Nan Ming Sun Never Sets

Chapter 542 Manufacturing Overheating
It is obviously impossible for Da Ming to mobilize the whole country immediately, but there is no country on this planet that is worthy of Da Ming's national mobilization to fight, not even Xiqing.The local population of Ming Dynasty has reached 2 million. It is obvious that Bai Mingxiu caused the population of Ming Dynasty to explode rapidly 20 years ago, even doubling the population of more than 20 years ago. Daming had to invest crazily in education, and the number of primary and secondary schools in some prefectures doubled every few years.

Bai Mingxiu once read some authoritative research reports. The industrial productivity of the Ming Dynasty is extremely high at this stage, which can be said to surpass that of the United States during World War II. During the almost crazy industrial frenzy in the past 20 years, all provinces, governments and counties are vigorously launching industries. The repeatability is high, and many technologies are not strong.In the period when cities need to be built and industries need to be developed, it is very normal for each prefecture and county to have its own steel factories, machinery factories, textile factories and so on.But now it is different, the competition can no longer be called fierce, but fierce.

In almost every field, the prices of industrial products have been falling year after year, and profit margins have declined, resulting in stagnant salary increases, and even layoffs and bankruptcy.It is undeniable that some very large and cutting-edge enterprises are still doing very well, especially some emerging industries, but the more traditional steel, chemical, and textile industries are now relatively poor.

When Bai Mingxiu noticed this situation by himself, he realized that the situation in Daming was actually related to the fact that he came from a later generation, with obvious sentiments of the industrial party and the tendency of manufacturing to be king.After the restoration of Ming Dynasty, the rural cooperative reform and industrialization were carried out, and then a wave of township and village enterprises and collective enterprises ushered in. This made the proportion of the population in the secondary industry of Daming extremely high, and the urbanization speed was also extremely fast.At this stage, about 42% of the labor force in Daming is industrial population, which is equivalent to the primary industry.

With high productivity and large scale, Ming's manufacturing industry is very scary, and a large number of low-priced products flood the market.And even if you go overseas, it is difficult to catch such a large amount of products in one go.What's more, European countries are now protecting their own local industries. After tariffs have been imposed on Ming products, they still have to compete with local products.But even so, Daming products still occupy a large share of the European market.

The result of over-development of the manufacturing industry is serious overcapacity. Even if Daming continues to start new public construction projects, it still cannot use all the production capacity.Daming itself has labor protection that is absolutely beyond the times. Compared with the exploited labor force in Europe, the working hours of manufacturing workers in Ming Dynasty are shorter, the intensity is not so high, and there are various allowances and insurances.

The main problem faced by workers in the Ming Dynasty during the stage of confrontation was not exploitation, but rising unemployment and underemployment.

After the meeting, Bai Mingxiu personally drove a family car to pick up the children home from school in the afternoon, and cooked a table of dishes by himself, waiting for his strong woman queen to come home.

As soon as Su Wanxi pushed the door of the house, she smelled the delicious food and smiled.Even though she is almost 40 years old, Su Wanxi still looks young and beautiful. She has an innocence in her body, which is incomparable to ordinary women.

The family sat down to eat happily. Bai Mingxiu taught the children not to watch TV all the time while eating.Su Wanxi started to talk about some work matters.

"A food processing factory in our Baoding Prefecture is going to be closed, and now all the employees of the factory are gathering around the factory leaders to ask for an explanation. As a last resort, they called the head office of the group to see if there is anything in the head office. We need to find ways to relocate employees." Su Wanxi is the vice president of Guoyu Group and is responsible for the daily operations of the group.

Guoyu Group, one of the top 2000 companies in Ming Dynasty, is involved in many industries, with a total output value of 5 million Mingliang and employs a total of more than [-] employees. It is considered a very large enterprise.

Bai Mingxiu picked up the rice with chopsticks and sighed, "It's hard to find a job now."

Before, a large number of rural laborers entered the cities and entered the manufacturing factories. Now that Ming Dynasty has confirmed that the manufacturing industry is overheated and some of them need to be removed, how to accommodate these laborers is a big problem.

To put it bluntly, in fact, it was because the development time of Ming Dynasty was too short. In fact, most of the industrial labor force in these years were workers who had undergone simple literacy and engaged in some simple and repetitive jobs.They often get a good income through this job, support their families, and even become well-off.But fundamentally, these workers have limited growth potential, cannot do a lot of complicated labor, and it is even more difficult to carry out creative labor.

In the Ming Dynasty, there was still a lack of well-educated talents in all walks of life. Even if college graduates were not as valuable as they were 20 years ago, they were still being robbed everywhere.However, at the present stage of Ming Dynasty, there were not so many simple labor jobs at all.

There are many reasons for the oversupply of simple labor in the Ming Dynasty. The large population is the root cause, and the unbalanced industrial development is the incentive. There are also some side reasons. Bai Mingxiu led the women's liberation, and a large number of female laborers entered the labor market. In addition, Bai Mingxiu had no capitalists at all. Due to his temperament, companies must pay workers a certain amount of wages and set up various benefits, so the labor market in Ming Dynasty has been distorted.

From a purely rational market perspective, if the supply of labor is large, the price of labor should be low.But the reality is that the price of labor is artificially inflated by Bai Mingxiu, but there is so much supply, so companies naturally pick and choose. As a result, those who have jobs live well, while those who have no jobs are in trouble, and can only receive social subsistence allowances.

Some people are now working jobs that only have 20 hours a week, and many people are smart enough to start their own small business, selling snacks on the street.

Su Wanxi said: "The senior management of the group doesn't want to take care of these employees, but I try my best to argue that our group is a big company with a social image, and we can't do things that hurt our image. Therefore, I hope the group can develop some The tertiary industry comes out to accommodate our workers."

Bai Mingxiu nodded and praised: "The service industry is a good place to absorb labor. Alas, I used to be wary and despised the service industry. Now it seems that I have really made a mistake."

Su Wanxi smiled and comforted: "It has nothing to do with you. Everyone thinks that opening a factory will make money. If you don't make money, even if you are the emperor telling everyone to open a factory, everyone will not do it."

"Well, but now the cabinet is also walking on eggshells. We have cultivated a large manufacturing industry. We need to retain a group of competitive and future enterprises and cut down a group of backward production capacity. But how to achieve it is still very difficult. If it doesn’t work out, there will be bigger problems.”

Su Wanxi said: "Many factories have left and went to Southeast Asia, and even to North America and Australia. Although there are few people there, the industry is not good enough. Once they pass by, they can occupy the market there, so the companies that have been engaged in this layout recently are very Many. We can already see the emergence of immigration waves, which can be regarded as a relief for the situation in Daming.”

(End of this chapter)