Editor's note: Another Chinese New Year is here. People are looking forward to the renewal of Vientiane and striving for success in the new journey. The footsteps of dreamers never stop, from the city to the countryside, from the coast to the frontier, thousands of people will sprinkle sweat on the earth. They witness the development of the times, enjoy China's opportunities, and are the promoters of China's development.
The most authentic life at the grassroots level. The public network poster news adheres to the "three closeness", strives to "walk and change", organizes editors and reporters to go deep into all parts of the country, walk into the "battlefield" of different industries, walk into the lives of different families, listen attentively, record with a pen, and tell the Chinese story of the new era with affection.
Video loading...
Public Network poster news reporter Wang Yan Cheng Guoyan Yantai reports
The footsteps of the Spring Festival are getting closer and closer, and every household is full of a strong festive atmosphere. For the villagers of Miaojiagou Village, Xiaoji Town, Haiyang City, Shandong Province, this Spring Festival has more joy, and the cooperative led by the party branch has allowed the former small mountain village to develop wormwood planting and deep processing, and the villagers' pockets have bulged and their lives have improved. The aroma of wormwood is full of vigor and vitality for rural revitalization and villagers' prosperity.
Miaojiagou Village, Xiaoji Town, Haiyang City, is a remote mountain village more than 30 kilometers away from Haiyang City, with deep cliffs and steep ditches and lack of water supply, resulting in the backward economy of the village, and going out to work has become the first choice for many young and middle-aged people to earn a living. Leng Shaobo, secretary of the party branch and director of the village committee of Miaojiagou Village, introduced that only more than 40 of the 109 villagers in the village now live in the village, resulting in a large amount of land being idle.
"How to revitalize idle resources and improve the quality of life of villagers?" Leng Shaobo has been thinking about this problem. In 2016, Miaojiagou Village set up a party branch-led cooperative, and after many inspections and repeated arguments, it was decided to develop wormwood planting and deep processing. "The climate and soil of Miaojiagou Village are adapted to the growth of wormwood, the yield rate is high, and the difficulty of planting wormwood is low, which can integrate the abandoned land resources and turn waste into treasure." Leng Shaobo said. In 2019, the people of Miaojiagou Village officially began the cultivation of wormwood in the form of land shareholding, and the village concentrated more than 200 acres of contiguous land, which was cultivated by the cooperative and planted with small leaf wormwood.
With raw material reserves, it is also necessary to extend the industrial chain and improve the added value of products. At the same time as the cultivation of wormwood, Leng Shaobo began to build a 500 square meter Chinese herbal medicine processing and storage workshop, introduced advanced wormwood processing equipment, and deep processed wormwood. After the preliminary preparation and preparation, in 2021, the deep processing of wormwood led by the party branch of Miaojiagou Village was officially put into production, and the products involved many varieties of mugwort, mugwort, foot bath bags and so on.
Walking into the processing workshop located at the mouth of the village, you can smell the rich aroma of wormwood in the distance, and there are a large number of wormwood to be processed in the workshop, and the wormwood fleece machine is roaring. After the process of fleece, rolling, cutting, packaging and so on, the moxa strip and the mugwort column are formed. It is worth mentioning that in order to do the quality of fine products, Leng Shaobo immersed himself in research, gave full play to the advantages of family medical practice, solved the problem that the addition of Chinese herbs in moxa cannot be burned synchronously, and applied for patent certification. "Process chinese herbal medicine into slag, study its ignition point, and let it burn synchronously with moxa, so as to extend the use time and better increase the medicinal properties." Leng Shaobo introduced that their products always pursue quality first, using the most sophisticated wormwood to extract the purest moxa velvet and make the best products.
Once the local wormwood products were listed, they attracted the attention of everyone and were favored by consumers. In order to let more people know about the local wormwood products of "native products", Leng Shaobo opened a product experience store in Haiyang City, and the popularity of products is gradually rising. The process of getting bigger and bigger in the wormwood processing industry in Miaojiagou Village is also the process of increasing the income of the villagers and getting rich. According to Leng Shaobo, in the past two years, the cooperative has purchased villager Ai Ye to increase the villagers' income by nearly 500,000 yuan, and will spend about 100,000 yuan per year on hiring workers, and as the industry gradually gets on the right track, the villagers will also get more dividends.
"Bring Nanshan Ai, quietly study Fu Kang moxibustion, dispel damp pain for the people, and make a medicine for the people." This is a poem improvised by Leng Shaobo. "Now that the production of wormwood products is on the right track, it is urgent to broaden sales channels, and customers across the country who have needs can contact us." Leng Shaobo said that his New Year's wish is to concentrate on making good products, building a brand, making Miaojiagou Village, a small mountain village, "alive" and making the villagers rich.