From the typical agricultural village, to the forerunner in the era of industrial economic development, and then to the advanced coordinated development of "three civilizations", Changjiang Village has experienced an extraordinary road of development. Thirty years ago, Changjiang Village was a small place with poor people and thin land. The ancestors of the villagers made a living by fishing, which is called northern Jiangsu in southern Jiangsu. In the 1970s, Changjiang Village was a typical example of learning from Dazhai and West China, which successfully created the miracle of "three crops and double hundred cotton" and realized high yield of farmland. 1984, Changjiang village embarked on the road to the development of township enterprises. With the strategy of "four loans",/kloc-0 successfully became a village with ten million yuan in 1989, and/kloc-0 established a provincial group in 1994.

Since its establishment, the Group has always adhered to the enterprise tenet of "Entrepreneurship-hard work, success-support from all directions, reputation-benefit-oriented, development-never complacency" and constantly expanded its scale. It owns elevator guide rail, section steel, fingerprint-resistant board, building materials, port machinery, shipbuilding, real estate development, four-star hotel and other industries, and enjoys import and export rights. It is a private joint-stock enterprise group with certain independent product research and development capabilities. The Group has jurisdiction over three demonstration industrial production parks: Yangtze Runfa (Machinery) Industrial Park, Yangtze Runfa (East Zone) Industrial Park and Yangtze Runfa (Suyu) Industrial Park. It owns/kloc-0 listed companies and 2 high-tech enterprises, and has established scientific research institutions such as academician expert workstations and postdoctoral workstations, ranking among the top 500 private enterprises in China, with total assets of 2.2 billion yuan and annual comprehensive benefits exceeding 100 million yuan.

In 2007, it achieved sales of 2.5 billion yuan, making an agricultural demonstration village an economically strong village among the top 500 state-level private enterprises. Looking back on the changes in the Yangtze River Village in the past 30 years, it is mainly manifested in the changes in the village, the changes in people and the changes in economy. 1. Village transformation-transforming poor and backward small fishing villages into modern pilot demonstration villages. The second is the transformation of people-turning illiterate and semi-illiterate ordinary farmers into educated and knowledgeable modern citizens. Third, economic change-take off the original poor village hat and become a strong economic village in Zhangjiagang City. In 2007, the total output value of Changjiang Village was 2.5 billion yuan, the comprehensive economic benefits exceeded/kloc-0.2 billion yuan, and the per capita income of villagers exceeded 20,000 yuan. The total economic output of the village has increased by more than 400 times compared with that before the reform and opening up, and the per capita income has increased by more than 1.000 times. Nowadays, the rapid economic development of the Yangtze River Village provides a strong material foundation for the construction of spiritual civilization.