“Superhero” from China, the weapon to save the world is the sewing machine at home.
Editor’s note: This article comes from the WeChat public account “Tianxia Internet Business” (ID: txws_txws) , author: Dan super.
In the past 56 days, female sewing worker Yin Mei sewed protective clothing eight to ten nights. The production workshop is her own living room.
The factory where she works has received urgent orders to export protective clothing overseas. But the workers were scattered all over the place, and the factory had not yet resumed work. Her boss made an amazing decision to “demolition the production line to zero” and packed it to more than ten provinces in China including Anhui, Jiangxi, Sichuan, and Guizhou for female workers. They converted their homes into production workshops.
This is an urgent order for 20,000 pieces of protective clothing. The order was from a protective clothing company in Henan, but the capacity was insufficient, so the task was distributed on the Alibaba 1688 platform. In the past month or so, on the 1688 cloud supply chain factory platform, more than 5 million such capacity sharing orders have been docked, and on average, tens of thousands of factories have shared capacity online every day.
Yin Mei ’s boss is the factory owner who came up with the idea of “cloud assembly” that dismantled the production line and sent it to the workers ’homes. The factory in Fujian Quanzhou Feitianxiang Outdoor Products Co., Ltd. stated that Xiao Bin said: Before March, they were They are busy “saving China”, and after March, they will start “saving the world”.
“Cloud production lines” scattered in more than ten provinces
Due to the epidemic, Yin Mei thought she might stay at home for a little longer this year, but she didn’t expect that on the third day of the new year, the boss of Quanzhou would get anxious and said he would send her a sewing machine.
The making of a protective garment takes about a dozen steps, and sewing is an indispensable process. Behind tens of thousands of protective clothing, a large number of skilled workers are required. Recently, the Chinese government has announced the provision of emergency assistance to 83 countries and international and regional organizations such as WHO and the AU. This is bound to be a relay race that only Chinese women workers can complete.
For 900 kilometers, the truck went for 5 days. On the evening of the eighth day, the Yin and his wife borrowed a neighbor’s petrol tricycle to go to the county seat and brought back a sewing machine, an edger and a few bags of cut fabric, which were piled up in a living room of more than ten square meters.
The boss only said that there was a batch of protective clothing to rush, as for sewing protectionThe special requirements of the service were not clear on the phone, and they had to be studied by the female workers themselves. On that day, Yin Mei opened the white sample for a long time, and then searched for “protective clothing” with her mobile phone. There were many pictures on the Internet, but there were not many sewing instructions. It took an hour and a half to confirm that it was correct.
In the past 56 days, Yin Mei was sitting in front of the sewing machine at home to sew protective clothing
In addition to Yin Mei, the boss Zhang Xiaobin also disassembled more than 20 sewing machines and hemming machines and sent them to more than 20 skilled female workers scattered throughout the country. At the same time, the original raw materials and accessories that had been cut out were sent out. Eventually, they spanned more than ten provinces across the country, and “cloud assembly” became an emergency production line.
Some of Zhang Xiaobin’s workers have returned to the factory
In the next 20 days, Yin Mei will be in a private house in Wuli Township, Susong County, Anqing City, Anhui Province, and her husband will form a “two-person workshop” that runs from 8 to 10 nights. Sewing and her husband helped to complete more than 500 protective clothing. Some of these 500 pieces of protective clothing remained in China, and some went to Japan, South Korea, and the United States.
“Can’t succeed Yang Chao, but I made a mask for the President of South Africa”
After the order of 20,000 pieces of civilian protective clothing was completed, Zhang Xiaobin’s confidence increased greatly, and he even advertised the “order-seeking” information in the online store to prove his strength. This foreign trade company, which is doing outdoor children’s wear, recently received as many as 500,000 orders for overseas protective clothing.
The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology issued an initiative to domestic protective clothing factories on March 5 to encourage domestic protective clothing manufacturers to actively meet foreign demand, regulate production and export in accordance with corresponding standards, and contribute to the global fight against the epidemic.
