Why "Wuchuan" is called "Hometown of Ships"

Wuchuan City is located in Jianjiang alluvial fan plain. On the map, it is an inconspicuous small delta with dense water networks and criss-crossing rivers. It is a typical southern water town. About 2000 years ago, the place where we lived might still be Wang Yang. As the old saying goes, all rivers run into the sea. Therefore, people who like Feng Shui call Wuchuan a boating place, saying that boaters are good at going out to make a living because boats are used for swimming. Perhaps it is a coincidence, or perhaps it is the inspiration that Wuchuan people have a tradition of going out to make a living since ancient times. After the founding of New China, people in Wuchuan were trapped in less than one million mu of cultivated land, facing the loess and facing the sky. Despite learning Dazhai and Memorial Day, people still lived in poverty. At the end of 1970s, Wuchuan people began to divide fields into households and implement the production contract responsibility system. This new production relationship adapted to the development of productive forces at that time, gave full play to farmers' subjective initiative and greatly liberated productive forces. Since then, surplus labor has gradually appeared in Wuchuan. China's reform and opening up has given people in the Pearl River Delta a head start. Its rapidly developing industry needs a lot of labor. This relationship between supply and demand of labor force has prompted Wuchuan people who have been holding back their strength to start washing their feet and going out to work and do business.