VietNamNet
Bridge – Instead of spending hundreds of
billions of dong to buy land in big cities and wait for the workers coming from
small provinces. Businessmen now tend to set up production bases in the
countryside to save money.
After
two months of looking for workers, Nguyen Thi Thuong, the owner of the Hai Hau
liquor company, still could not recruit enough workers. “Workers all refused to
work for us with the pay I offered. Things are very expensive in urban areas,”
she said.
Thuong
finally decided to relocate the production base to Ha Nam province, and the
packaging workshop to the Thuong Tin district in the suburbs of Hanoi. “The
decision turns out to be a wise move,” she said.
Thuong
now feels satisfactory with the new working conditions. The area where she sets
the production base can provide a profuse labor force, while the local
residents do not demand high salaries, because they have to pay less here for
the daily life than in big cities. As workers feel secure with their jobs, they
do not intend to quit the jobs.
A
production base far from the central area would certainly cause some
difficulties to the distribution work. However, Thuong has affirmed that after
considering pros and corns, she found out that it is more beneficial to set up
the production base in the countryside. Instead of calling for workers to big
cities, businessmen now set up factories in the areas where they can find
workers.
“The
transport costs just account for 40 percent of the expenses we can save.
Especially, in the last two years, our productivity has become better thanks to
the stable labor force,” Thuong said.
Maxport,
a big garment company headquartered at No 88 Ha Dinh Street in Thanh Xuan
district of Hanoi, has also “followed” its workers to go to Thai Binh province.
A representative of the company said that the company can cut down expenses to
run the two factories with thousands of workers since the day it relocated to
Thai Binh province.
Nguyen
Thi Lien, Personnel Director of Maxport, said that in Hanoi, the monthly income
of 3 million dong would not be high enough to cover basic needs, because
workers have to pay to rent rooms and expensive meals. Meanwhile, in Thai Binh,
the company pays 2 million dong a month only on average, and the salary is high
enough to satisfy local workers.
The time for rural areas to develop
Tran
Thi Chi in Hai Hau district of Nam Dinh province, said that when she worked for
a company in Hanoi, she got 3 million dong a month, but the sum of money could
not feed her. Right after the Nam Dinh Garment Company opened a factory in Xuan
Truong town, Chi immediately decided to return to the countryside to work for
the factory.
Chi
said that though the current pay is 500,000 dong a month lower than the pay she
got in Hanoi, her life is better. “The higher pay in Hanoi was just enough to
pay for room rent, electricity bills and meals. I could not save any dong after
four years of living in Hanoi,” she said. Meanwhile, with the current job, Chi
can save 20 million dong a year.
In
December 2010, the Hai Duong Investment Joint Stock Company opened a garment
factory with 500 workers in Hai Duong commune. The representative of the
company said that setting up production bases in the countryside proves to be
an indispensable tendency in the development process.
It’s a
growing tendency that workers want to return to their home villages and work
for the factories near their homes. This allows them to save money and have
time to take care for the families. Meanwhile, businessmen can also benefit
from setting up workshops in the countryside, because this helps them cut down
expenses.
Hai
Linh Duong
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