Dunren Village has a nursery covering more than 70 acres, with lush flowers and trees, and people often work in it, but for more than 5 years, the village collective has not paid a single penny.
"The work is done by the village cadres." Li Furong, a 70-year-old villager, said.
The official name of this nursery in Dunren Village, Xihe Town, Zichuan District, Zibo City is Zibo Huifu Seedling Co., Ltd., which was established in 2011. At that time, the seedling market was very good, and Dunren Village just got 300,000 yuan of poverty alleviation funds from the superiors, and the village took out 400,000 yuan to run this seedling company. Wang Dejun, general secretary of the village party branch, introduced.
Village cadres hoe grass in the nursery.
When the company first started operations, more than 10 people were employed to work, and they were paid 50 yuan per person per day.
Dunren Village is a mountainous village, although the village collective is not rich, but like many mountain villages at that time, it can "rely on the mountains to eat the mountains", and the village collectives still have a certain income by mining mines. However, by 2016, in order to protect the ecological environment, the mines were shut down, and the income of the village collective was sharply reduced.
The operation of the nursery has become a big problem. Hire people, unable to pay wages; if you don't hire, do you look at the barren grass?
Wang Dejun said to the village cadres: "There are still many places in the village to use money, and the matter of the nursery is still a few of us to support it first." ”
This support is more than 5 years.
In the past five years, the village cadres of Dunren Village have finished handling the affairs of the village and have to go to the nursery to participate in voluntary labor.
At the beginning, everyone was full of confidence, so they didn't just take care of a few flowers and grasses, but after a while, they found that planting seedlings was a university question, and it was not the same thing as planting flowers at home and planting crops in the field. Worship the teacher, turn the books, while groping while practicing, a few years later, the 5 "laymen" were forced to become experts, and the nursery was also managed in a similar way.
The vast majority of the seedlings used for village remediation come from nurseries.
Nowadays, in Dunren Village, the villagers have figured out a law that to find village cadres, they either go to the office of the "two committees" of the village or go to the nursery. Wang Hengqing, a 66-year-old member of the village's "two committees," is also like a young cadre who works in a nursery when he has time.
At present, however, village cadres have encountered new problems - the sale of seedlings has become a big problem.
"Now the market is too poor, when such a large begonia can sell for 50 yuan, now 20 yuan no one wants." The magnolia that used to cost 100 yuan can now only be sold for 50 yuan. Looking at the seedlings in front of him, Wang Dejun shook his head. He said that there is another reason why seedlings are difficult to sell, that is, the nursery area is not big, and it is not small. "In terms of our area, we can pick up small projects, but people don't give cash, there are risks; we can't undertake big projects, it's very uncomfortable." Wang Dejun said.
"Although the nursery did not earn money, it saved the village money." Wang Hengqing said that in the past two years, the village has carried out environmental remediation, and the green seedlings in the village come from the nursery, and the village does not have to pay for it. He also said, "There are always more ways than difficulties, and the sales problems will certainly be solved by 5 of us." According to reports, 5 village cadres can save the village collective more than 80,000 yuan in employment costs a year.
Wang Dejun said that at first, only 5 village cadres worked in the nursery, and slowly party members and party activists came, and later, ordinary villagers also came.
"Just the day before yesterday, October 27, more than 40 people from the whole village came to work for two days, hoeing grass, loosening soil, smearing flower buds, not a penny, everyone worked feverishly." Wang Dejun said.
Feng Yanbin, a suspended cadre, happened to report on that day. "At that time, I thought that the people who worked were people who paid for it, but later I learned that everyone was volunteer labor. This kind of cadre-group relationship makes me more confident about my next step in dunren village. On October 29, he also went to the nursery to participate in volunteer labor.
Mass Newspaper, Rural Mass Reporter Guo Jie Correspondent Yan Shengting Lu Hyatt