Zhang Tianren, Party secretary of Xinchuan village, Changxing county, Zhejiang province

I've witnessed significant changes the village has experienced in the past 27 years. We've shut down 10 more mining and highly resource-consuming companies while encouraging local residents and companies to get involved in new energy industrial chains and developing leisure agriculture and tourism in the past decades. Now, the villagers have an average annual income of about 150,000 yuan ($20,644) with a better living environment.