Zhang Jiawei, born in 1992, came to a toy factory in Dongcheng District, Dongguan City, Guangdong Province four years ago as an electrician. In the second year, the factory introduced dozens of machines, each of which could complete the workload of the original 10 people.
Zhang Jiawei did not care too much about this change. When he first saw the word "machine substitution" on the Internet, he only felt that it was related to the machines in the factory, so he began to pay attention to this report.
After another year, a local training school sent leaflets to the factory. The words “training robot engineers†and “a new opportunity for career development†attracted Zhang Jiawei, who for the first time associated the machines in the factory with a better future. Come together.
Since 2010, China's industrial robots have ushered in the first explosive growth. The picture shows a demonstration of Tuoster robot production line. Morning Post reporter Chiang Chen Yuet
He signed up as the first student of the school's robotics class. The tuition fee is 5,800 yuan. He is afraid that he will not learn. He has paid 2,500 yuan to discuss with the school and wants to try it in half of the class.
"Robot programming is like the brains of the entire workshop. Learning it can change the fate." Zhang Jiawei is full of hope.
However, he was attacked in the first class, "I don't understand." In the past two years, Zhang Jiawei, who only stayed alone, had gone to school on a sole rest day to go to school for five hours. The classmates changed from the first two to seven, and finally left two or three. Only he insisted on not skipping classes.
At the end of the two-year course, he learned some of the most basic programming knowledge, but he "didn't draw a picture of what the factory needed." The hope of changing his destiny seemed to be lost.
Dongguan Implements "Robots Creation" Program
Substitution The market competitiveness of Chinese manufacturing companies is eroded. At the same time, labor costs have been increasing in recent years. "Machine Substitution" has entered more and more companies' vision.
In 2014, when Zhang Jiawei began to learn programming, “machine substitution†appeared more frequently in several local information micro-channel public accounts in his mobile phone. In that year, Dongguan City took the lead in the Pearl River Delta to launch a "machine substitution" program.
The cost of labor in China's manufacturing industry has continued to increase in recent years. A report from the Oxford Economic Research Institute, a global economic research and government consulting agency, pointed out that the unit labor cost in China in 2016 was only 4% lower than in the United States.