Dazhong reporter Sun Yonglian reported from Weifang.
For thousands of years, there are many capable people who have gone out from Weifang, and there are countless outstanding people who have achieved success and made contributions abroad, most of them will care about their hometown after success, donate money to build roads, and some people are deeply rooted in hometown feelings, willing to give up the career of hard work for many years, and return to their hometowns to start from "zero", just to lead their hometown parents to get rid of poverty and live a good life, Liu Xiangdong, secretary of the Party branch of Wali Village, Fang'an Street, Fangzi District, Weifang City, is such a person.
Giving up an annual salary of one million yuan and returning to a village with a debt of 470,000 yuan to serve as the village party secretary, with no funds, no direction, no experience, only the enthusiasm of the street department and the ardent expectations of 650 villagers, this is a difficult choice for anyone. Do you want a comfortable and profitable engineering career, or a difficult and uncertain future to return to the village to start a business? Thirteen years ago, Liu Xiangdong chose the latter.
When he returned to the village in 2011, he was not only entrusted by the leaders of the district and the street, but also based on his hometown complex. I believe that if a person has the ability, he should come back and return to his hometown. Liu Xiangdong said.
The rise of a village must have a guide, and Liu Xiangdong is the guide of Wali Village.
Before 2004, there was not even a water well in Wali Village, and villagers had to push carts to the river to fetch water to drink. At that time, Liu Xiangdong had not yet returned to the village to take up his post, and in order to solve the problem of drinking water for the villagers, he funded a well and connected it to each household.
In May 2011, Liu Xiangdong was elected secretary of the party branch of Wali Village with 637 votes, and it was also in this election that Liu Xiangdong strengthened his determination to lead the villagers out of poverty and become rich. When he took over the village party branch, there were only a few dilapidated houses, a few sets of dilapidated tables and chairs, a broken speaker, and a debt of 470,000 yuan. At the time of the election, he received 637 votes out of 650 votes in the village, and the remaining 13 votes were all written in another name of Liu Xiangdong, which could not be counted in the total votes, which was equivalent to 100% of the votes. This incident greatly touched Liu Xiangdong, who originally only thought about repairing roads and changing water and electricity for the village, but suddenly realized that he had become the hope of the villagers, and the idea of "must bring the villagers to earn money" became stronger and stronger.
After two months in office, Liu Xiangdong once again paid for the installation of tap water out of his own pocket, and all 231 households in the village used tap water.
Like many impoverished villages, there were no roads in Wali Village, and Liu Xiangdong organized two road repairs that cost millions, of which 360,000 were donated by villagers and street workers. Liu Xiangdong clearly remembered that a low-income household in the village donated 30 yuan, all of which were made up with one, two, and five dimes. He kept the 30 yuan in his office, as if he had preserved a heavy trust.
This year, he completely put down roots in his hometown.
The success of a great cause must have someone take risks, and Liu Xiangdong is the one who is willing to "suffer".
At the end of 2011, the transformation of the village's infrastructure was completed, and Liu Xiangdong began to build a farm to develop agriculture, and successively registered a series of cooperatives and cooperatives in Luwang. He believes that if Wali Village wants to become rich, it must have its own industry, and Wali Village, which is rich in arable land and water resources, is still suitable for developing agriculture.
After the establishment of the cooperative, Liu Xiangdong began to transfer land, build pig farms, build greenhouses, and hire villagers from the village to work, turning farmers into industrial workers.
Liu Xiangdong, who has rich management experience, understands that if you want to do a good job, you must work together and work together. When the first batch of strawberry greenhouses in the village was just built, there was a strong wind one night, in order to prevent the greenhouses from being overturned, a young man from the same village who followed him carried a roll of non-woven fabric to build the greenhouse, and was almost blown down by the wind. Seeing this, Liu Xiangdong immediately climbed into the greenhouse to help, and then more than 100 villagers also came out to help, they were busy from 10 o'clock in the morning to 4 o'clock in the afternoon, and kept four strawberry greenhouses, so that there would be the later "Yuquanwa".
This incident made him deeply aware of the power of working together. So how can we maintain this unity? Liu Xiangdong believes that only by increasing the income of the villagers and allowing them to make money all the time can they firmly "tie" the hearts of the villagers.
He increased the income of the villagers to 5 items: the guaranteed income is 3 per year60,000; The performance appraisal is divided between the collective and the farmers; All villagers under the age of 60 pay social security; Set up a seniority award of 100 yuan per month; Year-end dividends. According to this mechanism, an ordinary family in the village can earn more than 100,000 yuan a year, which is more than simply farming and going out to work.
Based on the shortage of funds in the village at that time, most of the money he used to develop agriculture was paid by himself, and he lost 2.76 million yuan in three years, and it was not until 2015 that he began to make a profit. "I can lose money, but farmers can't, I have to let them see hope so that they can keep going." ”
If an industry wants to make great progress, it must cater to the times and find the right direction, and Liu Xiangdong is the one who finds the direction.
In the era when agricultural cooperatives were established, how can the products of Wali Village stand out? Liu Xiangdong thinks that if you want to do something, you must do a good job, and the first choice for good things in the agricultural industry is organic food.
Liu Xiangdong named his brand "Yuquanwa", "Jade refers to organic vegetables, spring is an essential water source for agriculture, and Wa refers to Wali Village." Liu Xiangdong explained.
To grow organic vegetables, you can't use chemical fertilizers and pesticides, how to solve the problem of nutrients and pests? Liu Xiangdong thought of earthworms, and plants like earthworm droppings, so they raised earthworms underground and loosened the soil through earthworms. Insect trap lamps were also invented, which were captured by physical means according to the physiological habits of insects. Currently, they have 46 certified organic varieties.
Liu Xiangdong believes that if you want to make great progress in traditional agriculture, you must promote the digitalization and intelligence of the agricultural industry. To this end, they actively connected with more than 70 experts from universities and colleges across the country, and set up their own research laboratories and research teams.
They have independently developed the planting bed technology, so that vegetables grow on the "bed", using ground source heat pumps, planting substrates, enzyme fermentation and other technologies and a series of automatic control systems to provide a constant temperature growth environment for the planting bed, to achieve three-dimensional planting, ecological cycle, intelligent and accurate, high yield and high efficiency. At present, the intelligent planting bed technology has been successfully exported to Harbin, Wuxi, Jinggangshan and other places, and has achieved initial results.
The core of modern agriculture is digitalization and intelligence, which is also the main direction of "Yuquanwa" in the new year.
The premise of a good life for the villagers is that the village collective is rich, and if the village collective wants to become rich, it must have an industry that can develop in the long run. Liu Xiangdong believes that this is a very good model that can be promoted to the outside world if it is done well.