Stepping on the sewing machine, handmade apricot tea...... In Zhungerqi, more and more left-behind women in rural areas, with traditional skills and broad employment opportunities, have fulfilled their employment dreams at their doorsteps, realized their self-worth, and bloomed with a different kind of brilliance.
A few days ago, the reporter walked into the "Xingfu Tea" production room in Fulu Village, Shaqi Town, several women are skillfully making apricot tea, through grinding almonds, processing accessories, proportioning, screening fine powder and other processes, a box of beautifully packaged apricot tea will be made in their hands.
Several women are skillfully packing the prepared apricot tea. He Run/photo
These women are all villagers of Fulu Village, who not only achieved employment and increased income at their doorstep, but also realized the value of life with the traditional skills of apricot tea inherited at the same time, and at the same time entrusted their strong feelings of mountain apricots.
Duan Xiuying is the oldest of them, 71 years old this year. She told reporters her story with Apricot Tea. Duan Xiuying is a native of Fulu Village, Fulu Village is full of apricots, Duan Xiuying grew up eating apricots. In her memory, the old man would grind mountain almonds into powder in the winter and put them in a bowl to freeze them to make a bowl-shaped apricot powder tea. In the cold winter, a bowl of hot apricot tea with fried rice is the happiest thing at that time.
What Duan Xiuying didn't expect was that one day, the apricot powder tea from her childhood would be on the hall of elegance, and she could still become a meritorious person to be put to use. In 2021, relying on the local 10,000 mu apricot forest base, Fulu Village established Inner Mongolia Liangfengyuan Agriculture and Animal Husbandry Co., Ltd., which is committed to inheriting the ancient apricot tea making process. Duan Xiuying was one of the first people to develop apricot tea, and as the chairman of the village women's federation, she led seven or eight women in the village to volunteer to participate in the development of apricot tea. "We have been exploring for three or four months in terms of taste and delicacy before we succeeded, basically continuing the traditional practice, but the production process is more convenient. Duan Xiuying said with a smile.
"Xingfu Tea" product display. He Run/photo
Duan Jinhua, secretary of the Party branch of Fulu Village, introduced that in January 2022, Fulu Village apricot tea was officially launched, named "Xingfu Tea", which means that through Fulu Village's own apricot tea, the villagers will be led to live a happy life. In the same year, the company invested 200,000 yuan to introduce advanced equipment such as automatic sifting machine and filter sieve to further improve the production process and taste of Xingfu tea, and developed six products such as marzipan and sesame almonds. As a traditional enterprise, "Xingfu Tea" is loved by the locals, and orders continue to rise. In order to enhance the popularity of apricot tea, during the holidays, they actively arranged exhibitions and sales. Today, apricot tea products have radiated to Fugu County, Shaanxi Province, Wuhai, Hohshi, Baotou and other places in Inner Mongolia. In 2023, the income of the apricot tea industry will be more than 300,000 yuan.
The considerable development situation of the apricot tea industry has made Duan Xiuying and the women's team in the village full of enthusiasm.
Liu Min, a post-80s villager in Fulu Village, said: "I am in charge of packaging here, which is our local industry, and I am very proud that I am here not only to make a living at home, but also to earn more than 10,000 yuan a year, I am very satisfied." ”
Zhao Na, a member of the post-80s party in Fulu Village, has now developed into the person in charge of Xingfu tea production, she regards Xingfu tea as her own business to operate with heart, Zhao Na said: "Apricot tea is deduced through the traditional production process, with the effect of beauty and beauty, clearing the stomach and lungs, etc., in the future, we will drive the women of the whole village, and some disabled people, to start a business together, to make our apricot tea industry bigger and stronger, and lead the villagers to live a good life." ”
Coincidentally, in the Jubang woven bag processing workshop in Changshengdian Village, Shaqidu Town, several women sat in front of the sewing machine, skillfully stepping on the sewing machine, and they were making woven bags.
Several weavers are making woven bags. He Run/photo
Gao Bo, secretary of the Party branch of Changshengdian Village, said that in recent years, while developing rural industries, the village has actively fought for some jobs at the doorstep, so that villagers can be satisfied with employment at their doorstep. In 2021, after many negotiations and inspections, the co-construction unit of Changshengdian Village, the Zhungeer Banner Public Security Bureau, the co-construction enterprise Inner Mongolia Longwei Chemical Technology Co., Ltd. and Changshengdian Village established the Jubang Woven Bag Processing Factory, and more than 30 women in the village achieved doorstep employment with their skilled sewing skills. The project operates in the mode of "village party branch + enterprise + cooperative + farmer", with an operating income of 200,000 yuan in 2023. "In the next step, we will continue to introduce equipment to further expand the scale and attract more young women who have gone out to return to the village for development. Gao Bo said.
Hao Meiling, a weaving woman, said: "I can use a sewing machine, I built a weaving factory at the door of my home, I come here to work with one stone, I can make 40 woven bags a day, I can earn more than 160 yuan a day, and I can earn more than 3,000 yuan a month without delaying cooking, farming, and raising sheep, which is used to subsidize the family, and realize the ability to earn money and take care of the family." ”
Hao Meiling, a weaving woman in Changshengdian Village. He Run/photo
In recent years, Zhunger Banner has actively created a good employment environment, fully implemented the rural revitalization strategy, cultivated local characteristic industries, paid special attention to guiding rural left-behind women to work and start businesses, helped low-income women increase their income, and stimulated the endogenous power of women to increase their income and get rich, so that groups of women who love the countryside, understand the countryside, and are willing to build a new countryside can shine in specific positions, so that they can contribute to rural revitalization while realizing their self-worth.