On the sixth day of the first lunar month, the rural area in northern Anhui has a strong taste of the year. In Liji Village, Yanji Town, Qiaocheng District, Bozhou City, Anhui Province, the villager Liu Qiaozhen and his family began to pack up their new home close to the village's traditional Chinese medicine trading market in the early morning, ready to welcome relatives and friends who came to visit.
Liu Qiaozhen is the head of the Lijidong Farmers Professional Cooperative in Yanji Town. His home was in Liuzhuang Natural Village, Liji Administrative Village. Because he rented the traditional Chinese medicine trading market in Liji Village, he settled his new home in Liji Street. Pointing to the trading market not far away, he said to the reporter, "This trading market was specially built after the secretary of Xiao Cao came."
In the vibration mouth of Liuqiao The "Secretary of Xiaocao" is called Cao Zhixuan, and he is the first secretary of the Party Committee stationed in Liji Village by the Anhui Provincial Procuratorate , he laughingly called himself "a village team of one person".
Although Liji Village is the largest administrative village in Yanji Town, before Cao Zhixuan came to the village in June 2021, its infrastructure and collective economy were still very weak. "Secretary Xiao Cao has done a lot of practical things for us in our village these years!" Liu Qiaozhen said and gave a thumbs up.
Light on
Duan Xinping, a villager who has lived in his hometown for more than half of his life, has been used to the dark days in the village at night. He never thought that he was getting old, but he also caught up with the free street lights installed at his own door.
In Xuge Natural Village of Liji Village, the reporter saw that on the main road of the village, the rows of solar street lamps with unique shapes were very beautiful. When talking about the unified installation of street lights in the village, the villagers all opened their mouths. "Now you see how good the above policy is. The street lamp is installed at my door, and the hall is more bright at night." said villager Xu Qiyun. Jiang Xiaomin, a villager, took the blame: "Before, there were no street lights at night, so he didn't dare let the children go out to play, for fear of bumping into them. After having street lights, he took the children out for a walk after dinner, and he felt much more relieved."
Not long after he first settled down in the village, Cao Zhixuan once deeply felt what it means to be "deep and shallow" during his night visit to the poor. However, there is no public lighting in the village, which is also one of the problems that the villagers reflect most to him. After stepping on the spot and keeping it in mind, Cao Zhixuan applied for special assistance funds from the Anhui Provincial Procuratorate, the designated unit, to ensure the safety of villagers' travel at night by installing solar street lights.
▲ Cao Zhixuan (first from left) introduced the installation of street lights to reporters
"After consultation with the two committees of the village, we have implemented the project of 'lighting up the village' in three batches in the past three years. At present, we have completed the installation of more than 600 street lamps, and successfully achieved full coverage of public lighting in all natural villages and trunk roads under our jurisdiction." Cao Zhixuan said, "What we light up is not only the village, but also the villagers' desire for a better life."
Road construction
From Dingxiaolou Natural Village to the east, through Zhulou, Qianwuzhuang and Zhangzhuang Natural Villages, and then to Duanlou Natural Village, a new cement road with a total length of 1.52km and a width of 3.5m is built to connect the five natural villages.
Walking along the main road, Cao Zhixuan sighed with emotion: Liji Village is located at the junction of Anhui and Henan provinces. When he first settled in the village, many villages here were dirt roads "covered with dust on sunny days and mud on rainy days", which seriously affected the villagers' transportation and agricultural production. "The first suggestion made to me by the party members and the masses in the village is to build the road connecting Ding Xiaolou to Duan Underground Building."
In 2022, Cao Zhixuan won funds from Anhui Provincial Development and Reform Commission for the work relief project and began to build this "road to wealth" and "road to heart". "During the construction process, according to the provisions of the" work for relief "project, we have driven the poor and other low-income groups to participate in the work and receive compensation, which has achieved very good results," Cao Zhixuan told reporters.
In view of the "dilemma" of the backward road traffic facilities in Liji Village, Cao Zhixuan soon led the party members and the masses of the village to embark on a nearly "crazy" road building trip.
In the past three years, Cao Zhixuan has won more than 5 million yuan for various projects, mobilized people to raise more than 1 million yuan, and built nearly 20 kilometers of "village to village" roads and "household to village" roads in 21 natural villages.
"It's no exaggeration to say that Secretary Cao has spent three years to shorten the gap between our backward village and other villages in terms of infrastructure for nearly ten years!" Li Shengjie, a member of the Liji Village Party Committee, spoke about this matter with great excitement. "It seems that we village cadres have been driven by him to do mass work, and even the old party members at home have been mobilized."
Industry
The Liji Village Traditional Chinese Medicine Trading Market is just a wall away from the village party and mass service center. Looking around, the 4000 square meters of space is empty during the Spring Festival, but we can imagine the prosperity of daily trading.
As a lessee, Liu Qiaozhen now works here. He told the reporter: "Many people in the village grow real estate Chinese medicinal materials. When there was no market before, the medicine dealers and villagers traded in the open air, exposed to the wind and the sun, and the scale was not large. After the completion of the trading market, people from 50 to 60 miles and even neighboring Henan Province came to do business."
Bozhou, Anhui Province is the hometown of Hua Tuo and the capital of medicinal materials, the first of the four "drug capitals" in China, and the world's largest distribution center and price formation center of Chinese medicinal materials. Based on Liji Village's tradition of planting and selling Chinese medicinal materials, Cao Zhixuan specially strived for funds to build this Chinese medicinal materials trading market in 2022, effectively driving the development of the village's collective economy and increasing farmers' income.
"In peak season, our Chinese herbal medicine market turnover can easily break ten million yuan. You know, this is just a small village market." Cao Zhixuan proudly told reporters. Not only that, this trading market also facilitates some elderly people. "They can sell the 'spike' scattered by the big growers they picked up from the fields at home, which can increase some income."
The key to rural revitalization is industrial revitalization. At the beginning of his tenure in the village, Cao Zhixuan focused his work on the industrial development of the village. Therefore, he had an indissoluble bond with the "Xiangbobo" series small mill sesame oil produced by a farmer enterprise in the village. "There is a sesame oil production enterprise in our village called Xiangbobo Food Co., Ltd. It has its own brand 'Xiangbobo', which can be said to be a pun. It not only matches the place name of Bozhou, but also highlights the characteristics of sesame oil."
Aiming at the problem of poor sales channels of this enterprise, Cao Zhixuan gave full play to her professional advantages in news publicity work in the Provincial Procuratorate, used her personal short video account "Xiao Cao's Journey to the Village", adopted the current popular form of live broadcast with goods, and tried to promote the brand and products of the enterprise on the Internet. Unexpectedly, she got a full harvest. At the same time, he also actively promoted online and offline through various trade fairs, New Year's Day, consumer assistance and other platforms.
▲ Live broadcast with goods "Xiangbobo" On the eve of the Spring Festival, the first annual supply and marketing fair of Anhui Province was held in Hefei Binhu International Convention and Exhibition Center. During the exhibition, Cao Zhixuan came to the provincial capital to catch the fair with his "own" agricultural products. "Come and have a look, smell and smell, this is our authentic small sesame sesame oil in Bozhou..." At the booth of the First Secretary of Anhui Provincial Government and the Central Unit in Anhui Village, Cao Zhixuan shouted the "Xiangbobo" brand series products in the village vigorously.
▲ Cao Zhixuan came to the provincial capital to catch the fair with his "own" agricultural products
Cao Zhixuan also learned from the experience of brand publicity of the procurator, guided this enterprise to apply for intangible cultural heritage and national green food certification, so as to enhance the brand value. At present, "Xiangbobo" has become a municipal intangible cultural heritage of Bozhou. "In recent years, our support for this enterprise has been very good. Now, among similar products, the 'Xiangbobo' brand has penetrated into the hearts of consumers."
When entering the production workshop of Xiangbobo Food Co., Ltd., the person in charge of the enterprise introduced while walking. He told the reporter that with the support of the provincial procuratorate's village team and the village committees, the company was preparing for the expansion of the plant and the subsequent addition of equipment. "After the completion of model expansion and upgrading, with the increase of sesame oil production, our enterprise will certainly better radiate the sesame planting industry in the surrounding areas, and also drive more villagers to find jobs nearby."
Great efforts have been made to improve the transportation facilities, light up the village, and strengthen the village level industry. Every practical thing has been engraved in the hearts of the people in Liji Village. "When people see me, they often say that after years of waiting, our Liji Village has finally changed. It is the highest reward for me to receive such comments from the people." Standing in front of the Liji Village Party and Mass Service Center, Cao Zhixuan puts up a shed and looks at the fields with vitality. The village is getting ready in the spring sun.
