Zhongshan recruiters heading to Guangxi

Companies clamoring for more workers as overseas demand for products soars
Wu Yeyan, a human resources manager with home appliance maker Galanz, took a chartered bus on Monday morning bound for Hezhou, Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region, to recruit workers.
"We are eager to employ more workers from Guangxi before the Chinese Lunar New Year, as production has ramped up quickly following increased orders from overseas," Wu said.
Galanz was one of 10 key enterprises based in Guangdong province's Zhongshan, a major manufacturing center in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, to be selected by local human resources authorities to seek workers from neighboring Guangxi.
"We are expecting to build a stable cooperative mechanism with higher educational institutions and labor authorities in Guangxi to ensure the employment of skilled workers as production resumes," she said.
Production of various products in Galanz has been scheduled for the first quarter of next year. The effort is being fueled by a significant increase in overseas orders, especially after China began optimizing its COVID-19 epidemic prevention and control measures, according to Wu.
Galanz is not alone. Zhongshan-based Mingyang Smart Energy Group, a Chinese wind turbine manufacturer and clean energy integrated solutions provider, is also eagerly looking for skilled workers.
"We want to bring workers back to Zhongshan as soon as possible," said Xiao Jianxin, deputy general manager of the human resources department of Mingyang, adding that the company aims to bring in more than 1,000 workers.
According to Xiao, the company's overseas orders increased more than 50 percent year-on-year in 2022, with several production bases ready to be put into operation soon.
"It is very urgent that we recruit a group of new workers in frontline production and for our after-sales teams," he said.
After arriving on Monday, human resources authorities in Zhongshan and Hezhou signed a cooperative labor agreement. Galanz and Mingyang signed similar agreements with Hezhou University.
More than 800,000 migrant workers from Guangxi, one of the major labor export destinations in the country, are employed in Zhongshan, the result of close labor ties that have been established between the city and both Hezhou and Guigang, another city in Guangxi, according to statistics from the local human resources authority.
At Galanz, workers from Guangxi account for 40 percent of its labor force, making the autonomous region the main source of labor for the company.
Demand for skilled workers has increased significantly in Zhongshan, which is under a critical period of digital and intelligent industrial transformation, according to the local human resources authority.
During their trip to Guangxi, representatives from Zhongshan companies are offering more than 4,500 jobs, of which nearly 1,000 are targeting skilled workers, it said.
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