Using profits from the real estate and services business, the Riverside village shareholding company provides welfare for the Riverside villagers, 750 yuan per share in 2011, covers up to 60 percent of shareholders’ medical insurance contributions. In addition, they provide vocational training to villagers to help them find jobs. The shareholding company itself has also hired villagers.  

In terms of other community services, the shareholding company manage community affairs as street cleaning and security services for the new residential neighborhood and the main road outside the neighborhood. The company also subsidizes community recreational facilities and activities organized by the residents’ committee, such as table tennis tournaments and dragon dance activities.  

In addition, villagers will turn to the shareholding company for help if any disputes or conflicts arise among them.  

In Sugarcane village, where none of the former village cadres sit in the residents’ committee, the company is less involved in conflict resolution in the community. However, because it has a unique advantage of rich local knowledge and networks, staff at the residents’ committee who are hired from outside the village usually consult the company’s board members or ask them to be intermediate persons in resolving conflicts among the villagers.