{"id":167894,"date":"2014-01-19T19:15:50","date_gmt":"2014-01-20T03:15:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/?p=167894"},"modified":"2014-01-19T19:15:50","modified_gmt":"2014-01-20T03:15:50","slug":"villagers-build-literal-2-1m-money-wall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2014\/01\/villagers-build-literal-2-1m-money-wall\/","title":{"rendered":"Villagers Build Real $2.1M &#8216;Money Wall&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Naomi Ng reports for CNN that <strong><a title=\"China: Villagers build $2.1M year-end bonus into &#39;money wall&#39;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2014\/01\/16\/world\/asia\/china-money-wall\/\">farmers from Jianshe Village in Southwest China have &#8220;literally turned a multimillion dollar windfall into a wall of cash&#8221; after investing in farmland and small-scale hydropower plants since 2010<\/a><\/strong>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Around 340 out of 483 households are shareholders in the small village,<strong> <\/strong>which has a population of less than 2,000 people.Before they could distribute their earnings to individual residents ahead of Chinese New Year, they had the problem of where to store &#8212; and guard &#8212; it.Chief villager, Jin Hongyuan, <a href=\"http:\/\/news.huaxi100.com\/show-100-422545-1.html\" target=\"_blank\">told local media<\/a> he moved the money inside the village committee office after transporting<strong> <\/strong>it from the bank on Monday. To keep the money safe, he appointed three villagers to sleep on<strong> <\/strong>the banknotes inside the office, while four others stood guard outside.&#8221;We used 800,000 yuan as a mattress, 420,000 yuan as pillows, and put the others aside,&#8221; Jin told the West China Metropolis Daily. [<strong><a title=\"China: Villagers build $2.1M year-end bonus into &#39;money wall&#39;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2014\/01\/16\/world\/asia\/china-money-wall\/\">Source<\/a><\/strong>]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The BBC adds that<strong> <a title=\"Farmers in Sichuan&#39;s Jianshe village build &#39;money wall&#39;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-asia-china-25744260\">netizens have even compared the villager&#39;s success in Sichuan to Mao Zedong&#39;s revolution in the countryside<\/a><\/strong>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;This almost seems like an incentive to encourage one to go rural, as though it is embodying one of Mao&#39;s rural economic models,&#8221; said FengYiCaoMing.&#8221;Socialism is back!&#8221; said YiMeng Wang, another microblogger.Weibo user 2009TheGoodLife said: &#8220;It seems rural cities now have more money. It makes me want to be a farmer too.&#8221; [<strong><a title=\"Farmers in Sichuan&#39;s Jianshe village build &#39;money wall&#39;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-asia-china-25744260\">Source<\/a><\/strong>]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Naomi Ng reports for CNN that farmers from Jianshe Village in Southwest China have &#8220;literally turned a multimillion dollar windfall into a wall of cash&#8221; after investing in farmland and small-scale hydropower plants since 2010: Around 340 out of 483 households are shareholders in the small village, which has a population of less than 2,000 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