Winter, handmade cotton

With its good warmth and air permeability, more and more urban and rural residents love it.

Careful return home women found this business opportunity, they returned home to start processing cotton shoes.

In the Shengli Street (Dongfeng dam) of Youyang County town, the author found six or seven cotton shoe processing shops on both sides of the street. After enquiry, most of the processing shops were founded by women returning home.

Cotton shoes become the new favorite of entrepreneurship

In the Shun Fa cotton factory, 4 women are busy sewing their shoes. Beside them, two sewing machines are running continuously.

In 2011, Tian Yalin, who had worked in a cotton shoe factory, returned to his hometown. He rented a private house in Shengli Street and began to process cotton shoes.

"Last year, a total of more than 10 thousand pairs of cotton shoes were sold, making over 40 thousand yuan."

Tian Yalin tasted the sweetness of his first venture.

Because Tian Yalin is a native of Guizhou, she keeps a small portion of her cotton shoes in retail stores, most of which are sold to Yanhe Autonomous County, Guizhou province.

This year, Tian Yalin began hiring people since April. Now he has made thousands of pairs of cotton shoes, "waiting for the weather to cool down and go public." Tian Yalin said with a smile.

Cold Lu Yun's cotton shoe processing shop has just moved to Shengli Street from the ring road of Youyang county (Jin Yin Shan Road).

In order to catch up, she worked overtime in the store at noon.

Leng Lu Yun is Xiaogang village of Xiaohe Town in this county. In September last year, she began renting cotton shoes in rented Road, because she was not proficient enough. Last year, she only processed more than 2000 pairs of cotton shoes.

This year, I heard of cold cloud.

After several cotton shoe processing shops, they moved the processing shop down, hoping to expand the business by riding the "east wind".

Today, cold Lu Yun has processed more than 4000 pairs of cotton shoes waiting for sale.

Compared with Tian Yalin, Shi Dongzhen, who returned home to start her own business, is an old hand in processing cotton shoes.

Shi Dongzhen opened her shop for cotton shoes in 2008. It has been 4 years now. The cotton shoes she sells are mainly sold to various townships in the county.

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They employ more than six or seven workers, one or two of whom are mostly thirty or forty years old.

The owners of these shop owners also provided job opportunities for their sisters while they became rich.

"Processing cotton shoes is manual work, slow production."

Tian Yalin said that the upper can be sewn by sewing machines, but the sole must be artificially sewn. Therefore, more workers must be employed if we want to increase production.

Chen Xiurong of Hei Shui town in Youyang county is one of the 5 workers employed by Tian Ya Lin.

Chen Xiurong's children studied in the county experimental high school. In order to take care of her children, she came to the county seat.

In the past, a family lived on a relatively tight schedule by sending money from a migrant worker.

Now, she uses her spare time to make cotton shoes. "Piecework pay makes more income and is more free."

Chen Xiurong said that because she had just made cotton shoes, she could only sew more than 10 pairs a day, according to the price of 3 yuan and 1 pairs, she could earn tens of dollars a day.

Wu Qun and Ni Yunfang are all returning home women, they are also in the county to send their children to study, they are working in the cold cloud of the processing shop.

Capital turnover time pressure

Cotton shoes are a special commodity that is affected by seasonal factors. The peak season of sales is only two or three months a year.

Because it is purely hand-made, production cycle is relatively long, processing shop must be produced throughout the year.

Rent, materials, wages and so on, bring them the pressure of capital turnover.

"It's all about saving a little bit of money from work," Shi Dongzhen said with emotion.

In order to solve the pressure of capital turnover, they actively seek solutions.

Shi Dongzhen mainly depends on controlling the scale of production and, in her words, "how much shoes do you have?"

While the cold cloud is mainly looking for relatives and friends to borrow money, and then wait until the peak season to sell the cotton shoes.

They are unable to borrow money from banks because they have no guarantor or collateral.

"Still worried about the weather."

Cold cloud cloud says, if winter is relatively warm, it will affect the sales of cotton shoes. "If the cotton shoes are not sold, the hardships of one year will be wasted."

The author also visited the cotton shoes processing shops such as winter snow, Yongfa and winter hair in the street, and shopkeepers think that the long turnover of capital is a common problem.