The reporter learned from various visits that the labor force of Li Kai shoe factory had reached eighteen thousand people from 2006 to 2008. At present, Li Kai shoe factory is still in production, but there are only 300 employees left. In March 10th, a director of charge of foreign affairs in Dongguan's houling village committee told reporters that the Li Kai shoe factory was the earliest enterprise settled in the village of Chi Ling in Houjie, Dongguan. After this month, all employees must be disbanded and shut down.

At noon on March 4th, I heard that " Li Kai shoe factory After the news of the collapse, the reporter came to the factory in Chi Ling village, Houjie, and saw that the huge factory area was empty. The security guard at the gate told reporters that the factory was still in production, but it was only because the staff were off duty at noon that they could not see anyone. A worker who entered the factory in 1999 told reporters that they had got the economic compensation in the past year, because he worked for a long time, and he got tens of thousands of dollars in hand. The wife who did the same work with the factory earlier got higher compensation than he did. "At present, the development department and the purchasing department are still there. My wife is still working in the factory. I am waiting for my wife to wait for her to return home after leaving the factory."

The employee told reporters that he had gone through the peak period of the factory. At that time, there were nearly twenty thousand employees in the factory. "One day can produce almost forty thousand pairs of shoes, and the scale of the oasis shoe industry is larger than that of the next door. Then the factory scale is gradually shrinking, and it is said that the boss transferred the order to the factory in Southeast Asia, where the labor cost is low."

Reporters online Baidu "Houjie Li Kai shoe factory", the relevant page shows: "the company is located in Dongguan City, Guangdong province Houjie Town Chi Ling management area, the company is large, is a large foreign-funded enterprise, has 6 branches, the main products are world famous brand sneakers, monthly capacity can reach about 900000 pairs."

Mr. Deng, who worked in the human resources department of Li Kai shoe factory, told reporters that he worked in the factory from 2006 to 2010 and experienced the heyday of shoe factories. "At that time, a Li Xiang shoe factory was also opened by the same boss. There were eighteen thousand people in Li Kai, plus Li Xiang, who had more than 20 thousand workers in two factories. After the financial crisis, Li Xiang was closed, and the employment scale of Li Kai was greatly reduced. In 2010, there were only five thousand or six thousand people left. " Mr. Deng said that as a representative of the labor-intensive manufacturing industry, shoe factories have experienced several pressures in recent years, such as rising labor costs, increasing recruitment difficulties, and appreciation of the RMB exchange rate, reducing the scale of employment and closing down, thus becoming the fate of such OEM enterprises. Labour-intensive Manufacturing enterprises are gradually migrating to countries with lower labour costs, such as Vietnam and Burma.

An oasis separated from Li Kai shoe factory footwear industry At present, there are still more than 7000 employees. The factory used to have more than 10000 employees. The staff of its human resources department revealed to reporters that the minimum wage standard was raised from May 1st. In order to attract employees, the factory started to raise the base salary in advance from March 1st. "After raising the base salary, the cost of each pair of shoes will increase by 0.5 US dollars. The output of our shoes will be about one million pairs in one month. You can figure out how much the cost will increase." The staff said that the increase is mainly human costs, the boss can face the pressure, but no salary can not attract people, but can not retain people.

"Li Kai shoe factory settled in our village around 1990 to build factories. It belongs to the earliest Taiwanese funded enterprises in the village. After this month, all employees will be disbanded, and all of them will be closed down." Chai Ling village committee, a responsible person in charge of foreign affairs, told reporters that because the shoe factory was built by the Taiwanese businessmen themselves, the closure of the factory had little effect on the collective income of the village, but it still had some influence on the rent income of the surrounding villagers.

According to the briefing, there are ten thousand or twenty thousand people in the peak period of Li Kai shoe factory. At that time, fifty thousand or sixty thousand migrant workers came to the village. Now, with the shutting down of some shoe factories and the reduction of employment scale, there are still about twenty thousand or thirty thousand left behind migrant workers in the village. "Shoe factories shut down are mainly affected by the big environment, and the village is powerless."