"Shoes Capital Of Western China" -- Bishan County

China Light Industry Federation and China Leather Association formally Award

Peng Xinglin is one of them. He is a skilled worker in a shoe factory in western shoes city.

Sewing machine is Peng Xinglin's close comrade in arms.

He said, the daily work is very simple: sitting in front of the sewing machine, step on the sewing machine pedal rhythmically, with the "buzzing" sound, two hands holding unformed upper leather, quickly and flexibly rotating the needle.

Seemingly mechanical, the work did not make 19 year old Peng Xinglin feel bored and bored.

In his eyes, this is actually an interesting competitive activity - the workmates are fighting against each other to see who is doing well and quickly, and the payroll at the end of the month is "referee".

In December 2006, Peng Xinglin successfully completed 1200 single shoe upper, received 3200 yuan wages, so that workers envy.

When interviewed by reporters, he was unanimously referred to as "the highest wage person".

However, Peng Xinglin quietly told reporters: "my salary is only 3000 yuan, and workers get 4500 yuan a month, they have no voice."

Peng Xinglin said that the working hours prescribed by the factory were "nine nights in six", so many workmates arrived at the workshop at seven or eight o'clock in the morning. Some of them worked until eleven at two o'clock in the evening. "Although I am very lazy, I like to sleep late. I do not want to work too late at 9 o'clock every morning, so I can never get the first prize of salary."

Every week, Peng Xinglin's "compulsory course" is to call home and report almost the same content to his parents: one day, how many shoes he has played and how many shoes he has played.

Today, Peng Xinglin and the city people are not the two: life is regular, on time to work, eat, sleep.

Last week, when he was shopping, he saw a Adidas sportswear for more than 500 yuan. He hesitated for a while or bought it as a new year's gift for himself. "I didn't dare to think about it before in the countryside."

In Bishan, like Peng Xinglin, there are nearly 60 thousand workers in the shoe factory "nine nights and six nights". They are mostly local people from Bishan. They come from towns and villages, earn income from shoes factories, and live better year after year.

For example, Song Xian, from Yang Xiu village of Tu Tang town in Bishan County, worked for three years, not only getting rid of the embarrassment of the steep walls, but also had more than ten thousand yuan of deposits each year.

However, the "shortage of migrant workers" encountered in coastal areas has appeared in Bishan county.

Many shoemaking enterprises have fought the battle for employment, and they have adopted measures such as raising wages and increasing welfare.

According to people concerned, apart from solving the surplus rural labor force in Bishan, we need to recruit large numbers of migrant workers from other places.

At present, the personal savings of urban and rural residents in Bishan is approaching 10 thousand yuan, and the rapid increase of residents' income is evident.

A set of statistics from the County Economic Commission: from 1997 to 2006, the total industrial output value increased from 2 billion 789 million yuan to 15 billion 971 million yuan, an increase of 4.73 times.