China News Service, Yinchuan, August 15th. Title: Ningxia: The Song of Alleviating Poverty Played under Liupan Mountain

  Yang Di Zhang Xingbang

  The phrase "sufficiency and barrenness is the best in the world", all the poverty and backwardness in the "Xihaigu" area. For a long time, how to change the face of "the hills are few and the water are few, the people are poor and the roads are narrow" has been the inner expectation of local residents. Nowadays, with the support of national policies, the people living at the foot of Liupan Mountain have changed their face to the poor and backward "Xihaigu" through their hard work.

Small grains lead to wealth

  The poverty alleviation industry in Yuanzhou District, Guyuan City, Ningxia cannot bypass Pengbao Village, Pengbao Town. The former Pemburg Village was very poor. The average annual net income of the villagers was less than 3,000 yuan. A large number of villagers went out to work, and the phenomenon of land abandonment and idleness intensified year by year.

Villagers work in the vegetable sorting and packaging workshop. Photo by Yang Di

  As time goes by, in 2015, Yuanzhou District of Guyuan City promoted the reform of the land shareholding system, adopted the development model of "cooperative + base + farmer households", and established a new operating mechanism of "land to equity, farmers as shareholders, and dividends." Lu Xiaojun, who is currently the chairman of Xinxing Land Cooperative, saw this opportunity and transferred two thousand acres of land in the village to explore the cultivation of millet, corn and other grain crops.

  "The village used to grow small grains, but the technology was immature and the output was low." Lu Xiaojun introduced that in order to solve the problem of small grains planting, the villagers jointly founded the Xinxing Land Share Cooperative and visited multiple crops planting demonstration sites, which were introduced in 2015. Zhang Zagu varieties. "At present, the zhangzagu produced in Pengbao Village is very popular, and even exported to foreign countries." Lu Xiaojun said that the cooperative paid a second dividend to the villagers who bought shares to protect their income.

  At the same time, processing enterprises that thrive on small miscellaneous grains also provide sufficient jobs for local people. "This year, the planting of small miscellaneous grains in Yuanzhou District has reached 70,000 mu. There are currently 5 small miscellaneous grain processing enterprises with 167 employees and a per capita salary of 3,300 yuan. This has led to the establishment of 52 registered households." Bai Yongqiang, head of Yuanzhou District Seed Management Station Said that small miscellaneous grains have become rich food for local people.

Cold vegetables skewered dreams of wealth

  In the vegetable sorting and packaging workshop of Ruifeng Vegetable Production and Marketing Cooperative in Yaomo Village, Yuanzhou District, Guyuan City, workers are sorting, packing, adding ice, and packaging vegetables. Subsequently, these vegetables will be exported to Guangdong, Jiangxi, Sichuan, Hong Kong and other places.

  "The previous year's income was less than 20,000 yuan, and now the income is more than 30,000 yuan." Villager Li Fengping is now a worker in the workshop. With this stable job, her life is getting better and better.

Villagers work in the vegetable sorting and packaging workshop. Photo by Yang Di

  Cool temperature, sufficient sunlight, large temperature difference between day and night, and no industrial pollution make Yuanzhou District of Guyuan City an advantageous area for vegetable production. The local government absorbed the majority of farmers into the industrial chain and benefit chain of vegetable industry development, and participated in sharing the industrial development dividend, effectively driving 17,000 farmers to plant 106,000 mu of vegetables, and the average household income increased by more than 25,000 yuan.

  Today, the income of the vegetable industry accounts for 14% of the per capita net income of farmers in Wonju District, and it is gradually becoming a characteristic industry that helps local farmers get rid of poverty and become rich.

The beef cattle industry brings new hope

  In Haiyuan County, Zhongwei City, Ningxia, the lives of local residents are "cow" because of cattle.

  Haiyuan County has the foundation and tradition of beef cattle breeding, but before this, due to immature technology and low meat quality, profits were sluggish.

  In 2012, Ningxia Haiyuan County was designated by the National Poverty Alleviation Office as a designated poverty alleviation county of China Resources Group. China Resources Group introduced Simmental cattle to the local area and imparted breeding experience to farmers.

  In order to allow farmers to get on the high-speed train to get rid of poverty, Haiyuan County established the "Basic Cow Bank" assistance model. In the form of credit sales, the enterprise provides a three-year interest-free loan of 6,000 yuan per cow to the registered cardholders. For every basic cow sold on credit, the Haiyuan County Poverty Alleviation Office will subsidize the farmers 2,000 yuan, and the farmers only need about 2,000 yuan. You can pull a cow home. Up to now, the "Basic Cow Bank" has helped more than 26,000 households raise 300,000 heads of cattle.

  "Simmental beef produces high meat and is very popular in the market." Li Cunbin, deputy director of the Haixing Development Zone Management Committee in Zhongwei City, Ningxia, introduced that through cattle breeding, the average annual income of farmers has exceeded 15,000 yuan, which is also local The development of the industry has brought new hope. (Finish)