Shenzhen Mouse Factory

    By the will of fate, I am now in China, one might even say, traveling through it.

    One wonderful Shenzhen evening, my local friend Owen invited us to visit his cousin's workshop, where they produce wireless mice.
    “We” are ten people from all over the world who have gathered in China to learn and socialize.

    To visit China and refuse such an invitation would be an unforgivable mistake.



    She is here, not far away ,” Owen told us.

    And a crowd of people at 10 went to a stop, waiting for the only bus that goes there.

    Apparently, I did not take into account that in China the concept is notably strikingly different from ordinary Russian cities. And indeed, when I asked Owen about whether his city is big, he said no,small - no more than three million . Okay.

    After about 35 minutes we arrived at something like the center of ShZh, another 15 minutes on foot and we were there.

    Passing through a long building, I could not help but notice that in each window there were some racks full of electronics, work desks, people scurried about - each door in this building had its own workshop, a small life with small ups and downs.

    Near one of these doors we were met by a rosy-cheeky, well-fed Chinese man who led our noisy company inside.

    There was not a very large bright room in which six people worked.


    This black guy doesn't work here - this is our colleague.

    All corners are lined with boxes - some with finished products, others with components.



    On the tables there are a scattering of plastic cases, PCBs with components already soldered in all directions protruding from the boxes, USB transmitters are modestly lying in orderly rows on special trays. Wheels, legs, plastic lenses for the laser, all this in some difficult-to-determine order, known only to workers.







    By and large, in this workshop only assembly and testing takes place - all the component parts come ready-made. They do not melt cases, do not develop USB transceivers, do not even produce sticker legs. Boards come ready-made.


    This is a blank for 8 mice.


    This is what a mouse scarf looks like, vaguely reminiscent of Microsoft .

    The tasks of the guys at this table are extremely simple: someone prepares the boards, separating one from the other and removing excess parts, someone picks up components and assembles a mouse, someone glues legs.



    But there are two (and judging by the number of jobs, possibly three) guys with work requiring a little more attention - they check the mice - the cursor movement, mouse clicks, scroll wheel. If something is wrong, they immediately disassemble the mouse and solder the contacts.


    They have computers. Caste .

    It so happens that the mouse refuses to work with this USB transmitter. Then they solder off the old radio module and solder the new one. Unfortunately, it was not possible to understand how they select the module for USB - the insurmountable difficulties of the language barrier.



    At the workplace, they have a soldering station, an automatic screwdriver and a bunch of different parts. Apparently, they are ready to solve problems not only with the radio module.

    The computer is used only to check the mouse, as I understand it. Here the application is launched and now the guy is fiercely hammering on LMB. See, she blushed already.





    The owner of this minifactory, after long convictions, nevertheless realized that he was being asked to show a master class in collecting mouse.

    Actually, there was no magic in this, of course. The process is debugged. At the end of our tour, or it will be more correct to say, wandering the owner of the workshop said that we can take one mouse of any kind for free.




    Here I want to pay attention to the openness and friendliness of the Chinese. I watched her throughout my stay in the SH. We could drag a bunch of mice, a bunch of details, in such a turmoil no one would have seen, but no one even tried to control us. I think that in China there is simply no such habit - to steal. Even in the bus in some cases (especially in Beijing) no one is standing above you - there is not even a controller - I put the card down once at the entrance, the second one at the exit, or just threw 2-3 yuan into the piggy bank.
    In the Civil Code many times I observed a situation when people throw their heavy bags on the first floor of the bus, and they themselves go to the second.

    Naturally, these are all copies of some well-known brands. The copies do not say that they are of the highest quality, but at least they do not look bad and work. And they cost 15 yuan. Therefore, in addition to the gift, our company bought another 30-40 mice from him for gifts to friends and colleagues.


    Our colleague from Nepal scored a pack of mice as a gift .

    And here is the owner of this workshop, Mr. Venchon Liu (in the Pinyin Wenxiong Liu):

    In China, there is some kind of mania for this Julius monkey.

    And finally, you are probably interested in working conditions and productivity:

    10,000 mice per month , that is, 500 per day or about 40 per hour - the figure is not fantastic, let’s say that it’s quite ordinary.
    Work shift: 12 hours .
    The average salary in the workshop, not counting the owner - 30,000 rubles (3,000 yuan).

    That is, as you can see, the conditions are quite normal, if you do not take a twelve-hour working day. But in my opinion it is easily optimized. At least now these 3 girls and a guy are doing the same thing in turn. One could try to build a conveyor out of them.

    The work is simple, does not require a great mind. With such payment, it seems to me that even in Russia such a business can be organized.



    And in the near future, read about one of the largest electronics markets in China - HuaQianBei.

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