Dexter Roberts, China's Factory Workers Head Home; Migrants from the interior return to set up businesses. BusinessWeek, July 18, 2016
http://www.bloomberg.com/features/2016-chinese-migrants/
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(a) "Foxconn Technology's Guanlan plant in Shenzhen"
富士康观澜科技园 (at 深圳市宝安区观澜镇)
(b) "Many of the migrants who moved to Shenzhen and other Chinese factory towns to work have pulled up stakes to go back home for good. One destination is Binghuacun (population 968) in the interior province of Guizhou, more than 670 kilometers (416 miles) away."
贵州省 黔南布依族苗族自治州 荔波县 丙花村
(c) "The statistics bureau [of China] doesn't track returning migrants, but Guizhou does: Last year 1.2 million returned to the province, up from 520,000 in 2011. * * * Under a policy colorfully called 'Returning Geese Revitalize Guizhou 雁归兴贵,' provincial officials are offering returnees free entrepreneurial training, tax waivers for businesses they start, and low-interest loans. Tourism is a priority * * * says Sun Zhe, chairman of GoHome, a travel website"
I can't find information about Sun Zhe or GoHome.
(d) "Shi Wenjian * * * mov[ed] back to Guizhou two years ago to live with his wife, 5-year-old son, and 7-year-old daughter. Now he raises free-range chickens at Qianlafang Ecological Agriculture Development 黔腊坊生态农业体验休闲园 [by 黔腊坊生态农业开发有限公司], an organic farm and tourist resort in Luodian County 黔南布依族苗族自治州 罗甸县, only 70 kilometers from his hometown, where his parents still live."
(e) "Pan Guofen, 23, who manages e-commerce orders for the organic vegetables, fruit, and meat produced at Qianlafang. While Pan's parents worked in a factory in Huizhou, in Guangdong province, she was raised by her grandmother before going to a government boarding school."
The print identifies her as the woman in photo 1 (atop online).
(e) "Pan Guofen, 23, who manages e-commerce orders for the organic vegetables, fruit, and meat produced at Qianlafang. While Pan’s parents worked in a factory in Huizhou, in Guangdong province, she was raised by her grandmother before going to a government boarding school."
The print identifies her as the woman in photo 1 (atop online). |