The Development Anxiety Of Children'S Clothing Weaving Lane: "Tax Resistance"?

This is a world that has not been changed by container and big industry. In the early stage of industrialization, the workshop mode of production is still the absolute mainstream. The Zhili Town, known as the "children's clothing capital" in China, has exposed the traditional industrial gathering town syndrome which has long been a long suffering in the shortest time. It is related to a riot, which is related to two groups. industry Cluster.

In October 26th, a common "anti tax" incident, an unexpected car accident, and a long-standing culture of onlookers led a riot of tens of thousands of people involved in the Zhili town of Huzhou on the South Bank of Taihu.

A large number of "three in one" or even "four in one" workshop, huge external population, and overloaded town management, known as China's "children's clothing capital" of Zhili Town, exposed the typical traditional industrial gathering town syndrome in the shortest time.

According to local statistics, there are more than 12000 enterprises related to children's wear in Zhili Town, including 7647 children's wear manufacturing enterprises, 4553 supporting enterprises, 47 scale enterprises, and sales revenue has exceeded 18 billion yuan. Weaving Children's clothing industry Pyramid, which occupies the spire, is the "scale enterprise" that has annual sales income of tens of millions of yuan.

There are more than 10 thousand children's clothing factories and processing workshops in Zhili Town, and 70% of the children's clothing in wholesale markets all over the country are produced here. This is a world that has not been changed by container and big industry. In the field of weaving children's clothing, the early production mode of industrialization is still the absolute mainstream. The Ford production mode, which has been popular for 80 years, has just appeared in this cluster. The scale of children's clothing in Zhili is small and the degree of branding is low. It is also a typical specimen of "made in China" in its early form.

We can also see the cascade of industrial development from the street business, workshop and enterprise mixed ecology of Zhili. The children's clothing in Zhili carries the development needs of a less developed area and the upgrading pressure of an affluent area. Although the riots soon subsided, the confusion of migrant workers, the perplexity of small and micro enterprises, and the vision of "big business" hesitated remain undiluted. Among them, there is not only a psychological gap between a Chery car and a Lamborghini, but also a question about wealth quality and enterprise spirit.

This is the anxiety of development.

Tax rises

It's hard for us to say clearly about the emotional state of the female boss of the riot protagonist and the "anti tax" woman in the morning of October 26th, but the "head tax" doubled probably just the last straw.

At 5 p.m. on October 26th, 1 Xiangjiang Road, Zhili Town, Huzhou. Zhou Jianqun, the boss of Anhui, and his 20 workers started eating dinner early. This is the work and characteristics of the children's clothing factory in Zhili Town, and three meals a day are very early. After dinner, there are usually four or five hours of work.

When he was having dinner, Zhou Jianqun received a call from his friend Zhu Huiping: "Xiao Zhou, do you know that you Anqing people are in trouble, and they will hit it when they see a car." Zhu Huiping came from Nanxun town near Zhili and opened a printing room and a printing factory in Zhili. Since last year, two people have become business partners. They usually like to joke with each other. After listening to this, Zhou Jianqun was very dissatisfied, and replied, "you make a rumor."

October was the busy season in Zhili town. Zhou Jianqun was very busy at that time. Customers from Yiwu, Changshu and Shanghai were waiting for him to deliver the goods. But after 11 o'clock that night, when the surging crowd came to Zhili North Road, which was only a few steps away from his shop door, Zhou Jianqun had to believe the facts before him.

That morning, a woman's boss of a children's clothing factory from Taihu County, Anhui, had a conflict with the tax administration officer who came to the tax collection because of the delay in paying the socialization of children's clothing production and processing tax (commonly known as "head tax"). According to last year's standard, the "tax for head tax" of 343 yuan per sewing machine was collected by the Zhili tax office. This year, the price of the sewing machine mentioned 620 yuan, which greatly dissatisfied the female boss. There are people in Anhui who tell the entrepreneur, "the collector is very fierce." Subsequently, the owner and a group of owners who were equally dissatisfied with the "head tax" and the collector were sent to the administrative center of Zhili town for a collective appeal.

Xiao He village is not far from the administrative center. It will be there in a few minutes. Soon, more than 100 petitioners gathered in front of the administration center and attracted hundreds of onlookers. "At the beginning, the Secretary of the town committee spoke very well, and there was applause in the crowd. But then, when another town leader came to speak, everyone began to stir." A number of Anhui owners told reporters that those "not listening" words in Anhui people have been spanlated into "you Anhui people can not pay taxes, do not stay in the weaving lane" and other versions. The crowd who had been evacuated under the guidance of the town government gathered again at 6 o'clock that night, and thousands of people came to the crowd. "During this time, just when there were more idle people on the street, children's clothing was on the table. At this time of the year, winter clothes were almost finished, but this year the temperature is high, and many factories haven't moved yet." Wu Jirong, the boss of Jinfeng Lai, told reporters.

In the Zhili Town, the two north-south streets, which are only a few hundred meters away from the road, are the main roads of the town center. In addition, there are twenty or thirty crosses of East-West to small streets. These streets are lined with thousands of children's wear shops. Fu Min road and the administrative center of the town are only about a kilometre away. Soon, the rich people's roads are also surging. A serious traffic accident followed, leading to a confrontation between the people of Anhui and the local people in Zhili.

That night 11 o'clock, a Audi car trapped in the crowd, because of passers-by frequent flapping, the driver stepped on the throttle in panic, between the advance and retreat 9 people. Official sources said two people were seriously injured and seven were slightly injured. This car is Zhejiang E license plate. The local reporter told reporters that the driver was from the township of Zhili Town, Taihu, and was preparing for the wedding ceremony for second days. At that time, he had just come out of a hotel, and his fiancee was sitting on the train.

Traffic accidents have become the outbreak of riots.

Beginning in the early morning of October 27th, the Anhui people, who were enraged by the perpetrators, used cars or light boxes, window displays and shop doors to pick up objects with stones or roadside objects. Hundreds of Zhejiang E licences were smashed or overturned. "At the door of our shop, four cars were overturned."

The roaring crowd spread rapidly from the rich road to other streets. The street between Xiangjiang road and Fumin Road, where Zhou Jianqun was located, was handed over to the news that the smashing car was aimed at weaving people in Anhui. Therefore, he did not care about his Chery H license.

Late in October 27th, Zhou Jianqun heard the roar of people outside, and the sound of dragging on the ground with many iron pipes. "The workers here, the largest 25 years old, the youngest 18 years old, some young girls, have never seen such a scene, shaking with fear." Around two o'clock in the morning, Zhou Jianqun, standing on the four floor window of the dormitory, looked at the situation. He saw a group of people carrying iron pipes. They suddenly turned from the Zhili North Road to Xiangjiang Road, rushed into the alley opposite the shop door, and smashed all the two cars there, including his Chery.

Zhou Jianqun identified one of the group by the street lamp. The man was the boss of a children's clothing Workshop on Fu Sheng Road next door, the local people in Zhili. Only then did he know that the weaving people had begun to attack the people of Anhui for revenge.

The development of the situation is completely beyond the control of Zhili police station and joint defense team.

By the early morning of October 28th, special police officers and armed police from various parts of Zhejiang came into weaving gradually, and the situation was basically under control.

Like the disaster area, the rumours in the riots are also destructive. "Whoever opens the door of the Anhui people will be smashed." From the evening of 27 nights, Zhou Jianqun and his workers not only shut down, but also did not dare to sleep. Like many shops and children's wear shops on Zhili street, Zhou Jianqun did not open until November 1st. In addition to the delay in the construction period, his shop took 6 workers on this day.

The riots subsided, and the weaving people and the people of Anhui began their busy business. The twenty or thirty streets, which gathered thousands of children's workshops, resumed their busy days and bustle, and piles of children's clothing were piled up to the doorway and the roadside.

On the evening of November 2nd, Zhou Jianqun and Zhu Huiping sat together again to talk about their cooperation business. They were not enemies by the riots who had been divided into two opposing camps.

They talked about taxes. On the morning of October 26th, Zhou Jianqun went to the bank to pay taxes. According to the tax bill provided by Zhili tax office, Zhili, he has two facades of factory shops, the tax payable is 15000 yuan for national taxes, 9200 yuan for local taxes, and 2400 yuan for account making. "To tell you the truth, the taxes in Zhili are not high. This is to be placed in Anhui. I am afraid this is not the same level. Zhou Jianqun said. What he dissatisfied with was the 2400 yuan account making fee. "We are self-employed businesses, not ordinary taxpayers. Where do they charge for the accounts?" in 2007, the tax intermediary was a tax collector's office called Zhong Rui. The charge standard was 600 yuan a year, with a great contrast. Another thing that puzzled me was that he had never received tax tickets. (tax ticket: duty paid voucher is a special certificate used by the tax authorities to collect taxes from taxpayers according to the tax law, which is a legal proof for taxpayers to perform their duty of paying taxes according to law. )

In the design of the tax plan, the way of Zhili town has local characteristics. For those children's clothing enterprises on the scale, they levy taxes on electricity consumption. This year, a revenue of 80 yuan has been broken down. This standard was 40 yuan last year and 18 yuan the year before. For a factory with a revenue of 50 million yuan, this year's standard is equivalent to a normal tax of 25 million yuan.

On the whole, the tax preferences for children's clothing in Zhili town are still very obvious. Last year, the children's clothing factory named Dong Feng Liang came to pay 800 thousand yuan for the children's clothing factory, which has been awarded the "big taxpayer" plaque for two consecutive years.

During the conversation, Zhu Huiping exchanged views with reporters in a friendly way. It's hard for us to say clearly about the emotional state of the "anti tax" female boss in the morning of October 26th, but the double head tax may be the last straw. {page_break}

The time difference between the two groups

It is only the difference between the opportunity and the opportunity to make a fortune. The two groups that live together in one region are different from each other. Anhui people in factory shops and processing factories are unfamiliar with the boss in the weaving road of Dong Liang road. Some of them are impressed by the high-profile luxury on the street.

At 6 o'clock in the evening of November 1st, Liu Jie, 23, raised a blue four horns on the roadside of Zhili South Road. He set up two wooden boards on the tricycle to work as a workbench and opened a notebook computer to start his night job -- the download of the mobile phone movie.

At this time, the riots in Zhili town had just subsided, and behind him there were SWAT patrol cars passing by. There were several armed police armed with rubber sticks walking around the corner not far away. Liu Jie's business also stopped for 5 days, like the garment factory on Zhili street.

The downloading business of the mobile phone is very characteristic of weaving. "Have you seen it anywhere else? I didn't know where else to do it." Liu Jie told reporters. On the workbench, there are 40 pieces of film and e-book containing more than 20 thousand plastic covers. There are a total of more than 20 thousand contents. In Zhili South Road adjacent to Zhili children's clothing factory area, almost every walk a few steps, you can see a booth like this. They together with street stores with noisy music and various hot food stalls along the roadside form a night market in Zhili children's wear factory area.

The movie is in 3GP format, and the price is 1 yuan per unit. The weary young workers came out in the twos and threes from the dark street in the factory area and handed the cell phone to the stall owners. For them, watching mobile phone movies is the most suitable entertainment for local conditions. Because the so-called factories in Zhili street, in fact, are mostly four storeys up from a facade and two facades. There are fewer than a dozen people in a factory and three or four people in ten. The pattern is usually the one or two floor production, three or four floor accommodation, production, storage, accommodation and door shops as the four in one factory shop. Dormitories are usually small rooms that are simply separated by brick walls, without TV.

Liu Jie has been doing this business for only a few months. The timing of his entry is somewhat late, but his income of one hundred or two hundred yuan per night is much better than that of making clothes in a factory store. Recall that three years ago, he had earned two thousand or three thousand yuan a month in the factory.

Like other vendors, Liu Jie is still a turner during the day. In a factory store opened by the owner of a town in Kai Xuan Road, he used a piece account book with his wife who married two years ago, which made his family life very vigorous. In the evening, he could do business for a man and make clothes for a man in Nanxun. They are Bozhou people in Northern Anhui. In today's Zhili town's more than 12000 children's clothing factories, factory shops and processing workshops, more than 200 thousand of the foreign workers come from Huzhou, most of which come from Anhui, which is separated from Taihu.

In the four or five years of weaving, Liu Jie worked in several factory stores, but he never remembered the boss's name. "Besides working and working, I know what to do." Nor did he ever think of starting a "processing factory" like many other townsmen. (processing factory: it is another weaving feature, which refers to the small workshop for the factory shop on the street, which is scattered in the villages around Xiao Liu, Hexi, and rolling villages around the weaving area, and there are thousands of them. This workshop does not require registration. It only needs to rent a private house and buy several second-hand sewing machines to start work. The Turner is often a couple with several townships, or a couple of couples. )

The Xiao He village, which appeared in the "anti tax" incident, is a village gathered by a "processing factory", and the north and South Dagang road runs through it. From the architectural point of view, there are two times on both sides of Dagang Road: the east side is the old and low style old tile house, and the west side of the "Xiao He new village" is a uniform four story new building. The more than 400 indigenous villagers have moved all the way from Lu Xi to Lu Dong, and the old houses have been left to the tenants of the "processing factory".

From the road east village entrance, along the twists and turns of the alley to go inside, the reporter saw the first "processing factory" is a window less ear room, only five drivers in the cloth pile buried in the car cloth, an old speaker in the Zheng Zhihua's "sailor", this song is almost as old as the house. There are hundreds of factories in Xiao He village, and in the production season of children's clothing, when the business of factories and shops in the street is too busy, they will place the order with them.

For Anhui's "husband and wife files", many of them are "processing plants". A few of them will accumulate more profound and will be the "factory store" boss in the neighborhood.

Zhou Jianqun's wife, Cao Yingyun, is 34 years old and has been making clothes for local people in the 12 years since she came to the factory in 2006 and has been in the factory since 1994. She clearly remembered that in the first half year of weaving, her income was more than 1000 yuan. In the next 1995 or 1996 years, the income of a year was less than 10 thousand yuan, so that only in 2005 did it rise to around 20 thousand yuan. In 2006, Zhou Jianqun, who worked in Shanghai, took over 20 thousand yuan to start his business in Zhili Town, and Cao Yingyun became a boss. Now, the wages she paid to the workers is much higher than that of her own work: the turner can get three thousand or four thousand yuan a month, and some more skilled lathe workers and tailoring masters can get five thousand or six thousand yuan.

Zhou Jianqun and his wife started their business process from the Xing Road and Li Qiang Road on the periphery of Zhili Town, and gradually moved to the town center. Today, Zhou Jianqun's factory store is located near the east of Xiangjiang Road, near the Zhili North Road. The two facades are up to four and a half, with an annual rent of 17.8 yuan. There are fifty or sixty sewing machines on the two floor, employing more than 20 workers from Wangjiang County in Anqing and Lingxian County next door, which can earn tens of thousands of dollars every year. Such a scale has been quite outstanding among the Anhui people in Zhili children's clothing factory. "The children's clothing factory on Zhili street is mostly owned by local people in Anhui, and only a few people in the city and other parts of the country are there." Zhou Jianqun said.

In the evening of November 2nd, at the junction of Jili road and Wuxing Avenue, the intersection is a boundary point. The East is the area where the riots crowd. In the vicinity of the west, about one kilometre of jenbei road and Dong Liang road is the industrial park developed by Zhili town since 2006.

At 777 Dong Liang Road, the reporter saw Wu Jirong, the owner of the Jinfeng Lai garment company and the weaving Li people. Wu Jirong is 41 years old, the same year as Zhou Jianqun, but two people have a 10 year difference in their entrepreneurial history. In 1997, Wu Jirong and his wife, who had sold five years' sweaters in Beijing, bought several sewing machines in their own house in zhunwan village, Zhili, and employed seven or eight workers to start making children's clothing. Wu Jirong recalled that at that time there were a few people in Anhui who made children's clothing in Zhili. Among the 10 workers, 4 were from Changxin in Huzhou, 3 in Jiangsu and 3 in Anhui. Now, 7 of the 10 people are from Anhui, and Changxin people have no more.

Wu Jirong's initial entrepreneurial experience is as tough as the current Anhui people. He started off with ten thousand yuan borrowed from his uncle, Pan Shui Ming. "At the very beginning, everything was done by oneself, cutting, sewing, sewing buttons, packing, and hardly going to bed at night. At two or three in the morning, lying on the cutting bed when tired." He is also a chef in a workshop. The way to save time is to make a big fridge and buy two or three days of food at a time.

Wu Jirong said that the boss in Zhili is more hardworking than any other boss in China. He remembers that he slept almost two or three hours a day from 1999 to 2001 in those three years. "Get up at 4 in the morning. Several people rent a car together and go back to Linping, Yuhang to buy grey cloth. In general, take 5000 yuan, buy five or six cloth, so enough to do two days.

Wu Jirong's great leap forward also started at this time. In 1999, he had moved from a somewhat remote village of Zhu wan to 271 Fu Min Road on the street of Zhili. The uncle rented the house with two facades - and paid for the rent. Zheng Xiaolin, the uncle of the fabric business, made Wu Jirong owe 300 thousand yuan of material money in the first year of the move to town. Wu Jirong turned over quickly, three years later, his factory had forty or fifty workers, and bought three facade buildings and the first Audi in the street. "The business was done well before 2003, three or four styles in one year and seventy thousand or eighty thousand in one style."

The rapid development of business is still going on. By the 2003, weaving began to repair the beam road and engage in industrial parks. As a typical enterprise of children's clothing in the town, Wu Jirong got a land of 15 mu, and paid about 1000000 yuan of land with the help of his uncle's real estate mortgage and the customer's prepaid money, and then he built up the factory house, and then said goodbye to the "four in one" factory shop on Zhili street.

Wu Jirong claims that his company can rank the top five in the forty or fifty scale children's clothing enterprises in the industrial park. His business does not need to place orders with factory shops and processing plants in weaving mills, nor does he have any other business dealings. He has entered another cycle, and factory owners have been working overtime for more than ten hours a day. "I usually come to the office at half past eight in the morning and return to Huzhou's home on time at 5 o'clock p.m., I seldom go to Zhili street."

The difference between the time point and the opportunity point is that the two groups are very different. Anhui people in factory shops and processing factories are strangers to the boss of Dong Liang Road, and most of them come from the high-profile luxury on the street. "In recent years, there are many Mercedes Benz, Porsche and Lamborghini." Xu Zhiqiang, a black car driver from Fuyang, Anhui, told reporters.

Most of the Anhui people are also unfamiliar with the entertainment places such as "fancy years" and "great heroes". On the evening of November 1st, almost all the singers and bar brothers were enjoying themselves in the big Remy Martin bar where they could spend more than 20 thousand yuan a bottle. "It should be mainly local people who go there at ordinary times. As for us, there is no time for us to come, and there is no entertainment." Zhou Jianqun said. {page_break}

Developmental anxiety

The children's clothing in Zhili is a young industry, with no more than two hundred million in production and sales. Those who live in Huzhou villa area children's clothing scale business owners, they have to go a long way of entrepreneurship.

The town administrative center at the junction of Dagang road and Wuxing Avenue on the east side of Zhili is very stylish. The more than 10 story white building is the most lofty building in the town. There is a broad square in front of the gate, with a garden view composed of rockery, pools and weeping willows. Zhili town Party committee and government office here. According to the news coming from the local big enterprises close to the government, the document of the pilot project to improve the market in Zhili town has been approved. At that time, Zhili will become a sub county level city.

The development of Zhili town is very fast. The new streets in the east of the town, some drivers who drive tricycles, and drivers of "black cars" do not even know the names of roads.

And the weaving space, which has been expanding over the years for years, has always been a difficult town. The resident population in the town is 180 thousand, while the floating population is about 200000. The production of children's clothing in Zhili is very seasonal. Outsiders will stay in their hometown every January and February and June and July, leaving an empty town. But once they return to their posts, the management pressure on the town is obvious. As far as public order and traffic are concerned, the police force of a town police station and the few traffic policemen on the streets are bound to be stretched. And in the "four in one" factory shop of weaving children's clothing, every household is flammable and fire is also a big problem. In September 2006, two fires continued, killing at least 23 lives. To this end, Zhili town had to reorganize thousands of factory shops for a year, install isolation doors for every factory store, and install fire staircases for each building.

In Wu Jirong's impression, there are not more than 16 staff in the tax office in Zhili town. With the development of the socialization of tax revenue, a tax co management team of up to three or four hundred people has been generated. The group recruited in this society is mixed up, and with the means of improperly collecting and closing doors, threats and so on, the owners of factory shops and processing factories in the town have a lot of people who are disgusted with them. In October 28th, the official in Zhili announced that the tax was suspended, but this relaxation could not solve the problem once and for all.

As far as tax policy is concerned, the increase in children's wear tax has shown that the protective tax dividends are being abolished, and the market profitability of children's clothing enterprises will undergo greater tests. At the same time, the adjustment of industrial development through tax levers can also be seen as a signal for the change of industrial layout in Zhili town.

At the gate of Xiao He Cun village committee, the reporter saw a notice posted in October 8th by the Huzhou Taihu Industrial Agglomeration Area Management Committee, which is in the east of Dagang road in Zhili town. A planned 608.34 hectares of Zhi Dongxin energy industrial park is being planned. The park will focus on developing new energy and biomedicine. The new park plan covers Xiao He village.

Objectively speaking, the children's clothing industry in Zhili carries another mission, which is to provide a chance for people from less developed areas to develop. Many of them told reporters that the wages of Zhili were the highest in the national clothing enterprises, and they could get five thousand or six thousand yuan a month. But as far as reporter visits are concerned, the high salary is only a technical post like a tailor or a few skilled lathe workers. The monthly income of the most manual workers is generally three thousand to five thousand yuan.

There is indeed a development ladder between Wangjiang or Bozhou, but it seems that there are also troubles in the ordinary weaving people who are regarded as the rich by the migrant workers. "The pressure is really big, how many industries have been driven by children's clothing and how many people have been raised? Like the area of Zhu Wan Village in our hometown, all the fields have been requisitioned, like my age group, we have dozens of Haruki, who used to make clothes basically, but now they don't do it, they rely on the rentals of housing rents to live in Anhui. There is no other income. Cigarettes need to be driven by Chinese cars and cars. Wu Jirong said.

As children's clothing as a pillar industry in Zhili, it is also an industry that relies on heaven. The warm winter in the past two years has greatly affected the winter clothing business of the children's clothing in Zhili. Of course, the weather factor is the whole garment industry must face. The prominent problem of weaving children's clothing factory is that the style is few, and the wholesale sales mode is single, large quantity, and every day waiting for customers to go shopping. This is an uncertain business. Zhou Jianqun said, "ships are small and good turn around," but the boat is too small to run far away. "To tell the truth, these people here can only be mixed food and drink."

As far as industrialization level is concerned, the small workshop of children's clothes in Zhili is like a small workshop in southern Zhejiang or southern Fujian in the eighty or ninety era of twentieth Century. In weaving, whether it is processing factory, factory shop or Dong Liang road large scale factory, is implementing the whole processing mode instead of line production, this is the mode of production which is compatible with the wholesale sales mode.

In addition to the reputation of the production area, the children's clothing in Zhili is not brand. It's interesting to find someone in the factory area of Zhili. You have to say "XX street XX" instead of the factory name or brand name. Reporters saw in the streets of Cathay Road, "hundred million", "Liang Ge Ge", "Bunny Rabbit", "Kaka Liang" and other unabused trademark rhetoric everywhere, a Anhui shopkeeper told reporters, "our names are random."

The children of the Dong Liang road also have their own worries. Nowadays, the profit margin of children's clothing in Zhili is only 10% or even lower. In the past two years, Wu Jirong began to make brand planning for his factory. He has two brands, one is the "pig Dudu" that is launching the chain monopoly, and the other is the wholesale 1/1. By this year, "piggy toot" has opened 30 outlets in all parts of the country. He hopes that this brand will become a national brand in 5 years.

Once the brand is started, Wu Jirong is worried about the difficulty of introducing talents. "Today's talents, including those who design, do marketing and manage, prefer to go to Shanghai and Hangzhou. Who would like to come up to Zhili town? Now our designers are internally trained, linked to the Hangzhou Academy of fine arts a few years ago, and then we started practicing bases here, but then slowly left some people." Another problem is land use. In 2004, the land of 60 thousand yuan and one mu could not be again. The listing price of Zhili town was 1 million 800 thousand yuan per mu, up nearly 30 times.

"I think it's also a problem for this industry to develop further." Children's clothing in Zhili is a young industry. So far, there will not be more than 200 million in production and sales. Those who live in the villas of the Huzhou villas are mostly people who are 40 years old, like Wu Jirong. They still have a long career path.