Li Guanghui: Deep love for his hometown, repaying his roots, and never forgetting the people of his hometown on the road to prosperity
Li Guanghui, male, born in January 1976, a villager of Tongchuan Village, Hongxing Township, Yixian County, Huangshan City.
Story summary: Forging a sword in 10 years, he grew from an ordinary plumber into the Huangshan City general agent of Sangxia Solar, one of China's top ten famous brands, and vice president of the Huangshan City Building Materials Chamber of Commerce. Five years ago he returned to his hometown to develop ecological agriculture and led the villagers to start businesses and become prosperous. He never forgot his hometown after gaining wealth and was enthusiastic about public welfare. He successively donated more than 40,000 yuan to help students in difficulty and poor elderly people; he repeatedly funded the building of bridges and repair of roads, and donated more than 70 street lamps to Tongchuan Village, Hongxing Township, Yixian County, making production and life more convenient for the local people. In April 2016 he was elected as a moral model of the second Yixian County.
Li Guanghui, Han ethnicity, a member of the Communist Party of China, a villager of Tongchuan Village, Hongxing Township, Yixian County, Huangshan City, currently serves as vice president of the Huangshan City Building Materials Chamber of Commerce, general manager of Huangshan Wuguling Agricultural and Sideline Products Development Co., Ltd., and head of the Yixian Yuanweixiang Family Farm. For more than ten years, he has run his business with dedication, been attached to his hometown, and cared about the common people. On the road to becoming prosperous in rural areas, he has shown many moving advanced deeds of entrepreneurial prosperity and helping others. Especially in the past five years, he has driven the people to develop a new development model based on bamboo shoot processing for the processing of dried vegetable products and the cultivation of wild bitter greens, vegetables, and other crops, enabling this beloved hometown to achieve new breakthrough development. Now, when you walk into Hongxing Township, with shady trees along the road and green mountains stretching into the distance, you will see villagers' faces full of entrepreneurial passion and scenes of thriving construction of a beautiful new countryside everywhere... All of this embodies Li Guanghui's wisdom and sweat.
Hard struggle and common prosperity
Li Guanghui was born into a poor peasant family. Both of his parents were simple and honest farmers. After graduating from high school, he returned to his hometown and worked diligently, rising early and going to bed late, following his parents in farm work for half a year. He believed that relying only on farming could not change the backward situation and that it would be difficult to quickly shed the label of poverty. So, like many young people, he packed his bags, joined the wave of migrant workers heading south, and became a water and electricity maintenance worker. One year later, with everyone's help, he raised money and opened a specialty store for solar water heaters. During this period, he studied relevant practical skills and management experience diligently. Forging a sword in 10 years, he gradually transformed from an ordinary plumber into the Huangshan City general agent of Sangxia Solar, one of China's top ten famous brands, and vice president of the Huangshan City Building Materials Chamber of Commerce, with assets exceeding 10 million yuan. After digging up his first bucket of gold, Li Guanghui was not satisfied with the status quo and did not stop his entrepreneurial pace. Instead, he cared about the prosperity of the people in his hometown and returned home to choose to develop ecological agriculture. He said: "My roots are here. I cannot forget where I came from. Being rich myself does not count as being rich; only when the villagers are rich does it count as being rich!" These simple words reveal a deep love for his hometown.
In 2012 he took the lead in establishing a cooperative and a family farm, making full use of Hongxing Township's advantages as a major bamboo township and its special farmland advantages to develop the processing of agricultural and sideline products based mainly on bamboo shoots, and actively explore the cultivation and processing of specialty agricultural products such as bitter greens, daylily, and yellow chrysanthemum. He taught local people free of charge the techniques of vegetable cultivation and processing, bamboo shoot processing, and bamboo grove management. Through industrialized operation, he promoted large-scale planting, clean processing, standardized production, and branded sales, improving industrial efficiency and the market competitiveness of products. Closely focusing on relying on local resources to increase farmers' income, and through the implementation of projects, he actively organized the introduction of new varieties, new technologies, and new equipment to further improve the level of standardized and large-scale production. With the main business model of "company + cooperative (family farm) + base + farmers," under his leadership a boom in local vegetable cultivation, bamboo shoot processing, and bamboo industry development was quickly set off. According to statistics, the total output value of fresh vegetables, dried vegetable products, and dried bamboo shoots in the entire township is nearly 20 million yuan, with 600 processing households. Planting and processing have become the main industry for increasing farmers' income in the township, and products are sold far to major and medium-sized cities such as Shanghai, Zhejiang, and Jiangsu.
In his heart, developing the village's economy and letting everyone live a better life is the absolute truth. Whenever young people in the village are about to go out to work, they come to him for experience. He tells them about the hardships and experience of his early struggles to encourage them. At the same time, his family farm also effectively solves the employment problem of more than 60 surplus rural laborers.
Sincere dedication and giving back to society
In Li Guanghui is shown the gentleness, refinement, and modesty of a middle-aged man. Having achieved success, he always keeps the lives of poor students and widowed, orphaned, and poor elderly people in his hometown in his heart and helps them as much as he can. He went many times to the county women's federation, the county education bureau, and township government to learn about the situation. Over several years, he donated a total of more than 20,000 yuan in money and goods to help poor students, and donated and supported more than 10,000 yuan for widowed, orphaned, and poor elderly people in the township. Li Guanghui keeps employees in his heart and enjoys high prestige among them. He said: "Everyone has difficulties at some point; help as much as you can." Whenever any employee's family has difficulties, he extends a helping hand and gives warm care as much as he can. At the same time, he is also enthusiastic about public welfare in his hometown and has donated many times to build roads and bridges. From 2014 to 2015, in two batches, he invested more than 10,000 yuan to donate more than 70 street lamps to Tongchuan Village, greatly making production and life more convenient for the local people. At present, he is using more than 10,000 yuan in charitable funds to provide assistance one by one to people in need around Hongxing Township who are in need of help due to family poverty or major illness.
In the eyes of the villagers, Li Guanghui is a capable and knowledgeable successful person, and he enjoys relatively high prestige among the common people. When the village two committees have difficulties in their work and the masses do not understand, he always steps forward voluntarily, assists the village two committees in their work, publicizes and explains to the masses the Party's principles and policies and the purpose of the village two committees' work, and helps the village two committees successfully complete all tasks assigned by the Party and the government.
With his true feelings, sincerity, and genuine intent, Li Guanghui has won the praise of the local people. He is a good farmer, a good Party member, and a leader in entrepreneurial prosperity in the eyes of the masses. He does not forget his fellow villagers after gaining wealth, carries a sincere heart of devotion, and makes selfless contributions. He uses his wisdom for the development of his hometown's economy and pours his hard sweat on the road of leading the masses to prosperity. He composes a song of a new-era new farmer's pioneering and enterprising spirit, entrepreneurial dedication, and joy in helping others!
(Source: Huangshan News Network)