Source: People's Daily - Chinese Communist Party News Network Original draft
Editor's note: Building a moderately prosperous society in an all-round way is not only a majestic symphony of great changes in national development, but also a vivid story of the people's smiling faces. Looking back at the first half of 2021, Xi Jinping, general secretary of the CPC Central Committee, president of the country and chairman of the Central Military Commission, walked into the field workshop during a local inspection and cared for the people. Through a return visit to the characteristic industries inspected by the general secretary, the people's network reporter painted a magnificent picture of people everywhere realizing their dreams of being well-off with hard work and achieving happiness with their hands.
"What varieties do you specialize in here?"
"Southern Jade, Red Earth, and Vink."
"How's the price?"
"The minimum can be sold for 3 pieces, and the good can be sold for 4 pieces."
"How much production capacity per mu?"
"3,000 pounds."
On April 25, Xi Jinping came to Maozhushan Village, Caiwan Town, Quanzhou County, Guilin City, Guangxi Province, and inquired in detail about grape yield, quality, sales channels, and prices. He stressed that to comprehensively promote rural revitalization, it is necessary to base ourselves on characteristic resources, adhere to the principle of rejuvenating agriculture through science and technology, develop new industries and new formats such as rural tourism and leisure agriculture according to local conditions, integrate production and marketing, integrate agricultural culture and tourism, promote the development and growth of rural industries, and let farmers share more of the value-added benefits of the industry.
Once The village of Mozhushan made a living by growing traditional crops, and life was generally difficult, and there were folk songs that recorded "Mosozhu Mountain, mud tile house, life is bitter, pumpkin soup, there are women who do not marry Mosozhu Mountain".
Today, it has become "Mozhu Mountain, grape fragrance, every family lives in a building, common prosperity and well-off".
How does a bunch of grapes trigger a butterfly change of happiness?
"When I married in the village in 2006, when I first came, there were many mud houses in the village, and there were mud roads everywhere." Recalling the previous hard days, villager Luo Lingling still remembers it vividly.
Poor thinks differently. The village discussed the development of the grape industry. "The cost of grape planting is not low, buy film, erect cement poles, erect scaffolding, buy seeds, an acre will be invested in six or seven thousand yuan, management is also required to be fine, in case of failure, the money is not adrift? At first, everyone had concerns. Wang Hairong, president of the Maozhushan Village Grape Association, recalled.
In order to reassure the villagers, with the help of the local government, the party group of Maozhushan Village organized the villagers to go out to investigate the grape industry many times, and several villagers in the village, such as Wang Hairong, Wang Shiqian, Wang Fusheng, etc., tried first and became the first batch of entrepreneurial leaders who successfully introduced high-quality grapes.
In the first year, more than 50 acres were planted, and the next year was a bumper harvest, with an output value of more than 8,000 yuan per mu. Seeing that growing grapes can make money, villagers have taken the initiative to join the ranks of grape growing.
After several years of development, the grape industry in Maozhushan Village has become more and more mature, especially since the Eighteenth National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the village has set up a party and mass council and a grape planting association, implemented the "party group council base farmer" model, established a "experimental field" vineyard unified varieties, unified technology, unified sales model, technicians not only teach by hand, but also adhere to the tracking service.
The industry is prosperous and the villagers are rich. At present, More than 320 mu of grapes are planted in Maozhushan Village, and 46 households in the village have vineyards, more than a dozen mu, and less than two or three mu, with a per capita annual income of 30,000 yuan. In 2020, the annual per capita disposable income of villagers will reach 30,000 yuan.
Wang Hairong introduced the development of the grape industry in Maozhushan Village. People's Daily Shen Quanchi photo
Zheng Jixiang, head of the fruit production technology extension section of the Guilin Agricultural and Rural Comprehensive Development Center, who often teaches fruit farmers planting techniques, told reporters that the villagers have cultivated the quality of the "Nanyu" grapes to be outstanding, the taste is sweet, the fruit aroma is fragrant, and the selling price is higher than other places.
After becoming rich, the villagers of Maozhushan Village unified planning, demolished old houses, built new buildings, and improved public facilities such as water, electricity, roads, and networks.
Nowadays, walking in the village, exquisite and elegant landscape guardrails, uniformly planned houses are scattered, clean and tidy country lanes connect the whole village, and cultural activity rooms, stadiums, and stages are also built, making people feel as if they are in a big garden, and the villagers' well-off days are getting more and more prosperous.
With the development of rural tourism, Mosozhushan Village built a farm. People's Daily Shen Quanchi photo
Through the production and marketing, the integration of agricultural culture and tourism, the village has developed, and more and more tourists have visited.
"Now there are tourists coming to the village every day, this year we have opened 4 farms, and rural tourism has also increased our income." Wang Junrong, secretary of the party branch of nanyi administrative village to which Maozhushan Village belongs, said that the village is only a ten-minute drive from the memorial hall of the Xiangjiang Campaign of the Red Army's Long March, and many tourists will go to Maozhushan Village to play and eat after visiting.
In recent years, Maozhushan Village has deeply practiced the concept of "green water and green mountains are golden mountains and silver mountains", camped forests and afforested 430 acres, developed grape picking experience, agricultural tourism, and promoted the organic integration of village beauty and environmental beauty.
The dream of a beautiful countryside of "seeing the mountains, seeing the water, remembering the homesickness" has become a reality here.
"Good days are all struggles. You have chosen the path of growing grapes, you have been going down this way, and now that you have tasted the sweetness and feel that there is a head, then continue to develop and develop better. ”
The words of the general secretary warmed the hearts of the villagers in Maozhushan Village.
"The general secretary's affirmation shows that the road in our village is right and has gone well!" Wang Hairong said firmly, "Next, we must vigorously develop the rural tourism industry, introduce new varieties of grapes, improve planting technology, build a brand, and strive to double the price of our grapes." ”
"We keep in mind the general secretary's entrustment and encouragement." Wang Junrong said, "We must live up to our mission, continue to work hard, and lead the party members and masses of the whole village to actively explore new models of modern agriculture, make the grape industry bigger and stronger, and build a happier and better homeland." ”
Grapes are planted to make a rich. Today's Maozhushan villagers are struggling to write the moving story of the rural revitalization and long march in the new era. "The grapes will ripen and go on the market in August, and I really hope the general secretary can taste them." Wang Hairong said with a smile.
(Video shot: Yan Lizheng; intern Liu Jiaying also contributed to this article)