Meiling Village was formerly known as "Weiling". It was originally a remote mountain village where everyone went out and the land was not even equal. The ancestors of Weiling people lived a life that was almost isolated from the world. The lights were unclear and the roads were b

Guan Yihong, who was the first student of Meiling Middle School, returned to his alma mater to teach. Photo by Wu Guanbiao

China News Network Quanzhou , November 20 (Wu Guanbiao) Crossing the mountains and crossing the mountains and walking into Meiling Village, deep in the forest of Yongchun, Quanzhou, Fujian. The house has red walls and green tiles, the roads are flat and wide, and the surrounding green trees are hidden. Meiling Middle School, the "Pearl of the Deep Mountains" is located in it. The sound of books from time to time brings vitality to this peaceful and prosperous village.

Meiling Village was formerly known as "Weiling". It was originally a remote mountain village where everyone went out and the land was not even equal. The ancestors of Weiling people lived a life that was almost isolated from the world. The lights were unclear and the roads were blocked. Many villagers were so poor that they could not afford salt, so they could only rely on wild vegetables and fruits to satisfy their hunger.

Education is a business card in the entrepreneurial history of Meiling Village. The picture shows Meiling Middle School. Photo by Wu Guanbiao

"In the Spring Festival of 1980, villagers killed a pig and carried it to sell it from house to house. It couldn't be sold out in a week." Su Qingquan, general manager of Quanzhou Meiling Group Co., Ltd., recalled that since the reform and opening up of , Meiling Village, led by the old branch secretary Su Xintian, built power stations, built roads, developed village-run enterprises, got out of poverty and moved towards prosperity.

As a witness and practitioner of the rural revitalization of Meiling Village, Su Qingquan believes that Meiling Village has gone from nothing to something, from a particularly difficult village to a star village across the country, is inseparable from the east wind of reform and opening up, and also from the hard-working spirit of generations of Meiling people to be the first, self-reliant, and hard-working.

From the beginning, the material manufacturing factory, the plywood factory, the carton factory, the cement factory, to the many industrial chains covering cement, electricity, tourism, education, etc., it has more than 3 billion yuan in village-run collective enterprise - Meiling Group. Every step of the way has made Meiling Village's basic supporting facilities more perfect, the villagers' pockets are richer and their lives are happier. Today, Meiling Village is a well-known and prosperous village in the province.

Education is a business card in the entrepreneurship history of Meiling Village. Many children in Meiling Village and surrounding areas have lost their learning opportunities or are inconvenient to school due to poverty or long roads. In 2000, Meiling Village founded Meiling Middle School. This "pearl of deep mountains" built on the filled valley ignited the fire of hope for the surrounding children.

Meiling Middle School teacher introduced the entrepreneurial history of Meiling Village. Photo by Wu Guanbiao

Vice Principal of Meiling Middle School Yihong is the first student of Meiling Middle School and one of the beneficiaries of Meiling Middle School’s teaching and learning. "I was born in Guangshan Village next to Meiling Village. My family was poor since I was a child. After entering Meiling Middle School, I always looked forward to the monthly exam. The top-ranked scholarships in the exam were enough to support my living expenses at that time. After graduating from high school, the school's scholarships allowed me to go to college, greatly reducing the burden on my parents."

Because of my gratitude, Guan Yihong gave up his job in Nanjing in 2011 and returned to Meiling Middle School to teach with his wife. "There are several teachers in the school, like me, who all come back after graduation. We can understand that it is difficult for the school to run schools, and we also want to do our best to help more rural children learn their skills and get out of the mountains."

It is understood that after more than 20 years of cultivation, Meiling Village has successively founded Yongchun Meiling Middle School , Meiling Primary School and Meiling Kindergarten to form an integrated school management model. Meiling Group allocates 25 million yuan every year to teach and learn. The education cause is thriving.

"Industrial development is the basic guarantee for Meiling to move towards prosperity. It is a major goal of Meiling to achieve industrial upgrading and transformation on the basis of existing industries." said Su Yonggang, Secretary of the Party Committee of Meiling Village. Meiling Smart Park Investment Promotion Center under the planning of

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At present, Meiling Group seizes the policy opportunity to accelerate the transformation and upgrading of industrial enterprises' "returning to the city and entering the park", expands the industrial sector of the "digital smart park", and plans to build the "Miling Smart Industrial Park" Yongchun "Meiling Smart Industrial Park". The industrial park is expected to be put into operation by the end of next year, and a smart ecosystem will be built to meet the production and operation needs of different small and micro enterprises. (End)