Pomegranate Cloud/Xinjiang Daily reporter Qin Meihua
Take customers on tours, delivery, design, live streaming... This is Wu Shaojie's daily life on April 22. Wu Shaojie, 30 years old this year, opened a soft pottery faience company in Urumqi, mainly producing various soft pottery crafts with national characteristics. On April 22, the reporter walked into his office and saw that the entire room was filled with various color sculptures such as "baked buns" and "buns" customized by customers, each of which was very natural and difficult to distinguish between true and false.
On April 22, Wu Shaojie sold soft pottery works through online live broadcast. Pomegranate Cloud/Xinjiang Daily reporter Qin Meihua photo
On April 24, Wu Shaojie was teaching the soft pottery making process to the residents of the community. Pomegranate Cloud/Xinjiang Daily reporter Qin Meihua photo
On April 22, at the Xinjiang International Grand Bazaar Pedestrian Street, a tourist passed in front of a product designed by Wu Shaojie. Pomegranate Cloud/Xinjiang Daily reporter Qin Meihua photo
"In the beginning, clay, shaping, baking, polishing, painting, packaging, etc. were all done by yourself." Wu Shaojie said that now, these jobs are basically made by workers, and I am mainly responsible for designing, taking orders and apprentices. He started a business using a light entrepreneurial model, that is, do not raise workers, no façade, the company's 18 part-time workers are bao mom or aunt, they come to the company to take the raw materials back to their own home, after the products are taken back, a month to settle their wages, so that the company also has no pressure, workers can also use leisure time to make some money, in addition to raw material costs, the biggest investment is the studio rent. Because there is not much pressure, Wu Shaojie has put a lot of effort into product research and development, and in the five years of entrepreneurship, he will launch 10 new products every year to continuously meet the needs of the market. Since the establishment of the company in 2017, he has published his daily work day through Weibo and WeChat, so he has attracted many orders. In 2018, he used the money he earned a year to buy a house.
On April 22, Wu Shaojie colored the painted sculptures. Pomegranate Cloud/Xinjiang Daily reporter Qin Meihua photo
As a post-90s entrepreneur, he believes that this is the best era and the best gift that the times have given to young people. For the future, Wu Shaojie said that he will focus on the research and development of soft ceramic raw materials suitable for Xinjiang's local climate, carry out research and study, and drive more people's employment.....