[Explanation] Guquan Village, Liuwang Town, Rong County, Yulin City, Guangxi is a famous overseas Chinese village in Guangxi. There are more than 5,000 overseas Chinese and more than 3,000 family members of returned overseas Chinese in the village, accounting for 80% of the total population of the village.

Guquan Village's representatives of sages, entrepreneurs, etc. formed a council of sages, mobilized villagers to invest in labor and participate in the improvement of the living environment, and completed afforestation and greening of nearly 100 mu. It was rated as "Beautiful Guangxi" Rural Construction Demonstration Village, and was selected as the first List of approved national forest villages.

　　[Commentary] Li Zongcong, a relative of overseas Chinese in Malaysia, is one of the representatives of Xiangxian. In 1988, he went to Guangdong Province with a passion for the world. After several years of hard work, he saved the first pot of gold. In 1997, he started in Nanhai, Guangdong The hardware processing factory has since opened the transition from a wage earner to an entrepreneur.

In order to drive the villagers of Guquan to get rid of poverty and become rich together, in 2003, Li Zongcong returned to Liaotun, the boundary of Guquan Village, to run the Xiongye Hardware Processing Factory.

　　【Concurrent】Malaysian overseas Chinese relatives Li Zongcong

　　In our factory, we make motors, and there are many small electrical appliances and accessories in various aspects. There are about 60 to 80 employees, including some family members of overseas Chinese, there should be seven or eight.

There used to be very few jobs in the village, but now there are more jobs, and (the villagers) do not have to go out to work.

After we came back from the government’s investment promotion, there were several companies that wanted to come back together, some of whom were growing fruits and some who raised cattle. Anyway, a few people came back (starting businesses), and the development (in the village) changed a lot.

　　[Explanation] Since 2015, with the efforts of the government and the Township Council, Guquan Village has successively integrated funds of more than 7 million yuan, of which the family members of overseas Chinese have raised funds and donated 1 million yuan to install solar street lights in the village, and build basketball courts and parking lots. Fields, river stone walls, cultural corridors, landscape ponds, etc.

The change in the appearance of the village has gradually increased the number of tourists in Guquan Village, and Lu Qiongmei, a family member of overseas Chinese, has opened a farmhouse at home, and life has become increasingly prosperous.

　　[Concurrent] Overseas Chinese Family Lu Qiongmei

　　It used to be all mud roads and it was difficult to walk. When it rained, all mud roads were all muddy roads. Now it is different. Now the landscape has changed a lot. All of them are concrete roads. building.

After the village style changed, some friends visited my house and I often made tofu for them to eat. They thought my tofu tasted good and suggested me to make tofu, that is to say, they suggested opening a farm and handing down the craft of making tofu.

My current tofu is not only sold in the farm, but also taken out in Rong County.

　　[Explanation] The gradually prosperous Guquan Village has successively built Tongxin Bridge, Qiao Village Park, Qiao Village History Museum, Qiaojia Xiaoyuan, Qiaojiazhuang B&B and other features with the characteristics of Qiaojiazhuang, and has become a well-known tourist village.

　　[Concurrent] Li Li, Secretary of the Party Branch of Guquan Village

　　Our hometown of overseas Chinese was built by the sages first, and then slowly led the surrounding villagers, step by step, to a wealthy place and a wealthy aspect.

The family members of overseas Chinese returned to the village to set up factories, which led to the employment of the villagers. The enterprises in the village included a hardware processing factory, and the Qiaocun agricultural company. There were several bosses in the agricultural company, and then one by one, the employment of these villagers was promoted. .

Our next expectation is to further improve the village appearance of Guquan Village, promote the development of the village's collective economy and the employment of the villagers, and achieve common prosperity.

　　Wang Yizhao Yang Zhixiong Lai Juanjuan Xie Detong reports from Yulin, Guangxi

Responsible editor: [Sun Jingbo]