The “key password” of Rural Revitalization is talents. For Zhejiang, which is the first demonstration of common prosperity, it is well aware that the realization of common prosperity is inseparable from talent assistance.
In 2015, Zhejiang took the lead in putting forward the concept of “agricultural maker” and began to cultivate, encourage and guide aspiring young people to “go to the mountains and the countryside” and devote themselves to rural entrepreneurship and innovation; In 2019, the province will implement the “two entry and two return”, actively promote the entry of science and technology and funds into the countryside, and the return of young people and rural sages to the countryside; This year, Zhejiang proposed to cultivate 100000 agricultural makers by 2025, radiate and drive 1 million farmers to increase their income and become rich.
In just a few years, agricultural makers have sprung up in Zhejiang, becoming a “new force” to drive the revitalization of the countryside and stirring up a new beam for the countryside. They bring new ideas, new technologies and new business forms into the countryside, make the ancient countryside a place with a head, make agriculture a industry with a head, and make the mountain fields a place of hope for common prosperity.
new ideas make agriculture more promising
“I was born in the countryside and grew up in the countryside. I have an ideal for agriculture. I hope to make the high-quality Shenzhen Agricultural Products Group Co.Ltd(000061) in my hometown enter the dining table of thousands of families, so that everyone in my hometown can live a good life and achieve common prosperity.” Tang Pingdong, a “post-90s” born in Taishun, Wenzhou, said.
After graduating from college, Tang Pingdong did not stay in big cities like other students, but gave up the high annual salary and responded to the call of college students to return home and start a business. In 2016, he came up with an idea never seen in the village – let the chicken “run”.
“Chicken farming is a very traditional farming, but once I saw my friends brush the exercise steps every day, I wanted to apply this technology to farming. First, it is very bright. Second, we can establish an overall traceability system. We launched the agricultural assistance model of ‘providing chicken seedlings and foot rings free of charge, farmers’ contracted farming, and companies’ repurchase sales’, and established the orientation of’ company + base + farmers’ The fixed-point agricultural innovation will change the ‘cage chicken’ into a ‘running chicken’. ” Tang Pingdong said.
Through its platform, a chicken can be sold for 198 yuan and eggs for 25-35 yuan per kilogram, which can be sold as far as Beijing and Hainan. The “running chicken” project has driven the surrounding farmers to achieve an income of 20000 yuan per capita and up to 100000 yuan. The originally poor small mountain village has become a well-off village. At present, there are nearly 100000 running chickens in the stock of local farm farmers, with an annual income of nearly 8 million yuan, driving the sales of farmhouse entertainment, home stay and other Shenzhen Agricultural Products Group Co.Ltd(000061) products of nearly 3.5 million yuan.
This year, with the support of all parties, Tang Pingdong also joined hands with the three villages to build factories and build an agricultural maker entrepreneurship Park. At present, 20 enterprises and 23 projects have attracted investment, radiating and driving more than 1500 farmers around the province and providing more than 100 jobs.
In Zhejiang, young entrepreneurial groups with ideas and momentum have become the “fresh blood” for the development of “agriculture, rural areas and farmers”. “Leaders and peasant groups are the key to stimulating rural vitality. Every village needs to cultivate its own leaders and a group of farmers’ entrepreneurial groups consistent with the leader’s behavior and ideological and moral character, so that everyone can gather firewood.” Wang Jingxin, executive vice president of Zhejiang “two mountains” Concept Research Institute, said.
Young people like Tang Pingdong are using new ideas to make Zhejiang’s agriculture more prosperous. All parts of the province are also constantly changing new ideas and taking new measures to strengthen the incentive of farmers and entrepreneurs. In terms of building nests and attracting Phoenix, Zhejiang has gathered resources to build 59 modern agricultural industrial parks, 113 strong industrial towns and 80 agricultural whole industry chains with a total output value of more than 1 billion yuan, attract high-end talents to stay for entrepreneurship and innovation, and attract all kinds of business talents to return home and start businesses. For example, Pinghu, Zhejiang Province established the first agricultural economic development zone in the province, and has signed 19 new agricultural projects, with a total investment of 2.16 billion yuan. In terms of overall fiscal and financial policy support, in 2020 alone, Zhejiang provincial finance has allocated 1.52 billion yuan to directly support agricultural and rural talents.
“Zhejiang’s farmers are very active and play the role of revitalizing the countryside in all areas. As a new generation with the growth of the Internet, they are innovative and strong in thinking, and are fully committed to integrating the new thinking of” Internet plus “into agricultural production and rural management, and they can flexibly apply new ideas and new ways to the agricultural field. Wang Tonglin, party secretary and director of Zhejiang agriculture and rural affairs department, said in an interview with chinanews.com.
new technology makes farmers a new career
Rural areas not only need leaders with new ideas and action to rush enthusiastically, but also need “Tian Xiucai” who is good at using new technology and dare to try new means to stir up the beam. As farmers and entrepreneurs embrace the countryside, the empowerment of new technologies is changing the traditional farming mode of the old generation of “facing the Loess and facing the sky”.
Wang Yun, a “post-90s” from Jiande, quit his white-collar job in Hangzhou and joined the countryside to become the “second generation of grain” because of his father’s sentence “come back and help me”.
“My father is a model worker in Zhejiang Province and an excellent grain grower in China. He previously established a company and contracted the land transferred in the village to grow grain. Agriculture is his faith. But as he gets older, I feel distressed every time I see him running back and forth in the fields.” After Wang Yun returned home, he has been thinking about how to change the hard work of the older generation in farming and make farmers a new career.
“Times are changing, and there can be new methods for farming.” With this idea in mind, Wang Yun helped his father grow grain while learning agricultural technology promotion and management through distance education. In a research study organized by the agricultural and rural departments, she saw the quality and efficiency improvement of agriculture by science and technology. After coming back, he immediately discussed with his father, hoping to learn from excellent practices.
“At that time, it cost nearly 200000 to equip a set of intelligent equipment and a lot of maintenance fees every year. At first, my father didn’t support it and thought why it cost so much to farm.” At the insistence of Wang Yun, she introduced Jiangsu Nonghua Intelligent Agriculture Technology Co.Ltd(000816) and installed scientific and technological equipment such as small weather stations and insect situation monitoring lights in the 400 mu demonstration base. It can not only manage rice field data in real time through mobile phones, but also realize networking with agricultural and rural departments to facilitate the remote “Recruitment” of agricultural technology experts.
With the help of digitization, the road of agricultural modernization of the grain production enterprises operated by Wang Yun and his father has become wider and wider, and the industrial area has developed from 1200 Mu to 2200 mu. “Over the years, we have purchased 57 sets of agricultural machinery, with an investment of more than 5.6 million in light of machinery. These are all offered by my father.”
Wang Yun, who brought new technology into the countryside, not only gave the villagers a taste of the sweetness, but also extended his experience to more and more local farmers. This year, Jiande established the agricultural maker Development Federation, with Wang Yun as the president. “I am the only national ‘double belt’ rural science and technology young talent in Jiande. I know the importance of science and technology for agriculture. Therefore, when the members of the Federation encounter technical and policy problems, I will help them answer their questions and solve their doubts with experts. By helping them, they can help drive more farmers behind them to eat ‘science and technology rice’.”
Looking at Zhejiang, there are still many agricultural makers who can revitalize the countryside with science and technology. Shen Jie, a “doctor of fishery” in Nanxun, Huzhou, comprehensively drives the digitization of traditional fisheries through innovative technology. The fish pond sensor system he developed increases the income of fish ponds by more than 2000 yuan per mu. The smart fishery big data platform connects more than 10000 fish ponds, provides Internet of things monitoring and control services for more than 3000 farmers, and radiates to key aquaculture areas in the Yangtze River Delta; Zeng Xiangliang, who studied agriculture in the University, founded a crop hospital after graduation to diagnose the disease and prescribe prescriptions for crops. He served 16500 farmers every year and helped farmers directly recover economic losses of more than 13.2 million yuan.
From the above story, it is not difficult to see that the promotion and application of new technology is making farmers an attractive career and making “hiding grain in technology” a reality.
This year, Zhejiang proposed to accelerate the deployment and implementation of the “double strong action” of strengthening agriculture through science and technology and machinery, comprehensively improve agricultural production efficiency and efficiency, fight a tough battle for high-quality agricultural development, and lay an important industrial and material foundation for promoting common prosperity. For agricultural makers and Zhejiang farmers, the opportunities are still unlimited.
new business forms make rural areas more possible
In Zhejiang, while helping rural areas to change ideas and promote technology, agricultural makers also implanted new business forms into various villages, giving rural development more vitality and possibilities.
“Although ants are small, their strength should not be underestimated.” In Gaotang village, Suichang County, Lishui, Zhou Gongbin gave up his job as a civil servant, sold his marriage house and invested in entrepreneurship. He established an “ant Pathfinder” team in the mountains, combined the new hobbies of city people with good resources in the mountain village, and was committed to promoting local cross-country self driving routes and driving people in remote mountainous areas to the road to prosperity.
For more than four years, his team has built seven self driving cross-country routes with “West Zhejiang Sichuan Tibet line” as the general brand and “Jiangnan bingchacha” and “East China Tianlu” as sub brands.
Up to now, the “West Zhejiang Sichuan Tibet line” has attracted 658 teams, with more than 27500 vehicles and more than 68700 participants. It has also increased the income of farmhouse entertainment, home stay, catering and agricultural products along the line by more than 57.4 million yuan.
“I grew up in the mountains. My parents and villagers contributed to my school, so I have deep feelings for the countryside. I hope to use this new business form to stimulate more possibilities in the countryside.” Zhou Gongbin said that he plans to expand the users of the “ant Pathfinder” platform to 2 million, empower more villages and drive the development of more villages.
Hope and homesickness can be seen. In recent years, in Zhejiang, the birthplace of the concept of “green water and green mountains are golden mountains and silver mountains”, tens of thousands of young people like Zhou Gongbin are coming to the countryside to make scenery in place according to local conditions, fully tap landscape, village, ecology and other tourism resources, or deeply cultivate health, or develop cultural tourism. Taking leisure tourism as an example, the data show that by the end of 2020, there were 428000 rural employees in the province.
“With the development of economy and society and the arrival of the intelligent era, the connotation of Rural Revitalization is also enriching.” Gu Yikang, member of the Advisory Committee of Zhejiang provincial government and former deputy director of Zhejiang Provincial Agricultural Office, described the vitality of the countryside – today’s countryside should not only be the home for farmers to live a better life, but also the health paradise of the city. It can engage in production, develop a beautiful economy, build and operate beautiful villages, and finally share beautiful villages.
The new atmosphere brought by farmers and entrepreneurs to the countryside is a corner of the picture of common prosperity in Zhejiang. The province has made it clear that significant substantive progress will be made in promoting high-quality development and building a demonstration area of common prosperity by 2025, and common prosperity will be basically realized by 2035. Yuan Jiajun, Secretary of Zhejiang provincial Party committee, said publicly that we should focus on the “beauty” of the environment, the “prosperity” of the industry, the “Sufficiency” of vitality, the “good” of fashion, the “strong” of charm, the “excellent” of service, the “high” of value and the “smooth” of mechanism, draw a new picture of the beautiful countryside in the new era under the big scene of common prosperity, and build the beautiful countryside in Zhejiang into a beautiful home for farmers to live a happy life An ideal paradise for citizens’ tourism and leisure, a hot land for public entrepreneurship and innovation, and a display window for common prosperity in Zhejiang.
Under the background of high-quality development and construction of a demonstration area for common prosperity, in order to continue to give full play to the role of agricultural makers, Zhejiang proposes to further strengthen policy support, include agricultural makers into the talent classification directory, give support in settlement, housing security and other aspects, and promote the establishment of an industrial fund for the development of agricultural makers; Further strengthen training guidance, hold large-scale training for 10000 agricultural makers, and organize universities, scientific research institutes and experts to provide technical support for agricultural makers; Further strengthen the platform construction, support all localities to accelerate the construction of agricultural innovation parks and agricultural maker demonstration bases, hold rural entrepreneurship and innovation competitions every year, and continue to inject talent vitality into the common prosperity of farmers in rural areas.
(China News Network)
