Wenling Forced To Shut Down Shoes Enterprises To Product Backlog, Shoe Factory Owners Sigh Bitterness.

In January 14th this year, Wenling City North Street East shoes The fire caused 16 deaths and shocked the whole country. After the fire, the door of the Dadong shoe company was locked, and a banner was hung on the outer wall: "unauthorized production of illegal buildings in production enterprises is removed".

Last weekend, Wenling, Zhejiang, ushered in the long lost sunshine. Ren Juanjuan, a local shoe maker, was finally allowed to start after being allowed to make improvements. Just one and a half months ago, an accident which shocked the whole country occurred on the North Street of the local city - 16 people died in the fire caused by the Dadong shoe industry. After the incident, more than 4000 shoe companies in the city were forced to close down. A week ago, many business owners were forced to reflect on their livelihood and asked for a return to work. Wenling shoe industry, which was in the throes of fire, was once again caught the attention of people.

It is a difficult problem for the local governments at all levels, including the Wenling government, to take drugs to Wenling's footwear industry. Regardless of success or failure, Wenling will become a specimen of transformation.

　　 Fire, years of security debt.

The shoe industry in Wenling is "small and scattered" and has serious security risks. The formation of this problem is not only an enterprise's own problem. These small workshops also have business licenses, which have contributed to the economic development of the "shoe industry in China" for a long time, and are also accepted by local governments. In fact, before the big fire in Dadong shoe industry, Wenling shoe industry has learned a lot about fire, but it has never been taken seriously.

　　 Small workshop achieves Wenling footwear industry

　　 It also buries serious fire hazards.

Jinfeng Road in the East Street of Wenling is a street dedicated to children's shoes. The townhouses on both sides of the road are private houses, and now they are all workshops. Reporters on the Jinfeng Road saw that there were five or six floors in every house, and there was no fire escape passage on either side. A staircase in the building was the only way to go upstairs and downstairs. The house here has a characteristic that is very deep, and each one is as deep as thirty or forty meters. Once the fire is smog upward, it is difficult to escape if someone lives upstairs. The cause of fire death in Dadong shoe industry is the problem of escape passage.

Such a workshop can be found everywhere in Wenling. There was a rectification in the vicinity of Heng Shi Road in Hengfeng Town, which moved the corridor inside the building to the outside. However, reporters like the East Street area found that many of the fire corridors were still indoors, and had no effect of fire isolation.

Wenling footwear industry and Wenzhou almost started at the same time. When Wenzhou shoes went against the wind after a big fire in Hangzhou's Wulin gate, Wenling shoes had been sticking to the middle and low end market. However, the middle and low end also has the market. In recent years, with the rise of e-commerce marketing, sales of Wenling shoes featuring fashion shoes are also rising.

According to statistics, 300 million pairs of shoes produced in Wenling in 2001 exceeded 1 billion pairs in 2010, and sales increased from 8 billion yuan in 2001 to 27 billion yuan in 2010, with an average annual growth rate of 13%, and the number of employees reached 2.3 million. The footwear industry in Wenling has also made great contributions to the local economy. Output value accounts for about 20% of the total industrial output value of the city, and exports account for 40% of the total export volume of the city. Production, sales volume and export volume rank first among all counties and cities in the country.

However, with the "China's shoe industry" and "China's largest footwear export base", Wenling's 80% of the shoe industry is a small workshop, which is also a high risk area for fire hazards.

　　 Fire lessons

　　 It has not attracted enough attention before.

In fact, before the big fire in Dadong shoe industry, Wenling shoe industry has learned a lot about fire, but it has never been taken seriously.

Just a week before the fire in the Dadong shoe industry, there was a major fire on the North Mountain street, Shan Ma shoe industrial park. In the Shan Ma shoe industry park, reporters can also see that the ruins of this shoe factory area are standing on the four storey building burned black, and the main building has been razed to the ground after being burned. The reporter saw that although there were dormitories in the factory area, fortunately, the fire did not cause death.

In the early morning of September 9, 2011, a fire in Xin Zhuo shoe industry in Hengfeng's stone thorn village caused serious consequences for the death of 7 people. The fire broke out at the company's temporary workshop, and the fire spread to nearby houses.

Although the fire caused the attention of the leaders at the time, the local enterprises carried out rectification actions, but the effect was limited. In addition to the shop on the street of Heng Shi Road shoes, the staircase is rebuilt, and the rear of the house is broken down to open up the fire passage. In other places, the intensity of regulation is very weak. Moreover, the safety management of the footwear industry has not been strengthened since then, causing the hidden danger to rebound quickly.

Reporters visited the Yang Lin shoe industry park, found that the park did not consider the fire channel problem, and even fire hydrants can not see. And this shoe industry park was used normally before.

Since February 17th, many business owners who had been shut down for a month have been asked to start the streets in Hengfeng. Some of the less popular shoe factories have been allowed to make improvements while they have not been rolled out in the city. The picture shows Hengfeng street, Heng Shi Road, shoe industry, and the shoe factory is making rectification while producing.

　　 The whole city of Wenling is fighting against fires.

　　 Enterprises take the initiative to "restore" fire corridors

A shoe factory owner of Jinfeng Road told reporters that he had been renting here for many years, and no one had come before them to rectify it. And this rectification, East Street gave them a "flammable and explosive enterprise management method", the reporter saw the method put forward the rectification request to the factory building: the house can not live in the factory, the staircase should be changed to outdoor and straight through the roof; industrial workshop accommodation, production, warehouse can not be in the same building and so on.

Chengbei Street owners Huang said that the previous fire safety inspection management was relatively loose, and there was no mandatory requirement. Now it is not necessary to have stairs in the building. It was not a big deal before. "Inspectors sometimes come, but they just call us to pay attention to safety."

In Wenling, Hengfeng, Chengbei, Chengdong and other reporters visited several shoe concentrated streets, everywhere can see the scene of rectification.

Chengbei Street Hill shoe industry park, the shoe factories here are much better than the workshops, many of them have independent factories, but the reporters found that. The demolition and illegal activities were also carried out vigorously. The problem was that after the renovation and expansion of some independent factories, some fire channels were occupied and turned into workshops and shed houses.

"We have been busy these days, and we have been carrying out illegal activities every day, but there is no rest on Sunday." Chengbei street, a staff member said, "but because the new application requirements of enterprises can be started after inspection, many enterprises have their own demolition of illegal buildings to transform fire corridors." {page_break}

　　 Transformation, how to explore the way?

The extraordinary fire caused great lessons and made the local government of Wenling determined to hurt the iron hand. But Wenling shoe industry, which is mainly dominated by small shoe factories, has brought almost suffocated fate. About 80% of the shoe industry in Wenling is small workshops. Most of them are now facing a desperate situation. Although some places have begun to solve some problems that are easy to rectify, they have allowed them to make rectification while producing, but this practice has not yet been rolled out in Wenling.

　　 It's too big to be shipped.

　　 The shoe factory owner sighed bitterness and ruin.

A lot of shoe factories in Chengdong Street are mainly made of children's shoes. There is no factory to resume.

Xie Ming (a pseudonym) took a reporter to his factory. It was a rental apartment. In addition to the already dusty machine, it was a pile of shoes, shoes and other semi-finished shoes.

"I have 40 thousand pairs of shoes with pressure, and the cost of each pair is 17 yuan, and the loss is nearly 700 thousand yuan, which will ruin my life." Xie Mingtan bitter, he rented the Jinfeng Road storefront room, the annual rent of 90 thousand yuan, after stopping work can not support the cost of moving out. The government has stipulated that the shoe factory should move out the landlord to refund the remaining rent.

Many of his relatives made shoes in Wenling, and their cousins and nephews were nearby. Reporters saw piles of shoes in the workshop, each with twenty thousand pairs of shoes, with a loss of 2.3 million yuan. There are many serious losses like Xie Ming.

Lao Lu opened a shop in Hengfeng street shoe industry Heng Shi Road. He made shoes from Wenzhou to Wenling twenty years ago. "We don't do well in making shoes now. We earn two or three yuan for each pair of shoes. The rent is 180 thousand yuan a year, and fifty thousand or sixty thousand pairs of shoes a year can only be guaranteed." Lao Lu said, "now we stop working, and the workers can't find it. Many workers went home directly after they came home years ago, which has a great impact on us. Even if we get back to work now, we will not be able to keep up. "

At the end of the last year, at the end of the year, at the end of the year, just about one hundred thousand rent rented the shop's old groaning and sighing: "customers can't come to the shop, and the rent cost is more than eight thousand yuan per month, and it is lost in vain."

　　 The government tries to deal with flexibility.

　　 Allow enterprises to make improvements while producing.

Just when the "one size fits all" style of business was rectified, some flexible methods began to appear.

Ren Juanjuan grabbed the shoes flexibly, checked them in his hands, and took a look at the instrument. Behind her, seven or eight workers were sitting in rows. shoe machinery Before, nervously busy, the process of polishing and pressing the shoes is being carried out.

In addition to shoemaking workers and muddy workers coming in and out, they moved bricks into one block and blocked a staircase window.

Ren Juanjuan is the owner of the workshop. She said, "once the fire is caught, the smoke may pass through the window to the stairs, and the safety supervision requires that the windows be blocked up, and the indoor staircases are changed into outdoor staircases." Since February 17th, many owners who have stopped working for a month have been asked to start work in Hengfeng streets. Some of the lighter shoe factories are allowed to make improvements while producing.

Ren Juanjuan's shoe factory is located in Wenling Hengfeng Street Cross rock road, in this three or four km long street, both sides are shoe shop workshop, is one of the top shoe industry in Wenling.

But shoe factories like this are still rare. Reporters saw that many workshops in Heng Shi Road were still in a state of shutdown. The vast majority of shoe factories are still not allowed to start work. In the vicinity of Heng Shi Road, a self built "Xia Yang Lin Shoes Industrial Park" built by villagers, many factories were dug up and opened up fire corridors.

In January 14, 2014, after a serious fire in Wenling Dadong shoe industry, more than 4000 shoe factories in the city were forced to stop working. According to official statistics, after more than 430 months of renovation, the production has resumed. But until now, the vast majority of shoe enterprises are still in a state of shutdown.

　　 Chronic industrial ills

　　 How to get rid of the problem?

Zhao Jianning, member of the Party committee of the Wenling Municipal Bureau of letters, said that the shoe industry in Wenling has been walking in the middle and low end market for a long time. "Guangzhou is mainly made up of high-end shoes, Wenzhou is the middle grade real leather shoes, and Wenling is the middle and low end fashion shoes. This is also the characteristics of an industry. This also determines why the shoe industry in Wenling is mainly characterized by small workshops."

According to the reporter's visit, these small workshops also have business licenses, which have contributed to the economic development of the "shoe industry in China" for a long time, and are also accepted by local governments.

A big fire seems to have found an opportunity for the transformation and upgrading of the local government industry, but the industry problem is also caused by long-term regulatory problems and can not be solved overnight. For the vast number of owners, small workshops are their way of survival. Cutting the Gordian knot is like giving them a pot.

In the face of such a serious hidden danger of industrial safety, facing the persistent industrial ills that have been accumulated over a long period of time, how can we learn from it? It has become a difficult problem to test the administrative ability of local governments.

During the reporter's interview, Hengfeng Street took into account the survival of the footwear industry, aiming at some problems that could easily be corrected by manufacturers, allowing them to make rectification while producing, but this practice has not yet been rolled out in the whole city.