City works to lure natives back for business, family

Looking ahead to Spring Festival, Yu Bingjian and his family returned to their rural hometown in Fuyang, Anhui province, on Feb 7.

For the past 15 years, Yu has been working as an excavator operator in Ningbo, a coastal city in Zhejiang province - first living alone but later joined by his wife, sons and daughter.

In some of those years, Yu was unable to return to his native Zhanying, a village in Linquan county, which has a population of 2.3 million.