Wenzhou, which is famous for opening the national small commodity market, has a number of firsts in China and even in the world.

For example, Yongjia Qiaotou has the largest button market in Asia; Liushi has the largest low-voltage equipment market in China; Longgang, a "farmer's city", has a famous recycled blanket market; Pingyang has one of the few nylon woven bag markets in China. Yishan, Cangnan county, has a national famous acrylic textile center; In Wenzhou, there is a large leather shoes center ... Wenzhou people proudly call Wenzhou China Leather Shoes City, which is no exaggeration. In terms of output, Wenzhou leather shoes are really second to none in cities across the country.

There are nearly 1300 leather shoes factories in Wenzhou, which is very rare in China.

Except for a few regular workers, most of these factories are temporary workers. Workers come and go freely-behind this freedom is intense and efficient labor and ruthless competition. A Wenzhou boss who set up a factory in Shanxi talked about the reasons why he didn't recruit people locally: first, he couldn't do the work, and second, he had a bad idea. When he said that he wanted to recruit people locally, it was full of relatives and friends, and the factory could not do it.

Now everyone is talking about specialized production. In fact, the degree of specialization of Wenzhou factories is quite high-there are tens of thousands of small factories and workshops that only match leather shoes. The shoe factories in Wenzhou are engaged in highly specialized production, and all kinds of shoe materials are purchased from the market. The shoe material market around Fu Qian Street in Wenzhou is also called "the first in China"-there are 500 or 600 shoe material shops with tens of thousands of varieties and specifications such as leather, shoe materials, shoe accessories, shoe glue and shoelaces. It is true that society runs factories. However, although some state-owned enterprises are large in scale, they are still not specialized in production and cannot achieve economies of scale.

Wenzhou people's new record is equally shocking:

Foreign exchange deposits in the hands of residents exceeded 1 100 million yuan;

The per capita annual living expenses of urban residents, including a considerable number of working-class people, exceed 3,000 yuan.