Zhou Jianqiang, who was born in 1965, was disabled in his right lower limb due to polio at the age of 4. The cooperative he founded has a total of 27 employees, of which 19 are disabled and 2 are from families with disabilities. He used his own strength to hold up the employment dreams of more disabled people. The cooperative has been identified as an employment base for the disabled in Lanzhou City and Gansu Province, and a vocational training base for the disabled at the provincial, municipal and national levels. Unyielding fate strives to be a pioneer in entrepreneurshipIn the winter in Lanzhou, there are not many customers at the farmhouse, and Zhou Jianqiang is still busy in Yuzhong Peilu Farm in Zhonghebao Village, Xiaguanying Town, Yuzhong County, and he can't spare any of them. Zhou Jianqiang was born in Lingshou County, Hebei Province, at the age of 4 due to polio caused a disability in the right lower limb. At the age of 15, he moved to Lanzhou with his parents. In order to survive, Zhou Jianqiang began to set up stalls on the street to mend shoes, and at night took time to participate in electrical Xi classes at the Electric University, and taught himself to master the technique of repairing watches, becoming a shoemaker repairing watches. In 1997, Zhou Jianqiang went to Guangzhou with the savings saved by setting up a stall to break into the world, and opened his first company. In 2010, with the savings of going south to work hard, Zhou Jianqiang returned to Lanzhou to establish Lida Automobile Molding Rubber Factory, and the business once reached the whole country. However, the difficulty in recovering the money also restricts the expansion of his business territory. Years of running around and starting a business have made Zhou Jianqiang deeply aware of the difficulties and bitterness of making a living for people with disabilities. He decided to transform, start a business again at his doorstep, and absorb the disabled to find employment, solve the actual survival plight of the poor disabled, and let them be self-reliant and self-reliant. Poverty alleviation is the first to cure ignorance, and poverty alleviation is the first to help wisdomZhou Jianqiang's new "base area" is located in Xiaguanying Town, Yuzhong County. In 2016, Zhou Jianqiang raised funds to establish Yuzhong Peilu Breeding Professional Cooperative in Xiaguanying Town, Yuzhong County, implementing the new operation model of "three changes +" and "cooperatives + farmers", driving local disabled people and poor families to increase their income and become rich. The first thing the cooperative did after its establishment was to distribute high-quality chicken seedlings to local poor households free of charge. Although it is "given for free", this thing is not easy to do. Although the Yuzhong County Disabled Persons' Federation and Xiaguanying Town did a lot of work through household entry in the early stage, when Zhou Jianqiang transported the chicken seedlings to be ready for distribution, the farmers who had signed up to adopt the chicken seedlings were a little hesitant. I am afraid that I will not be able to raise it, and I am afraid that the meat and eggs will be too low, and it will become a loss-making business in a cycle. When he learned about the concerns of farmers, Zhou Jianqiang immediately invited breeding experts to carry out centralized skills training for farmers, and promised to regularly go to farmers' homes for skill guidance, and buy all broilers and eggs at a higher than the market average. In order to dispel the doubts of poor households, Zhou Jianqiang often talked about his life experience and encouraged them that poverty is not terrible, but they must not lose their confidence in getting rid of poverty and becoming rich. Sun Yuxi, who lives in Sunjiaying Village, Triangle Township, Yuzhong County, is a poor family due to disability. After learning about the difficulties in his family, Zhou Jianqiang sent 100 chicken seedlings for free, during which he also gave door-to-door guidance many times, and purchased them at a price of 80 yuan per broiler. Sun Yuxi said, "Now I can feel at ease, and I will continue to raise chickens in the future." "In Yuzhong County, there are many disabled families like Sun Yuxi who have gone from the initial concerns to the subsequent competition to raise broilers. While developing and expanding cooperatives and driving poor households to increase their incomes and become rich, Zhou Jianqiang also founded Yuzhong Honglu Ecological Planting and Breeding Park, Yuzhong Peilu Farm, Yuzhong Peilu Vocational Training School, and Yuzhong Peilu Pure Grain Distillery. "This is a complementary and relatively complete agricultural closed loop, and the grown grain wine, distiller's grains are feed;The chickens, sheep and pork raised can be **, or they can be produced and sold on the farm;The manure of the livestock is the farm's fertilizer, which is used to produce green vegetables, which are then used in the farm's meals and are not wasted at all. Zhou Jianqiang said that the ingredients in Peilv Farm are all self-produced and sold green products, and there is an endless stream of tourists every summer. 
Zhou Jianqiang inspects the wine cellar
According to statistics, since 2016, the cooperative has distributed free chicken seedlings to rural disabled people in Yuzhong, Yongdeng, Gaolan, Honggu and Lanzhou New District for seven consecutive years1020,000 chrysanthemums, 310,000 chrysanthemum seedlings were distributed, and a rural practical technology training project for the disabled was implemented for three years, and more than 1,900 rural disabled people were trained. The cooperative has been identified as an employment base for the disabled in Lanzhou City and Gansu Province, and a vocational training base for the disabled at the provincial, municipal and national levels. Helping people with disabilities find employment is saving a family"Happy families are all alike, and unhappy families have their own misfortunes. This sentence is a personal experience in any family of people with disabilities. Zhang Fanglan's family of five and three disabled, including a 28-year-old eldest daughter and a 20-year-old youngest son with severe cerebral palsy, rely on her to eat, drink and eat alone. In order to help the family, Zhou Jianqiang put Zhang Fanglan in charge of managing the vegetable greenhouse. "The farmer grows crops, and the work is not difficult, mainly for her to take care of two children with cerebral palsy. Considering Zhang Fanglan's special situation, the cooperative allowed her to take her two children to work, not only to take care of their mother's meals, but also to set aside a dormitory for the two children to rest, and for her mother to take care of them at any time. "Working here is close to home, the work is easy, and the boss also pays social security, and our family is very satisfied. Si Jiangdong, 40 years old this year, is the director of the office of the cooperative, and when he was young, he was injured at work and left a fourth-degree disability, unable to bend one leg, nor able to stand for a long time and bear physical labor, he cherishes it very much to find such a job four kilometers away from home. Of course, he also spared no effort in the work of the cooperative, he used to be a chef, and when the back kitchen was busy, the office director became a chef in seconds. Li Guoyan, who was born in 1999, has multiple first-degree disabilities. After graduating from university, I couldn't find a suitable job, but this year, I saw a job fair for a co-op clerk, so I came to apply. "Mainly writing materials, uploading materials and other work, are all hand work, and my major is more compatible. Li Guoyan said that the cooperative is in charge of food and housing, and her mother comes to pick her up when she is on vacation every month, "This is my first official job, and my family doesn't have to worry about me anymore, and my mother can also find a job to subsidize the family." "Li Guoyan has been with her full-time since she can remember, either to see a doctor or to accompany her to study, and now, her mother is finally liberated. 
Li Guoyan was diagnosed with cerebral palsy at the age of three, and she was very satisfied with working as a clerk in the cooperative.
Yang Caixia, 66, is a cleaner at the cooperative. A rural woman who is unable to do farm work because of her left hand disability, but is idle. She always took a broom and cleaned the yard spotlessly, and even the bathroom in the farm was as clean and odorless as that of a star-rated hotel. Yang Caixia said, "I have to eat and live, the room is heated, where can I find such a good job." "Persons with disabilities are a vulnerable group and are not immune to discrimination when seeking education and employment. But they also want to work within their capacity to support themselves and have a stable livelihood. Zhou Jianqiang said, "We need to be more patient with disabled employees, but helping disabled people find employment is to save a family, and everything is worth it!"Zhou Jianqiang has his long-term plan for the cooperatives and ecological parks in operation, planning to build an agricultural ecological park with tourism, sightseeing and experience, and expand a variety of breeding and planting ecological and environmental protection industries to absorb more disabled people in the surrounding areas. **Lanzhou Evening News Editor: Pan Wenchang Review: Zhang Xuefei, Zhang Zhengdan.