A countryside B&B owned by a Wenzhou returnee. [Photo/WeChat account: wzrapp]
Wenzhou in East China's Zhejiang province has been honored as the city to promote common prosperity with the help of overseas Chinese, local media reported.
The term "overseas Chinese" has unique significance for Zhejiang, as it boasts a large number of overseas Chinese. Wenzhou, in particular, has a diaspora of nearly 700,000 people and more than 300 overseas Chinese groups in more than 131 countries and regions. Living in other countries while still caring for their homeland, they play an important role in promoting common prosperity and the balanced development of the city.
Six "Overseas Chinese Aid Workshops" and "Rural Overseas Chinese Houses" were honored on April 13, reflecting Zhejiang's achievements in promoting the development of rural industries and common prosperity with the help of overseas Chinese.
Zhejiang Yuming Tea Company, an overseas-Chinese-funded company in Taishun county of Wenzhou, is among them.
In order to meet growing production demand, the company joined the construction team of the "Overseas Chinese Aid Workshop" and signed tea purchase and sales contracts with five overseas Chinese family cooperatives to create an industrial chain model of "enterprise + base + cooperative + farmer", organized and guided by professionals and technicians to carry out tea cultivation, picking, unified purchase, and unified processing according to unified standards.
In 2022, more than 2,000 local farmers increased their incomes, with an annual income of more than 50 million yuan ($7.27 million).
In the city's Ouhai district, the boutique hotels marketed as "overseas Chinese homestays" have become very popular in the rural tourism market.
"The overseas Chinese homestay model allows overseas Chinese to better bring their overseas life experience back to China," said Bao Chenglong, a manager of the Ankui hotel. He said that with policy support, overseas Chinese will have more confidence in increasing investment in the country.
Chrysanthemum flower fields invested by a returned Wenzhou native. [Photo/WeChat account: wzrapp]
