Private enterprises such as Wenzhou shoe enterprises have become pillars of economic development

Wenzhou City’s economic performance in the first half of this year continued to improve. The city’s industrial production, industrial investment, foreign trade exports, and social consumption were all “collective forces”, making the economic growth rate around 20%. Wenzhou private enterprises, which have attracted much attention, have become one of the major “pull forces” for this growth.

In the second half of last year, in the context of the post-financial crisis, Wenzhou City, like other regions, is gradually recuperating and gradually recovering its vitality: Orders are gradually increasing, markets are recovering, and machines are gradually opening up. When the vast number of companies shipped their horsepower, increased production lines, and expanded the scale of land acquisition to meet orders, they could not think of an unprecedented "labor shortage" and "difficulty in using land." In the fourth quarter of last year, the city’s labor shortage was more than 200,000, and this year's first quarter has increased. The demand for land use is similarly large. At least 30,000 mu of land was needed in the city last year. The effective land supply is only 6,000 acres, and a large number of small and medium-sized enterprises are basically out of touch with the land.

The private enterprises with sensitive market response, self-reliance, self-reliance, and self-reliance have been reviewing the situation in a timely and sensible manner. They have chosen the technological transformation of technological investment, took the road of a technological revolution, and benefited from advanced machinery and equipment.

Zhejiang Juyi Group, the leading exporter of the footwear industry in Zhejiang province, prompted the company to invest more than RMB 30 million in technical reform funds in October last year, bringing in “nice nose” and introducing 10 international first-class shoe production lines to rejuvenate the existing production lines.

In January of this year, the first six production lines were put into use one after another, and the remaining four were followed up one after another. High-efficiency, environmental protection, energy-saving, and human-friendly operation of new technologies and new equipment are immediately on the spot, giving companies a “big gift pack” with 18% improvement in ergonomics and a 1/5 reduction in personnel. The reporter saw in the production workshop that a piece of shoe uppers and shoe soles entered the conveyor belt. Under the operation of the workers, they changed their faces into pairs of high-quality, pretty-looking female shoes in 45 minutes.

After tasting the sweetness of technological innovation, in May of this year, the group also started to “handily start” on the cutting of leather materials, eliminating the use of traditional handicrafts, punching and cutting traditional craft equipment, and fully updating dozens of world-class computer-controlled leathers. Cutting machine, laser cutting machine, work efficiency increased by 20%, cutting accuracy greatly improved, raw materials, significant savings, personnel reduction by 3/4.

Since the beginning of this year, public funds have formed consensus on investment in technological reform projects and set off a heat wave. The clothing, printing, packaging, electrical and mechanical, instrumentation, and furniture industries have taken the lead in order to “eat” orders that have increased rapidly in both domestic and foreign markets, especially foreign trade performance. In the first half of the year, it exported 6.25 billion U.S. dollars, an increase of 29.3%, and a 41.9 percentage point year-on-year increase.