Young leaders in Qiongzhong busy seeking experience and learning lessons
Recently, more than 50 young leaders in prosperity, university student village officials, specialized growers, farm owners and young people returning home to start businesses from various townships of the Qiongzhong Li and Miao Autonomous County, organized by the Qiongzhong County Committee of the Communist Youth League, went deep into the planting and breeding base of the Qiongzhong Xingmin Chicken Breeding Professional Cooperative in Changxing Village, Heping Town, for an on-site visit to learn from experience.
"Are these chickens all raised free-range in the mountain forests? How are sales going?" He Zonglin, deputy secretary of the Qiongzhong County Committee of the Communist Youth League, was quite interested in the practice of free-range chicken raising in mountain forests. Wang Youzheng, chairman of the cooperative, introduced that the cooperative's planting and breeding area totals more than 400 mu, and currently more than 4,000 chickens and more than 600 geese are raised free-range in the mountain forests. Because free-range chickens raised in mountain forests have good taste, they are highly sought after by sellers in many cities and counties, and supply often falls short of demand.
"These chickens are the second batch of chicks supported by the town this year, and the quality is very high," Wang Youzheng said. It is understood that after many rounds of research and inspection by the Heping Town government, it was found that the breeding site, personnel and technical requirements of the Xingmin Chicken Breeding Professional Cooperative all met the standards, and in early 2016 it was designated as a "leading prosperity" cooperative of Heping Town. Immediately afterward, the town government stepped up support for building new chicken houses and goose houses at the planting and breeding base, and mobilized impoverished households across the village to become shareholders in the form of seedlings. Driven by the government, impoverished households changed one after another from "onlookers" into "partner shareholders," and every year they can obtain a considerable dividend income.