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In industry, the normal talent structure is 1 scientist, 10 engineers, and 100 skilled talents.

In China, high-quality industrial workers, one of China’s core competitiveness, are the human resources on which many entrepreneurs depend, but at the same time, entrepreneurs are the players with the least motivation to provide soil.

The reasons for the 20 million talent gap today are not only superficial income comparisons, but also more profound historical reasons. This also allows the resolution of the crux to go beyond simple transplantation and replication.

On November 27th, during the historic moment of Alibaba’s return to the Hong Kong stock market, a young bell ringer standing at the C position attracted a lot of attention. His name is Yuan Wenkai, the person in charge of 4PX Delivering Sifang Logistics Warehouse.

The third from the right is Yuan Wenkai, a logistics sorter

In just five years, Yuan Wenkai startedA tallyman who graduated from a Guangdong general vocational school and transformed into an automation management expert, he increased the sorting capacity of the logistics warehouse by 20,000 orders per hour, which is enough to withstand the surge in cross-border logistics orders for the double 11 day.

China has a lot of technical staff like Yuan Wenkai.

In the “Top 100 Shortlisted Jobs for Recruiting National Jobs in the Third Quarter of 2019”, there are also technical jobs such as lathes, welders, multi-process CNC machine tool operators, and manufacturing companies on the list with tallymen. Manufacturing And the demand for related positions accounted for almost a third of the list.

I have visited some large privately owned factories in the Pearl River Delta, and it is easy to feel a structural change.

Although there are many young people’s faces there, they are more young and middle-aged laborers. Companies are also more inclined to hire workers with certain skills, who are not only experienced but also able to work overtime.

In Japan, the proportion of senior skilled workers in the entire industrial workforce is 40%, in Germany it is as high as 50%, and in China it is only about 5%. Cases of 20 million talent gaps hindering China’s manufacturing transformation also abound.

It is paradoxical that although in the eyes of entrepreneurs, the core resource that they rely on is high-quality Chinese industrial workers, which is one of China’s core competitiveness, compared with German and Japanese SMEs, these entrepreneurs There is often a lack of motivation to provide the soil for cultivating talent.

The reasons for the 20 million talent gap today are not only superficial income comparisons, but also deeper historical and cultural reasons. This also allows the resolution of the crux to go beyond simple transplantation and replication.


Talent fault

Dongguan, which is relying on robotics and automation technology to try to move into the future, is a microcosm of China’s transformation.

Dongguan shortage of skilled workers released in this year’s catalog, the demand for CNC machine tools operators, equipment maintenance electricians, even ranked ahead of AI engineers.

In past interviews, the author learned that whether it is the trend of integrated design of metal casings opened by Apple, or the new materials of 5G mobile phone casings (such as ceramics) not only leads to a surge in manufacturers’ demand for high-end CNC equipment, but also places higher requirements on the operator’s machining level. It is said that even equipment maintenance electricians need to know a little about PLC.

In Shenzhen, not far from Dongguan, and even in Guangdong, middle and senior technicians such as turners, fitters, and welders have also been on the list of skills shortages for several years.

Shenzhen ’s skills-hungry jobs in Shenzhen in 2019 (parts)

The situation in the Pearl River Delta is also staged in the Yangtze River Delta, another manufacturing base.

After investigating more than 800 sample companies this year, the Ningbo Human Resources and Social Security Bureau found that manufacturing (and the service industry) The proportion of senior technicians is only It’s a little over three percent, and it’s very scarce. Nearly half are just junior workers.

In 2019, Ningbo municipal-level coordinating district has a shortage of occupational (type of work) high-skilled personnel post subsidy directory (partial)

In Hangzhou, from the point of view of salary levels for professional and technical enterprises this year, the average salary of ordinary technicians is 108,487 yuan, and that of senior technicians is 110,301 yuan. And 5 years ago, the year of the average technician