In recent years, more than 50 construction machinery enterprises have successively appeared on both sides of National Highway 105 in Gaotang County, including Jiuhong Heavy Industry, the only enterprise in the country that has the qualification for testing construction elevators, material hoists and anti-fall safety devices. Last year, the county was also awarded the honorary title of "Hometown of Construction Machinery in China". Zhang Heping, deputy director of the Organizing Committee of the China Spring Construction Machinery Fair, said that this brand was awarded to the construction machinery industry in Gaotang County, and more than 60,000 farmers in the county. This has also become an example for migrant workers to successfully start their own businesses, which in turn leads to an industry.
Shandong Jiuhong Heavy Industry Co., Ltd. is located on the east side of National Highway 105. It is one of the enterprises founded by returning entrepreneurs from Gaotang County. General Manager Chen Jinshui has been working abroad for decades and has been dealing with construction machinery. He has done maintenance and leasing. Relying on the accumulated capital and customer resources, he founded Beijing Jiuhong Heavy Industry Construction Machinery Co., Ltd. in Beijing to produce tower cranes and other construction machinery. Soon it established a firm foothold in Xinjiang, Inner Mongolia, Ningxia and other places. In 2010, facing the increasingly hot sales situation, Chen Jinshui set his sights on his hometown. Soon, he invested nearly 100 million yuan in the Renhe Street Construction Machinery Industrial Park to build Shandong Jiuhong Heavy Industry, producing more than 20 kinds of construction machinery products.
However, Chen Jinshui is only one member of the army of returning entrepreneurs in Gaotang County. "As early as the late 1970s, many Gaotang people went to other places. After the Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee, many Gaotang farmers went out of their homes and came to the three eastern provinces, Beijing, Inner Mongolia and other places to work in the construction industry. The maintenance of jacks and construction machinery at the construction site is called 'running iron work' in Gaotang." Ye Hong, director of the County Economic Cooperation Bureau, said that there are more than 60,000 people in Gaotang County who are "running iron work" all year round. After nearly 30 years of hard work, some of them have become "rich bosses" with over 100 million assets. With the increase of investment costs in big cities, facing the low-cost optimized investment environment in their hometowns, their desire to return to their hometowns to start a business has grown stronger.
Feng Li is the chairman of Gaotang Huatong Hydraulic Machinery Co., Ltd. Although he does not go out to work, he is very familiar with the living conditions of expatriates. He said: "Many of them went out when they were young, and they often didn't eat the next meal. They were owed wages for part-time jobs and cheated when they did business. After these hardships, they became wiser and more entrepreneurial. Not to be underestimated.”
In just a few years, more than 20 construction machinery manufacturers such as Jiuhong Heavy Industry, Yongan Construction Machinery, and Lituo Construction Machinery have sprung up in Gaotang. It has established a construction machinery industry belt, with an annual output value of nearly 10 billion yuan. In addition to giving preference to capital, administrative approval and other aspects, Gaotang County has also built a high-standard construction machinery industry cluster in Renhe Street and Liulisi Town, and has provided the construction machinery industry with high-quality and capable services. The team provides nanny services for enterprises.
Liu Chunhua, member of the Standing Committee of the Liaocheng Municipal Party Committee and Secretary of the Gaotang County Party Committee, said: "In the future, with the enhancement of the industry capacity of small and medium-sized cities, the state has adopted incentive policies for the equipment manufacturing industry. It can be said that the construction machinery industry has ushered in another development climax." He Said that Gaotang County has formulated and issued a series of preferential policies for migrant workers to return to their hometowns to start a business, focusing on the development of the characteristic industry of construction machinery, and strive to reduce the cost of starting a business. The "returning wild goose economy" has formed a unique landscape of "going out for a group of farmers and returning a group of managers".
On April 12 last year, the National Spring (Gaotang) Construction Machinery Trading Conference hosted by China Construction Infrastructure Co., Ltd. and China Quality Association Construction Machinery Industry Branch will be grandly opened. "The construction machinery trade conference will provide a platform for construction machinery enterprises and sellers from all over the country to display and communicate, allowing foreign businessmen to understand the Gaotang construction machinery industry at a close distance, and also provide a platform for local enterprises to learn from famous enterprises and sugar daddy. An opportunity to form a catalytic effect and accelerate the growth of the construction machinery industry cluster.” said Zhang Ying, the county magistrate.