Chapter 23 apportioned market

Shaoxing Textile Market is the second largest professional market in China after Yiwu Small Commodity City, and it is the largest cloth distribution center in Asia.However, perhaps no one would believe that nine years ago, it was still a market that needed apportionment to barely open. There is no need to put the word apportionment in quotation marks at all, because it is a serious apportionment. Moreover, it was almost blown up by local farmers with dynamite packs. Shaoxing is a very famous place in Chinese history. As far as the characters are concerned, there have been Dayu who never entered the house three times, Goujian who was brave, Lu You who was talented in the world, Xu Wei who pretended to be mad and miasma, Qiu Jin who was heroic and courteous, and Lu Xun who was profound and sharp... In addition to these famous characters Name, among Shaoxing people, the most famous one is Master Shaoxing.

Mr. Lu Xun once said: I always refuse to learn to be a friend or a businessman. These are the two paths often taken by the children of declining scholars in my hometown.Since ancient times, Shaoxing has always been a place where masters are born, which is the so-called "No Shao, no Ya", "Tianfu master Shaoxing half". Someone once disassembled the traditional Chinese character "Shaoxing" and drew a caricature of Shaoxing people: Obsessive, a knife and a pen, a sharp mouth; everywhere agrees with the township, and it takes half a month to the east and half a month to the west. In one word: everything is exquisite and clear.

In just a few words, the shrewdness and hard work of Shaoxing people are already on paper. With this shrewdness, hard work and abundance of real estate, Shaoxing has always been a romantic and prosperous place. There are three most famous industries in Shaoxing: wine vats, sauce vats, and dyeing vats, among which the dyeing vats are the largest. The so-called dyeing vat is the weaving, printing and dyeing industry.Yue damask produced in Shaoxing was very popular as early as the Tang Dynasty. According to historical records, at the end of the Tang Dynasty, Zhedong inspectors handed over 15,000 pcs of Yue damask to the imperial court every ten days, which shows the prosperity of Shaoxing's textile industry at that time. .

In modern times, among the "three vats" in Shaoxing, the dyeing vats developed the fastest. As soon as the prelude to reform and opening-up kicked off, Shaoxing farmers, who were the first to lead the trend, rushed to the front, and local township enterprises rose rapidly, forming the famous "Ning-Shaoxing Model" which is also known as the "Southern Jiangsu Model".Among them, the textile industry took the lead.In the early 1980s, Shaoxing County had more than 2,000 township textile enterprises, nearly 50,000 looms and more than 200,000 industrial workers who were farmers.

Around 1984, Shaoxing's textile industry experienced the joy of prosperity. According to statistics, at that time, Shaoxing produced nearly one billion meters of various fabrics each year, enough for each person in the country to sew a new garment.At that time, the economy in many parts of the country was just beginning to take off. in Shaoxing at that time.There is not a decent professional market, but there is a 100-meter-long "cloth street" in Keqiao Town, where light and textile enterprises are concentrated. Shaoxing people are very proud. Their market is created by more than 10,000 "smart and hardworking" salesmen. However, after two years, "Feng Shui" suddenly turned backwards.The international textile market is cyclically weak, and the fragile Chinese textile industry is caught off guard.Domestic light and textile enterprises experienced a sharp downturn, and there was a lot of jitters in Shaoxing.One year, the County Economic Commission conducted a thorough investigation, and everyone was shocked when the results came out: the sum of receivables, inventories and triangular debts of the county's textile enterprises has reached 1.3 billion yuan, which is equivalent to all bank loans. total.

The old road seems to have come to an end.The county leaders were in a hurry. At this time, the experience of Yiwu people was becoming a hot topic, and they also thought of setting up a market. Since Yiwu people can do it so successfully, why don't we also try it? The plan was quickly made. It is a large place with a shed structure covering an area of ​​20,000 square meters. It looks a bit like the "second generation market" in Yiwu. It is named: Shaoxing Textile Market, which mainly sells chemical fiber fabrics. , the address was chosen on the original "Bu Street".

To build such a market will cost at least 5 million yuan.The county pays a little, the bank lends a little, and major enterprises not only have to actively enter the market, but also have to raise more donations.However, as soon as the plan was launched, many farmer bosses were a bit overwhelmed. Dai Zhongming, director of the No. 3 Textile Factory in Shaoxing County, still remembers the scene when he first talked to him.This "old Jianghu" who was in his fifties and was born as a rural accountant was full of suspicion at the time. "It's so difficult to do business now. You can't sell cloth when you go out, but you can sell it sitting at the door of your house?"

"You can't look at it this way. Once the market is established, people will come, and Shaoxing Cloth's reputation will increase. Moreover, the market is located in front of the house, and the information will be more effective." "That's what it says, but can it work?" "What can't be done? The government can do it? The county has sent people to do a survey. At present, there are many domestic clothing markets, but there is no one specializing in fabrics, especially chemical fiber fabrics. If one is established, it will definitely attract people. There are many manufacturers, and we have the foundation to engage in such a market.”

The "exquisite and transparent" farmer factory director is still skeptical, "What if it can't be done?" "Why can't it work? You have to have confidence. How about this, you can take the lead to pay 7,000 yuan, and the management fee after entering the venue will be exempted for five years, and you will support the workers in the county." Speaking of this, Dai Zhongming gritted his teeth, "Then support it." Fan Tianfu was the director of the township enterprise bureau at that time, and later served as the deputy director of the development and management committee of China Textile City.Now, he laughs about it: "To put it bluntly, it's close to apportionment."