Back in My County Town, I Achieved Financial Freedom by Making Payroll

Chen Hang spent four years working himself to the bone in Shanghai. He barely saved any money and ended up with a host of minor health problems. After the coworker at the next desk suddenly died, Chen Hang, disillusioned, quit his job and returned to his hometown. When he woke up, his bank account held a cool six million yuan, and he had also acquired the “Wage Gathering and Vitality Condensing” System. For every wage payment he issued in the county, he would receive three times that amount back. So Chen Hang started by buying a textile factory and embarked on a journey to help the entire county prosper and encourage young people to return home. Employee benefits were second to none: a four-day workweek, seven types of insurance and a housing fund, plus all kinds of allowances and bonuses as standard. Employees having trouble finding schools for their children? He built a kindergarten right on the factory grounds. Employees feeling mistreated? He not only paid them compensation but also hired counselors. Workdays could not exceed seven hours. Employees had to use all fifty days of paid annual leave, and everyone shared in the company’s profits through year-end bonuses. He built factories, repaired roads, developed entertainment complexes, built shopping centers, schools, and hospitals... turning the county into a utopia. From then on, home could shelter both body and soul. There was no need for a faraway place, and no homesickness. Years later, Chen Hang, recipient of the National Economic Figure of the Year award, the National Outstanding Private Entrepreneur award, and the National Poverty Alleviation Contribution Award, stood at the podium and said: “I have always believed that the purpose of higher education is to help our hometowns escape poverty, not to escape our impoverished hometowns.”