A Reporter Visited Xiyang Village, Shandong Province, And Got Rich By Weaving

The Yunju River is shining with silver, straight through Xiyang Village, Huangnigang Town, Yuncheng County. The river carries the debris of sand and time, washing out thousands of acres of fertile land on both banks. In the villages along the river, from the manual workshop of "the sound of shuttling in mud brick houses" in the 1980s to the intelligent textile industrial park with an output value of 600 million yuan this year, in the buzz of textile machines, three generations of people worked hard to achieve the leap from food and clothing to well-off and affluent.

"In the past, it was' household looms ringing to earn a ration of food ', but now it is' employment at the gate, everyone runs for a well-off life'." A few days ago, a reporter interviewed in Xiyang Village. When asked about the history of textile development in the village, Yang Wenqi, secretary of the village party branch, drank a sip of tea quietly. Since the village had the first loom in 1986, he told the reporter the story of Xiyang Village.

　　 The beginning of establishment: the "adventure" of getting rich and the first bucket of gold in the village

In the spring of 1986, Yang Meiqing, a retired cadre of Yuncheng County's state-owned cotton mill, returned to his hometown Xiyang Village from the county seat with the desire to become rich in the village. At that time, the only source of income for villagers was farming, and the village collective economy was even more cash strapped. Yang Meiqing raised funds from all parties, mobilized villagers to raise funds to build factories, introduced 20 looms, and transformed abandoned warehouses into workshops.

When the first loom clattered and spit out cotton cloth, Yang Wenqi, 20, was helping his master with a wrench in the factory. The young man who later became the secretary of the village party branch would not have thought that the "iron pimple" that clanged was quietly changing the fate of the whole village.

"At that time, the whole village felt that Lao Yang was crazy. With so much money invested, yarn could grow in the saline alkali land?" Yang Wenqi recalled that the first batch of products were not sold well. Yang Meiqing took him everywhere to sell, and even went to other markets to set up stalls. Three months later, a foreign trade company in Shandong unexpectedly picked up this batch of "coarse cloth", and orders flew in like snowflakes. The first bucket of gold in Xiyang Village was born in the persistence of Yang Meiqing and the sweat of villagers.

In 2004, the global textile industry experienced a cold winter. Zhi Jianguo, then the secretary of the party committee of Huangnigang Town, looked at the rusty old looms and pondered. "You have to wait for death or change the track!" With the support of his superiors, he vigorously rejected the popular opinion, planned 249 mu of wasteland to build an industrial park, mobilized village enterprises to expand their scale and relocate to the park, and provided a series of preferential business policies. The industrial park laid a solid foundation for the development of the textile industry in Xiyang Village.

As time goes by, intelligent doffing robot replaces manual work. Xinjiang long staple cotton and local cotton blend in the intelligent cotton blending system. The number of workers for ten thousand spindles dropped from 120 to 35, and the number of spinning yarns jumped from 21 to 80. The yarn spun by private enterprises in the village also appeared in the highly competitive high-end market of "Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai" for the first time. The scene of hot sales made villagers tearful.

　　 Creating a Second Generation Industry Breakthrough: the Counterattack War of "Tianji Horse Racing"

In 2010, young Yang Zhi stood in his father's office, worried about the yellowing orders. As the second generation successor of textile industry for a long time, he grew up in the workshop, worked as a barricader, and ran through sales. He knew the bottleneck of the traditional model: "When leading enterprises eat batches, we have to find gaps." He put forward the strategy of "small order fast turnaround", specializing in special yarns. He has invested 40 million yuan in introducing advanced equipment to complete technical transformation, avoiding the edge of leading enterprises, and "Tianji horse racing" We have developed 6 kinds of differentiated products, from baby products to high-end home textiles, with customers covering major domestic foreign trade companies.

"Sleeping in the workshop every day during that time was to seize the 72 hour delivery time." Yang Zhi recalled that in 2018, the enterprise had just completed the technical transformation, and received a temporary order of 50000 pieces from customers. The orders of leading enterprises in the industry are fixed and difficult to turn around. The customer temporarily decided to hand over the orders to Jiujiu Textile. Yang Zhi led the team to turn round, and the new intelligent equipment reduced 30% of the working hours, and finally delivered ahead of schedule. Today, Jiujiu Textile's "quick response workshop" processes 120 orders per day, with a profit margin 25% higher than the traditional model.

The reason why private enterprises can become an important engine to promote the development of local economy, on the one hand, can not be separated from their own efforts, on the other hand, can not be separated from the support of the local government. Over the years, the government of Huangnigang Town has taken the lead in holding "Bank Enterprise Matchmaking Meetings" for many times, allowing the heads of enterprises to directly connect with the heads of banks. Take Jiujiu Textile as an example. In recent years, the loan of 10 million yuan has always enjoyed the lowest interest. In 2024, when the sales department of Nantong City has encountered capital problems for a long time, the bank staff will respond quickly, launch the "trans provincial service emergency mechanism", and work against the clock. It will take only two hours to complete the whole process procedures, and issue a loan of 3 million yuan to enterprises to ease the urgent needs of enterprises.

In the constant temperature workshop of Xiyang Village Shengkai Textile Factory, Yang Qi, a 42 year old technical worker, stroked the vortex spinning equipment worth tens of millions. His story was hidden in the smell of engine oil. After his father's early death, he and his mother lived on only a few acres of farmland in their childhood. After leaving the school, he became a textile apprentice in the village, and his gloves were worn out in every process from cleaning, carding to drawing. Now, this technical backbone has made over 10000 yuan a month, married and had children, bought commercial housing in the county, and drove a car.

"In the past, marrying a daughter depended on whether there were 'three major items'. Now we have to ask whether we can operate an intelligent loom." Yang Wenqi said with a smile. The data confirms the great change: among the 1500 employees in the village, more than 100 have grown from temporary workers to technical backbones, and the per capita monthly income has exceeded 6000 yuan.

　　 Create a three generation youth relay: the smart tide weaves the wisdom of common prosperity

Yang Meiqing is the founder of Xiyang Village's blooming textile industry. Since 1986, the enterprise has developed into a spinning and weaving "one-stop" enterprise after several technical reforms. Yang Hang, 24 years old this year, was born in the sound of weaving machines. His life in front of the factory and at home has allowed him to immerse himself in the textile industry since he was young. From shuttle to shuttleless equipment, from jet to big round machine, each technological innovation is engraved with the struggle of three generations.

Today, the annual output value of the enterprise has exceeded 50 million yuan, 10 big round machines worth more than 10 million yuan are running quietly, and the intelligent workshop with 46 people has an annual output of more than 2000 tons of grey cloth, building a complete production loop from raw materials to finished products.

In the laboratory of Wuhan Textile University, "Creating Three Generations" Yang Hang first came into contact with basalt fiber extraction technology through the production, learning and research activities organized by the government of Huangnigang Town. This revolutionary technology can draw volcanic rock into yarn at a high temperature of 1450 ℃, forming a new type of material that is 5 times as strong as steel but light and can float in space. In June 2024, as the Chang'e-6 probe successfully launched the world's first basalt fiber flag on the back of the moon, the aerospace application value of this technology has been perfectly verified.

"If you are rich, you should lead the village to become rich together." Yang Hang always remembers his grandfather Yang Meiqing's words. He keeps learning, always pays attention to the industry trends, and further studies at his own expense to improve the competitiveness of the enterprise and its own market, so as to make a new career in the challenging textile industry.

Recently, Shengkai Textile rented a new factory opposite the original site, and plans to expand its business scale with 10 more production lines. The transformation of blooming textiles from manual workshops to intelligent factories, from coarse textile to fine textile to grey textile, is a vivid epitome of the transformation and upgrading of Chinese private enterprises. "The future is an era of science and technology. If private enterprises want to make great progress in this era, they must keep up with the wave of intelligence and use higher technology to maximize the benefits of villagers," Yang said.

Textile industry has become the pillar industry of Huangnigang Town, with more than 160 enterprises and a total industrial output value of 3.06 billion yuan. The story of Xiyang Village is still going on, and the code of getting rich in Xiyang Village is hidden in the courage of Yang Meiqing to take the lead in entrepreneurship, in the business wisdom of Yang Zhi's "Tianji horse racing", and in the historical responsibility of the previous party committee teams in Huangnigang Town, "success does not have to be in me, success must have me". They cultivated the seeds of textile industry into towering trees with the strategic determination of "one after another"; With the pragmatic style of "drawing a blueprint to the end", Huangnigang Town has built four beams and eight pillars for high-quality development. Every leap on this land interprets the era symphony of persistence and innovation.

(Source: Jiao Qiangqiang, reporter Sun Tao of Heze Daily and correspondent)