Yu Youzhen, a millionaire from Wuhan City, China, has been making
headlines recently, after it was discovered she works as a street
cleaner, for a 1,420 yuan monthly salary, in order to set a positive
example for her two children.
During the 1980s, Yu Youzhen was just an average vegetable farmer in
the Hongshan District Donghu Village Huojiawan, working hard with her
husband in order to save some money.
After years working from dawn till dusk, they became the first family in
the village to own a 3-storey house. At the time, a lot of people were
coming to Wuhan looking for work, and many of them needed a place to
stay, so Yu started renting the spare rooms in her home. Each room would
bring about 50 yuan every month, and the resourceful woman used the
extra earning to build even more houses and add more floors. After
several years, she had three 5-storey buildings, most of which were
rented out.
Construction regulations were loose in China, and everyone was building
houses, but Yu Youzhen really lucked-out when, according to the policies
of requisitioning and redevelopment of land, she and her family
were compensated with 21 apartments for the houses they had built in
Huojiawan. She wasn’t the only one, of course, but she personally
witnessed how fellow villagers squandered away their fortunes on
gambling, drinking and even drug use, so she made it a goal to set a
good example for her kids and act responsible.
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