(Walking to the grassroots level in the Spring Festival) A new choice for youth in mountainous areas: rooting in the fertile soil of the countryside and not being a "goose who leaves home"
China News Service, Tongren, Guizhou, February 13th: A new choice for young people in mountainous areas: rooting in the fertile soil of the countryside and not being a "goose who leaves home"
Author Zhou Yanling Yang Jiameng
At present, at the peak of returning to work after the year in Guizhou, China's largest labor exporting province, thousands of rural young people scattered deep in the mountains are busy taking high-speed rail and other means of transportation to "come into cities" to work across provinces.
However, in Fengyi Village at the foot of Mount Fanjing, a world natural heritage site, Wu Chengmin, a young man born in the 1990s, and his team were busy taking pictures of the delicious food in the village, so that the "taste" in the mountains was fragrant.
"In 2021, more than 10 million yuan (RMB, the same below) of mountain goods will be sold through e-commerce platforms." Wu Chengmin said that in 2022, he will make efforts in self-media to help "mountain goods" come out of the mountains through short videos and live broadcasts. .
Wu Chengmin's team shot a short video.
Photo courtesy of the interviewee
Wu Chengmin's home is located in Muhuang Town, Yinjiang Tujia and Miao Autonomous County, Tongren City, Guizhou Province. It is backed by Fanjing Mountain and has a beautiful ecological environment. The fields surrounded by the mountains are full of edible mushroom greenhouses.
Six years ago, Wu Chengmin gave up his high-paying job in Changsha and returned to his hometown to become a "new farmer".
After returning to his hometown, Wu Chengmin started an e-commerce station to sell black fungus, mushrooms, tea, sweet potato flour and other agricultural special products in the village.
During the peak sales season, Wu Chengmin needs to ask more than 30 villagers to help pack the products at the same time.
At the e-commerce station in Fengyi Village, Muhuang Town, the reporter saw that the counter was neatly filled with all kinds of agricultural special products, including soil honey, raw soy sauce, soil eggs and various edible mushroom dry goods.
Wu Chengmin, the shopkeeper of the station, is organizing villagers to sort, pack, weigh, pack and load the agricultural special products sold online.
"I used to be the only one to do rural e-commerce, and later young people who returned to the hometown joined in." Wu Chengmin said that there are currently five people in the team, who are also photographers, editors and lighting engineers.
Villagers in Fengyi Village help pack special agricultural products at Wu Chengmin's e-commerce station.
Photo courtesy of the interviewee
The mist-shrouded Fengyi Village, the pigeon flowers and azaleas on Fanjing Mountain, and the farmhouse firewood rice... In 2021, Wu Chengmin and his team began to shoot rural short video themes, showing rural beauty and rural life, so that young migrant workers and the outside world can understand While the hometown is changing, it is also preparing for live streaming in the countryside.
In 2021, Wu Chengmin won the title of "The Most Beautiful Worker" in Guizhou Province. He aspires to be a "leader" in rural revitalization. He believes that the countryside has great potential. "I hope to use his actions to encourage more returning youth to stay in the countryside and develop digital agriculture and e-commerce. , revitalize the countryside."
Demonstration base for planting morels in Jiahe Village.
Photo by Yang Jiameng
Like Wu Chengmin, "Generation Z" young Yang Changbi also chose not to be a "goose from home".
When graduating from university in 2017, Yang Changbi decided to return to his hometown to work as a clerk in a local edible mushroom company because he saw that the edible fungus industry in Liuchuan Town, Jianhe County, Guizhou Province was in full swing.
However, Yang Changbi, who is handsome in appearance, has another identity, that is, a large edible mushroom grower in Jiahe Village, Liuchuan Town.
"Our company's test-planted Morchella has very good benefits. The company also encourages employees to drive the surrounding villagers to develop their industries by returning rents and repurchases." Yang Changbi said that after careful consideration, he and his parents contracted more than a dozen greenhouses in Canada. Demonstrating the cultivation of Morchella in He Village.
Yang Changbi works in the office.
Photo by Yang Jiameng
Planting in winter and harvesting in spring, it is currently the harvest season of morels. Yang Changbi picked morels in the greenhouse with his parents as soon as he was busy with his office work.
I saw her holding a knife in one hand and morels in the other, carefully cutting the mushrooms out of the soil and putting them in a basket.
"More than 200 catties of morels have been harvested, and the price ranges from 80 yuan to 120 yuan per catty." Yang Changbi told reporters that the morels grown are basically not worrying about sales, and they plan to expand the scale of planting in 2022.
Yang Changbi collects morels in the greenhouse.
Photo by Yang Jiameng
In his hometown, it is Yang Changbi's daily routine to switch from office white-collar workers to "new farmers".
In the future, Yang Changbi hopes to have more young people to inject "new impetus" into the "new blue ocean" of the countryside.
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