5 o 'clock in the evening in Hangzhou Yuhang Zhaoyang Village Industrial Park, the first wave of garment factory workers go down to eat.
The canteen in the factory, the place is not big, 45 years old garment worker Zhang Jincai, to wait for his wife Zhao Zhilan to finish dinner, in the evening at 5:15 go downstairs to eat.One meat dish and one vegetable dish, 10 minutes for a quick meal, is the most relaxing time of the day. The canteen chef is a fellow villager from Jiangxi province, and the dishes cooked are quite to Zhang Jincai's taste.Unfortunately, yesterday came late, still no seat, standing to eat, hurried back to work, the end of the evening to 10:30.
Like most enterprises in the park, the factory is still finishing the orders for singles' day. The orders for 12-12 will arrive soon, and the production has been scheduled to January next year.
This winter, business is better than in previous years, so, in the streets of Josi, appeared many ten thousand yuan monthly job advertisements.
Though the list is endless
But production capacity is limited
In between meals, Mr. Zhang went back to where he lives: a farmer's house behind the factory.Clothing factory workers eat and live in this building, the boss Jin Guowan rent for workers to live.
The couple's room is on the fifth floor and they have lived there for 10 years.The suite has a bathroom and a kitchenette with an induction cooker, air conditioning, water heater and furniture.Just went upstairs, received a phone call from the factory, Zhang Jincai hurried down to the factory.Go downstairs and walk a few steps, you will arrive at the door of the factory. The freight elevator will take you to the 3rd floor, which is the production workshop of the factory.
The concrete floors in the hallways, with their red paint and white-tinged walls, are typical of the factory finishes of the 1990s.There are dozens of sewing machines in the workshop, and half of the area is assembly work. You do the collar, I do the sleeve, and finally put it together into a garment.There is also a small part of the whole job, is a person a machine, can complete the entire clothing process.
Zhang jincai and Zhao Zhilan are not highly educated, they are the whole lathe work.Their sewing machines were placed face to face, and the couple were skilled workers for 30 years.
The ceiling of the workshop was covered with ironing steam pipes.It seemed that there was a leak in the leather pipe and the iron was not working. Jin moved the stool and repaired it by himself.
Perhaps because of the epidemic, people are more willing to choose online shopping, this year the factory orders are particularly large.But each factory has limited production capacity, with Mr. Zhang able to make up to a dozen winter garments a day and up to 30, 000 a month.At present, the order has been arranged to January next year.Normally at this time of year, the list goes back at most half a month.
Technology like mine
The boss drives at least 11,000 a month
As the pace of production quickens, do workers' wages rise as well?
After running a factory in Chaoyang for 10 years, Mr Jin recalls his Labour costs five years ago: "Assembly line workers were paid rmb3,000 a month, and the whole vehicle was paid RMB200 a day.Now, it's 6,000 yuan a month for assembly work and 300 yuan a day for turning the whole thing, but no one is doing it."
Zhang Jincai and his wife, such as the whole car workers, are more than 10,000 monthly income.
But it is also true that they live a monotonous life: they get up at 7am, cook breakfast, rush to work, have lunch and dinner in the canteen, come home from work, have a hard day, shower and go straight to bed.So to speak, in addition to eating, sleeping, is sitting in front of the sewing machine to make clothes.
Their daughter, 23, has graduated from college and works in Yuhang. Now she has a family. Their son, 21, is still studying in college and preparing for the postgraduate entrance exam next year.
"At the end of the year, small factories outside took urgent orders, and there were a lot of people to poach. For a technology like mine, the boss would pay at least 11,000 yuan a month."Zhang Jincai also confirmed Jin Guowan's statement.
I haven't moved a nest for ten years
Just feel convenient and comfortable
In the cutting workshop of Jinguowan factory, cloth of various colors and materials are spread on the ground, some suitable for winter clothing, some for spring clothing.For example, the bile cloth, down, face cloth and zipper used to make down jackets can be purchased in the next nine burg's surface accessories market just a few minutes after riding a bicycle.
After the fabric comes in, it cannot be processed directly, but must be sent to shrink first. In the area of Chaoyang Industrial Park, there are workshops specializing in shrinking fabric, with large shrinking machines running non-stop, and the price of shrinking one meter cloth is 0.3 yuan.Joss is really "dress person" heaven, this also is zhang Jincai likes the reason here, husband and wife two did not move ten years nest, feel convenient, comfortable namely.
Jin guowan's factory only makes women's clothes and mainly accepts e-commerce orders.Clothes for pre-sale on Singles' Day are still being mopped up in the workshop. This season is mainly about down jackets, woolen coats and windcoats. Take a medium and long down jackets as an example, the processing fee for receiving orders in the factory is 70-80 yuan per piece.
Originally going home for dinner, there are two men do friends over, Jin Guowan on the way down to invite people to eat.While eating while chatting, we all feel that this year's clothing orders, inexplicably more than last year.
"Not only orders, like our Women's Clothing, recently downstream to give the processing fee, will increase 5-10 yuan/piece, more than in previous years.
"We have also raised prices for men's wear, but not as much as for women's wear. We have added 3-4 yuan per piece, and there are many orders."
The increase in processing fee indicates that the customer is in urgent need of the goods.Orders in the factory to receive more than, the overflow part, will be transferred to some small processing workshop digestion.Then, the boss pay ten thousand yuan a month to please the worker's advertisement, will appear in the streets of Joss.
Do the factory of domestic trade
Also received a lot of foreign trade orders
Although the owner of the garment factory in the Joss belt is engaged in domestic trade, he occasionally takes orders for foreign trade.In the second half of this year, the epidemic situation in China was brought under control, and the epidemic situation in Southeast Asia and other places was severe. Foreign trade orders flowed back one after another, and even domestic trade factories received many foreign trade orders.
Before the Double 11, Jinguowan factory received three or four foreign trade orders, just the production of spare time, it was accepted to do.At that time, raw materials have not risen in price, production cost control is better, and then the price of raw materials has been rising all the way, domestic sales list also like a snowflake flying.
"Bamboo Sword fluttering Forest" is the name given to his factory by Jin Guowan, a 47-year-old man from Jiangxi province who finally bought a house in Yuhang three years ago after struggling for more than 10 years in Hangzhou.
As a result of various kinds of cost superposition, the profit space of garment factory is actually relatively narrow.
For a medium length down jacket, the ex-factory price is 250-260 yuan/piece. The cloth needed to make the clothes is about 2.6 meters and 180-200 grams of down.
This year, the price of cloth has risen from 1.2 yuan a meter three months ago to 2.2 yuan a meter, up from 0.3 to 0.4 yuan in the previous winter.The price of down has also risen from 15,000 yuan/ton to 26,000 yuan/ton.
The annual output of "Bamboo sword Piaolin" is 300,000 pieces of women's clothing. The company has been working hard for a whole year, earning 4.5 million yuan.
