China's documentary film one belt, one road, is the most popular documentary film in the whole country. It tells the story of "one area along the way": Huajian group invests in the "African ridge" in Ethiopia, Huajian international shoe city, chairman Zhang Hua Rong leads thousands of Ethiopian employees to express their love for China and Chinese enterprises by using Chinese Chorus "unity is strength". Deeply moved the audience. For a time, this little video was popular on the Internet... This is only one of the flowers of China Africa friendship watered by veteran Zhang Huarong with great love. An industry leader who came out of the military camp Zhang Huarong served in a unit in Fujian from 1979 to 1981. That experience also cultivated his indomitable firm will and determination not to complain but to find methods for success. After he retired from the army, he started from scratch and worked hard as a carpenter, pot mender and painter. He sold rapeseed in the rural market and shoes in Jiujiang, earning the first pot of gold - 4000 yuan. In the second half of 1984, Zhang Huarong returned to his hometown Jiangxi to open his own factory - Houxi youth shoes and hats factory in Machu Township, Nanchang County. He vacated his farmhouse as a workshop, bought three sewing machines, hired eight rural women as workers, and made more than ten or twenty pairs of Beijing cloth shoes every day. As the first individual shoe factory in the industry, after years of hard work, it has grown to more than 560 people and changed its name to Jiangxi Huajian Co., Ltd. However, due to the impact of EC anti-dumping, all European orders were cancelled and the company fell to a low point. In October 1996, Zhang Huarong led 80 key workers south to Dongguan and reorganized from a closed Taiwan funded shoe factory... In the most difficult time, he was in debt of 5 million yuan, 10 months in arrears in electricity, 1 year in arrears in rent, 3 months in arrears in wages, and even borrowed money from the village head to buy rice and vegetables... He kept the clouds open and saw the moon bright, Opportunities always come to those who are prepared. At the end of 1997, the world-famous shoe trader panomon extended an olive branch to establish a long-term order cooperation relationship with Huajian, and Huajian rose strongly. In 2002, Zhang Huarong returned to his hometown again and invested in the construction of Ganzhou Huajian international shoe city, a large women's shoe production base in Ganzhou economic and Technological Development Zone, with a construction area of 400000 square meters, 24 shoe-making production lines and more than 13000 jobs (including more than 380 disabled people). Up to now, with the development and growth of Huajian group, Zhang Huarong has developed three business groups in Dongguan, Guangdong, Ganzhou, Jiangxi and Ethiopia in Africa, as well as more than ten subsidiaries such as Huajian science and technology vocational school and Dongguan world footwear headquarters base. As one of the largest medium and high-end women's shoe manufacturers in the world, Huajian group produces 20 million pairs of women's shoes every year, earns more than US $5 billion in foreign exchange, pays more than RMB 2 billion in taxes, and contributes more than 110 million yuan to public welfare undertakings at home and abroad. It has successively won the honorary titles of "national advanced enterprise in employment" and "Jiangxi Province caring enterprise for the disabled" awarded by the State Council. Lead a caring multinational enterprise As a veteran, Zhang Huarong was elected member of the CPPCC National Committee and vice president of the China Africa Friendship Association. His other battlefield is in Africa. Ethiopia is one of the oldest countries in Africa. In August 2011, Meles, then Prime Minister of Ethiopia, went to Shenzhen to participate in the opening ceremony of the World University Games. The more important purpose of Meles's visit to China is to bring China's labor-intensive manufacturing industry back to the motherland, give play to the low price advantage of Ethiopia's production factors, develop its own light industry and solve the problem of domestic unemployment. At the suggestion of economist Lin Yifu, Meles visited Huajian group, which manufactures footwear for developed economies, in Dongguan, Guangdong, and invited Huajian group to Ethiopia for investment investigation. In 2011, Zhang Huarong invested and set up a factory in Ethiopia. With the one belt, one road initiative, one belt, one road, is vowed to make contributions through investing in "bridge". Therefore, he recruited more than 100 Ethiopian people to Ganzhou for training. Two months later, the company chartered a special plane to transport more than 200 Chinese managers and more than 100 Ethiopian students to Addis Ababa, the capital of Ethiopia. A modern chemical plant was put into production in Ethiopia in more than three months. Ethiopia Huajian project has begun to take shape, resettling more than 8000 local people and creating foreign exchange of more than 200 million US dollars, accounting for 57% of the country's leather exports. The prospective investment is US $1 billion to place 100000 people in employment. The friendship between countries lies in the solidarity of the people. In Ethiopia, Huajian group has launched many humanized benefits, and local young people are proud to join Huajian. Because it is located at the junction of the suburbs, Huajian group saw that there was no tap water in the nearby villages on the mountain, and the villagers on the mountain had difficulty in drinking water, so it invited a professional well drilling company in China to drill a well more than 300 meters deep in the light industrial park. Zhang Huarong specially asked the Ministry of works to install a water pipe to send the purified water to the nearby villages on the mountain, He has donated many times to sponsor the community to carry out public welfare activities, and the cumulative donation is equivalent to 38.16 million yuan. Pour water on the flower of China Africa friendship The "one belt, one road" initiative is bringing closer and closer global villages together. Mutual accommodation can make common progress. For a long time, Zhang Huarong has actively supported the China Africa Business Association's "Ai Ai Ai" public fund, which has raised the health of young women in Africa. Under the guidance of the UNAIDS and the first lady, he promoted AIDS prevention and control, and led more Chinese enterprises, China stars and China Public to understand Africa, care for Africa and help Africa. Especially for mothers and babies in need, as well as young women. At the same time, he attaches great importance to the skills training and growth of local young people. At present, 56% of the local employees of Ethiopia Huajian are women, and 86 women have become junior and middle-level management cadres. Turunesh manecha is one of them. After she joined the company in December 2011, she went to Ganzhou, China for training for three months. Since she served as the team leader in 2012, she has become the director of the price audit department through her own efforts and the company's training. She has a daughter and lives a happy life with her husband Diro. In early 2020, novel coronavirus pneumonia spread throughout the world. As a benchmark enterprise one belt, one road initiative and a walk into Africa, Zhang Huarong learned the relevant cases and found that the relevant governments and embassies and consulates were contacted for the first time to communicate with the relevant governments. A total of 6800 sets of protective clothing, 5300 sets of isolation clothes, 65000 kn95 masks, 30000 medical surgical masks, 2240000 disposable surgical masks and 380 infrared temperature guns were donated to Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda, Zambia, Congo (Brazzaville), Djibouti, Zimbabwe, Uganda and other African countries. Zhang Huarong said with heartfelt emotion: "recalling the 1950s and 1960s, our country was as poor as Africa. After so many years, we became rich, invested in Africa and helped Africa develop. This sharp contrast highlights the greatness of China and the Communist Party of China!" In 2018, Zhang Huarong won the honors of "one hundred outstanding private entrepreneurs in 40 years of China's reform and opening up" and "man of the hour in 40 years of China's private economy". On the occasion of celebrating the 70th anniversary of the founding of the people's Republic of China, he was awarded the commemorative medal of "Celebrating the 70th anniversary of the founding of the people's Republic of China" by the CPC Central Committee, the State Council and the Central Military Commission. (outlook new era)