Soon, Sun Town buzzed with two big pieces of news.
The first was that the town government took the lead in recruiting eighty young and middle-aged workers. After the new year, some would go to Yangchuan City first; the rest would report directly to Suming's liquor factory once it was built.
At first, everyone reacted just like Mr. Wu, the town chief: no one had expected that Suming's so-called "small business" would actually be three whole companies!
The salaries offered by Suming were not high, averaging a little over two thousand yuan a month in hand. However, all three factories provided room and board and welfare benefits such as the five social insurances and one housing fund. Taken together, it was more than working in the county city for three or four thousand yuan a month, which, for any family in Sun Town, was no small sum.
