Daily News (correspondent Tong Xuan reporter Ren Yibin) these two days, Nantong Thunderbird Textile Co., Ltd. is rushing to make a batch of bedding, the person in charge Huang Yuezhong is very busy, he introduced: "The company in the last 10 days will send a shipment. This one container of cargo will be sent from the Shanghai port and will arrive in Angola in two months. Last year, the company's trade volume was about 80 million yuan.
Thunderbird Textile Co., Ltd. is an enterprise in Jiebei Village, Jinxin Street, Tongzhou District. There are more than 160 overseas Chinese businessmen in Jiebei Village, and more than 500 overseas Chinese dependents and overseas Chinese, which is one of the few "overseas Chinese villages" in the province. In recent years, Jiebei Village has used overseas Chinese as a bridge to help revitalize the countryside. Attract overseas Chinese businessmen to return to their hometowns to set up more than 20 enterprises, with a total investment of more than 500 million yuan. It has effectively solved and radiated the employment of surrounding villagers, and also promoted the development of many industries such as spinning, fabrics, packaging, and logistics.
Huang Guopei, general secretary of the party branch and director of the village committee of Jiebei Village, is one of the earliest overseas Chinese businessmen in the village to go out, and his textile company in Serbia trades nearly 40 million yuan a year. Just when Huang Guopei was busy expanding his business, the hometown party committee hoped that he would return to serve as the general secretary of the party branch of Jiebei Village and lead more people to start a business. Huang Guopei felt obligated and agreed. Huang Guopei entrusted his family to take care of foreign business, basically going abroad twice a year and spending a month or two to deal with business; the rest of the time he stayed at home and was busy with village affairs. He and the members of the village team revitalized the idle land and assets in the village, and paid off the 580,000 yuan debt of the village collective in only two years. At present, the village has a collective income of nearly one million yuan every year.
As the leader of the village team, Huang Guopei must not only do a good job in the work of the village, but also guide and help more villagers to go abroad. In recent years, there have been more than 20 villagers who have been taken out to work through Huang Guopei, and Li Yuanyuan is one of them. Li Yuanyuan started from studying with Huang Guopei, and now has set up enterprises in Namibia and Ethiopia, and has made textile printing and dyeing enterprises prosperous. At present, there are more than 150 people in Jiebei Village who have invested in more than 50 enterprises in nearly 20 countries and regions in the world, involving home textiles, construction, real estate, mining, transportation and other industries.
Fly farther, too, the villagers. In 2018, Jiebei Village set up a "home for overseas Chinese" in response to the actual situation of the village, to solve the worries of children's schooling, family employment, and medical treatment for the elderly in the process of entrepreneurship, and strive to be the "mother's family" of overseas Chinese businessmen. The children of Ni Bin, an overseas Chinese businessman who started a business in Angola, face the college entrance examination, and as a relative of overseas Chinese, they can enjoy the policy of extra points for the college entrance examination. Due to his unfamiliarity with the declaration rules, he learned that the declaration work in Nantong City had ended when he was preparing to declare. With the help of the village, the Overseas Chinese Affairs Office of Nantong City communicated with the relevant departments, and the relevant departments directly reported the child's name to the province, and finally completed it before the publicity day. On July 1 last year, Jiebei Village also set up a police and overseas Chinese station to actively provide various services such as alarm and help, foreign-related security protection, and certificate handling for the overseas Chinese people.
The village is for overseas Chinese, overseas Chinese love the village, overseas Chinese have returned to their hometown and benefited Sangzi. Among them, the home textile industry alone has driven the development of more than 600 textile processing points in the village. Ge Xuexin, a villager in the bedding business in the UAE, distributes cut fabrics to nearby farmers for processing. Villager Zhang Jingjing said: "At the doorstep of the house, you can earn 20,000 or 30,000 yuan a year, and you will not delay the farm work." "Now, there are 1560 households in the village, nearly 90% of which are integrated into the home textile industry chain, and the families live in small Western-style buildings and drive private cars." Not only that, the village has also attracted nearly a thousand migrant workers.
In recent years, the appearance of the village has also been greatly improved, the construction of cement roads, the erection of street lights, but also the construction of a demonstration cultural and sports square, the village is planning to invest 300,000 yuan to further improve the living environment, so that the overseas Chinese village into a "garden village". The rapid development of Jiebei Village is inseparable from the figure of overseas Chinese businessmen, who not only enthusiastically donate to the village to build bridges and roads, but also set up a charitable foundation, and overseas Chinese businessmen have donated money. For four consecutive years, Huang Yuequan, an overseas Chinese businessman, paid out of his own pocket to comfort the elderly over 70 years old in the village. He said: "Those of us who go abroad to do business are like migratory birds, no matter where we fly to the ends of the earth, we will always return to the place of departure." ”