-When exploring the Hangmin villager's course from poverty to wealth, you will find that it a hardy history full of legends.

Before liberation, Hangmin villagers lived on fishing. At that time, Hangmin village was famous for its poverty.

After liberation, Hangmin villagers maintained their life relying on about 400mu land. In 1978, the averaged annual income for villagers was only 148 yuan. It was still a poor village far below the standard of living.

After the Third Session of Eleventh Central Committee of the Party, Hangmin Village seized the chance to make innovations with their surpassing courage and diligence. In December of 1979, Hangmin villagers used the only 60,000 yuan to buy the old equipments washed out by State-owned Printing and Dyeing Factory. With 12 large jars as the dyeing jars, the first village-run enterprise, Xiaoshan Bleaching and Dyeing Factory was set up. The hardy course started.

-In 1982, Xiaoshan Bleaching and Dyeing Factory had the annual profit 1 million yuan. It became the first "Millionaire Village" in Xiaoshan.

Hangmin Village were not intoxicated in the title of "Millionaire Village", however, they were advancing toward the higher goals. They used 85% after-tax profit margin in extending re-production. "Hen lays eggs", large factory drove small factory, and old factory drove new factory. With the expansion of printing and dyeing scale, Hangmin Village successively set up Dye Factory, Filature Factory and Thermoelectricity Factory. And Hangmin Village became a famous printing and dyeing base dominated by printing and dyeing, affiliated by weaving, dye and thermoelectricity.

-In 1990, Sales Volume of Hangmin Village hit 100 million yuan. It became the first 100 million yuan village in Zhejiang Province.

Along with the flourishing development of village-run industry, the second and third industries, and modern agriculture also encountered their fast development. After 1990s, Hangmin Village successively ran up markets, star-level hotels, hospitals and farms. With economic development, Hangmin also exerted itself to improve the accomplishment of culture and education, and set up cultural center, kindergarten and primary school.

For the accomplishment that Hangmin Village achieved in the construction of three civilizations, Party and national leaders, Jiang Zemin, Li Runhuan, Qiaoshi, Wanli, have visited here. Secretary-general Mr. Hu Jintao and Premier Wen Jiabao have interviewed the secretary of village's Party Committee Zhu Chongqing. Hangmin Village has been awarded "Civilized Village", "Advanced Radical Party Organization", "Model Village of New Rural Construction" and "Model Village of Comparatively Well-off Construction", etc..