In the cold winter season, the reporter drove from Changsha City, Hunan Province, along Furong Road to the north, to the "colorful courtyard" of Meihualing Village, Chating Town, Wangcheng District, Changsha City-Fishing Village. The adobe houses are particularly festive against the backdrop of red lanterns, the spacious and tidy courtyard surrounded by verdant bamboo forests, and the children on the water platform in front of the pond are playing and laughing.
"Fishing Village" is the old house of Tan Yaxin, a villager in Meihualing Village, because a new house was built, the old house was idle for stacking sundries. In April 2022, the village committee transferred this idle house to develop the courtyard economy, and invested more than 4 million yuan in renovation and upgrading. Among them, the villagers spontaneously raised funds, raised labor, raised materials, and raised land equivalent to about 1.5 million yuan, integrating catering, leisure, and farming cultural experience. Li Guofeng, a villager who worked outside, and four others were optimistic about the prospects of the "fishing village", invested 400,000 yuan in shares, and actively won the right to manage the "fishing village". "I have worked as a chef in many Hunan restaurants in other places for more than 10 years, I have skills, I have returned to my hometown to start a business, I have a sense of belonging, I am energetic in my work, and my income is good. Li Guofeng said.
The creation of the 'colorful courtyard' not only revitalizes the idle farmhouse resources, but also provides more villagers with opportunities to start a business and find employment at their doorstep. Tan Guangju, secretary of the general party branch of Meihualing Village, introduced that Meihualing Village is a typical hilly area, with scattered farmland and is not suitable for large-scale mechanized operation. Since 2021, the village has explored the path of courtyard economic development in combination with the advantages of the suburbs, and the village collective funds have been invested in the shares for the leasing and renovation of local abandoned courtyards, and then introduced local people to operate to create "colorful courtyards" with different characteristics such as catering, farm yards, and agricultural product exhibitions, and adopted the business model of "village + enterprise + farmer", and the operating income will be returned to the village collective, and after retaining 15%, the remaining 85% will be distributed to the operator.
'Fishing Village' is the second 'Colorful Garden' built in the village. In 2021, we will adopt the method of renting to transform the idle adobe house of the villager Tan Biwu's family into a 'Township Neighborhood Chicken Restaurant', and select the courtyard manager by holding the Chating Township Neighborhood Chef King Competition, and the village collective and the manager will jointly manage the Native Chicken Restaurant, and the two parties will share dividends proportionally. Tan Guangju said that since the opening of the "Township Neighborhood Chicken Restaurant", the average monthly income has reached more than 150,000 yuan, ending the history of zero village collective economic income. Through the development of courtyard economy, the collective economic income of Meihualing Village has exceeded 3.5 million yuan. Not only that, batches of rural talents have found a way to start a business in the local area, realizing the return of rural talents.
Li Lingyan, the manager of the "Selenium-rich Yard" of the Yanshan Group, is a member of the return of rural talents. In May 2023, the Meihualing Village Committee will renovate and upgrade the idle old house of party member Zhou Wei, and transfer the surrounding mountains and fish ponds, and introduce Changsha Huahua Modern Agriculture founded by Li Lingyan to create a "selenium-rich yard" and develop the "selenium" industry. "'Selenium-rich Yard' is the expansion and extension of 'Colorful Courtyard', and it is also the courtyard economy we are exploring2The specific practice of version 0. Tan Guangju said.
Selenium-rich technology can adapt to the higher needs of consumers, enhance the added value of agricultural products, not only improve the scientific and technological content of 'colorful courtyards', but also help the revitalization of rural industries and talents. Li Lingyan introduced that at present, more than 20 acres of "selenium-rich yards" have been built into rural restaurants, online live broadcast rooms, Hanfu halls, camping and leisure and other scenes and formats, integrating planting, sightseeing, entertainment and other agricultural and cultural tourism. On weekends and holidays, there are many tourists who come for leisure and entertainment.
Since 2021, Chating Town has begun to explore the path of courtyard economic development, from independent exploration at the village level to integrated resource innovation, and has developed a variety of courtyard economies, activating a variety of rural 'micro-economies', and the town has built 67 village-level collective courtyard economy demonstration sites. Feng Junkai, Secretary of the Party Committee of Chating Town, Wangcheng District, said that in the next step, we will continue to tap the development potential of the courtyard, encourage the villagers to build their own construction, self-management, self-operation and self-income, and build a courtyard industrial cluster with rich formats, perfect functions and diverse scenes, so as to attract villagers to start a business and work in the yard, increase income and get rich, form a virtuous circle of simultaneous improvement of economic, social and ecological benefits, and further strengthen the momentum of rural revitalization. (Economic ** reporter Xie Yao).