Now, if you work hard in a furniture factory in Nankang, you can earn about 4000 yuan in a month. In 2021, the GDP of Nankang District, Ganzhou City, Jiangxi Province will reach 40.977 billion yuan, 3.33 times that of 2012, ranking 15th in the province; In 2021, the financial revenue of Nankang will reach 4.173 billion yuan, more than double that of 2012, and its financial strength will rank first in Ganzhou City.

In the past, as Nankang was located in Luoxiao Mountain, a cluster of extremely poor areas, coupled with the large gap between urban and rural development between the North and the South, the deep poverty level of towns in the northern region, and the large debt of rural infrastructure, the number of rural poor people once reached more than 80000. Among the 18 counties (cities and districts) in Ganzhou, the number of poor people ranked fourth, and the task of poverty alleviation was arduous.

It is true that Nankang is rich now and poor in the past.

The development of industry is the fundamental policy for poverty alleviation. According to local conditions, Nankang District regards the cultivation of industries as the fundamental way to promote poverty alleviation. In recent years, Nankang District has built a hundred billion yuan furniture industry, focusing on the industry, strengthening employment drive, and providing the greatest support for poverty alleviation.

After years of development, by 2012, Nankang furniture had reached the scale of 10 billion yuan. However, the raw materials and the market are at both ends, and various problems such as small, scattered and disorderly are emerging. It is urgent to transform and upgrade, become bigger and stronger.

Also in 2012, the Opinions of the State Council on Supporting the Revitalization and Development of the Former Central Soviet Areas such as Gannan clearly supported the development of furniture industry in Nankang. This has enabled the furniture industry to step on the fast track of development and become the leading industry for poverty alleviation in Nankang.

Nankang set up an industrial poverty alleviation platform in key furniture towns and furniture industrial parks, and encouraged enterprises to attract poor households for employment by means of post subsidies, site rent, water and electricity subsidies, one-time construction subsidies and other incentives for the 'poverty alleviation workshops' that attract poor households to achieve employment income increase. Nankang District also closely combines the relocation and poverty alleviation work with the development of the furniture industry. In the furniture industry park and other parks, it takes the best plot and the best guarantee to promote the relocation and poverty alleviation work, so as to ensure that the relocated poor households can "move out, stay stable and become rich".

Furniture enterprises engaged in labor-intensive production can provide enough jobs, link the employment of poor households, and finally solve the problem of poverty alleviation. At present, the number of poor labor force directly employed in furniture enterprises and supporting industries in Nankang District is 14100, accounting for 37.8% of the total number of employed poor labor force, and the per capita wage is about 3500 yuan per month.

With the support of policies and talents, after nearly five years of transformation and upgrading, the furniture industry in Nankang has grown from a 10 billion industrial cluster in 2012 to a 100 billion industrial cluster in 2017, and further climbed to 230 billion yuan in 2021, with more than 500000 employees.

Today, Nankang has become the largest production base of solid wood furniture in China, and it is the real capital of solid wood, furniture and furniture in China.

In recent years, Nankang has transplanted the successful experience of the furniture industry, introduced Gree Appliances, Nature, Merck Home Appliances, Zuoyou Furniture, Renhao Home Appliances and other leading household appliances and home furnishing enterprises, and opened the "three core era" of "furniture+household appliances+home decoration" pan home integration development in Nankang. The first "Soviet made" Gree air conditioner went offline in Nankang on June 29, and successfully held the 9th China (Ganzhou) Family Expo, It has taken a solid step of "building a home manufacturing city with global influence".

"Relying on the furniture industry, we will continue to promote the organic connection between poverty alleviation and rural revitalization, and promote the overall revitalization and common prosperity of the countryside, so that the people out of poverty can live a better life. Nankang is always on the way." Relevant person in charge of Nankang District said.