China News Service, Nanjing, September 30th: Zhao Yafu: Write more and better results on a wider land
Chinanews reporter Yang Yanci
In September, in Daizhuang Village, Jurong City, Jiangsu Province, the golden-yellow regenerated rice is growing satisfactorily, the full rice ears are rustling, and the joy of autumn harvest is everywhere.
Zhao Yafu, a representative of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China and a researcher of Daizhuang Organic Agriculture Professional Cooperative in Tianwang Town, Jurong City, is over eighty years old, but he still sticks to the fields.
He said, "Now, the soil in the countryside is fertile, the ecology is better, and the farmers are rich. As long as I can work hard, I will write more and better results on the wider land."
Zhao Yafu, who was born in 1941, has been rooted in the countryside for more than 60 years, devoted himself to exploring hard with farmers, and opened up a road of developing agriculture through science and technology and enriching farmers with agriculture.
"To get rich, find Yafu." In Jurong, such a popular reputation represents the mission and responsibility of an agricultural science and technology worker.
For decades, Zhao Yafu has exemplified the original intention and perseverance of a Communist Party member with firmness and perseverance, nobility and simplicity.
Zhao Yafu guides local villagers to plant fruit trees.
Photo courtesy of the United Front Work Department of Zhenjiang Municipal Committee
"I am the son of a peasant, I love this land in the countryside, and I must do something for the peasants in my life."
In the 1980s, Zhao Yafu put forward the idea of "increasing grain in paddy fields and getting rich in hillsides", advocated and implemented "do it for farmers, lead farmers to work, help farmers sell, and realize farmers' prosperity", vigorously promote new varieties and new technologies .
With the joint efforts of Zhao Yafu and local villagers, Daizhuang Village has undergone earth-shaking changes: the largest strawberry producing area in southern my country at that time was more than 20,000 mu, making a large number of farmers become "ten thousand yuan households"; and then the promotion of peaches, grapes, pears, organic The planting of rice, etc. has been successful again, becoming one of the earliest successful models of agricultural restructuring in Jiangsu.
The "Jurong Model" of agricultural development in the hilly and mountainous areas of Jiangsu has been formed since then.
In order to realize the dream of farmers who can live a good life without leaving the land, Zhao Yafu constantly explores new ways for the development of agricultural modernization: the "Dai Zhuang Model" he founded has blazed a new path in deepening rural reform and found a basic rural management system. The "organic combination point" of "unity" and "point".
"I want to always be with the farmers, be kind when I see them, and feel at ease when I get to the fields."
The picture shows Zhao Yafu, a representative of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China and a researcher of Daizhuang Organic Agriculture Professional Cooperative in Tianwang Town, Jurong City, Jiangsu Province.
Photo courtesy of the United Front Work Department of Zhenjiang Municipal Committee
Zhao Yafu said, "Intellectuals generally have two paths. One is to rise above the sky and engage in inventions and creations; the other is to stand up and take root in the countryside to solve the problems of farmers. Let me choose to stand up." Now, Zhao Yafu is in his old age. There are still more than 200 days a year "standing" in the fields, using the earth as his office.
In his own words, "I'm going to work until the day I can't."
"For China to be strong, agriculture must be strong; for China to be beautiful, the countryside must be beautiful; for China to be rich, farmers must be rich." Zhao Yafu has always been striving for the modernization of agriculture and rural areas.
As a member of the Communist Party, Zhao Yafu has used his life to practice the party's commitment to farmers, and used his actual actions to prove that "lucid waters and lush mountains are really invaluable assets." (End)