Fifty Million a Day, and I Can Only Develop the County Town?

After ten years of working in Shanghai, Chen Chuan had only 3,200 yuan left in his bank account when he was laid off. Back in his hometown of Qinghe County, he unexpectedly bound himself to the County Asset Revitalization System, which deposited 50 million yuan every day. But he couldn’t use the money to buy a luxury car or a house and lie flat. He could only pour it into Qinghe County’s unfinished buildings, bankrupt factories, old schools, and public welfare projects. Others thought unfinished buildings were bad luck, but he bought one and turned it into a youth startup center. Others balked at bankrupt factories with their debts, but he cleared unpaid wages, replaced equipment, and rebuilt their brands. People said the county couldn’t keep young people, so he built vocational training centers, a logistics park, and apartments for skilled workers.

While his relatives were still urging him to find a stable job, the county’s first large-scale job fair, attended by tens of thousands, already bore his name.

Starting with a single unfinished building, Chen Chuan would turn this little county nobody believed in into a new hub that everyone wanted to return to.