Chapter 25 "Confrontation" with farmers

The wind blows the end of Qingping. In the eyes of the Shaoxing farmers at this moment, the market has become a ferocious monster. Not only did it not bring them good luck, but it also took away their original benefits. Chen Miner, who is now the secretary of the Shaoxing County Party Committee and was the county magistrate at the time, recalled, "Under such circumstances, some market factions who were originally very firm were a little shaken. With so many petitions piled together, it was almost 'public opinion'. Where's it." Chen Miner and his colleagues, who were only in their thirties, seemed to face a much more "dangerous" situation than Xie Gaohua's situation in Yiwu.

As long as Xie Gaohua stood beside the peasants bravely, he would be famous in history.Now, Chen Min'er has to "confront" the stubborn villagers. This kind of "confrontation" is a big collision of ideas. "We felt that Shaoxing cloth was defeated by our own market. We should not simply blame the market, but should ask a few more reasons." When we talked about this point of view afterwards, everyone seemed to agree with it, but it was necessary to speak out loudly at the time. The courage to risk the disapproval of the world. Why is Shaoxing cloth no match for Jiangsu cloth, Guangdong cloth and Korean cloth?

Can you make a comparison, what is the difference between Shaoxing cloth, and where is our enterprise weak? Could it be that Shaoxing cloth can avoid Cantonese cloth and Japanese cloth if the light textile market is closed? The market is a fully open space. To exchange commodities here, we must fully abide by the laws of the market economy, survive the fittest, and survive the fittest.Fairness is the most important criterion of the market, and there should be no "protection" at all. In September 1992, the North District Market of China Textile Market started construction. The mobilization meeting was held at the construction site, and after the leaders cut the ribbon, it was the groundbreaking ceremony.

Under the gaze of thousands of fiery eyes, a Wenzhou businessman and a Shaoxing businessman walked to the scene hand in hand, each holding a shovel to lay the foundation for the market. applause.Hesitant applause, understanding applause, heartfelt applause. Amid the applause, Chen Min'er read aloud the proposal of the county party committee and the county government, advocating that "foreign goods and local goods should be treated equally, foreign businessmen and local businessmen should be treated equally, fair competition and common development..." The doors of the market are still wide open.

At the same time, the liquidation of Shaoxing cloth and Shaoxing textile enterprises began. The key to the defeat of Shaoxing cloth is that it has fallen behind in terms of quality, style and craftsmanship, and the market is nothing more than making Shaoxing people feel this pain more intimately. The backwardness of equipment has reached the point of "appalling". There are 50,000 looms in the county, 10,000 of which are ironwood looms before liberation, and the rest are domestic looms in the 1970s.However, there are only four shuttleless looms in Shaoxing, and none of the rapier, water-jet, or air-jet looms.Many factory managers have never even heard of some new technologies, such as two-for-one twisting and weight reduction dyeing and finishing.The market was good a few years ago, and everyone was so busy making money that they forgot to add food to the "hen".

The backwardness of equipment directly affects the advancement of technology.Take chemical fiber network yarn as an example, Shaoxing enterprises use twisting process, which saves man-hours and low cost.Of course, it was competitive in the past few years, but its permeability was poor, it lacked the feeling of falling, and the handle was not good. However, Jiangsu and Guangdong have advanced to the strong twisting process, and the products produced are imitation silk products.The same raw material takes a little more man-hours than Shaoxing enterprises, but the benefits are far worse. In the light textile market, imitation silk fabrics can earn ten yuan per meter, which is still in demand, while Shaoxing fabrics only earn two or three cents, and there is still no one. Ask about.

"If you fall behind, you will be beaten", an undeniable truth. "Thinking about it now, I really want to thank the textile market, which gave us a blow. This blow has awakened Shaoxing's textile industry." A few years later, Dai Zhongming said gratefully. The "Old Jianghu" who caused the most trouble at the time was also the fastest person to "see the wind and turn the steering wheel". It was he who took the lead in eliminating the old domestic looms at the end of 1992 and purchased a batch of rapiers from Italy at a price of 500,000 yuan. The loom started the first battle of the "textile machinery revolution" in Shaoxing's textile industry.Then, he invented the hemp yarn technology by blending chemical fiber silk and hemp silk, making this new variety bloom everywhere in Shaoxing.

It is said that because of "sorry", Dai Zhongming never took a step into the light textile market. Although his factory had a booth there, he himself only visited it from a distance every few days. "If I can change my old face and enter the market, I am willing to pay another 7,000 yuan." This is a joke he made with a reporter he knew well, but it is also the heartfelt words of this honest old man. As long as you see the crux of the problem, how can there be a bridge or a road that cannot be crossed with Shaoxing people's "exquisite and transparent"?And in this nearly reborn textile machinery revolution, the determination and dedication shown by the Shaoxing people can't help but remind people of their ancestor Goujian and his bravery-the revival drama two thousand years ago, then It is on this land that it is staged vigorously.

When recounting those days, people often mention a name, Chen Bingfa. He was one of the first farmers in Shaoxing County to wash their feet and go to the fields.He went to supply and marketing to set up a factory and built a bright silk weaving factory.In order to introduce a complete set of equipment worth 10 million yuan, he went to Guangzhou several times within a year.In Japan, finally, a week after the equipment was installed, the farmer factory manager passed away due to overwork at the age of 45. Today, Guangming Silk Weaving Factory has become a large and medium-sized enterprise with a daily output of 25,000 meters of white cloth.On that day, Chen Yufa, the younger brother of the chairman and Chen Bingfa, took us to visit the equipment where his elder brother died.

In a standardized workshop of hundreds of square meters, 96 uniform Japanese-made water-jet looms are roaring, as if they are shouting loudly at a person who has not gone far. Chen Yufa talked about his elder brother with tears in his eyes: "He was knocked down by overwork and tremendous pressure. You know, at that time, the largest textile factory in Shaoxing County was worth only a million yuan. Borrowing tens of millions of yuan to introduce equipment, the pressure and risks are unimaginable to others. He wants to reach the sky in one step." However, for the call of the market, Chen Bingfa and hundreds of farmers and factory directors still rushed out.By June 1997', Shaoxing County had invested a total of 10 billion yuan in technological transformation in more than four years, introduced 12,000 ribless looms, and other supporting equipment.The people of Shaoxing boasted that they held a World Textile Machinery Expo.

Corresponds to this.The reputation of Shaoxing cloth in the light textile market is also improving day by day. The price per meter has risen from seven or eight yuan to ten yuan, and then to twenty yuan. Now, Jiangsu and Guangdong cloth are not allowed at all. Recovering lost ground puts even more pressure on their competitors. In the textile market, the original "Hong Kong Street" was composed of more than 60 cloth merchants from Hong Kong and Taiwan.For quite a long time, this place has always been the busiest and most conspicuous place, and their every move can almost affect the fashion trend and price movement of the light textile market.However, with the rise of the Shaoxing Textile Machinery Revolution, the quality and pattern of Shaoxing cloth can completely match that of foreign cloth.The business on this "Hong Kong Street" gradually became difficult. By the beginning of 1997, there was no trace of it. Most of the original merchants are now mainly engaged in the distribution of Shaoxing cloth. By 1995, Shaoxing's textile industry experienced unprecedented prosperity.At that time, the world-wide textile industry experienced a landslide. Only the Chinese textile market, led by the Jiangsu and Zhejiang textile industry, resisted the landslide and created the sunrise phenomenon of the sunset industry. In 1991, Shaoxing's textile market had a transaction volume of 780 million yuan, and entered the national top ten professional market list, ranking fifth; since then, its ranking has been hovering between fifth and sixth. In 1995, market turnover. With 15 billion yuan, it has become the first professional market in the country. What the market brings to Shaoxing people is a hearty rebirth.In the eyes of today's Shaoxing people, the market has already become an unparalleled treasure. In 1996, some stores in the textile market, which had been renamed China Textile City, were open for rent and auction. Among them, the No. 1 shop with an area of ​​6.4 square meters was the most competitive. After 69 rounds of bidding, a Shaoxing farmer finally He won the bid with 714,000 yuan and obtained the right to use the shop for three years.This price has set a sky-high price in the domestic professional market, and it has not been broken so far. It was a hot auction scene, several parties quarreling, and a thousand dollars in one fell swoop. At that time, does anyone still remember that not too long ago, the berths here still had to be rented out through apportionment, and the market here almost died in the midst of chattering denunciations? In the reports about the light textile market in the future, few people mentioned the above-mentioned tortuous experience.In the face of a myth, people seem to prefer to describe it with an out-and-out comedy technique, and inadvertently "avoid" certain processes. But we still have to record it here. This is the true face of history.Only with such twists and turns can it show the difficulty of social progress and truly show the mental journey of farmers in the turmoil of the market.