Night falls and the lanterns are turned on.
At 5pm in Hangzhou Yuhang Qiaosi Chaoyang Village Industrial Park, the first wave of garment factory workers went downstairs to eat.
The factory cafeteria is not big. Zhang Jincai, a 45-year-old workshop worker, has to wait for his wife Zhao Zhilan to finish dinner before going downstairs to eat at 5:15.
Garment worker Zhang Jincai
One meat and one vegetable, the 10 minutes spent eating quickly is the most relaxing moment of the day. The canteen master is a fellow from Jiangxi and cooks the food The food was very suitable to Zhang Jincai’s taste.
Unfortunately, I came late and there were still no seats. I ate while standing and quickly went back to work. I got off work at 10:30 pm.
Like most companies in the park, the factory is still finishing its Double Eleven orders. Double Twelve orders will arrive soon, and production has been scheduled until January next year. Business is better this winter than in previous years. .
1 Busy until late at night every day, the clothing factory is overwhelmed with orders
Before coming to Hangzhou, Zhang Jincai worked in Fujian for more than ten years clothing.
Taking advantage of dinner, he went back to his residence. A farmer’s house behind the factory was rented by the boss Jin Guowan for more than 70 workers.
Garment factory workers are provided with food and accommodation. Zhang Jincai and his wife’s room is on the fifth floor and they have lived there for 10 years.
The suite has a bathroom and a kitchenette with induction cooker, air conditioner, water heater and complete furniture.
The couple’s residence
As soon as he went upstairs, he received a call from the factory, and Zhang Jincai hurried downstairs to the factory.
Go downstairs and walk a few steps to the door of the factory. The freight elevator slowly takes you to the third floor, which is the production workshop of the factory.
The cement floor in the corridor is painted with red paint, and the white paint on the wall is yellowish, which is a typical factory decoration style in the 1990s.
There are dozens of sewing machines placed in the workshop, and half of the area is an assembly line operation. Workers, you make the collar, I make the sleeves, and finally they are put together into a piece of clothing.
There is also a small half of the entire operation, where one person and one machine can complete the entire garment-making process.
Husband and wife team of lathes
Zhang Jincai and Zhao Zhilan are not highly educated. They are complete lathes. The sewing machines of the two people are facing each other. The husband and wife team are highly skilled and have been skilled workers for 30 years.
2 Skilled workers have a monthly salary of more than 10,000 yuan and work all weekends.
The ceiling of the workshop is covered with steam pipes for ironing, as if the leather pipes are leaking. Angry, the iron is no longer strong.
Jin Guowan moved a stool and repaired it himself.
Garment factory owner Jin Guowan
Perhaps due to the impact of the epidemic, people are more willing to choose online shopping. This year, there are particularly many orders in the factory.
However, the production capacity of each factory is limited. Zhang Jincai can make up to a dozen winter clothes a day, and the factory can make up to 30,000 clothes a month.
Currently, orders have been scheduled until January next year. At this time in previous years, orders would be delayed by at most half a month.
Although there are too many orders to handle, but the production capacity is limited, the company naturally chooses better partners, and can only decline the extra orders.
Whole piece workshop
The production pace is accelerated, Will workers’ wages also rise accordingly?
Having run a factory in Chaoyang Village for 10 years, Jin Guowan recalled the labor costs five years ago: “The assembly line worker’s salary was 3,000 yuan/month, and the whole-piece lathe worker’s salary was 200 yuan/day; but now, the assembly line worker’s salary is 200 yuan/day; The labor price has risen to 6,000 yuan/month, and the full-piece lathe work is less than 300 yuan/day, but there is still no one to do it.”
Whole-piece lathes like Zhang Jincai and his wife all earn over 10,000 yuan a month.
However, it is also true that their lives are monotonous: they get up at 7 o’clock in the morning, cook breakfast, go to work in a hurry, have lunch and dinner in the cafeteria, wait until they get home from get off work, and after a tiring day, take a shower and go straight to bed. It can be said that apart from eating and sleeping, I just sit in front of the sewing machine and make clothes.
Wife Zhao Zhilan
Their daughter is 23 years old. She graduated from college and works in Yuhang. Now she is married. Their son is 21 years old and is still studying in college. He is preparing to take the postgraduate entrance examination next year. The couple worked hard to save money, mainly for their son.
“It’s the end of the year, and small factories outside have taken urgent orders, and there are a lot of people who want to recruit people. With skills like mine, the boss will charge at least 11,000 yuan a month.” Zhang Jincai said.
3 Business is good, and factory processing fees are also rising
The farmer’s house rented by Jin Wanguo has a large common room downstairs.Yes, it’s not easy to match clothes when worn out.
Jin Wanguo looked at the men’s clothes and planned to move his own women’s clothes downstairs in two days and set up a stall to sell them. There were still hundreds of sample clothes that had not been processed in the factory. It only sells for 100-200 yuan/piece.
In a women’s clothing factory in an alley, a pair of sisters dragged shelves to the alley after work to help the boss sell down jackets. And flannel robes to make some extra money.
Because we have established a stall for several years and we still have regular customers. The electric hot water bottles with cartoon jackets on the stall are purchased from the manufacturer. Regular customers ask for them by name, and only one of them is sold in the night market. 60-70 yuan, and only 35 yuan at the sister flower stall.
There are more than 180 clothing companies in Chaoyang Village Industrial Park. Although they all make and sell clothes, it seems to be a competitive relationship, but the industrial park Most of the manufacturers here are from Anhui and Jiangxi.
The fellow villagers help each other in business, and everyone has a harmonious relationship, just like brothers and sisters.
No matter whether the economy is in recession, people always need to eat and wear clothes. There will never be no orders in the clothing factory. People here believe that as long as you are willing to work, you will do it, and you are not afraid of hard work. , there must be money to be made.
I never go to the street to buy clothes, nor do I need to shop online, because there is a clothing factory at my doorstep, and clothes can be bought at ex-factory prices. This is also an exclusive benefit for people in Qiaosi. </p
