as we all know, Santa Claus comes from Yiwu
, many countries have recently abandoned Christmas celebrations because of the epidemic, and Notre Dame de Paris has canceled midnight Mass for the first time since the Revolution of 1789.
Santa Claus should be very happy. He doesn't have to pull a sleigh or drill a chimney to stuff gifts into his socks. After giving gifts, he has to consider being quarantined for 14 days.
later, I noticed a piece of news that in order to respond to energy conservation and emission reduction, Yiwu turned off all the lighting lamps and cut off electricity everywhere, causing the factory to stop work and the workers to rest.
boy, I didn't let you shave your head even if I asked you to pay attention to your hair style. In line with the mentality of watching exotic flowers, I searched other news in Yiwu.
discovered after some digging,we may be the real Santa Claus.
Yiwu, which was brightly lit at Christmas in previous years, is now in many places.
not so cold and cheerless place, are also in the transformation of live with goods. The reason for the desolation is nothing else, that is, foreigners are not celebrating Christmas.
yo, because of the blowing silk.
, in line with the idea that all wealth codes are not bad, I have carefully and deeply analyzed the economics of Yiwu at Christmas. It's really a bit of Christmas tree material.
smart children will ask, what does it matter if you spend Christmas abroad and I have no business in Yiwu?
the so-called internal affairs do not always ask workers, foreign affairs do not always ask Yiwu. Yiwu has always been known as the world's commissary. There are more than 600 factories in Yiwu, specializing in the production of Christmas supplies. In the global Christmas supplies market, Yiwu occupies 80% of the market share.
so, the western media will be Yiwu is called "Santa's Real Workshop," translated as "Christmas factory".
ten Christmas hats, eight made in YIWU. Elementary school students in Yiwu know that Santa Claus does not come from Northern Europe, but is produced in Yiwu.
According to Cai Qinliang, secretary-general of the Yiwu Christmas Products Industry Association, as long as the countries and regions that celebrate Christmas are their customers, "We don't celebrate Christmas, we only produce Christmas".
this Christmas "porter" Yiwu even has a Christmas supplies industry association to set global Christmas supplies manufacturing standards. What kind of Christmas hats are sold in the high-end department store on Fifth Avenue in New York every year may all rely on the head patted by the leader of a Yiwu Association.
is not just a Christmas hat, decorative ribbons, these traditional Christmas supplies, even Christmas trees, Yiwu have to be contracted.
smart students may ask again: when can yiwu grow a christmas tree?
according to the us news outlet the hustle, 81 percent of the 96 million christmas trees displayed in the united states each year are artificial plastic fake trees. Only 19% are real trees.
have started replacing real Christmas trees with plastic fake trees.
tree session also began and anthropologyInner Volumelearn to behave like a human being. Compared with real trees, fake trees are not only cheap but also durable, and are naturally chosen by many people.
the life of a plastic Christmas tree is as long as 10 years. No matter how the real tree is built, it can only be used for one year.
the cost of replacing a real Christmas tree every year is about three times the cost of buying a fake tree.
Indiana State University professor James Farmer also conducted research on Christmas tree growers. He said that it is precisely because of the decline of American farmers and changes in consumer preferences that threaten the development of the traditional Christmas tree industry.
American farmers refers to the fact that after the 2008 financial crisis, a large number of Christmas tree farms went bankrupt and farmers turned to make more economical crops. Coupled with the aging of American farmers, there are not manyyoung peopleare willing to farm, causing the supply of artificial Christmas trees to become increasingly tight after 2016.
consumer preferences are also undergoing profound changes, and more and more people are choosing plastic Christmas trees that can be reused.
of course, just like in the electronic age, there are still people who enjoy the clock and gear.aesthetic feeling, the real tree must also have the meaning that the fake tree cannot give.
is just like in 2077, people began to use super-dream real-life experience, you will only look at the screen with paper towels......
no, I didn't mean to taunt you
the use of real trees certainly has its retro and romantic side, but in the era of big machines and the economic and practical logic it brings, it will focus on destroying people's hearts.poetic and romantic.
fake tree is not only more economical for consumers, but also more economical for businesses.profitable.
98% of the Christmas trees in the United States come from forest farms, the production cycle of these trees is very long, the so-called ten-year trees, the growth cycle of Christmas trees is almost 8 to 10 years, in such a long period of time, farmers need to spend a lot of energy to weed and fertilize trees and prune branches. So this is an industry with a particularly long profit cycle.
but the plastic tree is not the same, as a product of modern civilization, plastic is durable, plastic and good, what posture you want to have what posture.
a pvc tube, poke it in, pull it out, and it becomes the shape you want. With a little whitewashing with wire and ornaments, a shaped Christmas tree came out.
a real tree takes eight to 10 years to hit the market, while plastic Christmas trees can be produced in minutes. If you go all out, a factory in Yiwu can produce 1,500 Christmas trees in 2 days.
no matter what industry, meet007 three shiftsof the Chinese factory workers, will usher in aEfficiency Revolution.
Christmas tree industry is no exception.
because it is a machine job, the cost of making Christmas trees comes mainly from manpower and raw materials, and these workers who work 12-hour shifts are paid less$600, less than half of the lumberjacks in the US state of Oregon.
high efficiency and low cost are also reflected in the wholesale price. The wholesale price of a real tree is about $35, while the wholesale price of a plastic tree is only $15. This is more than twice the price difference.
consumers and retailers are profiting from plastic Christmas trees, and the only ones who are unhappy are forest owners who are still diligently planting real trees.
these forest owners certainly can't compete with rivals with higher margins and faster production cycles. Christmas trees in the United States have become another industry that has been replaced by Chinese manufacturing.
, although the share of real trees and fake trees is equal today, the sales of real trees today have not increased at all compared with 15 years ago, while the sales of fake trees have increased twice as fast. Fake trees are eating into the market share of real trees a little bit.
intuitively speaking, Yiwu vendors more than 20,000 kilometers away took away the profits that should have belonged to Oregon farmers. Just as China's manufacturing industry has been doing for decades, our low-cost and high-efficiency have replaced a large number of low-end manufacturing industries in Europe, America and Japan.
cars, clothing, cell phones, and Christmas trees, a lot of American jobs are moving to China. Red necks in the Rust Belt and forest farmers in the Rocky Mountains are paying for such changes.
, the paradox of capital is that he whores you, but you turn a blind eye.
. Before the millennium, there were only about five merchants producing Christmas products in Yiwu. Today, they have basically dominated the global Christmas industry.
but this is only the surface, the real profit is actually still the United States.Big Capital and Retailerstook it.
in the traditional real Christmas tree industry, the big capital isthe most profitable's side.
we said above, the wholesale price of a real Christmas tree is about $35, while the farmer's profit is about $8 to $10.
to the National Christmas Tree Association (NCTA), the average retail price of trees in 2019 was $75, essentiallydoubled to sell..
Association said in an interview with the media: "Farmers make much less money than Christmas tree retailers."
in the plastic Christmas tree industry, profit margins are even more perverted. The wholesale price of a plastic Christmas tree at $15 is half that of a real tree, but the average retail price is half as expensive as a real Christmas tree, reaching $107.
fake trees are more expensive than real trees, Xiao San is more outstanding than the main palace, and his left hand is more waist-protecting than real people. Where are you going to argue with that?
So what does this matter tell us? Can't Bai Piao,likes watching..
today is estimated at $1.2 billion. Balsam Hill, one of the industry's largest producers, earned about $0.15 billion in 2018, far more than the largest Christmas tree plantation.
factories in Yiwu make money?
make money, but it's all small business. The profit margin is pitifully low. Many manufacturers have complained in front of the media that the cost of labor, rent and raw materials is rising, but the wholesale price of Christmas trees has not become higher.
the real big head is earned by big retailers led by Balsam Hill, and after changing hands from Yiwu, the price of these artificial Christmas trees can beturned six or seven times.
Yiwu has no snow, no elk, only more than 600 factories and tens of thousands of workers with a monthly salary of less than 600 US dollars.
these immigrants from the western provinces of Yunnan, Sichuan and Guizhou. They don't know how warm the light will be under the Christmas tree, surrounded by a hint of fragrant, fruity turkey. They work for 007 and are paid 600. The boom of the motor replaced the Christmas jingle, which was their Christmas gospel.
, this is less than US $600, which is also being advertised by some Internet finance companies.eyeing.
workers are sold to overseas retailers for $15, and finally consumers buy them from retailers for up to $3,000.
once the foreign trade situation changes, these source factories will be the first to suffer.
especially since the outbreak in 2020. Yiwu merchantsseverely damaged. After Germany and some parts of France announced the cancellation of this year's Christmas market, Yiwu, as the shipping place of 50% of the world's Christmas goods, has sent half of the orders to various countries this year.
, Yiwu, the world's largest small commodity market, is almost out of the open.
are farmers in Oregon or workers in Yiwu, they are actually these large retailers.workers..
farmers planted trees and protected soil, workers manipulated plastics and machines, and profits and wealth completed a "civet cat for prince" transfer.
these new-age downtrodden households who believe in "God bless America", while shouting "The true tree will never be a slave", they voted for them and said they would help them.get back to workLao Chuan. So the Americans started a trade war and moved back to overseas factories. However, facts have proved that even Trump cannot stop the unstoppable wave of global division of labor. The knowledgeable king who promised to help them find their jobs will become unemployed in 2021.
you see, history is thus closed.
Chairman Mao said well: who are our enemies and who are our friends is the primary issue of the revolution. These farmers clearly don't understand the real primary problem.
Master Ma also said that the history of all society up to now is the history of class struggle. All contradictions are truly derived from class contradictions.
the bottom farmers who believe in the American dream and the Yiwu workers who work in 007 are all comrades and revolutionary comrades in arms. But American farmers don't understand, they think the Chinese are taking their jobs.
, the fate of the two is different. Lao Chuan's hope as a farmer obviously failed to fulfill his mission, but China has saved the original capital through the hard work of generations of manufacturing workers and become the "world factory".
