LOCAL state cadres struggle with other social actors for control over the resources generated by labor migration, and this can be seen particularly in their efforts to encourage return migrant entrepreneurship. The “local state” refers to the government and Party bodies that run the townships and their constituent administrative villages. The County Rural Work Office evaluates local state cadres according to their ability to improve economic conditions within their jurisdictions, and such improvements are particularly tangible and powerful when in the form of newly created enterprises, upgraded town infrastructure, and increased tax revenue. In some parts of the Chinese countryside, the local state encourages successful migrants to return home and create businesses as a way of obtaining more resources for attaining their political and economic goals. In appealing to migrants to invest at home, local cadres invoke values such as loyalty to the family and love of the native place, and they offer incentives such as improved access to local resources and opportunities for deploying resources profitably.