Impressed by the burgeoning development opportunities of her hometown, Tong Caixia, who had been working away from home for many years, returned and transformed her family's ancestral house into a homestay with local features in 2009.
对家乡蓬勃发展的机遇印象深刻，在外打工多年的童彩霞，2009年回到家乡，把家里的祖宅改造成了具有地方特色的民宿。
It collects and processes leftover oil from the hometown of the hotpot, a famous dish that features a peppery bubbling tabletop oily broth in which meat and vegetables are cooked.
它收集和处理火锅之乡的剩油，这是一道著名的菜肴，其特点是在桌上烹制肉类和蔬菜时，用一种冒着胡椒泡的油性肉汤。
He recalled that for years, he has been yearning for a change in the landlocked situation in his hometown.
他回忆说，多年来，他一直渴望家乡内陆地区的情况有所改变。
With encouragement from a friend, the unskilled young man left his hometown in Kwanza Norte province to look for his first job.
在朋友的鼓励下，这位不熟练的年轻人离开了位于北宽扎省的家乡，开始寻找他的第一份工作。
Shortly after giving birth, Yang left her hometown to work in factories making shoes and tea products, leaving her child to the care of her parents-in-law.
生完孩子后不久，杨就离开家乡，到鞋厂、茶厂打工，把孩子交给公婆照顾。
This year, Yang was selected as a candidate for the foundation's project to empower intangible cultural heritage entrepreneurship and address the challenges faced by ethnic minority rural women, enabling them to live a good life without leaving their hometown.
今年，杨被选为该基金会项目的候选人，该项目旨在为非物质文化遗产创业赋能，并应对少数民族农村妇女面临的挑战，使她们能够不离开家乡就过上好日子。
Hong Kong native Shawn Kwok, 27, built a successful business on the Chinese mainland and wants others in his hometown to know about the opporunities available.
27岁的香港人肖恩·郭（Shawn Kwok）在中国大陆建立了一家成功的企业，他希望家乡的其他人了解现有的机会。
Meanwhile, local embroiders supported by the company stitch to outline a beautiful blueprint of their hometown and promote traditional Chinese culture.
Tan Zhouhai is a Kuaishou user, who preferred recording and uploading videos about local specialties and gourmet items from his hometown, a poor county in Hunan province.
Like Yang, about 120 elderly employees, whose average age is 65, work at the Moon Hometown workshop.
Co-founded in April 2018 by the local government and designer Liu Yang, who is of the Miao ethnic group and a native of Rongjiang, the Moon Hometown workshop is a social enterprise that focuses on poverty alleviation through the revival of the handicraft industry with indigo elements.
So far, the Moon Hometown workshop has created a complete handicraft production chain, including design and development, embroidery, and sales.
"We are trying to connect the traditional indigo elements with fashionable cultural and creative products that young consumers are interested in, to achieve sustainable growth," said Liu Yang, co-founder of Moon Hometown.
"Xi'an is like my hometown," Kayani said.
The "Jinbo Hao" aircraft made its maiden flight on the same day, departing Shanghai Hongqiao International Airport for Chengdu of Sichuan province, the hometown of the CIIE mascot Jinbao, a Chinese giant panda.
In fact, she has hardly traveled beyond the Yangtze River Delta where her hometown Hangji is located.
So I decided to start up my business in my hometown," said Kok, who is founder and general manager.
Sichuan Airlines, based in the hometown of giant pandas, is currently operating four A350 aircraft, with two of them painted with the image of a two-year-old female giant panda adopted by the airline.
"In my childhood, food stalls could be seen everywhere in my hometown," said the owner of the New York franchise Shao Binfang, a Chinese American born in the provincial capital.
His first encounter with China after leaving his hometown came in 1983 when he had to help SC Johnson set up a factory in Beijing.
The couple also encouraged family members and friends in their hometown to work with them.
Its hometown in June issued a temporary ban on e-scooters until companies were properly permitted, a response to complaints about the growing clutter of scooters blocking doorways, walkways and driveways.
The move by the world's largest coffee house chain comes one week after its hometown of Seattle became the first major American city to ban plastic drinking straws and utensils.
You would think the hometown of Santa Claus would only be busy once a year－but it's humming all year round thanks to an influx of Chinese travelers.
You would think the hometown of Santa Claus is busy just once a year - but it's humming all year round thanks to an influx of Chinese travelers.
That recipe brought about Funiutang, his branded beef and rice noodles dish, based on the most common street food in his hometown, one he has turned into a multimillion dollar business success in Beijing, and whose fame he hopes will stretch to the four corners of the globe.
Another challenge for Che is the education for his 16-year-old daughter, who is still studying back in his hometown.
Three years later, after discovering a reservoir near his hometown in Zhejiang province, he started the bottled water business and steadily expanded the group, Yang Sheng Tang Group Ltd, into a 10-billion-yuan ($1.51 billion) empire with portfolios in beverage, foods, health products and biopharmacy.
[Photo/Xinhua]Intelligent factoriesSu Yashuai, founder and board chairman of J-TECH CNC Technology, said that in the past 20 years he has witnessed impressive changes in his hometown and his company.
He recently visited his hometown Fredericton, New Brunswick, to forge cooperation agreements with local English teachers and doctoral candidates.
A month after this year's college entrance exams, Luo Sha, 19, applied to the recently founded Moutai University in her hometown.
"It's wonderful, If my wife and child could see these dolphins, they must be very happy," Sang said with a smile, adding that his wife and young child live in their hometown in China's Shandong province.
In mid-March, the government of Ningbo, a coastal city in Zhejiang province and the hometown of Cibei, introduced 22 policies to support manufacturing companies and to fulfill its role as a national pilot city promoting the "Made in China 2025" strategy.
Over the past 30 years, as the "hometown of German enterprises" in China, Taicang has consistently strengthened cooperation with Germany, in areas ranging from the economic realm to culture, education, and sports.
Currently, Sihong is known as the Chinese hometown of bigenguo, or pecans — a woody plant native to North America introduced to China in the 19th century and now growing across many regions of the country.
"When I was studying in China, every time I returned home, I could see the changes that the BRI had brought to my hometown," he said.
Infrastructure significantly increases opportunities, leading to prosperityISLAMABAD — Ghulam Khatoon, a native of southern Pakistan's Sindh province, has evolved from being a financially challenged housewife to a resilient and independent woman, all because of the wave of development brought on by the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor to her hometown.
Talking about the impact of CPEC on the education sector, Muneer Notezai, a district education officer in Gwadar, said he has witnessed firsthand the changes in his hometown and recalled how several local students had to quit their studies after high school due to poor road infrastructure to other cities.
"Randi Ramdhani, an Indonesian technician from the CREC4 No 4 beam fabrication yard, said he is extremely thankful for China's help in building the HSR in Indonesia, which is bringing great changes to his hometown.
Hunan Valin Xiangtan Iron and Steel Co established its plant in my hometown Xiangtan, Hunan province, in 1958.
"My elder brother also works for a Chinese enterprise in our hometown.
"My elder brother also works in a Chinese enterprise in our hometown.
Adil Ahmed, from Pakistan, has felt the thriving clean energy development in his hometown.
In 2012, when she first established MULU Hutong, a Nanyang-French sub-brand in the international metropolis, very few had tasted Malaysian curry and Sarawak laksa — two classic dishes from her hometown.
Liu Xifeng, born and raised in Changchun, Jilin province, told China Daily he was honored to be invited to attend the Northeast Asia Young Entrepreneurs Development and Cooperation Forum in his hometown on Aug 24.
A few weeks ago, I took a high-speed train from Beijing to Hefei, capital of Anhui province, for a three-day business trip to my hometown, where I had spent the first 18 years of my life.
Meishan is the hometown of the poet Su Shi, also known as Su Dongpo, of the Song Dynasty (960-1279).
Her hometown, Puqian township, is perched on the northeast tip of the island province of Hainan, which is building the world's largest free trade port.
In the normal course, the Spring Festival holiday every year would see me take the traditional route to family reunions in my hometown.
With industrial transfer from the coastal areas to the central and western regions, and economic rise in the central and western regions, the labor-intensive industries' income gaps between the coastal areas and the central and western regions are narrowing, which has attracted more people to return to their hometown to start businesses and find jobs.
This year, she made a reservation at a restaurant in her hometown as early as one month before the holiday.
I will go back to my hometown in Changsha, Hunan province, during the upcoming Spring Festival holiday this year for a family reunion," Wang said.
He had noted the problems faced by his hometown, and he hoped to make some improvements.
According to statistics released by Ning'an authorities in 2022, over recent years, more than 100 college graduates have returned to their hometown of Ning'an to start businesses.
"When there are more young people and more enterprises, the economic development of our hometown will continue to improve," Chen said.
Zhang Zhiqiang, a 26-year-old graduate with a marketing degree from Harbin Normal University, returned to his hometown of Yuchi township in Heilongjiang's city of Shangzhi in 2018, together with some of his fellow university schoolmates.
In 2012, when he was just 19, Koirala took it upon himself to champion this cause, setting up a small shop in his hometown to sell traditional handicrafts.
Zhang said she might eventually have to return to her hometown due to the high cost of living in Guangzhou.
Farmers are encouraged to get jobs or start businesses in or around their hometown.
This year, due to the sporadic resurgence of COVID-19, Zhao has decided to stay in Beijing rather than returning to her hometown around 700 kilometers away in Central China's Henan province.
"It reminds me of my father and hometown where there were also motocross races up and down the local mountain.
Agreed Ding Lang, who returned to his hometown Dejiang county, Guizhou province, after gathering four years of work experience in Shanghai.
Li Chunxi, a local farmer and a project participant, said: "Being a Rongcheng native, I didn't know that much about the ecology of my hometown.
Wearing light makeup, Liang Qianjuan started a livestreaming session on her phone, telling a story about walnuts grown in her hometown and their health benefits.
Having dropped out of school at the age of 17, Liang started up her business in 2012 and enjoyed great success, popularizing e-commerce in her remote hometown.
"It's my honor to represent them, bring their voices to the NPC, and make a contribution to my hometown," she said.
This year was the first time Zhang spent Spring Festival away from his hometown of Zhumadian, Henan province.
"My father introduced me to a job in my hometown of Dalian, Liaoning province, where I interned for two months last summer, but it is not my first choice," he said.
It was the first time for Zhang to spend the Spring Festival, or China's Lunar New Year, away from his hometown of Zhumadian city, Central China's Henan province.
Although he misses his hometown and the special dishes made by his mother, he will be at his post during the seven-day holiday to ensure the smooth delivery of packages in the city.
This is the second year in a row that Sun Chengcai, a police officer from the Hengmian Police Station in Shanghai Pudong New Area, has chosen to stay in Shanghai rather than go back to his hometown in Lianyungang, Jiangsu province.
"I've bought a lot of food and snacks online, and will probably spend most of the holiday binge eating and binge-watching TV," said Huang Jingjing, a 29-year-old bank employee who decided to stay in Beijing instead of returning to her hometown in Jiangsu province for the upcoming seven-day holiday.
"I've bought a lot of food and snacks online, and will probably spend most of the holiday binge eating and binge-watching TV," said Huang Jingjing, a 29-year-old bank employee who has decided to stay in Beijing instead of returning to her hometown in East China's Jiangsu province for the upcoming seven-day holiday.
As such, various merchants are tailoring their unique festival offerings to accommodate a growing number of consumers as they celebrate an unusual year away from hometown.
"We have selected signature local products from all over the country to make sure our customers can try their hometown foods at their homes in cities where they work," said Qi Xin, store manager of a Walmart outlet in Beijing.
At the entrance to the park lies Liuzhuangzi village, Caiyuan, Li's hometown.
"I've always dreamed of making my hometown the capital of cheese, and I hope in the future that locally produced cheese will be welcomed by more Chinese people," Liu said.
After the agricultural park was founded, she went back to her hometown and started working at the greenhouse tending the vegetables.
In 2011, she returned to her hometown and bought a used automated embroidery machine.
"I would like to be a social media 'celebrity' so long as I can promote my hometown Garze," said the 52-year-old official, who has 2.6 million followers on Douyin, the Chinese version of TikTok, and his videos have been viewed more than 2 billion times.
Similarly, Du Bo, head of the culture and tourism bureau of Tahe County in Heilongjiang province, transformed into a "white deer fairy" donning the traditional dress of the Oroqen ethnic minority to showcase the icy beauty of her hometown.
In 2005, Ding came from his hometown in Hubei province to Jinjiang for work.
Dongfeng, a county in Liaoyuan, is known as the "hometown of sika deer" and "hometown of farmer paintings".
She added that she anticipates a transformation of her hometown and an improvement in the quality of people's lives as the economy develops.
Dacheng county, known as the hometown of classic furniture of China, is home to over 500 rosewood enterprises, over 2,000 registered individual rosewood businesses and more than 4,000 rosewood handcraft workshops.
A few years ago, when Chen returned to his hometown, he had to calculate the mileage and locate charging stations before departing, Chen said.
"We really enjoy downhill skiing, especially from high places," said Xiao, adding that she made a special trip with two friends to Harbin, capital of Northeast China's Heilongjiang province, from her hometown in a neighboring province.
"Meng, who majored in art, and her husband Hu Chunqing, a PhD student at the Institute of Metal Research of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, returned to Hu's hometown Caoxian in 2018 to start a business selling performance costumes and hanfu.
"We really enjoy skiing, especially skiing down from high places," said Xiao, adding that she made a special trip with two friends to Harbin, capital city of Northeast China's Heilongjiang province, from her hometown in a neighboring province.
Transport mode, key infrastructure propel Xinjiang onto accelerated development trackURUMQI — As student Abdulrehim Abduleli traveled toward the hometown of his childhood role model, he was filled with excitement, looking expectantly out of the train window, checking his watch from time to time.
Now, we can take this clean, convenient train to his hometown," said 13-year-old Abdulrehim Abduleli.
Serving the "grandparents"Yanyang was working as a mass media professional in Beijing, before returning to his hometown Chengdu in Southwest China's Sichuan province.
Tea farmer Tan Aiyun still remembers taking the first few sips of her hometown's iconic drink, Liupao tea, as a child.
Zhang Xingyu, 36, who grew up near the mountains of his hometown in Zunyi, Guizhou province, came to Shanghai in 2006 to study at the Shanghai Jiaotong University and has worked in the automobile industry there ever since.
In 2008, she decided to return to her hometown and set up an embroidery workshop to make clothes with Miao embroidery.
The plot was cultivated by Xue Yong who returned to his hometown to start his own business.
He saw huge market potential for floriculture in his hometown and then decided to plant flowers together with other villagers.
"I'm happy earning more than 4,000 yuan a month in my hometown.
Xue said he believes the growth of floriculture can attract more talent, which would in turn encourage more people to take up farming in their hometown.
Wu Zheng is one of the young people who returned to his hometown to run the canned fruit business for Qiwei Canned Foodstuff Co Ltd after quitting his job at a bank in Shanghai in 2013.