Chen Guofu,"King of Camellia oleifera" in Luxi County, Hunan Province, leads the people out of poverty

Nothing is more touching than sending charcoal in the snow and umbrellas in the rain. Chen Guofu, a peasant party member in Manziping Village, Heshui Town, Luxi County, never forgets his party's gratitude when he gets rich, does not forget all the villagers before he gets rich, and gives true feelings to the poor people, isn't it the umbrella in the rain and the charcoal in the snow? With his selfless true feelings and his own practical actions, he composed a passionate hymn of getting rich first and leading the poor people to get rich. This song will always be sung and reverberated in the land of western Hunan.

On August 17, accompanied by the main person in charge of the poverty alleviation office of the county, facing the slight autumn wind, the author stepped on the ten thousand mu ecological camellia base in Heshui Town, Luxi County, in the depths of the mountain. Shili tea garden is green, the tea forest all over the mountain is lush, and the camellia is budding, fragrant and full of autumn harvest flavor. Chen Guofu, a peasant party member of the town's Manziping village, and the villagers are weeding, pruning and fertilizing Camellia oleifera in the Camellia oleifera garden.

After Chen Guofu became rich in business, he actively devoted himself to the development of Camellia oleifera, helped the poor people around him to develop Camellia oleifera and became rich, and organized and set up a professional cooperative of Guofu Camellia oleifera in Heshui Town, which specializes in planting, processing and selling Camellia oleifera. In the decisive victory in the battle to get rid of poverty, he constantly promoted the innovation of the mechanism of poverty alleviation and poverty alleviation, actively built an interest linkage mechanism of "benefit sharing" between capable people in economic organizations and poor farmers, and found a new way to successfully drive the poor farmers around them to get rich.

Heshui Town is the "hometown of Camellia oleifera" in Luxi, while Chen Guofu is a famous "Camellia oleifera King" in the county. In recent years, the series of tea and oil products developed by it sell well in provincial markets and supermarkets, as well as Beijing, Shanghai, Guangdong and other provinces and cities because of their good quality. Relying on growing Camellia oleifera, Chen Guofu led a prosperous life, which has become a benchmark for local poverty alleviation and poverty alleviation.

Chen Guofu, who became rich first, did not forget his fellow villagers. He said: "only I am rich does not mean a well-off society. Only if we let the villagers walk out of the mountains in the development of tea and oil in the 'hometown of Camellia oleifera,' walk into thousands of households in metropolises, drum up everyone's pockets, and take off their hats to get rid of poverty, we will be well-off in an all-round way."

In March 2012, Chen Guofu set up a tea oil processing plant in Heshui Town and established a professional cooperative for the development of Camellia oleifera. With the support of Luxi County Poverty Alleviation and Development Office, Finance Bureau, Forestry Bureau and other departments, Chen Guofu planted comprehensively and scientifically and processed Camellia oleifera, and the scale of cooperatives continued to grow. Today, cooperatives have built a new high-yield Camellia oleifera base of 2400 mu. In 2015 alone, cooperatives sold more than 80 tons of tea and oil, with operating income exceeding 7.2 million yuan.

The scale of the cooperative industrial park is growing, and a comprehensive ecological Camellia oleifera industrial park has been built, which integrates breeding, sightseeing, leisure and tourism. At present, there are more than 260 pigs, more than 800 pigs are raised annually, with an income of more than 2.6 million yuan, and more than 700 pheasants are sold annually, with an income of more than 210000 yuan. When Camellia oleifera blossoms in November, many tourists come to the Camellia oleifera Garden for sightseeing. "I intend to use three years to expand the planting area of Camellia oleifera to more than 5000 mu, with an annual output of more than 5000 tons and an annual output value of more than 30 million yuan." Chen Guofu said confidently.

There are a total of 1103 households and 5017 people in Ganziping Village and Xizhou Village, Heshui Town, of which 1720 are poor, and nearly 40% of the population is in a state of poverty. As most of the young adults go out to work, the barren mountains and wasteland of the two villages cover an area of more than 6000 mu.

Chen Guofu saw it in his eyes and worried about it in his heart. On the one hand, farmers live in poverty with Jinshan, and on the other, cooperatives are in urgent need of expanding their scale. How to effectively integrate the two? After careful consideration, Chen Guofu decided to adopt the method of buying shares in land to encourage farmers to join cooperatives with barren mountains and wasteland, and farmers who buy shares with land can also enjoy 20% of the profits of Camellia oleifera base after producing benefits in the cooperative base. in this way, farmers can not only enjoy rent but also share dividends, at the same time, farmers can also work in front of their homes and work to get rich. The purchase of land shares received a positive response from the vast number of farmers, and farmers from the two villages enthusiastically participated. Soon more than 380 farmers transferred to 2020 mu of land, and the annual rent of the transferred land reached 55000 yuan. Chen Guofu's move not only enriches others, but also enriches himself, invigorates barren mountains and wasteland, and brings wealth to the villagers.

On the way to leading the poor people to become rich, apart from the ownership of land, are there any other feasible ways to help the poor people shake off poverty and become rich? In 2015, Luxi County Poverty Alleviation and Development Office conducted a pilot project of Camellia oleifera industry to help poverty alleviation in Heshui Town. This is a rare opportunity. Chen Guofu seized this opportunity and assumed the important task of entrusting assistance, adopting the new model of "company + base + farmers + poverty alleviation". Poor farmers bought shares with poverty alleviation funds and applied to join cooperatives, and cooperatives signed assistance agreements with poor farmers who joined the cooperatives. According to the agreement, 25% of the poverty alleviation funds entrusted for assistance will be used for the development of Camellia oleifera professional cooperatives, and 75% will be used for the development of Camellia oleifera professional cooperatives, 75% for Camellia oleifera base, before the fruit of Camellia oleifera, the poor farmers who invest in the entrusted assistance funds have the right to give priority to working. After the income of Camellia oleifera, 20% of the profits will be used to share the dividend every year, and the assistance will be entrusted until 2050. After that, 1720 people in Manziping and Xizhou Village, 3.1 million yuan of poverty alleviation funds were invested in the cooperative, which was uniformly managed by the cooperative and used to develop the Camellia oleifera industry.

"leading to help poor farmers buy shares and make them really become shareholders. In 2015 alone, a large number of poor villagers increased their income by working in the Camellia oleifera base on their doorstep, took off the hat of poverty and realized their dream of being well-off." Chen Guofu said.

In the past two years, the poverty alleviation office of Luxi County invested more than 4 million yuan in poverty alleviation funds to build an ecological Camellia oleifera demonstration park in Heshui, entrusted the county's rich oil-tea professional cooperatives to transfer 2020 mu of land to poor households, and carried out standardized operation and management of production and processing as a whole. through the transfer of land into shares and dividends, the annual per capita net income of 1720 poor households reached 9000 to 16000 yuan.

Great love is speechless. During the difficult years when Chen Guofu was rich first and then rich later, with his enthusiasm for the party and selfless dedication to the masses, he took one step at a time, using his whole body and mind to practice the purpose of excellent Communist Party members and led the villagers to lead a good life. at present, under his leadership, the villagers of the two villages are striding onto the sunny road of a well-off society in an all-round way.