Villagers built a great wall of cash in China after their cooperative stacked up huge profits.
The giant wads worth 13 million yuan (£1.3million) in total were laid out in a 2m tall ‘money wall’ at Jianshe village in the Lianshan municipality, in south-west China’s Sichuan province.
Several residents even slept on the notes overnight to guard them from thieves before the end of year bonuses were distributed the following day.
Yang Huai, who received 200,000 yuan, said it had been a custom in the village since 2010 to distribute the bonus in cash before the Chinese New Year.
Some 340 out of a total number of 483 households are the shareholders of a rural cooperative established that year, which profits from pig farms, cherry orchards, and its investment in four small scale hydropower plants in Sichuan, said a village official surnamed Zhu.
The villagers are guaranteed an annual bonus, despite villagers not being directly involved in the cooperative’s daily operations.
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