Chinanews.com, Liuzhou, February 10th, title: "Edison" in Guangxi's 70-year-old village helps push the "net celebrity snack" snail noodles overseas
Author Liu Juncong Wei Guozheng
On the 10th, in the production workshop of Shishanjiao Agricultural Technology Co., Ltd., Baisha Town, Yufeng District, Liuzhou City, Guangxi, workers put the pickled sour bamboo shoots into a high-speed shredding machine and cut them into uniform sour bamboo shoots. After the bamboo shoots are taken, they are distributed to prepackaged snail noodle enterprises.
As a popular "Internet celebrity snack" at home and abroad, the sales of snail noodles have doubled in recent years, and the demand for sour bamboo shoots, the "soul raw material", has greatly increased.
With the help of the sour bamboo shoot shredding machine, this enterprise can produce nearly 10 tons of sour bamboo shoots every day.
"We don't know how that old man made this machine!" Zhou Xiaolin, the person in charge of the company, exclaimed.
On the same day, at the home of Longjiang Village, Liyong Town, Yufeng District, Liuzhou City, the reporter saw this old man named Liang Jiahui.
Liang Jiahui, 73 years old this year, has a hunched back and walks slowly.
But he is skillful and neat in his operation in front of the CNC machine tool.
The picture shows Liang Jiahui debugging the equipment.
Wei Guozheng
"When I was young, everyone liked to play games, but I was particularly obsessed with machinery. I liked to study physics books and tinker with some small objects." Liang Jiahui said.
Liang Jiahui grew up in the countryside since she was a child, and has never systematically studied the knowledge of machinery.
In 1975, Liang Jiahui entered Liuzhou Liyong Agricultural Machinery Factory with a youthful dream in mind. The threshing machines and other agricultural machinery designed and developed by him and his team were widely favored by the surrounding villagers because of their durability.
"Because these products are so popular, I usually don't dare to go shopping in the town, for fear that the enthusiastic villagers who buy farm tools will drag me to chat for a long time and delay work." Liang Jiahui laughed.
In the eyes of this old man, there is nothing more important than tinkering with machinery.
With the rapid development of science and technology, Liang Jiahui, who is now over 70 years old, has given up the two-meter-long manual drawing table and taught herself computer drawing, wire cutting, and reading circuit diagrams.
Since 2017, he has obtained 5 patents including "a vegetable washing machine", which has greatly improved the production efficiency of agricultural products.
A room of less than 10 square meters in his home is his "R&D room". Two computers and neatly arranged books and drawings on the desktop accompany him to overcome several technical problems.
In 2021, a sour bamboo shoot company knocked on the door of Liang Jiahui's house.
"Now snail powder has become a 'net celebrity', and a large number of products are sold at home and abroad, requiring standardized production of raw materials. They (enterprises) want a machine that can evenly cut out every sour bamboo shoot." Liang Jiahui said.
The picture shows Liang Jiahui working in the factory at home.
Wei Guozheng
Previously, the sour bamboo shoots in snail noodles were cut by hand, which was not only irregular in shape, but also inefficient.
In order to develop this machine, Liang Jiahui spent several hours in two days and two days traveling to Liuzhou City to purchase the required parts and materials.
"The knife of the machine consists of dozens of blades interlaced to form 600 cutting holes. We tried several kinds of steel for the blade alone, and finally chose a blade with better corrosion resistance, rigidity and hardness." Liang Jiahui said.
After two years of research and development, the sour bamboo shoot shredding machine developed by Liang Jiahui finally came out. The sour bamboo shoots cut by the sour bamboo shoot shredding machine are beautiful and meet various food standards.
"The cost of this sour bamboo shoot shredding machine is two times lower than that of similar foreign machines. My wish is to manufacture more machines that can be used and affordable by township enterprises and farmers." Liang Jiahui said.
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