China Leather Strides The World &Nbsp; India Market Sees "Fellow Townsman".

In the "new China town" in Calcutta, India, Chinese factory owners are engaged in almost all of them. Leatherwear Business. They bought cowhide and made it after washing and dyeing. leather shoes Leather belts and leather bags are sold all over the world.

In India, cattle are sacred things. They can enjoy themselves in the streets and alleys and lie in the middle of the road. Their bodies are regarded as unclean. The concept of cleanliness in India is different. Travelers are shocked by the filth of cities and villages. The India people also claim that uncleanliness is a major taboo. Brahmen do not confront animal carcasses, only the untouchables. Why Hakka people are all engaged in leather industry has no way to test. Perhaps they came from a foreign land without taking care of these taboos, perhaps because they were easy to enter, and there were not many competitors in a highly hierarchical India society.

I visited an old leather factory. The wooden structure has been shiny, and I doubt it has changed over the past half century. I saw huge wooden turntables and air hung on the roof. Cowhide The workers. A piece of cowhide was dyed in pale blue, and the naked workers were fixing them on the wooden roof to prevent the shrinkage of the leather after sun drying. This piece of cowhide is like a floating cloud on the roof. As I can imagine, in the heyday, this area must be like a fantastic painting. The roofs of houses after another are filled with the floating clouds. Standing in it, I saw the plaque on the balcony of the opposite building: Guan Yu Temple. Guan Yunchang not only sent his sister-in-law thousands of miles to ride alone, but also protected the Meixian people in Calcutta.

"This is an old factory building with a small scale," Li Wancheng said several times, worried that it destroyed the image of Chinese factories. Larger and more modern factories have moved to the farther suburbs, and the pollution is too serious.

I met a factory owner who owns a new factory. He was tall and round, and could see handsome in his youth. His children have emigrated to Canada. He lived in Vancouver in summer and returned to warmer Calcutta in winter. "I have lived here for a lifetime, only to feel at home," he said. He also maintained the intellectual confidence of Hakka people. "The Chinese are smart here, and the Indians can't do that," he said, pointing to his head. Unfortunately, I didn't have time to see his modern factory with hundreds of India workers.