No need to leave home for employment or entrepreneurship; you can earn money right at your doorstep
Original title: Returning home to choose a career, earning money and caring for family without compromising either
Top photo: On March 29, Zhang Qingfeng (right) listens to his older brother Zhang Qing explain quality control for felt balls in the sorting workshop of a felt factory. Bottom photo: On March 29, Zhang Qingfeng (first from right) and his wife Li Qingmei (first from left) play with their two sons at home after work. Zhang Qingfeng, 28, is from Xiaozhangzhuang Village, Nangong City, Hebei Province. Starting in 2008, he worked alone in Zhongshan City, Guangdong Province, in sales, and could only reunite with his wife and two sons during the Spring Festival each year. After returning home during the Spring Festival in 2016, he went to his brother Zhang Qing's felt factory and, relying on his years of sales experience, helped his brother manage the factory. In recent years, Xingtai City, Hebei Province, has guided development according to circumstances and adopted multiple measures to promote local and nearby employment for rural laborers. While solving practical problems for entrepreneurs in personnel, finance, materials, production, and supply and marketing, it has continuously increased support for entrepreneurship and actively provided entrepreneurs with ten major park service items, including infrastructure, agency processing of licenses, and entrepreneurship guidance. Many migrant workers have returned from "migratory bird"-style movement to employment and entrepreneurship at their doorsteps, and "earning money and caring for family without compromising either" has become a true portrayal of their lives. Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Mou Yu
Top photo: On March 29, Zhang Yaozong (left) and his wife Shang Rujia sort processed felt oil seals in their own workshop. Bottom photo: On March 29, Zhang Yaozong (left) and his wife Shang Rujia play with their three-year-old son in the living room. Zhang Yaozong, 27, is from Xiaozhangzhuang Village, Chuiyang Town, Nangong City, Hebei Province, and married his wife Shang Rujia in 2013. To support his family, he worked away from home and drifted from place to place. In recent years, as the state has increased support for small and medium-sized enterprises, the number of small and medium-sized enterprises in Zhang Yaozong's hometown of Nangong City has gradually increased. After returning home during the Spring Festival in 2015, Zhang Yaozong, introduced by a friend, started his own workshop to process accessories for a felt factory in his village. Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Mou Yu
Top photo: On April 4, 40-year-old He Chengjun inspects production equipment in the workshop of an enterprise in the Xingtai City Development Zone. Bottom photo: On April 4, He Chengjun (center) cares for his father, who is bedridden due to illness, at home in Xingtai City. Eleven years ago, after graduating from Xi'an University of Technology, He Chengjun came to Suzhou and worked as a pre-sales mold service engineer at an enterprise in Suzhou. After marrying in 2006, various life matters followed one after another: the couple lived apart in two places, elderly parents could not be cared for, and children fell ill. But the high salary and benefits of the Suzhou enterprise still attracted He Chengjun, until September 2015, when he returned home to visit relatives. In chats with relatives and friends, He Chengjun learned that in recent years the state had greatly increased support for small and medium-sized enterprises, and that there had also been great improvements in worker compensation and talent introduction. With a try-it-and-see attitude, He Chengjun sent out his resume and quickly received a reply. He Chengjun chose an enterprise in the Xingtai City Development Zone and served as deputy director of the enterprise's product supervision department. Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Mou Yu
Left photo: On March 29, Zhao Genqing sorts goods purchased on behalf at the entrance of the Rural Taobao Service Station in Bao'an Village, Nangong City Development Zone. Right photo: On March 29, Zhao Genqing (left) talks with his mother at the entrance of the Taobao Service Station. Zhao Genqing, born in 1992, is the only son in his family. After graduating from high school, he went to Hangzhou to work, registering mobile phone domain names. In 2015, Alibaba and Nangong City jointly built the city's rural e-commerce service station project, and Zhao Genqing's hometown of Bao'an Village was included among the city's 50 village-level Rural Taobao Service Stations. Having worked in an e-commerce hub, he had a special fondness for Taobao, and in October of the same year he returned home and successfully obtained the qualification for a Rural Taobao Service Station. Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Mou Yu