The Surging News reporter Zhang Chengjie intern Zhao Menghan
Caotang Village is located in Sankongqiao Township, Huaibin County, Xinyang City, Henan Province, with a total of 767 households and 2396 people, and in 2013, the village had 120 poor households and 438 people.
In June 2019, Cheng Dong, then an account manager at the Xinyang Branch of industrial and commercial bank of China, came to Caotang Village as the first secretary. The mottled and dilapidated tile houses, the villagers who gathered to play cards, and the dirty and harsh living environment were the first impressions left by Caotang Village on Cheng Dong.
On the verge of being ordered, Cheng Dong made up his mind to change Caotang Village.
Under the efforts and drive of Cheng Dong, the village has developed industries such as fishing net weaving and layer breeding, and the villagers have achieved self-sufficiency and truly moved from "poverty alleviation" to "getting rich".
Today, the last remaining 8 households and 22 people in Caotang Village have also achieved poverty alleviation, and the village has a new look, becoming a "model village for poverty alleviation data" in Huaibin County.
With a mission in mind, send yourself to Cao Tang
Cheng Dong, a post-90s generation, is the first secretary of Caotang Village and a native of Shangcheng County, Xinyang City, Henan Province.
In June 2019, when Caotang Village's "poverty alleviation battle" entered the final pass, Cheng Dong took the initiative to ask for help.
What makes Cheng Dong charge forward is the sense of mission and responsibility in his heart. Cheng Dong's grandfather was an old Red Army, and his decades of time sacrificing himself for the party and the people had a great impact on Cheng Dong; the last secretary of poverty alleviation, Shen Hui, insisted on working with illness and died of illness at his post, which also deeply touched Cheng Dong.
Having taken on this heavy responsibility, Cheng Dong knew that he lacked a lot in terms of serving as the first secretary of the village. Many times, he couldn't sleep well all night, thinking that if he couldn't do this thing well, how could he be worthy of the previous vice president who died in this post, and how could he be worthy of every villager in Caotang Village?
Under pressure, before officially joining the company, Cheng Dong spent more than a month collecting poverty alleviation information and familiarizing himself with poverty alleviation policies. He also deliberately found some friends who served as the first secretary of the village, as well as the elderly and experienced first secretary, and "learned from them".
When he arrived in the village, he found that everything was not casual, and some villagers had "resistance" to him. Many villagers believe that what post-90s people can do, young people go down to the grassroots level just to "gild", and they will leave when they are promoted, without bringing real "benefits" to the village.
Cheng Dong did not want to explain, silently found the leader of the villager group, followed them door to door to visit, in the process of re-establishing the village archives, each family Cheng Dong at least two times.
Cheng Dong checks the enjoyment of policies item by item in poor households The pictures in this article are provided by the interviewees
"By understanding the basic situation of each household, I found that the poverty alleviation file system in Caotang Village was very irregular, and the villagers did not know what benefits they should enjoy." In this regard, Cheng Dong explained the poverty alleviation policy to each villager and listened to the suggestions of the villagers; at the same time, he sorted out the materials and formulated the poverty alleviation plan.
Over time, Cheng Dong's cheerful personality and enthusiasm for talking about it infected the villagers, and the villagers were willing to "chat" with him when things happened, and he was gradually trusted and accepted by the villagers.
In the process of fighting the epidemic, the villagers have also brought him a lot of "touch".
Xu Zhengya, an 87-year-old veteran party member, walked from home for nearly half an hour with a flashlight, went to the duty card point and said that he wanted to "be a companion" with Cheng Dong. Wang Jianfang, a 75-year-old special hardship household with an annual per capita income of less than 4,000 yuan, sent 200 yuan to her daughter in the rain when Cheng Dong was on duty, so that everyone could buy something delicious.
Looking back on it so far, Cheng Dongdu is extremely emotional, "She took out two hundred yuan, which is equivalent to others taking out more than twenty thousand yuan, two hundred yuan is too important for her, I am really touched, which shows that they completely accept me." ”
Now, for Cheng Dong, chatting with villagers, talking to family, and listening to villagers tell all kinds of stories is not only a path to integrate into the village, but also a living habit.
"I've always treated the villagers as my neighbors when I was a kid, like relatives. I've never thought of myself as an outsider, and I've never looked at others as outsiders. ”
Due to the conditions of the village, the industry is diversified
When he first arrived in Caotang Village, Cheng Dong told The Paper (www.thepaper.cn) that the situation was unexpected.
30-55-year-old labor force, in the agricultural leisure time scattered throughout the village to play cards, poor households are "waiting to rely on" thinking; there are very few bungalows in the village, more than 80% are tile houses, and many houses have cracks; the villagers' income mainly depends on the cultivation of traditional crops, the annual per capita income is about 8,000 yuan, and the economic situation is not optimistic.
Cheng Dong saw these situations in his eyes and was anxious in his heart. He believes that the main reason for the poverty in Caotang Village is that there is no industry, but how should the industry develop?
By chance, on the way back from the village to his hometown, Cheng Dong paid attention to a party-building alliance in a township in the south that was building fishing nets, which inspired him.
Thinking of the actual situation of many idle laborers and many elderly people in the village, Cheng Dong felt that the fishing net weaving industry had little labor intensity and low skill requirements, which was suitable for development in Caotang Village. "Other villages have successful experience, and it just so happens that our president knows the owner of Huaibintian Lake Net Industry, and the fishing net factory has thus contributed to this."
The matter was preliminarily decided, and Cheng Dong then organized a villagers' meeting of more than sixty people in the village, and won the unanimous support of the villagers. The fishing net weaving factory was in full swing, the younger villagers made textiles, the older ones wiped iron rods and folded fishing nets, and Caotang Village "came alive".
Cheng Dong also paid attention to the problem of layer chicken breeding in the village.
Previously, the villagers of Caotang Village raised some native chickens at home and sold them on the side of the road, which did not have a competitive advantage and formed a situation in which the villagers "fought their own battles". In this regard, Cheng Dong proposed to develop an egg breeding cooperative.
After helping the villagers apply for a small poverty alleviation loan, he decided to "do it in one step" and purchased a set of organic fertilizer equipment with 150,000 yuan. This solves the pollution problem and puts the layer farming cooperative on track.
At present, the "Fengli Layer Chicken Breeding Professional Cooperative" breeds 50,000 to 60,000 layer chickens, and after the e-commerce training organized by the county agricultural bureau in the village, the eggs in the village can already be distributed in the same city. "In fact, there is a lot of demand in the surrounding townships, and most of the time there is no need for online sales, and it can be sold out only offline." Cheng Dong said frankly.
In Cheng Dong's view, the key to poverty alleviation due to the conditions of the village lies in the change of the villagers' thinking. "There are some farmers who don't dare to take risks, they don't dare to create, they're afraid that life will get worse after the investment fails, and if they don't see the benefits in the first year, they will give up."
Based on this situation, Cheng Dong proposed to implement the development model of "party building + industry" in the village to give full play to the leading role of party members and cadres, and through party members to take the lead in establishing some cooperatives with development potential, absorb the employment of villagers and drive the villagers to increase income.
"Because the villagers will only act after watching others succeed in doing it, only if someone takes the lead, others will do it, and party members need to play such an exemplary leading role." Cheng Dong said.
Today, the villagers in the village are doing their best to do what they are good at and like, and they have achieved poverty alleviation.
Cheng Dong listened to the experience of Jia Zenghuai, a rich expert, in the field
Villager Xu Lianguo was originally a village group leader, mainly relying on farming income, with an annual salary income of 2,000 yuan. At present, he has set up a cooperative to comprehensively utilize straw in and around the village, and at the same time carries out rice-fish co-breeding and goose breeding, increasing the annual income by more than 40,000 yuan.
Villager Guo Zhaoying likes to "use her brain" to study planting and breeding methods, and the watermelon she grows is very sweet, often before it is ripe, it is predetermined to be empty. She also farmed more than 100 acres of rice fish and shrimp, and planted lotus flowers next to it, which became a unique scenery in the village and attracted a steady stream of people.
The "leading figure" in the village, Xu Jiankang, was engaged in the pig industry before, but the benefits were not good. Today, through the breeding of layer chickens, ducks, geese, etc., his average annual income has reached 30,000 yuan, and he has not only lifted himself out of poverty, but also led the other two poor households to get rid of poverty and become rich.
Cheng Dong said, "His current situation can be said to be very good, and this year he has further expanded the scale of land, which is the most reassuring one of all the poverty-alleviated households." ”
Not only to get rid of poverty, but also to revitalize
For Cheng Dong, poverty alleviation is only a temporary "checkpoint", and it is the ultimate goal to make the whole village "alive" and full of vitality.
At present, the industrial development of Caotang Village is becoming more and more prosperous, and the co-cultivation of rice, fish, rice and shrimp, layer chicken breeding, special ostrich breeding, fishing net weaving, etc. have put the villagers on the road to poverty alleviation. In addition, 26 dilapidated houses have been renovated, 234 houses have been repaired, and the appearance of Caotang Village has been renewed.
"In Caotang Village, the most fulfilling thing for me is that the whole village looks different. Now the quality of life of the villagers has been greatly improved compared to the original, and at least twenty or thirty families no longer need to go out to work, and can work in the village. ”
However, although the development of the industry has brought increased income to the villagers, the effect is far from what Cheng Dong expected. In the case of fishing net weaving, skilled workers can get two hundred yuan a day, and the elderly can only earn thirty or forty yuan a day.
The outbreak of the epidemic has also delayed the work of many people in the village than in previous years. Based on this, on the one hand, Cheng Dong contacted the fishing net factory, transported two truckloads of fishing nets to the village, and encouraged the "whole family to mobilize" to bring the fishing nets to each household to do it, ensuring the basic income of the villagers; on the other hand, this also made him realize that the village industry is still weak.
To this end, Cheng Dong continued to look for industries suitable for development in the village. At present, he is talking to textile manufacturers, and toy factories are also one of his considerations.
Cheng Dong told the surging news that industrial diversification is still the focus of the future development of Caotang Village, only by exploring more, introducing more, and introducing at least one more enterprise can we more fully realize the development of Caotang Village, give play to the role of Caotang Village in driving the surrounding areas and radiating one side in the future, and can also help villagers in other villages to find employment.
In addition to industry, Cheng Dong has also made some efforts in the cultural life of the villagers. "It turns out that the whole village is lifeless, and the only entertainment activity of the villagers is to play cards, and I think this kind of entertainment is not healthy, and the second is that sitting for a long time is not good for the body."
As a result, he contacted the county's New Bureau of Culture and Guangzhou, and went to Caotang Village to carry out many "literature and art to the countryside" activities. Sometimes, Cheng Dong also works with other village cadres to carry out some selection activities such as "good father-in-law", "good mother-in-law" and "most beautiful garden" in the village, which also plays a certain degree of demonstration.
Cheng Dong worked overtime to sort out the information
During his time as the first secretary of Caotang Village, Cheng Dong felt that the time to meet with his family had become significantly less. Although his home is in the next county, he has not returned once in almost three consecutive months last year. "When the children were only a few months old, I came to help the poor, and now the children are one year and seven months old, and I feel very indebted to my family."
But the support of his family also gave Cheng Dong a lot of motivation, he said, "They feel that my work is very meaningful, and they will think about me first when things happen."
In Cheng Dong's view, there are many people who are better than himself, and he still needs to continue to make progress. Although some progress has been made in poverty alleviation at present, the tasks ahead are still very heavy.
When it comes to future work, Cheng Dong has his own ideas, "Caotang Village should not only achieve poverty alleviation, but also revitalize. The village should continue to develop diversified industries and increase the income of villagers; improve the living environment of villagers and enrich the cultural life of villagers; of course, the most important thing is that the quality of life of villagers should be improved, and Caotang Village should become vibrant and vibrant. ”
Editor-in-Charge: Yuhao Zhong
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