Hua Jian Brought The Shoe Industry To Ethiopia.

The international news is about 30 kilometers from the Bolai International Airport in Addisababa, capital of Ethiopia. It has a modern production Industrial Park Oriental Industrial Park.

Ethiopia, a manufacturer of Huajian group

It is located here.

And the locals in Addisababa, they all know the Huajian shoe city in the industrial park, because the local people have benefited greatly from the establishment of Huajian.

Ethiopia is one of the oldest countries in Africa, and the capital Addisababa is the seat of the African Union.

Although the Ethiopia economy has maintained an average annual growth rate of two digits over the past 12 years, it remains one of the least developed countries in the world.

Ethiopia's population of nearly one hundred million is less than US $500 per capita GDP, 80% of the population is agricultural population, and 40% of GDP comes from agriculture.

In August 2011, when he was Prime Minister of Ethiopia, Meles went to Shenzhen to attend the opening ceremony of the World University Games.

In fact, the more important purpose of his trip to China was to bring China's labor-intensive manufacturing industry back to the motherland, give full play to the low price advantage of esse's production factors, develop its own light industry, and solve the problem of nearly half of the population's unemployment.

At the suggestion of economist Yifu Lin, he went to Dongguan, Guangdong to inspect Huajian group, which manufactures footwear for developed economies, and invited them to invest in Ethiopia.

Song Yiping, deputy general manager of Huajian international shoe city, Ethiopia Limited Liability Company, pointed to the picture display panels in the shoemaking workshop. He recalled to reporters that "in September 2011, Zhang Zong (Zhang Huarong, President of Huajian group) brought a group to see it.

In January, we signed the contract in 12 years, and in three months we began to produce.

At that time, the workshop was also rented. We took the mainstream trading companies of the United States and the executives of the guests to inspect them.

We all felt that the invitation of MS Meles was right and the direction was right, so we immediately decided to cooperate with them.

The cooperation between Ethiopia and Huajian should be mutually beneficial and win-win.

As a labor-intensive manufacturing industry, Huajian needs a lot of cheap labor and raw materials.

Ethiopia is the second largest populous country in Africa, and its unemployment rate is close to 50%. At the same time, a large number of high quality leather products are produced, and the labor intensive enterprises such as Huajian urgently need to be settled.

Since its commissioning in 2012, Huajian has more than 4000 employees in Ethiopia, of which more than 3800 local employees have been employed.

In factories, they have a clear division of labor and do their jobs.

The staff can skillfully carry out leather cutting, bonding, sewing and other shoemaking processes, and can produce 6500 pairs of shoes every day.

At present, Huajian group owns six modern production lines and shoe material fields in Ethiopia, with 2 million pairs of shoes exported annually, with a profit margin of 10%.

Speaking of the African brothers who fought side by side on the production line, watching the growing ranks of enterprises, Song Yiping's speech also revealed a glimmer of pride. "We are leading the African brothers to teach them technology, solve their food and clothing, enable them to circulate well, promote the export of their leather products, train their employees, solve their labor force, and make his market prosperous."

Earlier, Western media reported that Huajian's management of Ethiopia employees was too harsh and strict.

In response, Song Yiping said that strict and efficient management is a necessary condition for training advanced shoe making talents.

Owing to the different working concepts between Africans and Chinese, Huajian paid tuition fees in the initial stage of Ethiopia.

At that time, shoemaking was a new field for the Ethiopians. Although the cost of the labor was relatively low, the efficiency of the staff was greatly reduced compared with that of the domestic workers in China.

To cope with this problem, Huajian has done enough work in personnel training.

For the training of new employees, they have set up specialized training classrooms, and hand in hand teaching of handcrafts and equipment by experienced Chinese teachers in many ways. For those excellent local employees, the factory is also providing them with training opportunities to go to China Huajian Dongguan general department and Huajian Ganzhou technical school to learn equipment operation, business management and Chinese.

At present, a group of returned employees have already set up a beam in more important positions and participated in the management work. "Good employees are trained as classes to send them to China to learn.

We sent them to study for a year.

Teaching Chinese, teaching technology, teaching management, internship in our Chinese factory, internship in Dongguan, Ganzhou internship, half a year, our Chinese conditions are certainly better than this side, equipment and equipment are supporting.

So now the main management cadres 60% and 70% were trained at that time.

Fraser is 22 years old and has worked in Huajian for four years.

Because of his excellent performance, he was sent to China's Dongguan headquarters for training.

After two years of training, he returned to Ethiopia's factory.

At present, he is responsible for personnel management in the Evaluation Management Department of a workshop. He interviewed reporters in fluent Chinese. "My Chinese name is Guangzhou.

I didn't know anything before.

You don't know how to make shoes or speak Chinese.

After going to China, there were many teachers, one by one, who taught us.

For example, how to brush the glue, how to paste the bottom, how to make a car, how to cut it, all of which are learned in China.

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There were Ethiopian local media asking this question: "Huajian has been in Ethiopia for four or five years. When can the Ethiopian be the top management of the company?" Song Yiping smiled bitterly. He said that it needed a long time of experience and technology accumulation, and could not be accomplished overnight. "We have been working hard to train their local cadres, without more than ten years of work experience, you want to be high-level is basically impossible.

Do you understand every process? Do you understand the arrangement of these connections? This process is a process that requires more than ten years of training, so that high-level cadres can be promoted.

In Ethiopia, the Huajian group has set an example for labor-intensive enterprises in other parts of the world.

At the same time, they are also preparing to make their career in Africa bigger and stronger.

Song Yiping said that at present, the political environment in Ethiopia is stable, the economic development momentum is good, the process of urbanization is constantly advancing and the consumer market is also expanding. In order to further expand the enterprises, Huajian has started the construction of China International Light Industrial Park in Dongguan, China in April 2015.

It is expected that the first phase workshop will be completed by the end of this year, and the project will be completed in 2020.

At that time, enterprises involved in shoemaking and clothing upstream and downstream supporting industries will enter the park, thus improving the industrial chain of the Ethiopian leather industry. The number of workers is expected to reach fifty thousand.

After the completion of the project, part of the labor-intensive industries in Dongguan will be pferred to the park. More than 60% of the products of Ethiopia shoes and garments will be from Huajian light industrial park.