Just weeks ahead of the opening of the 12th NPC session, a document was released calling for more commercial investment in rural areas. The proposals have now been brought to the congress. Our reporter has been to meet one of the NPC's rural delegates to ask how such investment can push forward the rural economy.

This is typical farmland in the Northeast. When my parents were at my age, the vast majority of people tended fields in here. But now, it seems to be the last option for anyone in the rural areas who wants a better home, health care and education. So how can rural villages catch up with the country's rapid growth and development? Let's see how it's being addressed.

The household-responsibility system had once put a smile on the farmers' face, the system not only released workforce but also turned out to be the foundation of the rural reforms.

But 30 years after its implementation, the same group of people are heading to the cities instead, in pursuit of richer lives. NPC delegate Zhang Wencheng knows that to keep the workforce in rural lands, new elements need to be injected in the old system.

Zhang Wencheng said, "The NO.1 document stated clearly that we need to encourage commercial capital investments in rural areas. These can help to create business opportunities within the agricultural sector, hence drawing the labor force back to the countryside. "

Acting on his word, he's helping villagers to utilize capital and turn them into new diversified businesses. And such supports are dedicated to details.

Zhang has been running his village as an enterprise even before the NO.1 document was issued. All the villagers here are shareholders of the town's businesses that were invested from money generated from farming. With the cash flowing in, no one is leaving.

Zhang Wencheng said, "When our villagers' income goes up, so do their living standards. People can afford to move in to better apartments from old bungalows. And we can start new agricultural businesses on these once occupied lands. This will attract even more people to stay. "

The success of Sijia village is the picture of how a beneficial economic cycle can be cultivated, when capital gets in the soil.

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