On the road to prosperity through farming, a tough woman carves out her own sky
Yang Li, female, born in 1970, a Party member. Of medium build and quick-witted, she has achieved stunning results in the farming industry through sheer tenacity and a never-give-up spirit.
After years of hard work, the farm she runs has grown to have more than 90 sows and an annual slaughter of 1,500 fattened pigs, making her a shining star among the company's workers for getting rich through science and technology and diversifying income.
In 2001, when the higher-level Party committee called on workers to develop the farming industry, she scraped together some money by borrowing from here and there, built several pig pens, bought a few sows, and began raising pigs. She overcame one difficulty after another, rising early and working late every day, throwing herself wholeheartedly into pig farming. She also found many books on pig-raising techniques, learning while doing, slowly figuring out the pigs' living habits and grasping their growth characteristics. How to mix feed, how to prevent disease, how to breed piglets, and so on - she humbly asked pig-farming technicians and veterinarians for advice and gradually accumulated rich experience. She firmly believed that as long as she was not afraid of hardship and flexibly applied the scientific pig-farming experience and techniques she had learned, she would certainly be able to accomplish something big in farming.
In order to make her farming business bigger and stronger, she introduced advanced equipment, with screen windows, automatic waterers, sow farrowing rooms, and drainage and manure systems all fully in place. Thanks to her diligent study and careful care, for several consecutive years her annual slaughter of fattened pigs reached more than 2,000, and her annual net income reached more than 250,000 yuan. Today she lives in a multi-story building, drives a car, and enjoys a moderately prosperous life.
After Yang Li got on the road to prosperity through pig farming by her own hard work, she always kept in mind: "One family getting rich does not count as rich; only when everyone gets rich is it truly rich."
As a Party member, she wanted even more to do what she could for everyone. Having built her success on pig farming, she gave special care to the company's new farmers, passing on her farming experience to them without holding anything back. When someone's pig had diarrhea, would not eat, or refused to grow, she would sometimes tirelessly go to their door to "diagnose" the problem and prescribe the right remedy. There are many kinds of pig feed on the market, good and bad mixed together, so she would first experiment on her own pigs, select the good feed varieties from among them, and then promote them to the farmers. The company's new farmers trusted her completely. In order to pass on the pig-farming techniques and experience she had accumulated over many years to other farmers, she never missed any opportunity to chat with workers and explain scientific pig-farming techniques. Whenever the company Party branch held farming technique training classes, she was always among those invited, and the workers all said they loved listening to her special lectures on pig farming - easy to understand and very practical.
Yang Li is also a warm-hearted person. No matter whose family in the company wanted to raise pigs, she would lend a hand. When company worker Liang Yumei wanted to raise pigs to get rich, Yang Li, upon learning of it, took the initiative to help her, letting her build pens and buy equipment, and also gave her 20 piglets and feed on credit for her to raise. Over the following year or more, Yang Li became a frequent visitor to Liang Yumei's home, often going there to teach Liang Yumei hand-in-hand how to vaccinate the pigs, how to administer medicine to sick pigs, and so on. At the end of the year, she used her advantages of wide sales channels and broad information to help her open up sales. In the first few years of Liang Yumei's farming operation, if she was short of funds to buy feed or equipment, Yang Li would advance the money for her upon learning of it. Today, after nearly ten years of painstaking operation, Liang Yumei has also become a farmer of modest scale.
Whenever workers who were once helped by Yang Li mention the past of being helped, their eyes are full of gratitude, and they all say the same thing: Yang Li really is a warm-hearted, truly good person!
In this year's "Two Studies, One Action" study and education campaign, Comrade Yang Li did not use being busy with the farm as an excuse to skip studying. Instead, she often actively came to the unit to take part in study, discussion, and other activities. She not only studied and copied the Party Constitution and Party rules but also wrote reflections. In her words: only by listening to the Party and following the Party will our lives get better and better.