Village branch secretary develops aquaculture and brings out 700 fish owners.

"Li Zhishu, thank you so much. If it weren't for you, my fish culture wouldn't have developed to such a scale." In late July, Li Shenxue, Party Branch Secretary of Shiyu Village, Jiangbei Town, Luzhou City, Jiangyang District, Sichuan Province, went to the rice field of Wang Shibin, a large fish farmer in Ganba Village, Jiangbei Town, to check the breeding situation. Wang Shibin took Li Shenxue's hand and thanked him endlessly.

Li Shenxue, 60 years old this year, returned home after five years, caught up with the production team contracted collective fish pond, he contracted 5 acres. A year later, Li Shenxue benefited nearly 700 yuan from fish farming. After the expiration of the contract for 10 years, he earned more than 20,000 yuan. From this, Li Shenxue became a famous local fish farming expert.

"In 1992, Li Shenxue mobilized 6 comrades-in-arms to contract 60 mu reservoir fish farming in Fangshan Village of adjacent Kuangchang Town, creating net income of more than 600,000 yuan in 6 years."

However, the road to success is never smooth. After the contract period of Fangshan Reservoir ended, Li Shenxue contracted a reservoir in Xiaganba Village to try special fish breeding. Didn't expect only two months, died more than 1000 catties of fish, loss more than 7000 yuan. Since then, Li Shenxue successively went to Chengdu, Chongqing and other places to learn technology. After returning, 100,000 yuan was invested for six consecutive years to purchase Wuchang fish, mandarin fish and other special fry breeding from Guangdong, Hubei and other places.

Hard work pays off. Nine months later, Li Shenxue's famous fish was very popular as soon as they went on the market. Some fish had not been caught yet, so they were booked empty and earned more than 30,000 yuan in that year. Later, Li Shenxue raised famous special aquatic fish such as rouge, rock carp and Jiangtuan. Up to now, his annual income has reached more than 300,000 yuan.

After fish farming, many people around want to learn fish farming technology from Li Shen. In 2000, Li Shenxue took the lead in organizing 21 fish lovers to establish Jiangbei Special Aquaculture Professional Technology Association and served as president. Because of the trust of the masses, Li Shenxue was elected secretary of the Party branch of Ganba Village in 2004 and served as secretary of the Party branch of Shiyu Village at the end of 2015.

With the increase of farmers, in 2009, Li Shenxue established Kangda Aquaculture Professional Cooperative. After several years of development, the number of cooperative members has reached more than 600, the number of farmers has increased to nearly 700, the annual output value of the cooperative has reached 38 million yuan, radiation has driven more than 1500 farmers to develop more than 5000 mu of rice field fish farming, and the average income per household has increased by 23,000 yuan. Relying on the cooperative, villagers have gradually embarked on the road to prosperity. In April 2015, Li Shenxue was also awarded the title of "National Model Worker" for enriching the people.

Yuan Yuhua