Jiangsu Huai'an Lobster King Uses True Sincerity to Interpret His Devotion to the People

The year 2015 is a year for Huai'an City to "reach a higher level." Huai'an City has achieved tremendous successes in its economy and social undertakings. On all fronts, more than 10,000 people's congress deputies at all levels in Huai'an City have actively thrown themselves into the great tide of reform, development and stability. While doing their own jobs well, they have actively performed their duties as deputies, collected suggestions and opinions, and done practical and good deeds for the masses, and many typical examples have emerged. Starting today, this newspaper launches the column "Record of the Elegant Demeanor of People's Congress Deputies" for readers' enjoyment.

He, physically disabled but strong in will, sought business opportunities in crayfish and became famous in one stroke by cooking garlic crayfish, and is known as the "Lobster King"; he, while prospering, did not forget his fellow villagers, established an aquatic products professional cooperative, and led his fellow villagers to become rich and build a moderately prosperous life, and his fellow villagers call him "Good Man Zhang." He is Zhang Taiming, a deputy to the People's Congress of Jinhu County and chairman of Jinhu County Taiming Fishing Village Catering Management Chain Co., Ltd.

In 2012, Zhang Taiming was elected as a deputy to the 13th People's Congress of Jinhu County. As an entrepreneur deputy engaged in the catering service industry, how to better perform the duties and obligations of a deputy, and how to carry out assistance work? This was a question Zhang Taiming often thought about after being elected. After much careful consideration, Zhang Taiming decided to make the service brand "Taiming Fishing Village" more solid, more prominent and bigger, and to carry out assistance work for farmers and fishermen by means of employment. "Facing Jinhu, facing hometown, facing farmer and fisherman families" is an unwritten agreement for recruiting employees at "Taiming Fishing Village." "Taiming Fishing Village" has two chain stores in Jinhu, with more than 120 employees, the vast majority from farmer and fisherman families. Wages alone increase the annual income of farmer and fisherman families by more than 4 million yuan.

Hubin Village is a fishing village linked to Zhang Taiming for assistance. It has more than 900 people and more than 5,000 mu of water surface, but fishermen's income has grown slowly and the village-level collective economy is relatively weak. After learning about the village's situation, Zhang Taiming took the initiative to connect with village officials and determined specific assistance projects.

Support fishermen in large-scale soft-shelled turtle farming, participating in the whole process from ordering turtle seedlings to farming and bringing them to market, so that fishermen can increase family income through efficient farming; use the advantage of being in the catering industry to directly purchase crayfish from fishermen at a price 3 yuan per jin higher than the market price, reducing intermediate links and letting fishermen receive real benefits. This item alone helped local fishermen increase their income by more than 1 million yuan last year; contributed 50,000 yuan to help more than 100 fishermen households living near Chaoyang Gate install tap water; contacted ten disadvantaged families, actively helped their children participate in vocational training, enabled these families to escape poverty and become rich as early as possible, and regularly visited these families; based on the foundations of the water town, boosted aquatic product characteristics, supported special aquaculture and ecological aquaculture, planned to develop 200 mu of mixed fish and turtle farming projects and 1,000 mu of ecological crayfish farming, expanded enterprise business projects, and developed 800 mu of mudflat aquaculture, so that through the development of the aquaculture industry, employment opportunities would be expanded, the local economy would be stimulated, and local fishermen would be led to prosperity.