Old Palace Clothing Workshop Moved To The Junction Of Daxing Fengtai

In the early morning of April 25th, a 4 storey building in the three village of South small street caught fire, causing 18 deaths and 24 injuries.

Today, the fire has been away for a whole month.

Yesterday afternoon, a doctor in Jishuitan Hospital said that some of the injured had been discharged, but 4 injured still live in the intensive care unit.

Wang Yuru and his son, who were injured in the fire, were living in a guesthouse of the old palace arranged by the government.

Wang Yuru said his wife was still in Jishuitan Hospital and had not considered the future plan.

This fire has also made illegal construction and redress.

May 24th, old town south street.

The deserted streets, the depressed shops, the broken billboards.

All the villagers in the village built their own buildings, and the clothing workshop had been retreated.

Card inspection at village entrance road

In the three village of Nan Xiao street, Wang Zhi moved the last few furniture onto the lorry, carrying 4 workers left behind, leaving from a cottage courtyard.

A month ago, this courtyard was still a dress.

"The house is still 3 months before maturity, 8000 yuan rent, the landlord only promised to return $2000", Wang Zhi took out the rental contract, said he found a village committee and a lawyer, but was told that because of the clothing shop did not do business license, the rental house has illegal construction phenomenon, the rental contract is not protected by law.

In the end, Wang Zhi left with 4000 yuan returned.

"We can't afford to delay. We will not start here, but there will still be orders for customers in the factory."

A few days later, Wang Zhi found a new factory, but he did not want to disclose the address.

"Illegal production in violation of construction, let me know that a big fire is wrong, but to support the family, business can not help but do it," Wang Zhi said.

In order to quit work, Daxing Township Public Security, village cadres and other related personnel, set up posts in villages and trunk roads.

"If a private clothing factory is checked into the village, the relevant staff members will be punished."

Huang Village, a village cadre said.

A number of black car drivers in South Xiaojie express that pporting sewing machines and other equipment is risky and the price is relatively high.

"Preferably in the evening, if the goods are seized, I will not be responsible."

Driver Xiao Li said that the inspection of pporting sewing machines was most stringent in Daxing, such as moving to the South Fifth Ring Road, or Hebei, Langfang and other places, which is relatively safe.

Smuggling cloth from the fence into the village

Similarly, Daxing Huangcun village, three rooms in the village, two gates outside the village are equipped with gates, and a number of public security, security and security personnel are on duty here.

All vehicles on duty will stop the vehicle and check the carriages and trunk.

"It's mainly about sewing machines and cloth," a duty officer said.

Inside and outside the village, banners are everywhere: "Prohibition of illegal production of clothing shops and sewing machines into villages".

The village's erection of multiple speakers, repeatedly playing the South Street fire information, as well as the town government for demolition of illegal construction, the deadline to return clothing factories related regulations.

Most of the workshops in the village have been shut down.

The clothes workers who had nothing to do were gathered in the street in twos and threes to discuss inspection and remission.

Villager Feng aunt said that the three rooms were once the largest gathering place for clothing shops next to the South small street.

"Of the more than 300 villagers, nearly 200 of the self built buildings have been rented to the clothing workshop".

Today, Feng's house is still covered with paper strips for rent.

"Now can only rent to the household, can not be a workshop, the machine can not move in", Feng aunt thought, "but you can pay the deposit first, wait for the wind of inspection come over, and move to the inside."

"After the fire, there has been a rumour that there is a continuous demand for relocation, but it has never been believed," said Lao Zhao, the owner of the workshop. Although some garment factories have moved away, most are still waiting.

Lao Zhao said that in order not to delay business, some workshops in the village are still being produced.

"Each has its own way. Individual (workshops) rest during the day and start work at night.

Cloth can not be brought in from the village gate, and take advantage of the late night, take the small road outside the village, and steal some from the fence around the village.

Number of villages to be relocated

Unlike these villages, the "talent market" in the second village of Nan Xiao street is very popular. Dozens of people are bargaining around the samples of clothing placed on several cars.

Factories or businessmen take samples of clothing to the place where the owners choose products that are suitable for their own processing, and agree on the price, quantity and delivery time.

"Although the factories have been cleared away, it is a common practice to come here to pick up their work. They will come around when they do not work."

A workshop owner said that after the South small street garment workshop was retreated, most of the workshops moved to the surrounding villages and towns to continue production.

"I can help you if you want to find a factory," said Lao Deng, a truck driver in Nan Xiao street. He has helped more than 30 garment factories to "move factory" from the beginning of his retreat.

Lao Deng went to more places in Fengtai District Zhao Wang Zhuang village and Huai Fang village.

This area is less than 10 kilometers from the South Street, for the area to be demolished and renovating.

"The village has a large number of clothing workshops. After the demolition notice was sent last year, most of them moved to Nan Xiao street, but a lot of workshops moved back in those days," said Zhao Ma, the village owner of Huai village.

Many landlords in the village said that the house had been rented out in recent days.

At least ten garment factories are still in operation, and the buzz of sewing machines can be heard everywhere.

"Sometimes people in the town come to check and shut the door when checking," says a garment worker.

Transition production in dilapidated small buildings

According to a reporter's investigation, there are also a large number of garment factories in Liuhe Zhuang and Jiu Jing Zhuang in Daxing District.

In the village of Liuhe Zhuang, a few old two storey buildings have been occupied by new garment factories.

These small buildings have been rented by the waste acquisition station.

The gap between the building and the building is only enough for two people, and the room is small and crowded.

In a small yard, several garment workers are working in front of the sewing machine.

The old tricycle of Lao Li, a workshop owner, was parked outside the hospital for pportation.

"The environment is a bit worse, but now the factory is hard to find. Do it temporarily." Lao Li confirmed that the workshop in the small building was moved from South Street.

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Lao Li and many of the workshop owners held a wait-and-see attitude towards Daxing District's vigorous retreat to the clothing workshop. "This is an industry that has survived for more than ten years in Daxing, involving hundreds of thousands of people, and can not be removed at once."

"There is always a time to recover and thrive in the area to be relocated," Lao Li said. "Many people and many factories can't rely on retreating." it is suggested that the government can choose a place to build a safe and cheap factory building. "I would like to have a license, pay taxes according to the amount, and do business in an upright manner".

And in the Chang Jing Zhuang, several small buildings are being built, and the trucks are going in and out on the soil road.

The streets around the building, the "factory rental", "apartment rental" signs everywhere, several small trucks crowded into the streets, unloading sewing machines, cloth, beds, cabinets and other items quickly left.

"The building I manage is 8 large, 7 small, and 15 workshops, all of which have been rented by clothing factories.

Other buildings will soon be ready for use, "Tan Xue, a housing administrator, said." soon, it will become a new South Street.

Experts believe that retreating can not cure a person.

Lu Jiehua, a professor of sociology at Peking University, thinks that it will not solve the fundamental problem if the small workshops are to be retreated and the foreign workers are allowed to leave the South Street.

First of all, we should deal with the illegal business activities from the root cause, and we can set up enterprises according to the local market demand, so as to attract the employment of foreign workers.

Shi Bainian, a professor at China Youth University for Political Science, said that the existence of so many garment processing factories in South Street can explain the local demand for these industries, and there is a market for these products. If there is such a demand and market, the government departments can consider how to turn these enterprises from illegal businesses into legitimate ones.