New Year’s Day is approaching and the Spring Festival is approaching. Some printing and dyeing factories have issued a Spring Festival holiday notice and will officially have a holiday on January 17 following the steam supply.
The Spring Festival is held in mid-January. This time point is very reasonable based on the situation in previous years. However, dyeing factories are the last factories to persist every year, which is ahead of schedule compared to the printing and dyeing market. But because the steam supply was stopped, there was no choice.
It is advocated to celebrate the New Year in situ, and workers may return to their hometowns early
Due to the recent epidemic in Zhejiang, there are market rumors that the holiday time this year may be advanced. And many places have recently issued the latest notices advocating celebrating the New Year in situ.
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The COVID-19 Prevention and Control Headquarters Office of Sanxiang Town, Zhongshan City, Guangdong issued an initiative to enterprises in the town:The majority of enterprises should encourage employees to celebrate the New Year locally and form a consensus of “not leaving Guangdong unless necessary”.
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The Headquarters Office of the Leading Group for the Prevention and Control of Novel Coronavirus Pneumonia Epidemic in Pingxiang City, Guangxi Province issued a notice that store and shop personnel are encouraged to celebrate the New Year in person and online.
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Notice from Hebei Zhangjiakou Economic Development Zone: Cadres and employees of party and government agencies, public institutions and state-owned enterprises in the region must take the lead in setting an example and celebrate the New Year locally. They must not leave the country or go to high-risk areas as much as possible. Do not leave the local area.
This initiative may cause some trouble to many migrant workers. Although celebrating the New Year in situ is conducive to epidemic prevention and control and is something that people across the country should actively cooperate with, for most migrant workers, I am eager to return to my hometown for the New Year reunion. In order to return home smoothly, I have already planned the time to return to my hometown and moved the time forward. In addition, in order to avoid the peak period of Spring Festival every year, workers return to their hometowns at staggered times. In the past few years, many workers have returned home early, earlier than the factory holidays.
During the festive season, we miss our loved ones even more. For the Spring Festival, many migrant workers will still choose to return to their hometowns. However, in the future, there may be situations where workers last year were unable to be isolated in their hometowns and had to undergo nucleic acid testing and quarantine for 14 days when returning from other provinces. , it will affect the normal post-year production plan for such a long time, and the market labor problem will become more and more prominent.
When workers return home, some are happy and some are sad
The early return of workers will also be a test for the production of the textile market. For manufacturers with abundant orders, workers returning home early may cause disruptions in production and affect delivery times. However, for some weaving manufacturers with high inventories and lack of orders, it is not necessarily a bad thing for workers to take leave early. According to recent market conditions, the inventory of weaving manufacturers is on the rise. According to data monitoring from China Silk City Network, the inventory of weaving manufacturers is currently around 31 days, an increase of 2.5 days compared with November. Manufacturers also reported that the delivery speed of gray fabrics has slowed down, and the market is gradually entering the off-season.
In view of this market situation, some manufacturers plan to start the Spring Festival holiday at the end of December. “Recently the delivery has been very poor. It’s hard to sell any variety. The factory will be on holiday at the end of the month. There is still more than 1 month of inventory. , the sales department will continue to work until almost mid-January.” said a textile company boss with a factory in Anhui.
At present, the high inventory in the weaving market has not been significantly alleviated, and many weaving factories are still in the stage of accumulated inventory. An early holiday may allow these weaving manufacturers to breathe a sigh of relief. It can not only alleviate the excessive inventory slightly, but also save a lot of labor costs. Therefore, textile mills are not very reluctant to take early holidays.
But for textile companies with sufficient orders and tight production, it is very troublesome for workers to return home early. A factory boss revealed: “We have a lot of orders on hand right now, and the machines in the factory are all running now. We definitely don’t want workers to go back early. The longer they stay, the better.”
Some printing and dyeing factories have been very busy recently. In some factories with liquidated stocks, salesmen and merchandisers will appear on their own to unwind the rolls. This is still the case under the current situation of sufficient personnel, so you can imagine what will happen if the workers return home early.
Currently, except for the factories in Zhejiang that were forced to suspend production due to the epidemic, most other factories are still operating normally. The road to fighting the epidemic is not over yet. For companies, it is not easy to receive orders. In order to be careful about the later stage,The problems of staff shortage and long delivery time have once again plagued us. Downstream customers need to place orders as soon as possible to avoid affecting the normal delivery cycle.
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