Many enterprises in the Gangzha Economic Development Zone, especially the manufacturing ones, face a labor shortage. [Photo/WeChat account: ntgzjjkfq]

More than 10,000 copies of a calendar poster printed with recruitment information of the enterprises in the Nantong Gangzha Economic Development Zone, or GZEDZ, were mailed to Ningqiang county – administered by Hanzhong city in Northwest China's Shaanxi province – last month and dispatched to local residents.

Six companies involved in the activity received valid registration information in succession within one month.

With high-end intelligent equipment as its major industry, the GZEDZ has 1,137 industrial enterprises. As the epidemic situation eases and the economy rises, manufacturing companies generally face shortages of labor.

To help them maximize their work forces as quickly as possible, the economic development department of GZEDZ planned to organize nine firms within its jurisdiction to go to Ningqiang for recruitment before Spring Festival. Though the plan failed due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the zone has now promoted itself by means of a calendar poster.

Actually, the GZEDZ had taken more measures to solve the problem of labor shortages at an earlier stage. It actively contacted human resource intermediaries and labor service companies to broaden external recruitment channels on the one hand, while on the other hand it contacted enterprises within its jurisdiction that had surplus labor and implemented a program of "shared employees" to help manufacturing enterprises alleviate labor difficulties and promote high-quality development.

This year, the zone will take the initiative to matchmake with municipal and district human resources and social security departments and non-local human resource agencies and higher vocational colleges, and organize online recruitment fairs.

In addition, relying on the cooperation between Ningqiang and Nantong, the zone will continuously deepen labor cooperation between the two places, providing people who are willing to work in the zone with timely job information.