[Commentary] Dendrobium candidum grows happily in the lush forest. This is a scene the reporter saw in Houyang Village, Qibu Town, Zhouning County, Fujian Province on May 19. The Dendrobium officinale project also brought huge income to the village wealth of Houyang Village. In addition to booming industries, underwood tourism in Houyang Village is also gaining momentum. All this benefited from a forestation campaign carried out by villager Huang Zhenfang more than thirty years ago.

　　【Explanation】 The time went back to 1983. Huang Zhenfang, who had been more than half a hundred years old, led the family to establish a family forest farm, reclaimed 50 acres of barren hills, and loaned afforestation. In three years, Huang Zhenfang and his family of 1,207 acres of man-made forest became Zhouning County's famous "Afforestation King".

　　[Same period] Huang Zhenfang, a villager in Houyang Village, Qibu Town, Zhouning County

　　(19) Beginning in 1983, the first phase planted 50 acres. By (19) 85 years, a total of 1207 acres were planted, of which 110 acres of fast-growing forests. We are a mountainous area, relying on mountains to eat and close mountains for forestation. First, I want the greening of the motherland, and second, I want the children and grandchildren to benefit and preserve the water and soil.

　　【Explanation】 While afforestation, Huang Zhenfang and his family are also interplanting short-term and fast-growing cash crops such as potatoes, konjac, and tea in fast-growing forests to solve the problem of shortage of afforestation funds. Huang Zhenfang, now 92 years old, still clearly remembers the scene of afforestation at that time.

　　[Same period] Huang Zhenfang, a villager in Houyang Village, Qibu Town, Zhouning County

　　At the time of afforestation, it was my father and son who worked hard and worked hard to get rich and managed this forest well. Planting this tree, we are still planting very well, we are very happy, look at this tree year after year.

　　[Same period] Huang Zhenfang's youngest son Huang Chuanmao

　　Twenty people go up the mountain every day, I give them meals, and pick up to that mountain, our back door mountain is very high, I always send it, that winter planting trees, it seems that the season of planting trees, there are all over the ground Snow, we all dig up the snow, and then plant the tree. In order to grow with short crops, then the 114 acres of fast-growing forest were reclaimed, which was planted with potatoes, corn, and a lot of crops. This is where the economic income is, and this money is used to raise so many trees.

　　【Explanation】 Under the leadership of Huang Zhenfang, Houyang Village set off a forestation fever. After years of efforts, the forest area in the village expanded to 7307 mu. Relying on rich forest resources, Houyang Village explored the "interplanting + stocking" model, developed under-forest planting and breeding, and formed a three-dimensional compound production and management model, which also opened the way for Houyang Village to develop a modern agricultural characteristic industry.

　　[Same period] Wu Liyu, Deputy Mayor of Qibu Town People's Government, Zhouning County

　　We planted our Dendrobium officinale, the first phase is 150 acres, and now we are planning to add another 150 acres in the second phase. In this case, it means increasing the income of a village ’s wealth and also solving a lot of labor for our local labor force. The problem drove the employment problem at our doorstep.

　　[Commentary] On a field in Houyang Village, Huang Zhenfang's eldest son Huang Chuanrong is looking at the growth of bees. In 2016, Huang Chuanrong returned to his hometown to start a business, utilized abundant forest resources, kept more than 150 boxes of bees, and had an annual income of more than 100,000 yuan. In addition to beekeeping, two years ago, Huang Chuanrong also began to try to plant more than 20 acres of grapes. Realized the improvement of understory resources and industrial value-added.

　　[Same period] Huang Zhenfang's eldest son Huang Chuanrong

　　It ’s been more than thirty years now. The mountain is also green and the water is green. Now the entire Houyang, and later driven by our family, the people in the entire Houyang village are also very active in afforestation. All of them are planted with trees. Now we see the whole mountain in Houyang. The whole mountain is green. I feel very comfortable. The ecology is also beautiful and protected. It is really a green mountain.

　　【Explanation】 Walking in Houyang Village, the facade of the house is colorful, a small stream runs through the village, and the ancient houses and the new buildings complement each other. In recent years, Houyang Village has gradually formed a development model that combines “forestry, forest species, and forest tourism”, transforming ecological advantages into development advantages, and comprehensively promoting the construction of beautiful villages.

　　Reporter Wu Shengwei reports from Fujian Ningde

Editor in charge: [Ji Xiang]