(Bamin Qianzi) The past and present of "Hometown of Chinese Knives and Scissors": A pair of scissors to go into the world

　　China News Agency, Fujian Ningde, March 6th: The past and present of the "Hometown of Chinese Knives and Scissors": A pair of scissors to break into the world

　　Author Lin Rongsheng Ma Qichen

　　"Stainless steel knives and scissors look at Yangjiang, carbon steel scissors are in Zherong." This jargon of China's knife and scissors industry has become a true portrayal of the status and influence of a pair of scissors in Zherong County, Ningde City, Fujian Province.

　　Today, there are 253 knife and scissors production enterprises in Zherong County, with more than 5,000 employees, 173 registered trademarks, and an annual output of more than 300 million knives and scissors, with an annual output value of more than 1.7 billion yuan (RMB, the same below).

"Zherong scissors" is already the most distinctive traditional industry and pillar industry of people's livelihood in Zherong. The manufacturing skills of Zherong scissors have also been included in the seventh batch of representative projects of Fujian provincial intangible cultural heritage.

　　Spot welding, bending, tempering, water grinding, cutting, rivets... Walking into the knife and scissors production workshop of Fujian Yongdeli Industrial Co., Ltd., the workers are proficient in operating the equipment and stepping up production to meet orders.

　　In recent years, the company has introduced equipment such as CNC water mill, CNC abrasive belt machine and CNC static plastic machine, which greatly improves product quality and production efficiency, reduces production costs and is more environmentally friendly.

The company's general manager Chi Xuewei told reporters that the company's annual output is more than 20 million, and the annual output value is more than 60 million yuan.

　　According to the "Zherong County Chronicle", as early as the Yongzheng period of the Qing Dynasty, there were skilled craftsmen in Zherong who forged scissors with pig iron and steel blades.

During the Tongzhi period of the Qing Dynasty, Zhemin's scissors of "Yuan Hexing", "Lin Caixing" and "Lin Muxing" were quite famous.

　　Xiping Street in the old city is the earliest old street in Zherong, and it is the birthplace and inheritance place of Zherong scissors.

A practitioner of scissors and scissors in Xiping Street recalled that in those days, they often used shoulders to carry hand-held products for retail in all directions, commonly known as "packed scissors". Except for Tibet, there were shouts of "selling scissors" from Zherong people all over the country.

　　In 1975, Zherong County Scissors Factory (renamed Minfeng Scissors Factory in 1990) was established, using electric cutting machines, punches and other new equipment for production, and the "Minfeng" scissors brand was established, and the products sold well all over the country.

In 1992, after the successful restructuring of Minfeng Scissors Factory, the original factory personnel "going to sea" to set up enterprises, and the knife and scissors industry has developed by leaps and bounds.

　　Since 2005, Zherong knife and scissors industry has developed 20 series and 106 varieties of civilian scissors, clothing scissors, medical scissors, travel scissors, etc. on the basis of inheriting traditional skills. %.

　　The production of Zherong knife and scissors has a long history, with a history of more than 300 years.

In recent years, Zhe Rong has guided knife and scissors enterprises to "return from the city and enter the park", supported the integration and reorganization of "workshop-style" small enterprises, encouraged large enterprises to jointly occupy the industrial highland, and promoted the transformation, upgrading and agglomeration development of traditional characteristic industries.

　　Fujian Manulife Knives & Scissors Co., Ltd. settled in Yanshan Yang Knives & Scissors Industrial Park in Zherong County in 2019.

Wei Dingfeng, general manager of the company who has been engaged in the knife and scissors industry for more than 20 years, said that after "returning from the city and entering the park", the company focused on technological transformation, technology introduction and new product research and development, and also increased investment in mechanized equipment to develop into the stainless steel knife and scissors industry.

　　Up to now, nearly 80 knife and scissors enterprises have settled in Yanshan Foreign Knife and Scissors Industrial Park in Zherong County, gradually forming an industrial scale.

Liu Xianxiang, president of Zherong County Knife and Scissors Industry Association, believes that "returning the city and entering the park" for knife and scissors enterprises can not only reduce environmental pollution, but also strengthen industry management, promote the differentiated development of the knife and scissors industry, and improve market competitiveness.

　　Wen Jinhua, director of Zherong County Knife and Scissors Industry Management Office, said that he will build a research and development and marketing center, continue to promote knife and scissors enterprises to participate in well-known exhibitions of hardware knife and scissors industry at home and abroad, develop civilian knife and scissors market, foreign trade export market, stainless steel knife and scissors market, improve " The popularity and influence of the public brand of Zherong Scissors.

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