Nine years ago, in order to get out of the poor village of Towank McGeti, the Uyghur girl Ruzeguli Hezemu chose to marry into a neighbor with better conditions, but she did not expect that happiness was only 3 years short. After divorcing her husband, she returned to the village with her two-year-old daughter. Ru Zeguli, who had no source of livelihood, could only reach out to her parents for money, and her mother cried and advised her to remarry: "A woman must marry to have a good life."
A serious illness of her daughter Adira cost 2500 yuan, which became the last straw that crushed Ruzeguli. Unwilling to be a housewife anymore, she worked as a waitress at a hot pot restaurant in Aksu City, 100 kilometres away, leaving her daughter in the care of her parents.
In May 2017, Ru Zeguli faced a crossroads in her life choices: going out to work, in front of her daughter, who cried and wept every time she left; staying in the village and not finding a job.
At this time, the Organization Department of the Party Committee of the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region and the Bureau of Veteran Cadres "Petitioning the People's Feelings, Benefiting the People's Livelihood, and Gathering People's Hearts" Task Force have been stationed in the village of TowankMagaiti in Yimu Town, Ush County, Aksu Region, for 3 months. ”
Ru Zeguli returned home for 8 days, and the team members came to the door 8 times, hoping that she would work in the village committee. Ru Zeguli was suspicious and decided to try it.
She did not know how to type on the computer, and the team members taught her by hand; the Mandarin level was low, and the team members assigned her written homework and corrected it. Ru Zeguli, who graduated from junior high school, made rapid progress, and in less than a year, she was qualified for the work of family planning specialist and labor protection assistant.
In addition to the young Ru Zeguli, the task force also enlisted town cadres to serve as secretaries and deputy secretaries of village party branches, recommended young leaders to become leaders of getting rich as deputy directors of science and technology; selected 18 village group leaders, public security group leaders, women committee members, and 37 "ten household chiefs" to set up posts and responsibilities for 13 unemployed party members, and built a strong contingent of village group cadres.
Party member Azez Yasen, who now has a job and a responsibility, humorously said: "I feel like I am like a rusty Canthoman who has opened his blade and can make it strong again." ”
Spacious village committee compound, newly built rich people's safe houses, asphalt roads leading to the doorstep, bright street lights... The village of Towank Maigeti is getting more and more beautiful. Faced with the current situation of the surplus labor force of young people in the village, the task force raised funds to build an employment bazaar, barbecue shops, sewing shops, repair shops, and small supermarkets were opened one after another, poor households became small bosses, and villagers also had good places to go in the night of agricultural leisure.
The village has a lot of arable land per capita, but the soil is saline and alkaline, and the yield of corn and wheat is low. The task force invited agricultural experts to "take the pulse" and found that the forest resources here are rich and suitable for the under-forest economy, and the fastest way to get started is to introduce mushroom sticks and plant edible mushrooms.
Six villagers became the first pilot households to plant black fungus. At that time, no one had ever seen the mushroom stick, and ruzeguli listened to the most discussion: "Isn't the black fungus growing in the sea?" How is it possible to grow it? ”
The task force, village committees and technical experts distribute the cultivated fungus sticks to the farmers, and only need to water, turn the sticks and weed them regularly.
Two months later, the average income of the six villagers reached 8500 yuan. Villagers who were not optimistic in the past came to the arch shed to see the freshness.
The small black fungus became the fulcrum that leveraged the industrial development of Towank Maigeti Village. In 2018, poor households planted black fungus arches, and the annual per capita net income of villagers reached 12,530 yuan, achieving poverty alleviation in the whole village. In 2019, more than 150 villagers began planting black fungus.
One by one, the black fungus industry projects have taken root: the construction of mushroom stick factories, driving the construction of wood crushing plants in the surrounding 5 villages, providing raw materials for the production of fungus sticks; the establishment of technical service teams to carry out management technology training and service guidance for black fungus growers; the establishment of black fungus industry incubation park, the establishment of cooperatives, the registration of the "seven villages of black fungus" brand, approved geographical indications and organic certification, to achieve the chain development of black fungus sticks, planting, acquisition, processing, sales, with an annual output of more than 50 tons of black fungus, Radiation has driven more than 600 villagers in surrounding villages to plant, and the average household income has increased by 4,000 yuan.
At the same time, according to the market demand, from a single black fungus to Ganoderma lucidum, shiitake mushrooms, willow mushrooms, snow lotus mushrooms and other high value-added fungi, to guide villagers to plant.
In December 2019, a new career option was placed in front of Ruze guli, relying on fungus cultivation and experiential picking, Towank Maigeti Village built an ecological garden and homestay, inviting her to be the person in charge.
This made Ru Zeguli surprised and distressed, "After I visited the beautifully decorated homestay in the village, I once again flinched. Such a large ecological garden, such an expensive room, what if something goes wrong? ”
In fact, for the young people in the village, the ecological garden project is more challenging than the cultivation of black fungus, and the service industry such as tourism, catering, and homestays is something they have never been exposed to.
To reassure themselves, the village team planned different career paths for Ruzeguli and other young people in the village. That month, the team invited experts from the hotel and catering service industry of Ush County to towakamageti Village to teach 25 young people in the village for 25 days.
Zoos have also been built in the eco-park, introducing alpacas, peacocks and ostriches, and Ahmadi Carson and Yusupu Abulizi have become animal keepers.
Ru Zeguli did not expect that after the opening of the ecological park in May 2020, the maximum number of people came on a day, and the homestay needed to queue up to stay.
Holding weddings in the ecological park has gradually become a trend chased by young people in nearby townships. The most common scene is when young people dance in a circle around a couple, a group of girlfriends in evening dresses freeze beautiful moments in the flowers, and children play with alpacas and ostriches in the zoo to watch peacocks open the screen.
Ru Zeguli said that in the past 3 years, what was previously in the city and could not be imagined is now realized in the countryside. Her new goal is to raise her daughter well.
She envies the learning environment of her 8-year-old daughter, Adira. In September 2018, with the strong assistance of the Organization Department of the Party Committee of the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region and the Xinjiang Aid Headquarters of Quzhou City, Zhejiang Province, the Towank Maigeti Village Primary School with a total investment of 25.5 million yuan was put into use. This is a rural all-boarding primary school, teaching buildings, student dormitories, canteens, bathrooms, 200-meter circular plastic track, teachers' swing room, boiler room and other basic facilities, but also opened guzheng, paper-cutting, pottery, calligraphy and other interest classes.
"When I was in the fifth grade of elementary school, Towank McGeti Village Primary School was abolished because it was too remote, and I had to walk 45 minutes a day to the neighboring village to go to school." Ruzeguli said.
Coupled with the income of a small clothing store in the village, 27-year-old Ru Zeguli now earns 6,000 yuan a month. She loves to eat hot pot, enjoys the same life as in the city, and when she is idle, she asks her girlfriend to take her children to taste food and visit the beautiful scenery. Her girlfriend Rusanguli Tursun and the young people of the village followed her example.
China Youth Daily, China Youth Network reporter Wang Xueying Correspondent Tian Jinbao Source: China Youth Daily
Source: China Youth Daily