Veteran's small steps lead to village's big success By CANG WEI in Nanjing | CHINA DAILY | Updated: 2021-05-19 08:39 Share CLOSE Chen Maozhang inspects an e-commerce center for livestream sales in Xiaoqiao village of Suqian, Jiangsu province, this month. [Photo provided to China Daily] Chen Maozhang, the head of Xiaoqiao village near Suqian city in Jiangsu province, is proud that every family in the village has a car. "More than 70 percent of the farmers have bought apartments in downtown Suqian," said the 60-year-old. "That's solid proof that they have become rich." When he first began to work in the village in 1984, Xiaoqiao looked totally different. Farmers were dressed in ragged clothing, lived in shabby houses and walked on dusty mud roads.