Chengming Village, Fanghua Town, Luliang County, regards industrial revitalization as a breakthrough in rural revitalization work, and goes all out to do a good job in five articles on industrial structure adjustment, including flue-cured tobacco, late autumn artichoke, silage corn, mountain vegetables and commercial peppers, realizing the fundamental transformation of the industry from old to new, development from slow to fast, and income from less to more. In just a few years, Chengming Village has changed from a backward village that has been "chasing ducks" for a long time to the first village in the town's comprehensive assessment, and has successively won many medals such as county-level "civilized village" and provincial-level "sanitary village", and has been rated as "demonstration village of national unity and progress" in Yunnan Province, showing a prosperous scene of rapid economic development, national unity and progress, and social harmony and stability.
After the Qingming Festival, for Chengming Village, which has not rained for a long time, this year's drought is much more serious than in previous years, and the Leekping Reservoir, which is already short of water storage, has dried up to the bottom. Under the scorching sun, Chang Youcai, a villager of the Yi nationality in the Heinigou villager group, who was tidying up the soil and moisture, put down their hoes and had a warm conversation with Fang Dezhong, secretary of the village party branch and director of the village committee, and Li Jinhong, head of the village-based work team, who came to verify the contract area for flue-cured tobacco and chili planting. In the face of the extremely severe drought situation, although everyone is a little anxious, they still maintain an optimistic attitude about the prospects for agricultural production this year.
Late autumn potatoes are harvested.
The branch revolves around the industry and opens up a path of economic development
Located at the foot of Zhuzi Mountain at an altitude of 2,570 meters, Chengming Village is a minority village committee inhabited by Yi and Han ethnic minorities, with jurisdiction over 14 natural villages such as Xiaozhai, Tuqiao and Leek Ping, with a total of 1,292 households and 5,056 people, and 13 party branches with a total of 134 party members.
For a long time, the local people could only rely on planting corn, Dachun artichoke, buckwheat, flue-cured tobacco and other crops to make a living. In order to obtain more profits, more than 1,100 of the more than 2,500 laborers in the village have left the land on which they have depended for generations to survive and embarked on the road of going out to work. Over time, it has led to social problems such as barren farmland, deserted villages, and left-behind elderly and left-behind children. How to embark on the road of rural revitalization with high-quality and efficient agriculture, broad channels for increasing farmers' income, and prosperous development of rural society has become a problem that the general party branch of the village party and the village-based work team must face up to and think about. Through in-depth visits and investigations, we deeply realized that the reason why a large number of laborers went out to work in Chengming Village was ostensibly affected by natural factors such as altitude and climate, but in essence, it was caused by the unreasonable local economic structure. If we re-examine it from the perspective of sustainable development, although the natural conditions of Chengming Village are poor, it has development advantages and potential that cannot be matched elsewhere. On the one hand, the forest coverage rate is as high as 61%, there is no industrial pollution, it has a good ecological environment, and it is most suitable for the development of green pollution-free agriculture; on the other hand, the cultivated land area is large, and the per capita cultivated land reaches 6.8 mu, and the development of cash crops is not restricted by land factors, and the development space is huge.
With the opening of the thinking of the village "two committees", the ideology of the party members and cadres has also undergone significant changes, and everyone realizes that if Chengming Village wants to make a difference in rural revitalization and achieve a leap in "quantity" and "quality", it must find a new road suitable for its own development. In order to forge a path of development full of vigor and vitality, the village-level party organizations, as the "leading geese," must stand up bravely at critical moments, earnestly play the role of the mainstay, combine the party building work with economic work, unify it with rural revitalization, and link it with the increase in income of the masses, resolutely overcome the inertial thinking of "doing things step by step" and the passive practice of "seeing the children and beating the children", turn unfavorable factors into favorable factors, and turn resource advantages into economic advantages, so that they can get out of the predicament of "guarding the green mountains and looking for food". Through repeated comparison and screening, an economic development idea of "consolidating traditional industries, cultivating emerging industries, and strengthening the labor service industry" has finally matured. To consolidate the traditional industry, it is to work hard to improve quality and efficiency, and further improve the pillar industry of flue-cured tobacco. To cultivate emerging industries is to guide the masses to abandon low-yielding and inefficient traditional fodder corn and Dachun artichoke, speed up the pace of popularization of silage corn, mountain vegetables, commercial peppers, and other characteristic industries, and let the masses integrate into the industrial development chain of order-based production, large-scale layout, and market-oriented marketing; and popularize the planting of late-autumn potatoes in accordance with the strategy of staggered sowing and staggered peak sales. Strengthening the labor service industry is to reposition and divide the labor of more than 1,000 people who have been working outside the province for many years, and encourage and guide the villagers to transfer employment nearby, so that the villagers can earn money and take care of the elderly and children at home.
The masses followed the party members to earn tickets to increase their incomes and get rich
In order to change the blueprint for industrial development from "talking on paper" to "real money" that can be seen and touched, the general party branch of Chengming Village started from changing the work style of village cadres and members of the work team stationed in the village, and from giving full play to the vanguard and exemplary role of party members, and devoted itself to the work of industrial structure adjustment, and widely publicized it to the masses by holding villager group meetings and courtyard dam meetings, so as to "plant what", "how to plant" and "how to sell" and other imminent practical problems to explain to the villagers in depth, grasp the initiative in the hands of the general party branch in the hands of the industrial restructuring, and put the choice of industrial restructuring in the hands of the masses. On this basis, the focus is on playing the "three-move chess". The first step is to organize on-site observation activities to change stereotypes through "seeing". Adopting the method of "going out," we have organized party members, cadres, experts in getting rich, and representatives of villagers to take turns on five occasions to go to nearby economically developed places to see what others are doing and think about what they should do, so as to constantly broaden the vision of the masses and boost their confidence in increasing their income and getting rich.
The second step is to set up practical technical training courses to teach the skills of getting rich through "teaching". Adopt the method of "inviting in", and employ county and town agricultural personnel to carry out practical technical training in the villages, arm the minds of the villagers with science and technology, and send the villagers a "golden key" to get rich. At the same time, the person in charge of the leading agricultural enterprise is invited to make an objective analysis and rational judgment on the processing demand of relevant agricultural products and the trend of market consumption, so as to eliminate the ideological concerns of the masses and let the villagers eat "peace of mind". The third step is to cultivate advanced models, plan and purposefully select a group of party members with advanced consciousness, flexible minds, and dare to think and dare to do, and form a demonstration and driving effect through "leading".
Before 2016, due to its location in the cold and cool mountainous area, the people of Chengming Village had always been reluctant to plant late autumn potatoes, and the villagers shook their heads when they mentioned it. In this year, Fang Dezhong, a village cadre, was the first to stand up and "eat crabs" and took the lead in sowing 6 acres of late autumn potatoes. Unexpectedly, because the sowing time was more than a month earlier than other places, effectively avoiding the frost period, coupled with the moderate rain that year, and encountering a good market situation, in addition to various production costs, he made a net profit of 20,000 yuan. Seeing that Fang Dezhong's family made money by sowing late autumn potatoes, the masses followed suit, the planting area is getting more and more year by year, and the benefits are getting better year by year, and the sowing area of late autumn potatoes in the whole village will be expanded to 8,000 mu in 2023, achieving an output value of 25 million yuan.
In 2018, the general party branch of Chengming Village further extended the tentacles of industrial structure adjustment to the planting of mountain vegetables, and purposefully and consciously arranged Zhu Shiguo, secretary of the party branch of the Xiaozhai villager group, and other 3 party members and masses to take the lead in demonstrating, and experimentally planted 10 acres of mountain vegetables in the flue-cured tobacco field after harvest, which was a great success, with an average net income of 2,500 yuan per mu. After seeing the economic benefits of planting mountain vegetables, farmers rushed to plant, and the planting farmers developed to more than 350 households, and the planting area has also increased to more than 4,000 mu now, with an annual output value of more than 6 million yuan.
In 2021, the general party branch of Chengming Village will focus on silage corn for industrial structure adjustment. In order to make the silage corn industry bigger and stronger, the village party branch played the function of "unification" in a timely manner, took the lead in negotiating with New Hope Ranch, and successfully signed a long-term cooperation agreement on the implementation of protective price purchase, which fundamentally solved the problem of "selling". On this basis, mobilize party members and village cadres to take the masses to do and do it to the masses, the speed of silage corn industry has been significantly accelerated, the sowing area of that year has been implemented at once 4,000 mu, in 2022 it will reach 7,000 mu, and in 2023 it will break through 10,000 mu, with an annual output value of 25 million yuan, and the farmers' planting income is very considerable.
In December 2023, Chengming Village struck while the iron was hot, focused on the planting of commercial peppers, and successfully signed a 500-acre pepper planting contract with Qujing Zhiyuan Agricultural Technology Co., Ltd., broadening the road to increase income and get rich for the villagers.
With the market, the industry has built a solid foundation for the masses to increase their income
In just six or seven years, Chengming Village has made new industries such as late autumn potatoes, mountain vegetables, and silage corn prosperous, accelerating the process of economic take-off and accelerating the pace of farmers' income, with the total income of the rural economy soaring from 41.5 million yuan in 2018 to 139 million yuan in 2023, with an average annual growth rate of 234.93%, and the per capita net income of farmers increasing rapidly from 8,321 yuan in 2018 to 27,900 yuan in 2023, with an average annual growth rate of 230.43%.
In order to ensure that the pace of the new industry is more stable and strong, and to avoid the phenomenon of halfway death or big ups and downs, the general party branch and village committee of Chengming Village established the "Luliang County Mingtai Agricultural Development Co., Ltd." in February this year, adopting the operation mode of "general party branch + company + enterprise + base + farmer" to further strengthen the "unification" of grassroots organizations in the process of industrial restructuring The function of fully releasing the vitality and vitality of the implementation of corporatized operation under the conditions of market economy can not only avoid blind decision-making in the process of industrial restructuring, but also prevent and reduce the market risks faced by villagers, and enhance the hematopoietic function of the collective economy. Seeing that the leading bodies of the village's "two committees" and the cadres stationed in the village were busy doing practical things for the people all day long, Yuan Shi, a veteran party member who was over 70 years old, said with emotion: "The general branch blows the trumpet, and the industry has a way; party members open the way and the masses get rich." As long as we sincerely follow the ideas of the general party branch, the road will be wider and wider, the income will be more and more, and the villages will be more and more beautiful. ”
Gu Guiming, Zhang Likun, Chen Yunzhao, text/photo