Eight years ago, she led the villagers to plant walnuts and blaze a way to get rich.

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Zhang Wenying Branch Secretary of Yangjiahe Village, Zhuyang Town, Lingbao City

"Growing fruit trees takes energy and is not durable. Old people can't afford it, and walnut trees are the best choice."

Yangjiahe Village, Zhuyang Town, Lingbao City, an old village with an average altitude of more than 650 meters, ushered in a bumper harvest of walnuts this year. Whether in the mountains or in the village, when villagers meet, they talk most about walnuts, and think most about walnuts. Frequent rain after summer makes the particles on the trees more full, and also makes Zhang Wenying, secretary of the branch of Yangjiahe Village, full of longing.

She has the habit of writing a diary every day. Ten years ago, she had just held a post in the village committee. The per capita annual income recorded in her diary was only more than 6000 yuan. Ten years later, it is expected to reach 15,000 yuan. The biggest boost after that was the gradual scale of the walnut industry.

Zhang Wenying chose to plant walnuts at the beginning, not on a whim, but after careful consideration. At that time, the young people in the village basically went out to work, planting fruit trees needed a lot of work, the old people in the village could not afford it. Walnut trees, on the other hand, do not need to spend too much energy and can be preserved. After following the town government to investigate walnut planting in other places, in 2008, Zhang Wenying led the village, became the town's first crab eating, planted a large area of walnut trees.

Walnut trees bear fruit for five years. By 2012 and 2013, walnut trees bore fruit in large areas, and villagers 'pockets gradually bulged. From the initial 5000 mu, gradually developed to 6700 mu. Last year, the village walnut income of more than 1 million yuan, realizing per capita income of 850 yuan. At the same time, Yangjiahe Village has also cultivated and strengthened tobacco leaves, traditional Chinese medicinal materials, corn and other industries. The net income per capita of villagers is expected to reach 15,000 yuan this year.

In 2013 and 2014, Zhang Wenying installed 45 street lamps for the village, planted 300 landscape trees, planted more than 10,000 winter jasmine flowers and orchids along the road, encouraged the masses to raise funds to harden the laneway, and built cultural fitness square, badminton square and basketball court.