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Chapter 671 Double-edged Sword (first update, please subscribe)
At seven o'clock in the evening, the lights had been turned on in the workshop of Yuxiang Cotton Mill.

The work is intense and the spinning shop is a fast-moving wheel. Rows of spinning machines are arranged neatly, and they are rotating busily and orderly under the operation of female workers. The yarn shuttled on the machine, and the female workers, whose ears were shaken by the noise of the spinning machine, kept walking between the spinning machines. They were either feeding slivers or playing with the broken yarn. Their movements were skillful and fast, and the tools in their hands were flying in their hands.

Their mouths are as busy as their hands. For skilled female workers, they can chat while working, but it will not affect their work, while the car managers seem to be "deaf". Turning a blind eye, sometimes saying a word or two to remind them to concentrate on their work, to which the female workers just responded with laughter.

The lights in the workshop are soft and bright, illuminating every corner, so the female workers chat and work at the same time.

Suddenly, the electric bell wailed loudly, resounding throughout the factory. There was a sudden commotion in the workshop, and the noise of the spinning machine decreased and soon stopped.

The voices of the people prevailed.

It's finally time to get off work.

Soon, the female workers who had finished their meals in the canteen rushed out of the factory with their lunch boxes - although it had only been a month or two, many factories are now used to providing dinner to workers after get off work in the evening. . In this way, some time can be saved and more products can be produced.

In fact, this is a common problem among capitalists - when they discover a loophole. I won't hesitate to exploit that loophole.

The female lunch box workers rushed out of the factory. Either riding a bicycle away or waiting for the bus.

Yue Zongfeng was sitting in his room, looking down at the documents of the Ministry of International Trade and Industry. There was a 30-watt electric lamp above his head, which illuminated his face, which was as calm as a stone statue.

Suddenly the door opened and deputy director Li Deqi walked in and said.

"The equipment of our factory is of the technical level in the late 20s, and the production cost is high. From the perspective of market competition, as new equipment continues to be put into production, the cost of our products is high and our competitiveness is poor. This problem is not obvious at the moment. , But it will only become more and more obvious in the future, and it will be difficult to sell our products within two or three years at the latest.”

The factory became silent, and the lights in the workshop were turned off. The lights shining from the row of houses in the management department over there seem to be particularly energetic.

In fact, they are no strangers to this kind of industrial transfer. After all, there were Japanese-owned factories in China back then, and those Japanese-owned factories were relocated from Japan.

"Moving factories abroad doesn't seem like a bad thing."

This document from the Ministry of International Trade and Industry was just issued. It recommends that companies with old equipment take the initiative to move abroad and use cheap foreign labor to reduce production costs and maintain corporate competitiveness.

"Director, what do you think of this matter?"

Pushing the document forward, Yue Zongfeng said.

It was exactly 8:40 pm when the factory door was closed.

Li Deqi nodded and said.

"I feel the same way. The labor costs here in Nanyang are too high. Not to mention the high wages, female workers still have three months of maternity leave after childbirth, and even have child allowance, plus overtime pay, pension insurance and medical insurance. In total, the monthly salary of a female worker is at least 3 yuan. If she goes to Malaya, the salary is only 30 yuan at most, which reduces the labor cost by more than two-thirds. "

"Yes, if we calculate it this way, even compared to air-jet spinning with higher output, our cost disadvantage is not that obvious. It is estimated that there will be no problem if we continue to work for another ten years. By then, almost all of these machines will be eliminated. Yes." Yue Zongfeng glanced at the documents in front of him, nodded slightly, and said.

“More importantly, you can work overtime there!”

Yes, this is the most important thing. No matter how busy they are with production, all companies in Nanyang can only work until 8 pm, and then all companies must get off work. But Malaysia is different. There is no such rigid law.

"Yeah, and there's no overtime pay,"

Li Deqi nodded and said.

"The only problem is the resettlement of workers. According to the regulations of the Ministry of International Trade and Industry, transfer can only be carried out after the workers have been resettled and employment has been solved for them."

"This is not a problem. All the workers in our factory are skilled workers. I will go and check with my familiar colleagues in person. There are only more than a thousand workers. It's easy to arrange. Besides, what Nanyang is most lacking now is workers. Let's put them together." With so many skilled workers coming to my door, they can’t thank me properly, and they can even pay for the severance pay on our behalf.”

This is one of the few restrictions, and it is also the most important one. When Yue Zongfeng started arranging the whereabouts of his workers, he did not know that this seemingly meaningless restriction, The reality is to consider the long term.

Li Yi'an, who comes from another world, knows very well that capital has no national boundaries. For capital, the most important profit is profit, and what capitalists pursue is always maximizing profits. With the large-scale popularity of containers and the plummeting cost of shipping, the overseas transfer of industries has become mainstream.

In order to reduce production costs, capitalists will not hesitate to move factories to foreign countries with low labor costs, thereby expanding their profit margins.

This is the so-called "economic globalization". While capital advocates that "economic globalization" can bring cheaper goods to its own citizens, it also moves companies and their equipment and factories abroad. What is the result of this industrial transfer?
This can be seen in the industrial transfer in Europe and the United States and other countries, which eventually even directly led to the deindustrialization of the country!

Even so, capitalists are still happy to move their companies abroad. After all, more profits can be obtained by moving factories abroad, such as Tangshan.

However, this kind of de-industrialization will cause long-term harm to the country. It will not only increase the country's unemployment rate, but also break the industrial chain, and even slowly lead to the road of de-industrialization.

Of course we have to learn from past mistakes.

And from the beginning, we must do everything possible to prevent deindustrialization from happening to Nanyang itself. Therefore, Li Nian asked the Ministry of International Trade and Industry to formulate corresponding industrial transfer regulations and pass some binding regulations to allow companies to transfer production lines. When going abroad, it is also necessary to find employment for the employees, and even the income cannot be reduced, instead of just giving N + a few compensations.

Now this is just a norm, and in the future it will become a law. The law will ensure that the industrial transfer in Nanyang is controlled within a certain range. After all, the purpose of industrial transfer is to use foreign cost advantages to reduce manufacturing costs, and this will make domestic high wages Workers are unemployed.

If there are no restrictions, then industrial transfer will eventually hurt the foundation of Nanyang and affect Nanyang's industrial strength. Moreover, this impact will be continuous, just like a chronic poison. By the time the effect is exerted, it will be difficult to return. .

Therefore, in many cases, it is necessary to regulate it from the beginning. Only in this way can we enjoy the benefits of industrial transfer while avoiding being harmed by it.

After all, industrial transfer itself is a double-edged sword.

(End of this chapter)