Every family lives in a villa, every family drives a Mercedes Benz, and the per capita savings are in the millions. This is what life used to be like in Huaxi Village.
As early as 1996, Huaxi Village became one of the wealthy villages in China, and even had the reputation of "the first village in the world".
Every year, countless people from all over the world come to visit Huaxi Village, and Wu Renbao, the former village secretary of Huaxi Village, has also been highly praised for this, and has been in the limelight in many international ** reports, comparable to world celebrities.
In 2010, Huaxi Village invested 90 million yuan to buy *** and started to develop air tourism.
From October 8 to 15, 2011, Huaxi Village hosted a grand celebration of its 50th anniversary, which is comparable to the National Day celebrations of some countries.
More than 500 reporters from 175 news companies, from more than 50 countries, have gathered in Huaxi Village, Jiangsu, and they have issued a 8-day power protection task for the smooth holding of the celebration.
The 328-meter-high "** hotel" in Huaxi Village, Longxi International Hotel, officially opened on October 8, with a total investment of 3 billion yuan.
Wu Renbao quietly explained that the reason why the hotel is 328 meters high is because of the ......
Huaxi Village needed to be "in height" with Beijing's tallest building, as it was 328 meters tall.
The luxury of this hotel is stunning, and even the rich of Dubai will be amazed when they come.
The hotel has 826 rooms and 180 apartment suites, and on the second floor there is a 2,000-square-meter shopping area, and the railings of the stairs are covered with gold leaf. In addition, there is a sky flower and bird garden and a sky swimming pool at the top of the hotel.
If you don't think that's a rich man, don't worry, read on.
There are five clubs in the hotel: metal, wood, water, fire, and earth, and each theme club displays a huge cow weighing one ton.
These five cows are made of gold, silver, copper, iron and tin, and the production cost of the golden cow alone is as high as about 300 million yuan. If a person like Brother Jie with a clean face was on the scene, he would probably want to scrape off several layers of skin with a knife.
If you're surprised by this, you haven't had enough experience.
On October 11, the "re-enactment" of Huaxi Village was marked by the "Great Wall", "Tiananmen Tower" and even the "U.S. Capitol".
The residents of Huaxi Village can experience a world-class "vision" without leaving their homes, and these cloned products truly realize the realm of "I don't go to the mountain, the mountain will come to me".
The celebration of the 50th anniversary of the founding of the village reached its peak on the evening of October 15, with a grand theatrical evening.
CCTV's first brother Zhu Jun, first sister Zhu Xun and Shui Junyi, they are all hosts.
On the stage of the Spring Festival Gala, Han Hong, Huang Hong, Feng Gong, Yan Weiwen, Mao Amin, Cai Guoqing and other big names gathered on the stage, and the audience can enjoy it.
Allens, the director of the American film crew of "Opportunities along the River", did not hesitate to come from afar to record the program in Huaxi Village. With a childish look on his face, he said to Wu Renbao:
The pace of your development is unexpected. It took 200 years for the United States to reach its current level of development, and it took less than 50 years for you, Huaxi Village, to achieve this feat. You're making rapid progress, and we're slowing down......
However, just when everything seemed to be beautiful, suddenly earth-shattering thunder sounded, like a thunderclap that woke up people who were immersed in the dream of spring boudoirs.
In 2017, an article about Huaxi Group began to circulate on the Internet. The article allegedly pointed out that Huaxi Group's total liabilities in the first quarter of 2016 were as high as 3890.7 billion yuan.
The results of the journalist's investigation show that this claim is roughly true.
What is the reason why Huaxi Village has moved from drinking porridge to tasting coffee and becoming the "first village in the world"?
What was it that caused it to lose its glory overnight?
The rise and fall of the Wu family, in short: one gain and one loss.
Wu Renbao got a huge grinding disc.
How poor is Huaxi Village? Even girls from other villages don't want to marry there.
I'd rather throw my daughter into the river than let her marry a Huaxi person, which was widely circulated in the early 60s of the last century.
Huaxi Village, located in Jiangyin City, Jiangsu Province, only began construction in 1961 (then known as the Huaxi Brigade).
At the beginning of its establishment, Huaxi Village had a total population of 667 people, but the land area was only 855 acres, with an average of less than two acres per person.
Despite its small size, it is divided into more than 1,300 plots, some of which are more than 3 meters higher than others.
Under the productive conditions of that era, with such limited land, if you relied solely on natural resources for your livelihood, you could only face the fate of starvation.
As the secretary of the brigade, 33-year-old Wu Renbao decided to take the initiative to lead everyone to change the status quo.
In the winter of 1964, after his careful investigation and scientific planning, the "15-year development vision plan of the West China Brigade" was published.
Wu Renbao is not only proficient in planning, but also a doer who dares to work hard.
One day, he gathered a group of cadres and the masses, carrying wooden poles and ropes, and a large group of people ran to the north of the Xiangyang brigade and carried back a large stone mill weighing hundreds of kilograms.
At that time, the villagers were very confused and did not know why they wanted to make such a thing that no one cared about.
Wu Renbao led people to pick up bricks and stones everywhere with bamboo baskets on their backs, and although the villagers stared at him with puzzled eyes, he kept moving.
In this way, they searched far and wide, and finally built a mill to process grain.
Compared to relying on manpower, using cattle to pull the mill saves a lot of trouble.
Subsequently, Wu Renbao introduced a diesel engine, which was able to grind 600 catties of grain every day, which was regarded as a "miracle" at that time, and also made the villagers deeply realize the significance of advanced productive forces.
Wu Renbao was not satisfied, and then he replaced the large stone mill with a large steel mill, and the daily grain processing volume increased fourfold, reaching more than 2,500 catties, and he could make a net profit of more than 5,000 yuan a year.
After several years of hard work by Wu Renbao, by 1967, the grain and feed processing factory in West China had been able to make a profit of 10,000 yuan a year.
10,000 yuan may be an unimaginable amount for many people, but it is not the same as the 1Compared with the debt of 50,000 yuan, it is much better.
The industrialization of Huaxi Village was laid by this grinding plate.
While Wu Renbao was working on the grinding disc, he was not idle.
He led the villagers in consolidating scattered land into farmland suitable for irrigation and drainage and mechanization, and opening up a new waterway.
In 1974, Huaxi village produced more grain than other villages, otherwise they would not have had enough food to use as fodder.
The dilapidated tiled and thatched houses, which were originally less than 300 rooms, have been renovated into brand new tiled houses.
Wu Renbao received an important piece of news in 1969 that lifted his spirits.
In that year, ** promulgated a policy that allowed village collectives to set up their own social enterprises outside the state-owned economic collective system.
Enterprises can produce and sell their own agricultural supplies in rural areas.
Wu Renbao has long understood the importance of careful budgeting, and he knows that relying on the income from farming alone can barely make ends meet. If you want to live a prosperous life, you must make good use of policy preferences.
The hardware factory was famous, but it was actually just a few broken grass houses and a few old lathes.
With these rudimentary tools, Huaxi Village earned more than 40,000 yuan in the first year, all relying on the production of screws.
Despite the policy, Wu Renbao did not dare to engage in this activity openly. It's not good that the other brigades are growing food, and you're doing this stuff here.
It is necessary to keep a low profile and make a lot of money silently. The fence surrounds the factory, and curtains block the windows to prevent people from making irresponsible comments.
Ten years have passed, and the West China Brigade has made millions of profits, and the per capita distributed income has risen from 130 yuan to 220 yuan. Such achievements did not happen overnight.
Although this small fight of the West China Brigade seems insignificant, it is essentially a part of the optimization and adjustment of the industrial structure in the terminology of our economics profession, representing the process of transforming agriculture into industry.
It is precisely by relying on this non-agricultural industry that Huaxi Village has achieved primitive economic accumulation.
Wu Renbao was ecstatic at the results of the Third Plenary Session of the 11 th CPC Central Committee.
At the beginning of January 1979, Wu Renbao asked to open all the curtains of the hardware factory, and at this time it was underground"Lover"It was finally legalized.
He also asked people to hang out the signboard of "Huaxi Hardware Factory", beaming, and at the same time sent people to Shanghai to do market research, which is not counted.
With the spring breeze of reform and opening up, Huaxi Village has sprung up like mushrooms after a rain, and joint factories have sprung up from the ground.
With the enthusiastic efforts of Huaxi Village, they have made new changes year by year.
In 1988, the total output value of Huaxi Village's agricultural and industrial sideline industries exceeded 100 million yuan, becoming the "most beautiful boy" in the country.
Huaxi Village is more motivated, thanks to *** after his speech on the Southern Tour in 1992.
Wu Renbao decided to take a risk, and he borrowed more than 24 million yuan to buy 10,000 tons of billets and 1,000 tons of aluminum ingots, and the warehouse was full of goods.
Everyone stared at Wu Renbao again with puzzled eyes, what the hell was he doing?
The country has set off a construction boom, and a large number of construction materials are urgently needed, resulting in a sharp rise in steel, and who knows that Huaxi Village will earn more than 3 times the profit soon.
Soon after, Huaxi Village once again set off a boom in factory construction, and factories and joint ventures with an annual output value of hundreds of millions of yuan emerged.
At the end of the 90s of the last century, Huaxi Village has established three pillar industries: steel, textiles and tourism.
Huaxi Village, the first stock in China's rural areas, was successfully listed on the Shenzhen Stock Exchange in 1999.
In its heyday, Huaxi Village had set more than 40 "national firsts", and also broke many world bests and China's best by the World Records Association.
The first villa village, the first car village and the first computer village selected by the China World Records Association.
However, behind all this brilliance some problems gradually emerged.
The three pillar industries of Huaxi Village, which were once proud, such as steel, textiles and tourism, are all showing signs of fatigue.
In 2003, Wu Renbao handed over the management to his son Wu Xieen, and began to seek industrial upgrading and adjustment, but it seems that he has not found a suitable method for many years.
The villagers also have a lot of opinions about Wu Renbao's handing over power to his son.
The Wu Renbao family had a monopoly on important positions in the Huaxi group and controlled most of the group's assets, which led to understandable discontent among the villagers.
In addition, Wu Renbao still plays a pivotal role in the operation of Huaxi Group and the affairs of Huaxi Village, and does not give up even when he retreats into the background.
Huaxi Special Magazine once selected 88 advanced figures for the 60th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China, and 22 of Wu Renbao's family were selected, and their ** was at the top of the "pyramid".
The villagers said without hesitation: "In the past, there was only the old secretary's ** in the village, but now the ** of the old secretary's family can also be seen everywhere." ”
According to the reporter's investigation, although Huaxi Village** claimed that each villager had at least 6 million yuan in savings in 2010, in fact, this money was not at the discretion of the villagers.
If you choose to leave Huaxi Village and fend for yourself, then you will no longer be considered a member of the village and will not be able to leave with the money.
Maybe when you find a cockroach in the sun, the cockroaches hiding in the shadows are already crawling all over the ground.
By 2016, the once thriving Huaxi Group had fallen into 3890.7 billion yuan of debt quagmire.
Huaxi Village was once known for its courage to fight, take the initiative and seize opportunities, creating myths one after another, but a moment of negligence can lead to failure.