China News Service, Liuzhou, November 20th. Title: The resettlement site for returned overseas Chinese in Guangxi becomes a "billion-yuan village".

　　Author Lin Xin

　　In the winter in the Overseas Chinese Farm in Liucheng, Liuzhou City, Guangxi, the tangerines are all over the mountains and the branches are bent.

The most important resettlement site for returned overseas Chinese in Guangxi has changed from a deserted mountain to a "billion-yuan village." Returned overseas Chinese have developed a "sweet business" to live a life with cars and houses.

　　In 1978, Huang Rixi followed his parents back to China from Vietnam and witnessed the changes of overseas Chinese farms.

When he was 7 years old, Huang Rixi's parents returned from Vietnam with their six children and came to this most important resettlement site for returned overseas Chinese in Guangxi.

Huang Rixi recalled in an interview recently: "At that time, the Overseas Chinese Farm had not grown mandarins. From a distance, there were barren hills. We lived in a house built with simple sheds, and it was ventilated from all sides."

　　In order to accommodate a large number of returned overseas Chinese from Vietnam and Indonesia, the Overseas Chinese Farm led thousands of returned overseas Chinese to try to develop a "sweet business" and introduced Nanfeng mandarin varieties to plant.

When Huang Rixi came home from school when she was young, she would help her parents take care of the fruit trees.

He remembered: "In 1984, some returned overseas Chinese in our village became 10,000 yuan households by planting fruits. At that time, people outside were envious of us."

　　After becoming an adult, Huang Rixi naturally chose to continue to develop his "sweet career."

In 2002, the Overseas Chinese Farm was restructured.

Originally, the tangerine industry relied on farm management and investment. Later, the farm transferred the fruit trees to the returned overseas Chinese so that the fruit farmers were responsible for their own profits and losses.

Huang Rixi said: "If you don't work for the public, returned overseas Chinese are more motivated."

　　Optimistic about the prospects of the tangerine industry, Huang Rixi asked a friend to borrow money to increase investment.

"I want to rent more land and expand the planting area of ​​fruit trees." At present, Huang Rixi has planted 27 acres of tangerines with an annual output value of 200,000 yuan (RMB, the same below).

Relying on the income from the fruit field, he bought a big house and a small car.

　　After several varieties of upgrades, the "Liucheng Tangerine" grown by Overseas Chinese Farm has become a protected product of China's geographical indications.

Since November, the mandarin purchase point of Huaqiao Farm has been lively, trucks and trucks of mandarins have been transported from Tanaka to various places, and even exported to Southeast Asia, Russia and other countries "over the ocean".

"40% of tangerines are exported overseas every year, about 30,000 tons." Huang Rixi said.

　　"Liucheng Tangerine" is not just Huang Rixi's life that is prosperous.

Yang Yayang, a returned overseas Chinese from Vietnam, began researching the cultivation of high-quality fruits in 2007. Now he has planted more than 20 acres of tangerines with an annual income of more than 100,000 yuan.

Relying on tangerines, it also built buildings and bought private cars.

　　According to Zhai Zhensheng, director of the Agricultural Service Center of the Liucheng Overseas Chinese Farm Management Area, “At present, the Liucheng Overseas Chinese Farm Management Area has about 12,000 acres of tangerines. There are about 950 growers, of which nearly 60% are returned overseas. It is close to 30,000 tons, and the output value is close to 100 million yuan.” Recently, Liucheng Overseas Chinese Farm was recognized as a village with a characteristic industry of 100 million yuan in China's rural areas in 2021.

　　"Life is better as you go, you can live with your parents and brothers and sisters if you have a house and a car." Huang Rixi is satisfied with the present day.

During the holidays, the Overseas Chinese Farm also organizes the Returned Overseas Chinese Food Festival and the Spring Festival Gala to enrich the cultural life of the returned overseas Chinese and their relatives.

　　Guangxi is the province with the largest area of ​​overseas Chinese agricultural and forestry farms in China. From the 1950s to the 1970s, 22 overseas Chinese farms were set up to house 180,000 returned overseas Chinese from more than 10 countries including Indonesia, Vietnam, and Thailand.

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