rajanmehta 4,056 Report post Posted December 8, 2010 This is Huaxi, China's richest village! Mera India Kab Aisa Hoga? Read On and Be Amazed!!! Image: New houses are seen at Huaxi village in Jiangsu province. Huaxi village, set up in 1961, is China's richest village. It is also called the No.1 Village of China. Here everyone lives in a villa and owns cars -- imported cars. Image: A row of new homes in Huaxi village. In this village of Huaxi, a booming market town of 36,000 in China's affluent eastern province of Jiangsu, every family has at least one house or villa, two cars and $250,000 in the bank. Image: A man watches the Huaxi village from a vantage point. The villagers homes/villas are of around 4,000 sq ft to 6,000 sq ft area.The annual sales revenue of the village is around $30.78 billion. Image: A woman looks at jewellery in a shop in Huaxi village. One man is credited with turning around the fortunes of the village: Wu Renbao, who was the secretary of the village's local branch of the Communist Party. Read on to find out how he did it . Image: Lu Jianmin watches television inside her house in Huaxi village. Wu Renbao adopted a set of policies that were an amalgam of free market economics and customary principles of communism. Image: A woman carrying a baby walks at a tourist area of Huaxi village. About 40 years ago, Wu Renbao, a farmer himself, propelled a movement which saw Huaxi transform itself from an agriculture-driven economy into an industrial powerhouse. Image: Workers wait for an elevator at the construction site of a high-rise building in Huaxi village. The village built factories by the hundreds and the disciplined villagers, who all work seven days a week and take breaks only once in a while, soon realised the fruits of hard labour and smart transition from agriculture to industry. Image: An employee works at a clothes factory in Huaxi village. The village itself is like no other Chinese village or city. It resembles a western suburb that has been just plucked from the American countryside and transplanted into China. Image: An employee works at a clothes factory in Huaxi village. Officials from elsewhere in China tour Huaxi to find out how this once sleepy village, with just 576 residents in the 1950s, is now so rich and why non-local businessmen would donate million-dollar factories to buy the privilege of a local residence permit. Image: An employee works at the Huaxi Iron and Company in Huaxi village. Huaxi Village has adhered to a path of 'relying on the collective economy and working for common prosperity', says People's Daily. Image: An employee works at the Huaxi Iron and Company in Huaxi village. Big items like villas and cars are distributed in a uniform way to the villagers here. People do not have to pay for it as the village distributes this wealth. Image: Pollution is seen over an industrial area of Huaxi village. The construction and decoration are uniformly designed by the village, and also paid for by the village. Rediff Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
digitalnirvana 646 Report post Posted December 8, 2010 Why would they want to call it a village though? It clearly is an industrial city, and one that could shame our metros. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
kshah 452 Report post Posted December 9, 2010 Thanks for info. Community - if put above personal interests always bring great results. Examples are israel agriculture (kibutz) dairy industry of gujarat in particular and India in general (NDDB). Ofcourse kibutz are dying due to changed aspiration of new generations. this chinese city is brilliant example of fruits of community efforts. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ACS 130 Report post Posted December 9, 2010 Why would they want to call it a village though? It clearly is an industrial city, and one that could shame our metros. Maybe yeh unka badhapan hai !! Else maybe they're trying to say that if our village can be like this, imagine our cities ! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
digitalnirvana 646 Report post Posted December 9, 2010 ^^ True that. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
