Hualong's lamian makers use noodle to escape poverty
Updated: 2016-06-07 10:08
(Xinhua)
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Hard work and honesty in doing business are the keys to success in running a lamian restaurant, said Ma Yong, a 40-year-old man from Hualong. He has made a fortune selling lamian noodles in Shenzhen since the 1990s.
"Poverty forced me to leave home and find a living," Ma said. "When I arrived in Shenzhen, I had nowhere to sleep but on the floor of the shop I rented, or I would sleep in cheap public bathhouses, five yuan a night."
"Now many of my friends own franchise stores selling the noodles in cities like Beijing and Shanghai," said Ma, who returned home in 2014 and opened an animal husbandry company.
Hualong lamian makers have taken their noodles abroad too. Lamian restaurants have been opened in countries including Malaysia, Bangladesh and Turkey.
"Pulling noodles has changed the lives of people in Hualong. It has freed them of the entrapment of the mountains, and helped them move out of poverty," said Ma Qianli.
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