The new look of overseas Chinese hometown

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? Miscellaneous notes on Mawan Town, Tianmen City, Hubei Province

? Zheng Hanbing

? Mawan is a famous hometown of overseas Chinese, revitalized The economy of overseas Chinese hometowns is an important task for successive governments. While vigorously focusing on the construction of villages and towns, we must also pay close attention to the construction of image projects, so that overseas Chinese living in various countries around the world can have a permanent memory when they return to their hometowns to visit relatives and friends. Based on the actual situation and characteristics of Mawan, the town logo was built. After repeated arguments, opinions from all parties were solicited, and unanimously adopted. But a sum of funds was needed. At that time, the town's financial resources were very difficult. What should be done? Public welfare undertakings should be solved by raising donations from everyone. So I went south to Shenzhen and represented the town government to negotiate with business owners from Mawan who were overseas. I quickly gained everyone’s support. With more than 100,000 yuan raised, the funding problem was solved. Then I personally took action and rushed to Quyang County, Hebei Province to sign the town bid contract for the galloping horse. Soon a giant white marble sculpture of the galloping horse stood in the center of the town on the south side of the Hesha Highway.

? The bus was speeding on the Hesha Highway. All the passengers looked up and thought, ah! The long-awaited famous hometown of overseas Chinese, Mawan, has arrived.

? The first thing that anyone who has visited Ma Wan for the first time is to look at the town sign of Ma Wan Town. It is 8 meters high and made of white granite. A galloping horse.

? Mawan is the largest hometown of overseas Chinese in the Central Plains, with 37,000 overseas Chinese living all over the world. The 81 square kilometers of Mawan, which used to be a vast water palace, has now become a cornucopia of gold and silver. The people in the overseas Chinese hometown drink freely to celebrate the harvest every year and to get rich every year.

After the birth of New China, the Party and the People’s Government led the people in overseas Chinese hometowns to develop water conservancy projects. The local government of Mawan Town alone has invested more than 10 million yuan in the past ten years to build basic farmland water conservancy facilities. The town's 62,000 acres of farmland have an effective irrigation area of ??59,000 acres. In the two major flood years of 1991 and 1995, the grain, cotton and oil here Still had a great harvest. Last year, the total grain output here reached 28,200 tons, the total cotton output reached 1,600 tons, the total oil output was 2,700 tons, and the total agricultural output value reached 1.6 billion yuan. In recent years, 5,000 acres of intensive fishing ponds, 5,000 acres of vegetables in shantytowns, a 20,000-head pig base, a 100,000-strong American mallard duck breeding base, and efficient agricultural projects have been built one after another. Mawan Agriculture has entered the ranks of the top 100 towns in the province. What people talk about most are the unusual changes in recent years.

? Ten years ago, there were only two town-run enterprises in Mawan, with an output value of less than 500,000 yuan. The village-run enterprises only have rice mills, cotton gins and small miscellaneous shops, two machines and one shop. With the deepening of reform and opening up, especially since Deng Xiaoping’s speech during his southern tour, Mawan has been attracting investment in an all-round way in accordance with the strategy of strengthening the town through industry. Chao Yinfeng has built six major industries and enterprises including machinery, textiles, food, clothing, plastics, and construction. More than 100 products were launched. In 1995, the total industrial output value was 240 million yuan, and individual and private enterprises developed overwhelmingly. 12,000 practitioners were involved in more than 20 categories, with an annual income of more than 100 million yuan.

In 1995, Mawan’s per capita net income was 1,600 yuan, and per capita possessions were 1,200 kilograms of raw grain and 30 kilograms of meat. Compared with ten years ago, the total social output value increased by 14 times, and the total industrial output value increased by 14.4 times. The total agricultural output value has increased by 7.5 times, fiscal revenue has increased by 10 times, there are 2,500 privately built houses in the town, which is ten times the total ten years ago, and there are more than 1,500 privately owned small cars.

? Every year during the Spring Festival and Qingming Festival, many overseas Chinese go home to visit relatives and friends. To pay tribute to our ancestors, we have received more than 5,000 visitors in the past ten years. However, out of the 40,000 people in Ma Wan, 12,000 go out every year. There are 200 people in Zhawu Village who have opened shops and factories in Shenzhen, doing clothing business, and a street has emerged. Their products are exported to Europe, the United States, Hong Kong, Taiwan and other places, earning more than 2 million yuan in foreign exchange annually. On the 28th of the twelfth lunar month last year, Zhang De'an and 31 other veterans chartered a 335 plane from Shenzhen to Wuhan, and then chartered 30 taxis to return to the village. So majestic. I couldn't help but sigh, how different the paths taken by overseas Chinese in the past and present are.

? Stroll along the 28-meter-wide, 1,700-meter-long Qiaoxiang Avenue, with hydraulic pavement, camphor trees, flower belts, and street lamps arranged in an orderly manner on both sides, giving you a metropolitan feel.

Since the establishment of a market in the late Ming Dynasty, Mawan has been the seat of community, district and township governance. Over the years, the narrow bluestone street that remains most profound in the memories of overseas travelers is. Since the reform and opening up, the status of Mawan, the hometown of overseas Chinese, has continued to improve. With the rapid economic development, the construction of market towns is changing with each passing day. In 1984, the First Session of the Tenth People’s Congress of Tianmen City made the “Decision on Strengthening the Construction of Overseas Chinese Hometowns.” The Municipal Party Committee and Municipal Government held the first Tianmen Overseas Chinese Hometown Work Conference here. In October 1986, Mawan was changed from a district-administered town to a municipal-administered town. In October 1987, she was included in the National Spark Plan for Market Town Construction. In the past ten years, the hometown of overseas Chinese has invested more than 60 million yuan in construction funds. Now it stands on the bank of Shenhu Lake with its unique characteristics of the hometown of overseas Chinese.

In this 2 square kilometers town with a population of 10,000, there are seven streets, with a total length of 7 kilometers. The industrial area, cultural area, commercial area, administrative area and 6 residential areas are surrounded by flower beds. The layout is uniform, green trees complement each other, European-style buildings, French-style buildings and other high-rise buildings of different styles are lined up in rows. The neat streets and wide streets are prosperous and elegant, with both local flavor and exotic style. The TV microwave tower reaches into the sky, and the people of Ma Wan have their own TV channel. Overseas Chinese Street is home to a dazzling array of shops, including bricks, department stores, hardware, restaurants, hotels, and a food court. In the cultural area, there are more than a thousand theaters, an activity center for veteran cadres integrating entertainment and entertainment, elegant teahouses, singing and dancing It's endless fun to wait in the hall.

? The Mawan people used their hard-working hands to decorate their homes with flowers and became famous. This hometown of overseas Chinese, which once forced many people to flee their homes due to floods, has become a rural city everywhere.

? The overseas Chinese in Tianmen are the proud sons of wisdom. Back then, they carried three drums and wandered around, wandering around the world and going through hardships. Now, among them there are ordinary people and famous politicians. Yi Jia, scientist, industrialist. Their blood is always connected to the roots of their hometown.

? Yi Xiuqi, who was the mayor of Miri City in Malaysia, Chen Shaozhan and Zhang Xinchen, the heads of overseas Chinese in India and Sri Lanka, Yu Liangce, the head of the electrochemical research laboratory in France, and Wei Chuanzhong, the doctor’s home in Thailand , as well as Canada’s Xiao Tianxiang, Wei Tianzhou, and Singapore’s Gong Zhongxun. These people are all Mawan people who have performed a magnificent drama in a foreign country, and they always forget the ancestors and homeland that raised them. I never forgot to express my thoughts and care for my fellow villagers in my hometown. Yu Liangce, a scientist living in France, said with deep affection to his fellow villagers in Ma Wan that I have no use for my knowledge in my hometown, so I can only contribute the knowledge I have mastered when I return to China to give lectures. Do your best for the modernization of the motherland. Mr. Yu Liangce's sister Yu Huaying is an ordinary worker in France. After hearing the news about the construction of Ma Wan, he sent back 10,000 yuan from his own savings. This is by no means a simple numerical concept; A hot innocent heart. Ah, over the years, the overseas Chinese have invested more than 5 million yuan in the construction of their hometown. The construction of Overseas Chinese Street, Qiaoguang Middle School, and Chenhuang Primary School all reflect the overseas Chinese's pure love for their hometown. The people of their hometown A simple and elegant welcoming gate was specially built to embrace them warmly.