From "the tide of working" to "Feng Haichao" —— Focus on the change of Fuyang in the Spring Festival, a big city of migrant workers.

  Xinhua News Agency, Hefei, March 8th Title: From "Migrant Workers" to "Feng Haichao" — — Focus on the "Big City of Migrant Workers" in Fuyang during the Spring Festival.

  Xinhua News Agency reporter Shui Jinchen and Dong Xue

  After the Spring Festival, migrant workers once again set foot on the train to the city with big bags and small bags on their backs. However, Zhang Qingfang, who is over 50 years old, changed the "going out" that he has been insisting on for 18 years this year and chose to stay in his hometown.

  Zhang Qingfang is not a "lone ranger". As a major labor export city, nearly one third of the 10.62 million people in Fuyang, Anhui Province go out to work all the year round. However, in recent years, this "tide of working" rising since the 1990s is quietly changing, and the newly-increased proportion of people returning to their hometowns for employment and entrepreneurship exceeds that of migrant workers, and the "Feng Haichao" trend is beginning to appear.

  Bosses and mechanics return home in groups.

  On the eighth day of the Lunar New Year, the sewing machine rattled in the workshop of Qi Xin Luggage Factory in Yingquan District, Fuyang City. Just after the Spring Festival, Han Shipeng and his wife, who live in Ninglaozhuang Town, returned to the factory.

  I have been wandering for 19 years. In 1997, Han Shipeng, who graduated from junior high school, left his hometown and entered a luggage factory in Jiaxing, Zhejiang Province. Since then, he has been working in the luggage industry for more than ten years. He has also grown from a migrant worker who knows nothing to a skilled craftsman who can make plates. When he returned to his hometown in the Spring Festival of 2016, Han Shipeng was attracted by the Qi Xin luggage factory in Fuyang’s returning employment handbook. In August of that year, he returned to his hometown with his wife and entered this factory.

  There are two considerations for returning home, one is income, and the other is family. Han Shipeng said that because he can make plates, he is a skilled mechanic. Now his monthly income is about 6,000 yuan, and the couple’s monthly income is not much different from that in Zhejiang.

  At the same time, he pays more attention to "supporting the old and raising the young" at home. "More than a decade ago, we left our children with the elderly, and we couldn’t come back twice a year. Both the elderly and the children complained. Now I can go home to see my parents on weekends, and my children can go to school nearby. " Han Shipeng said, "I feel that I have found a long-lost but precious family relationship and responsibility."

  Liu Shenghong, the boss of Qi Xin luggage factory where Han Shipeng works, was once a migrant worker. In 2009, as the "leading goose" in Fuyang City, Liu Shenghong returned to his hometown to set up a factory. At present, the factory has more than 300 employees, and the output value of the company reached more than 80 million yuan in 2017. Liu Shenghong said that in addition to the main factory, they have five processing plants in counties, towns and villages around Fuyang City, and workers can find jobs at home.

  Let the returnees live and work in peace and contentment

  In order to help migrant workers find jobs, from February to March this year, Fuyang city, county and township jointly planned to hold a number of job fairs. According to the relevant data of the Municipal Bureau of Human Resources and Social Security, there are currently 36,000 entrepreneurs returning to their hometowns in Fuyang City, and 620,000 migrant workers are employed in the county, an increase of about 400,000 compared with 2008.

  “‘ A clever woman can’t cook without rice ’ If there is no enterprise, how can you return to your hometown for employment? " Li Haichuan, director of China Merchants Bureau of Fuyang City, said that the city has attracted investment and set up enterprises to increase employment. In the past three years, 2,653 investment projects have been completed, including 1,680 manufacturing projects, mainly including agricultural and sideline food processing, textiles and clothing, pharmaceutical manufacturing and recycling of waste resources and materials.

  Not only that, Fuyang is currently building a "20-minute employment circle". Dong Xiaohong, deputy director of Fuyang Municipal Bureau of Human Resources and Social Security, said that by building industrial parks, migrant workers’ pioneering parks, employment poverty alleviation bases and poverty alleviation workshops, migrant workers can achieve employment within 20 minutes. At present, the city has provided 41,300 jobs and resettled 3,004 poor laborers. 639 poverty alleviation workshops were built or rebuilt, and 82 employment poverty alleviation stations were built, which led to the employment of more than 14,000 people.

  Dong Xiaohong said that at present, middle-aged people who are returning to their hometowns are mainly married and established, and maintaining family ties is the main factor for returning home. How to make the "nest" live more comfortably after "returning to the nest"? The city has standardized the housing, the transfer of social security relations, and the education of children who move with them in the form of documents.

  It is more important to protect the nest when nesting.

  The development of cities and the competition between regions are, in the final analysis, the competition for talents. As a big city of human resources in central China, Fuyang will also work hard on the confidence of returnees in employment and investment, the optimal matching and cultivation of human resources, and the development of strong county-level characteristic industries.

  The improvement of employment and investment environment has given entrepreneurs and migrant workers confidence to stay in their hometowns. Liu Shenghong said that the most important investment environment for entrepreneurs to invest. When I first came back, it was common to run to multiple departments for a license for several weeks. Nowadays, all departments implement centralized window handling and complete all procedures in one day.

  Only by making the best use of people can we achieve the optimal matching of talent resources. Whether people make the best use of it and "optimal matching of resources" are more important. Liu Shenghong and other entrepreneurs who returned to their hometowns thought, "What are the specialties of migrant workers and whether there are jobs in their hometown enterprises? The matching of the two requires the government to build a platform to achieve accurate demand docking under the support of big data. "

  Cultivate county-level characteristic industries, become stronger in characteristics, and attract talents in strength. Dong Xiaohong said that at present, all counties and districts in Fuyang have formulated industrial plans that conform to regional characteristics. For example, jieshou city is rich in lead and aluminum resources, and is building a demonstration county of circular economy. At the end of 2014, Nie Gang, a graduate of Tsinghua University, returned to his hometown and devoted himself to the research and development of new material foamed aluminum with recycled aluminum. "I hope that through my own development, I can bring the demonstration effect of upgrading to the traditional industries in my hometown." Nie Gang said, "More than three years ago, I started a business here with Tsinghua’s younger brother, and no one was available locally. Today, the company has gathered more than 20 college graduates from Anhui, including doctors and masters. "