China News Service, Changsha, August 23. Title: Hunan Practice of Rural Revitalization: Industry Revitalizes Villages, Rich Farmers, Ecological Butterflies, and Beautiful Homes
Reporter Tang Xiaoqing
In the afternoon, a heat wave hits people, and a group of egrets play in the demonstration base of organic comprehensive cyclic ecological planting and breeding of rice, fish and ducks in Xiangfeng Village, Jinjing Town, Changsha County, Hunan Province.
The dark-skinned base owner, Dai Zhiyong, wearing a straw hat and trousers, is watching the growth of rice in the field.
The 45-year-old grower was a former veteran working outside, with an annual income of only tens of thousands of yuan.
In 2016, he returned to his hometown and followed the local agricultural department to China Agricultural University, Fengyang, Anhui and other places to learn new farming models and technologies, and established Changsha Zhikang Agricultural Technology Co., Ltd. to transfer the village land for ecological farming.
The ecological environment of Xiangfeng Village.
Photo by Tang Xiaoqing
"The base integrates ecological planting and breeding, tourism and leisure, and agricultural science, with an annual output value exceeding one million yuan." "Tian Xiucai" Dai Zhiyong, who regularly provides free training for villagers, said that more and more new professional farmers in the village rely on green industries to get rich.
Xiangfeng Village is a two-hour drive away from the urban area of Changsha. It is a combination of 3 villages and 1 community. It is one of the largest administrative villages in Changsha County.
At the beginning of its establishment, the village had only tea and live pig industries, and the village-level collective economic income was only more than 80,000 yuan.
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There are 4505 acres of ecological tea gardens in Xiangfeng Village.
Photo courtesy of Jinjing Town Government
In the view of Lin Jinliang, secretary of the Party branch of Xiangfeng Village, industrial revitalization is the key to strengthening the collective economy and increasing farmers’ income.
"We combine the advantages of rich natural resources and beautiful environment to develop green industries in ecologically established villages." Under the leadership of Lin Jinliang, Xiangfeng Village has explored a new path of "village-enterprise co-construction" and "village-enterprise co-operation". New land transfer model.
Taking the tea industry as an example, Xiangfeng Village relies on the local state-level agricultural industrialization leading enterprise-Xiangfeng Tea Industry Group to make a living tea industry development article to achieve agricultural efficiency, rural greenery, and farmers' income.
“Through the co-construction of village enterprises to activate rural land resources, stock assets, and human capital, industry will drive employment, and increase the economic income of village collectives and villagers.” said Wang Liang, general manager of the marketing and marketing department of Xiangfeng Tea Group. In development, we also adhere to the integration of ecological environment construction, tea production and tea garden sightseeing, and benefit from ecological development, so that "green water and green mountains are golden mountains and silver mountains".
Xiangfeng Village has attracted a total investment of 41.34 million yuan in Sanzhen Tiger Park.
Photo courtesy of Jinjing Town Government
"The organic tea plantation base in Xiangfeng Village used to be a mass grave, and now it has been built into a national 3A-level scenic spot." Wang Liang said, relying on the advantages of garden-style tea gardens to create a tea culture tourism industry, and experience tours such as tea picking, tea making, and tea drinking. Sightseeing, cultural tourism, health and leisure are integrated to realize the integrated development of tea tourism, transforming production areas into scenic spots, tea gardens into parks, and labor into sports.
Xiangfeng Village has 4505 acres of ecological tea gardens with good varieties, and the leading industry income is 20.25 million yuan, accounting for 62.23% of the total agricultural income of the village.
The products are exported to 50 countries and regions including Russia, the Middle East, the European Union, West Asia, North Africa, and the United States.
There are 4505 acres of ecological tea gardens in Xiangfeng Village.
Photo courtesy of Jinjing Town Government
Relying on Xiangfeng Tea Street, Xiangfeng Village has also built a "one street with five gardens" sightseeing tourism system for tea gardens, tiger gardens, gardens, orchards, homes, giant rice industry bases, tea garden youth demonstration education bases and other projects have been implemented successively. The development model of green ecological agriculture is taking shape, and the integration of primary and tertiary industries has promoted agricultural efficiency.
At present, the village’s fixed assets at the village level are about 10 million yuan, and there are more than 3,800 mu of land in circulation. Last year, the village received more than 300,000 tourists. The annual income of the collective economy is expected to reach 1.3 million yuan this year. Capital becomes equity and villagers become shareholders”, attracting investment from sports culture, high-tech agriculture, property services and cultural tourism companies, and won the title of “National Village Characteristic Industrial Village with 100 Million Yuan”, “Provincial Eco-Village”, and “Two Types of Founding Units in Hunan Province” And other honors.
The reporter’s interview was full of green eyes, tea, flowers, and rice scents. The courtyards with white walls and gray tiles set against the green hills, blue sky and white clouds, creating beautiful picturesque scenery.
“We focus on creating an ecologically livable environment, dismantling 310 garbage pools, distributing classified trash cans to each farmer, and setting up a voluntary cleaning team to teach villagers to realize the harmless, reduction, and resource disposal of domestic garbage.” Lin Lin Jin Liang said.
New farmers in Xiangfeng Village use new technology to grow rice.
Photo by Tang Xiaoqing
"Xiangfeng Village has realized the scenery in the countryside, making money in the countryside, and having jobs for the farmers. On the one hand, it is technology empowerment to achieve industrial upgrading and efficiency; I hope to provide development experience for China’s rural revitalization.” said Yang Xiang, deputy secretary of the party committee in charge of rural revitalization in Jinjing Town.
Liu Zhiping, Secretary of the Party Committee of Jinjing Town, believes that the key to rural revitalization is to focus on the people and to build a strong industry. The development of the industry must follow two principles: one is to strengthen the collective economy, and the other is to increase the income of the people.
Lin Jinliang is full of confidence in the future: Xiangfeng Village will work hard to explore an industrial development model jointly built by villages, enterprises, and scientific research institutes, and strive to become a "national demonstration, the most beautiful in the province, and the only one in the city" within ten years. Huaxi Village. (End)