Changzhi, June 30th, Xinhuanet Question: Shen Jilan's Treasure Relief: Afforestation and "Green Bank"

　　Author Gao Yuqing

　　"I want to continue to make the afforestation cause bigger and stronger, and pass on her spirit of hard work and self-reliance." Chang Yonghong, the head of Zhongxinyuan Afforestation Professional Cooperative, Xigou Village, Pingshun County, Changzhi City, Shanxi Province, said on the 29th.

"I want to continue to make the afforestation cause bigger and stronger, and pass on her spirit of hard work and self-reliance." Chang Yonghong, the head of Zhongxinyuan Afforestation Professional Cooperative, Xigou Village, Pingshun County, Changzhi City, Shanxi Province, said on the 29th. Wei Liangshe

　　At the end of June, Xigou Village was tightly surrounded by large green areas. Just the day before, Shen Jilan, the leader of the village's poverty alleviation and prosperity, forever left this land for which he has struggled for a lifetime.

　　In the 1950s, Xigou Village was still a poor mountain ditch with no soil and no stones. Under the leadership of model workers such as Shen Jilan and Li Shunda, the villagers of Xigou went uphill to plant trees and went down to repair the land. After decades of hard work, the barren hills and barrows were transformed into "green banks", and the life here changed dramatically.

　　"Listen to the old people saying that there are no trees on the mountain. With the efforts of Director Shen, now the mountains are full of trees." Chang Yonghong recalled that when planting trees was opposed by many people, saying that the mountains are all stones, and no trees can grow, but She just doesn't believe in evil.

　　At first, 300 acres were planted, the survival rate was very low, and the villagers were somewhat discouraged. However, Shen Jilan did not choose to give up. She encouraged the villagers to say, "If you can live one tree, you won't worry about it." Shen Jilan often ran to Tanaka by herself and imparted her tree planting experience to villagers.

　　Before the reform and opening up, Shen Jilan led Xigou villagers to complete 25,000 acres of barren hills. Today, the Xigou people, represented by Chang Yonghong, have turned the "old business" of afforestation into a good industry for poverty alleviation.

　　Zhongxinyuan Afforestation Professional Cooperative, which Chang Yonghong is responsible for, was established in 2016 and is one of four afforestation cooperatives in Xigou Village. In the new era of rural revitalization, cooperatives have assumed new responsibilities.

　　"Our workers are the villagers of the three surrounding villages, mainly Xigou villagers, all aged about 60 years old." Chang Yonghong recalled that Shen Jilan often told him, "We must work hard" to drive villagers to earn more money".

　　How to improve the survival rate of afforestation, increase the efficiency, and how to drive the villagers to make money and use one more labor force is the main chat content each time he and Shen Jilan meet.

　　Chang Yonghong said that more than ten years ago, the daily income of a labor force was about 40 yuan (RMB, the same below), and now it has reached 120 to 150 yuan.

　　In addition to afforestation "old business", Xigou Village also used mushroom greenhouses and photovoltaic power generation as a poverty alleviation industry.

　　In 2013, under the leadership of Shen Jilan, rows of shiitake mushroom greenhouses were established and put into production in the same year. Recalling the scene at the time, Wang Genkao, deputy secretary of the party branch of Xigou Village, said, "When building a greenhouse, Director Shen came here to work with us every day."

In 2013, under the leadership of Shen Jilan, rows of shiitake mushroom greenhouses were established and put into production in the same year. Recalling the scene at that time, Wang Genkao, deputy secretary of the party branch of Xigou Village, said, "When building a greenhouse, Director Shen came here to work with us every day." Wei Liangshe

　　At present, there are 39 shiitake mushroom greenhouses in the north and south bases of Xigou Village, each of which has a planting scale of 17,000 sticks to 18,000 sticks, which can create economic income of more than 600,000 yuan per year. In addition, the annual income of photovoltaic power generation is more than 700,000 yuan, part of which is used for villagers' working wages and dividends for poor households, as well as village environmental improvement.

　　"Since the mushroom shed was built, it has been able to solve the employment problem of 40 rural women every year." Wang Genkao said that each woman can increase her family's income by more than 20,000 yuan a year.

　　In recent years, the establishment and introduction of enterprises in Xigou Village not only solved the employment problem of more than 200 villagers in the village, but also led a batch of surrounding villagers to get rich together. It is understood that in 2018, the village collective disposable income was 2.1 million yuan, and the per capita net income of the villagers reached 9,800 yuan.

　　Nowadays, Xigou Village has gone further and further on the road of getting rid of poverty and getting rich, and all of this is inseparable from one person. "Director Shen's life has been dedicated to Xigou Village, and her spirit will always be remembered in our hearts." Wang Genkao said. (Finish)