Li Guohua: develop Lemon Standardization Industrial Park and lead the surrounding people to get rich together

lemon harvest

lemon fresh fruit processing

"I just want to lead the masses of the United Society to develop the lemon garden step by step and become rich together." Recently, Li Guohua, chairman of Anyue County Yuhua Breeding and Development Co., Ltd. in Ziyang City and chairman of Anyue County Golden Lime Professional Cooperative Federation, said in an interview with reporters.

Wandering abroad for more than ten years, never forgetting his hometown

In the late 1980s, young Li Guohua went out to wander. In more than ten years, Li Guohua traveled far and wide, starting from childhood and gradually breaking into his own world. In his days outside, Li Guohua witnessed the difficulties of agricultural industrial restructuring and the bitterness of migrant workers going out to work with his own personal experience. " I've been away for more than ten years. I've tasted all kinds of sweet and bitter tastes. The longer I stay, the more I miss my hometown. I want to go back to my hometown and do my own business." Li Guohua said.

In 1999, Li Guohua returned to his hometown to start a business with nearly 300,000 yuan. After some investigation, Li Guohua decided to build the first lemon standardization demonstration park in his hometown and lead the surrounding people to become rich together. " I've been away for so many years. I've heard, seen, and learned a lot of things. Therefore, I feel that there's a lot to be done to build a characteristic lemon garden, so I'm determined to start the construction of lemon garden." Li Guohua said. In March of that year, after raising 500,000 yuan of funds, Li Guohua signed a 190 mu land transfer contract with Qianhua Village of Pianyan Township and built the first lemon garden. In order to save money, he insisted on learning theory, technology and management, and with diligence and wisdom, he made the lemon garden harvest.

After tasting the sweet taste, Li Guohua established his first company-Yuhua Breeding and Development Co., Ltd. in Anyue County. Through the operation of the company, the industrial park expanded rapidly. In just a few years, Li Guohua has gone from being a layman to becoming the owner of the largest lemon industrial park in China. His experience was quickly popularized in Ziyang and surrounding counties and cities, and the adjustment of Anyue's agricultural industrial structure developed rapidly under his guidance.

Strive to stick to the return of products exported at home and abroad

" Lemon Garden has a large investment and slow results. Investors need patience and perseverance to persevere. I have been developing lemons for so many years, but I have been persisting and holding on with my own efforts." Li Guohua said. In May 2008, Li Guohua created the "Lime Sea" brand lemon, which was recognized and approved by the Customs and Entry-Exit Inspection and Quarantine Bureau, creating a new situation in China's lemon foreign trade. At the end of that year, the head of Dole Company, headquartered in California, USA, went to his industrial park. After extracting agricultural records and fresh lemon samples, he determined that the quality of lemons produced by him was superior to international famous brands such as California and Sicily, Italy, and listed Yuhua Company as a partner.

Yuhua's honest management and production have been widely recognized and praised. Its products have won the Consumer Favorite Product and Best Selling Product Award of the 10th International Agricultural Products Expo. On behalf of Anyue lemon, they have won the Gold Award of the Agricultural Expo. It has been commended by the All-China Federation of Trade Unions as "Advanced Unit of Collective Wage Negotiation in Lemon Industry", jointly commended by China Association for Science and Technology and the Ministry of Finance as "Advanced Unit of Popularization of Science and Rural Development Plan", rated as "Provincial Contract-abiding Enterprise" by Provincial Administration of Industry and Commerce, and rated as "Provincial Leading Poverty Alleviation Enterprise" by Provincial Poverty Alleviation and Immigration Bureau.

In the following years, Anyue lemon planting cooperation mushroomed, Li Guohua said, only if everyone twisted into a rope, the advantages of resources together can grasp more initiative. In 2011, under the leadership of Li Guohua, Anyue County Golden Lime Professional Cooperative Association was established to drive farmers in surrounding villages to become rich. Li Guohua became a well-deserved "lemon king".

After the United Society, Li Guohua attached importance to standardization construction and established a technical service team in the United Society. Now it has more than 30 technical personnel, including 11 national first-class agronomists. Midsummer is the key period for applying medicine and fertilizer to lemons. The motorcade shuttles through the fields every day. Technical experts tour training and inspection, so as to unify the quality of lemons. In recent years, the United Society has also promoted lemon bases to Neijiang, Chongqing, Suining, Nanchong and other places."The new planting bases are all constructed according to unified standards, and with our strength, we will contribute to Anyue lemon's 'going out'." At present, Anyue lemon and lemon products have been exported to more than 10 countries and regions such as Singapore, Russia and Hong Kong.

Take the lead in establishing trade unions to protect the interests of employees

Enterprises must have a strong sense of social responsibility to maintain long-term vitality. After the establishment of the United Society, facing the situation of large planting scale, prosperous marketing, many driving subjects and complicated employment situation, Li Guohua began to think about a series of issues involving the rights and interests of migrant workers, such as building harmonious labor relations, safeguarding the legitimate rights and interests of employees, and managing labor employment according to law.

Under the guidance of provincial, municipal and county federations of trade unions, Li Guohua has held several shareholders 'meetings to unify his thinking and study and deploy collective wage negotiation work. In April 2012, after two rounds of informal consultations and two rounds of formal consultations and negotiations between employers and employees, the Union was formally established. Yuhua Company and Golden Citron Professional Cooperative Union have determined the minimum wage standard, overtime wage and welfare treatment for 12 types of labor in 5 categories in lemon planting, processing and marketing. Migrant workers friends said: "We work in Yuhua company, dignity, very decent, have a head."

Li Guohua said,"Last year's high temperature, a worker of our union died unexpectedly, safety production is very important." Last year, after the accident, because of compensation issues, family members and cooperative owners once clashed, Li Guohua led the trade union officials before and after more than 20 days, finally coordinated a satisfactory result for both sides. Last year, the union coordinated four labour disputes, all of which were resolved satisfactorily.

After years of development, the masses of the United Society have tasted the sweetness brought by the development of lemons, and the lives of all households have been greatly improved. And the Union is expanding at the pace of building a lemon garden in the field every year, leading more people to get rich. Li Guohua said: "Being rich alone is not really rich. Only when we get rich together and live a happy life together is our goal."