Zhoukou Has Been Identified As The First "Export Base For Footwear Industry In Henan".

November 18th, 11th Five-Year,

New road of development

Shoes that can be made at home can be sold to the United States.

"Working here, the map is a formal business, away from home and have a sense of belonging."

Yang Wei is a clerk in the west of Fugou County, Zhoukou. Now she is a clerk in the office of Bao Chang shoe company of Fugou county.

In the past 5 years, Yang Wei has been working outside the country, earning fairly well.

Nowadays, there are many large enterprises in the hometown, and the wages are very good. It is convenient to live and eat at home, so she chose to return home for employment.

Now in Zhoukou, there are more and more migrant workers like Yang Wei who choose to go back to their hometown to work.

The reason why they are no longer going out to work is that Zhoukou actively accepts the development strategy of industrial pfer in the eastern region, "building export bases for footwear industry and creating central footwear capital".

In November 16th, in Xihua kaishong Shoes Co., Ltd., more than 1800 workers were working on high-end fashion women's shoes.

"We produce Samoa brand shoes, which are not sold in China, but are sold to the United States."

Liu Guihua, a shoemaker, said that the shoe factory can produce 3 million 600 thousand pairs of high-end ladies' shoes every year.

Zhoukou is the largest grain producing city in Henan, and also a large population city. There are many surplus labor force in rural areas.

Mao Chaofeng, Secretary of the Zhoukou municipal Party committee, said that at present, the Taiwan funded footwear industry in the economically developed coastal areas of Southeast China has been pferred to the mainland, and Zhoukou has actively undertaken. Currently, 12 shoe making enterprises have invested in Zhoukou, and initially formed footwear industry, footwear, shoe materials, shoe machines and shoes technology.

Due to its remarkable results, in October 11th, Zhoukou was designated by the provincial government as the first "shoe making industry in Henan".