Into the factory, it also smells good
"Rather send takeout than enter the factory", is quietly being rewritten. Generation Z, which is highly dependent on Internet life, has also begun to move from the virtual to the real, plunging into factories, wearing uniforms and holding precision tools, becoming the new blood of the manufacturing industry, the craftsmen of the real economy, and the main force of the post-industrial era dominated by artificial intelligence.
As the cradle of China's modern industry, Nanjing, in the process of building a modernized industrial system, the manufacturing industry as a top priority, and young people are the main force of Nanjing towards industrial power.
What is it about those active Gen Z's that attracts them to choose to enter the factory and become blue collar?01
No more screws in the factory.
After 95, 00 after the new generation into the factory, most of them are no longer as simple as their parents just assembly line operation, but more engaged in technology-based types of work.Technology, became the key word in the arena of development of new blue-collar workers.
In the past two days, Bian Zhipeng was on a business trip in Suzhou, delivering machine tools and installing and adjusting them for customers. Since childhood, he has been interested in machinery, often the family's small household appliances disassembled and reorganized, in school when the CNC machine tool professional and technical areas of Jiangsu Province, won the third place in the race. But at first, entering the factory was not his first choice, the boring life of the assembly line made him feel afraid.
When he came to Nanjing WINOK Intelligent Technology Co. This is a high-end intelligent equipment manufacturing high-tech enterprises, production line transformation for intelligent, he does not need to do the screws on the production line, the enterprise has higher requirements for him - he wants to become an "engineer's hand", to realize each kind of seemingly whimsical Customized design.
After graduating from a college in Liaoning last year, 22-year-old Wang Chi joined Nanjing Fubel Hardware Products Co. What attracted him to stay in this factory is not only the generous compensation and benefits, but also the ability to follow the factory manager to learn many processing techniques.
As the saying goes, if you have a skill in your hand, the world is mine. Technology is an intangible asset in the hands of young people in the manufacturing industry. Vertical point of view, in the initial stage of the manufacturing industry, the industrial structure is relatively single, mainly labor-intensive industries.Nowadays, the manufacturing industry is undergoing transformation and upgrading from low-end to high-end, from scale expansion to quality improvement, and from factor-driven to innovation-driven, with a diversified industrial structure and a rich variety of products, and the manufacturing work types are full of challenges and novelties, which require front-line workers to have stronger professional skills, innovation ability and adaptability.
And horizontal comparison, compared with the hot Internet economy in recent years, the manufacturing industry is practical, technology-intensive, very helpful to exercise the ability of young people to solve practical problems, the growth of young people has a unique advantage. Ltd. hardware engineer Xu Jiazhou once worked in large factories, only responsible for the segmentation of a link, and now closely follow the full cycle of the project, the growth is faster.
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From working for a shameful job to working in a factory.
Inside the 18.8-meter-high production workshop, 1800 kilograms of raw materials are automatically unpacked, weighed, inspected and put into storage. Located in Jiangbei New District Intelligent Manufacturing Industrial Park, Nanjing Jurong Technology Co., Ltd. is a new material supply enterprises, products are mainly used in automotive, high-speed rail, aerospace and other fields, intelligent workshop a machine can produce 1.2 tons of products an hour, each production line only two workers patrol supervision.
Ltd. in Nanjing, constant temperature and humidity in the workshop, warm in winter and cool in summer. 23-year-old Bian Weigang just came to this enterprise a year, is now a workshop shift manager, he is optimistic about this industry, plans to do long.
For a long time, the manufacturing industry employees generally low wages, boring work content, poor working environment, which makes the young people deterred, and even the manufacturing industry of the vocational school students are fewer and fewer choices to the manufacturing industry factories for employment, high-quality talents will be even more in short supply.
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Attracting more talent to manufacturing
Despite the growing appeal of manufacturing to young people, it is undeniable that manufacturing still faces a shortage of young skilled people.
Recruitment difficulties continue to plague the deputy director of Nanjing Gold Line Gold Foil General Factory, Xia Minggong, who has tried to find ways to popularize the intangible cultural heritage on the one hand through the activities of the intangible cultural heritage into the campus, into the community, and on the other hand, joint Longtan street organization recruitment to attract young people to join. Enterprises also plan to develop and release the intangible cultural heritage protection, inheritance and innovation three-year action plan to strengthen the introduction of talent and inheritance protection.
There are also enterprises aiming at vocational colleges. With the expansion of the new energy vehicle market and the exploration of overseas business, the annual output value of Zhongbi New Energy Enterprises has grown from 100 million yuan in 2021 to 400 million yuan in 2023. The enterprise has cooperated with higher vocational colleges and universities in Henan and Jiangxi for many consecutive years to open industrial colleges to train talents in a directional way, so that they can be employed upon graduation.
For young people who join the manufacturing industry, companies are also trying to find ways to open the promotion path to keep them. After Wang Yepeng joined Nanjing Port Machinery Heavy Industry Manufacturing Co., Ltd. last year, he saw that the enterprise's promotion channel is open, and motivate industrial workers to become skilled. Port Machinery Heavy Industry in 2022 launched a dual-channel mechanism for the career development of employees, opening up the development channel for professional and technical and operational skill talents, and adding the positions of chief expert, senior expert, chief skill master, senior skill master, etc. to break the ceiling of the development of technical workers, and the salary and treatment is also rising with reference to the administrative and management positions. For more young people, corporate incentives to guide the operation of the post staff multi-specialty, to obtain the technical qualification certificate outside the type of work of the post, often can be a one-time incentive of thousands of dollars.
In the wave of transformation and upgrading of the real economy, Nanjing's manufacturing industry is taking intelligent manufacturing as the main direction of attack, promoting enterprises to high-end, intelligent, green direction, the manufacturing industry ushered in a new opportunity for development, which requires more and more young people to inject new vitality.
