Integrated crop-livestock farming helps farmer get rich raising pigs and growing fruit, becoming a leader in prosperity
July's sunshine is full of passion. Zhang Yonglin, a Party member from Luowuping Village, Luwu Town, Lingshan County, drove his newly bought off-road vehicle to work at the pig farm, where several impoverished households from a neighboring village had already been waiting for some time. Since Zhang Yonglin saved up money from raising price-guaranteed pigs to buy a nice car, people have come from time to time to inspect his pig farm and learn pig-raising from him.
“Two Studies, One Action” builds confidence in escaping poverty “Sorry to keep everyone waiting. I was at the village committee attending the special Party lecture on ‘Two Studies, One Action’, and afterward I copied my study notes, so I arrived late.” Zhang Yonglin said as he shook hands with everyone one by one. “Before looking at the pig farm, take a look at my orchard first.”
Zhang Yonglin's citrus orchard surrounds the pig farm, covering more than 30 mu in total. Fertilization relies entirely on pig manure and pig urine. The fruit trees are growing vigorously and are laden with fruit. The yield per mu is expected to exceed 10,000 jin, and a bumper harvest is in sight. Zhang Yonglin gave the people a detailed introduction to the techniques of growing fruit and raising pigs, encouraging them to boost their drive to work and start businesses, build confidence in escaping poverty, and strive to escape poverty as soon as possible.
This is a microcosm of how “Two Studies, One Action” learning has brought productivity to Luwu Town. It is understood that in deeply carrying out the special study of “Two Studies, One Action”, the town took local conditions into account, focused on combining “studying” with “doing”, used “studying” to guide “doing”, promoted progress from point to area, achieved all-around development, and produced good results.
“Two Studies, One Action”: study flexibly and apply it
Wangmeng Village is a poverty-stricken village in Luwu Town during the “13th Five-Year Plan” period. In the “Two Studies, One Action” study, the first secretary led Party members and cadres from paired assistance units to deeply understand the situation of impoverished households, solve urgent living needs, raise 42,000 yuan to provide financial assistance to poor students and relief to orphans, and also contacted the Fujian Chamber of Commerce to provide orphan adoption and assistance. To achieve the goal of escaping poverty, the village fully tapped its resource advantages and planned to use Wangmeng Reservoir and the tea plantation to build an eco-tourism park. The project has now been initially implemented. By then, tourists will be able to experience the pleasures of picking tea and fruit, enjoying the mountains and water, fishing, and barbecuing in rural surroundings, while villagers can enjoy the dividends of the industry and achieve prosperity by escaping poverty. “To study the series of speeches, one must study them thoroughly and apply them flexibly.” Shi Xianguo, director of Shen'an Village in Luwu Town, wrote this in his reflections on the study. As a village cadre in a poverty-stricken village, Shi Xianguo plays an exemplary role in getting rich. In 2015, after learning that there was policy support for planting “double-high” sugar cane, Shi Xianguo contracted 322 mu of dry land in the village through land transfer and set up a “double-high” sugar cane base. Now, villagers can both collect land rent and work near their homes, greatly increasing their confidence in escaping poverty and getting rich. Since the Party Central Committee called on everyone to deeply carry out the special study of “Two Studies, One Action”, Shi Xianguo has become even more determined in his confidence to lead everyone to escape poverty and get rich.