National Pioneers
Born in the 1980s, Huang Xiaoyong is an entrepreneur who used to run a foreign trade company in Shenzhen, Guangdong Province, with an annual turnover exceeding 10 million yuan ($1.5 million). Had Huang stuck to his original trajectory in life and stayed put in Shenzhen, he would have nothing to do with farming later in life.
However, in 2014, when Huang’s home county Shicheng in Jiangxi Province in east China introduced a series of policies to encourage business and attract investment in a bid to facilitate poverty alleviation work, he returned home and devoted himself to
