China News Service, Beijing, March 10th: Returning to the village to start a business is becoming a "new fashion" for Chinese young people to find employment.

　　Author Zhou Yanling Xu Xueying

　　"Jumping back to farming" is becoming a "new fashion" for Chinese young people to find employment.

There are top students with doctoral degrees who have returned to the countryside and are happy to start planting; there are master's degree students who have grown from "pig herders" to village cadres; there are also young people who sell mountain products thousands of miles away through short videos and live broadcasts...

　　"Working outside the home can only provide employment for one person. Returning to your hometown to start a business can create employment for a group of people and change the mindset of a generation." Li Shiyao, deputy to the National People's Congress and chairman of the Liupanshui Shanhaiyuan Planting Farmers Professional Cooperative in Guizhou Province, told China News Newspaper reporter.

In 2022, Li Shiyao (second from left), chairman of the Shanhaiyuan Farmers Professional Cooperative in Liupanshui, Guizhou Province, was at the strawberry planting base.

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　　Shortly after Li Shiyao graduated from Northwest A&F University with a doctoral degree seven years ago, he returned to his hometown to transform traditional agriculture and develop modern agriculture, leading the villagers to grow strawberries. Currently, the early-maturing strawberry planting base has been equipped with more than 50 greenhouses.

　　From specialty industries such as strawberries and watermelons to fresh corn, this doctor of agriculture with roots in grassroots experiments, demonstrates and promotes new agricultural varieties, new technologies and new planting models according to local conditions, such as "fresh corn + potato" food crops in high-altitude areas Interplanting, rotation of strawberries and watermelons, etc., have allowed us to store food in the ground and in technology, turning one season into two.

　　Relevant statistics show that from 2012 to the end of 2022, the cumulative number of people in China who returned to their hometowns to start businesses reached 12.2 million.

　　Zheng Peikun, deputy to the National People's Congress and Party branch secretary of Tashan Village, Dayou Town, Cengong County, Guizhou Province, holds a master's degree in veterinary medicine from Huazhong Agricultural University. When he was 30 years old, he gave up his white-collar life in the city and returned to his hometown to develop the pig breeding industry, driving 9 village collectives. , more than 1,300 farmers have escaped poverty and become rich through pig raising.

He hopes to "strive for Tashan Village's agricultural industry to exceed 100 million yuan (RMB, the same below) by 2024 and become a veritable 100 million yuan village."

Zheng Peikun, deputy to the National People's Congress, attended the second session of the 14th National People's Congress.

Photo by Zhou Yanling

　　For young people returning to their hometowns to start businesses, Zheng Peikun believes that in addition to increasing financial support, relevant local departments also need to provide "accompanying" growth so that young people can feel care and warmth during the process of starting a business in rural areas.

"Currently, what is most lacking in rural areas is agricultural technical talents and agricultural management talents. It is recommended to strengthen cooperation with vocational colleges and allow agricultural-related graduates to come to rural development, which can not only solve employment problems but also promote the upgrading of the agricultural industry." Zheng Peikun said.

　　Liao Zhilue, a representative of the National People's Congress and president of the Peilin Orange Cultivation Professional Cooperative in Huazhou City, Maoming, Guangdong Province, brought three objects from his hometown this year: Huazhou soil, Huaju fruits, and Huaju cultural bookmarks.

　　Liao Zhilue is the intangible inheritor of the Huajuhong traditional Chinese medicine culture in Huazhou, Guangdong. He has grown and prepared Huajuhong with his grandfather since he was a child. After graduating from Guangzhou Huashang Vocational College in 2015, he returned to his hometown to engage in planting research, cultural promotion and sales of Huajuhong. Become a "new farmer".

Liao Zhilue introduced Huajuhong and related products live.

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　　Liao Zhilue brought a new atmosphere to the industry in his hometown.

From the introduction of planting technologies such as seedling cultivation and grafting management, to the shift to standardization, processization, and standardized production, to testing the waters of live streaming and promoting the culture of orange-red traditional Chinese medicine, within a few years, he participated in and witnessed the endangered orange-red industry. Rejuvenate.

　　With his continuous attempts and technological improvements, planting one acre of tangerine can increase the income of farmers by more than 3,000 yuan.

In the past three years, through the expansion of online sales, Liao Zhilue has sold more than 1 million copies of Orange Red, driving member sales of more than 70 million yuan.

　　In order to promote the coordinated development of urban and rural areas, Guangdong has implemented the "High-Quality Development Project of Hundreds of Counties, Thousands of Towns and Tens of Thousands of Villages", which has driven more than 200,000 university students to move to counties and rural areas.

“Many young people are willing to come back, and some have already come back,” Liao Zhilue said.

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