Fur Town: Zhejiang Chong Fu

Zhou Jianping's trip to Milan failed, and a piece of paper in Italy refused to shut him out.

Disappointed with him, there are 6 fur companies, such as Xin Nuo.

This means that many orders have been shut out, especially the order of high-grade mink coat.

Zhou Jianping is Deputy Secretary General of the Chong Fu Fur Association. One of his duties is to organize the local community.

Attend major exhibitions at home and abroad.

In the past few years, this initiative has brought many orders to local enterprises, and the industrial output value of towns has been rising continuously.

Now, they have to turn around and go to Russia to participate in the Thirteenth International Leather Exhibition.

Chong Fu, a Jiangnan Town with strong water features, is located in Jiaxing, Zhejiang. The west is 55 kilometers away from Hangzhou, and the East is 159 kilometers away from Shanghai.

From outside, the town was covered by huge sallow mulberry trees.

When you enter town, you will find that fur is the center of gravity here.

Fur, also known as fur, is said to sell fur in some Russian stores in old Shanghai and sell straw mats in summer.

Before 1949, as the officials moved south to Hongkong, the focus of fur business was also pferred to Hongkong.

Until recently, the fur industry in China developed rapidly.

Today, Chong Fu fur has occupied the global 1/5 market.

Out of town

people

Considering that there is no taxi in this town, let's follow the electric tricycle.

Before the attraction of the car passing through the town of Datong Xinqiao, before being attracted by the fur woman in the front billboard, I looked at the river under the bridge. It was very muddy. There were several boats carrying sand and a cement factory not far away.

Go along the billboard into the fur Road, and walk a hundred meters before reaching the snowball living hall in the billboard.

This is the self built shop of snowball fur from the local fur company. It closes at 5 p.m.

Further, the world of fur clothing has been closed. Only one side of the fur market is still open, and a shop is next to each other.

They are very similar. When they walk in, most of them are covered with white fox, blue fox and raccoon skin. Every ten pieces are tied together and sold as a unit.

Because fur color, size, breed difference, these fur sells price from every 400 yuan to 800 multivariate.

Roughly, each house has at least 500 thousand yuan.

Now it is clearly not a good time to do business, and there is a stove on the aisle for supper.

Some are playing in groups, playing poker.

Some of them directly shop at home, and you see not only a fox's skin, a raccoon's skin, but also clothes on the roof.

The door was simply separated by a glass door, and several steps were taken to make it a two level home.

Lao Zhang and his wife are ordinary members here. If we want to find out the difference, they have been here for more than 10 years.

At that time, the fur market was still a farm land, and they lived in the fur hotels in the town just like those who did fur business.

Originally, Lao Zhang and his wife's family were in Hebei for takeover.

For a living.

Many of their relatives and neighbors have some raccoon dogs and foxes.

I heard that there are leather cities in Haining, and Lao Zhang wore fur to the south, and finally came to Chong Fu.

The owner of Lao Zhang's next shop is several years later than Lao Zhang. She had been Fox for several years before making fur business.

Speaking of those foxes, she is always talking, "my pimples..."

The strong northern flavor soon dispersed in the sunset of the south.

Yu Hui also gave the street signs a soft light. At a glance, Changli Road, Tong Er Bao road and Jilin road...

There are two phone numbers printed on the signboards of many stores, and most of them are "Ji" after a bunch of numbers.

Because of climate reasons, Chong Fu only produces Hu sheep and some hare, and foxes, raccoon and other fur industry's main raw material breeding base is mainly in Hebei, northeast and Ningxia.

Lao Zhang will not care about the distant Italy like Zhou Jianping, where most of the exhibitors are powerful companies.

Most of these companies have their own raw material channels, and only when there is insufficient time will they buy fur from the market.

In Chong Fu, there are less than 30 fur processing enterprises above Designated Size, and more than 1000 under the scale, most of which are customers here.

Lao Zhang is one of the earliest traders here.

In 2002, the fur market was established, with only more than 100 shops in its initial stage.

Now, the market has become the largest fur market in China. The two trading area covers 86 thousand square meters, with 910 shops. It mainly distributes raw skins and excipients of rabbit skin, Lake sheepskin, Ningxia beach sheep skin, fox skin, mink skin, raccoon skin and other raw materials.

In 2011, the market entered the market with 26 million 895 thousand raw skins and sales volume of 3 billion 210 million yuan.

Unlike the raw leather market, which is full of foreigners, the local clothing industry is the leading producer of clothing and fur processing products. Most of their products are displayed on the side of the fur world and mink clothing city.

In May, it was not the peak season for fur sales. There were not a few customers. Those 40 thousand - 60 thousand yuan mink coats, which were priced at a price of 10 thousand to 15 thousand yuan, were almost the same as those in the snowball living hall.

If the raccoon skin, rabbit skin and other ready-made clothes, the price is lower, ranging from several thousand to several hundred yuan.

Chong Fu now has a permanent resident population of 100 thousand, a floating population of 50 thousand, and nearly 30 thousand people engaged in fur industry.

In 2011, the total output value of Chong Fu fur industry reached 11 billion 483 million yuan.

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evolution

The fur industry of Chong Fu is related to the three Tanner who moved from Shaoxing in the late Qing Dynasty.

They set up a tanning workshop for Hu sheep in the production of Hu sheep.

Because the business is booming, attracting more nitcobbler to come.

In 1951, Chong Fu had 37 households in the workshop.

After that is cooperation.

In 1958, 3 industrial cooperatives, including fur making, leather making and shoemaking, were merged and a leather factory was established.

In 1960, the leather factory was converted to a local state-run Tongxiang fur factory.

In Zhou Jianping's memory, in the age of material scarcity, if the lamb of a new neighbor dies, the skin will be stripped down to make insole and gloves.

The fur factory also did something similar: after the local sheep were slaughtered, the mutton was usually sold to the agricultural and sideline products procurement Station, and the sheepskin remained in the fur factory for rough processing, and then sold to the Zhejiang import and export company.

This fur factory has reached 100 people in its prime.

In 1990s, the fur factory was restructured and bought by a local farmer.

His name is Lu Rongkun. Now he is the founder of Tongxiang Eagle Leather Co., Ltd. and the founder of Chung Fu fur Co. Ltd., and also the draftsman of China's first fur clothing industry standard.

Lu Rongkun sold fish, worked as an electrician, did lumber business, and entered the fur industry later.

Seeing that Lu Rongkun's business is booming, with a profit of over 30%, Hu Jianzhong, who originally made lumber business, has stepped into this industry and established Zhonghui fur Co., Ltd.

Like Hu Jianzhong, more Timber Merchants turned to fur trade.

As early as the disintegration of the fur factory, some people in Chong Fu had accumulated the first pot of gold from building materials and waste paper acquisitions.

If you take a bus to Fu Fu, you can still see some people's doorways and lots of wood near the entrance of the town.

A considerable number of technical workers left Lu Rongkun's factory and built small workshops with these businessmen. At the beginning of Chong Fu, nearly 70% of the fur processing enterprises came from this.

Together with Lu Rongkun's factories, they laid the foundation for the fur industry.

At that time, the leather city of Haining had been built and gained fame.

The county town is not far from the town of Chong Fu, and its rise is also related to the development of Hu sheep and tanning industry.

However, the nearby Chong Fu people did not completely copy the Haining model, but instead focused on fur industry.

Today, the characteristics of the two can be clearly explained by the sentence of a taxi driver in Hangzhou. "Fur" is called fur, not fur, called leather.

Haining is leather, and Fu is fur.

These fur factories are produced in the evening and sell to Haining in the daytime, and bring back the raw materials needed for processing the new day.

Lao Zhang met with the group of people in Haining and finally came to Chong Fu.

"The radiation of Haining has a certain impact on the rise of Chong Fu fur. It is our original source of raw materials and sales window."

Zhou Jianping said.

Zhou's office is in the fur market, 200 meters from the original fur processing plant.

The old fur processing plant has been demolished, and now it is a fur shop.

"They were a little bit of a group before 2000, and developed rapidly after 2000."

Zhou said.

In 2000, the 5 townships of Chong Fu and other towns were merged, and the newly built government of Chong Fu town sought the way of development, and finally gathered their eyes on this group of businessmen to support the development of fur industry.

Taking into account the raw material problem, we plan to build fur market and attract fur traders to enter.

Since then, Chong Fu has gradually got rid of the demand for raw leather in Haining.

With the rapid development of Chong Fu processing industry, it is difficult for Haining to digest such a large output of Chong Fu.

Chong Fu people began to go out.

"We must cry out for good wine," Zhou Jianping said. "Our fur can be so large that we can not fail to participate in this exhibition.

Most of our products are faced with businesses and buyers through their coverage of the whole country and the world, rather than advertising directly to consumers.

In 2003, Chong Fu Fur Association was established.

Zhou recalled that when the local enterprises were organized to participate in the Beijing China International Fur leather trade fair, there were only 10 exhibitors, with 51 exhibitors and more than 1/5 of the venue.

Soon, Chong Fu fur business went to Hongkong after the organization of the association, and then went abroad.

"More than 90% of the locals are the local people. They are rooted in the grass roots. They are bold and daring. They are bold, bold and fearless.

Zhou Jianping describes this group of fur practitioners.

When he was still worried about language barriers, these fur bosses started business with their calculators, business cards and foreigners.

Since 2005, many orders of Chong Fu have been obtained through exhibitions.

Of course, not every exhibition is successful.

In 2010 and 2011, Italy refused to participate in the exhibition.

Even in Hongkong, it is not always smooth.

"Under some restrictions, there were five or six exhibitors at the beginning, now more than 10.

Some of the industry's situation is not convenient to tell, they have their special.

Zhou said.

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The market paths of Chong Fu fur enterprises are mainly in the following ways.

1. OEM processing; 2. direct export; 3. self built brand, exclusive store sales; 4. enter the market, such as Haining Leather City, Wuhan Hanzheng Street; 5. for Bosideng and other down garment manufacturers to provide cap, collar and other products.

Affected by the financial crisis, the Chong Fu people who have been paying attention to exports have shifted their focus to domestic sales, and their share has increased rapidly.

In December 4, 2010, the 11 product standards of fur industry, such as "raccoon fur" and other products, will be held in Tongxiang. Tongxiang Chong Fu Fur Association has participated in the examination of 6 Chong Fu fur enterprises participating in the standards, including silver fir, Zhonghui, Xin Nuo, snowball, Zhongtian and Zhejiang Hao.

Fur is fierce.

Unlike the Chong Fu fur industry, the international fur market has been full of controversy.

In January 2008, nearly 200 animal protectionists appeared naked in front of the Barcelona Cathedral in Spain. They showed people how many animals needed to make a fur coat. They wanted to wake up people's awareness of animal protection and remind everyone of the cruel pactions hidden behind fur.

In China, although there are some large-scale aquaculture, most foxes, raccoon and so on are scattered among farmers, who are sold to fur traders after slaughtering, or waiting for fur traders to purchase.

Almost no animal protection organization will go to a farmer's home to blame anyone.

However, domestic fur materials can no longer meet the needs of Chong Fu people, especially high-grade leather, such as mink and so on.

In March 2009, nearly half of the 250 thousand Fox Skins sold by Finland international auction house were captured by Chong Fu's fur business.

In addition to skin racket, there are still more vigorous paths, which can be found from the customs data.

According to the information of China Economic Net, which was reproduced in the online service hall of Shenzhen customs anti smuggling Bureau, in June 2009 and July, the Guangzhou Customs seized more than 26000 smuggled mink skins in the Pearl River estuary waters for the two time. In September, the Shenzhen Customs seized 7 cases of mink breaches carried by passengers at the Luohu port and 1632 mink skins involved; in October, the Hongkong Customs seized 13 boxes of mink skins and Fox Skins suspected of smuggling.

At the beginning of 2010, Guangzhou Customs seized more than 160 tons of smuggled water, such as mink skin and other kinds of fur, with a value of 540 million yuan.

According to the regulations, mink skin needs to pay 31% comprehensive tax through general trade import, and it needs the license issued by relevant state departments.

Customs clearance data show that in recent years, the import of fur in Shenzhen customs area is mainly duty-free processing trade. The import volume of general trade mode is relatively small, which is not consistent with the large supply in the market.

1 months after the customs launched the smuggling operation, the declared price of imported mink "feed processing" in the Shenzhen customs area increased by 38.3%.

Meanwhile, the price of mink skin imported from China has increased by nearly 50%.

"No smuggling, fur making is absolutely not done."

A business owner once said so.

At the forum of Guangdong and Hong Kong Fur Industry in early 2011, a group of fur traders discussed the sunshine development plan. They believed that the way of smuggling fur was no longer feasible, and the enterprises would take huge risks.

There were customs attacks and Russia's ban on "grey customs clearance".

In June 29, 2009, Russia closed the Cheel Guizo Wo market in northeastern Moscow, marking the beginning of another blow to "grey customs clearance" by Russia.

The clean-up involved more than 330 businesses in Xinji, Hebei, which accounted for 80% of Xinji's fur clothing.

As early as 1998, when Russia attacked the "gray customs clearance", the merchants of Chong Fu fur had learned lessons. Lu Rongkun's goods stored in the market were completely deducted and lost about 20000000 yuan.

Until now, Lu's last place to go is Russia.

Zhou did not mention such things, and his concern for Chong Fu grass industry was that the demand for environmental protection in 12th Five-Year was getting higher and higher, and the supervision became stricter and stricter. Local enterprises needed to raise funds to improve the capacity of sewage treatment.

Otherwise, some enterprises may be shut down, thus affecting the development of the industry.

He did not want to see Chong Fu as an electric car town in Zhejiang. Because of pollution, businesses were shut down in large numbers.

In Chung Fu, about 10 enterprises provide the whole town with tanning and dyeing services, including Zhonghui, Yinshan, snowball and other large companies. They have a tanning and dyeing workshop serving themselves and processing.

Among the more than 10 families, only Zhonghui fur has been examined by the environmental protection department, while others are still improving.