How long has it been since you were with your children? How long has it been since you took care of your elderly parents? When will the journey of leaving home to work end?
Linjiang County, a small town along the river at the intersection of Cangjiang and Ninghu, is home to five major industrial giants and has consistently ranked at the forefront of the city's industrial output value. However, it cannot retain local young people. Hundreds of thousands of migrant workers have to go to the coast to make a living.
42-Year-old Lin Dukong came to Jiang and became the county party secretary. He faced the dilemma of internal friction in the team, weak people's livelihood, and idle industrial chain. He does not do empty work or play tricks, but breaks the situation with hard work, opens up the closed loop of local industries, and leverages the explosive growth of industry; he uses tax revenue to support people's livelihood, implements free education and medical care, and allows homeless people to settle down and live at home.
Chen Mo, a mechanical engineer who had been wandering outside for five years, resolutely resigned and returned home when the situation in his hometown changed. He started as a technical backbone in the workshop, entered the system, and gradually became Lindu's most effective leader. He witnessed the whole process of this small riverside town growing from a backward county in the middle reaches of the province to a benchmark for high-quality county development across the country.
Here are the most authentic grassroots officialdom games, the industrial chain wars of the real economy, the bitterness of workers leaving their hometowns, the warmth of fireworks and reunions when returning home, and a complete epic of the rise of China's county economy, which fully describes the changes of the times around us.
