In Caoqiao Street, Pinghu City, the reporter saw Chen Bugen who was full of joy.
"Our current order production has been scheduled to the end of the year, most of which are foreign customers. Now we are working overtime to catch up with production and shipment." Chen Bugen is the chairman of Chenda Warehousing Office Co., Ltd. Not long ago, the enterprise received orders of more than 5 million dollars at the 135th Canton Fair. With orders from other channels, the enterprise is expected to achieve an output value of 300 million yuan this year.
In Caoqiao, there are many residents who are as happy as Chen Bugen. Behind these smiles is the hope brought by the industrial butterfly change, the satisfaction brought by the happiness of people's livelihood, and the warmth brought by common prosperity.
Smile comes from industrial butterfly change
Chen Bugen still has a fresh memory of the scene of his first participation in the Canton Fair. After the products were placed in the 3 square meter exhibition area, there was no place for guests to go.
Back in 2004, Chen Bugen's enterprises are facing transformation. Since it is difficult to make new breakthroughs in the office cabinet market, how should we go in the future if we want to make the enterprise bigger? Chen Bugen couldn't sleep at night.
"Office boxes and cabinets are durable goods, and they won't be bought again in a short time after buying them once, and the size of the surrounding market is too small." At that time, Pinghu's clothing and luggage exports were in full swing, when Chen Bugen thought about whether to join these industries or find a breakthrough in the fields he is familiar with, an opportunity came.
In May 2004, with the approval of the provincial government, the organizational system of Caoqiao Township was revoked, Caoqiao Street was established, and some administrative divisions were adjusted. In the planning and development of industrial economy, the street party committee decided to speed up the construction of standard factory buildings in small and medium-sized enterprise entrepreneurship incubation areas.
"As soon as the factory is large, the output will increase, and the investment confidence will be more sufficient." Chen Bugen said frankly that his industry needs a large area of factory buildings to support it. "At that time, we planned to transform the production of toolkits for export, but the biggest part of this product is how tall one person is. If the street does not help us expand the factory, this road will be difficult to get through." Chen Bugen said, With the support of the street, most of the difficulties of enterprise transformation have been solved.
Over the years since then, Chen Bugen has led the enterprise to continue product iteration, upgrading the wheel, handle, packaging and other details of the toolbox, improving the customer's use experience, and developing cross-border e-commerce business. All products are sold to European and American markets.
Today, Chenda Warehousing Office Co., Ltd. has four fixed booths and 36 square meters of exhibition area at the Canton Fair. The enterprise has also expanded to 73 mu, and the number of employees has increased to 550. However, the only thing that remains unchanged is that the investment has always been in Caoqiao Street.
"In more than 20 years, I have felt the help of the street and seen the development potential here." As Chen Bugen said, over the past 20 years, Caoqiao Street has accompanied each "township enterprise" and has gone to the national and global market.
In the past 20 years, the sound of "ding ding dang dang dang" could not be heard in Caoqiao Street. Instead, intelligent production lines, robot operations and one button remote control were replaced. The industrial output value above the designated size reached 13.37 billion yuan, with 53 high-tech enterprises, 16 provincial specialized and new "little giant" enterprises, as well as Xingyue Packaging Materials Co., Ltd Baolute Environmental Protection Technology Engineering Co., Ltd., a leader in waste utilization
Smile comes from people's happiness
In Caoqiao Community, Caoqiao Street, Tuesday and Friday nights are Shao Jun's happiest days.
"Our community has two free yoga classes every week. We just need to sign up in WeChat groups, and yoga teachers will prepare yoga mats." Shao Jun, 31, is a native of Caoqiao. She always praises the cultural and leisure activities provided by the community.
By the end of 2023, Caoqiao Community, where Shao Jun lives, has successfully created a provincial leading future community, and the changes brought about are reflected in every detail of life.
Near the Dragon Boat Festival, Shao Jun had an early appointment with her neighbors to come to the "Weijia Pastry Shop" next to her home. Everyone talked and laughed while making dumplings, which is one of the distinctive grass-roots governance brands created by Caoqiao Community. Here, on holidays, many residents come to learn how to make cakes, often with the whole family and children learning to eat.
"Our community is also very efficient today. For example, when we find out which street light is broken, we can upload it to the applet by taking a picture of the mobile phone, and then we can see the progress of this matter online." The improvement Shao Jun perceived is just a microcosm of the transformation of the people's livelihood in Caoqiao Street.
Looking back from the node of 20 years when the township was removed and the street was built, Caoqiao Street carried out health management and pipe network renovation for Caoqiao Market Town with poor infrastructure and narrow and dilapidated street surface, so as to promote the "rejuvenation" of the market town; Continuous reconstruction and upgrading of Duantou Road, Kengwa Road and Narrow Road. In 2023, the road from Jiulitang Village to Yema Village in Caoqiao Street was successfully selected as one of the "Ten Most Beautiful Rural Roads" in Zhejiang Province; Let the residents move from simple tile roofed houses to clean high-rise buildings, and Caoqiao Street leaves the best area to the resettlement community, which has received numerous praises
When the "hardware" of people's livelihood changes at a visible speed, the simultaneous improvement of "soft power" makes Shao Jun happier.
Caoqiao Street used to be called the "Pig Triangle", because the high density of pig breeding stock led to the spread of odor, and every river channel in the street was inferior to Class V water.
In the past 20 years, Caoqiao Street has successively implemented a series of measures, such as pig retirement, the Three Rivers Action, agricultural non-point source pollution prevention, water ecological restoration and protection, which has made the rivers here have undergone qualitative changes. While thoroughly removing the hat of the "Pig Triangle", a future rural boutique line of "carbon for wisdom and oar for elegance" has emerged.
"In this scenic line, we have created a rowing town, allowing new energy buses to enter the village, connecting various beautiful villages, and combining with watermelon, Caoqiao fragrant rice, morel fungus and other characteristic industries, providing more than 300 jobs for villagers, turning the beautiful scenic line into a beautiful industrial line." The relevant person in charge of Caoqiao Street said.
Smile comes from the wish of mutual prosperity
"It's very satisfying to think that we can earn more than 4000 yuan a month." At Jingxing Gongfu Workshop, the reporter saw the joy and satisfaction on Master Zhao's face.
Four years ago, Master Zhao was disabled due to injury. His right leg prosthesis made it difficult for him to find a suitable job, and he was in trouble for a while. In 2022, with the help of Caoqiao Street staff, he came to Jingxing Gongfu Workshop and became a worker. This workshop was jointly established by the Party Committee of Caoqiao Street and Pinghu Jingxing Packaging Materials Co., Ltd. Master Zhao's job here is to glue the packaging cartons, which is easy and well paid.
"Working here is also very close to home, and most of my colleagues are the same as me." As Master Zhao said, in Jingxing Gongfu Workshop, there are 78 disabled people, some are born deaf, some are disabled due to injury, but each of them works very carefully. "In 2023, the Wealth Sharing Workshop has achieved an output value of tens of millions of yuan. Workers can also improve their skills according to their own conditions. For example, if the bonding post is changed into a machine operator, the wages will increase." The workshop leader told reporters.
In Caoqiao Street, more and more co prosperity projects were born in the past 20 years.
In Mabing Village, the rowing town built by the integration of "agriculture, culture, tourism and sports" has not only attracted many tourists, but also gathered more than ten new types of business projects such as catering, homestay and coffee, enabling 61 year old Zhang Jinzhen to achieve a double income increase pattern of "salary+rent".
In Yema Village, the family of Ding Jianfa, a villager, earns money just by basking in the sun. A few years ago, Ding Jianfa's family was on the verge of subsistence allowance due to his wife's illness. With the help of the "Sunshine for Common Prosperity" project, the street funded the installation of 16 groups of photovoltaic panels for his family. The sun shines on the photovoltaic panel on the roof, and also shines into Ding Jianfa's heart.
In Kongjiayan Village, the "Yanshangjia Family" Joint Wealth Consortium set up a live broadcast room in the field, which not only helped farmers increase their income by selling goods, but also led Wang Haili to run a training class to introduce new varieties and technologies, and guide farmers to plant high-quality grapes, morchella and agaricus blazei with high added value. Today, the "Yanshang Family" joint venture has reached cooperation with 8 large supermarkets and e-commerce companies in Shanghai, Hangzhou, Jiaxing and other places, with an annual sales of 15 million yuan.
At the end of the day's work, Master Zhao walked home. When he passed by the rowing town, he met his village friends who were off work. They talked about their work, family and future plans. The two people's smiles in the sunset were extremely bright, which also injected a touch of warmth and vitality into the town.