Chinanews.com, Ulanchabu, April 8th, title: Helping rural revitalization in Inner Mongolia to run a clothing factory for the 60-year old

  China News Service reporter Li Aiping

  The 68-year-old Shi Zhanhua shed tears when she talked about her entrepreneurial experience.

  The garment factory opened by this laid-off female worker from Huade County, Ulanchabu City, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region has become a local business card.

Her deeds of leading the local disabled and migrant workers to get rid of poverty and become rich have also become a true portrayal of her love for rural revitalization.

  On April 7, when Shi Zhanhua led reporters to visit her clothing workshop, dozens of migrant workers were busy in front of the sewing machine.

  She pointed to a batch of cotton-padded clothes that had just been made and said, "These clothes will be sent to Heilongjiang soon."

  The handicrafts in the other workshop were all made by local disabled people.

  "They are slow to do it, but they reflect the value here and they are happy to work." Shi Zhanhua said.

  Shi Zhanhua was "forced to Liangshan" when he started his business.

  This "entrepreneur", who was awarded the title of National Advanced Individual in Helping the Disabled in 2014 and the title of Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region Model Worker in 2015, came home after being laid off from the Huade County Carpet Factory in 1985 and worked hard step by step until now. Today's results.

  That year, Shi Zhanhua overcame various difficulties and used a small loan from the local Changshun town and 500 yuan funded by the county's Women's Federation to set up a small family snack processing factory at home with her husband, which quickly gained benefits.

  "This 500 yuan gave me the courage to continue living." Shi Zhanhua cried again after speaking of this experience.

  The real turning point of Shi Zhanhua’s life was in 1991. She and her husband raised 115,000 yuan to purchase 7 factories and opened the first Xianghua Welfare Garment Factory in Huade County, which integrates garment processing and machine training, specifically recruiting laid-off workers. , And provide training for the employment of the disabled.

  “The first batch of 57 people were trained and they left voluntarily after they finished their studies. Those who stayed to work in the factory had a monthly salary of more than 100 yuan. At that time, a fresh graduated college student had a monthly salary of about 70 yuan. This move was to solve the problem of laid-off workers. Reemployment has found a breakthrough." Shi Zhanhua said.

  The reporter learned from the Huade County Government that since the first training course, more than 1,200 skilled mechanics have grown up under Shi Zhanhua.

Now Shi Zhanhua's garment factory has become a flake garment processing and production enterprise with fixed assets of more than 15 million yuan and more than 120 employees.

  Shi Zhanhua is an enthusiastic person. While doing a good job in the operation and production of the garment factory, she also thinks about many difficult employees and people in need.

  Former laid-off worker Cao Zhanrong, with Shi Zhanhua's encouragement, participated in a clothing sewing technology training class.

Now he has a great skill, he also set up a family clothing processing factory, and now the family has his own car.

  Zhao Huansuo is a disabled person. Since 2012, his family of three have worked in Shi Zhanhua's garment factory. Now they have built a brick house and have savings at home.

  A few years ago, Shi Zhanhua taught 42 peasants how to learn sewing techniques. In the end, these peasants who had a good skill had a per capita annual income of about 4,000 yuan.

  Local officials said that Shi Zhanhua's "poverty alleviation workshop" has become a beautiful landscape in the county's poverty alleviation process.

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