Foreign Garbage Village: Guangdong Jieshi Million Households Sell Annual Junk Clothes

If anyone tells you, there is a place in the world everywhere.

But no one will pick it up. You will laugh at this nonsense.

But if you come to Jieshi Town, Lufeng City, Guangdong Province, you will believe that "clothes are cheaper than paper" is not an Arabian tale.

There,

To what extent is it so low? One piece of clothing, like garbage, slips and falls from a tricycle full of clothes, but no one pays attention to it.

Why does this strange situation arise? Where do these bright and cheap clothes come from? Where are they going? Are they going to walk into your life?

Lufeng Jieshi, a seaside town with a population of 330 thousand.

The sea brought fresh and fresh seafood to the Jieshi people and brought a very musty flavor to the Jieshi people.

It is said that there are 10 thousand Jieshi families who have made fortunes by selling the old clothes, which are even eliminated by foreign dead people, who have sold these clothes to millions of families in China.

Family houses, houses, piles of old shirts.

Li Qun (a pseudonym) is a native of Jieshi. He said that the locals used "foreign garbage".

At the open level, they are reluctant to mention the two derogatory words "smuggling" and "foreign garbage".

But in the process of communicating with customers, these two words are a gimmick and the biggest selling point.

In Li Qun's close relatives, no one even engaged in "old clothes" business, which is very rare in the locals.

In September 15th, reporters and Li Qun visited the large collection of "foreign garbage" garments in Jieshi town on motorcycles.

From the road into a narrow street, the scene shocked reporters: here, in addition to clothing, or clothing.

The "foreign garbage" stores in the town are mainly concentrated in three villages, Taojing, Dongguan lane, new round, water lane and stone temple. The scale of each store is different, some of which are mainly engaged in wholesale business, and the vast majority of family based shops are engaged in small-scale pactions or even retail.

Among them, the scale of Dao Jing and new round the two places is especially large.

All shops have no legal certificates.

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In the area of the stone temple, the local residents vacated the first floor, used for stacking and refurbishing clothes, and hung samples.

The alley is small and narrow, but many residents still build iron houses in the scarce open space and use them as shops.

A tricycle goes through the alley and does not stop in front of the shops. The owners and their fellows are running up and happily unloading and loading.

Because the tricycle's back pocket was overcrowded and the lane was narrow and uneven, clothes often slid down to the ground.

But no one was willing to stoop to pick up, and the ground was covered with dirty dirty clothes, and the rubbish heap in the alley was almost full of clothes.

In such a narrow alley, there are so many clothes stacked up. Once a fire breaks out, the consequences will be disastrous.

"New clothes" is sold and renovated.

The samples hung in stores are almost the same as new ones from a few meters away. Only by looking closely at a distance can we identify flaws.

Behind the scenes are shopkeepers and fellow workers' step-by-step renovations.

When the clothes were first pported from the distribution center to the shops, they were stacked up in a mess, still rubbish, and almost never found a good seller.

Reporters learned from several shop owners, that is to save container space, clothing is tightly compressed.

After receiving the goods, the shopkeeper must first classify them.

Then, they had to brush some of the more obvious stains on their clothes with brush and detergent. Reporters even saw stains of blood stains on several clothes.

Many sweaters and T-shirts have already been woolen. They also need to be levelled with a brush, sometimes even with polishing equipment.

Originally, old goods, plus extrusion, many clothing buttons have been off, shop owners have already purchased a variety of buttons.

Some wearing clothes are eroded by the sweat of their "single user" for a long time. The words on the trademark on the back neck are very vague.

Shop owners have already purchased various kinds of trademark cloth blocks and reopened them.

General clothing can be sold through the renovation process; those "hopeless" can only be abandoned as garbage.

But the slightly expensive woolen coat and

And so on, but extra electric ironing is needed.

In a shop that specializes in jeans, reporters saw the following scene: clerks busy ironing a large number of jeans with wrinkles and no pants, and the other side were ironed, newly stacked, "new trousers" wrapped in uniform plastic bags.

The salesmen said that jeans were not easy to distinguish between old and new. Many young people still liked the feeling of nostalgia, so they only had their buttocks and thighs.

It is not a problem to be sold as a new pair of trousers.

No matter what grade, what price clothes, there is one thing in the renovation process, that is: no disinfection.

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Earn the seller by hand, earn the buyer by hand.

From the consumer's point of view, every old clothing market in Jieshi town looks strange.

Here, the shopkeepers not only do not take the initiative to greet passers-by into the shop, but also frequently look at the outsiders coming and going with very vigilant eyes.

In a shop selling overcoats, the reporter inquired about the price. The shopkeeper asked how many pieces he wanted.

There are few customers in the alley, but the shopkeepers are not worried, smiling, drinking tea, playing cards and chatting.

Although there are few customers, tricycles are still busy shuttling out the newly renovated clothing cars.

A salesperson said that the boss who had been doing the old clothes business for many years was too lazy to pay attention to the retail business, and accumulated resources all over the country for years, "enough for them to earn".

Of course, not all shopkeepers are so full of money. In a small store with a remote location in Dongguan lane, an old aunt who has been in her late sixty years old has seen many foreign guests and is very enthusiastic.

Her shop sells Korean goods, from T-shirts to down garments.

The price of a fashionable shirt is 3 yuan, and the price of a down garment with a fabric and design is 30 yuan.

She laughed and said, "buying more can be cheaper.

The shirt is 2 yuan and the down jacket is 20 yuan.

Where did these "foreign garbage" clothes come from and where did they go? Li Qun presented a reporter to Hu Ming, a pseudonym.

He said: "a big boss in Hongkong has contracted out a large number of garments from the United States and South Korea.

It is hard to dispose of clothes buried under the ground, burning and polluting the air. This is a heavy burden on the developed countries that attach importance to environmental protection. They will pay for it by asking for help.

The boss makes money at the two ends and takes the money from foreign governments to sell it to the mainland. "

"Jieshi has been doing this for more than 10 years, and two local people are the biggest wholesalers. After they get the goods from Hongkong, they sell it to the people in the town.

There are many top brands in the "foreign garbage" clothes, which are usually sold according to the number of pieces.

After the national anti smuggling operation in 1998, Jieshi's "foreign garbage" clothing has lost a lot, but in recent years, especially after July this year, it is full of streets.

I do not know the exact number of shops, estimated at 1 or so.

"The clothes that come out of Jieshi are everywhere, and there are some markets in Dongguan and Shenzhen. Some of them sell well, and even enter the professional clothing market.

And outside Hunan, Sichuan...

Almost all buyers.

Good goods are sold in cities, and poor goods are sold to the countryside.

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10 thousand households sell 100 million pieces a year.

Reporters learned that in recent years, these "foreign garbage" clothing suddenly changed, playing the name of "foreign trade clothing" and so on, and openly and openly enter the virtual network market. Because of its fashionable and unique style, it is popular among young people.

The slogan of "only one" has been sold well by Internet dealers. Young people who pursue individuality do not like "bump shirts", and it is hard to avoid this by buying popular brands from regular shopping malls.

In fact, "only one" is the important criterion for judging whether clothes are "foreign garbage".

Since these garments are secondhand goods from overseas, the same type of code is not natural enough.

"One style is only one, and probably" foreign garbage ".

Even if there are excuses such as breaking codes and cleaning up inventory, there will be no extreme case of all clothing in the store having only one yard.

Hu Ming said.

On the evening of September 15th, 9 hours later, reporters under the guidance of Li Qun and Hu Ming visited the "stronghold" of Jieshi's "foreign garbage" clothing.

In the open space beside the aquatic products trading market, a tall shed was built, and several headlights lit up the whole wilderness.

Because the fence is obstructing and separated by a field, it is difficult to see the details in the shed.

Not far away, there was also a vacant lot, which was a freight yard where 3 large trucks were loading.

It is understood that every three or four days, there will be a shipment of goods arrived here, each batch of about three or four containers, throughout the year, an average of one container per day.

Each container can be loaded with 1000 large bags of clothing, each weighing about 100 kg.

Assuming that each piece of clothing weighs 0.5 kilograms, a single container can hold about 200 thousand pieces, and 365 containers can hold 73 million pieces.

Hu Ming did not agree with reporters' estimates. He thought the total sales volume was at least 100 million.

"There are about 10 thousand households in the whole town of Jieshi doing this. I don't believe that the average household sells only more than 7000 pieces a year.

You can see how much money they have made in the past few years by looking at the newly decorated houses across the river opposite the Jieshi Cultural Square.

Hu Ming said.

Hu Ming's "luxury group" is located in another "stronghold" of the "foreign garbage" clothing of Jieshi, near the new village.

Compared with the alley seen during the day, the scene on the river embankment is more shocking, and the clothes on the floor are soft and soft.

Three wheeled motorcycles come and go, leaving the goods in haste and letting the clothes slip down.

The night is getting deeper and deeper, but the villagers in the new village are still busy, clearing, ordering goods and replenishing goods.

Prepare for second days of business.

On the main road, reporters also saw various brands.

Son.

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Wang Jianming, director of the teaching and research section of the light Chemical Engineering Department of Beijing Institute Of Fashion Technology, pointed out that as early as the late 1980s and early 90s, illegal elements had smuggled unsterilized foreign garbage clothes from abroad.

These are clothes that have been consumed and contain various kinds of human metabolites. They are more or less infected with pathogens in the course of pportation and smuggle into the country, which has brought great harm to the health of the Chinese people.

Our country has made great efforts to crack down on this. However, the recent reproduction of "foreign garbage" clothing shows that some people have begun to pport these sources of pollution through various channels, which should arouse the attention of the relevant departments.

Wang Jianming pointed out that there are a large number of pathogens in the "foreign garbage", which are highly contagious.

E. coli, metabolites, feces and vomit are common.

In addition, in the pportation process, due to the lack of relevant safeguards, it is easy to contaminate the feces of birds, so that there are Escherichia coli in many garments.

In addition, clothing materials contain a large amount of carbon that can be utilized by microorganisms. Under suitable conditions, some microorganisms can be used as carbon sources to maintain their growth, which may eventually lead to the spread of viruses.

Reporter's notes

When foreign garbage becomes normal

According to Hu Ming's estimate, there are 10 thousand stores of foreign garbage clothes in Jieshi Town, which may not be accurate.

But the reporter has been riding the motorcycle for more than an hour before he has gone through all the related streets and lanes. It can also prove that "foreign garbage" clothing has become a pillar income source for the local people.

Foreign garbage clothes imported into the mainland of China through the town are by no means a single event, but a normal form.

We need to go deep into the question: why can these foreign garbage be unimpeded day by day in the sea? Once again, the local people are "aboveboard" and a large scale of undocumented business, and the local authorities need to pay attention to it in time.

As experts have analyzed, these "foreign garbage" are closely related to the health of the whole nation. We expect more special actions to make them truly extinct.