A Long Song of Trust and Harmony

This novel vividly portrays a group of farmers’ credit union workers, each with a life and spirit of their own. Zheng Shoutian, who kept accounts all his life and never put away his umbrella on rainy days; Zheng Yiming, who worked his way up from the grassroots and made “understanding the farmers” his guiding principle; Fang Xiaohe, who wore through five pairs of shoes and planted her youth in Taohua Village... Caught between pressure from major banks, the shock of the internet, and cutthroat competition among city commercial banks, they fought their way through, putting down finance’s roots in the countryside and weaving its political and people-centered nature into every loan. This epic song tells of forty years of rural finance, and of the scales of fairness in the hearts of hundreds of millions of farmers.