Chapter 6 Chapter 4 A huge wave of "Made in China" caused by a shoe repairing machine...

Many years ago, there were two folk legends, which were: Where there is a market, there will be Wenzhou people; where there is no market, there will be Wenzhou people. Wenzhou people are very individual. They have the characteristics of knowing their fate and accepting their fate, trusting their fate but not obeying their fate. They can always find a market where there is no market, look for business opportunities from the chaotic market that is becoming more and more charming, and find business opportunities from little-known places. In the cracks of the fringe economy, a bloody path was created, thus creating a modern version of the myth of doing business that everyone knows.

Another characteristic of Wenzhou people is that they have no other mission except to be richer than their neighbors.The desire to make money and to be richer than their neighbors controls all their thoughts and actions. The above characteristics determine the "cheapness" of Wenzhou people to seize their neighbors and their personality that likes to make public.Wenzhou people always like to flaunt themselves. Even when they are doing the most menial jobs and suffering the most unbearable pain, they never give up publicizing that they are Wenzhou people. This is very admirable. The neighboring Taizhou people are different.In addition to the fact that not many people in Taizhou knew the place name "Taizhou" in the past, there is another more important reason that in history Taizhou was a "place of relegation", so people here do not want to claim that they are Taizhou people.The author has encountered such a thing: more than ten years ago, I was editing a set of "Chinese Talents" series. At that time, I knew that the Hongqiao Market in Beijing already had a very large pearl market opened by Zhejiang people. , because at that time it was often seen in the newspapers that foreign dignitaries visited China and would buy Chinese pearls at the Red Bridge Market, such as British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and US President Clinton.

One day, I saw an old man in the editorial department come to visit. He spoke strong Zhejiang dialect. He said he was from Wenzhou who sold pearls in Hongqiao. He took out a business card for me, and from then on I Knowing this elder named Chen Yigen, he is the "Pearl King" who is very famous in Beijing's Hongqiao Market. Because Chen Yigen has always said that he is from Wenzhou - very ashamed, I didn't know there was a Taizhou in China at that time.Lao Chen later entered the "Chinese Talents" series edited by me.His deeds are not simple. Even now, without reading the articles introducing his deeds, I can give a rough idea:

His hometown is rich in pearls. In 1987, Chen Yigen, who was sixty years old, took his son to Beijing alone. The father and son first rented a counter on the third floor of the Beijing Revolutionary History Museum and started a pearl business.Afterwards, they moved to the Hongqiao Farmer's Market, where they set up the first pearl necklace stall opened by a Zhejiang native in Beijing.Unexpectedly, Mr. Chen's pearl business became more and more prosperous, and became a scene in the capital.At that time, even ordinary people in the capital, Beijing, lived very ordinary lives. It was very pleasant for lesbians who started to love beauty to have a pearl necklace with a price of about 100 yuan.Chen Yigen's business became popular just like that.Later, he brought his wife, daughter, son-in-law and granddaughter to Beijing, and then brought people from his village and neighboring villages to Beijing. "Wenzhou people" became famous in the capital selling pearls.

In 1992, Chen Yigen brought the pearls into the Great Hall of the People for display. The leaders of the central government and his wife highly praised Chen Yigen and his pearls.Mr. Chen is very good at doing business. He put the photo with the leader and the inscription they gave him on the stall, so those domestic and foreign tourists who visited the Hongqiao shopping mall came here admiringly.Later, his pearl booth became a must-see for foreign presidents to visit the Hongqiao Market, especially the accompanying wives of the presidents couldn't put it down because of the cheap and bright Chinese pearls, which made Chen Yigen, the "Pearl King", famous. Shake the world.Some of the Zhejiang apprentices he led became frequent visitors of famous families at home and abroad, such as Bai Rufang, Tong Jianhong, Ru Peipei and other "Pearl Girls" who are now the big bosses of multinational companies.

Because of writing this article, I went to Wenling, Chen Yigen’s hometown for an interview, and found out that the “Wenzhou native” I had known more than ten years ago was actually from Taizhou! "In the past, at least half of Wenzhou people who did business abroad were from Taizhou. At that time, Taizhou was not well-known. We said that we were from Taizhou, and people would ask where Taizhou was, and some even thought Taizhou was in Taiwan. So over time , When people ask us where we are from, we don’t say Taizhou people, we simply say that we are Wenzhou people. This is where Taizhou people suffer, and it has been like this for the past 20 to 30 years..." Taizhou people talked about this Things are still a bit bitter.

"But we people in Taizhou are more pragmatic and hard-working than people in any other place. We have a tough personality. We never want to be high-spirited, nor do we like to make great achievements. The pursuit of wealth and changing the fate of poverty is a kind of spiritual power that supports us. The source of our continuous progress. The average Taizhou people will have a sense of ambition—because we were very poor in the past.” A Taizhou economist said this. His words reminded me of a French story: Legend has it that there was a French young man who was very poor since he was a child.Later, he started by promoting decorative portraits, and in less than ten years, he ranked among the top 50 richest men in France and became a young media tycoon.Unfortunately he passed away in 1998 due to a terminal illness.After his death, a French newspaper published his will.

In this will, he said: "I used to be a poor man. Before I stepped into the threshold of heaven as a rich man, I left the secret of becoming a rich man. What is it', and he will be able to get my congratulations for guessing my secret to becoming a rich man. Give him cheers and applause from heaven." Later, the newspaper received more than 18,000 answers from people, and there were probably three types of these answers: one kind thinks that what the poor lack most is money, and with money, the poor will not No matter how poor they are; another group thinks that the poor are poor because they have no opportunities, and if they have opportunities, they may no longer be poor; another group thinks that the poor lack a skill, and having a skill can change poverty; some people say that what the poor lack most is It is help and love.On the first anniversary of the rich man's death, lawyers and agents opened the private bank safe of the young rich man and disclosed his secret of getting rich.He believes that what the poor lack the most is the ambition to become rich.There was a 9-year-old girl who guessed right and won 1 million francs.When accepting the award, the girl said: "Every time my sister brings her 11-year-old boyfriend home, she always warns me, you are too young, don't have any ambitions!"So I thought, maybe ambition can make people get what they want.So I think what the poor lack the most may be the ambition to become rich!In China in the 1970s and 1980s, there were many such girls.No matter in the hot summer or the bitterly cold winter, they are scattered in twos and threes on every roadside in the city, or at the intersection of shopping malls and in front of schools.

Beside them is a hand-cranked shoe mending machine. They are almost sitting on the ground, with the lowest posture and the most eager expectation, soliciting everyone who needs to mend shoes or bring shoe shine.This situation is mostly in the north, mostly in the cold winter.In the initial stage of reform and opening up when most Chinese people didn’t know how to do business, and even regarded business as “capitalism”, we could see these “cobblers” everywhere, on every street in every city across the country ... Such "cobblers" include girls and young men, young wives in their 30s and 40s, and peasants in their 40s and 50s.

They are always in our field of vision, and they are deeply imprinted in the minds of the Chinese people at that time - because there is no other kind of people who are not afraid of the wind and cold and timeless like them.When the first bus passed the road with few pedestrians, the cobblers and cobblers on the side of the road were already quietly waiting there; when the wind and rain and the cold night drove the last pedestrian on the street , as long as you want to mend your shoes, you can find cobblers on the side of the road or at the bus stop, they are waiting for you there... In those days, how many times did I see the cold wind or dusty weather in winter in Beijing? At dusk, those "cobblers" mending shoes on the street shivered with a pair of hands that were torn apart from the cold, pinching the shoes with one hand and holding a needle in the other, and they were working on shoes for others.They only charge one yuan. Some people look at them pitifully and want to give them an extra yuan, but the "cobblers" will return the extra money to you without hesitation.I felt incomprehensible to such a situation several times, so I went to ask the "cobbler" on purpose, and their answer surprised me even more: "I charged you more money this time, how can I do business with others next time?" ?” In the age when the vast majority of Chinese people didn’t know what business was, Zhejiang people had already started their tireless and hard-working life trajectory in every corner of the land of China to earn a penny.Zhejiang people are not afraid of hardships in doing business, they are hard-working and shrewd. Of course, there was a wave of "Zhejiang people making fake products" later - it must be said that it was a very small number of Zhejiang businessmen who ruined their reputation.

From the popular "cobbler" all over the country to the "Zhejiang Spirit" that shocked China's private economy and formed a world-renowned "Zhejiang Spirit", Wenzhou people have played a major role in the foreground.However, the Chinese people still don’t know that in the “Zhejiang spirit” that affects China’s modernization process, the most important role should be Taizhou people, because at least half of the many “Wenzhou cobblers” were from Taizhou. People, not Wenzhou people; and more importantly, the inventor of the shoe mending machine that led Zhejiang people to travel all over the country and became rich in Zhejiang and influenced one billion Chinese people to get rich together is an out-and-out Taizhou native!The person who made the first shoe mending machine was called Guan Kangren. When I met Guan Kangren, the father of "Made in Zhejiang", who once led Zhejiang people to prosperity, now lives in his hometown, a place called Shuicangtou Village, Xiachen Town, Jiaojiang District, in the center of Taizhou.Jiaojiang District originally belonged to Huangyan City. There is a traditional business atmosphere here. The folk business style has been very influential hundreds of years ago. Luqiao, which is close to Xiachen Town, is a famous merchant town in eastern Zhejiang. It has a long history. famous. When I went to see Guan Kangren that day, I was surprised by a phenomenon: In Shuitoucang Village, Xiachen Town, which is a small place, you can see dozens of famous sewing machine factories such as "Leap" and "Jack", which are well-known in China and have won 70% of the world's sewing machines!Now Guan Kangren manages a small sewing machine company, which produces about 20,000 sewing machines every year.Compared with "Feiyue" and other enterprises that have produced one million units this year and sold over 10 billion yuan, Guan Kangren's "Qiujing Sewing Machine Co., Ltd." is both backward and inconspicuous.But in Taizhou, in Shui Cangtou, known as the "King of Sewing Machines in the World", and Xiachen Town in Taizhou, no one dared to underestimate Guan Kangren. Guan Kangren, who was born in 1941, was a little surprised by my visit. When he received me outside the small and messy office, he asked me in the first sentence: "Why don't you, a great writer, go to Feiyue? But what are you doing here? I have nothing to interview here..." When I told him, "When I came to Taizhou, it would be irresponsible to history not to interview you, the 'Father of Manufacturing in Zhejiang'", he seemed very excited, and hurriedly said, "Is there anything worth your trouble? There is really nothing. What did you say?" "Just tell me how you made the first shoe mending machine back then?" I went straight to the point. Guan Kangren was obviously tempted, and this may be one of the most proud things in his life. "You can talk about it." A smile appeared on Guan Kangren's face. It can be seen that he is not satisfied with his current situation, but has a different attitude towards his own history, and he can't stop talking about it: "After graduating from high school, I worked in the Zhejiang Water Pump Factory, but within a year, I encountered the state's policy of reducing the number of workers in state-owned and collective enterprises. My father went to Taiwan before liberation, and was a member of the Kuomintang. So people like me who came from a bad family background became the first batch of targets to be reduced. In 1965, I returned to my hometown, Xiachenshui Cangtou Village, in our rural area. In the past, there was a tradition of "both ends of the shoulder pole pointed, and needlework shoes when going out". That is, during the slack season, many people went out to work as hand-made cobblers with their burdens, earning some money to compensate for the lack of living.Another kind of business is to sell tofu, but tofu sales are affected by conditions such as weather and time. In contrast, the shoe mending business is more suitable for going further.But because it is manual shoe repairing, it is slow and rough, especially in the freezing season, it is extremely hard to go out to repair shoes, and the money is less.When I was in the water pump factory, I loved tinkering, especially the repair of sewing machines. I disassembled and disassembled them, and mastered some sewing machine structure knowledge and repair techniques.At that time, I didn’t dare to say that I made sewing machines, but I saw that it was very hard for the villagers to mend shoes by hand, and they didn’t make much money. I wondered if I could build a machine instead of mending shoes by hand?If it is done, can't it reduce the hard work of the folks sewing stitch by stitch?So I first bought some old steel plates, iron sheets and screws from the Luqiao market, and started to use my spare time to hide at home alone, close the door, knock and fiddle, and it didn’t take long for the shoe mending machine to work. Out. It's not that I'm smart, because the basic principle of the shoe mending machine is sewing, which relies on mechanical operation instead of manual sewing, so I transferred the knowledge of sewing machine structure that I mastered to a relatively simple shoe mending machine.After the success, I was pleasantly surprised. First, I used my own pair of worn-out shoes to mend, and then tried to mend the neighbor's shoes, and the stitches were better than manual mending, not to mention faster.Machine mending is at least several times faster than manual mending. Using this machine to go out to do business can save you a lot of hard work of hand mending, and second, you can go anywhere. Can’t you make more money in this way?After the first shoe mending machine came out, I was very excited, thinking that if I could make a few more and sell them to people who often go out to mend shoes, they would be very welcome.In this way, I participated in the labor of the production team during the day, and secretly closed the door at home at night, knocking and beating, making the second and third shoe mending machines..." "Do you have a workshop and molds or something?" "No. It was knocked out entirely by hand." "Can it be knocked out by hand?" I remembered the kind of shoe mending machine that was similar to a sewing machine that could be seen everywhere in the streets of Beijing in the early 1980s. I thought it was quite a complicated machine, so I asked Mr. Guan Kangren. "Yes. Haven't you heard that the earliest automobiles were also made by hand? The shoe mending machine is relatively simple." Guan Kangren was very proud of his technology and said, "I like tinkering with machinery, especially sewing machines. No matter how complicated it is, it is difficult Don’t blame me. It’s a pity that I’m not interested in the current computerized sewing machines, I don’t like the one they make...” Guan Kangren pointed out the window, and I knew he was talking about modernization such as “Leap” in Shuicangtou Village. Sewing machine company.It can be seen that Guan Kangren is a very individual person. "Did you start selling the shoe mending machines you made later?" "Yes. At that time, on the one hand, our farmers were very poor, and my family needed money. On the other hand, in order to make this cobbler, I had to go to the road and bridge flea market from time to time to buy materials such as scrap copper and iron. In addition, I really thought that if I could sell the shoe mending machines I made, I could earn some money to support my family. I sold three or four machines, one to a local cobbler, and two to a local cobbler. Taiwan sold to Wenling." "How much can each be sold for?" "Three or four hundred yuan!" "Earn some money?" "Earn, earn two to three hundred yuan a piece! At that time, two to three hundred yuan was equal to the income of two or three strong laborers doing farm work for a year, which was quite impressive!" Guan Kangren smiled again. "and after?" "Then it was miserable..." The old man's face darkened. "Later, someone found out and reported it to the brigade and commune leaders, saying that I was sabotaging agriculture and learning from Dazhai." "Where did this happen!" I thought it was absurd, but there were absurd things in absurd times. Guan Kangren himself said that some people think that you are lenient enough to make shoe mending machines secretly, not to mention that you are engaged in capitalism. You also sell the machinery. Your sale is to encourage those who are not worried about agricultural production to go out and do it. Sideline, aren't you sabotaging agriculture and learning from Dazhai?So the cadres called Guan Kangren to hold a "study class" for four months, and finally made him fine all the 1,200 yuan he earned.This grievance, if it were someone else, they would have given up on it long ago, but Guan Kangren felt that he had finally created a shoe mending machine, and there were many people who wanted the goods. It is the same thing whether he makes money or not. It is always a meritorious thing for the folks to use the shoe mending machine instead of manual shoe mending!He thought that Kang Ren was a dead man, thinking that if you don’t let me sell it in Shui Cangtou, Chenxia and Huangyan, I’ll sell it to Wenling... "People in Wenling are very lively. In today's terms, people there are free-minded and dare to do risky things. So I later sold the machine I made to Muyu in Wenling." Guan Kangren said. "Hasn't been discovered again?" "I changed the way of manufacturing. It's definitely not good to do it in my own home. Even if you close the door and knock on it, you will be watched. I don't do it in my own home. I work with the partners on Muyu. Working together, I gave them the blueprints, and they made them in Muyu, and then they sold them. They gave me 150 yuan for each one. After I finished one, I taught him the technology, and I continued to do it for several times. In 2009, they started to do it slowly. Muyu is now a famous shoe-making base, which is the foundation we laid at that time. Later, thousands or tens of thousands of cobblers came out from all over Zhejiang, and it is full of people. All over the country, it is because they have shoe mending machines in their hands. Don't underestimate this shoe mending machine. This is the first pot of gold for us Zhejiang people to get rich. Its significance is not ordinary. You all say that Zhejiang people or Wenzhou people are the ones who did a good job in China's private economy. To put it bluntly, it is because we Zhejiang people have traveled all over the country with a shoe mending machine before others, and we have some Primitive accumulation, know what the market is before others.What is a market?That is, when we cobblers go to mend shoes, we know what daily necessities are lacking in that place, and knowing what things are lacking there, we have an extra mind to get those things.Because we have people who go out to mend shoes everywhere, and they have contacts with each other. A letter or a phone call establishes a business network with each other.While repairing shoes, some goods that were lacking in the north were allocated from the south to the north, and goods that were lacking in the south were sent from the north to the south. This gradually formed an opportunity to make money, and gradually changed from mending shoes to making money. The trend of trade and business.We Taizhou people and Wenzhou people went to the whole country at the same time, and the earliest group of people should be said to be us Taizhou people, because the business style of Zhejiang people started from cobblers.The trend of mending shoes is due to the key link of mending machines.We made the shoe mending machine! "Guan Kangren is very proud of his historic contribution. The reason why I especially admire this old man who doesn't have much aura in Taizhou nowadays is because his historic contribution of manufacturing the first shoe repairing machine played a role in the formation of Zhejiang's private economy and "Zhejiang spirit" later. foundational role.Don’t underestimate Guan Kangren’s crude shoe mending machine back then. In my opinion, its successful manufacture and subsequent widespread use among the people have created tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands, or even millions of Zhejiang gang cobblers. , and its significance is not much smaller than that of Watt's invention of the steam engine in England.Watt invented the steam engine, which made backward Europe and even the whole world move from a backward agricultural society to an industrial society, and the history of human civilization developed several times or dozens of times faster than any previous era.Zhejiang cobblers are located in every corner of the country. The commercial network and commodity awareness they established in the most primitive way, as well as the Chinese private economic model developed from it, have not only affected the entire China today, but also extended to the entire world today. .Don't we often hear people in the world shouting "China Threat Theory" today?The "China threat" that Westerners are afraid of is actually more of what they think is "Made in China" that has changed the entire world's economic and political, and even cultural and military patterns. Think about it, gentlemen: Where did this "Made in China" start in the first place? There is no doubt that "Made in China" should be said to have started from "Made in Zhejiang", but when did "Made in Zhejiang" start?There is also no doubt that it started from "Made in Wenzhou". But where did "Made in Wenzhou" start? The people of Wenzhou themselves have no doubt that it started with the "shoe mending machine". So who made the shoe mending machine first? He is from Taizhou, and it was the Muyu people in Taizhou who were the first to sell shoe mending machines to Wenzhou and other places. The reason why Taizhou Muyu was able to manufacture the shoe mending machine was due to Guan Kangren, because Guan Kangren was the first person to manufacture the shoe mending machine, and he directly introduced this technology into Muyu, making Muyu later become a It became a base for manufacturing and selling shoe mending machines, and later Muyu became a famous shoe making base both at home and abroad.Muyu in Wenling, Taizhou is worthy of more in-depth research by sociologists. The first chapter of this article mentioned that the first well-documented joint-stock enterprise in China was established by Muyu people.Chen Huagen, the first joint-stock owner, started with 10,000 yuan. After more than 20 years of hard work, he has developed into one of the top 500 private enterprises in China with a standard factory building covering an area of ​​108 mu and more than 6,000 employees.Interestingly speaking, Chen Huagen was also a traveler back then.cobbler”. He founded the Muyu Munan Arts and Crafts Factory together with Wang Huasen, a fellow villager and four other farmers, and became the first joint-stock enterprise in China to obtain a formal “hukou”. factory. The reason is that after the people in Muyu, a place where shoe mending machines and cobblers were produced, earned the "first pot of gold" through shoe mending, they began to develop from shoe mending and shoe mending machines to shoemaking.And Chen Huagen is the "leader" of the Muyu shoemaking industry, and he later changed the company's name to "Baolite".This "Baolite" has grown from making low-end shoes to now producing various high-end imitation leather shoes and other dozens of products, and has become the "king of Chinese shoes" with a daily output of 100,000 pairs of shoes.In addition to Chen Huagen's "Baolite" in Muyu, there are also many famous shoe-making enterprises such as "Yardi", "Yuanba", "Neptune", "Tianmaxing" and "Olilai". Shoes, so that every Chinese can wear a pair.Not only that, Muyu's shoe industry has also radiated to the surrounding towns of Hengfeng, Zeguo and Panlang, forming the main export base of China's shoe industry. It is not a special case or the only one that Muyu has gone from manufacturing and selling shoe repairing machines to becoming a well-known "Chinese shoe manufacturing place" both at home and abroad.In Taizhou, "Made in Zhejiang" and "Made in China" like Muyu are everywhere. Shui Cang Tou, where Guan Kangren lives, is just a small natural village. Perhaps the first shoe mending machine was born here, so Shui Cang Tou is doomed to be extraordinary. That day when I interviewed Guan Kangren, walking on the narrow country road in Shui Cangtou, I couldn’t help feeling a little bit emotional: Those sewing machine overlords in the world who have been brilliant for nearly a century would never have imagined that they would be completely defeated by a group of Chinese farmers in just a decade or two.These Chinese farmers are Qiu Jibao's "Feiyue" sewing machine from Taizhou, Ruan Xiaoming's "Gem" sewing machine from Taizhou, and Ruan Jixiang's "Jack" sewing machine. Naturally, you would not believe that in the sewing machine industry with annual sales of nearly 100 billion in the world, this small Shui Cangtou Village in Taizhou, Zhejiang, China accounts for two-thirds of the share!For example, Qiu Jibao, the boss of Feiyue who has been praised as a "national treasure" by Premier Zhu Rongji for many times, now his "Feiyue" sewing machine has an annual sales volume of tens of billions of dollars, and more than 100 countries around the world have his "Feiyue" ".In many countries, Qiu Jibao enjoys the treatment of the head of state, and the presidents of some countries know him.Both Premier Zhu Rongji and Wen Jiabao praised Qiu Jibao as "a real world famous brand".Qiu Jibao told me that he was also a cobbler.Qiu Jibao, who is now worth tens of billions of dollars, was on that freezing street in northern China when the Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee of the Communist Party of China was held in 1978, relying on a shoe mending machine to mend the shoes of passers-by.It was the few hundred yuan he saved in the past six months that inspired him to set up his own factory after returning to his hometown.And it was this idea that prompted him to start a small business of sewing machine parts in the second year, and then set up his own sewing machine factory, which he has been doing until now.Now Qiu Jibao's family property has exceeded 10 billion yuan, more than 5,000 people work for his company, and his "Feiyue" brand sewing machines are sold in more than 100 countries. The sewing machine is as big as a stadium, and it is so small that the president and prime minister go abroad. The book was given to foreign heads of state as a "national gift". I also know another strange person, who is now a multi-billion Taizhou native, and he was a cobbler in 1983.Because of his young age, other cobblers have earned money and returned home to set up factories, but he has just taken the first step to earn money to support his family.In order to mend more shoes, he went alone to the Xing'an Mountains in the Linhaixueyuan, because he heard that the boots of the lumberjacks there were made of leather, and the lumberjacks seldom went out to the mountains, and no one would mend the broken boots.So he carried the cobbler into the mountains, walked in the snow during the day, and lived in a dog shed at night. Several times in the middle of the night, he was picked up by wild dogs and almost died.Later, he learned how to do it well, and when there was no place to live on a snowy night, he would mend shoes for others and exchange them for a night.In this way, he earned the "first pot of gold" in Daxing'anling alone - the pot of gold he earned with his own life.After returning home, he also started a sewing machine factory. Now his "Jack" sewing machine is also a world-renowned brand. He is another celebrity in Shuicangtou Village, named Ruan Jixiang.The young man still looks like a young man in his twenties and thirties, with a lovely smile on his face all day long. There is also a legendary figure in Taizhou named Li Shufu, a well-known "car maniac", the owner of the Chinese private car "Geely", and the boss of five or six private universities.This simple-looking farmer was a native of Taizhou who traveled around the world with shoe mending machines when he was a child. The "Made in China" he is now engaged in has disturbed the foreign auto overlords and often have nightmares at night... There are also several private financiers in Taizhou who now have billions of dollars in assets. They still did not leave the shoe mending machine when they made their fortunes. People from Taizhou made a shoe mending machine for people in Zhejiang, fulfilling the "first pot of gold" for people in Zhejiang to make a fortune.People from Zhejiang set up their own small family factory with the "first bucket of gold" in exchange for mending shoes, and gradually expanded the family factory into a private enterprise with a certain scale. After buying industrial products, they set up street stalls and exchanged them for cash, so free markets like Yiwu's appeared one after another.The market gradually became larger, and merchants from all over the country and the world came to do business, so Zhejiang people began to go from imitation to self-made... Later, the business grew bigger and bigger, and they began to independently develop their own products. " Since then, "Made in Zhejiang" has never stopped, and it has driven the storm of China's private economy until it has pushed China's modernization process so magnificently... This is the people of Taizhou—to be precise, it is the waves of spring thunder that Taizhou farmers set off 30 years ago. This spring thunder is still echoing and reverberating on the land of China...