China News Service, Hangzhou, December 25th. Title: Zhejiang: Agricultural Makers Make the Country "New" and Younger
Reporter: Chai Yanfei and Qian Chenfei
The "key code" for rural revitalization is talents. For Zhejiang, where common prosperity is the first demonstration, it is even more familiar that the realization of common prosperity cannot be separated from the assistance of talents.
In 2015, Zhejiang took the lead in proposing the concept of “agricultural entrepreneurs” in the country and began to cultivate, inspiring and guiding aspiring young people to “go up to the mountains and go to the countryside” to devote themselves to rural entrepreneurship and innovation; Funds go to the countryside, and young people and villagers will return to the countryside. This year, Zhejiang proposed to cultivate 100,000 farmers and makers by 2025, and radiate 1 million farmers to increase their incomes and become rich.
In just a few years, agricultural creators have sprung up in Zhejiang, becoming the "new force" driving the revitalization of the countryside, and provoking the backbone of revitalizing the countryside.
They brought new ideas, new technologies, and new forms of business into the countryside, making old villages a place of prosperity, making agriculture a business of making progress, and making the mountains and fields a place of hope for common prosperity.
New ideas make agriculture more dynamic
"I was born and grew up in the countryside, and I have ideals in agriculture. I hope that the high-quality agricultural products from my hometown can enter the tables of thousands of households, so that people in my hometown can live a good life and achieve common prosperity." Born in Taishun, Wenzhou" Post-90s" Tang Pingdong said.
After graduating from university, Tang Pingdong did not stay in the big city like other classmates. Instead, he gave up his high annual salary and returned to his hometown in response to the call of college students to return home to start a business.
In 2016, he came up with an idea never seen in the village-let the chicken "run".
"Chicken raising is a very traditional farming thing, but once I saw my friends go to brush exercise steps every day, I wanted to apply this kind of technology to breeding. First, it is very bright, and second, we can establish an overall traceability system. We Launched the model of "providing chicken seedlings and foot rings for free, contracting farming by farmers, and repurchasing and selling by the company", and establishing a targeted and targeted innovation of "company + base + farmers" to help farmers, turning "cage chickens" into "running chickens" '." Tang Pingdong said.
Through its platform, a chicken sells for 198 yuan, and an egg is sold for 25-35 yuan per catty, and it is sold as far as Beijing and Hainan.
The “running chicken” project has driven the surrounding farmers to realize an income of 20,000 yuan per capita and a maximum of 100,000 yuan. The originally impoverished small mountain villages have become well-off villages.
At present, there are nearly 100,000 running chickens in the local farms, generating nearly 8 million yuan in annual income, and driving the sales of farmhouses, homestays and other agricultural products for nearly 3.5 million yuan.
This year, with the support of all parties, Tang Pingdong also joined hands with the three villages to jointly build a factory building to create a farming entrepreneurial park.
At present, 20 enterprises and 23 projects have been attracted to settle in, radiating more than 1,500 rural households in the provinces and surrounding areas, and providing more than 100 jobs.
In Zhejiang, young entrepreneurial groups with ideas and enthusiasm have become the "fresh blood" for the development of "agriculture, rural areas and farmers".
“Leaders and peasant groups are the key to stimulating the vitality of the village. Every village needs to cultivate its own leader and a group of peasant entrepreneurial groups that are consistent with the leader’s behavior, ideology and morality. Everyone has a high firewood." Zhejiang" Said Wang Jingxin, executive vice president of the "Two Mountains" Concept Research Institute.
Young people like Tang Pingdong are using new ideas to make Zhejiang's agriculture more dynamic.
And all parts of the province are constantly changing new ideas and adopting new measures to strengthen incentives for farmers and entrepreneurs.
In terms of building nests and attracting phoenixes, Zhejiang gathered resources to build 59 modern agricultural industrial parks, 113 industrial strong towns and 80 agricultural industry chains with a total output value of more than 1 billion yuan, attracting high-end talents to stay in for entrepreneurship and innovation, and attract various operations Talents return to their hometowns to start businesses.
For example, Zhejiang Pinghu established the province's first agricultural economic development zone, and 19 new agricultural projects have been signed and implemented, with a total investment of 2.16 billion yuan.
In terms of overall fiscal and financial policy support, in 2020 alone, the Zhejiang provincial government allocated 1.52 billion yuan to directly support agricultural and rural talents.
“Zhejiang’s agricultural makers are very active and play a role in revitalizing the villages everywhere. As a new generation with the growth of the Internet, they have strong innovative thinking and have the courage to integrate new ideas such as “Internet +” into agricultural production, Rural management can flexibly apply new concepts and new methods to the agricultural field." Wang Tonglin, Secretary of the Party Leadership Group and Director of the Department of Agriculture and Rural Affairs of Zhejiang Province, said in an interview with Chinanews.com.
Farmers are busy in the rice fields.
Provided by Yun Wang
New technology makes farmers a new profession
The rural areas not only need leaders with new ideas and actions, but also “Tian Xiucai” who are good at using new technologies and dare to try new methods to provoke them.
As agricultural makers embrace the countryside, the empowerment of new technologies is changing the traditional farming methods of the older generation that "face the loess and back the sky".
"Post-90s" Wang Yun is from Jiande. Because of his father's saying "Come back and help me", he quit his white-collar job in Hangzhou and joined the countryside as a "second generation of grain".
“Father is a model worker in Zhejiang Province and a major grain grower in the country. He previously established a company and contracted the land in the village to grow grain. Agriculture is his belief. But as he gets older, every time he sees him running back and forth in the fields. , I feel very distressed." After Wang Yun returned to his hometown, he has been thinking about how to change the hard work of the older generation in farming and make farmers a new profession.
"Times are changing, and there are new methods for farming." With this idea in mind, Wang Yun helped his father grow food while learning agricultural technology promotion and management through distance education.
In participating in an investigation and study organized by the agricultural and rural departments, she saw the improvement of the quality and efficiency of agriculture by technology.
After returning, he immediately discussed with his father, hoping to learn from the best practices.
"At that time, it cost nearly 200,000 yuan to equip a set of intelligent equipment, and a lot of maintenance fees every year. At first, my father did not support it. Why did it cost so much for farming." Under Wang Yun's insistence, she introduced smart agriculture. In the 400-acre demonstration base, small-scale weather stations, insect situation monitoring lights and other technological equipment have been installed. Not only can the rice fields be managed in real time through mobile phones, but the data can also be connected to the agricultural and rural departments to facilitate remote "weapon" by agricultural technology experts.
With the help of digitalization, the agricultural modernization road of the grain production enterprise run by Wang Yun and his father has become wider and wider. The industrial area has grown from 1,200 acres to 2,200 acres.
"In the past few years, we have purchased 57 (sets) of agricultural machinery, and the investment in machinery alone is more than 5.6 million. These are all my father's initiative to purchase."
Wang Yun, who brought new technology to the countryside, not only gave the villagers a taste of the sweetness, but also extended their experience to more and more local farmers. This year, Jiande established the Agricultural Maker Development Association, and Wang Yun served as the chairman. .
"I am the only national "dual belt" rural science and technology young talent in Jiande. I know the importance of science and technology to agriculture. Therefore, when members of the federation encounter technical or policy problems, I will help them answer questions from experts. Doubt, by helping them, so that they can help drive more farmers behind each other to eat'technical rice'."
Looking at Zhejiang, there are many peasants who use technology to empower rural revitalization.
Shen Jie, the "Doctor of Fishing" in Nanxun, Huzhou, has fully driven the digitization of traditional fisheries through innovative technology. The fish pond sensor system he developed has increased the income of fish ponds by more than 2,000 yuan per acre. The smart fishery big data platform has connected more than 10,000 fish ponds, which is 3,000. Many farmers provide Internet of Things monitoring services and radiate to the key areas of aquaculture in the Yangtze River Delta; Zeng Xiangliang, who studied agriculture in the university, founded the Crop Hospital after graduation to diagnose diseases and prescribe medicines for crops, serving 16,500 farmers every year and helping The farmers directly recovered more than 13.2 million yuan in economic losses.
It is not difficult to see from the above story that the popularization and application of new technologies is making farmers an attractive profession and making "storing grain in technology" a reality.
This year, Zhejiang proposed that it will speed up the deployment and implementation of the “double-strength action” of strengthening agriculture through science and technology and machinery, comprehensively improve agricultural production efficiency and benefits, fight for the challenge of high-quality agricultural development, and lay an important industrial and material foundation for promoting common prosperity.
For Nongchuangke, for Zhejiang farmers, the opportunities are still endless.
A rice field in a certain area of Zhejiang.
Photo by Qian Chenfei
New formats make rural areas more possible
In Zhejiang, while helping the countryside to transform ideas and invigorate technology, Nongchuang also implanted new business forms into various villages, giving rural development more vigor and possibilities.
"The ants are small, but their power should not be underestimated." In Gaotang Village, Suichang County, Lishui, Zhou Gongbin gave up his job as a civil servant, sold his wedding house and invested in business ventures, and set up an "Ant Pathfinder" team in the mountains. People’s new hobbies are combined with the good resources in the mountain villages, committed to promoting local off-road self-driving routes, and driving people in remote mountainous areas to get rich.
For more than four years, its team has built 7 self-driving cross-country routes locally with "Zhexi Sichuan-Tibet Line" as the general brand and "Jiangnan Bingchacha" and "Huadong Tianlu" as sub-brands.
Up to now, the "West Zhejiang Sichuan-Tibet Line" has attracted 658 convoys with more than 27,500 vehicles and more than 68,700 participants. It has also driven the income of farmhouses, homestays, catering, and agricultural specialty products along the line by more than 57.4 million yuan.
"I grew up in the mountains. It was my elders and folks who collected money for me to go to school, so I have a deep affection for the countryside. I hope to use this new format to stimulate more possibilities in the countryside." Zhou Gongbin said that he plans to "ant explore the way." "The platform has expanded to 2 million users, empowering more villages and driving the development of more villages.
Hope can be seen, homesickness can be seen.
In recent years, in Zhejiang, the birthplace of the concept of "green waters and green mountains are golden mountains and silver mountains", tens of thousands of young people like Zhou Gongbin have come to the countryside to take measures to local conditions and make landscaping on site to fully excavate landscapes, villages, ecology and other tourism. Resources, or deep cultivation of health, or the development of cultural tourism.
Taking the leisure tourism industry as an example, data shows that as of the end of 2020, the province’s rural talents reached 428,000.
"With the development of the economy and society and the arrival of the intelligent age, the connotation of rural revitalization is constantly enriched." Gu Yikang, a member of the Zhejiang Provincial Government Advisory Committee and former deputy director of the Zhejiang Provincial Agricultural Office, described the vitality of the countryside-today's countryside It should not only be a home for farmers to live a good life, but also a health paradise for cities, where production can be carried out, a beautiful economy can be developed, and beautiful villages can be built and operated, and finally shared beautiful villages.
The new atmosphere brought by Nongchuangke to the countryside is a corner of the picture of Zhejiang's common prosperity.
The province has made it clear that by 2025, it will promote high-quality development and build a demonstration zone of common prosperity to achieve obvious and substantial progress, and basically achieve common prosperity by 2035.
Yuan Jiajun, secretary of the Zhejiang Provincial Party Committee, publicly stated that it is necessary to focus on the "beauty" of the environment, the "prosperity" of the industry, the "sufficiency" of vitality, the "good" style, the "strong flavor", the "excellent" service, the "high" value, and the "smooth" mechanism. Draw a new picture of the beautiful countryside in the new era under the scene of common prosperity, and build the beautiful countryside of Zhejiang into a beautiful home for farmers' happy life, an ideal paradise for citizens to travel and leisure, a land of hope for public entrepreneurship and innovation, and a showcase for Zhejiang's common prosperity.
In the context of high-quality development and construction of a common prosperity demonstration zone, in order to continue to play the role of farmers and makers, Zhejiang proposed that it will further strengthen policy support, include farmers and makers in the talent classification catalog, provide support for settlement, housing security, etc., and promote Establish agricultural makers development industry funds, etc.; further strengthen training and guidance, organize trainings for 10,000 agricultural makers, organize universities, scientific research institutes, and experts to provide technical support for agricultural makers; further strengthen platform construction and support localities in accelerating the construction of agricultural makers. Demonstration bases for creating parks and agricultural entrepreneurs, and holding rural entrepreneurship and innovation competitions every year, continue to inject talents into the realization of common prosperity for farmers and rural areas.
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