Sun Shihe's Return Road to Traditional Chinese Medicine Industry

There is such a person, he gave up the superior life of the big city, returned to his hometown; he put down the original thriving business, resolutely led the villagers into the traditional Chinese medicine industry, opened up the road to prosperity. In Xiayingzi Village, Luanping County, Chengde City, Hebei Province, there is no villager who does not give a thumbs up when he mentions Sun Shihe's name. With Sun Shihe's continuous efforts, Yanshan (Luanping) Traditional Chinese Medicine Economic Core Demonstration Zone in Hebei Province has been settled in Xiayingzi Village, and Chinese Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine has taken it as the largest and most complete resource protection and exhibition base of traditional Chinese medicine varieties in the north, focusing on building it.

Sun Shihe (illustrated in the picture) introduced the development of traditional Chinese medicine industry in Xiaying Village to the visiting delegation

Chinese herbal medicine planting, one place produces four gold

As an entrepreneur who went out from Jinshanling, he decided to return to his hometown to invest in the development of traditional Chinese medicine industry after his career was successful. Such behavior is inevitably puzzling. Recalling the original decision, Sun Shihe still feels a lot.

At the age of 30, Sun Shihe walked out of Xiayingzi Village. Through years of hard work, his career finally achieved success. However, in Sun Shihe's heart, hometown is always a special feeling that can not be erased from his heart. Every year, no matter how busy he is, Sun Shihe will take time to return to the village for a short stay. In the process of renovating the old house, Sun Shihe saw Xiayingzi Village, which had not changed obviously for decades, and a complicated and solemn mood came to his heart for a while.

"When my father was alive, he used to say to me,'A brave man protects three villages', but I didn't know what that meant before. When I returned to the village, I saw that the place where I was born and raised was still the same. The villagers did not live well, not because they were lazy, but because they could not find work. In the process of renovating the old house, the younger generation in the village said they wanted me to help them find some work. I saw anticipation in their eyes, and I agreed without thinking." Sun Shihe said.

As promised, in order to help Xiayingzi Village completely take off the label of "backward" and live up to the expectations of the villagers, Sun Shihe put down his thriving career outside and personally returned to the village for investigation. In the investigation, Sun Shihe found that the villagers of Xiayingzi Village could not earn money only by farming land. "The cost of farming an acre of land is more than 50 yuan, the purchase of seeds, fertilizer needs more than 200 yuan, plus a lot of labor costs, from spring sowing to autumn harvest, after the grain is sold, we often have to lose money." In the long run, no villagers will be willing to farm properly." Finding the crux, Sun Shihe began to plan specific ways to help villagers become rich.

Because Luanping County has a good tradition of planting traditional Chinese medicine since ancient times, and there are many relatives engaged in traditional Chinese medicine in his family, Sun Shihe has the idea of relying on traditional Chinese medicine planting as a breakthrough point for villagers to become rich. At this time, the state issued a series of policies to support the development of agriculture and traditional Chinese medicine industry. Sun Shihe set up a farm in Xiayingzi Village, which is now Chengde Jiucai Agricultural Trade Development Co., Ltd., formally investing in the development of traditional Chinese medicine planting industry.

From returning to the village at the end of 2014 to today, under the drive of Sun Shihe, Xiayingzi Village has undergone earth-shaking changes. Through the cultivation of traditional Chinese medicine, the annual income of villagers in Xiayingzi Village has increased several times. In addition, the existing traditional Chinese medicine planting park in Xiayingzi Village covers an area of 2220 mu. 56 kinds of traditional Chinese medicinal materials such as Baicao Shensheng, Qingxiang Yiyuan, Baikal skullcap root, Astragalus membranaceus, phellodendron bark, Sophora flavescens, etc. constitute a set of scenery scroll, and extend the panoramic ecological chain of "agriculture + industry","agriculture + tourism" and "enterprise + farmer household".

With Sun Shihe's unremitting efforts, the villagers realized their wish of producing four gold in one place."The company rents the villagers 'land for planting traditional Chinese medicine, and will pay the villagers rent; the villagers come to the company to work, and will pay the villagers salary; the villagers have shares in the company; and the farmhouse tour driven by the development of the company can also enable the villagers to earn cash." Sun Shihe said proudly. Not only that, the village labor force came to work in the company of "home", the children in the village were no longer left-behind children, and the elderly in the village also received due support, all of which seemed far more important than "one place produces four gold" in Sun Shihe's eyes.

A Scene of Economic Core Demonstration Area of Traditional Chinese Medicine in Yanshan (Luanping), Hebei Province

Be authentic, grow authentic medicine

Through Sun Shihe's unremitting efforts and the hard work of the villagers of Xiayingzi Village, Chengde Jiucai Agricultural Trade Development Co., Ltd. established by Sun Shihe not only drives the development of Xiayingzi Village and Luanping County by relying on traditional Chinese medicine planting, but also becomes a shining "business card" of traditional Chinese medicine planting industry in Hebei Province.

From December 2014 to March 2015, led by Chengde City Agriculture and Animal Husbandry Bureau, it was finally determined to build Yanshan (Luanping) Chinese herbal medicine economic core demonstration zone in Hebei Province in Xiayingzi Village, Luanping County by relying on Chengde Jiucai Agricultural Trade Development Co., Ltd. within four months. At the same time, the Chinese Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine has also determined that Xiayingzi Village will be built as the largest and most complete variety resource protection and exhibition base in the north. Today's Xiayingzi Village has a lot of honors in one, unlimited scenery. All this stems from Sun Shihe's rule of "being a genuine person and planting genuine medicine".

"Traditional Chinese medicine is the quintessence of our country, but why in recent years our country's traditional Chinese medicine resources have not been well inherited, the fundamental reason is that 'traditional Chinese medicine is destroyed by medicine, traditional Chinese medicine is destroyed by seeds'. Nowadays, there are fewer and fewer wild Chinese medicinal materials, and most of the Chinese medicinal materials planted use chemical pesticides. In the long run, traditional Chinese medicine has suffered a serious blow from its roots." In addition, the family's experience strengthened Sun Shihe's determination to plant good medicine. Sun Shihe said,"My sister once visited a Chinese medicine factory in the south and found that a large number of Chinese medicines exported from the factory were returned due to excessive pesticide residues. The words of the factory director,'Fortunately, there is no standard in China', deeply hurt my heart. From then on, I made up my mind not to use a drop of pesticide for my Chinese medicine."

At present, the traditional Chinese medicine planted in Xiayingzi Village relies on insect killing lamps and sticky insect boards, and organic fertilizer is used as fertilizer. At the same time, Sun Shihe did not satisfy the traditional planting mode, but also set up intercropping of agriculture and medicine, intercropping of fruit and medicine, intercropping of medicine and medicine, and achieved success. Sun Shihe's "stubbornness" has also received its due return.

Through the strict management of Sun Shihe and the multi-support of government departments, the demonstration area has taken shape by creating four major sectors, namely, experimental demonstration, standardized planting, origin processing, tourism and sightseeing health preservation, as well as four systems, namely, scientific and technological research and development, standardized production, quality traceability and marketing. At the same time, it has also driven the standardized, large-scale and ecological planting area of more than 51,800 mu of new traditional Chinese medicinal materials in Luanping County.

In addition, the Chinese Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine is also deepening cooperation with demonstration areas. At present, a 200-mu improved seed breeding base has been built, which will focus on the research and development of improved seeds of traditional Chinese medicine. In addition, the soil improvement project of traditional Chinese medicine is also under way. Sun Shihe said: "In the future, through cooperation with the Chinese Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine and relevant departments, the demonstration area will form a whole industrial chain from traditional Chinese medicine planting to patent medicine."

The forefathers planted trees, but the posterity also enjoyed the cool

August 18, 2016,"Hebei Province first Chinese herbal medicine industry development conference" in Hebei Province Chengde City Luanping County grand opening. During the conference, many leaders of Hebei Province Agriculture Department and other departments, representatives of traditional Chinese medicine planting in Hebei Province and representatives of traditional Chinese medicine enterprises in Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region specially observed Hebei Yanshan (Luanping) Traditional Chinese Medicine Economic Core Demonstration Zone.

After the conference was successfully held, Sun Shihe would receive dozens of calls every day, some talking about cooperation, some exchanging experience, some buying medicinal herbs..."The Chinese herbal medicine industry development conference will push Xiayingzi Village to the whole country!" Sun Shihe said excitedly.

Ever since he planted Chinese medicine, Sun Shihe would walk around the herbal field every evening. Looking at the mountain of herbs, he felt unspeakably comfortable. As the state has issued a number of policies to support the development of traditional Chinese medicine industry, Sun Shihe also has his own plans. "At present, traditional Chinese medicine has welcomed a new opportunity for development. With this opportunity, I want to leave more things for future generations." According to Sun Shihe's idea, it will take five years to plant all the land in Xiayingzi Village with traditional Chinese medicine and strive to restore it to the scale of the former royal medicine village.

"I have invested 50 million yuan in Xiayingzi Village at present, and I will invest another 50 million yuan next year. I hope that through my efforts, all the villagers in the village will become industrial workers, so that the next generation in the village will no longer suffer." According to Sun Shihe's words: "I came out of the folds of the mountain and returned to the folds of the mountain. This is my home, my root is here, my heart is here, and my dream is here." I want to hug the villagers into a group, twist into a rope, and work together to fight for a well-off life. I have no regrets about this land's upbringing."