Li Changgeng: When I was a village party secretary, I thought about the career of several generations

Xinhua News Agency, Shijiazhuang, 5 October Title: Li Changgeng: When a village party secretary thinks about the cause of several generations

Xinhua News Agency reporter Bai Mingshan

From "clanging in poverty" to digging coal mines to achieve small wealth, from "putting seals on coal mines" to "Kang Bide cures colds, and the combination of Chinese and Western medicine has good curative effects", the phrase has spread from north and south, from barren mountains and bald mountains to wild mountains, riding on the east wind of reform and opening up, Luanqiao Village in Shahe City, Hebei Province, has changed from a poor ravine that "spends money on relief, and eats grain by selling back" into a well-known rich village.

Behind this has to mention a person - Li Changgeng, secretary of the village party branch. After 42 years of joining the party and serving as a branch secretary for 41 years, Li Changgeng has been doing today, thinking about tomorrow, doing contemporary affairs, thinking about future generations, step by step, leading the villagers to achieve earth-shaking changes in Luanqi Village.

Luanqiao Village is located in the hilly area of Taihang, with thin mountains and nine droughts in ten years. In 1977, Li Changgeng, who was less than 19 years old, was the secretary of the party branch of Luanqi Village, and in the face of the mess, he secretly resolved, "Since he became the branch secretary, he must do something." ”

In 1978, Li Changgeng led the whole village to fight a bitter winter and spring, build water conservancy, dig mountains and canals, and turn more than 3,500 acres of dry land into paddy fields, which solved the problem of food and clothing for the masses that year. After the victory in the first battle, the masses had smiling faces and also built up the prestige of party members and party branches.

The villagers had food to eat, but they had no money to spend, and the village collective was even poorer. In 1979, using the advantages of underground resources, the first village-run coal mine in the county was built, and then 5 more were built, with an annual output of 200,000 tons. Resources are limited, what to do when the coal mine resources are exhausted? Li Changgeng proposed to "dig out the underground cornucopia and plant a cash cow on the ground." In 1985, collective enterprises such as food factories, breeding farms, mineral processing plants, and mechanism brick factories were successively built, and soon became a famous wealthy village in Xingtai and even the province.

In 1989, Li Changgeng decided to start a pharmaceutical factory, and many people did not understand. Some say that "mud legs run a pharmaceutical factory, unless the chicken feathers can go to heaven"; some say "just a little money will be blindly tossed, it is really a loser". In the face of these cold words, Li Changgeng asked experts to demonstrate and do market research. They design and develop new products, "Kang Bide cures colds, the combination of Chinese and Western medicine has a good effect" for a while, which was familiar for a while, and now has developed from product name to product brand, and then to a health business brand.

Today, Luanqiao Village has realized the integration of village and enterprise, with total assets of nearly 3 billion yuan. At present, the villagers are not only farmers, but also workers, but also shareholders of the enterprise, and have received dividends of 510 million yuan from the enterprise, with an average household value of more than 600,000 yuan, and the collective assets have also increased by more than ten times.

The villagers became rich, and Luan changed. But how to continue the good momentum of development, so that children and grandchildren can live a good life? In the 1990s, Li Changgeng formulated the road of building ecological luan unloading and taking green development. In order to improve the ecological environment, he led the masses to start from the treatment of barren mountains, invested 12 million yuan to return farmland to forests, greened barren mountains, planted ginkgo trees, and built the largest ginkgo garden in North China.

After more than 20 years of continuous planting, the once barren mountains and bald ridges are now lined with green trees, and more than 1 million ginkgo trees are scattered all over the mountains. At that time, a small sapling of 2 yuan has now become a landscape tree, a tree worth at least 500 yuan, with a total value of more than 500 million yuan, becoming a green bank that "cannot be moved" in Luanqiao Village. 10,000 mu of ginkgo biloba not only greens the barren mountains and increases the income of villagers, but also provides raw materials for pharmaceutical factories and reduces the cost of enterprises.

Strolling through Luanqi Village is like a mid-painting tour. The entourage raises the drone to the operating screen. Li Changgeng said: "You see, the border of Luanqi Village is easy to find, and the green place is our village." ”