Yuan Yunji, secretary of the Party branch of Songyuan Village, Shitun Town, Zhenghe County, Fujian Province, has recently been making a tour report on Liao Junbo's advanced deeds. Every time she began with this sentence: "These days, many tourists came to my hometown, Zhenghe Shizhen Village, a white tea town in China. They asked me, where are the four words written by Secretary Liao? Where is the tea garden where he picked tea? Is this the way he went into the village? Shizhen Village is full of the footprints of Secretary Liao."
Shizhen is a natural village with a population of more than 500 in Songyuan Village. Today, there are simple folk houses, gurgling water, fragrant tea houses, ancient docks, ancient wineries, ancient theaters, and vineyards, cherry orchards, and white tea workshops. However, just four years ago, it was still a famous "garbage village". No one cleaned up the garbage deposited in the village's ditches for nearly three decades, and young people went out to work. Except for the elderly and children left behind in the village, villagers were unwilling to step into the village. Yuan Yunji's children also said to her, "Mom, I will never go to Grandma's house to play again. The village is too dirty and smelly."
Yuan Yunji, who has married to another village, can't stand it. In September 2013, she mobilized nine sisters in Shizhen Village, spent more than three months and cleared more than 500 vehicles of garbage. Liao Junbo, then the secretary of the government and the county party committee, knew this and went straight to Shizhen to find Yuan Yunji. He said to her, "Yun Ji, your ten sisters have made a good start!" Yuan Yunji led him around the village and told him that the village used to be a water transport dock where merchants gathered. Ancient wineries, tofu shops and cloth shops were everywhere, but now most of them are abandoned. Now all the labor force are working outside, The collective has zero income, and the villagers live a hard life.
Liao Junbo said, "It's time for the end of the hard days! The village is clean, just the first step. If we can get green, live and swim, Shizhen will create wealth. At that time, men will all run back." Everyone laughed, but where should we start? Liao Junbo went on to say, "Greening up means building an ecological village in combination with the ancient dock culture; living up means introducing suitable industries so that villagers can not go out to work; swimming up means taking advantage of Shizhen's proximity to the county seat to develop rural tourism."
During that time, Liao Junbo went to Shizhen three or four times a month. When he met Yuan Yunji, the first sentence was to ask her what she thought recently, what difficulties she encountered, and if she needed your help to solve them; Every time you leave, you always say that you don't need to ask yourself to hurry up in small matters, and call you whenever you need to coordinate in big matters. He encouraged the villagers: "You can do what you want to make money with confidence, and you can invest yourself; we will do what we don't want to do in the county and town." This remark opened the eyes of the villagers in Shizhen and ignited their enthusiasm for entrepreneurship. Under Liao Junbo's lead, water, electricity, bridges, street lights and other infrastructure were soon improved, and Shizhen became the first village without poles in the county. He also brought merchants into the village, took a microphone as a guide, helped introduce three tea enterprises, and sent more than 20 leisure bicycles.
Liao Junbo really made Shizhen Village rich! In 2015, Shizhen became a "National 3A Tourist Attraction"; In 2016, Shizhen Village was listed in the first batch of characteristic towns in Fujian Province. Last year, the tourism income of the whole village exceeded 1 million yuan, and more than 30000 tourists were received in one day at most; The village's financial income is nearly 400000 yuan. More than 100 villagers have returned to the village to start their own businesses. Even three young people who graduated from Hangzhou Normal University and other universities have joined the ranks of returning to the village to start their own businesses.
"The most painful thing for me is that Secretary Liao made us rich, but he didn't eat even a meal in the village. I wanted to send him a box of grapes planted by the villagers' cooperative, but he refused." Yuan Yunji said here, shedding tears. Two months after Liao Junbo died, she wrote a letter to Liao Junbo, saying: