Manufacturing Empire in the Valley

Chapter 1000 Employment Situation and Cluster Effect

There are three main things that Wu Ping wants to discuss with Niu Xiaoqiang today. One is when the news of Niu Dazhuang's promotion will be announced, the other is the land use planning for two foreign-funded projects, and the last is the expansion of the technical school.

There is currently only one technical school in the entire Hope New District. This technical school was originally dedicated to serving Factory 311. After Factory 311 went bankrupt, Niu Xiaoqiang directly annexed the technical school and became a talent training base under the jurisdiction of Asia Machinery Factory.

At present, there are only more than 400 students left in the entire technical school, and all other students have been recruited into various factories.Wu Ping feels that if the scale of the technical school is not expanded, it will definitely not be able to meet the ever-expanding demand for employment in the future.In particular, there will be a serious shortage of talents with certain skills.

In order to solve this problem and encourage more parents to send their children to school, Wu Ping said, "Xiaoqiang, can the scale of the technical school be expanded? The current scale obviously cannot meet the subsequent employment needs. If If you don’t prepare well in advance, it will definitely affect the subsequent development of several factories of your master.”

Niu Xiaoqiang has long been aware of this problem and is planning an expansion plan.

Hearing Wu Ping's request at this moment, Niu Xiaoqiang couldn't help asking: "Sister Ping, how much do you think it would be appropriate to expand the size of the technical school?"

The technical school must be expanded, but Niu Xiaoqiang is a little unsure about how much to expand.

The reason is simple: expanding the scale of the technical school means that the number of students in the technical school will definitely increase. Isn’t the reason why these students enter the technical school is to find a good job in the future?If the scale is expanded too much, the number of students will also increase a lot. In case the factory does not need so many workers, how should these extra students be arranged?

If this issue is not handled well, it will easily lead to conflicts. If students and parents get into a fight, it will not end so well.

Wu Ping is also very clear about this, she smiled and said: "I think the size of the technical school should at least be doubled on the existing basis. If you are worried that there are too many students and you can't arrange it, the district can help you." Part of it."

Niu Xiaoqiang asked curiously, "How can the district solve it?"

"I hope the farm is expanding rapidly, and the canning factory is also doing very well. I plan to expand the scale this year. In addition, I plan to expand the scale of pig farming. These three projects can solve the employment needs of hundreds of people within a year at least. If it develops better in the future, I can provide more jobs.”

Niu Xiaoqiang secretly calculated in his heart: At present, the motorcycle factory, oil extraction machine factory, steelmaking factory and mechanical processing factory all need to recruit new workers to fill them up. According to the reports from the managers of the four factories, they need to recruit more than 350 workers in total. People, if you add the Asia Machinery Factory, Haisen Electronics, and the TV accessories factory under construction, the demand for labor will definitely exceed 800 people, and there are only more than 400 students in the technical school, which is obviously not enough, but if If the enrollment scale is doubled, the number of students enrolled each year will exceed 1000. According to this number, it is equivalent to providing [-] new jobs every year. The companies under my name plus the jobs provided in the district , should be manageable.

He thought of this and nodded happily: "I agree with Sister Ping's enrollment expansion plan, but I also have another idea."

Wu Ping asked curiously, "What other ideas do you have?"

Niu Xiaoqiang smiled slightly: "The annual enrollment number of the technical school is not constant. I will determine the enrollment number based on the estimated labor demand. Otherwise, once it exceeds the capacity, it will cause a lot of trouble. If the enrollment is flexibly formulated Quantity can solve this hidden danger well, what do you think?"

Wu Ping frowned: "At present, there are thousands of junior high school graduates in the district every year. If the technical school does not take them all, what will happen to these junior high school graduates? Once the employment prospects of junior high school graduates are not clear enough, those parents will definitely not Will support my children to go to school, which in turn will affect the education of our district, Xiaoqiang, can you come up with a better solution?"

The two look at the problem from different angles, so there will be differences of opinion.Niu Xiaoqiang knew that Wu Ping attached great importance to the education in the district. In order to help Wu Ping solve this problem, he pondered for a while and said, "How about this? As long as there is a shortage of employment, those who have obtained a junior high school diploma can be compared with those People with lower education levels are given priority in jobs, and they are assigned relatively better jobs, so parents should not let their children drop out of school, right?"

Wu Ping is still not satisfied with this: "What should I do if the employment gap does not appear?"

Niu Xiaoqiang smiled and shook his head: "No, according to my estimation, the joint venture project between Asia Machinery Factory and Packard Automobile Company will create at least thousands or even tens of thousands of jobs in five years at the latest. Maybe by then We still have a headache because of the shortage of workers, it is unlikely that there will be no placement problem."

Wu Ping asked in surprise, "Why are you so sure?"

Niu Xiaoqiang stretched out his finger and poked Wu Ping's forehead: "Did you forget what I told you when I just returned to China? At that time, I said that the investment of Packard Motor Company is divided into several stages. The current stage is technical cooperation, with limited capital investment, and the production scale will be expanded as the market size increases. The automobile manufacturing industry is a labor-intensive industry. Isn't it easy to provide thousands of jobs by then? ?”

Wu Ping finally remembered it, and she said embarrassedly: "I have a lot of things to deal with recently, so I forgot about this. I remember you told me about the cluster effect, right?"

Niu Xiaoqiang nodded: "Yes, I did tell you about the cluster effect at the time. As long as the joint venture factory can develop steadily, those spare parts suppliers will take the initiative to open factories around the joint venture factory, which will greatly save transportation costs. Better Provide products to the upstream leading enterprises more quickly, so that they can earn more money. A car has more than 1 spare parts, and the joint venture factory will only produce such things as engines and transmissions. The most core components such as boxes and chassis, and those less core components will all be purchased from outside. Even so, it can support at least dozens of spare parts suppliers. If you think about it, the employees of dozens of factories How big will the gap be?"

Wu Pingjiao said with a smile: "According to the calculation of the number of workers employed by 100 people in a factory, dozens of factories can provide at least thousands of jobs. If you count too little, if you count too much, it will not be enough to provide [-] to [-] jobs." question!"

(End of this chapter)