Labor Shortage Has Spawned The Shoe Industry'S "Climax Of Machine Substitutions".

In March 7th, "sales volume was stable at 150 units / year in previous years, and this year's orders have surged to 450 units."

This is a recent speech by a shoe machine company to reporters.

In recent years, rising labor costs and increasingly difficult and difficult "

Zhang Huarong, President of Huajian group, even thought that it has arrived at a new node now. "It was difficult to recruit workers before, but after a period of time, it could be filled."

As a response, he invested 3 million euros in the second half of last year and imported a batch of automation equipment to replace labor.

He counted an account, and the investment would reduce labor by 15%.

The scale of the employment of Huajian 21000 people is around 3000 people. With the annual expenditure of 20 thousand yuan per person, it can save 60 million in one year, and the cost will be recovered in less than a year.

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In his view, "before cheap labor force can be used, enterprises must use, and now the machine is more cost-effective, enterprises will naturally invest in machines."

Zhang noted that not only in the footwear industry, but also in all labor-intensive industries, since 2009, there has been a noticing wave of machine switching.