The Happy year of "swineherd" Li Xiaogang

"this day is really getting better and better. I really want to thank today's good policy!" Recently, Li Xiaogang, who lives in Yantian Village, Yangxi Town, Anfu County, said happily that his family had moved into a three-story new house during the Spring Festival this year, and their pockets were bulging. He told the reporter that because of raising pigs, he finally took off his "poor hat" and became a model for poverty alleviation in the village, and now life will be better and better.

Li Xiaogang, 42, a family of five, has only one laborer, two children go to school, his mother is nearly 70 years old, and his wife suffered from severe systemic lupus erythematosus in 2010, losing the ability to work, spending tens of thousands of yuan a year on medical treatment alone, making it even worse for the poor family, forcing the construction of a new one-story building in his family to stop. In order to earn money to cure his wife's illness, in 2015, he saw that his wife's condition improved slightly, so he went out to work with the migrant workers in the village, but because of lack of education and skills, he did not earn much money a year, and life became more and more difficult.

At the beginning of 2016, Yangxi Town sounded the horn of the battle against poverty, stepped up efforts to help the poor, and vigorously promoted poverty alleviation by industry, finance, photovoltaic industry, employment, and capital integration. We will build poverty alleviation models such as "industry + poor households" and "cooperatives + poor households". After seeing the situation of Li Xiaogang's family, he helped the cadres to plan a "industry + poor households" road to get rid of poverty and become rich. Li Xiaogang recalled that when the village cadres came to his home, he expressed two wishes: one is to build a new pig house to expand the scale of raising pigs, and the other is to buy a plow machine to help others make money from cultivated land. Li Xiaogang did not expect that his wish would soon come true. The first secretary gave Li Xiaogang a discount loan to buy him a ploughing machine, helped cadres raise 10,000 yuan from the unit and donated to him a new pig house. Li Xiaogang's confidence in getting rid of poverty has greatly increased. Over the past year, he has bought 40 pigs in stages and embarked on the road of raising and starting a business to get rid of poverty.

Li Xiaogang told the reporter cheerfully: "I raised pigs while I cultivated land for others. I made money easily at home, not to mention how happy I am!" The price of pork is good this year. The average net profit of each pig is about 700 yuan. 40 pigs earn nearly 30,000 yuan a year, 4,000 to 5,000 yuan for arable land for others, and more than 30,000 yuan for the whole of 2016. Now the money for the wife's treatment has been settled, the main project of the house has finally been built, and the whole family has had a happy New year in the new house. Next, he is going to continue to raise pigs, try to earn more money and decorate the house.

According to statistics, in 2016, the number of poverty alleviation in Yangxi Town was 189 households and 609 people. Among them, 38 households have been lifted out of poverty, with an average annual income of 3800 yuan per capita.