China News Agency, Nanning, July 20th telegram: Guangxi's "extremely poor corner" stone crevices "plate" gold and silver, and make "sheep" wealth
China News Agency reporter Yang Qiang Zhang Guangquan Huang Yanmei
Cocoon selection, silk reeling, silk winding, heddle stitching, weaving... The scene of "silk reeling" originally only found in Jiangnan, China, is being "staged" in Napo County, Baise City, Guangxi, a small border town.
Napo is located in the southwestern border of China. It used to be an extremely impoverished county in Guangxi and belongs to the rocky desertification area of Yunnan, Guangxi and Guizhou.
The local mulberry industry was developed, and the people planted mulberry trees in the hills and valleys, and "coiled" gold and silver out of the cracks in the stones.
Driving from Napo County to Pingmeng Port on the Sino-Vietnamese border, there are "mulberry and bamboo shades" on both sides of the road.
"I have 12 acres of mulberry trees, and I can raise more than ten batches of silkworms every year. Each batch can earn 3,800 yuan (RMB, the same below). In one year, the income from sericulture is more than 50,000 yuan." Tsinghua University, Baihe Township, Napo County Villager Huang Jianhua told a reporter from China News Agency.
All the silkworms raised by local farmers are sold to Napo Tongyi New Silk Technology Industrial Co., Ltd.
The reporter saw in its factory recently that many villagers have "transformed" into skilled industrial workers.
Sun Yongbo, general manager of Tongyixin Company, said that the company is pushing forward the silk production line project in the Silk Road New Area, and is starting to build a digital printing production line. The whole industrial chain of cocoon silk processing of dyeing and digital printing.
At present, the silkworm industry has become one of the leading industries in Napo County. The county's mulberry plantation area exceeds 100,000 mu, and the silkworm industry covers more than 5,000 households in 127 villages, with an annual output value of 290 million yuan.
Hundreds of kilometers away from Napo County, Du'an Yao Autonomous County, Hechi City, also located in the rocky desertification area of Yunnan, Guizhou, and Guizhou, the people of Dayao Mountain have opened up a "sheep" avenue among thousands of mountains and alleys.
Tang Meikang is a worker at the Du'an Ao Han Sheep Breeding Base. She is responsible for feeding the flock and cleaning the sheep pen on a daily basis. She earns a monthly salary of 3,600 yuan.
"I used to grow corn and raise pigs at home, and I couldn't make much money in a year, and it was very hard to do farm work when I was older. Now I work in a factory and work at the door of my house, and my income is also stable, which is much better than before." Tang Meikang Say.
The improvement of Tang Meikang's life has benefited from the local promotion of the development of the Aohan sheep industry.
In recent years, Du'an County has "deeply cultivated" the sheep industry, and has built an Aohan sheep industrial park covering an area of more than 1,300 mu and more than 20 Aohan sheep breeding centers, forming breeding bases, fattening bases, cold chain processing plants, and feed processing plants. The integrated whole industry chain of Aohan sheep has driven more than 200,000 people to make "sheep" wealth.
Li Miao, the financial director of Guangxi Aodu Agriculture and Animal Husbandry Technology Co., Ltd., calculated an account for the reporter: the income of raising Aohan sheep is 100 yuan per sheep, and Aohan sheep are slaughtered twice a year. Raising two batches a year can earn 200,000 yuan in income.
"As long as there are conditions to build sheep sheds and sheep pens, and there are people to take care of the sheep, it is guaranteed to get better returns." Li Miao said.
From the border Miaoling to the inland Yaoshan, Guangxi's "extremely poor corners" are rejuvenated in the link between poverty alleviation and rural revitalization: by the end of 2020, Guangxi's 6.34 million registered poor people, 5,379 poor villages, and all 54 poor counties In 2021, the per capita income of Guangxi's poverty-stricken people will be 13,357 yuan, which is 807 yuan more than the national average.
In the first quarter of 2022, the per capita disposable income of farmers in Guangxi increased by 7.3%, ranking ninth in the country in terms of growth rate. The per capita disposable income of rural residents in poverty-stricken areas increased by 7.4% year-on-year.
Huang Zhiyu, director of the Department of Agriculture and Rural Affairs of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region and director of the Rural Revitalization Bureau, said that the local government will take multiple measures to promote the continuous increase in the income of the people out of poverty through the implementation of the special planting and breeding industry improvement action, the poverty alleviation income increase action and the employment assistance special action.
In the future, Guangxi also plans to spend 748 billion yuan to implement a three-year attack on rural revitalization, industrial development, infrastructure, and public service capabilities, and to promote rural living environment improvement and rural governance.
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