The "Underwear City" In Shantou

< p > noisy and busy 324 National Road across Shantou Chen shop town of Shantou. The hastily rolled wheels pass through the colorful ring of underwear straps on the road.

This famous underwear City can't be beautiful at the moment because of a flood.

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"P" in the past week of flood prevention and rescue has attracted the attention of all walks of life in Shantou, when the south area of the land is the only disaster area in Guangdong province which can not eliminate the waterlogging, the town under the jurisdiction of the area is "the disaster area in the disaster area".

The local youth Cho Chao can remember the prosperous scene on both sides of the National Road: all kinds of underwear accessories stores, electronics accessories factories and plastic flower factories are next to each other.

At present, the deepest water level is still about half a meter high, and supplies are even dependent on helicopters.

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< p > field report found that the flood not only damaged the daily life of local residents, but also impacted the business town of "a target=" _blank "href=" //www.sjfzxm.com/ "clothing" /a "fabric and electronics industry.

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< p > August 21st, a shop selling lace in Chen Dian Town, a middle-aged man quietly sweeping the water outside.

Three days ago, a sudden rainstorm flooded the store where he lived.

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< p > for many residents in Chaonan District of Shantou, the flood that started on the 17 day of this month and erupting on the 18 night was like a nightmare.

According to the Guangdong provincial Civil Affairs Department's report, from August 14th to August 21st, 19 cities and 90 counties (cities and districts) of the province suffered floods and floods. As of August 21st at 11 a.m., 7 million 991 thousand and 200 people were affected in the province, and the direct economic loss was 12 billion 736 million yuan.

As the hardest hit area, the number of deaths reported by the Shantou authorities reached 6. The total number of victims was over 780 thousand, and 133 thousand and 300 people were pferred to the disaster area.

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Less than P, the shop with an area of only 28 square kilometers is located at the junction of Chaonan district and Puning city in Shantou. It is the industrial and commercial window of the western part of Shantou, and is called the "west gate" of Shantou.

The town is all plain and flat.

This is also one of the reasons why Chen shop has been ravaged by floods.

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< p > Chen Dian has a very dense population and industrial agglomeration, accounting for only 4% of the Chaonan District, while the population accounts for more than 10%.

This reporter saw in the locals that the streets here are narrow, with many buildings and bungalows lined up on both sides. There are many characteristic buildings in Chaoshan District, such as "downhill tigers". The building is only two meters high, and it has not been flooded, leaving only the sharp corners of the roof.

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< p > where the flood recedes, there are traces of floods: the water stains on the walls of residents' homes, the "psoriasis" advertisements on the street side, and the dirty cars.

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< p > all parties are fighting disaster relief, but in many places, the flood has not yet receded.

A member of a non-governmental organization involved in the rescue told our reporter that there are still many villages submerged in the deep water. These areas are often the "blind spots" for rescue. Some of the dangerous places are accessible by the government rescue force. The spontaneous rescue teams can only play a rescue role in relatively shallow water.

Due to the large number of victims, some trapped high-rise buildings or people with a slight degree of disaster were placed in place, and low-lying areas or sick people were rescued first.

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< p > Zhou Chaosheng told our reporter that due to the high topography of his own family, several friends and family members have been placed in the family.

More than a dozen affected residents said that the electricity was cut off at home and the water shortage was serious and food was running out.

Official Bulletin shows that the interruption of communication in the whole town due to power failure.

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< p > Chaonan District, while organizing flood fighting and rescue, mobilizing all forces to properly pfer the lives of the masses.

In August 20th, 42 thousand and 200 kilograms of food and 17320 boxes of mineral water were sent.

Civil self-help is also in progress.

This reporter passed a residential area, dozens of victims waiting for a restaurant outside the collection of food and drinking water.

"This is a wealthy local resident who pays for the surrounding villagers himself."

A middle-aged man with a box of biscuits told the reporter.

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< p > our reporter walked two or three kilometers along the 324 National Road, and the villages along the way were still the hardest hit areas. On the way, there were occasional freight cars parked on the way, which were distributed free of charge, and people from both sides of the villages from time to time walked out of the waist deep water to get food and water.

Young people who spontaneously came to support used rubber boats to carry food and drinking water to the depths of the water.

People who live near the disaster area also spontaneously distribute their own food.

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< p > rescuers told our reporter that because food and drinking water are hard to maintain clean enough, children are easy to get sick, and the disaster areas are in urgent need of daily necessities such as gastrointestinal medicine.

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Several middle-aged men are moving rice in a rice wholesale shop near P.

The owner of the rice shop pointed to more than 100 tons of rice stacked beside the hill, saying that the rice had been smolfed by the flood and could only be pulled to feed the pig, which cost almost 1 million yuan.

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< p > another inhabitant who passed by told our reporter that he saw a pig farm being washed away and many pigs were floating on the river, which had begun to stink.

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< p > a car owner stood beside the national road with a frown on his face. Beside him, he was no longer in sight. The BMW car, which was worth 500 thousand yuan, was soon opened. After two days of immersion, the car was occupied by sludge and garbage.

"What do you say to the insurance company," he complained to our correspondent.

In addition, his two electronics factories were also seriously damaged.

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< p > Chen boss runs a lace "a target=" _blank "href=" //www.sjfzxm.com/ "cloth" /a "store" on the 324 National Road. The products are mostly used for underwear production.

Chen boss used "annihilated troops" to describe his losses. He said that the loss of stores was estimated at around 400 thousand yuan.

Besides running a store, Chen also owns a factory.

He told reporters that his factory is still unable to enter.

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< p > when asked about factory losses, Chen shook his head and said, "no more."

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< p > his friends are also engaged in underwear production.

According to it, many of them are hard to get in touch with. "A lot of people stop their cell phones, and the underwear factories are in a bad state.

Some lingerie factories in the locals are still trapped by women workers.

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There are more than 2000 large and small underwear enterprises in the town of P.

Underwear factories are concentrated in several villages, such as Xikou, gully lake and grass tail. Local rescuers told our reporter that the water there is still more than one meter deep.

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< p > underwear is the mainstay industry in Chaoyang district and Chaonan District of Shantou. Gu Rao Town, two British town, Xia Shan town and Chen Dian town are four famous knitted underwear cities. The Shantou underwear industrial cluster based on two districts and four towns is one of the largest knitted underwear, household clothing and underwear accessories and underwear accessories in China.

According to industry data, an average of one out of every ten women in China is born in Chaoshan.

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< p > according to the statistics of Shantou customs, Shantou enterprises exported 2 billion 930 million US dollars in 1~7 months, an increase of 2.8% over the same period last year.

Among them, the export volume of local clothing and accessories products reached 857 million US dollars, an increase of 5.7% over the same period last year, which is the second largest export product after the mechanical and electrical products (the latter is 868 million US dollars).

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< p > in the office of Chen Dian bra Association on the six floor of a hotel, our reporter saw Lin Xinliang, the Secretary General of the association, who had just returned from the disaster scene.

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< p > he can not escape the underwear factory which has worked hard for more than 20 years. The first floor is flooded. The machines are all in the water and can not be used. Nearly two hundred of the employees, the locals go home separately, and the field workers are housed in some schools.

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When asked what to do in the future, he replied, "as for the resumption of production, it will take at least a month."

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The order placed before the < p > should not only return the 30% deposit already received, but also compensate it by 30%.

Speaking of this, Lin Xin Liang shook his head.

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< p > December 2004, Chen shop was appraised as "China's underwear town" by China's a target= "_blank" href= "//www.sjfzxm.com/" > textile < /a > Industrial Association, China clothing association and China Knitting Industry Association.

In addition to underwear industry, Chen shop also has electronic and electrical appliances, plastic silk flowers and other pillar industries.

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< p > underwear bra industry has now formed a large scale industrial cluster: nearly 100 factories in the whole town are weaving, embroidering, lace and shoulder straps. "From nylon and polyester into Chen shop can make underwear bra". Lin Xin Liang said that the whole town engaged in underwear industry has about eighty thousand or ninety thousand personnel.

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< p > Lin Xinliang told the newspaper that the underwear industry is quite special. The machine is advanced, and it needs artificial labor. There are more than thirty processes in production. Every process must be done manually and by machines.

So pformation and upgrading are not so easy.

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< p > he said that for a long time, most of the production enterprises in Chen Dian town were mainly based on family production and low-end processing. Their starting point was small and small, and they operated independently, and the industry did not form a resultant force.

There is also tremendous pressure now.

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At present, the underwear market of the whole country is basically grabbed by chain stores and online shopping. The market share of some underwear manufacturers whose original brand is private has been shrinking. In the words of Lin Xinliang, some factories finally had to make OEM for chain stores.

Because the urban public facilities in Chaoshan area are relatively backward, professional managers often change, leaving no talent.

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< p > August 20th, the Shantou municipal Party committee and the municipal government held a working conference on disaster recovery and production.

The losses of local industries need to be further assessed.

Like Chen shop, the textile and garment industry is also a pillar industry in Shantou. In 2012, the output value of the scale exceeded 47 billion yuan (141 billion 501 million yuan), followed by the chemical plastics industry and the craft toy industry, and the output value of the scale reached 34 billion 800 million yuan and 24 billion yuan respectively.

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