In late autumn, when you walk into Jinxing Village, Jinpo Township, Baili Rhododendron Management District, Bijie City, the rolling mountains are colorful and beautiful.
Forest Ranger Wang Guoyou had lunch, took a scimitar and went out to patrol the mountain. "Although autumn and winter are not the season for fires to occur, we cannot be careless." Wang Guoyou said that the forests all over the mountain are the treasures of the whole village.
Baili Rhododendron Jinxing Village autumn scenery (drone photo)
Once upon a time, Wang Guoyou was a poor household in the village. "My left eye was injured when I was a child and I could no longer see brightness. My daughter-in-law was sick for a long time. The family relied on her son to work outside to make a living. She lived a tight life." Wang Guoyou said, "Now I am a forest ranger, with a monthly salary of 800 yuan, and my income is stable."
Now in Jinxing Village, 16 poor people have become forest rangers like Wang Guoyou and have a stable income. Some people also relied on a good ecological development of the forest economy and removed the hat of poverty.
Relying on the ecology to get rid of poverty and become rich, Wang Guoyou dared not think about this before.
Jinxing Village is located in the mountains and ridges, with several villager groups scattered in the trenches. "At the end of the last century, there were not many trees on the mountain, and I was most afraid of the rainy season every year. When heavy rain came, floods rush down from the mountain with sand and stones, destroying crops and destroying houses." Recalling the past appearance of the village, Yang Shaorong, secretary of the village party branch, lowered his head.
Forest Ranger Forest Ranger
If you don’t plant trees, Jinxing Village will not be able to make a way out. In 2000, the country increased its efforts to build ecological construction in the western region. Yang Shaorong immediately organized villagers to green and afforestation and urged to break the boundaries between groups and households. In accordance with the principle of "who afforests, who manages, and who benefits", the masses were encouraged to contract for tree planting in barren mountains and implement returning farmland to forests, and the masses were motivated to plant trees with unprecedented height.
Clean dead branches for trees
Seedlings transportation loss and transportation cost are too high. Yang Shaorong went to the county Forestry Bureau to buy ponytail pine seeds, and hired people to dig rock ash to make nutritional lump seedlings. He successfully raised more than 200,000 seedlings, all of which were distributed to everyone for planting free of charge.
For more than ten years, the people of Jinxing Village have planted more than 3,000 acres of seedlings such as cypress , Huashan pine , and ponytail pine on barren hills and slopes. Dozens of hills of all sizes in the village are covered with green clothes. "Including more than 1,700 acres of natural forests and 3,452 acres of forest land that later returned farmland to forests, the current forest coverage rate of Jinxing Village has reached 85.37%. "Looking at the green all over the mountains, Yang Shaorong said happily.
Newly planted money pine on the hillside
"The land has been returned to the forest, liberated the labor force, young and middle-aged people have gone out to work, and the people's income has been rising." Yang Shaorong said that the people at home are growing konjac and potatoes under the forest, raising cattle and beekeeping, and their income is many times better than in the past.
What makes the whole village happier is that in 2017, a company was responsible for the implementation of the 3452 acres of forest land that returned farmland to forests. All the plants were planted were pine trees. The whole body of this kind of tree was treasured. The wood has high economic value. The seeds can be squeezed oil, and the skin and roots can be used as medicine. The benefits will be seen in 8 years. "At that time, we will have another source of income." Wang Guoyou said.
The green village
Now, the 8,250 acres of forest in Jinxing Village are worth more than 70 million yuan, and the per capita village is as high as 52,000 yuan. "Ecology alone has brought more than 600,000 yuan of village collective economy to our village, allowing our village to successfully remove the title of "empty shell village". The poor people in the village enjoy ecological dividends, and by combining the development of the forest economy with going out to work, they have removed the poverty label. Last year, the per capita income of the whole village reached more than 8,200 yuan." Yang Shaorong said. (Guizhou Daily Tianyan News reporter Xie Chaozheng and Wang Ruiliang)
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