"Post-80s" Wang Qian is the chairman of the Qingdao Caocun Strawberry Professional Cooperative, it is difficult to imagine that this girl who is so professional in the cultivation of agricultural products, once a graduate of a medical university, gave up the opportunity to study abroad and practice medicine, and worked in Wangjiacao Village, Xiazhuang Street, Chengyang District, her hometown for 12 years. Driven by Wang Qian, the cooperative has become a local leading cooperative, achieving an output value of more than 70 million yuan in 2020.
<b>The female inherited her father's business and abandoned the doctor to take on the burden from the peasants</b>
Wang Qian's original dream was to become a doctor. After graduating from university in 2009, Wang Qian was given a chance to study and work in Singapore at school. But misfortune always came unexpectedly, and my father was diagnosed with advanced stomach cancer.
Wang Qian's father, Wang Zhede, is an old party member and a planter in the village. As the founder of the Caocun Strawberry Professional Cooperative, Wang Qian's father was promoting the cultivation of detoxified strawberry seedlings at that time. After each chemotherapy, my father immediately returned to the greenhouse to see the seedlings, completed the gallbladder removal surgery, and then moved into the movable board room in the shed.
In December of that year, his father died, the top pillar of the family collapsed, his mother fell ill, his brother was still young, and the strawberry cooperative that his father pushed for was also facing dissolution. As the eldest child in the family, Wang Qian shouldered the responsibility of the top pillar of the family, thinking that her father had paid more than ten years of painstaking efforts in Caocun strawberries, she decided to give up the path of studying medicine that she loved, give up the opportunity to study abroad, and inherit her father's strawberry career.
As persistent as her father, Wang Qian put all her energy on strawberry planting, got up at five o'clock every day, just began to lack understanding of agricultural knowledge, she went to read a lot of books to learn, in order to expand the base area, Wang Qian thought hard to find a bank loan, and even persuaded her mother to use the family house as collateral to establish a new variety test base of more than 80 acres, and Wang Qian also began to become the leader of the cooperative.
<b>Organize individual farmers and lead members to get rid of poverty and become rich</b>
Wang Qian used her professional and technical expertise in the planting of strawberries, tomatoes, cucumbers and other characteristic agricultural products and network sales channels to invite local farmers to organize the scattered farmers in the surrounding areas in the form of land shareholding, and to be managed by the cooperative in a unified way to help solve the things that a single farmer could not do in the transformation of traditional agriculture to modern agriculture, provide services in terms of technology, information, and funds, and solve their problems such as irregular production technology, narrow sales coverage, and difficult sales channels.
In the process of strawberry planting, some members of the family with poor economic conditions have the intention of building a solar greenhouse, but they are difficult to get rid of poverty in one or two years, so she takes out her own money to build a solar greenhouse, and then leases it to those members at a very low cost price, so that they can get rid of poverty and become rich in one or two years.
At present, the net income of cooperative members has increased from 20,000-30,000 yuan per mu at the beginning to about 80,000 yuan now. Under her efforts, the scale of the cooperative has been expanding, from the original 50 acres of land to more than 1500 acres now, with members covering Chengyang, Pingdu, Laixi, Jimo, Jiaozhou and Dezhou, becoming a beautiful business card for modern agricultural planting in Qingdao.
<b>Transformed into leisure agriculture and planted strawberries abroad</b>
As the development of the cooperative gradually entered the right track, Wang Qian did not stop, with the momentum and innovation of young people, she explored a new development direction - leisure and tourism agriculture.
The cooperative began to hold strawberry picking festivals, grape picking festivals, parent-child activities, bonfire evenings, cooling evenings and other activities, attracting tourists to come to tourism and picking, and driving the integration and development of the first, second and third industries. In 2018, the cooperative's agricultural product picking service project won the honorary title of "Shandong Famous Brand Service".
Wang Qian also took the "Belt and Road" train to bring strawberry seedlings and planting technology to Uzbekistan, a member of the SCO.
In May 2018, Wang Qian established the "Jinlu Agricultural Industrial Park" in Tashkent, copying the "pastoral complex" of Chengyangban to Uzbekistan, and can also grow strawberries in winter, and the ripening period has been extended from 20 days to 6 months.
On the road of agriculture, Wang Qian still has to go further. She hopes to devote herself to the development of modern agriculture with new ideas, strengthen and expand the "pastoral complex", drive more farmers and young people to play a role in increasing agricultural efficiency and increasing farmers' income, and contribute to rural revitalization.
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