The Sound of Tide by the River

With real history as its bones and touching stories as its soul, "The Sound of the Riverside" deeply restores the magnificent scene of China's township and village enterprises emerging from cocoons and becoming butterflies in the 1980s. The book uses the Hongqu Brigade and the East China Brigade in Jiangming County as microcosms to vividly illustrate how grassroots cadres and villagers find a balance between land and factories under the wave of household contract responsibility system. When the spring breeze of "big contract work" blew through the fields, Liu Hongdu, Gu Changqing and Lao Jiatou of the Hongqu Brigade were deducing the land distribution plan under the kerosene lamp, using mutual aid teams, mechanized farming teams and flexible work systems to weave the agricultural foundation and industrial development into a dense network of income increase; Wu Xiangbao of the East China Brigade used Huaxi Village as a model to form "agricultural vanguards" to realize mechanized farming. The transformation from a hardware factory to a machinery factory witnessed "Made in China" From simple workshops to modern production. Open this book and you will experience the counterattack of township enterprises from handicraft workshops to industrial clusters, witness how entrepreneurs use abacus, drawings and passion to break through the shackles of the planned economy; witness how the "No. 1 Village in the World"-style collective economic miracle rises from the ground, and understand the code of the struggle of millions of hands behind "China's Strongest County". There is the cry for reform in the roar of tractors, the innovative wisdom when sparks burst out in the workshop, and the majestic power that Made in China has accumulated in the tide of the times.