The benefits are mutual.
The folks who work in the city can find a job at home to support their families.
Sun Dasheng also takes this opportunity to have time to walk around and see his hometown thoroughly.
He originally thought he was very familiar with this hometown.
Unexpectedly, after a field visit, he found out he had been a bit presumptuous.
Many places he had only glanced at during his student days, and those impressions were completely unreliable.
Accompanied by Secretary Zhu, he walked through it again, with new discoveries and insights: the countryside is really poor.
Of course, this "poor" is relative.
Compared to his childhood, the rural environment has improved a lot.
Every village now has cement roads, every household has running water, and although the income from farming is still very limited, there are no longer heavy taxes (he remembers having to pay a poll tax just to attend school as a child), and they can make a little throughout the year.
