In the afternoon, Li Guangyu went to Xiangyu Building, which was also the former Federal Building. After being acquired by the Li Group, it is now the office space of Xiangyu Culture Group and Jinlin Toys Group.
Also acquired along with this building was the former International Building, which has now been renamed Xingyu Building and serves as the headquarters of Xingyu Gaming Group.
In Le Yiling's office, Li Guangyu said: "Yiling, our group's printing factory is the first company to move to Pengcheng this time. You must make proper arrangements. At present, these workers must communicate with them more to ensure that
Chaos comes out.”
In the Lee Industrial Park in Tin Shui Wai, low-tech, labor-intensive industries such as printing plants, toy production companies, and clothing production companies have begun to completely move to the mainland, freeing up these spaces to provide space for high-tech industries.
In the future, the Tin Shui Wai Industrial Park will be the R&D base and sample production base of the Li Group. All formal production of Li Guangyu will be placed in mainland China and Southeast Asia to reduce the group's production costs.
This time the printing factory is one of the first batch of companies to withdraw from Li's Industrial Park. The production company on the mainland has already been built. As long as the production line here is moved there, it can be put into use immediately.
The biggest problem now is the placement of personnel in the printing factory. It is impossible for ordinary employees and lower-level managers to go to Pengcheng to work. The current low wages there obviously cannot satisfy them.
You must know that the magazines and comics of Xiangyu Culture Group are best-selling all over the world, and the novels are also continuing to sell well around the world. Therefore, the scale of the printing plant is very large, with more than 5,000 employees working in the Tin Shui Wai printing plant.
Now most of the printing plants have been relocated to Pengcheng, and all the publishing and printing of comics, magazines, and novels will be done on the mainland. In Hong Kong, only one will be established in the Tseung Kwan O area to be responsible for the printing of Xiangyu Daily.
This printing plant will only retain a staff of 100 people, and the other more than 5,000 employees will need to transfer their jobs collectively. This requires the top management of Xiangyu Culture Group to appease their emotions.
Li Guangyu can naturally throw this burden to the Xiangjiang government. Even if he completely ignores it, no one will do anything to him.
Just for the sake of Li's consortium's good image in Hong Kong, Li Guangyu still hopes to solve the work of these employees as much as possible.
The Phoenix Group has become the main group to accept employees this time. The mobile phone production company has expanded again and can absorb about a thousand people. Phoenix Computer Company will also be established, and the supporting production company can accept a thousand employees.
Although the newly established electrical appliance group has its main production base in mainland China, it will also establish a sample production base in Hong Kong, which can also absorb hundreds or thousands of people.
Adding in some employees with their own connections, the placement of these 5,000 employees is almost complete.
Now Le Yiling is under a lot of pressure. Their group's printing factory is the first to withdraw from the Li's Industrial Park this time. If it is not handled well this time, it will have a very negative impact on the exit of the companies behind the Li's consortium.
Moreover, the Xiangjiang government is also very concerned about this. The number of employees in Li's Industrial Park has exceeded 50,000, involving the work and life of tens of thousands of families. If it is not handled well, it may cause huge social unrest.
The Hong Kong government very much does not want the Li Group to bring its companies to the mainland. After all, if these industries of the Li Group remain in Hong Kong, they can provide tens of thousands more jobs for Hong Kong.
It's just that the rising labor costs here have caused many low-value-added companies in Xiangjiang to choose to go to the mainland to establish production companies. It is understandable for the Li Group to make this choice. They have no right or reason to prevent the Li Group from transferring these industries.
Go to the mainland.
Just two days ago, Governor Youde of Xiangjiang personally invited Le Yiling to the Governor's Mansion to inquire about the relocation of Xiangyu Printing Factory, especially the employee issue, and asked whether the Li Group had any arrangements for this.
Now that Li Guangyu has returned, Le Yiling can finally breathe a sigh of relief. She believes that Li Guangyu has a way to perfectly solve this matter.
She is only the president of Xiangyu Group. She has no way to coordinate with other groups under Li's family to help her share the pressure. Five thousand employees is not a small number. Many large groups do not have such a large number of employees.
The management of the printing factory staff is pretty good, and they also have a good cultural foundation. Many ordinary employees have only graduated from elementary school, and there are not many employees who have graduated from middle school. Arranging their jobs is more difficult than arranging these administrators.
Le Yiling said: "Li Sheng, I will transfer the senior management of the printing factory to work in Pengcheng, and then select 85 people from the factory to work in Tseung Kwan O. The other employees are all those who need to find other jobs, a total of 5,264 people.
Just because our consortium group has to place so many people, the pressure is very high.
"And this is just our company withdrawing from the industrial park. There will be more companies withdrawing in the future. If we all arrange work this time, what will happen to these employees in the back? There are tens of thousands of people. If we don't arrange in the future, it is very likely that
Things will happen that we don’t want to see happen.”
Le Yiling also considered asking several major groups to relocate the employees of Xiangyu Printing Factory, but she gave up the plan because of the tens of thousands of employees behind them. The Li Group could not afford these tens of thousands of employees.
Bian is no longer an area for the development of low-tech labor-intensive industries.
In the future, Hong Kong will be a global financial center, an Asian entertainment and film center, a high-tech industry research and development center, a global trade and logistics center, and a regional education and medical center. It will definitely not be a low-value-added labor-intensive processing center.
Now these people must learn to change. Only by adapting to the changes of the times in Xiangjiang can they keep up with the development of Xiangjiang and live a better life.
Li Guangyu originally planned to arrange for several other groups to absorb these thousands of employees. Now after listening to Le Yiling, he had to carefully consider the pros and cons. In the future, Li Guangyu will also place mobile phone manufacturing and computer manufacturing in the mainland.
Even if he lets the Phoenix Group absorb these people now, what will happen to the industry transfer in the future?
The current employees of the printing factory are not very old, many are in their twenties, and the oldest is only in their thirties. They are still breaking in now. If they wait for a few years or ten, they will
Facing unemployment is a very difficult thing.
Li Guangyu couldn't come up with a good solution for the moment. He said to Le Yiling: "There is still more than a month before the Spring Festival. The printing plants in Pengcheng and Tseung Kwan O will not be officially put into use until after the Spring Festival. Those in mainland China
The company will recruit people after the Spring Festival. During this time, I will carefully consider how to solve this problem. Your senior management should also communicate more with the factory employees and listen to some of their ideas."
Le Yiling knew that these tens of thousands of employees also put heavy pressure on Li Guangyu. If he did not find a perfect solution, public opinion would be very unfavorable to Li Guangyu and the Li Group.
The development of Xiangjiang era has forced Li Guangyu to transfer some industries that are not suitable for the development of Xiangjiang. This is a very difficult knot to solve.
Le Yiling said: "Li Sheng, I will go to Tianshuiwei Industrial Park from time to time next month to communicate with employees, hoping to find a suitable solution so that our industrial transfer can be successfully completed."