In Kang County in southeastern Gansu Province, every year into the wax moon, people who have been busy for a year will put down other farm work and concentrate on preparing for the New Year. Killing New Year's pigs, marinating bacon, roasting two-brain-shell wine, hanging noodles, and the taste of bidding farewell to the old and welcoming the new year gradually spread in the countryside.
Kang County in winter (photo by Li Kejun)
In recent years, Kang County has accelerated the construction of a new agricultural management system, and regarded leading agricultural enterprises and farmers' cooperatives as an important force to lead agricultural transformation and upgrading and ensure the stable increase of farmers' income. By guiding and supporting the main body of business and the majority of farmers through industrial linkage, nearby work, shareholding dividends, land transfer, social services and other ways to establish a mechanism for linking the interests of farmers with farmers and rich peasants, while strengthening the collective economy, driving farmers to increase their income and get rich, so industrial dividends have become a unique "New Year's flavor" in Kangxian County.
Yangba Town dividend site (photo by Qing Meiyu)
On the second day of the lunar month, Yangba Town, Kang County, saw the righteousness and courage for the square, crowded with people, and a pile of RMB tied with red ribbons on the long table was particularly eye-catching, and the 2023 joint agricultural belt agricultural cooperatives (enterprises) dividend conference in Yangba Town was underway, and 289 households in 12 villages in the town received this "year-end bonus" with excitement. There are 95 farming, processing and sales cooperatives (enterprises) in the town, with a total dividend of 1.4588 million yuan, including 901,800 yuan in labor remuneration, 434,200 yuan in village collective dividends, and 122,800 yuan in resource dividends, which have benefited 916 households in 34 villages in the town.
As the saying goes, after Laba is the New Year. On the 14th day of the lunar month, Zhaoba Village, Chengguan Town, also held a dividend meeting of the shareholders of the village joint-stock economic association, and the villagers reconciled, signed, received money in an orderly manner, and received the collective economic dividend income. The 364 households in the village participated in the dividend fund of 527,540 yuan, and the villagers who got the dividend funds were even more smiling, talking about the benefits brought by the joint-stock economic cooperatives.
At the dividend site in Tongqian Town, the villagers who got the dividends smiled happily (photo by Chen Jia)
On the seventeenth day of the lunar month, Tongqian Town not only distributed 857,400 yuan in dividends to 11 village collectives and 461 rural households, but also commended 5 leading enterprises and outstanding farmer cooperatives, 13 rural public welfare construction pacesetters, 13 rural moral models, and 26 rural rich people, further improved the dividend model, stimulated the endogenous power of mass participation mechanism innovation, and achieved the overall goal of "adding color to party building, increasing rural color, increasing industrial efficiency, and increasing the income of the masses".
At the same time, at the scene of the dividend ceremony in Zhangjiahe Village, Anmen Town, barrels of rapeseed oil, bags of flour, pieces of pork, red lanterns and exquisite couplets convey the joy of the harvest.
When the collective industry grows, the people's lives can be prosperous. Kang County will continue to take advantage of the east wind of rural revitalization, through the revitalization of village collective assets, the efficient implementation of the development and expansion of village-level collective economic projects, the development of various forms of joint stock cooperation, to create more visible and tangible dividend funds, so that the flow of resources, the prosperity of the industry, and the "New Year's flavor" of dividends are more and more intense. (Reporter Niu Xinjian Correspondent Tang Yachun)