Shoe Factory Workers In The Sun

(1) lathe workers who sew uppers.

Second, play the hula hoop in the dormitory and work after work.

In the dormitory, play the hula hoop and work after work.

Female workers wearing pearl earrings.

A worker who dines under a huge exhaust fan.

The birth of each pair of "famous brand" shoes does not know how many "nameless" shoe workers' hands should be passed.

Shoes workers line up in the sun.

In the afternoon of June 19th, we came to this shoe factory in Changan, Dongguan. It was strange that the rainy season, which had been going on for more than a month, ended miraculously at the moment when stepping into the door of the shoemaking workshop.

We should be aware of the gradual arrival of the sun. The sun has not been directly fired into the workshop. It is a huge wall of adjacent buildings that has played the role of facing the wall.

The sunlight was reflected, mixed with a little yellowish brown, a little yellowish brown, and poured down from the huge windows of the workshop, just like the large amount of lighting produced in Hollywood blockbusters.

Such a tone is a little classic and a little enchanting.

And even the simplest movements and expressions of ordinary workers in the production line, therefore, jump out of the monotonous background, with a special meaning.

This is a large factory with 6000 people, and many famous brand sports shoes are produced without exception.

Workshop space is large and clean, outdoor wind is very big, and electric fans do not stop operation, no shoe factory pungent glue smell.

I am no stranger to shoe factories.

In 1990, a friend dropped out of school because of this reason. He had no choice but to work for electronics in the South and worked in a Taiwanese shoe factory.

Although labor-intensive enterprises, wages are 8 to 10 times the income of fresh graduates who are "formally allocated" to institutions or institutions.

At that time, the shoe factory was the main force in the "three to one complement" army that first took the mainland market. It was a new word that appeared only after more than 10 years, and it can be called "the representative of the advanced productive forces".

Over the years, China has developed into the world's largest footwear producer, exporter and consumer country, occupying 68% of the world market.

However, in recent years, the industry has been constantly impacted by high oil prices, rising raw materials, rising labor costs, and anti-dumping investigations caused by low price competition, especially the continued appreciation of the renminbi, which has further squeezed the profit margins of shoe companies.

In Dongguan, which is known as the "world shoe capital", many of the weaker competitive shoe companies must not be out.

Customs data show that in the 1 quarter, the number of export shoes enterprises in China decreased by 1447 on the basis of 8093 enterprises in the same period last year, and the number of domestic enterprises decreased by 1380.

In the Pearl River Delta, the shoe maker has already had a hint of "sunset industry".

However, in the interview, he asked the manager of this company Mr. Zhang's views on the industry prospects, but his attitude was very gentle.

He believes that industrial upgrading and pfer is a natural phenomenon.

The same situation happened many years ago in Taiwan.

Competition is also normal for some enterprises to fail. It is not a bad thing to manage a large and mature enterprise. At least, recruitment seems to be a little easier now.

It is worth mentioning that this factory is one of the few shoe enterprises in the Pearl River Delta region and is open to journalists.

In the filming, Mr. Zhang accompanied us enthusiastically.

He was very familiar with the workers, and occasionally found a little garbage in the neat factory area and threw it in the garbage bin himself.

I hope he is able to lead the factory through this turbulence.