What is the life of ordinary Chinese people like? Where does China today come from? A media person from the UK is full of curiosity about this. His name is Scott Dripp, and his Chinese name is Gao Rui. He traveled all over China and was determined to explore the answers to these questions with practical experience.
According to the records of "The Journey to the West", Gao Rui went deep into the southern part of Jiangxi Province, China, where the Communist Party of China once formed the earliest prototype of the government. When the new regime was suppressed and heavy rain was approaching, the expedition also began here. More than a year have passed, how is the development of Yudu, Jiangxi today?
" sewing machine on the Long March "
is in the memorial hall of the Long March departure point at the Dudukou. A lot of valuable historical information has attracted Gao Rui's attention. Here he saw a set of data about the Yudu people joining the Red Army team: From June to September 1934, before the Red Army set off in the Long March, 23,369 people joined the Red Army in Yudu County .
That is, in the Long March team of more than 80,000 people starting from Yudu, there is at least one Yudu native.
There was once a young tailor in the capital who embarked on the Long March with a sewing machine on his back. Along the way, he patched up the Red Army soldiers, and even patched Chairman Mao Zedong .
Gao Rui found the grandson of the tailor of Yudu, , Ge Jiuchang. Unexpectedly, it is reasonable, and he is also engaged in the clothing industry.
Production team leader of Yudu Clothing Industrial Park
Ge Jiuchang
Because my family was poor at that time and I had no money to study, I followed the villagers to work in Guangdong. At that time, my mother asked me, Why can you do when you are so young?
I said it casually, from the bottom of my heart, My grandfather is the one who makes clothes, and I said I will learn to make clothes. At that time, we had no developments and were very poor. Many places had not used power.
I remember that I went out to work in the first year. In 1993, when I came back from the Chinese New Year that year, I wore a pair of jeans. Everyone in the village said that your jeans look very good. Did you buy them from outside? I said that we did it ourselves. I am the first to wear jeans here.
Now, the great development of Yudu's clothing industry has brought many people who left home to their hometowns back to their hometowns. Ge Jiuchang also plans to realize his entrepreneurial dream in his hometown one day.
Production team leader of Yudu Garment Industry Park
Ge Jiuchang
Now I am accumulating these experiences. Even after the conditions are ripe, I still want to open a factory and garment factory myself, and then do my grandfather's career.
Host Gao Rui
I think this is very good, it is Another way to respect your history .
Carpentry town becomes a "modern garden"?
Town Nankang , historically similar to Yu, doing a "making something out of nothing" business. The main business is traditional woodworking technology, but the town I see today is beyond Gao Rui's imagination.
Under the leadership of the Nankang government, this place has become a modern garden that combines museums, exhibition centers, and furniture design centers.
Director of Nankang Industrial Furniture Design Center
Zhong Yuhua
When the government was doing this project, it wanted to attract senior talents including design, intelligent manufacturing, e-commerce and other places through the town, and introduce them all here. At present, our design sector has introduced more than 100 design companies , and we are always here.
Like the design companies in our town, they cooperate with our companies above a certain scale. The government will subsidize half of the design fee , which is also very preferential. Like Finnish , Italy, and Spain, designers came to the country, and they used one word to say " unimaginable ".
Furniture Town has introduced more than 200 internationally renowned design institutions and domestic first-class design institutions. In 2019 alone, these high-end teams provided design services to more than 2,000 companies, and the design results converted generated sales of nearly 30 billion yuan .
doctoral team jointly built by the doctoral team of Intelligent Manufacturing Shared Material Preparation Center , with digital, unmanned and intelligent high-end furniture production, completely changing the development level of Nankang furniture industry.
Host Gao Rui
What I see are small robots working in an orderly manner!
The intelligent robot here can not only recognize the color and quality of the wood, but also know when to which port they should be sent to.
This former carpenter town is becoming the largest furniture production and manufacturing base and a trillion-dollar industrial cluster in the country.
host Gao Rui
Not far from the furniture town, it is Ganzhou International Land Port. The first and only imported timber port in the country is the first and only imported timber direct port , radiating to 18 countries and regions along the "Belt and Road", providing a convenient logistics channel for "buying wood around the world and selling furniture around the world".
Since March 2021, the China-Europe freight train business in Ganzhou International Port has been busier than in the previous period, from the original two to three trips a week to one trip every two days.
Today, China's development has profoundly influenced the world. Gao Rui saw the light of ideals first in Jiangxi and the initial exploration of the Chinese government. This scientific and complete social experiment has continued to this day.
The arduous journey of the Red Army has just begun, and Gao Rui's journey has not ended. He will go all the way west and continue to follow the footsteps of the Red Army. "I won't drink Xiangjiang water for three years, and I won't eat Xiangjiang fish for ten years." On the banks of the Xiangjiang River where the Red Army once paid a heavy price, the small village in the valley has now been redesigned...
October 11-16
Document the great era "New West Travels"
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Editor: Wang Dingyao