Hubei Huanggang Bird's Nest Bay Village: Agricultural Products Express Into the City Young People Return to Their Hometowns to "Build Nests"

【Spring Festival grassroots】

Guangming Daily reporter Xia Jing Guangming Daily correspondent Cheng Xiao Liu Shimin

"Luo Tian Chestnut to see how Brother Gu eats!" During the Spring Festival, xu Zhixin, a deputy to the Hubei Provincial People's Congress and the first secretary of Bird's Nest Bay Village, was live-streaming luotian bay village in Luotian County, Hubei Province, promoting Luotian chestnut live. Everyone affectionately called him "Brother Gu".

Bird's Nest Bay Village was once a well-known poor village in Luotian County. In 2010, the village-level debt was nearly one million yuan, the per capita net income was less than a thousand yuan, the fields were barren, almost all the young and middle-aged people went out to work, no one wanted to be village cadres, the town cadres were reluctant to come, and Bird's Nest Bay became a "disgusting bay" (dialect).

In 2011, inspired by the "one faction, two hires" policy of the Huanggang Municipal Party Committee, Xu Zhixin, a former lawyer, gave up his life in the metropolis and, with the dream of revitalizing the countryside, chose to return to his hometown as the first secretary and founded Yan'ergu Ecological Tourism Agriculture Co., Ltd.

"Luotian's best resource is green water and green mountains." Yan'er Valley is built on the mountain, and 6 villages have not demolished a single farm house, and not a single family has been relocated. Rows of street trees are planted along the road through the village, and gardens are built in front of farmers' homes, forming a picture of the village in the scenery and the scenery in the village.

In the process of development, Yan'er Valley has gradually built tourist experience areas such as tea plum garden, plum ridge, fruit and vegetable picking place. The environment is becoming more and more beautiful, and the fame is getting bigger and bigger, attracting tourists from all over the country. According to town cadres, Yan'er Valley has driven more than 140 new market entities in 6 villages in the area, providing more than 3,000 jobs, and the per capita net income in the village has increased by 10 times. Bird's Nest Bay Village has been rated as "National Tourism Poverty Alleviation Pilot Village" and "National Rural Governance Demonstration Village".

In the spring of 2020, due to the impact of the epidemic, there are fewer tourists and it is more difficult for agricultural products to get out of the mountains. Therefore, Xu Zhixin started to help farmers live, and realized the practice of uniting farmers with rich farmers. In June of the same year, the "Express into the Village" cooperation point of Yan'er Valley in Luotian County of SF Express was officially put into operation, which was the first demonstration outlet of the "Express Delivery into the Village" project carried out by Hubei SF, sending the high-quality agricultural products in the Dabie Mountains out of the village and to the tables of the people in the city.

"Every agricultural product in Yan'er Valley has a story, chestnuts are the 'luxury goods' and economic sources of local farmers in childhood, Hong'an Amaranth contains the revolutionary spirit, and Pu Ai carries the culture of Li Shizhen..." Gu Ge's explanation with rich regional characteristics attracted many netizens." Farmers should learn to follow the market, not their feelings. Under his recommendation, Luotian's chestnuts, tianma, poria and other high-quality agricultural products have become hot products in the live broadcast room.

"As long as there is a live broadcast, I have something to do. Packing agricultural products, there is an income of 40,000 or 50,000 yuan a year. Much better than working outside! Luo Qiaoyun, 53, has been to Fujian and Xinjiang in order to live, and is now a packer at Yan'ergu E-commerce Company. In her spare time, she also joined the village's literary and art publicity team and performed the program of picking lotus boats.

"More than 20 years ago, I left my hometown to change myself and make myself rich first. More than 10 years ago, I returned to my hometown to change the small mountain village and make everyone rich. Xu Zhixin used "change" to interpret his original intention.

In the past, the "disgusting bay" of "poor and dirty" has become the "envy bay" that people in the city yearn for. Here, man and nature are in harmony, and the villagers and neighbors live in harmony. More and more young people are like swallows returning from spring, "nesting" to start a new life, the days are getting more and more prosperous, and the mental outlook is renewed.

Guangming Daily ( 2022-02-11 03 edition)

Source: Guangming Network - Guangming Daily