Pakistan has more than 800,000 square kilometers of land, but has a population of 200 million. There is not much heavy industry in Pakistan, and most of them are handmade.
For example, the handmade toilet I mentioned today went to visit a Pakistani handmade toilet factory. Under the leadership of my Pakistani friends, I saw a whole process of making their handmade toilets. First, I put the clay into a mixer and diluted it evenly, and then put it in a fixed mold to fill the grouting film. Everything is so silky. The finished toilet is made, and then it is polished to remove the burrs on the toilet. I was still thinking at the time. Will this thing tick the butt, and then see that their workers are polished by hand.
and then apply primer. At this time, they were thinking about how to apply the inside primer inside their toilet. They saw the workers filling the primer into the toilet, filling all the gaps in the toilet, and then releasing the primer from the bottom. The primer can be reused. At the same time, after the primer is dry, the outer paint is sprayed on the outside. After the glaze is sprayed, it needs to be put back in the boiler to bake and heat it, turning the glaze into a smooth, neat and beautiful paint surface. Everything looks so smooth and silky.
But I also found a lot of problems here, because the entire factory is extremely simple, and all Pakistani workers do not have any protection during the entire spray painting process. Not to mention gas masks, even if they don’t even have a labor protection glove or shoes, most Pakistani workers work here barefoot while they work here barefoot, because the temperature in Pakistan is very high, and the temperature in the baking workshop can even reach about 70 degrees, which is indeed not something that ordinary people can tolerate, but Pakistani workers should be working here day after day.
I asked my friend in Pakistan about the local boss, and the boss said that they have been working for many years and are all old workers and skilled in technology. So why are there no labor protection? The factory owner told us that they were too poor here and did not have the labor protection, and the workers didn't care much because they all needed to earn money to support their families. Each of their families had about seven or eight children who needed to wait for their wages to go back to have enough food. Filling food was their first goal, and it was not as many noble dreams as we imagined. The only thing they could think about was how to make their families able to eat through their hard work. So even if the workers here were barefoot, without anti-freeze masks, and without labor gloves, they still worked there.
men, I saw the responsibility on their shoulders, and I also admired their dedication and love for their family.
When I asked the Pakistani boss where your toilets were sold, the Pakistani boss said that their toilets were basically rich people who bought them and installed them. And they don’t have to worry about sales in their handmade toilets, because there are very few light and heavy industries in Pakistan, and the handicraft industry is very developed, but there are not many factories that really have craftsmanship, so they are not worried about sales.
When asked about the price of a toilet, how much does a toilet like this cost? The factory owner told us that their toilet is basically around 5,000 rupees, which is about 160 yuan. This price is really surprising, because in China, a toilet can be sold for at least thousands of yuan, while they only cost around 160 yuan, which really makes us feel very cheap, but in Pakistan it is already considered a high price.
Because many poor people cannot use toilets, draught is a problem in many areas of Pakistan. Many times, I can only go to public water intake facilities to fetch water, so the poor in Pakistan generally do not have toilets. After saying goodbye to the boss, I discussed this matter with my Pakistani friends on the way. My Pakistani friends told me that what you saw is normal. This is Pakistan, this is the life of Pakistani people, but we still love our lives and our country. We also thank our Chinese friends for coming to help us.
Thank you China and China is our brother. May China-Pakistan friendship be higher than the mountains, deeper than the sea, and sweeter than honey. China-Pakistan friendship will surely be evergreen.
