Billionaires' Trajectory Of Becoming Rich

The controversy between Yunnan city's rural billionaire Xia Yao Zhou's dream of making a city and the debate has become the epitome of the conflict of ideas in the new rural construction movement in China.

The bold idea of "spending thirty million yuan for villagers to build cities" has pushed Yunnan's rich Xia Yao Zhou to the forefront of public opinion.

According to Xia Yaozhou's plan, Tongnan village, which is located in the high and cold mountainous area of Yunnan, will become the first "village city" in the area. After the completion of the city, 141 villagers in the village will wash their feet and go to the fields to bid farewell to the traditional rural life. The men will go to work in the mine and the women will work in the farm. Each household will have a more than 200 square meter European style townhouse.

People will go shopping in their own districts, enjoy cultural entertainment and medical care, like the townspeople. The elderly over 70 years old will be provided with all the free education.

However, the local people did not fully endorse and support this magnificent plan. Some even questioned Xia Yao Zhou as "the intention of drunken men is not in wine".

The path to riches across two villages

Xuanwei City, Yunnan, October 16, 2007.

The mountain roads connected to the urban area and the Tangtang town pass through heavy vehicles full of coal from time to time, and those coal cars may contain Xia Yaozhou's story.

In a car with five or six people, Xia Yaozhou's name quickly became a hot topic with reporters' questions.

"You have to understand Xia Yao Zhou, it is best to get off at the old fort", a 50 year old middle-aged woman told the "legal weekly" reporter, the birthplace of Xia and the current office area are old fort village, where he dug the coal Xia Jia Qing village and agricultural development of Tongnan Village.

Xia Tingzhao and Xia Yao Zhou are the cousins of the old fort village branch. They are familiar with Xia Yaozhou's wealth road.

Xia Tingzhao said that Xia Yaozhou was not an upstart. Though he was not a well-educated person, he was knowledgeable and discerning. "He was rich by strength."

In Xia Tingzhao's view, Xia Yao's early suffering was the key to his subsequent success.

Xia Yao Zhou, 44 years old, is the eldest son in the family who has taken the family burden early.

"At that time, the mountains were poor, and the grain of a year often ended up in half a year." Xia Tingzhao said that no food was eaten. When Xia Yao was 16 years old, he dug the coal well. At the age of 17, he took a Sichuan carpenter as an apprentice, and then went to Zhaotong at the age of 19. When he was a little carpenter, he went to Tibet.

Even so, he failed to make his family prosperous.

A chance changed Xia Yaozhou's life.

In 1982, a small coal mine owner sold his coal mine with poor management to Xia Yao Zhou at a price of several thousand yuan. In October of that year, Xia Yaozhou bought a coal mine from a credit union loan and began the road of starting a business.

"The same is for digging coal, others can't do well, but they began to make money in Xia Yao Zhou's hands." Xia Tingzhao said that Xia Yao had a vision, and when he became a mine owner, he began to introduce advanced equipment and technology and expand the scale of mining. The coal mine expanded from the original 2 square kilometers to nearly 5 square kilometers now.

Despite the setbacks and even flooding in the coal mine in 1995, Xia Yaozhou persistently managed his Qin Jia Di coal mine until today's success.

In order to facilitate the expansion of business, Xia Yaozhou moved his stronghold to Tongnan village, 5 kilometers away from the old fort. So far, the two most important natural villages in the history of Xia Yaozhou's Entrepreneurship: Xia Jiqing village and tongnpu village, are linked together through the old paddies.

Thirty million yuan to build "village in city"

Along the small street of the old pun village committee, the car went to Xuanwei for 20 minutes or so, and then went to Tongnan village, where Xia Yaozhou was engaged in coal marketing and agricultural development. Here is a large construction site that has been leveled off, and a stone head wall has been built on the North side and on both sides of the east side.

Ma Zhaoyin, who is on duty in the mine, said that this is the residential district that Xia will soon invest heavily in.

According to the plan, the plot covers an area of 60 mu, and it will build 120 sets of 240 townhouses with mixed steel structure. In the future, there will be public facilities such as public toilet, commodity market, cultural entertainment room, medical clinic and so on. An elderly activity center will also be built to support the elderly in the village over 70 years old.

In addition, we need to invest more than 200 yuan to build a small reservoir with 1 million 380 thousand water reserves near the village to solve the production and domestic water consumption of the farmers in the village and downstream.

The capital needed for construction of the "village city" is all paid by Qin Jia Di coal mine, and unified land acquisition, unified planning, unified design and unified construction are completed once.

The building of the masses will be settled according to the cost price. Under the condition of guaranteeing the living expenses of the masses, the wages of the workers in the coal mine and the dividends paid to the land will be deducted monthly.

The existing housing of farmers should be compensated according to the quality, unified compensation and unified demolition.

At present, construction land has entered the stage of formation.

The 57 year old generation Ze Ze family was temporarily arranged in the middle of a cottage pition. The three tile houses of his family were demolished on the eighteen day of the first day of the year when the construction site was officially started, and he received a compensation of more than 11 yuan.

Looking at the old house base that has grown some weeds now, the mountain villager who has some inconvenient feet and feet has some doubts: "summer boss has claimed our land, has demolished our house, we have become the landless farmer, what is really not known in the future".

Compared with the villagers' doubts, Xia Yaozhou was obviously confident. He summoned all the villagers in the old fort village as early as 2005, and proposed that enterprises should use the funds of the enterprises as a guarantee to take the way of renting the land for the peasants first, then land the land together, set up pig farms, plant fruit trees, set up farms, and so on, and develop intensive production.

Xia Yaozhou's basic idea is that the first step is to rent.

To measure and classify the 1160 mu of land in the whole village, according to the standard of 450 yuan per mu 480 yuan and two places per year, the rent is paid by the coal mine, the production is unified, the planting and aquaculture are concentrated development, the lease term is 3 years, and the second step is land stock.

After the benefit is generated, the farmers participate in the operation according to the land area, supplemented by the wage system and other measures, and the risk is borne by the coal mine.

At the end of 2005, Xia Yao Zhou hired experts from the province to plan the land, including 500 acres of orchard, 200 mu of vegetable base, 200 mu of feed base, and a farming area covering 19000 square meters and 15000 pigs in the year.

Next, 600 farms and 3000 sheep farms will be built. Each year, 40 thousand tons of feed processing plants and wineries will be built.

After the completion of all projects, the annual yield of 1160 mu of land can reach 8 million yuan to 10 million yuan, compared with the single household production, the economic benefits can be increased by more than 10 times.

In this regard, there are 46 years of teacher experience of the generation of odd odd calculations.

His family has 10 acres of land, according to the initial stock price of 3600 yuan / MU calculation, about 36 thousand yuan of equity capital can be obtained. Before the orchard in the first three years, the rent price of 450 yuan per mu can be 4500 yuan a year, and three years later, dividends will be paid on the farm.

Over the past two years, some of Xia Yaozhou's plans have become a reality. Pig farms have begun to produce benefits this year, and the orchards are basically formed.

As an important part of the small town in the village, the construction of residential areas has just experienced the work of land acquisition, demolition, and land consolidation.

According to estimates, Xia Yaozhou will spend more than 30 million yuan to achieve the above plan.

46 year old Kong Lingzhu family three are working in Qin Jia Di coal mine. In August 30th this year, Kong Lingzhu's wife Zhang Wen even suffered from acute gallstones, but he could not get a large amount of medical expenses at that time. After Xia Yiu Zhou knew, he immediately lent him 5000 yuan.

Kong Lingzhu said that when he came to the mine for more than two years, his family did not know how much money he had borrowed from his boss, although he was deducted from his wages. "But it should be urgent to save lives."

Xia Yaozhou, director of Xuanwei Foreign Publicity Office, told the "legal weekly" reporter that Xia Yaozhou has invested more than 20 yuan to repair the village road of Xia Jiqing, and invested 150 thousand yuan to repair the village road between the old village of Ma Qing and the Higa village. He invested more than 14 yuan to solve the drinking water problem of 235 households in Tongnan village, Xia Jiaqing, Li Jia Ying and Kong Jiadun, and invested 250 thousand yuan to build the first local free school, Yao Zhou hope primary school, and fully bear the student's book fee and operation cost.

Qin Benze is the only teacher of three teachers in Yao Zhou primary school who does not take state salary.

As a teaching point of the old Fort Primary School, the school district originally only arranged this teaching point to accept the students of grade one and grade two, and students of grade three and above had to walk more than 10 miles to school.

Some people worry that grade three students will not be able to walk that far. Xia Yao Zhou has asked for a resignation teacher, Qin Benze, who has over 30 years of teaching experience. He hired him as the head teacher of grade three. According to two other official teachers' standards, Xia Yaozhou was in charge of the wages of Qin.

Like caring for education, Xia Yao Zhou also takes care of the elderly in the village and the villagers who are living in difficulty.

Before the Spring Festival of 2006, Xia Yaozhou also brought 30 thousand yuan to pay a new year call to the old and poor families in Tongnan village.

As her husband died early, Duan Yanlin, a villager in the village of old fort, lived with two children and had a very difficult life.

Xia Yao Zhou arranged for one of her children to be a security guard in the coal mine, and another in the farm as a technician, while Yan Lin in the pig farm raised pigs.

For this change, Duan Yan Lin called himself "a worker in a latte bowl".

For the future villa, she is full of yearning.

"There are many rich people in this area, but many people left behind the impression that most of them left behind this place after many years."

Ma Zhaoyin said that if the town is full of coal and many people dig coal to make money, but after Xia Yao Zhou has made money, a large part will be used to return to the countryside. No one in this area does not speak well of him. He is a big housekeeper in this area. As long as the villagers and miners are in need, he helps.

Moving forward in dispute

The local government believes that Xia Yaozhou's actions are in line with the policies of the new rural construction. The information of the Propaganda Department of Xuanwei Municipal Committee shows that the idea of "changing villagers into residents" has been made substantial progress since two years ago. 220 people in Tongnan village have worked in the coal mine. In 2005, the workers in the village received 1 million 560 thousand yuan in salary, and the total income of the village was 516 yuan, with a per capita income of more than 3000 yuan.

Three years ago, there were less than 10 households with TV sets. Now there are 152 TV sets, 186 mobile phones and 23 motorcycles in the village.

Despite the government's support, there are still some people who are puzzled or questioned about Xia Yaozhou's behavior.

Xia responded publicly through the media: "some people say I am stupid, but I still feel that I am wiser than them."

He explained that his goal was "to make more money for people in their hometown, and to live a good life."

Some people disagree with this statement. They think, "this is not consistent with the businessman's nature. Businessmen should pay attention to business and business."

Xia Yaozhou replied: "I am different from others, absolutely different.

I am not a businessman, I am a real farmer! "

In early October 2007, local media in Yunnan reported that tens of millions of cities built on Wednesday on Xia Yao had aroused widespread comments from readers and netizens. Some even questioned Xia Yao Zhou's "ulterior motives".

A villager said, "he is just building several houses for us, asking us to go to his factory to work, and then we want our land. How much is our foundation?"

The reporter told Xia Yaozhou about this. He said, "this is mainly because the heart is too complicated.

I really do something for the common people, and now some people doubt it.

In fact, the money that I should take out is not bad.

Some people doubt that Xia's motives may be more ambitious behind him. Xia Yaozhou said, "I want to lead all of you together, but some people doubt me. I still doubt him. I don't think their minds will work."

At the end of the battle, "different realm" became Xia Yaozhou's only answer.

Local authorities have also noticed these controversies.

Kong Lingpei, deputy director of the agricultural and Forestry Bureau of Xuanwei City, interviewed that the current homestead is reasonable and legal.

Kong Lingpei commented: "Xia Yaozhou's valuable thing is that entrepreneurs come forward rather than the government comes forward to do this.

In the final analysis, it is because some entrepreneurs are doing these things in their own way, so they cause speculation and doubt.

Zhu Qiulian, an associate professor of sociology at Hunan Normal University, believes that the dream of "creating a city" is a way for Xia Yao Zhou to realize his social value. It is also a way to repay society for those who get rich first. For society, this positive behavior is worth advocating and promoting, because it accords with the spirit of "sharing in common construction and building together in sharing".

Professor Li Guang, Dean of the development and Research Institute of Wuhan University, thinks that in the process of new rural construction in China, it is a trend to pfer agriculture to farmers. Intensive use of land is the future direction of development. This way can improve the efficiency of land use, and the development mode of Xia Yaozhou is in line with the requirements of the new rural construction, and is worth carrying out.

"Xia Yaozhou's behavior reflects the social responsibilities and values of entrepreneurs."

Li Guang said.