Feather Down Phenomenon In Guangshan: The Ups And Downs Of A "Filling Man"

This is a spectacular spectacle.

Early winter every year

The feather and down industry of Guangshan County originated in the early 80s of last century, and adopted the way of mentoring and inheriting relatives and friends, pmitting ten, ten to spread hundreds of times, and quickly swept the whole country, thus creating a down chain industry with the flourishing development of the related industries, such as goose duck breeding, garment processing, wool processing, fabric accessories management, technical training and other related industries.

In the early winter of the "Millennium chill" rumor, the one hundred thousand "filling army" once again walked out of Guangshan, and they carried their hearts together to become rich.

First up and down filling road

Yingzi (alias) is a microcosm of "standardization" in Guangshan's "filling up army".

Yingzi is an ordinary family woman in the Guangshan County town. Her husband is a senior technician in the original Yuanyang clothing company. In the early 80s of last century, after the collapse of "golden Yuanyang", her husband was laid off.

After her husband was laid off, he did not use his professional expertise to join the ranks of those who went out to fill the pile. Instead, he went to a southern foreign clothing company to be a quality supervisor.

When their daughter was less than one year old, yingzi stayed at home to take care of their children. The three families lived on the wages earned by their husbands. Sometimes they had to help their parents in the countryside and their younger sister in school.

When the house leaks were rainy, they bought less than three years' houses and were demolished because of the construction of the county town.

"When can I pay off the huge amount of money that I depend on my husband's work and live on a debt free day?" yingzi said in an interview. When she was at a loss, she saw that many of her unemployed workers, like their friends and family members, were going out to fill the pile and the family's economic situation improved significantly.

"I can't stay at home. I want to go out, and I want to earn money by filling the wool."

Just do it, and learn everything from scratch. Just now, the brother-in-law has many years' experience of filling up the wool, and it will be tailored and processed, and the business proceeds will be very good.

In the early morning, yingzi took a bike to his sister's home 10 miles away from the city to learn how to cut and learn to use motor to make down clothes.

Kungfu has learned to independently cut and make down garments in half a year.

In the autumn, yingzi sent her child to her mother-in-law's home in the countryside, and joined with her brother enthusiastically to join the army.

A bitter tear

It's hard to go out and do everything at home.

Although listening to other people's difficulties in going out and filling, they were prepared for it, but yingzi still had unexpected things.

For the first year, the owner of the shop, who had been reserved, doubled the rent in a single way.

After all, oral reservations are not written agreements, yingzi and brother are very helpless, considering their first year out, the market and cashmere return in the heart, and then they can not get so much of the cash to pay the rent, and finally decided to rent a shop.

As a result, the rented stores were indifferent because of their geographical location.

In the second year, yingzi learned lessons from previous years, booked shop early and signed a written agreement.

Coupled with the first year's experience in tailoring and making down garments, it has become more handy and business is booming.

By the end of the lunar new year, not only did we sell most of the finished products, but also received nearly 500 orders.

The joyful yingzi seemed to see the dawn of the harvest.

However, the accident happened again, and the rented shop was ordered by the local government to complete the demolition within 10 days.

Yingzi heard the news, and his head was covered.

Thinking of last year's experience, she found the landlord crying, but the landlord had no choice but to return some of the rent.

My brother took inventory of cash and made nearly one hundred thousand yuan in profit, so he proposed to go home and do it again next year.

"How can we do that? We have collected so much money from other people." yingzi resolutely disagrees. "We must look for a facade. Even if the rent is high, we can not be unconscionable and take other people's money instead of clothes."

When yingzi looked around for a house, his brother lost sight of it and took away all the cash. Later, yingzi learned that his wife bought a new house in Hangzhou, and was eager to pay down payment and urged his brother to go back.

The demolition of the shop made yingzi feel the cool of the world, and her brother's injustice made her feel the real merciless.

At this time yingzi, the more hardship and helplessness, the more intense the yearning for her daughter. She felt the pain of tore her heart and lung.

Yingzi cried to her husband who was far away in the south. Her husband supported her and continued to stay to finish the order of the down jacket he had received. He specifically asked the company for 5 days' leave to get to yingzi. After many twists and turns, he asked two people to make down jacket.

They made the down garments all day and night until the twenty-seven of the twelfth lunar month was finally completed.

When he saw that other cashmere families came back with a lot of money and a brilliant smile, he paid all his efforts but empty handed. Yingzi once again shed bitter and bitter tears.

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Bitter and happy

The snow disaster happened in southern China at the end of 2007.

But in the winter, the winter is a harvest season.

Yingzi went out with his brother this time. His brother not only works fine but also fast, and can endure hardships.

Yingzi has plucked twelve thousand points of strength and brought more than 2000 finished down garments to prepare for a fight with his brother's help. They went to Huarong County of Hunan province this time.

As soon as autumn arrived, the weather was very cold. They settled in their bags, arranged their stores, and hung out their own finished down garments.

A lot of down coats are coming. Sometimes, more than 50 orders can be received in a day. It is very busy just to measure the size and introduce the quality, color and style of the cloth.

Yingzi asked his brother to sell his own finished down clothing outside the shop, which not only eased the pressure of ordering, but also showed obvious cash earnings.

They are often too busy to eat and sleep, meet customers and busy business, and have no time to eat.

At night, yingzi trimmed his clothes until late at night. Sometimes he had a pair of cold scissors in his hands, and he doze off on the side of the chopsticks.

Younger brother is more laborious. In order to make down jacket, he can only rest for two or three hours a day, sometimes there is no time to close his eyes.

In the cold weather, the snowstorm raged and the wind blew hard.

In order to catch up and keep the shop safe, they could not use fire or electric appliances to warm themselves, so they had to stand up. Yingzi's hands, face, feet and thighs were frozen like a rotten apple. They wanted to put down their work, cover warm quilts, straighten their legs and sleep well, but when they thought of so many orders and saw their profits, they began to work hard and continue to make down garments.

On the morning of May 25, 2007, a few people came to the local civil affairs department. Because the state had issued a snow disaster relief fund, a large number of down garments were required to be given to the victims. They bought the rest of the down garments.

Good luck fell from the sky. Yingzi and his brother were wild with joy. They went to the county town restaurant for a break.

And then began the final sprint, until the twenty-eight night of the twelfth lunar month, they were full of the joy of harvest back to the warm home.

Hard work has finally made many achievements.

In the year, yingzi made a net profit of nearly 200 thousand yuan, plus her husband's wages also surpluses. They repaid all their foreign debts and had a relaxed, prosperous and happy Spring Festival.

For the next goal, yingzi is more confident. She has to take advantage of her ability to continue to go out and fill the pile, and earn more money to decorate the house.

With enough surplus on hand, she opened a shop in the county town, and brought her mother-in-law and father-in-law to the county town because of their support for her illness.

The one hundred thousand army brings...

Yingzi, a reporter interviewed by Guangshan County, is just an ordinary member of the county's crowd. But her story is moving.

As a matter of fact, every outgoing family and every person in Guangshan has an extraordinary experience. But these extraordinary experiences not only lifted their families out of poverty, but also increased the popularity of the down industry in Guangshan, and promoted the socio-economic development of Guangshan.

According to the statistics of Guangshan County Statistical Bureau, as of the end of 2009, there were 6744 households in the county to fill the cashmere, with a business income of 1 billion 559 million 860 thousand yuan, and 41985 people in the county were employed, with an annual profit of 496 million 910 thousand yuan.

At the same time, the annual income, employees, profits and other indicators of the industrial chain such as chill processing, fabric and accessories sales, technical training, advertising production, mechanical and electrical sales, information intermediaries and logistics have reached 1 billion 408 million 910 thousand yuan, 2733 yuan and 159 million 10 thousand yuan.

This indicates that the down industry that has been cultivated for many years has begun to take shape and has become one of the largest sales center of down products in the country.

Huang Zuguo, vice president of the Guangshan down industry association, told reporters that after more than 20 years of arduous pioneering work, the down industry of Guangshan has been thriving from the original "Golden Duck" to the current woolen processing, down garments, accessories, wool, on-site filling and pportation, training, breeding and other industries.

Zhang Jinsheng, director of the Construction Command Office of Guangshan county's down material market, said that the down industry in Guangshan was very active, the chain gradually extended, the scale expanded rapidly, the construction became more and more complete, and the market became mature day by day, which has become a pillar industry in the county economy.

The strong development of the down products processing industry and the field filling industry has led to chain operation of a series of related industries, such as chorionic processing, clothing production, cloth accessories management, vehicle pportation, light box production, and technical training.

According to statistics, the county has 18 villi processing plants, 19 wool and wool processing workers, 68 professional feather and down cloth operators, 41 feather and down accessories business, and 13 schools of cut clothing training schools.

At the same time, the market development of feather and down industry has promoted the development of real estate, accommodation, catering, pportation, pportation, logistics, communications, finance, trade and other industries.