Looking at China: A new lease of life for a millennium-old carpenter's hometown

　　In Nankang District, Ganzhou, Jiangxi Province, China, there stands a huge statue of Luban, a legendary figure in China more than 2,000 years ago, who is considered to be the grandfather of the carpentry trade. The story of the Nankang carpenters can also be traced back to China's Qin Dynasty more than 2,000 years ago.

　　It is said that during the Qin Dynasty, Ganzhou was a virgin forest, Qin Shi Huang enlisted carpenters to come here and cut down trees to build the Aben Palace, and many carpenters stayed in the Ganzhou area after the wood was transported away. By the Song and Yuan dynasties, Ganzhou was the shipbuilding centre of China, and many famous shipbuilders were Nankang people. Later, in the Ming and Qing dynasties, the fame of Nankang carpenters became more and more famous, and eighty per cent of the Hakka roundhouses as well as the ancestral halls and temples in the Ganzhou area were built by Nankang carpenters.

　　In the 1980s, Nankang carpenters went south to make a living with their ancestral crafts, and made a name for themselves in the Pearl River Delta as Nankang's "town of carpenters." In the 1990s, some Nankang carpenters chose to go back to their hometowns to set up furniture factories, planting the seeds of the development of Nankang's furniture industry. In recent years, Nankang people are in the policy support, with "a planing knife, a saw blade", Nankang into a nationally renowned furniture production. A leading enterprise landed here, a piece of furniture from here to the world.

　　In Nankang District,the construction of China's first inland port of imported timber - Ganzhou International Land Port, a large production plant machinery, more than ten production lines in close co-operation, industrial robots flexible dance, take, clip, put a one-two punch. Wood imported from around the world here sorting and loading, sent to the furniture manufacturing plants scattered around Nankang District, after processing to become a piece of exquisite furniture, and then sold to more than 100 countries and regions around the world. The vision of "Let there be furniture from Nankang wherever there is a home." is gradually becoming a reality.

　　Hardworking and intelligent Nankang people vowed to craftsmanship and technology mingling, efforts from "Nankang manufacturing" transition to "Nankang intellectual", manufacturing to intellectual, there is one thing essential, that is, a stable and reliable power supply. State Grid Ganzhou Nankang District Power Supply Company, adhering to the concept of green and low-carbon, Nankang furniture " intellectual manufacturing ", to provide a full range of power supply protection, to provide personalised services for enterprises, so that enterprises with energy-saving and safe electricity.(Liu Yiqun  Su Zihan)