Dongguan’s “machine substitution” project reached 881, and workers became unemployed

Yesterday, Dongguan held a central outreach media focus on the Dongguan Innovation Drive Development Symposium. The reporter was informed at the meeting that there are currently more than 5,000 technology-based enterprises in the city, including 986 national high-tech enterprises. In 2015, the number of “machine substitution” projects that attracted much attention from the outside world reached 881, with a total investment of nearly 7 billion. yuan.

At the symposium, whether the “machine substitution” project in Dongguan caused a large number of industrial workers to face unemployment, the relevant person in charge of the Municipal Economic and Information Bureau said that the workers replaced by the “machine substitution” project were more internally digested. The number of workers has not decreased.

Innovation results:

More than 5,000 technology companies

At the symposium, deputy mayor Yang Xiaoyu introduced the city's innovations.

According to reports, there are currently more than 5,000 technology-based enterprises in the city, including 986 national high-tech enterprises and 776 high-reserve warehousing enterprises. The number of innovative scientific research teams in the province and the city has reached 26 and 18; the number of high-level countries, high reserve, and provincial innovation teams rank first in the province's prefecture-level cities.

At the same time, the city's ability to innovate rapidly increased. In 2015, the city's total social research and development investment was 14.788 billion yuan, accounting for 2.36% of GDP, up 16.3% year-on-year, ranking first in the Pearl River Delta cities. From January to August 2016, the number of patent applications and authorizations in Dongguan was 33,814 and 19,187 respectively, up 50.51% and 16.81% respectively, ranking fourth in the province.

"Machine substitution" causes workers to lose their jobs?

At the symposium, the "machine substitution" project received much media attention. Some media reporters said that since the machine substitution, there have been rumors that a large number of industrial workers in Dongguan are facing unemployment.

In response, Zhang Yuqing, chief economist of the Municipal Bureau of Economics and Information Technology, responded that the number of industrial workers in Dongguan has not decreased, and the overall situation is in a relatively stable state. It said that “machine substitution” is promoted in one production line or several production lines of the company. It may increase production efficiency and reduce workers on some of the production lines, but it is still necessary to expand other businesses or increase other production capacity. The corresponding worker. “Because the overall size of the “machine substitution” enterprise has expanded a lot, many of the people who have been replaced are digested internally. Although some workers are not excluded from other industries, they are generally relatively stable.”

Wu Shiwen, director of the Dongguan Science and Technology Bureau, said that Dongguan's industry has been short-lived for a long time, which also forced enterprises to promote "machine substitution". Through "machine substitution", it can also enhance the manufacturing capacity of enterprises and enhance their competitiveness.

Yang Xiaotong believes that the "machine substitution" is more of a dirty, dangerous, and environmentally disadvantaged position. This measure reduces the physical injury to workers and increases labor costs. It also forces enterprises to promote "machine change." "People", "The competition in modern society will ultimately be the competition of talents. While promoting the 'machine substitution', we will promote the transfer of workers through a series of policies to make industrial workers more adapt to the needs of industrial transformation. ”