NANNING: At 7 a.m., Mo Shikun, a villager in Rongan County, south China’s Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, put on a face mask and headed for a local workshop on her electric bicycle.
Mo, 40, has been working for mask production since early February. She normally arrives at the workshop about 30 minutes in advance.
“I come to work earlier so that I can make more masks to help fight the coronavirus and earn more money for myself, “ she said, noting that she can sew more than 1,000 masks a day.
Mo had been working in Guangzhou for years to raise her family before 2019. She came back to her hometown when she saw an opportunity to work near her village with the help of an anti-poverty project carried out by Guangxi and south China’s Guangdong Province.
“The salary is lower than what I earned when I worked in Guangzhou, but now I have more time to take care of my family,” she said, adding that her family got out of poverty in 2019, and the new job gives her hope for the future.
The workshop where Mo works belongs to RonganHuixin Knitted Garment Co., Ltd. Headquartered in the region’s Liuzhou City, the company focuses on kids’ clothing and school uniform production. – Agencies
