Recently, in Baiqiang Village, Zhengcun Town, Xin'an County, a busy scene in the production workshop of a food processing industrial park, technicians carefully debug the machine, and workers transport bamboo in an orderly manner to prepare for the resumption of work after the year. Heng Zhe, a 43-year-old retired soldier, is one of the founders of the industrial park. In 2015, he retired and returned to work in Luoyang. After working for a few years, he found that there are many high-quality agricultural products in Luoning, Songxian and other places, which are not well marketed due to the lack of deep processing and packaging.
Taking bamboo as an example, he has investigated many times and found that bamboo resources in Luoning, Songxian and other places are abundant, but there are few other business channels except as landscape trees. After comparison, Hengzhe found that the bamboo produced in the southeast coastal area of China has a fishy smell, and the southwest and other places have a large moisture and astringent bamboo because of humidity, while the freshwater bamboo in Luoyang tastes sweet, which is very suitable for making bamboo tube zongzi.
After this discovery, I thought: can we build a deep processing production line and register a local brand to open a channel for the agricultural products of my hometown to 'go global'? In December 2021, he and several like-minded comrades-in-arms established Luoyang Hongbing Food Co., Ltd. to produce bamboo dumplings, fresh corn and other special agricultural products. When the company recruits employees, Hengzhe insists on recruiting retired soldiers, local people in need, parents of left-behind children and other groups.
Many of the workers in the workshop are 'mothers' from nearby villages and towns, who are hardworking and capable, and come here to work after sending their children to school. Being able to work at the 'doorstep' means that you don't have to go out to work. Hengzhe said that at present, the company has driven 300 to 500 people to work in surrounding villages and towns, with an average annual income of 30,000 yuan per person, and also driven more than 2,000 people to work in affiliated planting cooperatives. Not only that, he also partnered the company with the Xin'an County Disabled Persons' Federation and the Xin'an County School for the Deaf and Dumb to provide jobs for many disabled people.
Hello everyone, this is my hometown - beautiful Xin'an, behind me is the ...... of 10,000 acres of fresh corn base"Open Hengzhe's WeChat account, and the ** promotion of hometown agricultural products records his entrepreneurial road. In order to allow the special agricultural products of his hometown to quickly "go out", Hengzhe has also introduced the e-commerce model into the industrial park to broaden the sales channels of products through live streaming and other methods.
Retirement does not fade, and action practices the original intention. Hengzhe said that although he has taken off his military uniform for many years, he still has to practice the responsibility of a retired soldier and contribute to the development of his hometown with practical actions.
Luo Daily Financial Media Intern Reporter Li Xiaonan Correspondent Liu Huanhuan.