Hu chengpeng, who walked quickly through a baby stroller and wheel factory, said it was his first priority to hire workers, hu chengpeng said on Monday.
Although the hanchuan plant in hubei province gives more than 400 workers a salary of two percent a year, the turnover rate is 20 percent.
Labor costs are too high, he says.
All this explains why hu, 34, is embracing China's robotics revolution with open arms.
This year, he has added 40 new robots, each rmb40,000 ($5,850), to replace dozens of workers who work on plastic cutting.
Eventually, he says, the plant will have a quarter fewer employees than it currently has, but the annual output will not go down.
He also said he plans to shift more production from manufacturing simple components to higher-margin branded baby carts.
By quality development strategy research institute, Chinese academy of social sciences, wuhan university, Stanford university, Hong Kong university of science and technology research institute of Chinese enterprises emerging markets - match employee surveys (CEES), according to the latest results in view of the actual salary more than doubled in the past 10 years, the manufacturer is using automation technology, investment, research and development, the new higher value-added products.
China is no longer a cheap Labour paradise.
In late 2015, the manufacturing sector made rmb4,126 a month, the same as Brazil's, well above the levels of Mexico, Thailand, Malaysia, Vietnam and India.
At the same time, many companies rely on government subsidies for almost no profit, some even lose money, according to the CEES study released on June 20th.
"The time is running out for Chinese manufacturers to adapt," said Albert Park, a labor economist at the Hong Kong university of science and technology, who oversees the survey.
The study examined more than 1,200 companies and 11,300 employees in guangdong and hubei provinces.
Guangdong is China's largest manufacturing province and hubei is the main industrial base in central China.
In guangdong province, about 26 percent of employees leave each year, while younger workers have a higher turnover rate, and the rate is about 37 percent for those under 28.