Surging News reporter Zhao Siwei
Towels are made from old socks and old underwear. On the evening of July 16, CCTV's "3·15" party exposed the dark side known as "domestic big towel production base".
Gaoyang County, Hebei Province is China's largest towel production base, with an annual output of 5 billion towels, accounting for about one-third of the country. One out of every three towels on the market is produced in Gaoyang.
"Yongliang Towel" is one of the larger towel manufacturing enterprises in Goyang. Sales Manager Zhai told CCTV reporters that there are two types of towels produced by Yongliang. "Hui" low-end towels cannot guarantee a pass. There is no guarantee that the towels that pass the test will be processed with cheap yarn. The raw materials of the yarn are some old socks, old underwear, old clothes and other processed “recycled cotton”.
At noon on July 17, Yongliang towel official Weibo issued an apology statement, saying that it attached great importance to the quality problems of Yongliang towel "special sale Hui" brand products reported at the "3.15" party, and set up a special team to investigate this matter as soon as possible. And actively cooperate with the investigation work of relevant government units.
The statement also mentioned that the "special sales benefit" products mentioned in the report are the company's early low-end customized products, used to meet the needs of some people, and stopped production in October 2019.
The inquiry found that at present, e-commerce platforms such as JD.com, Taobao and Pinduoduo have removed the "Yongliang towel" from the shelves.
Surging News noted that in addition to the company's apology statement, the local government of Goyang also reacted immediately.
According to the announcement of the Propaganda Department of the Gaoyang County Party Committee on the 17th, after the CCTV financial channel "3.15" party exposed the quality problems of Gaoyang towels and yarns, the Gaoyang County Party Committee and the county government held an emergency meeting for the first time and immediately launched towel products throughout the county. Special rectification of quality and safety.
The meeting agreed to set up a special rectification work leading group, with the county party committee secretary and government county head as the double team leader, and work overnight.
Organize relevant departments such as market supervision, public security, power supply, etc. to seal off the enterprises involved overnight, seal the products involved on the spot, immediately control the personnel involved, and investigate their illegal production and sales. To mobilize the power of various towns (subdistrict offices) to carry out a comprehensive investigation of all spinning enterprises and towel weaving enterprises in the county, closely track the source and destination of problematic yarns, and immediately block the sales channels of unqualified products.
In addition, the "Gaoyang County towel product quality special rectification work plan" was formulated to clarify the rectification goals, rectification tasks and work measures, and carry out a net-type, full-coverage product quality special rectification action for upstream and downstream enterprises in the towel industry.