As demand for homemaking services among Chinese families has rebounded after the sector experienced a major hit due to the pandemic last year, he said the online-to-offline or O2O homemaking service is able provide blue-collar workers with information and guarantees, and bring job training opportunities to people in rural areas.
"Through such efforts, we hope to help more blue-collar workers from rural areas achieve full employment in the field of domestic affairs, obtain considerable income and social recognition, and also help increase the income level of rural residents and the overall revitalization and development of rural areas," he added.
The film tells the story of Fuyao's first automotive-glass factory in the United States, which was set up at a shuttered General Motors plant in 2015, employing 2,000 local blue-collar workers.
James Yan, research director at Counterpoint Technology Market Research, said the cost of manufacturing LCD screens in the US is relatively high and the expenditure of hiring a blue-collar worker, or an employee engaged in the manufacturing industry, is not low, so "it is not surprising that Foxconn intends to hire mostly engineers and researchers rather than the manufacturing workforce the project originally promised.
Sensing a business opportunity, Kuaishou launched a "New Year Job Fair" online from Jan 10 to 31, targeting blue-collar workers.
Recruitment through livestreaming and short-video platforms has become a new way for blue-collar workers to apply for jobs, according to a new report released by China New Employment Patterns Research Center.
Based on a survey on short-video platform Kuaishou, the report said the proportion of blue-collar workers seeking jobs via short video or livestreaming platforms increased 12.4 percent in 2022 compared with one or two years ago.
Moreover, blue-collar workers are able to obtain and compare different job information on websites, social media and short-video platforms and make their optimal choices, the report said.
Kuaishou launched its blue-collar recruitment business Kuaipin last year, which has attracted 250 million blue-collar workers monthly, with more than 100,000 enterprises offering recruitment positions.
The report also noted the average monthly income of blue-collar groups ranges from 5,000 to 8,000 yuan, while the number of resumes sent by blue-collar workers engaged in manufacturing is more than 3 times than that in the service industry.
"A private index by Renmin University tracking demand for blue-collar labor hit a record in the third quarter.
"In the past, many believed that the recipients of hair transplant procedures are so-called white-collar workers, but that has changed," Zhang said, adding that nowadays everyone is willing to pay for better appearances, and blue-collar workers have become important customers in the industry.
Behind her, hundreds of American blue-collar workers were assembling electric buses and trucks for the country in a massive and cutting-edge manufacturing facility in Northern Los Angeles County, California.