Common Prosperity: The Great Transformation of Yangzhuang

This novel is based on Yang Bin, the Party secretary of Shangzhuang Village in Gansu Province, who was named a National Poverty Alleviation Role Model and one of the country's Most Outstanding Civil Servants in 2021. In 2005, unable to bear seeing his fellow villagers still drinking from a muddy reservoir, Yang Bin resolutely gave up his highly profitable phosphate fertilizer plant and returned to serve as the village Party secretary. Over the next 17 years, he led the villagers in working hard under the country's favorable policies, lifting themselves out of poverty and building prosperity. He transformed Shangzhuang, once a dirty, chaotic, backward, and poor village, into a beautiful new rural community renowned across the country, creating the "Shangzhuang Model." He is an exemplary figure in poverty alleviation and rural revitalization. The story of Shangzhuang Village is a true testament to rural development in the new era! This is a work of realistic fiction, combining and refining material from many sources. It summarizes and records the tremendous changes in rural Northwest China over the past decade and more, from the "New Socialist Countryside" initiative in 2005, to the "Poverty Alleviation Campaign" in 2015, and then to "Rural Revitalization" in 2018. The plot and characters have been fictionalized as necessary. Please do not assume that any character or event refers to a real person or incident. If anything is inappropriate, please contact the author for revisions.