The mountain does not only build the soil, so it can become its height; The sea does not avoid trickling, so it can become big. There has never been a myth of one step to the sky in this world, and some are just accumulated over time. As long as the direction is clear enough and the belief is firm enough, you will get closer and closer to your dream.
This is the true portrayal of Zhai Guosong, secretary of the Party branch and village director of Nanwangzhuang Village, Xindian Town, Yexian County, Henan.
Nanwangzhuang Village is surrounded by three mountains, at the junction of Wugang, Fangcheng and Yexian, the traffic is extremely inconvenient, and there is no industry. There are a total of 288 households in the village, 175 of which are poor households, which belong to the provincial deep poverty villages. In 1989, 23-year-old Zhai Guosong was forced by life to leave his hometown to dig coal in a coal mine in Shanxi like other young people in the village. Later, he contracted a coal mine and dug the first pot of gold in his life. Zhai Guosong, who was not satisfied with the status quo, started the catering industry and the construction industry. Because he is good at management, understands management, and operates with integrity, his career is booming and prosperous. He has become a well-known entrepreneur.
In 2014, after Zhai Guosong returned to his hometown again, he saw that the village was still in the dilemma of "being covered in soil on a sunny day, mud on a rainy day, a river with eight bends, and walking out of the village for half a day". To Xindian Town, 7 kilometers away, the villagers had to go around and around for half a day. Due to the rough road, his car could not return to the village. Due to the difficulty of traveling, girls from other villages are reluctant to marry in, and Nanwangzhuang Village has become a famous "singles village".
Zhai Guosong saw it in his eyes and was anxious in his heart. He secretly vowed that he must change the face of poverty in his hometown and let the villagers live a prosperous life. At that time, Zhai Guosong's family lived in Linfen, Shanxi, and the family was happy and harmonious. After learning of Zhai Guosong's thoughts, his family tried their best to dissuade them. After many ideological struggles, in April 2015, Zhai Guosong finally persuaded his family to give up a comfortable city life and resolutely return to Nanwangzhuang Village alone.
Faced with the plight of being poor and white in the village and the arrears of more than 60,000 yuan, Zhai Guosong fell into deep thought.
In order for the village to develop, it is first necessary to improve the infrastructure construction. The former office of the two village committees, in a small courtyard with only five bungalows, had no water or electricity. Due to disrepair, the house often leaks wind and rain. The courtyard was overgrown with weeds and barren, and the weeds grew higher than the courtyard wall. In order to change the dilapidated appearance, Zhai Guosong took out 110,000 yuan to carry out a comprehensive renovation of the offices of the two village committees. Houses have been repaired and renovated, computers, air conditioners, desks and chairs have been purchased, and the offices of the two village committees have been renovated. In 2016, he also sought project funds to build a new mass activity center for party members and the first cultural square in the village, thus strengthening the relationship between cadres and the masses, and greatly improving the work efficiency of the village committee for the masses.
If you want to get rich, build roads first. Nanwangzhuang is a mountainous village, with a population of 1,186 people, scattered within 15 square kilometers, under the jurisdiction of Nanwangzhuang, Guanzhuang, Ligang, Yangshugou, Lianhuaan, Chenjiagang, Gaoxiangou 7 natural villages, and a number of ditches and rivers are separated, it is much more difficult to build roads than Pingyuan Village. Especially in the face of a group of poor villagers, money is still an obstacle. Zhai Guosong firmly grasped the opportunity of the national targeted poverty alleviation policy, led the cadres of the two village committees, and actively fought for the superior project, first hardened the 5,390-meter-long main road in the village, and then hardened the 5,333-meter-long paijian road, and erected three bridges on the main road one after another, so that the natural villages could be connected to each other; In 2021, Highway No. 1 passed through the village, completely solving the long-standing difficulty of villagers traveling for generations, and buses also reached the village.
What's more worth mentioning is that Zhai Guosong and the cadres of the village committee, under extremely difficult conditions, finally built 11 barrages on the nameless river surrounding the village, ending the history of flooding the village during the flood season. Under the active leadership of Zhai Guosong, the two committees of the village have thought in one place and worked hard in one place, and through unremitting efforts, they have successively completed the transformation of the rural network and the safe drinking water project, solved the problem of safe electricity use, and the villagers have access to tap water ......
After the infrastructure was improved, Zhai Guosong led everyone to continue to carry out the renovation of the living environment: the roads from Lianhua'an to Chenjiagou and Dalianggou were widened and all green trees were planted; The 5-meter-wide gravel road from Chenjiagang to the booster station was newly repaired; At the same time as widening the road into the village of Gaoxiangou, a cultural square was built.
In recent years, with the increasing development of science and technology, photovoltaic power generation has become imperative. It also brings unlimited business opportunities and hope for the villagers of Nanwangzhuang who live in the mountainous areas. In order to develop and expand the positive economy, Zhai Guosong worked hard. In 2016, Zhai Guosong seized the favorable opportunity of poverty alleviation, took advantage of the unique geographical advantage of many barren mountains in the village, took the initiative to connect with the county development and investment group, talked about advantages and development, and finally settled the photovoltaic power generation project in Nanwangzhuang Village, making an annual profit of 60,000 yuan.
Subsequently, under Zhai Guosong's multi-faceted campaign, the collective economy of Nanwangzhuang Village continued to grow and develop, and village-run enterprises sprung up like mushrooms after a rain.
In 2017, a standardized factory building was built in the village, with an annual income of 60,000 yuan;
In 2018, a 10,000-head pig farm was built in the village, with an annual income of 600,000 yuan;
In 2019, a sweet potato deep processing production line with an investment of 8 million yuan was also completed and put into operation, making vermicelli and hot and sour noodles, which increased the added value of sweet potatoes by more than 3 times. The products sell well in Henan, Sichuan, Shanxi, Shenzhen and other places. Annual income of 400,000 yuan;
In 2021, a folk custom that can accommodate nearly 50 people was built in the village, with an annual income of 100,000 yuan.
Since then, the village collective economy in Nanwangzhuang Village has blossomed in full swing, and these projects can bring millions of income to the village collective.
At the same time, Zhai Guosong also relied on the favorable conditions of the southern mountainous tourist route passing through Nanwangzhuang Village to vigorously develop rural tourism. At present, with an investment of more than 10 million yuan, the Chu Great Wall National Cultural Park - Lianhuaan Post Station has settled in Nanwangzhuang Village.
Today, under the leadership of Zhai Guosong, after 9 years of hard work, Nanwangzhuang Village has completed a gorgeous turn and realized the butterfly change from poverty to wealth: the village is full of potholes, a river and eight bends of the sheep intestine road has become a flat county-level road, and the collective economy has jumped from 0 to the current more than one million yuan.
In the past, it was a famous provincial-level poor village, but it has become a star village in the county. In 2023, the village party branch will be rated as a five-star party branch by the Organization Department of the Henan Provincial Party Committee; In the same year, Nanwangzhuang Village was rated as a characteristic tourist village in Henan Province by the Henan Provincial Department of Culture, Radio, Television and Tourism. It was rated as a health village in Henan Province by the Henan Provincial Patriotic Sports Committee. Zhai Guosong has also won the honorary titles of "Advanced Individual in Poverty Alleviation" in Henan Province and Model Worker in Pingdingshan City.
Starlight doesn't ask passers-by, time pays off. To do simple things to the extreme, it is not simple; When you do the mundane to the extreme, you can achieve the extraordinary. You just have to work hard, and time will give you the answers you want.