It is easier said than done to stay in Shenzhen now.
How many years have I lived in Shenzhen? I was embarrassed to say it myself, so I told a joke that was scary to others. I'm just talking about where I lived for the last ten years.
Talking about the last ten years is a bit exaggerated. After all, it will only be ten years until November next year. When I moved to this place, someone had just taken over a storefront hair salon downstairs. The hair salon was called Dynamic House. It was a professional barber shop without all the bells and whistles. I live on the 5th floor of the same building. I can definitely say that over the years, every time I get a haircut in the dynamic room, it is close and familiar. I have short hair, and it costs 20 yuan three times a month. It is unbeatable. And I have a habit of getting my hair cut. I don’t want the barber to wash my hair. After it’s cut, I go upstairs and wash my hair myself. It’s clean and refreshing. This may be the main reason why I have insisted on getting my hair cut at the Dynamic Room for so many years.
When the epidemic broke out this year, my work was affected, so I decided to leave Shenzhen and go back to my hometown. The last haircut was still in the dynamic room. The air ticket was on the afternoon of March 30th. I got a haircut in advance on the afternoon of March 28th. I and I The boss’s last chat was thought-provoking.
I said: This may be the last time you give me a haircut.
My boss had heard that I was going back to my hometown before, so he was not particularly surprised. He said: Time flies so fast, we have known each other for almost ten years.
I said: three times a month, 20 yuan each time, 60 yuan a month, 720 yuan a year, ten years...
I was surprised, how long have I been getting haircuts these days? It costs more than 6,000 yuan.
The boss said: You helped me pay one month’s rent.
I also know this. His monthly rent is 6,000 yuan. Due to the epidemic, the store was closed for two months. He asked the landlord for a reduction, but the landlord refused.
He also knew that my rent was 1,200 yuan per month. He said: You contribute one-third of the mortgage to your landlord.
I burst into laughter. A haircut alone costs more than 6,000 yuan, and the rent is 100,00, as well as food, clothing, transportation expenses, water and electricity bills, property management, gas and telephone bills...
Shenzhen, It’s not that I haven’t made any money, but my pocket is still empty. All my money has been earned by others.
The epidemic is a good reason. I can only choose to sing the fifth scene of "Shajiabang": Retreat.
My uncle’s family all came back from Dongguan, Guangdong two days ago. The reason is that their factory has been shut down, so the family of three was forced to go home. On Sunday night, my uncle called me and asked me if he could find a job for his cousin in Hanzhong. After all, my cousin was already in his twenties and had not yet been married. If he had no income now, he would not marry me. There is even less hope for my wife.
I remember when my uncle came home last year and sat chatting with him, he also said that maybe their family could get an extra sum of money from the factory this year because their factory was A factory that makes lamps now has more than a thousand employees and is divided into two factories. He said that the factory may have to be relocated to Vietnam, but his family is unwilling. Since they have been working in this factory for seven or eight years, the contract will not end until 2021. Therefore, according to the labor law, if they are unwilling If they go to Vietnam, the company should compensate them with a dispatch fee. The uncle said that the three of them can probably get more than 40,000 yuan.
Who would have known that it has only been a few days now. At the end of February, the factory was urging my uncle to see if they could resume work quickly. Now, before April is over, they have been put on leave again. It is really a change. soon. It is said that many companies in Guangdong are engaged in foreign trade, so now batches of factories are on vacation. There is no job at all now, and they have to work hard all day at the door of the factory, waiting. Those who came were all already full, so they had no choice but to go home.
Since many people working in Guangdong are renting houses, and many people there have many houses for rent, there has been a wave of rent withdrawals in Guangdong recently. My uncle said that their factories are pretty good and they only have holidays after everyone's wages have been paid. Some factories have not yet paid their wages, so many people can only wait in dormitories or rental houses all day long for their wages to be paid.
I took a look this morning and found that the global epidemic is becoming more and more serious, and it is especially serious in developed countries such as Europe and the United States. At present, it seems that the epidemic will be over in June. Thank God. It is very likely that Guangdong will The factory will be on holiday for several months, but my uncle said that everyone can understand, because the factory doesn’t want this, but in difficult times, we can’t hold back, so after returning home, my uncle immediately contracted more than 20 acres of land, and has been busy in the past two days. Sowing corn! Lao Zhang also has a suggestion. You can ask your cousin to deliver food in the city first, and then change it after finding a suitable job. What do you think?
If Shenzhen does not solve the problem of high housing prices and high commodity prices, there will be no way out, and even if there is, it will be a dead end. Without grassroots migrant workers to build the city, there will be no senior intellectuals and fresh blood to enter Shenzhen and expand blood circulation. Bad, can the local old households in Shenzhen or the existing so-called talents support the future development of Shenzhen? Think about it, is it possible?
Shenzhen experienced a wave of returnees in 1998 and 2008. The first two times were related to the financial crisis. This time, many people said that the wave of returnees was due to the epidemic. In fact, the epidemic was only one of the factors. , before the epidemic, Shenzhen had already seen a large-scale wave of returning hometowns. Including last year, many people working in Shenzhen returned to their hometowns and stopped going to Shenzhen. So, why did there even be a third wave of epidemics? A large-scale return wave? There are several reasons:
1. The entire economy is in recession. In fact, looking at the whole country and the world, the economy has been sluggish in the past two years. Your and my income have been declining. The entire social environment is like this, and Shenzhen cannot avoid it. The economy will inevitably affect the income of ordinary people, including part-time workers. grassroots personnel. Because the efficiency of the company was not very good and wages were reduced, everyone felt that the work they were doing was not proportional to their income, so naturally they were unwilling to continue working and chose to go home.
2. The cost of living is too high. The costs here include basic living security, food, drink, and rent, as well as the cost of rent. In Shenzhen, it is almost impossible to save a few hundred yuan for rent in a village. What’s more, with the continuous advancement of Shenzhen’s urbanization process, Shenzhen’s “villages in the city” After the house was demolished, there were no more self-built houses for the residents. The workers had no choice but to rent a house in the community. A single room usually costs more than 1,000 yuan a month, which is four to five thousand yuan a month. Excluding the rent, food, drink, and toilet, it can be saved. , two or three thousand is good. Most people save more than one thousand a month and earn ten or twenty thousand a year. Some even fail to save a penny after a year. What's more, buying clothes, eating, etc. is really not cheap in Shenzhen. It is one of the most expensive cities in China and also one of the cities with the highest cost of living in China.
3. Affected by the epidemic, a large number of factories are unable to produce, and individuals cannot open their doors for business. In fact, this epidemic not only affects the whole world, but also the whole of China. Due to the further tightening of epidemic prevention work in various places, many factories are unable to produce, and individual storefronts have not opened their doors for various epidemic prevention reasons. They have basically not opened their doors for business. Because there are few customers, business is difficult, survival is difficult, and money is really hard to come by. When a company is not open, there is no work, the store is closed, and there is no money to be made, or when it is open and there is no business, you will face great pressure on rent and survival. You have no choice but to go back to your hometown to farm. What's more, most of those who work in Shenzhen work in factories or work as individuals at the bottom of society. Most of those with real local hukou work in large enterprises or government institutions, so there is no pressure to survive in this regard.
4. Due to environmental protection and other economic impacts, companies have not opened their doors. In addition to the impact of this epidemic, there is also the impact of environmental protection rectification, which has caused Shenzhen's small businesses to basically close down. This situation has been like this from last year to now. I have relatives who open a garment factory in Shenzhen. , due to the impact of environmental protection inspections, it was not open for a few days last year. In the end, the rent was too high and we could not continue to operate. We had to close down and open a factory in our city. Small factories closed and it was difficult for workers to find jobs. What should we do? Then go home.
5. Enterprises squeeze workers’ income, leading to helpless workers leaving.
It is precisely because of various factors that it is difficult for companies to survive. However, in order to continue operating, companies have to reduce costs from workers. The best way is to reduce wages. At first, when recruiting people, it cost seven to eight thousand yuan. It's good, but when you are actually used, various deductions are only three to four thousand, four to five thousand. The company is scheming to exploit workers and deduct workers' wages, resulting in everyone being unable to afford the high cost of living, high-intensity labor costs and basic wages. , had no choice but to resign, but it was not only difficult to work again, but also faced the same fraud, so I had no choice but to leave, and the wave of returning home was inevitable.
6. It’s hard to find a job. Is there a shortage of workers in Shenzhen? Even if many companies are closed now, there is still a shortage of workers. So, if there is a shortage, why is there still a labor shortage? This kind of labor shortage is only relative. Behind the shortage are low wages, various squeezes and wage deductions. Because companies are unwilling to offer high wages and cannot recruit people, a labor shortage occurs. Because your wages are low, workers People who are unwilling to work would rather go back to farm than be bullied here, leading to a wave of people returning home.
7. There is a sense of security and security in my hometown. Another reason for the wave of migrant workers returning home in Shenzhen is that the rural economy is now developing well, or the county economy is developing rapidly and there are many employment opportunities. Therefore, when the migrant workers can no longer stay in Shenzhen, they choose to return to the county. Working part-time, or returning to the village to do other businesses, such as breeding, developing special planting industries, etc., you can earn tens of thousands of yuan a year. This way, the cost of living is low, secure, and you can take care of your family. Therefore, migrant workers Finally returned home.
8. The state has support to a certain extent. At present, the government provides support for business loans in hometowns, and subsidies for growing crops. The government also encourages fellow villagers to find jobs nearby, and even agricultural experts teach farmers how to engage in specialty industries to help farmers get rid of poverty and embark on the road to wealth. Therefore, this is also a way for farmers to return to their hometowns. factor.
This year has been very difficult for migrant workers. During the epidemic, they stayed at home for more than two months with no income. Finally, they waited until the epidemic was under control, and the lockdown was lifted in various places. They resumed work, but not long after they left, many migrant workers returned to their hometowns. It was a shame for them to have such a thing happen.
First let’s talk about the experience of Xiao Wu in our village. Xiao Wu is 34 years old and works in an electronics factory in Shenzhen. His salary is more than 5,000 yuan a month. Because of the impact of the epidemic, Xiao Wu did not go out until March this year after returning home at the end of last year. It was not until the beginning of March that the epidemic was under control. Our local area arranged point-to-point buses to transport migrant workers to work in Shenzhen. before returning to the workplace. But after working in the factory for more than ten days, there was nothing to do on the production line, and then the factory issued a holiday notice. It is said that due to the impact of the foreign epidemic, the factory has not had many orders. It has stopped work and production since March 27. It is expected that the holiday will last for 6 to 9 months. The holiday was too sudden for Xiao Wu, and he did not expect it at all. I will take such a long vacation.
The company also said in the notice that it had no choice but to take holidays and encouraged employees to make a living on their own. Now that the epidemic abroad is so serious, many European and American countries are fighting the epidemic, and all foreign trade has been closed and cancelled. The large number of orders was a heavy blow to Shenzhen's foreign trade companies. In just over a month, many companies in Shenzhen closed down due to the impact of the foreign epidemic. Xiao Wu was on vacation in Shenzhen. He thought it would cost money to live here, so he planned to find a job again. However, when he came to the Sanhe Talent Market in Longhua, Shenzhen, he found that the scene of the talent market was very different from last year. The difference is that there are not many companies recruiting workers. Like this time last year, many companies in Shenzhen were recruiting workers in this talent market and started a battle to grab people. Xiao Wu searched around the job market but failed to find a suitable job, so he had to return to rent an apartment. However, in the next week, he had no job, so he finally decided to return to his hometown to help his family with farm work before looking for a job. , in early April, Xiao Wu returned the house he rented in Shenzhen and returned to his hometown in the countryside.
This year has been a very difficult year for enterprises in Shenzhen, and migrant workers’ job search has also been greatly affected. When the epidemic abroad is not under control, some enterprises in Shenzhen have to find ways to survive even if they are not profitable. If they really cannot maintain it, they can only rely on transformation and find new ways out.
My son graduated from Wuhan University and started a business in Shenzhen. My wife is from Sichuan and graduated from Fudan University. They are in the same company. My son graduated from IT major. He used to work for others with a monthly salary of more than 10,000 yuan. Yuan, later several classmates and colleagues got together and opened their own company to engage in software research and development. My old cousin and his wife are in Shenzhen, helping their son and his family take care of their children.
After the COVID-19 epidemic was relaxed this year, I returned to the countryside from Shenzhen. I asked: Why did I come back? The old cousin replied that life is not easy. My son and his family have started a business and have not bought a house. The monthly rent is more than 4,000. The company has basically not received any contracts during the COVID-19 epidemic. I will take a break and look at it again. I haven’t farmed in six or seven years. I picked it up again when I got home. An old farm boy.
According to him, his son’s company is doing pretty well, but some factories and companies have completely run out of work and have stopped production. He was originally in Shenzhen, and actually worked as a security guard at a factory run by his son's friend. Due to the shutdown of work and production, most of the security guards were dismissed, leaving only two or three people. He thought that other people's families were more difficult than his own. , I took the initiative to apply for resignation.
These days, it is much harder for many small factories in Shenzhen to survive than in the past. Some larger factories have plans to move to Southeast Asia. The main reason is that the cost of raw materials, living costs, and wages have increased, making them no longer profitable. It is more difficult for some companies with low technological content to survive. In order to save costs, what used to be done by three people can now be done by two people. Generally, factories and companies are laying off employees.
Migrant workers gather in small groups all day long, looking for recruitment information on the streets. Life is not easy. Many factories do not include accommodation. Some factories include lunch, some include lunch and dinner, and some factories pay entirely at their own expense. If you cannot find a job for ten and a half days, the cost of living is very high, and the distance to rent is far. The houses in the place where I visited cost more than 1,000 yuan, and I had to change trains to go to work, which was quite hard.
Many people have worked in Shenzhen for many years, and now they have to return home and wait for notification from their bosses.
Life is not easy, please be kind to your work and your career.
Without you, Shenzhen is still thriving!
There are a few people in my community who settled in Shenzhen through speculation and trading. They say that their houses can no longer be sold, the hawker business is hard to do, and the factories have been moved. Once these people leave Shenzhen, Shenzhen will decline. …. They pointed to a nearby industrial park and said: There used to be a lot of workers here, but now they are gone, so the park has to build office buildings for rent.
It just so happens that I rented three office buildings in this industrial park. There are indeed not many workers in the industrial park, but there are many cars, many white-collar workers, and many patents for inventions in a year... The annual rental fee of Guangguang Industrial Park has more than tripled compared with previous years. The industrial park is no longer as noisy as it was in previous years. It is hygienic and beautified: in the past, in the evening, oil smoke was flying all over the door in front of the industrial park, and the small food stalls shouting and drinking often made the neighbors complain. The road was blaring and the traffic was jammed.
It’s great now. The streets are full of happy shops, with bright lights, Starbucks, Pizza Hut, K’s and J’s, full of the style that a city should have.
To put it bluntly, most of the people left behind in Shenzhen are civilized, polite and academically advanced people. Although the city of Shenzhen does not have any "low cultural connotations", all the highly civilized people who come to this city have "low cultural connotations"! Otherwise, Shenzhen, which only has a history of 40 years, would not have the achievements that have “revitalized” the world today!
After the big waves wash away the sand, what is left in Shenzhen is real quartz!
The wave of workers returning home happens every year, but due to the special circumstances this year, there has been a large number of workers returning home in many places. I don’t know if it’s true or not, but someone said that “there have been three waves of people returning to their hometowns in Shenzhen” and many people have quit renting and returned home. Regarding this situation, let me tell you the story!
A friend of mine works in a certain first-tier city. Since he works in catering, he opened a small restaurant in the city. Due to the large flow of people in the city, my friend's restaurant business is pretty good, with an annual gross income of about 400,000. Excluding rent expenses, workers' fees and miscellaneous things, my friend's annual income is more than 200,000. Since it is relatively profitable, my friends have become accustomed to treating the city as their home. In the second half of 2019, my friend also expanded his business and opened a branch in Shinan, and his business is also booming.
However, "there are unforeseen circumstances in the sky, and misfortunes and blessings for everyone." No one expected that the new crown epidemic would appear in the world in 2020. Since the catering industry is a gathering industry and there is a lot of movement of strangers, the impact of this epidemic on the catering industry is relatively large.
My friend waited and waited, and finally received news of the resumption of work and production two months later.
But what awaited was not a good thing: the restaurant had not been open for two months, and my friend also wanted to do something big to make up for the two months' losses. But the first person to bear the brunt was the call from the landlord, who also asked the friend to pay the rent as soon as possible before making other plans. There was no other way. "People have to bow their heads under the roof." Since my friend tried to negotiate with the landlord to reduce the rent to no avail, he had no choice but to pay the rent for the past two months.
However, after my friend reopened, he found that the restaurant was not as good as last year, and the flow of people also dropped by about 2/3. After supporting it for more than 30 days, my friend couldn’t pay the rent because he didn’t make enough money. , so I cruelly "quit the lease and go home." In this way, my friend who had been working hard outside for more than ten years finally couldn't bear the trouble anymore, and finally came back helplessly, back to his hometown.
First, the global epidemic has a significant impact on the economy.
Because the epidemic is currently breaking out abroad, especially in the United States, which has exceeded 760,000 confirmed cases, which is a lot. Under the influence of the epidemic, the economies of other foreign countries are at a stagnant stage. Foreigners do not have the habit of saving money, so in addition to necessities such as rations and masks, foreigners do not have the ability and mood to buy some luxury accessories.
Therefore, due to the decrease in foreign trade orders, some foreign trade companies in some coastal cities had to take holidays to cope with the current situation. Since there are also many foreign trade companies in Shenzhen and other cities, workers have also returned under this situation. The phenomenon of rural tide.
Mankind has a shared destiny. Although the domestic epidemic has been completely controlled, due to the continuous outbreak of epidemics abroad, some dispensable commodities have naturally been affected. . Although some factories have resumed work and production one after another some time ago, due to the reduction in orders, some factories have also given workers holidays to cope with the current situation.
According to my understanding, some large OEM companies have not recruited new employees recently. This has resulted in some people who cannot find jobs having to go home temporarily and wait until the epidemic is over and the economy recovers before returning.
Although the wave of returns occurs every year, due to the global epidemic, there seems to be more of them this year. In any case, for some migrant workers now, there is no need to be picky when looking for a job, because behind the scenes, others find jobs. Shenzhen is now in a similar situation to other cities, waiting for the global epidemic to end and the economy to recover.
It is no secret that life in Shenzhen is not easy. Without core technological advantages, it is becoming increasingly difficult to gain a foothold in Shenzhen. I used to have small hair on my fingertips. When I was in fourth grade, I moved to Shenzhen with my family. It is said that my life is pretty good now. But you must know that this happened more than 20 years ago. Ten years ago, my cousin-in-law was transferred to Shenzhen for work and spent more than 2 million to buy a house. He bluntly said that it was worth the purchase, but he can no longer afford it. .
Some people say that there have been three waves of rent cancellations in Shenzhen, including the financial crisis in 1998 and 2008. Shenzhen, as the core economic area, is naturally not immune. This time, due to the impact of the epidemic in 2020, there will be another wave of rental cancellations. The reason why everyone can't stay here is mainly because of the following aspects: First, the cost of living is getting higher and higher, and the price of pork and vegetables has increased. In such an international metropolis, the cost of living is higher and it is not easy to survive. .
Second, the cost of renting a house is getting higher and higher. Last year, Shenzhen’s urban villages were demolished, and Shenzhen’s “old reform” continued. People who came to Shenzhen from other places to work, do small businesses, and start businesses, originally rented a house for three months. Five hundred is enough to live on, but now it's at least more than a thousand. The cost of living is much higher than before.
Third, due to the impact of the epidemic, although many factories in Shenzhen have started operations one after another, it is not so easy to find a job. Some people have been looking around for a long time without finding a suitable one. In addition, the cost of accommodation and meals is getting higher and higher. . At the same time, in recent years, industrial transformation and upgrading have even been carried out, and the "vacate the cage and replace the bird" plan has continued to advance. Many factories that did not meet the standards were forced to leave, and the workers who made a living were also forced to leave.
Some people say that there have been three waves of returning home in Shenzhen, and many people have quit their rentals and returned home. Where is the way out for Shenzhen?
Since the establishment of the Special Economic Zone in Shenzhen in 1980, large and small enterprises, factories, private enterprises, and individual merchants have sprung up like bamboo shoots after a rain.
Shenzhen's rapid economic development has played an exemplary and leading role in the development of the national economy.
The main reason for this wave of returning home is the chain reaction caused by the epidemic.
1. Affected by the epidemic, the vast majority of migrant workers have been quarantined at home for more than two months. They have long been looking forward to resuming work and production as soon as possible. With the domestic epidemic situation basically under control, many migrant workers have been looking forward to resuming work and production as soon as possible. When we resume work and production, we see hope. The international epidemic has completely broken out. The severity of the epidemic is unimaginable. It has caused many countries to close their doors and interrupt foreign trade transactions, which has a huge impact on companies and factories that have just resumed production. (1) Purchase channels are blocked. (2) A large number of orders are canceled or there are no follow-up orders. (3) Finished products cannot be exported and there is a serious backlog. Factors such as these have forced companies and factories that had just resumed production to close down operations again. As a result, workers had nothing to do and had to return home.
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Affected by the epidemic, many landlords not only did not reduce or reduce rents, but instead raised rents. Especially the rents of shops are unbearable. Due to the epidemic and in order to avoid infection, people are shopping online, which has a great impact on physical stores and shops. Some businesses that cannot sustain themselves have no choice but to close their doors and return home, or find another way out.
3. Affected by the epidemic, the number of migrant jobs has decreased sharply. There is no job and no way to survive. However, after several years of construction and development in the hometowns of migrant workers, they can earn the same amount by working back home. The income is almost the same. If you can't find a job or earn more income in Shenzhen, you will naturally choose to return home.
4. Affected by the international epidemic. Businesses and factories stopped working again, shops closed one after another, and a large number of migrant workers left. It has a great impact on the sustainable development of Shenzhen's economy. We hope that the international epidemic can be fully controlled as soon as possible so that the rapidly developing Shenzhen can get back on track!