China News Service, Nanjing, June 2 Question: Visiting Xingang Village, Rugao, Jiangsu: From the backcountry to the hometown of flowers and seedlings
Reporter Yu Congwen
There is no port in Xingang. She is a village in the northwest corner of Motou Town, Rugao City, Jiangsu Province.
Many years ago, there was an inland wharf in Xingang, which was gradually abandoned. When the village was withdrawn and formed in 2001, three natural villages were merged into one village, and the name of “Xingang” was still used. The yearning for the environment. However, the reality of remote location and traffic congestion ruthlessly crushed people’s good wishes. The village’s more than 3,500 people rely on 6,000 acres of land and live a pure farming life. The "poor rural areas" were the most authentic in Xingang Village at that time. Portrayal.
The change began in 2009, the year when the diversion project of the Rugao section of 204 national highways running through eastern Jiangsu was completed and officially opened to traffic. The new 204 national highway just passed through Xingang Village, linking Xingang with the outside world, and igniting the changes of Xingang people’s hometown Hope.
Flower cultivation training point in Xingang Village Flower Market. Yu Congwenshe
Opportunities are always reserved for prepared minds. Rugao is the famous capital of flowers and seedlings in Jiangsu and even the country. It is also the birthplace of Rupai bonsai, one of the seven bonsai arts in the country. When Xingang Village with improved traffic conditions plans to rely on local industry advantages to develop the flower seedlings industry, the flower seedlings market in Rugao is upgraded and upgraded. Some business households are interested in the convenient transportation conditions and abundant land resources of Xingang Village. Move the store to Xingang Village. Seeing the right moment, Xingang Village took the lead in the three nearby villages and transferred 1,470 acres of land through the land flow along the 204 National Road, attracting investors to establish the Huaxia Flower Market. On March 28, 2013, the Huaxia Flower Market officially opened.
On the side of National Highway 204 in Xingang Village, the reporter visited this large-scale flower seedling market. I saw that the flower sheds on both sides of the roads in the market were neatly arranged. There were all kinds of flower seedlings and green leaves in the shed. Watering, from time to time see vehicles that came to buy seedlings parked on the roadside, the boss Huamu discussed business with customers.
According to reports, Huaxia Flower is divided into five phases of construction. At present, all of them have been completed and put into operation. There are more than 100 business operators. It is a large-scale agricultural project that integrates production and display of rare flowers, scientific research, floral culture communication, and leisure tourism. . After several years of development, Huaxia Flowers has grown into the largest flower seedling market in East China, and it is also a Jiangsu provincial entrepreneurial incubation base and a three-star rural tourist area.
A corner of bonsai market in Rugao Huaxia Flower Market. Yu Congwenshe
"Employing land to make flower seedling market has increased the income of villagers from land operations and also increased the income of village collectives." Ju Jiufu, secretary of the party branch of Xingang Village, said that the transfer of land not only has 1,500 yuan per mu, but also Working in the flower seedling market to make money, Huaxia Flowers led the establishment of 3 professional cooperatives of Anthurium, Junzilan, and Phalaenopsis, driving 2,800 people in the surrounding farmers to increase their income by 5,200 yuan per person; and the village collective has a per mu in the land transfer market. With a management service fee of 300 yuan, plus the income from land reclamation, the village collective income reaches more than 800,000 yuan per year.
The development of the flower seedling market has made the people of Xingang taste the sweetness. They took advantage of the situation and introduced professional flower seedling nurseries and garden companies to strengthen the collective economy and increase farmers' income. The Hongxuan Nursery Farm, established in 2014, uses smart greenhouses to raise potted bromeliads and explore localized production methods for bromeliad flowers. It produces 100,000 pots per year in seedlings, and will generate more than RMB 1.2 million in revenue in 2019. Relying on the Huaxia Flower Industry Platform, Runhe Garden Company has been undertaking various greening projects all year round and attracting more than 20 villagers for employment. The Litang Flower Professional Cooperative, introduced in 2018, invested more than 10 million yuan on the west side of the 204 National Road and transferred 302 acres of land to build a fresh cut flower base. The products cover more than 30 varieties such as tulips, carnations and lilies, and the net income per mu is 20,000 yuan , Absorbing more than 100 laborers from around to find employment, increasing farmers' income by 1.5 million yuan.
The flower seedlings in the greenhouse of Xingang Village Flower Market are lush. Yu Congwenshe
Ding Zhenghua is a poverty-stricken household in the 26th group of Xingang. After the Huaxia Flower Market is in operation, he forms a loading and unloading team with other villagers to provide flower bonsai loading and unloading services for the operating households. At the same time, he also dug trees and planted trees for large-scale flower and tree enterprises, and worked hard every day. Now, he has already shed his poverty hat. "It's great to make money with your own hands!" Ding Zhenghua said.
When the flowers and seedlings industry flourished, people in Newport saw farther ahead. Ju Jiufu said that the village is actively developing high-end flowers and trees to promote industrial transformation and upgrading. He specially led the reporters to visit the village's high-end flowers and trees project, the Huajing City Seedling Base in Geya Lvmei Nursery.
The automatic spraying equipment of the flowering city seedling base in the Xinya Village Geya Lvmei Nursery is watering the breeding seedlings. Yu Congwenshe
Here, the reporter saw the bright crystal privet, the German iris, the color leaf Qi Liu, and some unseen and unspeakable plant seedlings. Yang Hongjun, head of the nursery, said: "Flower border city is the new frontier of the current landscape gardening and beautification. In the past, city greening and beautification was often one flower per season, frequent replacement, high cost, rigid greening structure, and flower border city is used. A more scientific and natural method to ecologically beautify the urban environment, using a small amount of shrubs and some perennial root flowers, with ornamental grasses and a small amount of herbal flowers, to create a four-season landscape of the city. The flower city is a new standard for green cities and ecological cities ."
In order to engage in this high-end "beautiful cause", Yang Hongjun specially participated in the flower garden urban landscaping training of the China Flower Association Susugen Branch, and came to Xingang to transfer 24 acres of land, invested millions of dollars to build smart greenhouses, purchase automatic spray, Humidity temperature monitoring and other equipment have brought up Huajing City Nursery. "Huajing City has a large investment in seedling raising, but the added value is also high, and more importantly, it will be able to better dress up the city in the future." Yang Hongjun is very confident about this.
Xingang Village Huaxia Flower Bonsai Big Tree Trading Zone. Photo courtesy of the Propaganda Department of Rugao Municipal Committee
Xingang Village, once a "poor country", developed the flower seedlings industry based on the improvement of traffic conditions, and became the hometown of flower seedlings for the "people rich village strong". The per capita income of farmers increased from 2000 yuan in 2010 to more than 20,000 in 2019 The net income per capita of all households with card establishments in the village in 2019 exceeds 7,000 yuan, all of which have achieved poverty alleviation. Xingang Village has also won honors such as “Jiangsu Beautiful Village Demonstration Village”, “Jiangsu Water and Beauty Village” and “Jiangsu Health Village”.
"The well-off is the beginning, and prosperity is at the head." Ju Jiufu said, "The transportation conditions are good, and the scale of rural land transfer is only possible. Now 85% to 90% of the land in our village has been transferred out, and the rest are all It is a relatively partial place. We are preparing to repair all roads through land reclamation, transfer all the land out to engage in large-scale management, amplify the effect of the flower industry, realize rural revitalization, and make the people rich." (End)