China News Service, Longxi, Gansu, September 13 (Ye Qiuyun) "I used to work in other provinces, and my income was not very high, and I couldn't take care of my family. It is not as good as I am now." On September 12, in Caizi Town, Longxi County, Dingxi City, Gansu Province. At the edible fungus planting base in Shipu Village, farmer Wang Shiyi's dark face is filled with the joy of harvest.
She is pulling a few frames of freshly picked mushrooms to weigh them in the Poverty Alleviation Workshop in Lianjiang-Longxi, Fujian Province, and put them in the cold storage.
On September 12, aerial photography of the mushroom greenhouse in the edible mushroom planting base in Shishipu Village, Caizi Town, Longxi County, Gansu Province.
Photo by China News Agency reporter Lu Ming
Wang Shiyi said that now that he is old, it is not easy to find a job outside.
“Last year, I heard that the village was building this edible fungus planting base. We immediately came back to contract two greenhouses. The income was still okay, with more than 20,000 yuan a year.” Land investment, plus the labor income from contracting greenhouses, in 2019, Wang Shi The Yi family got rid of poverty smoothly.
In early autumn, when walking into the edible fungus planting base in Shishipu Village, Caizi Town, dark blue mushroom greenhouses are neatly arranged.
In the greenhouse, clusters of shiitake mushrooms are growing well, and the mushroom farmers are busy picking them; in the drying room, the roasted shiitake mushrooms exude an attractive fragrance.
Taking advantage of the opportunity of cooperation in poverty alleviation between the east and the west, Lianjiang County in Fujian and Longxi County in Gansu have deepened the cooperation in consumption poverty alleviation. Longxi edible fungi have been on the table of Lianjiang citizens thousands of kilometers away.
The east and the west echo, the land and the sea meet each other, the counterpart assistance, the mountain and the sea interact.
In 2017, Lianjiang County of Fuzhou City and Longxi County of Dingxi City formally established a counterparty poverty alleviation cooperation relationship between the east and the west, and a hand in hand that spanned more than 2,000 kilometers began.
Lianjiang and Longxi counties actively explored and promoted the employment model of poverty alleviation workshops, allowing villagers to find jobs nearby, which further enhanced the endogenous motivation for poverty alleviation and prosperity.
Up to now, Lianjiang County has established 32 poverty alleviation workshops in Longxi, attracting and driving 3815 poverty-stricken people into files.
The East-West Poverty Alleviation Cooperation Workshop is also one of the poverty alleviation workshops in Biyan Town.
Longxi County enjoys the title of "Millennium Medicine Township". It produces a variety of authentic high-quality Chinese medicinal materials, represented by Codonopsis, Angelica and Red Astragalus. They are large in quantity and high in quality.
The Poverty Alleviation Cooperation between the East and the West, the Poverty Alleviation Workshop for Chinese Medicinal Materials Processing in Biyan Town is a village-level collective economic project built in accordance with the GMP certification standards for processing Chinese herbal medicines based on this advantage.
On September 12, aerial photography of the green standardized planting base of Chinese medicinal materials in Kezhai Town, Longxi County, Gansu Province.
Photo by China News Agency reporter Lu Ming
It is reported that the total investment of the project is 2.25 million yuan, including 900,000 yuan for poverty alleviation in the east and west, to build one of the most advanced medicinal slice processing production lines, and supporting the construction of four drying sites, fire-fighting drainage pipe networks and constant temperature storage warehouses.
The property rights of the poverty alleviation workshop belong to the village collective, through the nest building to attract the phoenix, the introduction of Gansu Gute Agricultural Development Co., Ltd. contracted operation.
Gansu Gute Agricultural Development Co., Ltd. was established in Longxi by introducing Fujian Xiankang Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. in 2020.
According to Mu Yongqi, general manager of the company, the poverty alleviation workshop is expected to purchase and process 1,200 tons of medicinal materials each year, and realize an annual sales income of 30 million yuan in Chinese medicinal materials (including 10 million yuan sold to Fujian).
At the same time, the poverty alleviation workshop was built on the west side of the centralized resettlement site for poverty alleviation and relocation in Daipo Community of Biyan Village in 2018. It can absorb 30 relocated poor laborers on the spot, and the stable monthly income per capita can reach more than 2,000 yuan.
"It feels like the days are more rushing." Guo Yonglin, a poor household in Keyang Village, Biyan Town, Longxi County, was washing medicinal materials in the workshop.
Riding an electric bike from home to the workshop to work every day, only ten minutes away, he said that it is not only convenient to go to work at home, but also to take care of the home, and the days will pass the better.
Previously, Guo Yonglin's family's economic source was mainly corn, wheat, medicinal materials, etc., and the annual income was only 10,000 to 20,000 yuan, which could only solve the problem of food and clothing for a family of six.
Today, working in a poverty alleviation workshop costs 150 yuan a day.
He happily said that if he comes to work every day, he can earn nearly 50,000 yuan a year.
In Shouyang Town, Caizi Town, Wenfeng Town, Longxi County, etc., workers in poverty alleviation workshops are full of energy.
The same is true in the green standardized planting base of Chinese medicinal materials of one thousand acres in Kezhai Town. Farmers are using farm tools to cut the roots of Scutellaria baicalensis Georgi.
According to Lei Fayong, member of the Standing Committee of the Longxi County Party Committee and deputy county magistrate, taking advantage of the opportunity of cooperation in poverty alleviation between the east and the west, Kezhai Town uses the east and west poverty alleviation funds to conduct standardized training on Chinese medicinal materials and agricultural insurance to guide local farmers in the production and processing of high-quality Chinese medicinal materials.
These Chinese medicinal materials will be purchased by Qianjin Pharmaceutical and other enterprises introduced by the town at a price of 5% to 10% higher than the market price, and sold to Fuzhou and other places through processing and production.
"The medicinal materials have been planted for decades. In recent years, the prices of Chinese medicinal materials have been good." Since the Chinese medicinal materials produced can be purchased at 5% to 10% higher than the market price, in 2019, Li Xianger, a villager in Zhangwan Village, Kezhai Town The 8 acres of Chinese medicinal materials planted in a standardized way brought more than 20,000 yuan in income, plus more than 20,000 yuan in income from cattle raising, and successfully alleviated poverty.
Li Xianger, who has tasted the "sweetness", expanded his planting scale this year and planted more than ten acres of Chinese medicinal materials.
Li Xianger said that the biggest advantage of standardized planting is that the medicinal materials are not worried about the market, and the fertility of the land is good.
The year 2019 is Longxi County's "Year of Alleviating Poverty in the County".
Lei Fayong moved from Lianjiang to Longxi County for nearly two years and witnessed the transformation of Longxi County out of poverty.
He said that this year, after helping all the remaining poor households in Longxi County get rid of poverty, a new journey will begin. Lianjiang and Longxi will also carry out new collaborations to promote the sound economic and social development of the two counties.
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