"My fellow villagers hoped my business brain would help bring prosperity to the entire village," he said with a smile.
In half a year, he led the villagers in building vegetable greenhouses and concrete roads, and growing trees along the roadside. He also helped villagers sell their vegetables via his personal contacts.
Under Dai's leadership, per capita annual income of poor people surged from 1,400 yuan in 2017 to 3,500 yuan in the village by growing greenhouse vegetables, raising cattle and working in cities.
DECADES OF WORK
Lankao has been poor throughout history, as wars as well as frequent sandstorms and floods left the area with nothing much but poor soil.
According to the county's annals, floods hit Lankao more than 90 times between 1644 and 1949, and over 60 villages were buried by sandstorms from the 1850s to 1949, when the People's Republic of China was founded.
Dai was reluctant to admit he was a Lankao native when he was out doing business several years ago.
"I often claimed to be from the neighboring Kaifeng, as people would have asked 'Are locals still going out to beg?' if they heard that I was from Lankao," Dai recalled.
Efforts to cast off poverty have persisted since the founding of New China.
In the 1960s, Lankao suffered another natural calamity, resulting in years of crop failures. It was then when Jiao Yulu, who was later known as a national model cadre for his painstaking efforts in poverty-alleviation, came to work as Party secretary in Lankao in 1962.
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