Zhou Lianhua returned to his hometown to start a business, a female village official brought rich villagers.

In Shuzhuang Township, Shangshui County, Henan Province, the mention of family planning specialist Zhou Lianhua in Dazhuzhuang Village is a household name. This village cadre not only did a good job in his job, but also set up toy factories, farmers' planting cooperatives, and planting and breeding three-dimensional ecological parks, all of which were flourishing.

Zhou Lianhua, 40, worked in a toy factory in Dongguan, Guangdong 10 years ago. After returning to his hometown in 2009, he invested 400000 yuan to set up a Junsheng toy factory with the help of the Township Family Planning Association, placing 60 left-behind women in the village to work in the factory. Over the past two years, Zhou Lianhua has set up three toy factories, creating employment opportunities for more than 300 women of childbearing age in this village and neighboring villages. At the same time, through open competition, Zhou Lianhua became a specialist in family planning in Dazhuzhuang Village.

The employees of the toy factory are all women of childbearing age. Zhou Lianhua, relying on the toy factory, often carries out national policy education for women of childbearing age, and the office of the toy factory also sets aside space for family planning bookcases to provide relevant publicity materials, magazines on population and family planning, contraceptives, and so on. Over the past few years, the family planning work in Dazhuzhuang Village has been in the advanced ranks of the township, and has been praised by the city and county population and Family Planning Commission.

When he became a village cadre, Zhou Lianhua felt that it was all the more necessary to lead the masses to become rich. In recent years, Zhou Lianhua has made a lot of efforts to this end. At present, the toy factory she founded has grown to four. More than 200 women of childbearing age in this village alone have entered the factory to work, with a per capita annual income of more than 30,000 yuan.

Most of the young and strong laborers in Dazhuzhuang village went out to work, and some fields were forced to be "abandoned." Zhou Lianhua transferred the 100-mu "abandoned" land at the head of the village at a rent of 1000 yuan per mu. Zhou Lianhua went to the Fruit Tree Research Institute of Henan Academy of Agricultural Sciences to consult experts and learned that the market prospect of new varieties of thin-skinned walnut was good, so he introduced 150 mu of walnut seedlings and planted 100 mu of walnut seedlings himself, and another 50 mu of walnut seedlings were provided to 10 families in the village for planting. Now, 150 mu of walnuts have begun to hang fruit. As soon as it came on the market, it sold for 40 yuan per kilogram. Zhou Lianhua led 10 family planning families to plant watermelons and onions in the walnut orchard, earning more than 3000 yuan per mu of land a year.

After the walnut trees grew up, melons and vegetables could no longer be grown in the walnut orchard, and Zhou Lianhua changed to raising ecological egg ducks in the walnut orchard. With the support and help of the Township Family Planning Association, she invested 160000 yuan to raise more than 3000 egg ducks. Zhou Lianhua not only raises ducks himself, but also helps villagers raise ducks. Under her technical guidance, 20 villagers in several villages of Dazhuzhuang, Sanzuo, Fusu and Fenhe developed duck production under the forest and led more than 200 local scattered households. Now, the barreled Salted Duck Egg of Shuzhuang Township has become a famous local specialty.

Due to his excellent work, Zhou Lianhua himself was successively awarded the honorary titles of "advanced workers of population and family planning", "returning hometown pioneer" and "March 8th Red Flag bearer" by the county Health and Family Planning Commission, Women's Federation, people's Society, Federation of Industry and Commerce, and other departments.

Qiao Lianjun