Gaoyou high tech Zone is a famous street lamp manufacturing town in China. There are more than 1000 lamp enterprises. Outdoor lighting lamps account for about 40% of the national market and lamp poles account for about 70% of the national market.
Gaoyou lamps can be seen in many places such as Wenchang Road, Wanfu bridge and ancient canal in Yangzhou.
42 years ago, no one thought that the street lamps, which are easy to be ignored and glow silently in daily life, have driven the development of a place to a great extent and made positive contributions to stimulating the local economic and social development.
In the west of Gaoyou Lake in 1976, people who wanted to change when they were poor began to seek the road of development.
Yao Peishan, then Secretary of the Party branch of the pantang brigade of Guoji commune, heard that Chen Jingchun, a young man who had worked in Gaoyou water pump factory, secretly engaged in the ballast related individual economy, so he invited him to pantang to start a business.
After several rounds of turnover, Chen Jingchun was finally moved by their true feelings. He took several young people to pantang and started a difficult entrepreneurial process.
You zeyong, President of Gaoyou lighting industry association, said that under the historical background and environment at that time, it was not easy for poor small villages to engage in industry.
Several dilapidated thatched cottages are their factories. There is no start-up capital. Secretary Yao sold two pigs of the production team and began to start with more than 200 yuan. He dared not produce during the day. At night, people in the small village began to rest after a busy day, while Chen Jingchun's work with his disciples has just begun.
Making ballasts requires boiling asphalt for irrigation. Without equipment, they use the boring on the stove as a tool. They can only do more than a dozen in a busy night.
Chen Jingchun put the finished products into gunny bags and carried them on his shoulders. He drove cars, crowded trains and took ships, took ballast products to the city and knocked on the door of the city street lamp management department.
At that time, information was blocked, and sellers often couldn't find buyers in the market.
A wireless power plant in Zibo, Shandong Province is facing bankruptcy, with thousands of ballasts in stock. Chen Jingchun was on a business trip in Chengdu. After learning the news, he immediately rushed to Zibo and bought it at the price of 5 yuan per unit. After testing, inspection and packaging, he sold it to customers at the price of 16 yuan per unit, making the factory a profit of 30000 or 40000 yuan at once! At that time, it was undoubtedly a big fortune for a small village factory.
After several years of struggle, with the accumulation of funds, Chen Jingchun's older generation of street lamp people began the road of entrepreneurship and innovation of outdoor lamps.
Starting from the ballast, we have successively developed lamp poles, series lamps, high pole lamps, light sources and other products. The "Gaoyou Lighting Appliance Factory" in pantang is famous.
In 1989, the output value exceeded 10 million and became a star enterprise of Gaoyou.
With their entrepreneurial process, the life of the whole village has also undergone earth shaking changes.
Irrigation, bridges, roads, electric lights, new houses, school buildings and other infrastructure are improving day by day; A large number of young people went to the factory to learn technology and married their daughter-in-law; For those with outstanding sales performance, they will also arrange their families and children to have excellent advanced factories; Internship family planning reward; Villagers over 60 received pension subsidies