近日,新华社针对中国制造业复工复产的情况进行了相关报道。其中,东莞市工业和信息化局局长詹志斌受邀进行直播采访。2月19日,新华社刊发《China's manufacturing sector quickly resumes production after Spring Festival holiday(春节假期后,中国制造业迅速恢复生产)》。
英文原版
China's
manufacturing sector quickly resumes production after Spring Festival
holiday
GUANGZHOU,
Feb. 19 (Xinhua) -- With machines roaring, factories in the southern
Chinese city of Dongguan, known as the "factory of the world,"
are heating up production.
The scenes are in sharp contrast to
the usual happenings as factories traditionally shut down for a
couple of weeks after the Chinese Spring Festival holiday.
To
prevent the sporadic resurgence of COVID-19, China had encouraged
people to stay put over the holiday this year, which lasted from Feb.
11 to Feb. 17. Dongguan, a city with more than 11,000 major
industrial enterprises, has more than 5 million registered workers,
of which over 3 million chose not to visit their hometowns during the
holiday.
According to a survey covering the 200 largest
manufacturing enterprises in Dongguan, about 60 percent were
operational during the holiday. Besides, more factories quickly
resumed production right after the holiday, at least two weeks
earlier than the usual schedule.
The humming factories in
Dongguan offer a glimpse of the bustling production activities across
the country after the holiday. The stay-put measure has helped
enterprises shore up holiday production, eased post-holiday labor
shortages, and improved order delivery capacities, ushering in a
"warm spring" for China's manufacturing sector.
HUMMING
FACTORIES
Dongguan's
economic growth is highly reliant on foreign trade, with many
factories surviving on export orders. In previous years, enterprises
would cut orders in the first quarter of the year due to post-holiday
labor shortages.
However, things have changed this year.
"Over
60 percent of our employees didn't go back home this Spring Festival.
Our factory has been running except the holiday period," said
Zhou Hongchun, vice general manager of Huamei Group, a food company
in Dongguan.
Zhou added that sufficient workers have increased
the company's capability to deliver orders and ensured quick
resumption of production after the holiday.
"We have more
than 1 million yuan (about 154,900 U.S. dollars) of subsidies for
employees who chose to stay, but the cost is much lower compared with
that of employing new workers after the holiday," Zhou
said.
Similar to the food company, Hefei Chang'an Automobile
Co., Ltd. in east China's Anhui Province also saw boisterous
production activities.
The automaker resumed production on Feb.
14. More than 1,700 employees, or around 85 percent of its staff,
clocked in on the first day of work, including over 800 migrant
workers who stayed during the holiday.
The manufacturing
capacity has returned to the pre-holiday level, with 703 vehicles
rolled off the production line on Tuesday, according to the
company.
"Another production line resumed operation on
Wednesday, with a capacity of around 300 units a day. Cars rolled off
from this assembly line will be exported to Saudi Arabia, Chile and
Brazil," said Xue Wen, an engineer with the company.
"WARM
SPRING" FOR MANUFACTURING SECTOR
Dongguan
is considered an important indicator for China's manufacturing
industry. In the first quarter of 2020, the value-added industrial
output of the city's major industrial enterprises fell by 17.9
percent year on year due to the impact of COVID-19.
However,
with the pandemic under control and the gradual resumption of
production, the growth decline of the value-added output of its major
industrial enterprises narrowed month by month, with an annual
decline of 1.1 percent last year.
"With the pandemic raging
globally, many overseas factories are still closed, and orders have
been shifted to China, which has stimulated our production,"
said Li Zhongquan, general manager of Ampenol FCI Connectors
Dongguan. "We didn't stop production even for a single day
during the COVID-19 outbreak."
In 2020, the company's
operating revenue increased 30 percent year on year to 1.63 billion
yuan. To complete the increasing orders this year, the company
resumed production right after a three-day break.
Peng Yiping,
general director of Guangdong NBTM Huajing New Materials, a company
mainly producing smart wearable devices, is confident about this
year's market prospect.
The orders have continued to increase,
Peng said, noting that the company's output is expected to reach
182.5 million yuan in the first four months of this year, an increase
of 53 percent compared to the same period last year.
Echoing
similar thoughts, Zhan Zhibin, director of the bureau of industrial
and information technology of Dongguan, said the manufacturing
enterprises will have a bright market prospect this year despite the
lingering impact of the COVID-19 epidemic.
The city's industrial
investment rose 11 percent year on year in 2020, injecting impetus
into its manufacturing industry, Zhan added.
参考译文
春节假期后
中国制造业迅速恢复生产
(新华社广州2月19日电)在机器轰鸣声中,被誉为“世界工厂”的中国南方城市东莞的工厂,正在加快生产。
这些场景与往年的情况形成了鲜明的对比,因为东莞的工厂通常在春节假期后,都会有几周的时间停止生产。
今年,为了防止新冠肺炎疫情的反复,全中国鼓励人们在今年2月11日至17日的春节期间“按兵不动”。而东莞,一个拥有超过11000家大型工业企业的城市,有超过500万注册工人,其中就有超过300万的工人选择春节不回家,留莞过年。
根据一项涵盖东莞200家大型制造业企业的调查,今年春节期间约有60%的企业正常运营。另外,还有很多工厂在节后迅速恢复了生产,这至少比往年提前了两周的时间。
从东莞嗡嗡作响的工厂,可以一窥节后全国各地热闹的生产活动。原地过年这一措施,帮助企业支撑了春节假期间的生产,还缓解了节后劳动力短缺,提高了订单交付能力,让中国制造业迎来了“暖春”。
嗡嗡作响的工厂
东莞的经济增长高度依赖于外贸,很多工厂靠出口订单生存。往年,由于节后劳动力短缺,企业会在一季度削减订单。
然而,今年的情况发生了变化。
“今年春节,我们工厂60%以上的员工没有回家,所以除了节日期间,生产一直在运转。”东莞华美食品集团副总经理周宏纯说,充足的工人增加了公司交付订单的能力,确保了节后生产的快速恢复。
周宏纯表示:“我们为选择留下来的员工提供了100多万元的补贴,但这与假期后雇佣新员工相比,成本要低得多。”
与华美食品类似,位于华东地区的安徽省合肥长安汽车有限公司也出现了大批量的生产活动。
这家公司超过1700名员工,约占公司员工总数的85%,在工作的第一天打卡上班,其中包括800多名在春节假期期间留下来的农民工。
据称,该公司生产能力已经恢复到节前水平,周二(2月16日)就有703辆汽车下线生产。“另一条生产线周三(2月17日)恢复运营,日产能约300台。从这条装配线生产出来的汽车将出口到沙特阿拉伯、智利和巴西。”该公司工程师薛文(音)说。
制造业迎来“暖春”
东莞被认为是中国制造业的一个重要指标。2020年第一季度,受新冠肺炎疫情影响,东莞全市主要工业企业工业增加值同比下降17.9%。
然而,随着疫情的控制和生产的逐步恢复,其主要工业企业的增加值增速降幅逐月收窄,去年下降了1.1%。
“随着全球范围内的疫情肆虐,许多海外工厂仍然处于关闭状态,因此订单已经转移到中国,这也刺激了我们的生产。”东莞市安费诺科技有限公司总经理李忠全说,“在疫情爆发期间,我们甚至没有一天停止生产。”
2020年,该公司营业收入同比增长30%,达到16.3亿元。为了完成今年增加的订单,公司在春节假期中休息了三天后立即恢复生产。
主要生产智能可穿戴设备的东睦新材料集团股份有限公司总经理彭一平(音),对今年的市场前景充满信心。他表示,“公司的订单持续增长,今年前四个月,公司产值有望达到1.825亿元,比去年同期增长53%。”
东莞市工业和信息化局局长詹志斌也表达了类似的想法。他说,尽管新冠肺炎疫情的影响挥之不去,但今年东莞制造业企业的市场前景将十分光明。
詹志斌补充介绍到,2020年,东莞全市的工业投资同比增长11%,这为东莞制造业注入了动力。