Chapter 11 The Story of Lincon Island

Next, let’s talk about the story of Lingkun Island.Compared with the top ten markets in Wenzhou, Lingkun Island is not a very famous place. However, Lingkun Island is almost a living fossil of the Wenzhou market. Surrounded by water on all sides, Lingkun Island hangs alone in the middle of the river, facing Wenzhou City far away.Its square area is only 3.6 square kilometers.On this island, there are more than 200 garment processing factories, producing nearly 10,000 suits every day, and the products are sold to 500 shopping malls in 27 provinces and cities across the country. Lingkun Island, as a whole, is a large-scale professional clothing market.

More than ten years ago, Lingkun Island was like all the small islands along the coast of Zhejiang Province. About 30 families lived by casting nets for fishing. The life of the islanders was poor, pale and self-satisfied. Once upon a time, the market wind blowing across the river touched the hearts of the islanders like an ancient well. Some people started to go out of the island, some people abandoned their boats and went ashore to make a living on the land that was not far away from them but made them timid and unfamiliar. After a year or two, someone came back with a good skill in making clothes.

Thus, the first clothing store was born. Due to the good craftsmanship and low price, the business was very good.Some neighbors handed over their children as apprentices.The islanders are naturally generous and straightforward, so they devote themselves to teaching apprentices and pouring out their money.Soon the child will leave school.He opened a shop next to his master's shop. As soon as the teacher was born, a clothing store was added, and as more and more children came, more and more shops opened up, which made Lingkun Island's clothing quickly become popular. Gradually, people from other places ferried to Lingkun Island to buy clothes, and they carried them back in bundles, bringing the reputation of Lingkun Island to the outside world.

More people came, and Lingkun Island suddenly became lively.Some people on the land found that the "popularity" on the island was actually better than that on the land, so they moved away one after another and carried their clothes to Lingkun Island for sale. dragon.All done on the island. The market, just inadvertently croaked and toddled. We say that Lingkun Island is a living fossil of the Wenzhou market based on the following facts: The market in Lingkun Island was developed on the basis of family factories, and in Wenzhou before the mid-1980s, the family industry of all people doing business was the initial soil for the professional market to sprout.

There is a change in the name that is not noticed by people. Today's so-called top ten markets in Wenzhou were actually called "Top Ten Production and Marketing Bases" at the earliest.On the one hand, this is because the "market" was still a semi-forbidden exchange at that time, and on the other hand, it reflects a major feature of the Wenzhou market, that is, the store in the front and the factory in the back, where production leads to sales, homework, and cooperative division of labor. In Lingkun Island, the market started from one household to another, and gradually evolved into a "professional clothing island" from a single point, and thus produced a scale effect.In terms of operation, it reflects the social division of labor.

Each family factory on the island does not actually complete the entire process of a garment independently.Among them, there are those who specialize in tailoring, sleeves, necklines, and of course garments. The division of labor and cooperation has been very precise and tacit.This structure greatly improves the fineness of clothing produced on Lingkun Island, but the cost is relatively low. In addition to production, a new division of labor has naturally emerged among the islanders. Some are away all year round and specialize in the purchase of fabrics, some in the sale of ready-made garments, and some in transportation, and so on.

Little Lingkun Island, Dada Clothing Market - among them, all the secrets of the Wenzhou market are contained. Statistics show that by the early 1980s, Wenzhou had more than 130 industrial product markets, the most in Zhejiang. In 1984, Ma Hong, director of the Development Research Center of the State Council and a well-known economist, conducted a "survey on the situation of ten thousand households" in Yueqing County, where the professional market was developed.It was found that there were 7,000 households with ten thousand yuan in the county, accounting for 8% of the total number of households in the county.

In the same year, Wenzhou made statistics. With the development of family factories and professional markets, 70.5% of the labor force in Wenzhou had been transferred from farming.In the output value of the entire rural area, the output value of industrial and sideline industries has greatly exceeded the output value of traditional agriculture, rising to 65%. In 1994, Ma Hong talked about the Wenzhou phenomenon again. He said: “Wenzhou’s top ten professional markets influenced the development of the entire Chinese market in the 1980s, and its vivid market mechanism and excellent market creators once promoted the development of the national market. .”