Editor’s note: Common prosperity is not the battlefield of only a small group of elites but people at all levels.

1. Clean waters give new birth to mussels

Shengsi, a group of islands far away from Zhejiang mainland, has a good name for breeding mussels covering more than 20 thousand hectares, an area as large as 1500 standard soccer courts. To sustain mussels’ high quality and make a visually comfortable and eco-friendly breeding scenario, the application of the new big-size floating bubbles replace the behindhand ones, which are irresistible to terrible weather and are disappointing for their high instability. As well as high quality, being utilized to the maximum is another criterion Shengsi yearns to achieve. Extracting mucoprotein rich in mussel shells to tap its biological and medical use is another model that injects more economic momentum.

2. Common prosperity across the sea

Fu Yanfeng, once staffed in state-run enterprises and now an official secretary in an isolated village of Shengsi, leads his fellowmen to promote comprehensive environment regulation and knocks out fruit-picking programs to increase the average income of villagers. To make island culture accessible to people outside Shengsi, he demarcates pieces of small farmland to tourists, which is responsive to people’s desire to be immersed in nature and ways of farming prior to the industrial revolution. To reuse the waste of agriculture production, mainly vegetable leaves and stems, hundreds of chickens and other poultries grew there, harvesting high revenues by reaching a circular economic pattern.

3. Disability backs down on activity

Zhen Guohe, a paralyzed man haunted by polio, started up his own business from scratch in 2014 with another three acquainted disabled men. Going through a mixed life trajectory of having worked as a tricycle driver and other rock-bottom jobs, he tasted the sourness and unease of making a living by his dysfunctional body. Accidentally, he was inspired by Wenzhou businessmen’s enthusiasm for forest products, genuine specialties produced wholly by nature, undisrupted by human’s modern tactics. Zhen takes up his new profession as a collector of the ecological goods from other people with disabilities and sells them out via various platforms such as online live-streaming and upstream companies. With things being done, the sales of his firm passed the barrier of ten million yuan, delivering benefits to people disabled as he is.

4. Foreign business help county prosper

SKF, a conglomerate taking the lion’s share in the bearing economy, located some of its business in Xinchang county which is the third time of collaboration. Xinchang has the reputation of “the hometown of bearings”, but its development was dragged on by its relatively poor industry layers and added value of products which is made up by SKF’s strength in high-speed rail, wind power generation, and aviation equipment. More than 300 bearing companies have been direct or indirect suppliers of SKF. The arrival of the technique behemoth upgraded local chains of industry, reinforced by the fact that the sales increased by 39.74% and profit income by 109.73%.

Editor: Fan Wenwu