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Zhejiangcun ( "Zhejiang Village") was a community of migrant workers around the Nanyuan-Dahongmen area, within Fengtai District, Beijing. These workers originated from Zhejiang, with most of them from Wenzhou.

History
In 1982, thanks to the Economic Reform, many workers from Wenzhou sought out the business opportunities in Beijing creating by Economics Reform. In order to pursuit of a better life, workers from Wenzhou moved to periphery of Beijing and started to operate their clothing businesses since the new ID card system allowed people travelled between provinces more easily.

Liu Xiaoli and Liang Wei, authors of "Zhejiangcun: social and spatial implications of informal urbanization on the periphery of Beijing," wrote that the Lu Brothers, who originated from Qingjiang district, Yueqing county, Zhejiang, were "said" to be the founders of Zhejiangcun. In 1982 they had stopped in Beijing on a journey from Inner Mongolia back to their hometowns. They set up a stand to sell overstocked goods in proximity to the Qianmen underground passageway and found a high volume of sales. Instead of returning to Wenzhou they rented a room in a peasant's house and opened a business there. A governmental open door policy to commerce and industry was established in Beijing in 1983, increasing the influx of businesspeople. A lot of immigrants came from Wenzhou because that city had a strong tradition of business.

In 1988, leather jacket brought "Zhejiangcun" chunks of profit. Even Russian scalper were willing to buy leather jackets from "Zhengjiangcun". "We barely sleep," Li Wenhong recalled, "We are the bosses in the daytime, but we have to sleep at the floor at night."

In 1986, 1989, 1990, and 1995, the authorities demolished large segments of the Zhejiangcun settlement due to the chaos order of public security. After the 1995 demolishment, Beijing government realized guiding "Zhejiangcun" into a better community was better than destroyed it. In 1996, under the leading of government, "Zhejiangcun" began to improve its infrastructure and adjust its public security system. In 2006, "Zhejiangcun" had been totally whited out and replaced by a new well-organized business community--"Dahongmen".

Cityscape
The historical community, around the Nanyuan-Dahongmen area, covered 24 administratrive villages. The central portion of the area included the municipal villages of Dahongmen, Dongluoyuan, Ganyuan, Shicun, and Shiliuzhuang. Its borders were Muxiyuan to the north, Majiapo to the south, Chengshou Temple to the east, and Dahongmen to the south. The primary commercial street of Zhejiangcun was Dahongmen Street, which is 20 m wide. The centermost part of Zhejiangcun consisted of the municipal sub-villages of Shicun: Dengcun, Houcun, and Macun.

Pre-November 1995 Dahongmen Street included small retail shops selling clothing and wholesale markets. A 150 sqm open air market was located on a 100 m street in Macun. This market was demolished in November 1995.

Demographics
The pre-November 1995 estimates stated that 110,000 migrant workers lived in the community, 95% originated from the rural area of Wenzhou, Zhejiang.<, and there are only 14,000 local farmers.

Impact
As the pioneer and model of market economic, "Zhejiangcun" created tons of jobs and opportunities, encouraged rural labor force to export to urban area which promoted the industrialization, and as a result pushed Chinese economy forward. In 2003, "Zhejiangcun" contributed 54.5% profit of clothing industry in Beijing. "Zhejiangcun" influenced Chinese society not only economically, but also socially. "Zhejiangcun" broke the traditional Chinese business mode which solely depends on the relationship between friends and families. Instead, "Zhejiangcun" created a business mode based on agreements and contracts which is more like western mode, but the relationship between friends and families are still remained. Through out the acculturation and transculturation, Chinese people slowly accepted the western culture and kept their traditions at the mean time.