Xie Lianghong, a worker at a chicken farm in Xieba Township, Zheng'an County, Zunyi City, Guizhou Province, has a rising income
Zheng'an County, located in the northeast of Zunyi, was once a national key county for poverty alleviation and development and one of the 16 deeply impoverished counties in Guizhou Province. Here, the cadres of Shanghai Aid Qian made use of the resource endowments of "eight mountains, one water, one field" and "golden land under the forest in the mountains" to sing well the "production out", "transport out", "sell out" and "three out" plays, developed the characteristic industry of "good mountains and good water to raise good chickens", successfully transformed the local ecological advantages into economic advantages, and made the forest chickens become the "golden phoenix" in Zunyi's agricultural products.
The development and growth of the forest chicken industry stems from the effective combination of the resource endowment of the ecological beauty of Zunyi's green water and green mountains with the market demand of Shanghai's consumption upgrading.
As evening approached, the sun gradually converged on its dazzling light and fell from the sky, and the afterglow soaked the scattered white clouds into a colorful sunset. On the banks of the Furong River, the woods of Jintangping are particularly dazzling against the glow of red fire and orange maple leaves.
In the brilliant light and shadow, flocks of flowered autumn native chickens or pine needles step on the feet, climb up the steep laterite slopes to enjoy the "delicious" insects found along the way, or jump up and climb up the branches of the 2 to 3 meters high to stand in a row, leisurely admiring the surrounding scenery.
Xie Lianghong, a farmer in Dongliju, Xieba Township, Zheng'an County, Zunyi City, who has been living here for a long time, also sits quietly in the distance, and the free-range breeding period of native chickens is also a rare time for him to relax.
Huaqiu native chicken is a unique breed of Qianbei certified by the National Geographical Indication, small in size, growing in the original ecological mountain forest of Zunyi, Guizhou at an altitude of about 1000 meters, the environment is pristine and natural, the mountains and rivers are beautiful, and it is far from pollution. In addition, since childhood, he has been playing in the branches, foraging in the forest, feeding a variety of foods, long activity time, wide range, chicken plump and elastic, whether it is white cut or soup, the meat taste is delicious and mellow. However, the lack of industrial development has gradually degraded this endemic species, and just two years ago, the recorded number of Huaqiu native chickens was only the last 1,000 birds left in the breeding center, which was in jeopardy.
Unheated chicken seedlings.
The arrival of Shanghai Aid Qian cadres has changed everything, through the development of the forest chicken industry, not only to achieve the "native chicken" into a "phoenix", so that the flower autumn native chicken has become a highly competitive breed in the market, but also for Xie Lianghong's life to bring earth-shaking changes.
In August 2018, Li Guowen, a cadre of Shanghai Aid Qian, was appointed as a member of the Standing Committee of the Zheng'an County CPC Committee and deputy county governor. At that time, Zheng'an County was the only deeply impoverished county in Zunyi, and the rural industrial base was weak.
Like Xie Ba Township, where Xie Lianghong is located, it is surrounded by mountains, and more than 70% of the cultivated land in the township is mountainous, fragmented, coupled with backward infrastructure, the incidence of poverty in Xieba Township once reached 25%. The villagers have not gone through the industrial road, but all the attempts have not lasted.
Xie Lianghong is more than forty years old this year, and she has been unable to get rid of poverty in previous years. "Two children one went to college, one went to college, the cost is large, the burden is heavy, coupled with the age of 40 or 50 years old to go out to work is also difficult to find a suitable job, the family also owes nearly 50,000 yuan of foreign debt." He has planted flue-cured tobacco before, and one acre of land can have more than 3,000 yuan of income, but since 2018, flue-cured tobacco floor knots, can not continue to plant; later raised geese, but the mountain is far away, do not know who can sell to ...
Just when Xie Lianghong was worried about his livelihood, Li Guowen came to Xieba to investigate.
Li Guowen graduated from the Department of Economics of Fudan University, and was previously responsible for the operation and management of science and technology parks in Yangpu District, and was familiar with industrial development and economic work. He believes that Xieba Township is by no means useless, and its unparalleled ecological advantage is its greatest resource endowment - less fields and more woodlands is a bad thing for farming, but from another point of view, this is the environment tailored for the development of under-forest characteristic industries.
Cooperatives are small in size, industries are not large,and there are no stable market channels. Industrial development has not made good use of resource endowments, let alone thought about the conversion of agricultural products to commodities... Reflecting on the various detours taken by Xieba Township before, Li Guowen innovatively adopted the cooperation model of "Shanghai leading enterprise + local cooperative + farmer", introduced Shanghai Shenghua Company to cultivate instead of breeding, and improved the large-scale and scientific breeding ability of farmers; the cooperative organized farmers to breed, and then the enterprise unified slaughtering and deep processing, facing the Shanghai market. Up to now, more than 300,000 understory chickens have been directly supplied to the Shanghai market, driving more than 500 farmers to increase their income and get rid of poverty through fixed dividends, migrant workers and order breeding.
Nowadays, the monthly income of Xie Lianghong and his wife working in the breeding demonstration base has exceeded 10,000 yuan, and they have become the well-known local "chicken breeding mentor". "The foreign debt has been paid off, the rest of the money is in the bank card, and the children no longer have to worry about reading." Xie Lianghong said.