As the resumption of work after the holiday is progressing steadily, news about “regional regions launching inter-provincial “people-robbing contests”” are emerging one after another.
It can be seen from the news that many places in the Yangtze River Delta are “head-first” in recruiting workers, and they are constantly making big moves to get off to a good start after the holiday.
Faced with the “labor shortage” and “difficulty in recruiting” that occur every year, what will be the performance of textile companies in their recent resumption of work and production? In this regard, the editor visited the market and conducted relevant research.
Resumption of work and production, return to work situations vary
Through interviews and research, the editor found that most of the start-up times of the textile upstream and downstream industry chains this year are consistent with previous years, that is, work will resume one after another on the eighth day of the Lunar New Year. As textile companies gradually resume production and operations, the return of workers has become a key factor in whether companies can resume work and production in an orderly manner.
A dyeing and finishing company revealed that the company started work on the ninth day of the Lunar New Year, and the workers returned to work in good condition, with a return rate of 99%. A small number of employees who have not returned to work are also on their way back to work, so the workshop resumed normal operations the next day. Last year, due to the epidemic, the order volume was not sufficient, and all orders were delivered before the holidays. But on the first day of work this year, customer orders began to arrive one after another. There were already blank embryos waiting in line at the door of the workshop. The market recovery is just around the corner!
A weaving company said that the start of work this year is similar to previous years. The current situation of workers returning to work is not very optimistic, with the return rate being around 65%. At the end of 2022, due to the epidemic, some orders were not completed in time. In addition, new orders in 2023 were gradually implemented and put into production, and the workshop manpower was “stretched.” In order to fill the gap of labor shortage as soon as possible, recruitment work has been accelerated.
With the transformation of industrial layout, some economically underdeveloped areas have taken over the textile and garment industry transferred from developed areas, especially in the central provinces with large labor exports. After the Spring Festival holiday, some workers directly choose to return to their hometowns for re-employment, causing some enterprises to return to their hometowns for re-employment. Job performance is poor and labor is lost.
The progress is different, and the startup rate is slowly recovering.
Judging from the situation of returning to work, the “labor shortage” and “difficulty in recruiting workers” seem to be particularly prominent this year. Everyone is recruiting in different ways, but the attendance rate of workers in some companies is still low, and some companies even have a situation where “there are orders but no one can do them.”
According to monitoring data from Silkdu.com, as of February 6, the operating rate of weaving companies in the sample was around 35.3%, which is still at a low level.
A weaving company said that we resumed work on the ninth day of the Lunar New Year. Since most non-local employees chose to return home for the New Year this year, the employee arrival rate after the holiday was much lower than the same period in previous years. Shortage of manpower has become the biggest obstacle to resumption of work and production. In the past, the main reason why looms could not be started was insufficient orders. But the current situation is even more difficult. First, the orders from a year ago need to be finalized quickly, and second, urgent orders for some spring models are arriving one after another. In just a few days, orders waiting to be shipped have been lined up, but it happened that in At this time, the loom cannot be started, and can only be maintained at about 80%!
Another weaving company lamented that although the current return rate of workers is as high as 95%, due to the relatively high inventory of the company and the acceptance of new and old orders, the current operating rate is around 85%, which is lower than the same period in previous years.
It can be seen that if textile companies want to quickly resume production operations, they need sufficient human resources on the one hand, and they cannot do without sufficient order support on the other hand. It can also be seen from the feedback from enterprises that the current market demand for new orders and price inquiries is not very high, and the number of new orders received by some enterprises is also very limited. It will take time for the textile market to fully recover.
Postscript
Although the “labor shortage” and “recruitment difficulty” cannot be completely solved in a short time, the consumption boom during the Spring Festival sends a signal to textile workers that demand is picking up. It has only been a week since the start of construction, and a lot of good news has come from the textile market. Whether it is the increase in gray fabric prices or the hot sales of some fabrics, these have injected confidence into the textile market that has been dragged down by the epidemic for three years.
</p
