000 industrial enterprises in Bao'an District, 18 enterprises have won this honor, which is called "taking root in Bao'an, adhering to the real economy, and setting a benchmark for high-quality development". In September, Stanley, as a benchmark enterprise in Shenzhen, received a special report from the "Guangdong New Focus" column of the Guangdong Economic Science and Education Channel when celebrating the 40th anniversary of the Shenzhen Special Economic Zone.
However, honor was ultimately no match for the weight of reality, and Stanley decided to leave.
Has Shenzhen industry been abandoned?
The high rent is the main reason why Stanley moved out of Shenzhen, and it is also a common problem faced by many Shenzhen enterprises.
It is understood that in the past ten years, the rent of factory buildings in Bao'an District of Shenzhen has increased by about 5 times, longgang District has risen by about 7 times, and the rent of factories in Huizhou is still at the price of Shenzhen ten years ago, about 8 yuan / square meter. Therefore, a considerable number of factories in Shenzhen have been relocated to Dongguan, Huizhou, Foshan, or Vietnam, India and other places.
High rents do lead to forced relocation, but that doesn't mean the city is abandoning them. On the contrary, ensuring manufacturing advantages has always been regarded as the focus of Shenzhen's industrial policy. Shenzhen Municipality's "Several Measures on Supporting Enterprises to Enhance Competitiveness" issued in 2016 proposes to strengthen the overall management of industrial land and ensure that the total scale of industrial land in the city is not less than 270 square kilometers in the medium and long term, accounting for no less than 30% of urban construction land.
"Compared with other cities with the same economic volume, Shenzhen's manufacturing contribution rate is significantly higher, and the industrial land has maintained a 30% red line, which shows that Shenzhen has not abandoned the industrial manufacturing industry." Song Ding told the "China Times" reporter that all cities with rapid economic growth will inevitably produce the phenomenon of industrial relocation, which is a universal law.
For the public opinion of "Shenzhen industrial hollowing-out" caused by the "exodus" of the manufacturing industry, Tang Jie, former deputy mayor of Shenzhen and professor of the School of Economics and Management of Harbin Institute of Technology (Shenzhen), also said that in the era of digital economy, a large number of innovative content related to the digital economy should be concentrated in Shenzhen, so the manufacturing industry with a large area will have to be moved away. It cannot be said that a city must rely on both manufacturing and innovation, and must not give up manufacturing at the same time as finance.
For the change of deep enterprises, Song Ding used the term "cage for birds" to describe. "'Tengchang' is an inevitable phenomenon, mainly in the 'change of birds', that is, whether a new type of industry suitable for survival in Shenzhen can be established." In the future, in a central city like Shenzhen, the main industries are still suitable for the headquarters economy and the Internet, high-tech research and development industries, which represent the development direction of the city and can also produce agglomeration effects. Song Ding said.