[Source: Anhui Business Daily]
December 22 is Friday. Located in the Turandot Garment Industrial Park in Qimen County, Huangshan City, Anhui Province, Wang Xianjun is busy patrolling various garment companies.
At present, Turandot Garment Industrial Park covers an area of 88 acres, with a total construction area of 57,000 square meters, 63 enterprises in the park, and more than 2,100 people are employed. In 2023, about 2 million pieces of clothing will be produced in the park, with an output value of 200 million.
In 2023, Wang Xianjun will be rated as "Qimen County's 'Double Recruitment and Double Introduction' Advanced Individual", and his industrial park will also be rated as "Qimen County's 'Double Recruitment and Double Introduction' Advanced Unit", "Qimen County's Most Growing Enterprise", "Qimen County's Top 10 Manufacturing Tax Paying Enterprises", and "Qimen County's Outstanding Enterprise for Public Welfare".
Obtaining these honors is inseparable from the management and dedication of Wang Xianjun. It all started when he left his hometown in 2001 and went to Hangzhou.
The old clothes go out and return home
In 1984, Wang Xianjun was born in Rongkou Township, Qimen County. After graduating from high school at the age of 17, Wang Xianjun left his hometown. Before leaving, he said to his father, "I don't want to stay in the countryside, I will definitely come back in a new dress when I go out in a torn dress." With this spirit, Wang Xianjun went to Hangzhou to work hard. In 2005, after accumulating social experience and certain business contacts, 21-year-old Wang Xianjun founded a clothing company in Hangzhou.
The reason for setting up a clothing company in Hangzhou is that Hangzhou has a unique geographical advantage: Hangzhou is China's clothing base and a developed area for the e-commerce industry. With the increase in the company's business volume, Wang Xianjun began to transfer orders outward. "Because my orders at that time were relatively good, they were all sent to Anqing, including Shexian and Xiuning next door, and Qimen also did it at that time. Wang Xianjun said that as a native of Qimen, he still wanted to do something for his hometown.
Huangshan City is less than 300 kilometers away from Hangzhou, and also has the geographical advantage of Hangzhou's garment industry to move outward. After investigation, Wang Xianjun found that in his hometown of Qimen, thousands of people are engaged in the garment industry. Among these thousands of people, about 90% of them were returnees with children or elderly people at home to take care of, but at that time, most of the garment industry in Qimen was an informal small factory, and the safety hazards were relatively large. But if these factories are shut down, the employment of thousands of people will become a problem again. Since we can't shut down these small factories and provide jobs, it is necessary to build a compliant hardware such as fire safety, so that the industry can hold together and form a cohesive force while solving the problem of potential safety hazards. Wang Xianjun thus came up with the idea of setting up a garment industrial park in Qimen.
In 2017, Wang Xianjun returned to Qimen and bought an idle unfinished factory covering an area of 40 acres. After buying the factory, Wang Xianjun suggested to the county government whether it was possible to set up a garment association and then use the idle factory to plan and build a garment industrial park. With the strong support of the county party committee and county government, the garment association was established, with Wang Xianjun as the president. At the same time, he invested more than 100 million yuan for the construction of the garment industrial park. In 2022, the industrial park will be officially completed and put into operation.
The industrial park integrates the market and gives back to the government
Originally, small-scale family workshops were concentrated in the community, the stores were dilapidated, and the safety hazards were large, and many orders were afraid to be sent here. After the completion of the Turandot Garment Industrial Park, a standardized and standardized factory building was created, and large companies came to the door, and everyone worked together to form a joint force, and the orders came, and the industry gradually gathered. "The industrial park has three advantages. Wang Xianjun said: "The first is to solve the problem of potential safety hazards, the second is our industrial newspaper group heating, and the third is that our upper and lower chains can be tied together." "The so-called upper and lower chains mean that there are many supporting industrial chains in the industrial park, such as accessories, fabrics, threads, and cutting...... They are willing to come to the park to set up an office, so that the service is more in place. Nowadays, a complete operation and production chain has been formed in the industrial park, and all the work can be completed in the industrial park, so to speak, a small market has been formed within the industrial park.
After the establishment of the industrial park, it also brought feedback to the government. Originally, the garment industry practitioners in Qimen County were basically self-employed, and through the industrial chain connection established by Wang County's army, some self-employed people were cultivated into enterprises. From the opening of the industrial park in May 2022 to the end of 2022, the entire industrial park has brought 4 million yuan in tax revenue to the local government, and up to now, the tax paid by the industrial park in 2023 has also reached 8 million yuan.
At the same time, the local government has also provided some assistance to the industrial park. "For example, in the financing sector, the government comes to help our garment association to endorse, extend credit, and help enterprises. In addition, the government has stepped in and asked various competent departments to provide legal training to enterprises in labor, personnel, taxation, safety and other aspects. ”
Feed back to the society and solve employees' worries
Talking about the feeling of doing business in Hangzhou and in Qimen, Wang Xianjun said bluntly, "It's completely different, as a Qimen person, when I return to Qimen, I have a sense of belonging." "At present, Wang Xianjun's source of income in Qimen is the rent of the industrial park, which can be about six or seven million a year, which is not much compared to the more than 100 million he invested. But he said that no matter how much money he earns outside, he is a passerby. Back in his hometown, although he paid a lot of money to invest in the industrial park, there were both risks and pressures, but he returned to his roots and had a sense of belonging. In addition, it has solved part of the employment problems for his hometown, provided a good platform for many villagers who have returned to their hometowns to start businesses, and also gave him a strong sense of achievement. "A lot of people who work outside also want to come back to set up factories, many of them did not have standardized sites before, but now they have venues in the park, including some policy issues that many people who return to their hometowns do not understand, I can also provide services, and the sense of belonging and accomplishment of this kind of wanderer returning to his hometown is indeed different. Even if the profit of returning to Qimen to invest is a little lower, I feel that I have driven the industry and made this industry up, including as the president of this garment association, leading everyone to go from doing their own work to reporting to the group for warmth, and through the power of the association to ask the government for policies and departments to serve, this is my sense of social responsibility and achievement. ”
Wang Xianjun said that all the enterprises settled in the industrial park, he will help solve two major problems. The first is the issue of the order. "He came in and didn't have an order, I can give him an order. Wang Xianjun said that many enterprises have no corresponding qualifications and lack of orders due to their small scale, so Wang Xianjun will help these small enterprises get orders through their own contacts. The second thing is funding. Some bosses are very small and have no money to pay their salaries. At this time, Wang Xianjun will come forward with the clothing association and go to the bank to help apply for loans and solve the salary problem of employees. In this way, the enterprises in the industrial park will only be responsible for production wholeheartedly, and Wang Xianjun can help solve all other problems. "In addition to these, we also hired legal counsel in the park to make some templates for free for enterprises to use, and we went to coordinate with them if there was a problem. In terms of taxation, many self-employed people don't understand these things, so we hired a professional accounting firm to serve them. In addition, once or twice a year, we invite the tax department to do special training, including training on labor law and safety law, and the park is also equipped with safety officers to patrol, so that enterprises do not have to take care of anything except production. ”
His sense of responsibility is also reflected in the heart of his employees. Wang Xianjun has arranged a "mother post" in the industrial park, which is a highly mobile way of working, with relatively flexible working hours and management methods, which is convenient for employees to take care of work and childcare. But Rao is like this, in August this year, some employees still found Wang Xianjun and cried to him: "Mr. Wang, what should we do now, we are about to leave our job." He was very strange and asked why, and the employee told him that the private school where the child attended had closed down, and if he went to the public school in the county, he would have to quit his job and take care of the child.
After understanding, Wang Xianjun learned that more than 200 of his employees are single-parent families, who usually have to go to work to support their families, and their children are studying in the only private school in the county - public schools have to go to school. After learning about this problem, Wang Xianjun found the county and said that he wanted to run this school, even if he lost money. In his view, this school is not only a school, but also involves the employment of dozens of teachers and hundreds of employees, as well as the reading of seven or eight hundred children. spent more than 10 million yuan to solve the worries of the employees in the park, and also solved a little hidden danger for the government, Wang Xianjun said that this must be a loss of money, but he will not regret it. "I don't want to be just a businessman, I want to be a real entrepreneur, and that is to be socially responsible. Money is in your pocket, you can't spend it in a lifetime, how good it is to make a contribution to society. ”
Create a precedent in Anhui and play an exemplary role
With the transfer of intensive industries from developed areas such as Hangzhou to the interior, the southern Anhui region can be regarded as the first interface to undertake industrial transfer. The reporter learned that the Turandot Garment Industrial Park not only set a precedent, but also drove the development of other districts and counties in southern Anhui. Since the beginning of this year, many areas in southern Anhui, such as Susong County, Shitai County, including Xiuning County, Huizhou District, Tunxi District of Huangshan City, etc., have come to Turandot Garment Industrial Park to learn Xi, the reason is that these districts and counties in southern Anhui are the same as Qimen County in the past, small garment factories are blooming everywhere, and now, these districts and counties want to learn from the model of Xi Wang County Army and establish their own garment industrial park.
Talking about the next step of the Turandot Garment Industrial Park planning and expectations, Wang Xianjun said that considering the regional environment of Qimen, the current industry is still based on production and processing. But if you want to become bigger and stronger, you must be branded. "In the future, what I want is to open up the upstream and downstream, so that production, sales and logistics delivery are in Keemun. He wants to rely on the strong production advantages of the industrial park to drive the development of the entire industry, and form a complete industrial chain in Qimen through the entry of brands and the cultivation of e-commerce, with an output value of more than one billion.
(Anhui Business Daily Financial Media Reporter Liu Xiaoran Xi Yin Lin Lexin)
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