【Place】Chengdu "Taobao Village" garments piled up into mountain workers with monthly salary of tens of thousands

Business fire

Located in the village of Anjing, Yi County, Chengdu, there are more than 700 traditional clothing factories and hundreds of Taobao shops. Each year, it is the busiest time of the year.

Workers are short of

In the Xinglong Street and Land Street neighborhoods near the village committee of the Land Village, job postings newly posted can be seen everywhere: skilled waterworkers, layoffs, sticky workers, etc. There are people missing everywhere.

high salary

In order to prepare for the double-eleventh, many factory workers have been working overtime for one month in a row to the evening. The sewing worker’s highest monthly salary was over 10,000 yuan.

At 1 o'clock on the 9th of November, the sound of the gong's machine came from a residential building. Nearly 100 square meters of "workshop", dozens of workers hunched down in front of the sewing machine, the clothes in their hands moved quickly.

This picture is very common in the land village of Anjing Town, Ji County, Chengdu.

Land Village is one of the 211 Alibaba “Taobao Villages” that have been discovered throughout the country, mainly selling clothing products.

Double 11 is coming soon, where hundreds of network operators and production workers started the "overtime mode" as early as one month ago. It is common to find work in the early hours of the morning. It is not enough to recruit workers. The owner of a network operator also plays in person. When he starts a model, he must “speak for himself”.

Workers work overtime to a maximum monthly salary of tens of thousands

At 7:30 in the morning on the 9th, Land Village had less than ten square meters of rented houses, and the rushing cell phone was ringing. 28-year-old Roland rubbed his eyes and patted the husband next to him. "Get up, get up." She fell asleep before 1am and she yawned and looked tired. She picked up her towel and washed her cold face. The spirit is much better.

Roland and her husband, Jiang Jian, came from Suining. Last month, they came to Land Village to make parking spaces in a man’s business clothing factory. At 8 o'clock in the morning, hurrying to eat breakfast, they sat in front of the sewing machine. The folded semi-finished product is folded well and slips over the needle of the sewing machine, and the machine emits a "click" sound.

The two people face each other, but they rarely raise their heads to communicate. "I'm busy and not busy in my hands." Just when she first went to work, she met Double Eleven. For 31 days in a row, Roland worked from 8 am until late at night. At the latest, it was only the early hours of the morning.

With a pair of dark circles, she is very happy. “There are rewards for gains. I heard that they are seven or eight thousand in a month.” She pointed her finger at a middle-aged woman, Zhou Ping, who was playing clothes. “She was a worker king last month and she took it. More than 10,000 yuan.” There are still a few days to send wages, and Roland is also a little excited. “We should add 10,000 yuan each, so it's worth it.”

Employment peak

The factory is missing people recruitment notice everywhere

Next to Roland, there are more than 120 workers who are rushing to work. Among them, more than 30 were newly recruited last month.

From 8 in the morning, at least until 10:00 in the evening. In addition to going to the toilets and picking up objects, the workers almost never left their seats, and they had lunch, but also in the room near the station. It took ten minutes to resolve and almost no rest time. . "Simple style, do more than a dozen pieces a day, complex, but also do five or six, is twice the usual workload." When speaking, Zhou Ping still did not stop the action.

Walking in the village of land, you can see several posters for recruitment in a street. On the top floor of another residential building, a space of less than 100 square meters was piled with clothes to be processed. "Only five parking spaces were hired. If it wasn't enough machines, they still wanted to move. There were shortages of workers, layoffs, and stickers." said one female boss.

43-year-old Liu Shuqiong skillfully tailored a lady's vest. The clothing in their hands will be sent to all parts of the country through a distribution center that is less than 300 meters away from the village committee.

Network operators strange trick

The boss called the model “Speak for yourself”

Starting from eight years ago, he began to do clothing business. The 41-year-old Xia Zibao was the owner of the land village who had earlier contacted e-commerce, and was also a rare network operator with own brands. On his website, all models are one person - himself. "This is the real 'I speak for myself'." Xia Zibao solemnly said.

The one-meter-six-five-year-old, with a little belly, can still not affect his "confidence." "The clothes to be displayed are good models who wear scorpions are good-looking, but people like me wear, if It looks really good."

Every time new clothes are produced, Xia Zibao will be a part-time model, carry a box of clothes, and drive to the square or villa area to take photos. He is very satisfied with his own photos on the website. "The clothes look good!"

This year is the third year of Xia Zibao's participation in the Double 11 War. "Last year ago, I got ready to start preparations, and the source of supply simply couldn't keep up." He suffered a big loss, and he set about preparing it one month earlier this year. "This model is a detonation model. The Double 11 must sell at least 2,000 pieces. Isn't it time to prepare in advance?"

Side notes

Traditional businesses eager to try

Want to join "war" in "Double Twelve"

　　
Equally busy, there are more than 100 network operators hidden in the residents' buildings in the village. According to the “2014 Taobao Village Research Report” released by Alibaba Group at the end of last year, there are 211 Taobao Villages that have been discovered in the country, and Land Village and Linwan Village in Anjing Town, Yi County are newly added.

Since the demolition of the five stone garment market in Chengdu in 2000, Land Village has gradually become a new “base” for many clothing manufacturers. Li Xingming, deputy secretary of the Party Committee of Land Village, said that at present, there are more than 700 garment processing companies or workshops in the village, of which more than 70 have added online shop sales in addition to traditional wholesale. “There are more than 30 are using here. Clothing resources, orders and delivery."

Watching network operators busy recruiting, Wang Qiang did not open the shop some heart itch. “This time, it was too late to fight for an online store when it started to double in the next month.” Wang Qiang’s men’s clothing is also supplied by internet operators and has not been idle in the recent past. “But wholesale and retail, profits are very different. Next month, a child who has graduated from China will help him open an online shop. "I can't miss it again."