More and more foreign companies are moving their production out of China to “bring down China” amid geopolitical tensions. However, many companies feel they still need to rely on the skills of Chinese workers. China has long been the “world factory”. Developed an invaluable human resource.
At the end of December last year, Tesla, a major electric vehicle maker, sent more than 200 engineers from its Shanghai plant to its Fremont plant in California to help ramp up production capacity for the Model S and other models, Nikkei News reported. . A source at the Fremont factory revealed that without the automation and mechanical control expertise of these Chinese engineers, setting up a new assembly line would be impossible. Many Chinese workers find it difficult to troubleshoot and know how to rectify problems. Explain in the operation manual.
JapanThe purchasing manager of an electronic parts manufacturer also discovered the problem firsthand when he visited a foundry’s production line that had moved from China to Hanoi, Vietnam. He realized that key links in the production process such as quality control were supervised by Chinese engineers. Quite unexpectedly, he thought, “It would take ten years for Vietnam to get back on its feet.”
Konica Minolta’s multifunctional printer factory in Malaysia also invited a factory manager from Guangdong to guide the improvement of the production line.
Nikkei once surveyed 100 major manufacturers, and 46% of respondents mentioned that the challenge of relocating factories out of China is a lack of talents with specific skill requirements.
Therefore, the influx of Chinese high-tech talents to the United States and Japan has increased in recent years. In 2021, the United States approved and released senior technical personnel of land nationalityh-1bwork visaAt nearly 50,000, an increase of nearly 60% from five years ago, Chinese people accounted for 12.4% of the year’s H-1B visas, the second highest country, second only to India.
In Japan, by the end of 2021, among foreign high-level tech professionals in Japan, China accounted for 65.5%, an increase of 9.3 percentage points from 2012, and the number was just over 10,000.
The Nikkei pointed out that this could become a trump card for Beijing officials when tensions between the United States and China escalate further. If there are fewer Chinese talents who are familiar with supply chain knowledge, the impact will be no less than the loss of patents and software talents.
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