Yan'an, Shaanxi Province: raising chickens is a great plan to rise the industry.

Zhang Zhilong, 37, took the village official exam in 2010 and was assigned to Jiaokouhe Town, Luochuan County. Over the past six years, he has actively contacted the relevant departments of the county to fight for 32000 yuan in poverty alleviation funds for poor families in Lingqian Village and Yanxianhe Village. In April 2016, he personally contributed more than 8000 yuan to buy young chickens for nine poor families in Yanxianhe village, and actively ran around for the egg sales of poor families to help villagers shake off poverty and become rich. He has been appraised as "outstanding university student village official", "outstanding Communist Party member", "model for getting rid of poverty" and so on.

What has been promised to the villagers will be done.

"Zhilong, there you are!" Recently, the reporter and Zhang Zhilong came to Li Wentang, a farmer in Xianhe Village. When he saw us, Li Wentang greeted us with a smile and invited us into the house for tea. After entering the room, while making tea on the stove, he talked to us about the situation at home. This is a large family of eight people, old and young. In the past, the family's source of income was nine mu of orchards. Although the number is quite large, because it is located in the Sichuan area, the temperature and light are worse than those on the plateau, so in a year, the income is also very small. "later, the government of Jiaokouhe Town sent us Zhang Zhilong, who paid his own money to buy chickens for the poor families in our village, and now our life is much easier." Li Wentang said happily.

Talking about his original intention of buying chickens for farmers, Zhang Zhilong said: "after taking office, I learned that several chicken farmers in the village could not finish their eggs, so they wanted me to help ask who asked for native eggs. After I sent it out on moments, I found that there were quite a lot of people I wanted, and soon the eggs were sold out. As soon as I thought that the market for native eggs was not bad, I wanted to let these farmers raise more chickens and sell more eggs, so that they could earn more income. " Zhang Zhilong said that in March last year, when he had this idea, he went to the civil affairs bureau and the poverty alleviation office in the county to find out if there was a policy to help in this respect, and finally learned that he had to pay for the money to buy chickens in the early stage. only when there is a scale will there be some help policies. Zhang Zhilong said: "there is no source of funds, thinking that he has said the matter of expanding the scale of raising chickens for farmers, and promised the villagers, even if they pay for it, they must do it." After tossing and turning for more than a month, he asked around and finally bought a "Hongke chicken" with a higher survival rate in Fuping County. Zhang Zhilong paid for 450 chickens for poor families, which were taken back to the village and distributed to nine villagers. When Liu Baiqi, the village director, heard this, he could not help interrupting: "I know about buying chickens. Zhilong has really taken the trouble to get in touch with each other for more than a month. He has really done a great good thing and practical work for our village!"

Native chickens lay "golden eggs"

Talking about this year's "great plan" for raising chickens, Zhang Zhilong said confidently that it is necessary to expand the scale, contact some supermarkets and canteens, let these regular customers purchase eggs and live chickens in the village, and retail through a formal e-commerce platform, and strive to hit the sign of "Yanxian native eggs" this year.

At this time, Li Wentang's wife put several plates of eggs on the top of the Kang and discussed the egg packaging with Zhang Zhilong. Because Li Wentang's family sells authentic native eggs, Zhang Zhilong wants to highlight this feature with earthen gray tones, but Li Wentang's wife feels that the packaging is not bright enough and the brand name of the eggs is not big enough, so they express their own views and find it difficult to come to a conclusion. Zhang Zhilong has made a lot of efforts in order to better sell "Yan Xian River native eggs". He asked someone to design a packaging box, advertise in his circle of friends, give full play to his expertise in sales, and send more than a dozen plates of eggs to the farmers' market in the county. They sold out in just three days, and the price was still considerable. Nowadays, as long as someone asks for eggs in moments, Zhang Zhilong will drive to the farmer's house to pick them up. In the words of Li Wentang, "regardless of three or five plates, Zhilong will drive to pick them up. He is the egg 'sales manager' of our village!"

According to Li Wentang, the total number of chickens of all farmers in the village has doubled compared with that of last year, and the daily output of each household is more than 50 eggs, with an average of 1.3 yuan per egg, with an income of more than 60 yuan a day. It is no longer a problem to solve the daily living expenses.

Zhang Yunpeng, deputy mayor of Jiaokouhe Town, said with emotion: "our Luochuan apple is a big industry, and breeding is a small chain. Zhang Zhilong helps farmers develop the chicken industry, which does not affect farmers' farm work, small investment and quick results."

In this poor village deep in the Luo River canyon, the scattered vegetation and rugged valleys seem to have a little more vitality and hope because of this group of Hongke chickens twittering around for food.

Before leaving, Zhang Zhilong received a phone call that someone asked for two big cocks. Zhang Zhilong and Li Wentang's son went into the henhouse together, skillfully grabbed the two big cocks and put them into the box, and handed 200 yuan to Li Wentang's hand.