Putian South Village clothing workshop recruitment advertisements. Photo by Jiang Wenguang “In the past, those houses were rented to the workers in a lattice, but now these lattices have been opened up and turned into small processing plants.” Guo Xiansu, president of the Printing and Dyeing Branch of the Municipal Garments Association, told reporters that many of the original Wenzhou shoewear production The backbone of the company’s production technology has opened its doors and started producing orders in the private houses of the rented apartments in Bohai, Putian, and many small workshops have emerged.

According to Wu Yixiang, Secretary General of the Foreign Trade Branch of the Garment Chamber of Commerce, these small workshops with only a dozen or two dozen or more people only had garments in the Bohai Sea, Sancha, Guoxi, and Yanqiao, and so on. Difficulties in recruiting companies are even worse.

There are more than 300 small workshops in Putian Nancun, a statistical data of Nancun Community Service Center in Putian Subdistrict of Bohai District. As of October this year, there are more than 300 small workshops in Nancun, of which there are up to 81 small workshops. There are 11 other shoe leather products, 5 smoking accessories, 6 machinery products, and 9 packaging materials. The relevant person in charge of the community service center introduced that only 2,000 permanent residents of the village's village have been living in the city, while the number of people living in the village is 15,000. These small workshops have been gradually established since 2006, and the pace of increase has been particularly evident in the last two years. "Rent" has become one of the main economic sources in the village. As the number of small workshops increased, the cost of health outsourcing in the village increased from 100,000 yuan to 300,000 yuan, and security, traffic management, etc., increased by three times the previous manpower.

In Nancun, you can see signs of recruitment workers hanging in the doorways of some houses. Most of them are cooking on the first floor, production and accommodation on the second floor and the third floor, and some people rent private houses on the edge.

According to reports, there are many small workshops like Xie Haifeng, Sanhe, Guoxi, Yanqiao and Shuangyu.

On the side of Wenruitang River in the edge of the Wenruitang River in the Bohai Sea, a small workshop with more than 100 meters of continuous production of five or six small workshops for processing garments and shoes and bags. A community patrol security guard said: "In this area, you can easily find a small workshop where you can easily turn into a small alley. We don't have much else here, so there are many small workshops."

According to Liu Junyi, deputy director of the Party Branch Office of Fufeng Village in Putian Subdistrict of Bohai District, the small processing plant that originally used the old shoe covers and disposable needles was the majority of the area. Since the environmental renovation began in 2000, these small businesses have slowly closed their doors and emerged as a lot of small workshops for processing garments and uppers. Most of them are migrant workers and fellow villagers.

Two batches of employees from one company opened their doors to a member company of the Clothing Industry Association of Bohai District. In the first half of this year, four workshop technicians went out to run a small factory. In the second half of the year, another four skilled workers left the company to open their own doors.

Zhang Hongbing from Hunchun, Hubei, rented a private house on the riverside of Wenruitang in 2008. He called 4 villagers help to sew the shoe upper and became a small boss. In the room of more than 20 square meters, there are six or seven sets of shoe sewing machines, and the four workers work at ease. Zhang Hongbing said that while finishing shoe uppers, he had been working in shoe companies for five or six years. Some of the orders were taken from the original unit. Workers’ wages were paid by the company and they had their own points. The money for rent, line, and glue can also earn some living expenses. "Although not much, it is free."

Mr. Zhao, who is not far from Mr. Zhang Hongbing, is the eight people who helped the garment companies to process and work together. They are brought from his hometown in Henan. Mr. Zhao confided that people would be more relieved when they were called from their hometown. Everyone considered the workshop as their own, and they did not complain about overtime. Mr. Xu, an Anhui man who specializes in the production of men's washed leather garments in Nancun, said that many of his friends have also established such small factories in other parts of Wenzhou. Orders can support each other. This year, he took orders for nearly 20,000 washed leather garments and was too busy to send thousands of friends out.

According to reports, because of the low management costs, small workshops attract workers by high salary. During the high season, the couple worked in a small workshop, earning more than 10,000 yuan a month. The old worker who lived in Yichun, Jiangxi, said: “The difference between small processing sites and companies is that they are busy day and night and are not busy. Everyone is resting at home. It depends mainly on whether the boss can get orders from the company.”

A large number of orders were distributed to small workshops for processing. “In Wenzhou, many of our workers are now working on small processing plants and business ventures there.” Some time ago, the Foreign Trade Subcommittee of the Municipal Garments Association organized recruitment to Nanchang and other places as in previous years, with little success. . Local officials said that the workers are not willing to work far away, but many people who work in Wenzhou will bring some fellow villagers to develop small workshops in the local area, with the largest number in Wenzhou and Fujian.

With many orders and fewer workers, this year's shoes and clothing workshops simply do not worry about orders. He Guoliang, general secretary of the Hohai District Shoe Leather Association, said that not only is the Bohai Sea area, almost all large shoe companies in Wenzhou have to look for cases of processing on the outside, and the proportion is not less than 80%. In particular, the shoes and bags with simpler processes, many shoe companies will get a small workshop processing, although the price is high, but for the delivery period, there is no choice. Chairman of the Max Kay Clothing Co., Ltd. Zhang Wenhua frankly stated that if all workers are recruited, their own factories can accommodate hundreds of workers. Because they can't recruit people, they can only accept orders or send out some simple clothing to small workshops. .

Guo Xian Su introduced that because of recruitment difficulties, even some manufacturers will directly provide equipment for workers, etc., and send orders to them. Many garment factory executives revealed that at least 30% of orders will be sent out to small workshops this year.