Distance education helps 100,000 farmers in Longhui County go online to strike gold

On November 8, Zhou Jiangde of Tangxiaqiao Village, Gaoping Town, Longhui County, Hunan, turned on his computer at home and, with a click of the mouse, sold 50 tons of mandarin oranges to Suihua, Heilongjiang, through the Longhui distance education website. According to Wang Qingchun, head of the Organization Department of Longhui County, at present 100,000 farmers in the county, like Zhou Jiangde, have found their path to prosperity through the distance education network.

In response to the characteristics of the participants in the third batch of the study and practice activities, who are at the grassroots level and live scattered, the Longhui County Party Committee and County Government integrated and made use of distance education platforms such as the distance education website and the video interactive teaching system, opened a special webpage and column for the study and practice activities, and produced relevant study courseware in light of local conditions, so that Party members can choose different distance education platforms for study according to their own circumstances. In addition to playing an important role in Party member education, the distance education network also builds a platform for achieving prosperity through science and technology, providing officials and the public with market supply and demand information and information on getting rich.

At present, Longhui County has built 1 county-level distance education center network, 8 township-level distance education center networks, and more than 700 agricultural information outlets, and the county has more than 1,000 sets of agricultural information network equipment. The internet access rate has reached 100%. Through the "one-stop" agricultural product supply and demand service on the distance education center, supply and demand information about products is published and received, helping farmers and enterprises conduct online transactions; farmers have rushed to go online themselves to publish their own supply and demand information. According to statistics, the number of farmers in the county who go online directly or indirectly has exceeded 100,000, and through online transactions and other means, the county has sold more than 100 varieties of agricultural products, with a transaction value of more than 90 million yuan.