Abstract:

The study of those longestablished “nameless but real” social enterprises and entrepreneurs in modern Chinese history are still rarely seen in the current research literatures of social enterprises. At the inception of industrialization in modern China, the social cultural traditions and indigenous resources nurtured private national industries with the nature of social enterprises. Those manufacturing industries with factories set up in the local rural areas and serving for the local construction are defined as the “indigenous social enterprises”.This article takes “Da Sheng Group” set up by one of China’s earliest social entrepreneurs Zhang Jiang and its indigenous “Nantong Autonomy” as a case study, analyzes how indigenous social enterprises optimally allocated local resources, took full advantage of the indigenous social resources, conducted operations based on internalized resources and returned all of the profit to the local construction in all respects so as to achieve effective governance of the indigenous society through the integration of “manufacturing, education and public welfare”.
Key words：

Key words:  , social enterprise｜ social entrepreneur｜ indigenous｜ Zhang Jian｜ Da Sheng Group