Shangluo News Network News: "Life is like tea, like tea, dedicate all your essence, which also reflects the value of your life, and the taste of life will be sweet and mellow." Recently, in an interview with reporters, Wang Chao, general manager of Qinyuan Spring Tea Industry Company in Shangnan County, made such an exclamation.
Wang Chao, a national agricultural labor model, 2018 "China Tea Industry Person of the Year", 2020 Shaanxi Province Poverty Alleviation Award winner, Shangluo City honest and trustworthy model, more than 20 years, he silently worked hard in the mountains, more than 8,300 days and nights, he is committed to doing one thing - tea making, under his drive, a barren hillside has become 10,000 acres of tea mountain, and tens of thousands of people have also embarked on the road of tea planting because of him.
Associated with tea
After the Qingming Festival, in the Maquan Mountain White Tea Base in Xianma Town, Shangnan County, tea farmers are seizing the last picking period of the year and putting pieces of fresh and tender bud tips into the tea basket. Groups of tourists stroll through the tea mountain, breathing the fresh air of the tea fragrance, and the whole tea garden is full of vitality.
When he met Wang Chao, he was talking with the staff of Shangnan Tea Service Center about the "three promotions and three extensions" of the tea industry.
Wang Chao began to drink tea since he was a child, and under the encouragement of Zhang Shuzhen, a pioneer of "southern tea moving northward", Wang Chao began to rent land in Zhangjiagang Village in 2001 to grow tea, and he took advantage of his professional agricultural economic management to introduce and plant 25 acres of clone tea seedlings. After several years of cultivation, when the harvest was about to be harvested, two sudden floods washed away the tea plantation, and there was not much tea left, and the tea garden was full of devastation. "At that time, I felt like I had lost my child, I was at a loss, and it was difficult to walk." However, Wang Chao was not discouraged, and later, after gradual investigation and study, experimental exploration, the tea planting site was selected in the core area of Shangnan County to plant tea - Trial Horse Town.
After years of development, Qinyuan Spring Tea Co., Ltd. has created and developed a 10,000-acre tea production base in Shangnan County, with a maximum of 2,000 people picking tea in the tea garden every day at its peak.
Warm-hearted help to farmers
In the early stage of the construction of the tea plantation, in order to make the poor people rich and have a long-term and stable source of income, Wang Chao followed the principle of giving priority to poor households, giving priority to arranging poor households to work in the base, and arranging light work such as weeding, watering, and fertilizing for the elderly, infirm or disabled; For migrant workers who have children from families who need to be picked up and dropped off from school, the working hours are flexibly determined. Conduct a thorough survey of the poor households without the ability to work in the villages adjacent to the base, and explore the implementation of the poverty alleviation model of allotment and dividends, so as to increase the average annual income of households by more than 800 yuan. Enable poor households to participate in the construction of tea gardens to the greatest extent and enjoy the greatest economic benefits.
Therefore, Qinyuan Spring Tea Industry Company was rated as "Top Ten Leading Enterprises in Poverty Alleviation in Shangnan County" and "Advanced Enterprise in Poverty Alleviation of the Year". Wang Chao has won the titles of "Outstanding Private Entrepreneur in Shangluo City", "Top Ten People Who Moved Shangluo" and "Leader of Poverty Alleviation and Prosperity in Shaanxi Province" for many times, and was selected into the 7th Shaanxi Provincial Moral Model Candidate Announcement List in May 2022.
"I just came to the tea garden this year to start picking tea, and I sent my children to school and then to the tea mountain every day, and I didn't delay picking up my children from school in the afternoon, and I also earned money at the door of my home. Although I am a newcomer and do not earn as much as the old tea farmers every day, practice makes perfect, and I will become a qualified tea farmer. Referring to the chairman Wang Chao, the tea farmer Sister Yu told reporters that Wang Chao has no shelf, unlike other big bosses, and usually smiles at them, thanking him for providing employment opportunities at home.
"Second Revolution"
Zhang Shuzhen, as the founder of Shangnan tea, from the 60s to the early 70s, carried out an attempt to move the southern tea northward in Shangnan, moving tea cultivation from south to north by more than 300 kilometers, making Shangnan the northernmost tea area in western China, and Wang Chao opened the "second revolution" of Shangnan tea planting.
There are many types of tea, including green, black, oolong, white, yellow, and dark teas, each with its own unique taste and aroma. In the process of leading the company to develop tea, Wang Chao not only vigorously promoted the construction of clones and gardens, but also continued to develop new categories such as black tea and yellow tea on the basis of green tea and white tea, promoted new technologies, and improved the quality of tea and tea gardens.
"Traditional green tea has high requirements for 'shape', so some tea leaves with less beautiful shapes can only be treated as inferior products, but in fact, there is no difference in taste." Wang Chao was very heartbroken about this matter. After inspecting a large number of markets, Wang Chao decided to improve the utilization rate of tea and make a good black tea, "Black tea does not have high requirements for 'shape', and we can develop and improve the high requirements of the process!" After preparing to improve black tea, Wang Chao spent 800,000 yuan to invite professional black tea technology research and development personnel from Taiwan. Kung Fu has never been a good person, and with the efforts of professional and technical personnel, a new black tea has been developed - "Yuehong". "Yuehong" improves the shortcomings of traditional black tea that are easy to rot and rancid, and is amber, with "bright color", "fragrant" and "sweet".
While improving product quality, Wang Chao is also actively investigating and learning the deep processing of tea, he is preparing to establish a tea processing factory, preparing to develop a series of tea peripheral products such as tea food, tea toothpaste, tea cosmetics, etc., and developing the integration of tea tourism.
"You regard the product as a character, the commitment as a life, adhere to the way of integrity, and embark on the road of entrepreneurship in characteristic industries with the spirit of self-improvement. You have created a brand with integrity, repaid the society with gratitude, and composed a warm and moist life movement. This is the award speech given by the Shaanxi Provincial Leading Group for Poverty Alleviation in commending Wang Chao for winning the "2020 Shaanxi Provincial Poverty Alleviation Award", which shows Wang Chao's dedication in the development of the tea industry.
"For the government's 'three promotions and three extensions', our company has improved the management level and is ready, in the past we have strictly abided by the tea picking standards and implementation standards in the tea production process, and do not play herbicides and pesticides, so that the tea is safe and organic, and the internal nutrition is rich, which is our 'capital' and 'capital'. In the future, it is also planned to set up a tea industry development center with functions such as collection, research and technical training, so that one center can serve all and contribute to the high-quality development of Shangnan tea. For the future planning of the enterprise, Wang Chao said with interest. (Reporter: Liu Tao, Zhang Mingyue)