Zhang Zhong, a 56 year old Suqian man, is engaged in the shoe repair industry.

He laid off his job without losing his ambition and made a down-to-earth approach to find a way out.

Zhang Zhong returned to Suqian from a farm in the first place and was arranged to work in a brick factory. After 10 years ago, he opened a department store with a shop on the street.

Later, the shop was not thinking about changing the way for customers to deliver goods.

He thought hard about what line to take. The age is no longer small. He is no longer the age to fight hard. He should find a job without risk to live safely on the basis of his own reality.

He wanted to cook, but he could stand for a long time.

Think of it or learn to make up shoes, when a shoemaker, risk is small, so long as he is conscientious and conscientious, he can lead a life.

His idea was supported by his wife.

We must take the right position and work with real skills.

So he bought a sewing machine for more than 300 yuan and went to Suqian to steal skills.

There was a time when he traveled to the shoe repair department in Suqian, secretly paying attention to the skills such as needle opening, oblique insertion, penetration and needling.

I learned and practise at the same time, finally I learned the craft well, and the small shop also opened business on a selective day.

Reporters understand that since opening up, almost every day there are customers.

He said, the quality of the shoes now produced is not as good as before, and after a lot of wear, it is not degumming or broken edges.

A pair of shoes tens of yuan, hundreds of yuan, hundreds of yuan have, new reluctant to throw away, many people came to repair.

He said that the most important thing to repair shoes is children's shoes, student shoes, and sometimes busy work overtime.

According to preliminary estimates, on average, more than 10 pairs of shoes are repaired every day, three hundred pairs a month, serving three hundred customers. His income can maintain four lives in a family.

The reporter asked him how much longer he would have to work. He said he loved shoe repair and worked for at least 10 years.