Nearly 2 years have been passed since An Minglan became Wechat salesman.
She is the vice director of the Nursing Center of Ningshan County in Shaanxi Province for the Disabled Five Guaranteed. All of products that she sells inculde insoles and paintings that range in price from dozens to thousands of yuan, which are all cross-stitch products.
Now, she is being full of vigor with a massive sales and mobilizes the colleagues around herself to do like her.
Is she or the Nursing Center short of money? Even the vice director and staffs make profits.
In fact, these products are all from embroidery-men in the Nursing Center. All incomes from embroiders belong to embroidery-men, she earns nothing.
An Minglan’s Wechat business strated from the time when Mr. He Yonglong lived in the Nursing Center. The most products that she sold were from him.
He Yonglong is a 37-year-old young fellow.
He lost consciousness below the chest after high paraplegia when he worked in a mine at 19 years old, since then, he stayed in bed for more than 10 years, living on his mother. Several times, he swallowed pills with the thought of suicide.
He lived in the Nursing Center for the Disabled Five Guaranteed in September 2016.
“He catches up with the golden era due to good national policies.” An Minglan said, since the poverty alleviation, Ningshan County explored and implemented a new strategy for guaranteeing the grass-roots: letting the disabled and the semi-disabled in the whole county live in the Nursing Center.
He Yonglong stayed in bed and stared at the ceilings when he first lived in the Nursing Center.
“My lower body lost consciouness, the two legs dried up and I am a useless.” He Yonglong said.
“You stay in bed all day in a daze. If you had something to do, you would be enrich in living and have a source of income.” An Minglan and Wang Jinxia, nursing worker who care for He Yonglong in the Nursing Center found that he was alone, they wanted to pull him out of his world by doing handcrafts. At that time, Wang Jinxia was embroidering the cross-stitch. “Don’t you like smoking? You might as well make more money depend on your fingers.”
After being stimulated, He Yonglong started to embroider and finished his first product in size of a handkerchief marked “Five Blessings” with hands-on training by Wang Jinxia. An Minglan framed the painting in the shop.
He Yonglong was astonished to find that a rag has been such a beauty after being framed, he even had the ability for embroidering.
Finally, He Yonglong started to embroider insoles, even the large paintings after proficiency. An Minglan put the products that he finished on Wechat to sell, these have been a hot and even sold to Xi’an.
“Just the soles have been sold dozens of pairs.” An Minglan did accounts, “The cost price of one is 10 yuan, the sale price is 35 yuan, the profit is 25 yuan. Total incomes have been deposited by him.”
The most favorite products that He Yonglong finished are his 2 paintings, the sale prices were respectively 2080 yuan and 3600 yuan.
The painting in size of the length of 3 meters and the width of 1.5 meters that sold 3600 yuan named “Blossoming”, which spent a year. The provincial team leader for supervising the poverty alleviation of guaranteeing the grass-roots once was astonished to see that painting, and bought it without hesitation. He Yonglong divided the incomes into three parts, respectively deposited, send to old mother and stubbornly gave some change to An Minglan who was in tears.
“Now, I have got hundred things to do, compared to ever stay in bed and wait for death.” He Yonglong said, “Sometimes, I felt empty unless embroidering.” He embroidered in the sunshine. The partners who were embroidering next to him said that He Yonglong has been the bellwether for riching.
The more products they do, the more smiles they will take on their faces, the more enthusiasm An Minglan has.
“Abandoning.” He Yonglong said that he sometimes felt discouraged when paintings encountered dull sale.
The worst that An Minglan is fear to see is that paintings encounter dull sale, which might discourage them, “Although their bodies are inconvenient, their inner worlds are the same as ours, they need to be concerned and acknowledged.”
“Never mind, promoting needs a process.” An Minglan comforted He Yonglong, meanwhile, tried to find a solution to sell.
Source: Xinhua Daily Telegraph
Writer: Zhang Dianbiao
Interpreter: Liang Shi