Returning from studying abroad, let the flower of youth bloom on the road to poverty alleviation
take the fellow villagers to a good life
In the battle for poverty alleviation, many young people have devoted their efforts to integrate the most beautiful youth into poverty alleviation, and many of them have returned from overseas.
On the eve of the "May 4th" Youth Day, our reporter interviewed two young returnees who were awarded the honorary title of "National Advanced Individual in Poverty Alleviation". The vast Chinese countryside witnessed their patriotism and serving the country.
Song Liubin:
More than 1,000 villagers of returnees
"Help the folks do something practical"
In a few days, Song Liubin, a returnee from Russia who was selected by Changsha University of Science and Technology to serve as the first secretary in Jianganshan Village, Shaoyang City, Hunan Province, will handover with the local authorities. After that, he will return to school and the next round of rural revitalization. The team is about to move in.
Yang Bihua, an 80-year-old veteran party member in Jianganshan Village, heard that Song Liubin was about to return to Changsha, and he brought a basket of eggs from his native chickens to him. Song Liubin refused.
Looking at the young man who had to pay for the eggs before him, Yang Bihua became angry.
"My own home-grown eggs are not worth a few money, it is my heart. To give money is to look down upon them!" Song Liubin had a clear attitude, and Yang Bihua was even more stubborn.
Really unable to hold back the old man, Song Liubin took the basket, and Yang Bihua's face reappeared with a smile.
Song Liubin helped Yang Bihua home again.
There are too many villagers who can't bear Song Liubin.
Everyone did not expect that, instead of posing or going to the countryside to "gild", this doctor secretary who had drunk "foreign ink" came to the village to really do things in a down-to-earth manner.
Over the years, the mud on his shoes and the cocoon on his hands, Song Liubin is no less than the villagers.
In September 2017, Song Liubin received the task of assigning him to the village to help the poor.
But just before departure, Song Liubin’s mother’s health turned on a red light, his wife was studying abroad again, and there was a 5-year-old daughter in the family who needed to take care of.
"What to do? Go or not?" After learning of Song Liubin's concerns, his father-in-law and his mother-in-law gave him firm support.
"We are backed by the affairs of the family, what are you afraid of! Don't worry, and help the folks do more!" The words of the two old people made Song Liubin a big rock in his heart.
In March 2018, Song Liubin came to Jianganshan Village. To him who has been living in the city, everything here is very strange, and he is not used to many aspects: winter is cold and cold, and mosquitoes are everywhere in summer. In addition, he has been afraid of dogs since he was a child. Almost every family in the village raises dogs, and he will inevitably encounter problems in his life when he visits the house. He can still try his best to overcome the problems in life, but the language barrier is really difficult for Song Liubin at the beginning.
Song Liubin is from Jiangxi and works in Changsha.
Hunan is mountainous and often sounds different in ten miles.
"I can't understand the words of a fellow villager, and I can't speak, how can people trust me." When he first arrived in Jianganshan Village, he even talked and guessed and communicated with the fellow villagers during the day, and then talked to the local people who knew him at night. Dialects, learning dialects, finally passed the language barrier.
"The things in our village are mine"
Industrial poverty alleviation is the key and difficult point in poverty alleviation. In order to promote industrial poverty alleviation in Jianganshan Village, Song Liubin made great efforts.
On the one hand, it is to "go out" and bring villagers out for training and study; on the other hand, it is to "invite in" and invite experts to the village for guidance and make suggestions for industrial poverty alleviation projects in Jianganshan Village.
Navel oranges and rice are traditional cash crops in the village, but their output has not been high for many years and the benefits have not been good.
To this end, Song Liubin invited experts from the School of Chemistry of Changsha University of Science and Technology to develop fermented organic fertilizers and built a 150-mu ecological navel orange garden base to improve the quality and efficiency of the "Langshan navel orange".
At the same time, he also introduced the "duck and rice symbiosis, enzyme cultivation" technology, produced high-standard organic brown rice and bamboo spring rice, and built a green rice base.
Mining characteristic resources and selecting characteristic industries has found a new way out for traditional cash crops.
Yang Chengji is a poor household in the village who has always wanted to build a fruit and vegetable shed.
Song Liubin and the village cadres invited experts to scientifically demonstrate and plan the location of the greenhouse, and also took Yang Chengji to Longhui to learn the technology of cantaloupe planting in the greenhouse.
After the greenhouse was built, Song Liubin invited experts to the greenhouse site for guidance. In the first year, the first native cantaloupe in Xinning County was planted here. This greenhouse alone brought in more than 40,000 yuan in income.
In June 2019, with the support of Changsha University of Science and Technology, a 200-square-meter poverty alleviation workshop was built in Jianganshan Village, and villagers can find employment right at their doorstep.
Song Liubin realized that the problem that the poverty alleviation workshop needs to solve is the "lack of people". Finding skilled and management talents is the key to maximizing the use of the poverty alleviation workshop.
Establishing a standardized management system, regularly sending study abroad, setting up attendance rewards, increasing team building... Through a series of attempts, the members of the poverty alleviation workshop gradually gained a sense of belonging.
Beginning last year, the poverty alleviation workshop began to independently undertake the local clothing tailoring business, completing the transition from "blood transfusion" to "hematopoiesis".
"In the end, the industrial projects have to be managed by the villagers themselves and cultivated leaders in getting rich. Only in this way can they have sustained vitality and ensure that they will not return to poverty after they get rid of poverty." Song Liubin said.
Over the past four years, more than 1,000 days and nights, the former deeply impoverished villages at the provincial level have changed a lot and become veritable beautiful villages and civilized villages.
The villagers can’t forget the words that Song Liubin always said: "I am a villager in Jianganshan Village. The affairs of our village are mine. It is my most important thing to make our village rich."
Lai Yuanyuan:
Drive "Golden Fruit" out of the mountains
"Let more people know the sweetness of Rong'an kumquat"
Fule Village, Dajiang Town, Rong'an County, Liuzhou City, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, is a typical mountain village in northern Guangxi with high altitude and endless peaks and valleys.
The temperature difference between day and night is sharp, the soil is acidic, but it has unique growth conditions for citrus fruit trees.
This is the hometown of Lai Yuanyuan.
She went to Thailand to study abroad and studied business Thai language.
After returning to China, she did not choose to work and live in a big city, but returned to Fule Village.
In 2013, when Lai Yuanyuan told his parents that they would return home to start a business and sell kumquats, their parents shook their heads and resolutely disagreed.
"Going abroad to study for so long, but in the end you still return to the village, then what's the use of the books you go out to read?" "We have grown kumquats for decades, and no one in the village has made any money. Why do you think this fruit is a treasure? Miles?"
The ordinary kumquat in the eyes of Rong'an people is indeed the "golden fruit" in the eyes of Lai Yuanyuan.
In fact, Rong'an's "smooth kumquat" has always been well-known: it has a unique taste, no numbness, no sourness, smooth skin, sweet and fruity flavor; it has a large area of cultivation in Rong'an.
But for a long time, the villagers did not get rich by growing kumquats.
"I have never understood that our kumquats are sweet and fragrant. People in the village get up early and are greedy and busy. They grow and sell kumquats, but they still can't make money. Life in my hometown is still too bitter." As early as a teenager. , Lai Yuanyuan buried a dream about kumquat in his heart-"Let more people know the sweetness of Rong'an kumquat, and let these little fruits bring a good life to the folks."
"I never thought about staying in the city. The starting point for studying abroad was originally to better return home to start a business. I have always firmly believed that our kumquats can be sold to larger and farther markets. This is my dream." Lai Yuan Yuan said.
The daughter's persistence finally moved the parents.
In this way, Lai Yuanyuan returned to Fule Village and became the only returnee villager in the village.
Soon after, Rong'an County Golden Orange Rhyme Kumquat Professional Cooperative was formally established.
Lai Yuanyuan keenly caught the development momentum of rural e-commerce at that time, and decided to focus on e-commerce sales of fresh kumquats.
"After returning to China, the experience of working in an e-commerce company and a logistics company has been very helpful to me returning to my hometown to start a business. It has allowed me to accumulate some experience in expanding sales channels and improving logistics operation technology." She said.
"When you say it, you must do it"
At that time, although the e-commerce platform increased the sales of kumquat to a certain extent, but due to the fact that the entire e-commerce environment was not yet mature, the effect of driving the development of the kumquat industry in the whole village or even the whole county was not obvious.
"Don't you make money after a long time of tossing?" Some people in the village started talking about Lai Yuanyuan behind their backs, thinking that the "e-commerce" she was talking about was probably a "scam."
She heard these words and endured it. Lai Yuanyuan said: "I don't blame the villagers for their opinions. I said that I want to take everyone to grow kumquats to get rich. If I say it, I will do it, otherwise it will be boasting and nonsense."
The tricky things are far more than just the villagers' discussions.
The skin of kumquat is thin, and it is easy to break the skin and produce bad fruit once it is scratched. If the problem of high packaging and logistics costs cannot be solved, it will be difficult to sell the goods.
Sure enough, before the end of the acquisition season, Lai Yuanyuan lost the 200,000 yuan he had saved for starting a business, and the cooperation with the e-commerce business was also terminated.
The wind and rain repeatedly did not extinguish the girl's idea of pushing Rong'an kumquat to the whole country and even the world.
She went to an agricultural and sideline product e-commerce company in Nanning to learn, mastered a set of operating standards for the cultivation and sales of fresh agricultural and sideline products, and also found a better product packaging method.
Hard work pays off.
With the development of the national e-commerce business, there are more and more Internet sales platforms, and the kumquat sales channels have also been broadened.
In 2015, Lai Yuanyuan established the e-commerce brand "Juxiangli", established an e-commerce base, signed supply and marketing agreements with major e-commerce platforms, and gradually figured out a set of e-commerce operation models suitable for him. Rong'an Kumquat ushered in spring.
In 2016, "Juxiangli" drove the town’s orange farmers to achieve online sales of 500,000 kilograms of kumquats, with sales exceeding 10 million yuan; in 2017, Lai Yuanyuan led a team to sell nearly 2 million kilograms of kumquats online, with the highest unit price. 100 yuan per kilogram, of which, it helped more than 50 poor households sell 150,000 kilograms of kumquats; in 2018, Golden Orange Rhyme Kumquat Professional Cooperative signed a 310,000 kilogram purchase agreement with 85 poor households, with sales of more than 25 million yuan ; In 2019, the new cold storage, e-commerce big data center and automated sorting and packaging lines in "Juxiangli" were put into use, and the sales revenue exceeded 60 million yuan...
Today, Lai Yuanyuan is preparing to build a "digital farm", introducing advanced equipment to monitor water, temperature, light and other data, and gradually promote scientific planting to further improve the fruit quality of Rong'an kumquat.
Driven by Lai Yuanyuan's influence, more young people returned to Rong'an. Many people learned from her, learned about e-commerce operations, and some directly joined her team.
Rong'an Kumquat finally brought the old folks here on the road to get rich.
The pictures in this version are provided by the interviewee except for the signature