[Editor's Note]
Huaxi Village is located in the junction of Jiangyin Mountain Town, Jiangsu Province. It was originally a small place with only 0.96 square kilometers. Since the establishment of the village in 1961, especially after the reform and opening up, Huaxi Village has undergone a huge change from being so poor that it is so hard to "China's No. 1 Village". Today we will go to West China and listen to the villagers telling the story of what happened here -
declare war on his shriveled belly and pockets
Wu Xieen, currently the Party Secretary of Huaxi Village. His father, Wu Renbao, was the first generation party secretary of Huaxi Village and the soul of the village. Wu Renbao stepped down in 2003 and died in 2013. However, among Wu Xieen and the villagers, the name Wu Renbao is always mentioned, and everyone is still used to calling him "old secretary".
1961, Huaxi Village was built. The village has a small population of only 670, but the land that can be cultivated is pitifully small, with less than half acre per capita. In addition, the terrain restrictions and infrastructure are too simple, the land in the village is either drought or flooded, and the harvest is bleak. The poor and difficult life left a deep impression on Wu Xieen, who was still young at that time: "I was born in the 1960s. I remember that some of the villagers could not marry their wives, and some lived in thatched houses. At that time, many families in West China went to Suzhou , Jiaxing in Zhejiang to farm, and some went to Shanghai or other places to work, so poor."
At that time, Wu Renbao was facing such a mess.
If you are poor, you think about change, and if you change, you will understand. There is only one way before him - declare war on nature. "Lai is born to be thin and hard and not afraid of being afraid", Wu Renbao formulated the first "fifteen-year vision plan" for Huaxi Village.
Wu Renbao and the villagers realized their dream six years in advance: they used their shoulders to pick out more than one million square meters of earth and pave the high and low fields; they dug rivers and straightened the curved rivers; they also concentrated 12 scattered natural villages in a central area, and the place where the village was originally located turned into fertile fields.
1969, the agriculture in Huaxi Village became prosperous, and the villagers could have enough food. The restless Wu Renbao began to think again, how to make the people's pockets bulge?
Wu Xieen said that the old secretary's idea is to engage in industry. It is not stable without agriculture, but it is not rich without labor. Against this background, in 1970, a small hardware factory quietly started construction in a private house at the westernmost end of the village. At this time, Wu Renbao and the villagers would not realize that this unseasonable underground workshop would completely change the fate of Huaxi Village in the next few decades.
is a big risk to start a factory. "At that time, we wanted to cut off the tail of capitalism, that is, once we find out, something big happened. The old secretary said, "I will take responsibility if I have the responsibility, and we will do it for the people!" Wu Xieen recalled.
Zhu Linzhen, who is over 70 years old, is a first-generation employee of a small hardware factory. Recalling the situation back then, the old man's words still showed stubbornness: "You must be self-reliant, don't ask others to reach out. We have no other ideas, and we think about working all day long. For example, we go to the factory at 5 o'clock in the morning, and some go home at 9 o'clock in the evening. At that time, people didn't know how to be tired or talk about money. They felt happy in the factory. They couldn't blow the wind and rain, which was better than farming outside. Looking back, people nowadays are really happy."
In order to deal with the inspections from the superiors, Wu Renbao had his own "makeup plan". The leader came to inspect. The small hardware factory was closed and the villagers went to the fields to do farm work. The leaders were very satisfied when they saw it. When the leader leaves, he calls the person to the factory and works overtime to drive out the delayed time. With such "guerrilla combat", the small hardware factory existed for 8 years without any danger until 1978.
bold decision: no more!
1978, the per capita income of Huaxi Village reached 220 yuan, which is already the best in the country. The small hardware factory had a profit of more than 280,000 yuan that year, and the village's deposits also exceeded 1 million yuan. After the reform and opening up, the distribution of land to households was implemented in rural areas across the country.
But in Huaxi Village, villagers are not very enthusiastic about dividing the fields. Wu Xieen explained the reason: "By 1978, we had several factories, and many villagers were in the factories and were unwilling to farm."
Wu Renbao studied the central government's documents and visited Hebei, Henan and other places. After returning, he made a bold decision: the land is not divided! Wu Xieen said that at that time, the country proposed that the country would be unified, and the division should be divided, and that the country would also hope that the country would develop according to the actual situation of the countryside. The old secretary followed the opinions of the people and contracted the land in the village to 30 farming experts, and the surplus labor would be added to the factory. In the busy season, the villagers would help together. This would solve the problem. The relationship between the two was improved.
From then on, Huaxi Village embarked on a unique road and went straight to industrialization.
In the existing industrial foundation, Huaxi Village continued to establish more than a dozen small enterprises such as small weaving factories and steel plate factories. In 1994, the country's large township enterprise Jiangsu Huaxi Group Co., Ltd. was established. In 1996, Huaxi Village realized that every family lived in villas and drove cars, becoming the richest in China One of the villages.
"Correction of Factory Secretary" has a lot of pressure
After entering the new century, Huaxi Village integrated with the 20 surrounding villages he helped in the past through one-point and five-unit approach, and the area expanded to 35 square kilometers. Two years later, Wu Xieen, who was 39 years old at the time, was elected Secretary of the Party Committee of Huaxi Village.
Wu Xieen came to power without saying a word, the first thing he did was to close the factory .
Wu Xieen did this. At that time, the Yangtze River Delta region with developed manufacturing industry had problems such as labor shortage, significant increase in land costs, and insufficient environmental capacity. For West China, which is dominated by steel, textile and chemical industries, these problems have not been revealed but are already potential.
Speaking of this experience, Wu Xieen also joked: "The people behind the scenes said that I was the secretary, and that is, the factory was closed. "But he didn't regret it, "I am this secretary, and I feel that the pressure is quite high. Where is the pressure? It's not the present, what should I do tomorrow if it's big. Because West China itself is at the forefront, we will also discover the problems we encounter earlier. "
There are three chemical factories in Dahua West, and there will be pollution. Wu Xieen's first contact was the chemical factory in Dahua West, and the factory manager dared not say anything in front of him. Wu Xieen didn't say much, but just arranged all the workers in the factory to work in other units of the group to work, and did not let them be laid off and unemployed due to the factory control. The factory manager was transferred to the group company to focus on environmental protection work. Wu Xieen said: "He has a deep understanding of pollution, and he will catch it better. This factory director is now in his 60s, and I haven't let him retire. Later he told me that he had asked the old secretary if he could not close the factory, which showed that he still had an idea in his mind at that time. But he was willing to tell me about this, which means he had figured it out and figured it out. "
In this way, during the 10 years since Wu Xieen took office, he gradually closed nine enterprises step by step.
Between 2004 and 2013, three good-performance steel rolling mills in Huaxi Village were successively closed, and nearly 5 million tons of steel rolling capacity was cut off by more than 1 million. Yang Yongchang, currently the chairman of Huaxi Steel Co., Ltd., still remembers the situation at that time. In his opinion, the biggest pressure brought to him by closing the factory was the employment problem of diversion personnel.
Yang Yongchang said: "In 2015, the steel industry and even the entire industry were not good, and I was under great pressure. As the top leader, I also want to take measures to reduce staff, but the secretary said that it cannot be reduced. We must consider the stability of society and take responsibility. Some of our West China, older and less educated people, will have a great impact on their family's life if they do not find a job. Some couples, such as 45 or 50 years old, and have children going to high school and college. The burden is quite heavy, after all, in the countryside. "
" At that time, we didn't understand, why did this rolling mill still make money? If you don’t make money in the future, you will be shut down. "Yang Yongchang recalled, but time quickly gave the answer. From 2013 to 2015, Yang Yongchang's steel company was also hit. Yang Yongchang continued, "But West China did not encounter major difficulties. Why? The main thing is that the transformation is early. At that time, the steel sector was not very good, but other sectors had relatively high returns and good efficiency, replacing traditional industries."
Agriculture, give way to industry and then become the protagonist
At present, West China Group is involved in tourism, agricultural products, finance, marine transportation, warehousing and logistics, mining resources and other fields. These emerging fields have become the world of the post-70s and post-80s.
In 2015, Huaxi Village, which was once committed to industrialization, opened up thousands of acres of rice fields and handed it over to several post-80s. Young people manage and farm.
Mei Zhenhua, now 38 years old. He was a major in steel and metallurgy. He returned to the village and joined the West China Steel Plant. He worked for 12 years. In 2016, he signed up for the selection of professional farmers in Huaxi Village. He was sent to Japan as the captain and 6 other young people to study and study modern planting with local farmers.
Mei Zhenhua said with emotion, "We born in the 1980s have very little dealing with land. There is no basic knowledge at all, let alone practice it. "
In this way, the laymen in the seven fields began to explore a new field. The process would not be smooth, as if it were expected. The seven people were almost driven back to China by the furious teacher because of an unintentional early work. "The first year of training was over, and we conducted an exam, with 100 points, and the theory of 10 points and 90 points. I seem to remember how many points I scored after 38 points, but the highest score was 45 points anyway. No one passed the qualification. "
This year is the third year of studying and studying rice cultivation. Their thousand acres of rice fields are full of vitality, and the rice grown has begun to emerge in the competition. The small team of 7 people has also expanded to 10 people. "Our team is all undergraduate or above. We have graduate students, some have returned from studying in Japan, and some have returned from studying in New Zealand. When doing this, young people can better accept the concept of modernization and better operate agricultural machinery, so that rice can have room for further improvement. ” Mei Zhenhua said.
"Foreigners" arrived in Huaxi Village
not only local young people have a world to show their strengths, but more and more young people from other places are coming. According to West China Group, the proportion of foreign employees in West China Group is gradually increasing. 39% of corporate executives are foreign, 59% of middle and senior cadres are foreign, and more than 92% of the employee team are foreign.
He Wei, front-line receptionist of Huaxi Village reception office, Guizhou, came to China Xicun has worked for 18 years. From the leaders of the Party and the state to ordinary tourists from all over the world, she receives 100,000 tourists a year.
He Wei told reporters that she used to be a national civil servant in her hometown and went to Huaxi Village to study and exercise. After the study period, she chose to stay and not go back.
He Wei said, "Huaxi Village has its own charm. The old secretary was still there at that time. I am very familiar with him. Working around him, I think there are many things in him that are worth learning from, but I am scarce. In today's terms, it is called positive energy. I think it is very good, positive, sunny and upward, and the economic development of Huaxi Village is really very attractive to me, so I resolutely stayed in this place. "
[Conclusion]
For the future, Huaxi Village has a clear goal. In the next five years, it will become a "rural city". It must have both urban quality and rural characteristics; furthermore, it must pursue excellent "century-year enterprises" and a happy "century-year village".
More than 50 years ago, the area of Huaxi Village was only 0.96 square kilometers, which is only one-millionth of my country's land area. Just like a drop of water is insignificant to the sea, the volume is small. But this drop of water is not ordinary. With the struggle and painstaking efforts of generations of Huaxi Villagers throughout their lives, it has become a living sample of China's rural reform and opening up, which contains infinite vitality. It is difficult to start a business, and it is even more difficult to maintain a business. The road I have walked for decades has not been smooth sailing, and Huaxi Village is also facing transformation and upgrading. Huaxi Village has not forgotten to explore and has not stopped reform. They have been firmly walking on the road.
"Wu Renbao studied the central government's documents and visited Hebei, Henan and other places. After returning, he made a bold decision: the land is not divided! Wu Xieen said that at that time, the country proposed that the country would be unified, and the division should be divided, and that the country would also hope that the country would develop according to the actual situation of the countryside. The old secretary followed the opinions of the people and contracted the land in the village to 30 farming experts, and the surplus labor would be added to the factory. In the busy season, the villagers would help together. This would solve the problem. The relationship between the two was improved.
From then on, Huaxi Village embarked on a unique road and went straight to industrialization.
In the existing industrial foundation, Huaxi Village continued to establish more than a dozen small enterprises such as small weaving factories and steel plate factories. In 1994, the country's large township enterprise Jiangsu Huaxi Group Co., Ltd. was established. In 1996, Huaxi Village realized that every family lived in villas and drove cars, becoming the richest in China One of the villages.
"Correction of Factory Secretary" has a lot of pressure
After entering the new century, Huaxi Village integrated with the 20 surrounding villages he helped in the past through one-point and five-unit approach, and the area expanded to 35 square kilometers. Two years later, Wu Xieen, who was 39 years old at the time, was elected Secretary of the Party Committee of Huaxi Village.
Wu Xieen came to power without saying a word, the first thing he did was to close the factory .
Wu Xieen did this. At that time, the Yangtze River Delta region with developed manufacturing industry had problems such as labor shortage, significant increase in land costs, and insufficient environmental capacity. For West China, which is dominated by steel, textile and chemical industries, these problems have not been revealed but are already potential.
Speaking of this experience, Wu Xieen also joked: "The people behind the scenes said that I was the secretary, and that is, the factory was closed. "But he didn't regret it, "I am this secretary, and I feel that the pressure is quite high. Where is the pressure? It's not the present, what should I do tomorrow if it's big. Because West China itself is at the forefront, we will also discover the problems we encounter earlier. "
There are three chemical factories in Dahua West, and there will be pollution. Wu Xieen's first contact was the chemical factory in Dahua West, and the factory manager dared not say anything in front of him. Wu Xieen didn't say much, but just arranged all the workers in the factory to work in other units of the group to work, and did not let them be laid off and unemployed due to the factory control. The factory manager was transferred to the group company to focus on environmental protection work. Wu Xieen said: "He has a deep understanding of pollution, and he will catch it better. This factory director is now in his 60s, and I haven't let him retire. Later he told me that he had asked the old secretary if he could not close the factory, which showed that he still had an idea in his mind at that time. But he was willing to tell me about this, which means he had figured it out and figured it out. "
In this way, during the 10 years since Wu Xieen took office, he gradually closed nine enterprises step by step.
Between 2004 and 2013, three good-performance steel rolling mills in Huaxi Village were successively closed, and nearly 5 million tons of steel rolling capacity was cut off by more than 1 million. Yang Yongchang, currently the chairman of Huaxi Steel Co., Ltd., still remembers the situation at that time. In his opinion, the biggest pressure brought to him by closing the factory was the employment problem of diversion personnel.
Yang Yongchang said: "In 2015, the steel industry and even the entire industry were not good, and I was under great pressure. As the top leader, I also want to take measures to reduce staff, but the secretary said that it cannot be reduced. We must consider the stability of society and take responsibility. Some of our West China, older and less educated people, will have a great impact on their family's life if they do not find a job. Some couples, such as 45 or 50 years old, and have children going to high school and college. The burden is quite heavy, after all, in the countryside. "
" At that time, we didn't understand, why did this rolling mill still make money? If you don’t make money in the future, you will be shut down. "Yang Yongchang recalled, but time quickly gave the answer. From 2013 to 2015, Yang Yongchang's steel company was also hit. Yang Yongchang continued, "But West China did not encounter major difficulties. Why? The main thing is that the transformation is early. At that time, the steel sector was not very good, but other sectors had relatively high returns and good efficiency, replacing traditional industries."
Agriculture, give way to industry and then become the protagonist
At present, West China Group is involved in tourism, agricultural products, finance, marine transportation, warehousing and logistics, mining resources and other fields. These emerging fields have become the world of the post-70s and post-80s.
In 2015, Huaxi Village, which was once committed to industrialization, opened up thousands of acres of rice fields and handed it over to several post-80s. Young people manage and farm.
Mei Zhenhua, now 38 years old. He was a major in steel and metallurgy. He returned to the village and joined the West China Steel Plant. He worked for 12 years. In 2016, he signed up for the selection of professional farmers in Huaxi Village. He was sent to Japan as the captain and 6 other young people to study and study modern planting with local farmers.
Mei Zhenhua said with emotion, "We born in the 1980s have very little dealing with land. There is no basic knowledge at all, let alone practice it. "
In this way, the laymen in the seven fields began to explore a new field. The process would not be smooth, as if it were expected. The seven people were almost driven back to China by the furious teacher because of an unintentional early work. "The first year of training was over, and we conducted an exam, with 100 points, and the theory of 10 points and 90 points. I seem to remember how many points I scored after 38 points, but the highest score was 45 points anyway. No one passed the qualification. "
This year is the third year of studying and studying rice cultivation. Their thousand acres of rice fields are full of vitality, and the rice grown has begun to emerge in the competition. The small team of 7 people has also expanded to 10 people. "Our team is all undergraduate or above. We have graduate students, some have returned from studying in Japan, and some have returned from studying in New Zealand. When doing this, young people can better accept the concept of modernization and better operate agricultural machinery, so that rice can have room for further improvement. ” Mei Zhenhua said.
"Foreigners" arrived in Huaxi Village
not only local young people have a world to show their strengths, but more and more young people from other places are coming. According to West China Group, the proportion of foreign employees in West China Group is gradually increasing. 39% of corporate executives are foreign, 59% of middle and senior cadres are foreign, and more than 92% of the employee team are foreign.
He Wei, front-line receptionist of Huaxi Village reception office, Guizhou, came to China Xicun has worked for 18 years. From the leaders of the Party and the state to ordinary tourists from all over the world, she receives 100,000 tourists a year.
He Wei told reporters that she used to be a national civil servant in her hometown and went to Huaxi Village to study and exercise. After the study period, she chose to stay and not go back.
He Wei said, "Huaxi Village has its own charm. The old secretary was still there at that time. I am very familiar with him. Working around him, I think there are many things in him that are worth learning from, but I am scarce. In today's terms, it is called positive energy. I think it is very good, positive, sunny and upward, and the economic development of Huaxi Village is really very attractive to me, so I resolutely stayed in this place. "
[Conclusion]
For the future, Huaxi Village has a clear goal. In the next five years, it will become a "rural city". It must have both urban quality and rural characteristics; furthermore, it must pursue excellent "century-year enterprises" and a happy "century-year village".
More than 50 years ago, the area of Huaxi Village was only 0.96 square kilometers, which is only one-millionth of my country's land area. Just like a drop of water is insignificant to the sea, the volume is small. But this drop of water is not ordinary. With the struggle and painstaking efforts of generations of Huaxi Villagers throughout their lives, it has become a living sample of China's rural reform and opening up, which contains infinite vitality. It is difficult to start a business, and it is even more difficult to maintain a business. The road I have walked for decades has not been smooth sailing, and Huaxi Village is also facing transformation and upgrading. Huaxi Village has not forgotten to explore and has not stopped reform. They have been firmly walking on the road.
