Those from the same village are often as close as family members. Chinese people originally paid great attention to the morality of the family and village fraternity. In struggling along together, businesses founded on the core of family and kinship ties would evolve naturally.
同鄉一家親，中國人本來就注重家族倫理及同鄉情誼，在胼手胝足打創天下之際，自然會發展出以家族和鄉親為核心的企業基礎，日長月久下來，便形成了後來企業界「幫派」及「家族」山頭林立的現象。