Migrant millionaire turning village around
His dream is something that Ning Weihua often talks about. Born in Chashan in 1980, the 34-year-old left the impoverished village at age 12 and became a migrant worker in Guiyang and other surrounding cities. He started out washing dishes at a restaurant and went on to become a labor contractor for projects doing road construction and civil work, making him tens of millions of yuan.
In 2010, he decided to return to his home town with a dream to lead the villagers out of poverty as well as pursue his own rural development goals.
The first thing that he did was to rent about 20 hectares of land from farmers for a fruit tree plantation. According to the contract, 30 percent of the revenue would be given to the farmers and the rest would accrue to Ning, who had already invested close to 800,000 yuan ($129,600) on things such as pesticide and technology.
