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'Made in China' losing its edge in low costs

(Xinhua)
Updated: 2010-03-02 10:57

Resort to technical upgrading

Trina Solar Limited, a US-funded solar PV (photovoltaic) modules producer in Changzhou of Jiangsu province, will face a labor shortage of 6,000 people if it puts two new production lines into operation this year.

The order books had been full for the year and it was time for the company to improve its R&D if workers were not sufficient, said Sean Tzou, CEO of the company.

Tzou said Trina Solar had its annual production capacity expanded by seven folds since 2008, but its workforce only grew by 70 percent. Technical upgrading managed to offset demand for low-end laborers.

The priority in upgrading was human resources, said Xu Xingming, vice general manager of the Compal Electronics Technology (Kunshan) Co, Ltd. The company had joined with Xi'an Jiaotong University in Xi'an, capital city of northwestern China's Shaanxi province.

The company has arranged 100 employees to learn the university's classes through remote education. A third of them, who majored in computer science and management, would be promoted after finishing the training courses, said Xu.