Qiu Chengtong's hometown of Guangdong Jiaoling's "sweet cause"

China News Service Meizhou December 4 Title: Yau Chengtong's hometown of Guangdong Jiaoling "Sweet Cause"

Author Cai Minjie

"In 2018, I went to Meizhou Jiaoling for the first time, and now it is the second time, and I feel that The Banana Ridge is getting better and better, and the mountains and rivers are beautiful." Qiu Chengtong, a famous mathematician and foreign academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, recently returned to his hometown of Jialing County, Meizhou City, Guangdong Province, and said at the Calabi-Qiu (Meizhou Jiaoling) Mathematical Conference held in the county that from the remote countryside to the beautiful countryside, he felt the rapid changes in Jiaoling.

Qiu Chengtong's hometown is known as the "World Longevity Township", and the average life expectancy of residents in the county is 78.6 years. At the same time, Jiaoling is also a famous hometown of Taiwan compatriots, with about 600,000 Taiwan compatriots whose ancestral home is Jiaoling. It is the cross-strait exchange base of Guangdong Province.

Meizhou, which is surrounded by mountains, used to have inconvenient transportation, poor information, and underdeveloped economy. Today, with the continuous improvement of the transportation network and the rapid development of the Internet, Meizhou has undergone tremendous changes, and Jiaoling County is no exception.

The reporter recently set off from Jiaoling County and drove through a winding mountain road of about 1 hour to reach the home of Zhang Liansheng, a poor household in Dongling Village, Sanzhen Town. Next to his house, more than 150 beehives are strung along the hill.

"Before I became a beekeeper, I didn't have enough income to even eat." Zhang Liansheng, 57, said that in order to care for sick children, he had to help others do odd jobs and raise a small number of bees. All along, because of its remote location, Dongling Village cannot sell good honey at a good price, and the couple's monthly income is only 1,000 yuan (RMB, the same below).

"Then the government asked me what I liked to do, and I said it was okay to keep bees, and they helped me buy bee seeds and hives." Zhang Liansheng said that the number of bees he breeds has expanded to more than 150 boxes, mainly selling bee seeds and honey, "Today, my annual income is 40,000 to 50,000 yuan, in addition to the children's medical expenses, there is still a surplus, and life has been greatly improved." Zhang Liansheng said that as he grew older, he planted fruit trees and raised bees at home to accompany his family with peace of mind.

Farmers in Jiaoling County have a long history of beekeeping and are a traditional industry. The local area is known as the "hometown of Chinese bees". The county is rich in honey powder source plants such as mountain ash, duck foot wood, wild osmanthus flowers, citrus, etc., and the development of beekeeping has advantages, and honey has become a local agricultural product. After "Guiling Honey" became a national geographical indication protection product in 2016, the "sweet" benefits became more and more obvious through branding.

In recent years, Dongling Village has taken advantage of the traditional advantages of bee farming to mobilize local people and poor households to develop characteristic beekeeping. Adopt the model of professional cooperatives and e-commerce platforms, guide beekeepers and poor households to scientifically raise bees, develop bee products, and overcome the sales problems caused by remote terrain and inconvenient transportation, and help beekeepers sell high-quality honey in the mountains to all parts of the country at their doorstep. Today, the annual output of honey in the village is 45,000 kilograms, and each household can increase its income by 3,000 yuan to 5,000 yuan per year.

"In the past, Dongling Village was very backward, garbage was everywhere, and residents' income was relatively small." Wu Shixing, secretary of the party branch of Dongling Village, said that in addition to the development of the traditional honey industry, Dongling Village has also introduced edible mushrooms, shiitake mushrooms and Ganoderma lucidum planting, and began to tap cultural resources to operate the cultural tourism industry. ”

In Tiexi Village, Sanzhen Town, through the construction of beekeeping demonstration areas, the development of experiential tourism projects, the sale of bee products, etc., to promote the development of the bee industry in the direction of scale and branding.

Huang Xinhu, deputy secretary of the party committee of Sanzhen Town, said in an interview that the next step will be to gather the superior resources of Dongling, Taitang, Tiexi and other villages, connect into pieces to create a bee industry development demonstration area and a tourism experience area, and create a "bottle of honey" brand in Jiaoling. (End)

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