Liuzhou, China News Agency, November 20 Title: Guangxi's resettlement site for returned overseas Chinese has become a "village of 100 million yuan" and a "sweet cause" that allows returned overseas Chinese to have both caravans and cars
Author Lin Xin
In the overseas Chinese farm in Liucheng, Liuzhou City, Guangxi Province in winter, the oranges spread over the mountains are bent on the branches of fruit trees, and the workers shuttle between the mountains to sort, forming a picture of a bumper harvest. The most important resettlement site for returned overseas Chinese in Guangxi has changed from a barren mountain range to a "village of 100 million yuan", and returned overseas Chinese have lived a life of car and house through the development of "sweet causes".
On November 18, at the Overseas Chinese Farm in Liucheng, Liuzhou City, Guangxi Province, Huang Rixi, a returned overseas Chinese from Vietnam, picked and cut oranges in a fruit forest. The most important resettlement site for returned overseas Chinese in Guangxi has changed from a barren mountain range to a "village of 100 million yuan", and returned overseas Chinese have lived a life of car and house through the development of "sweet causes". Photo by Lin Xin, China News Service
In 1978, Huang Rixi followed his parents back to China from Vietnam and witnessed the changes of overseas Chinese farms. At the age of 7, Huang Rixi's parents returned from Vietnam with six children and came to the most important resettlement site for returned overseas Chinese in Guangxi. Huang Rixi recalled in a recent interview: "At that time, the overseas Chinese farm had not yet planted oranges, and it was all barren mountains in the distance, so we lived in a house built up in a simple shed, with ventilation on all sides. ”
In order to resettle a large number of Vietnamese and Indonesian returned overseas Chinese, overseas Chinese farms led thousands of returned overseas Chinese to start trying to develop a "sweet cause" and introduce Nanfeng orange varieties for planting. When Huang Rixi came home from school when he was a child, he would help his parents take care of the fruit trees. He remembers: "In 1984, there were returned overseas Chinese in our village who became 10,000 yuan households by planting fruits, and at that time, people outside envied us. ”
After Huang Rixi became an adult, he naturally chose to continue to develop his "sweet career". In 2002, Huaqiao Farm was restructured. Originally, the orange industry relied on farm operation investment, and later the farm transferred the fruit trees to the returned overseas Chinese, so that the fruit farmers were responsible for their own profits and losses. Huang Rixi said: "If you don't help the public to work, the enthusiasm of returned overseas Chinese is higher." ”
Optimistic about the prospects of the orange industry, Huang Rixi asked his friend to borrow money to increase investment. "I want to rent more land and expand the area planted with fruit trees." At present, Huang Rixi has planted a total of 27 acres of oranges, with an annual output value of 200,000 yuan (RMB, the same below). Relying on the income of the fruit land, he bought a large house and a small car.
After many variety upgrades, the "Liucheng Mandarin Orange" planted by Overseas Chinese Farms has become a protected product of China's geographical indications. Since November, the overseas Chinese farm orange acquisition point has been bustling, and a truckload of oranges has been transported from Tanaka to various places, and even exported to Southeast Asia, Russia and other countries. "Every year, 40% of the oranges are exported overseas, about 30,000 tons." Huang Rixi said.
"Liucheng Honey Orange" brings prosperity not only to Huang Rixi's life. Vietnamese returnee Yang Yayang began to study the cultivation of fine fruits in 2007, and now plants more than 20 mu of oranges, with an annual income of more than 100,000 yuan. Relying on oranges, it also built buildings and bought private cars.
According to Zhai Zhensheng, director of the Agricultural Service Center of Liucheng Overseas Chinese Farm Management Area, "At present, the Management Area of Liucheng Overseas Chinese Farm is planted with about 12,000 mu of honey oranges, and there are about 950 growers, of which nearly 60% are returned overseas Chinese. This year, the farm's orange production is close to 30,000 tons, and the output value is close to 100 million yuan. "A few days ago, Liucheng Overseas Chinese Farm was identified as a 100 million yuan village with Chinese rural characteristic industries in 2021.
"Life is getting better and better, you have a house and a car and you can live with your parents and siblings." Huang Rixi is satisfied with the present day. During the New Year's Festival, overseas Chinese farms also hold a returned overseas Chinese food festival and a Spring Festival gala to enrich the cultural life of returned overseas Chinese and overseas Chinese dependents.
Guangxi is the province with the largest area of overseas Chinese agriculture and forestry farms in China, and from the 1950s to the 1970s, 22 overseas Chinese farms were set up successively, and a total of 180,000 returned overseas Chinese from more than 10 countries such as Indonesia, Vietnam and Thailand were resettled. (End)
Source: China News Network