China News Service, Xilingol, September 28th, title: Ting Bartel has been rooted in the grassland for 48 years: "I am essentially an ordinary herdsman"
China News Service reporter Li Aiping
The corners of his eyes crawled out of the wrinkles given by the years, and there were obvious calluses on the knuckles of his ten fingers. These are the marks of 67-year-old Ting Bartel's 48 years of rooting in the grasslands.
On the Xilin Gol Prairie in September, the greenery has gradually faded, but Ting Bartel, who is restless, rarely lives at home. Like ordinary herders, he cares about pastures, fodder, climate change and other issues every day.
Pictured is Tin Bartle.
Photo courtesy of the Propaganda Department of Abaga Banner
He walks briskly and speaks succinctly, but when it comes to the topic of herdsmen getting rich, he makes an exception. He answers almost every question of visiting herdsmen, and tries his best to explain in plain language.
In the past few days, facing the interviews of the media reporters, the representative of the 20th National Congress is much busier than usual, and he can't even answer the phone.
For the compliments that the media gave him in the reports, he often said that "I am essentially an ordinary herdsman" and "have developed a deep relationship with the grassland people."
Born in June 1955 in Hohhot, Inner Mongolia, Ting Batel was the son of Ting Mao, the founding general of the People's Republic of China.
After graduating from high school in July 1974, he came to the Sarulatu Yagacha, Abaga Banner, Xilin Gol League to join the queue and became a herdsman.
He recalled that when he was 19 years old, wearing his father's old military cap, when he came to the hinterland of the Hunshandake Desert in Xilin Gol, he was presented with a remote, barren, closed and backward scene.
The life of the grassland herdsmen is not as idyllic and comfortable as he imagined. "Abaga Banner is dry and has little rainfall and lack of water resources. The average precipitation is only 230 mm, but the evaporation is as high as 2,500 mm. Due to cold waves and frequent strong winds, natural The conditions are harsh, most of the 80 herdsmen households in Gacha are poor households, the yurts are blackened by smoke, and the living facilities are extremely poor.”
Almost from the day he set foot on Saruratu Yagacha, Ting Battelle wanted to change the face of this place.
From July 1975 to November 1976, Ting Bartel served as the director of the dairy factory of the Saruratuya Brigade (later renamed Gacha), and led the entire factory's employees to turn the team-run collective enterprise that was on the verge of bankruptcy into profit.
In November 1976, Ting Bartel joined the Communist Party of China. During this period, his father Ting Mao gave him a party constitution and told him to "must not live up to the expectations of the party organization".
In November of this year, Ting Bartel was elected as the captain of Saruratuya Gacha (the director of the Gacha Committee).
Beginning in 1978, the same group of educated youths who joined Ting Bartel in Saruratu Yagacha returned to the city one after another, but he did not leave.
Father Ting Mao understands and supports his decision.
In the end, of the same batch of educated youth who jumped in the queue, only Ting Bartle remained.
Ting Bartel, who stayed on the grassland, took the initiative to distribute the better livestock and grasslands in the whole Gacha to other herdsmen when he presided over the implementation of the double contract system for grass and livestock, while the grasslands with poor vegetation conditions and the weakest physique were distributed. The livestock are kept for themselves, and the collective sheds, carriages, tractors, etc. are all given to the herdsmen.
In the mid-1980s, the grassland ecology where Ting Bartel was located was degraded. He repeatedly preached to herdsmen: "Livestock is not the lifeblood, but the grassland is the lifeblood." Most herdsmen do not understand or find it difficult to accept his statement.
He decided to make an appearance first for everyone to see.
Pictured is Tin Bartle.
Photo courtesy of the Propaganda Department of Abaga Banner
In May 1986, he sold his 60 sheep, fenced off his 300 mu of pastures, zoning and rotating grazing, sowing grass seeds on the resting pastures, and building sheds, which achieved obvious economic benefits and improved living conditions. Significantly improved.
After seeing it, the herdsmen followed suit and benefited from it.
In April 1990, Ting Bartel began to divide the 5,926 mu of grassland contracted by his family into 9 blocks to meet the needs of grazing in four seasons. .
In just a few years, the worst pasture in Gacha, which was contracted by him, has been effectively restored.
Ting Bartel is also a skilled craftsman. He made a mobile dry toilet with color steel tiles and other materials. This dry toilet is unique, simple and lightweight, and can be easily moved on the grassland.
He introduced in the interview, "After a position has been used for a period of time, it will be replaced. After the dry toilet is moved, a tree is planted above the filled toilet pit, which not only ensures the fertilizer required by the tree, but also protects the Grassland ecology, killing two birds with one stone.”
The outside world believes that this may be the earliest "toilet revolution" practiced on the Xilin Gol Prairie.
In October 1993, after Ting Bartel was elected as the Party branch secretary of Saruratuya Gacha, in order to further restore the grassland ecology, he proposed the famous "hoof and leg theory" of reducing sheep and increasing cattle.
This theory translated into the vernacular is: "The income of raising 1 cow is roughly the same as the economic income of 5 sheep, but 1 cow has only 4 legs, and it will lie down when it is full, while 5 sheep have 20 hooves. , walking around and digging grass roots to eat. Five sheep will trample the grassland more than one cow.”
Ting Battelle decided to give a good example to the herdsmen brothers. He sold all his more than 400 sheep and converted them into beef cattle breeding. He introduced high-quality cattle breeds and crossbred local cattle, and carried out livestock improvement and herd structure adjustment, so as to achieve ecological restoration and income. Increased win-win goals.
Pictured is Tin Bartle.
Photo courtesy of the Propaganda Department of Abaga Banner
Ting Battelle was also the pioneer of desert governance on the steppe.
In order to find a good way to control desertification, he traveled all over the sand nests in a radius of 100 miles, drew maps of desertification control by himself, tried every means to introduce high-quality grass seeds and tree species, and repeatedly conducted germination experiments to form "spring yellow willow cuttings and rainy season grass seeds". The planting experience of sowing and rejuvenation of stubble in autumn was promoted to the whole Gacha.
Ting Batel, who has been rooted in the grasslands for many years, was awarded the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region Model Worker (Advanced Worker) by the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region People's Government in April 2000. Since then, various honors have come one after another.
In June 2002, Ting Battelle was identified as a major national figure by the Central Propaganda Department. Subsequently, the Central Propaganda Department and the Party Committee of Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region jointly held a report meeting on Comrade Ting Bartell's advanced deeds in the Great Hall of the People.
The advanced deeds report group of Comrade Ting Bartel went to Shanghai, Beijing, Tianjin, Shandong, Ningxia and other provinces and cities to report on tour.
In January 2003, Ting Battelle was elected as the representative of the 10th National People's Congress; in February of the same year, the Central Propaganda Department, the Ministry of Personnel, and the Ministry of Agriculture awarded him the National Rural Outstanding Talent Medal; in April 2005, the State Council of the People's Republic of China awarded him The honorary title of National Model Worker of Tin Battelle.
Since then, Ting Batel was elected as the vice chairman of the Xilingol League Abaga Banner CPPCC; in May 2005, the State Council awarded him the honorary title of a model of national unity and progress in the country.
After the arrival of various honors, Tin Battelle did not sleep on the credits. In September 2008, Tin Battelle led the herdsmen to improve the production methods of animal husbandry and proposed the production method of "beating the grass and not pulling the grass".
"The advantages of cutting grass and pulling grass are: first, to ensure that the nutrition of the grass is not lost, and the grass seeds can stay on the pasture more, forming natural seeding, which is conducive to the recovery of the pasture, and at the same time, the green grass with sufficient nutrition can ensure the cattle. There is a good foundation for body condition in winter and spring; second, it saves the manual labor of pulling grass, storing grass and adding forage to cattle every day in winter; third, it can ensure that cattle manure is left on the pasture and converted into organic fertilizer , return the grassland." He gave this explanation to the media.
Jean-Tin Bartelnianz is here with his nomadic brothers on how to increase their income and become rich.
What makes him gratified is that at present, the local herdsmen are planting drought-tolerant plants such as yellow willow and sea buckthorn according to local conditions, which has effectively curbed the desertification and degradation of grasslands. Wild animals such as deer, roe deer, and foxes that have not been seen for many years can now be seen everywhere.
Saruratuya Gacha has become a well-known "ecological village". The annual per capita net income of herdsmen exceeds 20,000 yuan. The pastoral area has electricity and roads. Every family lives in brick houses and drives cars.
From 2009 till now, Ting Bartel has played another role. He began to work as a "teacher" at the Xilingol League Farmers and Herdsmen Training Center, passing on sutras and treasures to herdsmen.
The training center was built in Saruratuya Gacha. Based on his own struggles, Ting Bartel taught herders the experience of family pasture construction and scientific farming, and elaborated on his latest proposal of "the highest profit point, the lowest cost point, and the best ecological environment". point, the optimal point of labor" four balance theories.
Ting Bartel, who has stepped down as the secretary of the Saruratu Yagacha Party branch in Abaga Banner, said: "Teaching for herdsmen is what I value most. Every year, more than 20,000 herdsmen come to listen to my lectures."
On June 29, 2021, Ting Bartel, who won the highest honor in the party, the July 1st Medal, said that his roots are in the grassland, and he is essentially an ordinary herdsman, "I will always stay in my hometown, guard the beautiful prairie, Pass on the practical experience of taking root in the grassland for nearly 50 years to the herdsmen, protect the ecology, build the grassland, and jointly create a better life."
Regarding the upcoming 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, he said that creating a better life with herdsmen is a lifelong pursuit.
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