Returning-home makers must not only be able to come back, but also be able to stay
Recently, under the upsurge of “mass entrepreneurship and innovation,” many maker groups made up of university graduates, migrant workers, and rural educated youth have returned home to start businesses. These “returning-home makers” have an innovative awareness and entrepreneurial enthusiasm, but in the process of starting businesses they have also encountered difficulties such as financing difficulties and incomplete supporting facilities. How to let them be able to come back and also stay, so that they truly become an important force driving the development of modern agriculture and the building of a new countryside, is a problem worth our consideration and solution.
The first problem troubling “returning-home makers” is financing difficulties. Although these makers have a portion of startup capital, to grow their enterprises they all still have no small funding gap, and applying for loans at banks involves complicated procedures and often also requires collateral or a guarantor with a fixed income. Relevant departments should promptly coordinate with banking and financial institutions to issue relevant policies to solve the problems of difficult and expensive financing for rural innovative enterprises, combine rural innovative industries with market capital, increase the supply of rural startup funds through multiple channels, and raise the survival rate of “returning-home makers.”
The second problem facing “returning-home makers” is the weak rural infrastructure. At present, infrastructure such as roads, water, electricity, and communications in many rural areas is lacking, which affects the success rate of “returning-home makers” starting businesses. With the arrival of the “Internet Plus” era, it is necessary to continuously increase infrastructure construction, effectively improve rural road transportation and network communication levels, let agricultural products board the express train of “Internet Plus,” and by promoting e-commerce into villages and agricultural products online, use e-commerce as the entry point to promote the transformation of the rural development model and build a broader stage for “makers.”
⟦NL> Some “returning-home makers” also face situations such as small startup scale, a single structure, low technological content in products, and a lack of management experience and external support. For them, the initial startup results and entrepreneurial confidence are poor, and later, in expanding reproduction, they will face more difficulties. Once the business fails, their situation may be even worse than when they were working as employees, and relevant departments should also strengthen entrepreneurial policy support and training guidance in this regard.
Overall, in some places the related incentive systems for “returning-home makers” are still not complete enough, and relevant policies should be further refined, financial support and entrepreneurial services improved, and a relaxed and superior entrepreneurial environment created, so that these “returning-home makers” can truly come back and also stay.