China's mold industry faces serious shortage of senior technicians in gray-collar faults

Recently, the International Model Association Secretary-General Luo Baihui pointed out at the summit forum of the international mold machinery equipment industry: “China's manufacturing industry is gradually going to the world stage, but in the past few years, middle- and high-level technician positions in the manufacturing industry are gray-collar workers are seriously in short supply.” .

The participating guests pointed out that the current situation of extreme shortage of middle and high-level skilled workers has become China's biggest obstacle to the world's manufacturing powers.

Zhu Xunmin, general manager of Shunde-Flenk Hot Runner Co., Ltd., said: “It's harder to hire senior skilled workers than to hire masters and doctoral students!”

In 2010, only the Shanghai World Expo will generate 1 million jobs, of which 80% are grey-collar jobs; on the other hand, there are more than 300 types of jobs available in the world. Since most of the technologies mastered by gray collars are scarce resources for enterprises, the annual salary of senior technicians of some large foreign companies even exceeds that of company managers.

Liu Chengyang, deputy secretary-general of the Shenzhen Mould and Die Technology Society, said that Shenzhen Shenbao Vocational Technical School graduates are in short supply, and some professional students are even booked before graduation.

Secretary-General Liu said that although a large number of ordinary college graduates find employment difficult, junior and senior high school graduates still only take the "single wooden bridge" of colleges and universities, resulting in the shortage of students in vocational and technical schools, and the shortage of teachers and teaching equipment.

“When we see a large number of colleges and universities expand their enrollments, while bachelor’s, master’s, and doctor’s degrees are increasing, they have to worry about the serious shortage of professional and technical personnel.” Secretary-General Liu pointed out that colleges and universities, as important sources of personnel training, have long focused on training. Academic talent has caused white-collar workers and managers to be the dominant type of inverted pyramid. "In fact, the human resource market does not need so many people who only take the initiative. There are not so many managers."

“Social job training is an important way to cultivate talents in the grey collar.” Qin Lu suggested that, first of all, the government adopts a method of financing the purchase of training services to encourage employees and unemployed people to participate in the corresponding vocational training; secondly, form a series of new occupations. The training and professional appraisal standard system, the improvement of talent appraisal methods and the introduction of foreign first-rate certification bodies; Third, improve the selection mechanism of high-skilled talents, and vigorously promote the practice of some companies in establishing key positions in key positions and processes.

"To cultivate grey-collar talent, vocational education is indispensable," said Miss Cao of the Guangzhou Institute of Machinery Technology. "But the development of vocational schools is also facing obstacles. The biggest problem is the change of concepts." She believes that the government should formulate The corresponding preferential policies such as teacher flow and land prices will guide vocational education schools to expand their scale and improve their level. From the perspective of schools, they should also change their concepts, shift from pursuing higher rates of education to focusing on cultivating skills, strengthening professional training, and raising the level of practice. As the education sector, vocational schools cannot be regarded as ordinary schools and new vocational education mechanisms must be established.

Solving the industrial worker's skill training is also an unshirkable responsibility of the company. “More than half of the tens of millions of first-line industrial workers in China are migrant workers who have not completed nine-year compulsory education. It is impossible to solve the training problem of this group of people only through the vocational colleges of universities and colleges.” Deputy Secretary, International Association for Modeling Wang Jinling believes that the government should further formulate policies that require all companies to have a certain percentage (not less than 3%) of their sales in tax exemptions for their employees' professional skills training and lifelong learning. With regard to the number of hours of study, large and medium-sized enterprises must have staff training and training facilities that are open to the outside world.