Thirty Years Later, Sewing Machine Turned Into A Garment Factory.

30 years ago, Xu Bixia, who was about to get married, got the same new wedding gift: a "Shanghai" brand sewing machine, which was retained by Zhongshan south road till now.

She proudly ascended into the new "sewing industry" at that time and opened her tailor's shop to become her dream.

However, 30 years later, her shop did not open up, but her teachers and younger sisters had already developed the tailoring shop into a textile and garment enterprise.

Xu Bixia, 60, lives in happy street in downtown Quanzhou. When he was 15, he was an apprentice at a local tailoring shop.

At the age of 30, Xu Bixia married Chen Qikun, who worked as a worker at the Quanzhou democratic department store. The sewing machine became a tool for Xu Bixia to earn extra money after work.

However, after her husband was laid off, she began to set up a car for a family.

The pressure of life has kept her small businesses on the stalls. Some of her colleagues have been brave enough to devote themselves to the wave of reform and opening up, from tailoring shops to clothing stores to textile and garment enterprises, and gradually confirm the development process of Quanzhou's garment industry over the past 30 years.

In 1978, there were only more than 300 tailors' shops in Quanzhou, but these employees and foreign joint enterprises started with raw materials processing and imported other machines, such as flat electric sewing machines and so on. Their jackets, suits and jeans were all the rage, Mr. Shi said in 1978.

In 1979, Jinjiang's Shenzhen Hu Ren Village and Jin Jing and Ying Lin Wu Bo Village founded the earliest two garment processing enterprises in Quanzhou, opening up the prelude to the development of Quanzhou garment enterprises.

At present, the textile and garment industry is already a pillar industry of Quanzhou's economy. There are more than 10 thousand large and small enterprises, with an annual output value of more than 100 billion yuan, and the employment population reaching 100 million.

Since 1983, the clothing industry in Quanzhou has entered the era of independent brand. By 1990, the output value of the whole industry has reached 1 billion yuan, and the output value of the whole industry is expected to reach 125 billion yuan this year.

The domestic sewing machine should buy tickles and ticks with foreign exchange certificates, and the sound of needle cars will be heard from the entrance of the alleyway, and 3 sewing repair stalls will be arranged without a cover.

When the wind is cool, there are fewer guests.

It's Xu Bixia and Chen Qikun who are in the middle.

For more than ten years, the sewing machine not only raised three families, but also cultivated a college student.

Looking at former colleagues, they started their own clothing enterprises. Xu Bixia was very indifferent. "No matter what era, sewing is necessary. They create good fashions and I will" maintain them. "

When a sewing machine propped up a home to buy a sewing machine, Chen Qikun heard that the best ones in the market were "Butterfly" and "Shanghai" cards, which were sold at the Quanzhou National Mall and sold in foreign exchange certificates.

Why is it necessary to use foreign exchange certificates for domestic products?

It turns out that these two brands of sewing machines are the most popular goods in China, and they are exported to domestic market.

Chen Qikun changed the foreign exchange certificate of 230 yuan before he bought the beloved thing.

In the first few years of marriage, Chen Qikun's income is still fine. Xu Bixia only needs some children's clothes to be processed at home and earn some money to supplement his family.

Later, such a small family workshop has been competing with the garment factories, but Xu Bixia began to work in some of the big fashion shops in the city, so that people could hire them for lathe work.

Since 1995, such a fashion shop is becoming less and less in Quanzhou, but she has to go home for work.

At this point, the husband's shop was closed, and Chen Qi Kang retired, and only paid 167 yuan a month for living expenses.

The couple had to move the sewing machine to the street and pick up some pants and zippers.

The trousers were broken, 1 yuan for a hole, 2 yuan for trousers, and 2 yuan for zippers. If they are lucky, they can earn 20 yuan a day, with less customers in summer and six or seven yuan a day.

The family relied on it for 15 years.

In the past 30 years, Xu Bixia's life has not changed much, but her colleagues have made outstanding achievements. Many of them have started large-scale textile and garment enterprises and become the branches of Quanzhou's clothing industry.

When he was an apprentice at the sewing shop, Wang Zongren was a teacher and younger brother of Xu Bixia. He opened a clothing factory in 1996, and asked his elder sister to help him in management. But she felt that she did not have the ability and declined.

Shi Zhiqiang, a Jinjiang pool store, is an old colleague of Xu Bixia in Quanzhou West Street fashion shop. After working in the shop for several years, he took his savings and went home to start his own business. He started a knitting factory and exported all his products.

Last year, Mr. Shi came to visit his elder sister, and saw that she had a tight life. She insisted on asking her to leave the mountain and let her sit in an office to make light work.

But Xu Bixia took his love and declined his invitation.

She said that she was delighted to see that Quanzhou clothing exported to the sea and exported to other countries. As an old tailor, she was happy for Quanzhou and saw her former colleagues doing something for Quanzhou's textile and garment industry.

The garment industry in Quanzhou is so developed that people always need to maintain these good fashions.

Yang Jing: responsible editor: