<24HOURS>Where did the employees who disappeared in the factory go?
Today, manufacturing is becoming less attractive to young people.In the past many years in China, manufacturing factories have provided employment opportunities for a large number of migrant workers.However, after the Spring Festival this year, the factory recruitment has become more difficult.In the manufacturing-intensive Pearl River Delta and Yangtze River Delta regions, factories started to work one after another, but the delay in the workers has seriously affected the operation of enterprises.
The express delivery industry is now an option for young workers.In 2018, China's express delivery business grew by 26.6% year-on-year, surpassing 50 billion pieces.The industry also offers an attractive and flexible work system for young wage earners."We can play games or chat during breaks, which is impossible for factory workers."The "Communication Group Insight Report of 2018" shows that the total number of couriers has reached 3 million, and the average salary is about 6,200 yuan.
The economic growth of the express delivery industry is benefited from the development of e-commerce online shopping.There is a warehouse of Taobao shop in Wensha North Road, Xiasha, Hangzhou, where a dozen young people from rural areas come to work in the city.
Zhang Shan is a 27-year-old Jiangxi young man who used to work in his home factory. He told me that his former factory worked long hours and was not free, so he chose to change careers.Because his girlfriend is on the Hangzhou side, Zhang Shan came to Hangzhou in 2015 to work in the new service industry—the express delivery industry.His main job every day is to deliver the express delivery of each warehouse to the logistics distribution point.
Zhang Shan’s girlfriend, Coco, is responsible for counting the quantity of goods in the warehouse.Coco said, "The best place for this job is to get more work and more, not to get dead wages. When you are tired, you can do less rest. The time is more free, you can arrange your own plan."
They are now ready to settle in Hangzhou, because they have become new city people.
