How did a farmer who once took the lead in petitioning become the leader of getting rich today? How can a remote mountain village attract more than 200 young and middle-aged people to return to their hometowns for employment? How could a party branch that could not be called to a meeting, and some party members extended their hands to ask for subsidies for lost work and to arrange meals during party day activities, how could it become today's "provincial rural revitalization model party organization"? In the hot summer, it takes about 40 minutes to drive from Lichuan County, Jiangxi to Pibian Village, Xunkou Town, which is located at the junction of Jiangxi and Fujian and at the foot of the Wuyi Mountains. At a glance, from near to far, there are rice fields, melon fields, bamboo forests, and the industrial layout is clear and orderly. The village party secretary Pan Aiping told Banyuetan reporters that the per capita income of poverty alleviation households in the village has increased from less than 2,300 yuan in 2013 to 18,000 yuan in 2021.
Only 6 years ago, there were frequent visits here, gambling was rampant, the environment was dirty and chaotic, and young and middle-aged people in the village went out to work... How did the changes in Pibian Village happen? With doubts, reporter Banyuetan walked into Pibian Village.
Aerial photo of Pibian Village Photo by Qiu Jialong The village is surrounded by mountains on three sides, and the rolling hills wrap it tightly, which once made the life of the people living here very difficult.
Fu Lu, Secretary of the Party Committee of Xunkou Town, recalled the scene of his first visit to Pibian Village a few years ago: During dog days, there was no fan in the meeting room of the village, and even the window paper was tattered. There are more than 2,300 people in the village, and more than 1,000 people are migrant workers at the peak.
Due to the lack of income, many villagers once liked gambling, and Wei Xiaoqiu was one of them. Once, Wei Xiaoqiu's family killed a pig, and he wanted to take it to the market and sell it. But thinking about selling pork all morning, at most a few hundred dollars after the cost, it is better to make money playing mahjong. As a result, he directly disposed of the pork at a low price and went to the mahjong table...
The poorer the bet, the poorer the bet. , so that some villagers were trapped in loan sharks and could not extricate themselves. "Besides gambling, it's just making trouble." Wei Xiaoqiu said with a smile that he petitioned more than a dozen times a year. Relying on his high school education and his flexible mind, he often gave other people ideas and wrote petition materials, but he didn't do anything serious. .
In his opinion, in the final analysis, it's all about the word "poor".
The difficulty of the industry
Change is not easy. In 2015, the village-based poverty alleviation team of the Jiangxi Provincial Political Consultative Conference came to Pibian Village. "We all know that the industry is the top priority. But there is no ready-made answer about what industry to develop and how to develop it." said Chen Chunqing, the former first secretary of the Jiangxi Provincial Political Consultative Conference in the village.
In Huaqiao Township, Guangze County, Fujian Province, 40 kilometers away from Pibian Village, the cultivation of passion fruit has been a great success. A mountain is separated by two heavens. Villager Huang Wenhu invested 400,000 yuan to try to plant 50 acres. He never thought about it, but because of the low-temperature freezing damage in the mountainous microclimate of Pibian Village, it caused a lot of losses. The successive failures of
have made many cadres and people afraid. In order to find suitable industries, from the surrounding villages and towns to other cities and provinces, from kiwi fruit and rouge pomelo to torreya and grapes, the work team did not stop to explore, and made comparisons and repeated investigations. "Either the sales are not smooth, or the reproducibility is not strong, and the benefits are slow." Chen Chunqing said, until "gualou" entered everyone's field of vision.
"Melon" is a perennial plant . The peel and rhizome are the raw materials of the traditional Chinese medicine " Trichosanthes ". The fried melon seeds are sweet and crisp.
At that time, Jiangxi Loufeng Agricultural Technology Development Co., Ltd., which had just transformed from an advertising company to agriculture, saw the market demand of the melon industry and was interested in finding a planting base. After the staff learned about this demand, they immediately communicated with the company.
In order to find out the real situation and learn from the previous lessons, the work team invited more than 10 officials from the county agriculture and rural bureau, the person in charge of the town party committee, village officials and villagers with planting intentions to go to Zhangshu City, Jiangxi Province three times., Qianshan County, Anhui Province and other places to investigate market conditions. After repeated comparisons, at the end of 2018, Pibian Village decided to introduce the melon planting project.
But the problem comes again. The cost of planting melon is mainly concentrated in the first year, and nearly 5,000 yuan is required to be invested per mu of land. The high investment in the early stage has caused many villagers to make difficulties. Who will plant? Who dares to plant?
The Road to Breakthrough
Some villagers said: "As long as the village cadres dare to plant, I will dare to plant."
"For the villagers, the only thing they can get is the land, and the key is where does the money come from?" Chen Chunqing said. The
team visited and negotiated many parties, and finally reached a cooperation intention with Jiangxi Loufeng Agricultural Science and Technology Development Co., Ltd., which will invest in Pibian Village and build a Gualou demonstration base. However, Loufeng Company, which is far away from Nanchang , also has doubts. "We are not familiar with the place, and when we first came to the village, we were worried that the people would not buy it." said Dai Yunfeng, marketing director of Loufeng Company.
In order to introduce Loufeng Company, village cadres set their sights on transferring land. However, a land transfer a few years ago has left many villagers fresh in their memory. Pan Aiping said that at that time, a lobster breeding project was introduced into the village. The project leader negotiated directly with the villagers and transferred dozens of acres of land. Later, due to the sharp drop in the market price of lobster, the person in charge ran away, and there was no money for reclamation of the excavated land. Grass grows taller than people.
In order to dispel the concerns of the villagers, the village collective acted as a "middleman".
Chen Chunqing said that in the spring of 2019, the village collectively set up a Gualou cooperative, mobilized 90 villagers to transfer the idle land, and then the cooperatives collectively packaged and signed contracts with Gualou enterprises. In this way, both farmers and enterprises have a sense of security. At the same time, the enterprise paid a deposit of 100,000 yuan to the cooperative, and provided a profit of 10,000 yuan each year as a rural construction fund, giving the villagers a "reassuring pill".
It took less than one month to complete the transfer of 800 mu of land, which made Loufeng firm firm in its investment intention. Invested more than 6 million yuan to implement the integrated transformation of water and fertilizer, and introduced drones for pesticide spraying... For the first time, the villagers of Pibian Village experienced the scientific and technological style of modern agricultural production. Wei Xiaoqiu, who once took the lead in petitioning
, is now hired as the "planting director" of Loufeng Company, with a monthly salary of 5,000 yuan. Driven by the company, he also planted 100 mu of melon, and earned 180,000 yuan last year. "This year is a high-yielding season, and the income is even more impressive." Looking at the fruit-rich Gualou base, Wei Xiaoqiu's joy is beyond words.
The development of the melon industry has made the people of Pibian Village taste the sweetness. Since then, new industries such as Chinese herbal medicine , Shanxiangyuan , and straw mushrooms have developed one after another. The people of Pibian Village have more and more pockets, and the collective income of the village has increased from 50,000 yuan in tax rebates only on flue-cured tobacco in the past to 50 yuan now. million.
Chen Chunqing said that in retrospect, the villagers' lack of trust in social capital and inaccurate grasp of market conditions are important reasons for restricting land circulation, and give full play to the role of village collective economic organizations in the signing of land circulation contracts and project coordination. , which can not only effectively safeguard the interests of the villagers, but also help to ensure the stability of the circulation relationship. The key to rural revitalization is people.
Pibian Village villagers learn about medical insurance related matters at the village convenience service station Photo by Wang Wuhui The following party members are only 7, and all of them do not live in the village.
's first visit to the party members meeting of the village expenditure department impressed Chen Chunqing deeply: some party members were absent on purpose, and some not only extended their hands to ask for subsidies for lost work, but also asked to arrange meals. "Does the party constitution still have such requirements and regulations?" Chen Chunqing said.
In response to the weak and lax grass-roots party organization in Pibian Village, the village work team decided to focus on party building. The second party member meeting of the Expenditure Department, Chen Chunqing wants toAsk all party members to wear party badges, review the oath of party membership on the spot, and learn the regulations of the party constitution.
cultivate and develop young party members, improve and improve various rules and regulations, and implement " three meetings and one lesson", party members' political birthdays, organizational life meetings ... The real approach has touched many party members. The key to making the party branch truly "stand up" is the sincere devotion of party members and cadres.
Chen Wuliang, a member of the village work team, is a cadre transferred from the army. He did not stay in the office for a day, so he took the initiative to ask Ying to be stationed in Pibian Village to help the poor. During the military training, Chen Wuliang suffered a comminuted fracture of his right leg, and two steel plates were hit. He did not go to the hospital to take out the plates until his mission in the village was over.
The village party secretary Pan Aiping belongs to a small family in Pibian. There is only one family named Pan in the village. It was difficult to carry out work. One year on New Year's Eve, some villagers ran to his house to make trouble and smashed the windows because they didn't understand, but he patiently explained the whole process and finally got understanding. In his opinion, the fact that individual villagers do not understand it just shows that some of the work of the branch has not been done well.
Build domestic sewage treatment ponds, and create small scenic spots such as "one river and two banks" and "Xunkou Waterfall"... One by one, people's livelihood projects and popular projects are being implemented in full swing. Party members and cadres took the lead to promote the integration of the life of the party organization with the work of industrial development, environmental improvement, and rural construction, which greatly changed the environment of Pibian Village.
Pan Aiping said that this year's "May 1" holiday received nearly 3,000 tourists, and the vehicles in the city were crowded. "I didn't expect that our small village in the deep mountains can also eat 'tourist meals'."
Pibian villager Li Wencai has a dilapidated bungalow in the village, which is located at the foot of the mountain not far from the "Xunkou Waterfall", which is inconvenient to travel. . A few years ago, the couple bought a commercial house in the county seat. After the attraction became popular, Li Wencai and his wife moved back to the old house and resumed their old business of raising bees and selling honey.
Inadvertently, Pibian Village has attracted more than 200 people to return home. "The village is getting better every year," said Huang Ximang, a 62-year-old party member. In recent years, the Party branch of Pibian Village has been rated as an excellent grass-roots party organization in the province, city and county, and the cohesion and centripetal force of the Party branch have been greatly enhanced.
Canyon outdoor adventures, landscape dams, outdoor wedding photography bases... With the help of the work team, Pibian Village has been released one by one. A brand-new development picture has given new hope to the people here.
Source: "Ban Yue Tan" 2022 Issue 17
Ban Yue Tan Reporter: Yu Xianhong | Editor: Li Li
