Wang Lin wanted to wait for Li Wenxiu to come and ask clearly, but he actually fell asleep while lying.

The next day is Dragon Boat Festival, Wednesday.

In this era when marriage only has three days off, there is certainly no rest on Dragon Boat Festival.

Li Wenxiu delayed her sleep last night. After waking up early in the morning, she yawned several times.

Wang Lin lay on the head of the bed and asked, "Wenxiu, Brother Jun asked you that you had borrowed 50,000 yuan?"

"Oh-yes." Li Wenxiu smiled, "Has he told you?"

"No, I saw it in your account book. He asked you what you can do for borrowing so much money?"

"I don't know, and I didn't ask. He asked me to lend it, and I just lent it to him. Can I not lend it?"

"Didn't he say he borrowed so much money because of something?"

"I didn't say it. Why don't you ask him?"

Wang Lin waved his hand: "Let's talk about it!"

In the morning, each family ate two rice dumplings and went to work.

Wang Lin officially started to establish Aixu Home Textile Branch.

The first thing that is most lacking is of course talent.

Who will be appointed as the manager of Aixu Home Textiles Company?

Wang Lin thought about the candidates he was familiar with, but he could not find a suitable candidate.

He asked Zhou Xia to discuss.

Zhou Xia walked into Wang Lin's office and looked at him shyly with a pretty face.

Wang Lin thought of the scene when he was in the porridge restaurant last night, and couldn't help but smile: "Sister Xia, you have such a good figure."

Zhou Xia said angrily: "You said! You took advantage of you, but you are still acting good!"

Wang Lin smiled and said, "Talk serious things. We want to set up Aixu Home Textile Branch. You recommend someone to be the manager for me, and then raise the team as soon as possible."

Zhou Xia thought for a while and said, "Home textiles? Is it bedding?"

Even Zhou Xia is very unfamiliar with the word home textiles.

Wang Lin said: "It can be understood that, to a broader extent, home textiles are home textiles. All textile products used at home belong to the category of home textiles, including curtains, fabrics, cushions, carpets, bath towels, kitchen textiles and other products."

"That's very wide application, no worse than clothing."

"Well, home textiles are one of the three major categories of the textile industry, and textiles for clothing and industrial products are divided into three parts."

Household textiles have a long history, as long as human beings.

The most primitive bedding for humans are grass, animal skin, cotton, wool and other direct access items in nature.

However, before the 1990s, there was almost no such thing as home textiles in my country. Bedding sheets, quilt covers and other beddings exist as individuals, and the product supply is relatively single. The purpose of the product is to meet people's most basic needs. When people need it, they will more often go to the store to pull a piece of cloth and then tailor it to the tailor shop.

Household textiles are just a classified word for textiles, and this statement is not popular among the people.

Therefore, ordinary people only know the word bedding, but Zhou Xia doesn’t know the word home textiles.

But Wang Lin and Zhou Zhu are different.

Wang Lin is a reborn person, and secondly, he has also worked in the textile industry.

Zhou Zhu also has worked in the textile industry, so he has heard of the term home textile.

Looking at the development history of our country's textile industry, it has gone through three stages: the original period, the starting period, and the blowout period.

The 1990s that Wang Lin is now in is undoubtedly the primitive period.

There is no company in the country that specializes in home textiles.

Even if there are factories that produce bedding, they are still produced in a mixed manner.

The rise of branded home textiles in my country will take two thousand years later. At this stage, with the continuous upgrading of consumption and competition in the home textile industry, the transition period from the initial stage to the development stage, that is, the biggest change in the market is that it has entered a structural adjustment cycle in rapid development.

The home textile industry is an emerging industry with great potential and a huge consumer market with a scale of hundreds of billions of yuan.

Wang Lin analyzed this way. With the integration of global economic and my country's accession to WTO, the international market demand for textiles in our country will definitely increase. The textile industry in our country faces both domestic and international development opportunities. Therefore, Wang Lin believes that the textile industry in our country has huge development space and market capacity in the future, and the home textile industry will become the main driving force for my country's textile economic growth.

To develop a domestic home textile market, you must first have a general understanding of the history of home textiles.

Humans first used hunting methods to obtain fur, and collected wild kudzu and wild silk as fiber raw materials, and used hand rubs, slicing, weaving, knots and sewing to tie them up ready-made clothes.

People in primitive society initially used tools or used simple tools such as bone needles, spinning wheels, and bone cones to roughly process fibers or other materials to meet people's most basic needs.

After a long period of time, to the middle and late Neolithic periods between 4,000 and 7,000 years ago, with the development of agriculture and animal husbandry, people began to artificially cultivate fiber raw materials and invent and use some textile tools for weaving, which greatly improved production efficiency.

In the thousands of years of textile development history, the clothing of the ruling class in my country has always been dominated by high-end silk or jacquard fabrics. On the "Silk Road" on Zhang Qian's mission to the Western Regions, many famous Han Dynasty and Eastern Han brocades were unearthed, including brocades of all-time success, brocades of descendants for a long life, brocades of lions and cranes of the sea, brocades of Han Ren, etc. At that time, not only were there silk-woven large jacquard fabrics, but also large jacquard woolen fabrics.

If Wang Lin wants to enter the home textile industry, he will face a more important challenge.

That is the most important raw material, that is, cotton.

To talk about the development of the industry without raw materials is to talk about it on paper.

The control of raw materials is the key to the rise and fall of an industry.

If the raw materials are choked by foreign countries, the higher the Chinese people do in this industry, the more they fall.

When Wang Lin was reborn, countless outstanding enterprises in China had been sanctioned and beaten abroad.

Cotton is not a local specialty in my country, but was passed down from regions such as India and Arabia. Although our country will eventually become one of the most important producers of cotton and cotton textiles in the world, and is still the center of the cotton industry today, cotton is not a local crop in my country. In fact, the word "cotton" in Chinese characters was borrowed from Sanskrit and other Indian languages. Around 200 BC, the people of our country already knew about cotton.

my country is the largest cotton producer, with annual output accounting for about 34% of the world's total. The country of India ranks second and the United States ranks third.

In the early 1990s, my country's cotton planting areas were concentrated in the Yellow River and Yangtze River Basin. The area of ​​cotton planting in Xinzhou was still very small, but twenty years later, the cotton production in Xinzhou in my country will account for 76% of the total sowing area in the country.

From the supply side, when Wang Lin was reborn, that is, around 2020, my country's cotton supply remained at the level of about 6 million tons per year, and my country's cotton consumption was stable at the level of 8 million tons per year. Therefore, my country actually had a gap of about 2 million tons per year in cotton consumption.

With the transfer of manufacturing, the planting centers also moved. In 1860, the United States almost monopolized cotton exports, while in the 21st century, only 14% of the world's cotton was grown in North America. my country and India rank among the forefront, producing 34 million bales of cotton and 26 million bales of cotton each year, while the United States only had 17 million bales. Since 1920, global production has increased by 7 times, and cotton cultivation has become extremely important to the economies of many countries, especially Asian and West African countries.

Of all the clothing sold in the United States, about 98% are produced abroad. my country alone provides 40% of the clothing to the United States. Our factories own nearly half of the world's spindles and looms, and consume 43% of the world's raw cotton production!

From these data, it is not difficult to see the importance of cotton to the textile industry.

There have been many cotton wars in history that have affected the world pattern.

For example, the Battle of the Northern and Southern Dynasties in the United States. The Northern and Southern Dynasties in the United States originated from the conflict between the increasingly industrialized north and the South that relies on cotton and slaves.

70 years ago, the United States also had a cotton war with our country. my country fought a combination of punches, and eventually US cotton was defeated and withdrew from the Chinese market.

This matter is a long time to talk about, and comrades who are interested can search for it themselves.

Cotton is one of the national strategic materials, and its importance is self-evident.

If Wang Lin wants to make home textiles, he cannot do without cotton, the most important raw material.

At present, domestic cotton production is sufficient for domestic production.

But if Wang Lin’s Aixiu Home Textiles really started to be made and foreign trade is made large, the consumption of cotton will definitely increase.

If a person has no future intentions, he will have immediate worries.

When Wang Lin does something, he will definitely consider the overall factors first.

When he was producing sanitary napkins, he had already started working in raw materials factories, one to reduce production costs, and the other to avoid being choked by foreigners.

The bamboo fiber industry that Wang Lin vigorously developed is also for the overall layout of the textile industry.

In home textile products, bamboo cotton mixed fabrics can be used in large quantities.

Bamboo fiber and cotton can be mixed, which can effectively reduce dependence on cotton.

With bamboo fiber, there must be cotton.

There are many areas suitable for growing cotton in China, such as eastern Hebei, central Hebei, southern Hebei, southwestern Shandong, northwestern Shandong, northern Shandong, northern Jiangsu, eastern Henan, northern Anhui, southern Shanxi, eastern Guanzhong, and eastern Shaanxi Province, as well as cotton areas in the Yangtze River Basin.

Shencheng, Jiangsu and Zhejiang also belong to cotton areas.

Zhou Xia is very familiar with Wang Lin.

She knew that Wang Lin would make plans first and then move when doing a career.

"Do you still want to develop your own cotton area?" Zhou Xia asked.

Wang Lin stretched out his right hand and held his five fingers heavily: "The most important thing is that we must control in our own hands. International cotton prices are fluctuating, and some Western countries are determined to perish and always use cotton to cause trouble. If we really want to start the home textile industry, we must have our own cotton production areas. Otherwise, if the Americans pinch our necks, we will have no cotton available. Aixu Home Textiles will have to go bankrupt."

His words were very serious, but not alarmist.

In fact, in 2009, our country experienced a cotton crisis.

That year, more than one-third of the home textile enterprises in my country left the market sadly, and the rest were also struggling.

Zhou Xia said: "Although I don't know much about planting, I also know that growing cotton is not a good job. Ordinary farmers are unwilling to plant it."

Wang Lin said: "Now there are still people who are willing to plant it."

From the 1980s to the 1990s, many farmers relied on growing cotton.

Later, per capita income increased, and the price of cotton fluctuated too much, which hit farmers' enthusiasm for growing cotton.

The country adjusted its cotton planting strategy in a timely manner and moved the cotton production area westward to the new province. Each ton of cotton subsidized thousands of yuan, which stabilized China's dominant position as a major cotton-producing country.

If Wang Lin wants to build his own cotton planting base, he can achieve mechanized planting and picking and large-scale production.

When a company starts, it can buy cotton first, and after the business starts, it can gradually achieve self-sufficiency in cotton. In the future, it can also receive national cotton planting subsidies. Anyway, it will not be a loss.

Zhou Xia said: "So, the home textile industry you want to do is to build an industry! This is a big article!"

Wang Lin smiled and said, "So, you must help me select an excellent talent to serve as the manager of Aixu Home Textiles."

Developing the home textile industry was an idea proposed by Li Wenxiu. But Li Wenxiu could only think of opening a factory, but Wang Lin could turn it into a huge industrial cluster!

This is the level of thought between the two.

Zhou Xia thought about it seriously and smiled and said, "I have a candidate, but I can't invite him. If you come forward, he might come."

Wang Lin's eyes flashed: "Who?"

Zhou Xia pursed her lips and smiled: "My uncle."

Wang Lin said in surprise: "Do you think of Director Zhou Boqiang?"

Zhou Xia nodded and said, "It's him. Do you think, who is more suitable than him?"

Wang Lin smiled bitterly, spread his hands, and said helplessly: "Are you kidding me? How could Director Zhou come to help me do things?"

Zhou Xia said: "Who said it is impossible? It depends on whether you are sincere. If you go and invite him, he may not be able to come."

Wang Lin couldn't help but get up.

Wang Lin has experienced Zhou Boqiang's leadership ability and personal courage and appreciated it very much.

It was under the strong leadership of Zhou Boqiang that the Shenfang Factory carried out drastic reforms that prevented Shenfang Factory No. 1 not being destroyed by the tide of the times.

Under the leadership of Zhou Boqiang, Factory 35 also got out of the quagmire and got on the right track.

The more Wang Lin thought about it, the more he felt that Zhou Boqiang was an excellent candidate.

But how can we persuade Zhou Boqiang to help?

Wang Lin thought a lot.

Zhou Xia said: "Don't think about it. Go and visit him first and ask directly. If he doesn't agree, it's not too late for us to find someone else. If you open such a large branch, you have to have time to prepare, right?"

Wang Lin nodded and said, "No need to delay, let's go to Director Zhou together."

Zhou Xia said: "Do you want me to accompany you?"

Wang Lin said: "You are his niece. With you here, we have more points in our chances of winning, right?"

Zhou Xia nodded: "Okay. Then I'll accompany you for a trip."

Wang Lin immediately called Zhou Boqiang.

He first fought to the textile bureau, but Zhou Boqiang was not there.

Wang Lin called the factory office of Factory 35 again.

The person who answered the phone this time was Zhou Boqiang.

"Hello Director Zhou, I am Wang Lin."

Zhou Boqiang was very happy when he heard Wang Lin’s voice: “Wang Lin, you haven’t come to visit me for a long time!”

Wang Lin smiled and said, "Today is Dragon Boat Festival, Sister Xia and I went to visit Director Zhou together."
Chapter completed!