In the Xitang Garment Accessories Industrial Park in Jiashan County, there is such an entrepreneur from the Yao ethnic group in Hunan Province, who has been engaged in the button industry for 21 years, focusing on the invention and innovation of buttons, green and low-carbon development, transformation and upgrading research and practice. He is Zhao Kongjin, secretary of the party branch and general manager of Jiaxing Zhao’s Button Co., Ltd. On the occasion of May Day International Labor Day, the Jiaxing Federation of Trade Unions announced the list of Jiaxing May Day Labor Awards in 2022, and Zhao Kongjin was on the list.
More than 20 years ago, Zhao Kongjin came to the coastal area of Zhejiang from his hometown in Hunan with an entrepreneurial heart and devoted himself to the development and innovation of the garment accessories industry. In 2010, he came to Jiashan County, Jiaxing City, and established Jiashan Zhao’s Garment Accessories Co., Ltd. in Xitang Dashun Garment Accessories Business Park.
In the more than ten years of entrepreneurship and innovation in Xitang, Zhao Kongjin has relied on big data and the Internet to develop Internet of Things smart buttons, which has greatly enhanced the added value of traditional buttons. In terms of ecological development, adhere to ecological priority and green development, constantly improve the process, and creatively use the buttons produced by solid waste through the experimental data of Swiss Standard Standard Technical Service Company (SGS), which can be completely biodegradable in the natural environment, providing a new idea for the waste-free process of the button industry. It has obtained 2 related invention patents and 17 utility model patents, and the company was rated as a “transformation and upgrading demonstration unit” in 2021.
While achieving high-quality development of the enterprise, Zhao Kongjin does not forget his original mission and forges ahead on the new journey of common prosperity. Last year, the central government won a decisive victory in all-round well-off and fought a decisive battle against poverty, as a party member, Zhao Kongjin based on the development of his own enterprise and immediately explored the family living conditions of enterprise employees. An employee of Guizhou in the company used to work as a handyman and earned less than 5,000 yuan a month. In the first two years, his wife died of illness, and the burden of the family fell on his shoulders. In order to get this employee out of the predicament of life, Zhao Kongjin on the one hand trained him in skills, transferred him to a polishing position, and his income rose to more than 7,000 yuan, and on the other hand, provided his children with education assistance, which saved him from worries.
In Zhao’s buttons, there are enterprise employees from different ethnic groups such as Han, Dong, Yao, Zhuang, Miao, Gelao, Yi and so on. Zhao Kongjin learned that most of the company’s employees come from poor areas, family living standards are generally not high, especially prone to poverty due to illness, return to poverty due to illness, in response to this situation, Zhao Kongjin organized the establishment of “employee mutual aid and care fund”, employees who encounter difficulties, can get help here. In the past two years, Zhao Kongjin has carried out targeted poverty alleviation by setting up special positions and working hour systems, benefiting more than 220 people with employment difficulties in surrounding areas, improving the quality of life of more than 10 low-income employees, and guiding them to create a better life through hard work.
Zhao Kongjin pays special attention to the improvement of employees’ skills and literacy, in the company, he built a staff library, requiring employees to use the gap to study, strengthen the ideological and political construction of employees, he actively carried out employee vocational education, through the establishment of team evaluation awards, employee skills and qualifications and then upgrade rewards and other systems, to increase employees’ income, help employees grow into talents. Zhao Kongjin often said that it is necessary to make employees materially rich, spiritually rich, and strong in skills, and promote the common prosperity of employees, and the good skills of employees can promote the transformation and upgrading of traditional enterprises and high-quality development.
In recent years, Zhao Kongjin has successively won the honors of “Top Ten New Residents” in Jiashan County and National Outstanding Migrant Worker. Today, as a party representative of Jiashan County and a member of the Jiashan County CPPCC, Zhao Kongjin adheres to his mission and shoulders the responsibility, and during the period of epidemic prevention and anti-Taiwan, he has taken the front line, eliminated dangerous situations, actively engaged in front-line services, donated money and materials for the fight against the epidemic many times, and donated more than 800,000 yuan to social welfare undertakings over the years.
As representatives of ethnic minorities, the work of fully integrating into ethnic minority areas to increase income and become rich and promote unity and progress among various ethnic groups is once again in front of us… “The only way to go is to struggle,” Zhao Kongjin said.
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