Kim Jong-un’s five visits to visit the equipment are all localized. This factory in North Korea is unusual.

CCTV News:In Wonsan, the eastern city of North Korea, there is a famous factory that produces leather shoes. The "Yingfengshan" brand leather shoes produced here have excellent workmanship and fashionable styles, which are well received by the Korean people. This factory is Yuanshan Leather Shoes Factory.

At the North Korean National Footwear Exhibition in 2018 and 2019, a leather shoes brand named "Yingfengshan" made a big splash for two consecutive years and won the first prize and the special prize respectively. This brand came from Yuanshan Leather Shoes Factory.

Yuanshan Leather Shoes Factory was founded in 1959 and has a history of 60 years. Kim Jong-un, the current top leader of North Korea, came to Yuanshan Leather Shoes Factory five times since 2014, and it was from 2014 that the development of Yuanshan Leather Shoes Factory entered the fast lane.

CCTV reporter Dong Haitao:This pair of shoes on the exhibition platform was produced in 2007, while this pair of shoes on this side was produced in 2017. It can be seen that there are great differences in texture, design and workmanship between them in the past ten years.

Independent research and development, independent manufacturing and self-reliance

According to the factory commentator, the entire production system of the factory is independently developed by North Korea, and the raw materials for shoemaking are also independently produced by North Korea, while the electricity is provided by national power stations such as Yuanshan Military and Civilian Power Station. They are at the forefront of North Korea’s footwear industry in implementing national policies and realizing self-reliant production, and factory employees are particularly proud.

Zhao Mingshi, head of technical department of Yuanshan Leather Shoes Factory:We received many favorable comments and won the special prize at this spring national footwear exhibition in North Korea.

Cui Hua, a female worker in Yuanshan Leather Shoes Factory:I am a shoe-maker, and I like the ladies’ sandals produced by our factory best. Sandals are women’s favorite footwear products in summer, and we have successfully controlled the weight of women’s sandals within 250 grams.

Nowadays, the vast majority of shoemaking employees in the factory have more than 5 years of shoemaking experience, and the factory will arrange different kinds of leather shoes production plans according to the season, personnel arrangement and product demand.

CCTV reporter Dong Haitao:I’m at the end of the production line of Yuanshan Leather Shoes Factory, where all kinds of leather shoes are displayed. I’m going to have a try now. Let’s try on this pair of pointed leather shoes first. They look very fashionable. The sole is solid and powerful, and it walks steadily. It is a good pair of shoes.

Leather shoes factory is looking forward to expanding production.

Since 2014, the quality of "Yingfengshan" brand leather shoes has been continuously improved, but the price is very close to the people. Take the pair of leather shoes that I just tried on as an example. The ex-factory price is only 25,000 yuan, which is equivalent to about 20 yuan, which is quite good and cheap. The factory commentator told me that the supply of factory products to the Korean people is already in short supply, and they hope to expand production in the future and strive to make "Yingfengshan" brand leather shoes go global.