Pocket shops and cabinet shops flourished for a while

The commercial town of Baigou has a long history. During the Han Dynasty, it belonged to Yangfan County and was one of the five ditches. It was named Baigou because of the white hibiscus on the water surface, also known as Baigou River. During the Three Kingdoms period, Baigou market was initially formed. In the first year of Jingde of the Song Dynasty (1004), the Song and Liao Dynasties established the "Chanyuan Alliance". The two sides took the Baigou River as the boundary. Baigou became a treaty port, a place for attack and delivery, and a checkpoint for transmitting information and communicating with each other. The Baigou market developed. It was called Yannan Metropolis at that time. "

It is close to Jia Qilu and far to Fujian and Guangdong. Scholars and merchants ask for crossings, and irrigation is expected." It is a prosperous scene.

In the Yuan Dynasty, after Emperor Shizu of the Yuan Dynasty succeeded to the throne, ships on the Baigou River could sail directly into the Grand Canal. Baigou became an important thoroughfare for water and land transportation and a commercial town "famous all over the world". In the 16th year of Hongwu in the Ming Dynasty (1383), the Yongding River was diverted to the east and flowed into the Baigou River into the sea. The water volume of the Baigou River increased greatly, and large ships from the sea could directly dock at Baigou. Yongle nineteen years (1421).

Zhu Di, the founder of the Ming Dynasty, moved the capital to Beijing, and Baigou became a transportation hub from the capital to the southern provinces. The unique transportation conditions and geographical location have enabled Baigou to develop into a commodity distribution center in the north.

History In the Qing Dynasty, the prosperity of Baigou market reached its peak, and the luggage industry in Baigou also began to overcome all obstacles and lay its foundation.

In the middle of the Qing Dynasty, small steamers from the sea could reach Baigou Pier directly, which brought the prosperity of Baigou market to its heyday, with big business names such as "Wanshengtang" and "Yixianyong" There are 115 of them. Merchants from all over the country come to Baigou Market to conduct transactions.

At that time, Baigou was known as the "Little Tianjin Guard". By the end of the Qing Dynasty, with the improvement of transportation, the luggage industry also developed, and suitcases that could be carried by individuals appeared.

During this prosperous period, Baigou’s early packaging industry began to sprout. Pocket shops and cabinet shops began to flourish, such as Zhang Ji's Pocket Shop and Li Ji's Cabinet Shop. Many people specialized in wooden boxes, bags, and bags appeared, which not only facilitated passing merchants, but also laid the foundation for Baigou's luggage today. foundation.

The dream was ignited when the first handbag was produced

From the beginning, there was a dream. Since the rise of pocket shops and cabinet shops, Baigou people have had endless dreams of luggage.

Although the prosperity of Baigou during the Qing Dynasty has faded into the past, the dream of Baigou people to revive Baigou luggage has never fallen to the ground. Once you have started, even if you have been dreaming for thousands of years, you will still be full of new ideas.

In the late autumn of 1971 AD, Zhang Guoqing, the former captain of the eighth production team in Gaoqiao Village, Baigou Town, and accountant Li Mingxin were going to buy a watch for their daughter and 250 yuan for winter cotton-padded clothes. I pooled my money and bought two bundles of artificial leather from Tianjin. The next day, after repeated discussions, comparisons, cutting, and sewing, the first artificial leather bicycle seat cover was finally processed. In the following two years, it was still in Gaoqiao Village that these farmers, facing the loess and back to the sky, produced the first batch of the simplest handbags in Baigou.

Perhaps these farmers did not realize at the time that their simple processing with a broken sewing machine as the main facility and 250 yuan as capital made the dream of Baigou people’s luggage so real once again, making Baigou people’s dream come true again. The dream of human luggage has once again found its starting point.

With a starting point, this dream will go all the way.

In 1974, Baigou people launched the first portfolio;

In 1976, Baigou people produced the first student bag;

In 1977, Baigou people began to install simple hardware accessories;

In 1980, individual villagers began to use markets and temple fairs to quietly sell their own bags

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However, under the guidance of the ultra-left line and the constraints of the planned economic system at that time, the road to the luggage dream of Baigou people was not smooth. The luggage products processed by farmers in their spare time were regarded as the "tail of capitalism", and the finished products sold in the market were confiscated.

In the production and processing of luggage with the team as the basic accounting unit, the wages received by farmers only accounted for 5% of the profits of the luggage. Production that seriously deviated from the law of value dampened the enthusiasm of farmers for production and also limited the production enthusiasm of farmers at that time. The development of ditch bags.

The Silk Road of Luggage and Bags spreading across the country

The budding and lingering development of Baigou Luggage in the 1970s also made Baigou Luggage people clearly see that every step closer to their dreams , all have a price, but this price did not abort the dream of Baigou people's bags.

The Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee brought a golden era of rapid development to the Baigou luggage industry. Before and after this, people spontaneously formed an artificial leather market for accessories and accessories in Xinzhuang, Song Dynasty. In 1981, part of the rural surplus labor force in Gaoqiao and some villages and streets began to separate from land management, forming a considerable number of family-style professional workshops, forming the prototype of professional luggage processing households, and radially with Gaoqiao Village as the axis. Scattering in all directions at an astonishing speed. In 1984, the Baigou Town Government invested 1.2 million yuan to build the "Bai Furong" market.

In 1985, Baigou luggage sales had a fixed location and basically fixed luggage sales staff. A sales force of hundreds of people spread across the country to promote Baigou luggage products. Following the footsteps of hundreds of people, Baigou's bags have created a "Silk Road" leading to the whole country. At that time, Baigou people established luggage routes across the country, setting up stalls in other places and even entering shopping malls owned by various countries.

In the three years from 1987 to 1990, Baigou luggage quickly won the favor of the vast rural market in the north with its low price and ability to launch a variety and style in a few days.

By the end of 1990, Baigou luggage had been sold to 28 provinces, municipalities and autonomous regions across the country and had established a monopoly in some parts of the north.

During this period, Baigou Luggage formed a professional sales team, professionals in the purchase of raw and auxiliary materials, and specialized households in printing, tailoring, design and other auxiliary work. The emergence of fine division of labor, The production and sales of Baigou luggage began to move towards a virtuous cycle.

According to incomplete statistics in early 1994, Baigou's luggage production areas have reached more than 50 towns and villages in 5 counties, about 500 natural villages, and 70,000 people are engaged in luggage production and sales. The annual output reaches 45 million pieces, accounting for about one-tenth of the country's total luggage output, with hundreds of designs and varieties.

Managing branded luggage has made great progress and started a new business

Rivers have been flowing for thousands of years, and the seas and seas are flowing across the sea, which makes a generation more heroic.

The wealthy Baigou luggage people have not let their dreams stand still. They quickly discovered their shortcomings with the acumen of businessmen: without their famous brand, Baigou luggage is just a piece of loose sand.

After 2002, Baigou invited Hebei Trademark Office to give lectures to merchants to enhance people’s brand awareness. Launch the brand so that each merchant has its own brand and bid farewell to the era without brands. For the first time, 14 merchants started to register, and it was the first time in history that so many merchants registered at one time.

Now there are more than 600 locally registered trademark brands in Baigou, achieving a qualitative breakthrough in brand management. Baigou Town has also been rated as "the province's characteristic luggage industry export base" by Hebei Province.

With its open concept, relaxed environment and advanced circulation business, Baigou has attracted more than 1,000 famous brand products at home and abroad and opened more than 800 direct sales stores in Baigou. The renovated Luggage Trading City is the largest professional luggage market in the country and has been rated as one of the "Five Major Markets in Hebei Province" and a "Three-Star Market". A gratifying situation has been formed in which "thousands of brands shine in the mall, and hundreds of rivers converge into the sea to enrich Baigou".

Now that Baigou Luggage has strong strength, in order to fulfill the dream of Baigou Luggage people, Baigou Luggage sets sail. The Suifenhe branch market and the Luoyang branch market have opened successively. Baigou Luggage has sold its products to the whole country for the second time. The market issued challenges, and at the same time, it also began its journey to the international market.