The Wealth of Walnut by Yan Zhiming in Puxian County

The Walnut Land outside the World, charming Baijiazhuang.

Quapu county seat all the way to the west, the terrain gradually uplifted. The car gallop on the winding mountain road, the mountain scenery, do not have some fun.

Driving into the boundary of the mountain village, the original winding road instantly becomes "straight", and the walnut trees on both sides of the road are full of vitality.

There are other bright spots. Driving into Baijiazhuang Village is like a city block square. The small and exquisite Baijiazhuang Leisure and Cultural Square, fitness equipment area, standard basketball court and other facilities are readily available. The sound of reading in the newly renovated mountain primary and secondary school campus is intoxicating. Not far ahead, Baijiazhuang Village Immigrant Village, a six-story residential building equipped with broad and bright floor-to-ceiling windows, is undergoing interior decoration, and 48 new owners will be welcomed here soon.

It's full of surprises. As early as 2013, Baijiazhuang Village completed a 10-kilometer tap water pipe network and a 2600-meter sewage pipe network; at the same time, the village's sewage treatment plant and landfill plant were also put into use.

Over the past 10 years, earth-shaking changes have taken place in the appearance, soft environment and hard facilities of Baijiazhuang. Today, Baijiazhuang in the eyes of the reporter, the streets are neat and elegant, the industrial advantages are highlighted, and the people are harmonious and livable. The reversal of the fate of Baijiazhuang is by no means accidental, which depends on Yan Zhiming, secretary of the village party branch, who has been based on the walnut industry for decades.

Small walnuts find great business opportunities

Many years ago, some villages in Shanzhong Township, Puxian County had the tradition of planting walnut trees, but the walnuts harvested were limited to giving them to others and for their own use. At first, Yan Zhiming worked in a supply and marketing cooperation. once a friend asked him to get some walnuts, he brought two bags. Afterwards, his friend wanted to give him money, but Yan Zhiming symbolically collected a little after repeatedly refusing to do so. It was this encounter that made Yan Zhiming keenly capture the huge business opportunities behind the small walnut. From then on, he took some walnuts to the city to sell them after work. From the beginning to the bag, the sales volume gradually became bigger and bigger.

In order to receive more walnuts, earn more money, and at the same time to lead the villagers on the road to prosperity, after several years of practice, Yan Zhiming found that the profit of selling only the original walnuts was too small, and the income of the villagers was also very limited. After many visits and studies, he firmly took a new way of processing and production. After doing everything possible, in 1998, his Puxian Zhengmao Walnut Comprehensive processing Co., Ltd. was completed and put into production.

After the establishment of the company, Yan Zhiming promised the villagers to buy walnuts at a higher price than the market. But in that year, walnuts generally had a bumper harvest and high yield, and the price sold after processing the finished products was not as good as the purchase price. But Yan Zhiming did not break his promise and settled the walnut money of all the villagers according to the agreement.

The sunshine is always after the wind and rain. After more than a decade of wind, frost, rain, snow and climbing in the market, with Yan Zhiming's years of hard work and assiduous efforts, Zhengmao Walnut Comprehensive processing Co., Ltd. has grown into a key agricultural industrialization leading enterprise in the province integrating walnut product development, production and processing, sales and trade. The company can process more than 2000 tons of walnuts annually, produce 200 tons of refined walnut oil, 500 tons of hardcover walnuts, 5 tons of walnut kernels and 20, 000 pieces of multi-flavor walnut kernels. In 2015, the company's sales reached 36 million yuan and realized a profit of 5.4 million yuan. At present, the company has established a cooperative sales network in Shanghai, Guangzhou, Shenzhen and other first-tier cities with bright prospects.

Focus on quality to win Competitiveness

"the reason why Zhengmao has come all the way through ups and downs stems from the almost demanding pursuit of quality." Yan Zhiming told reporters that walnuts in Puxian County have excellent quality and high nutrition, but the more this is the case, the more we cannot take product quality lightly and relax the consistent pursuit of high standards and strict thresholds for walnut quality. The honor that comes one after another is the best reward for the concept of "quality first". Zhengmao walnut product has now become a national pollution-free agricultural product, which has been recognized by the Ministry of Agriculture.

The "Yangyi" series of walnut products launched by the company are also among the top 100 agricultural brands in the country, and Yangyi Walnut Oil has won the gold medal of the second China (Shanxi) characteristic Agricultural products Trading Expo.

In order to develop a larger area of walnut planting and let villagers get more economic income, Yan Zhiming presided over the establishment of Xingnong walnut professional cooperative in 2006. The cooperative mainly provides walnut planting technology and management technology to the villagers, while ensuring the recovery price. The cooperative adopts the management mode of "cooperative + base + peasant household", which realizes the one-stop process of "production, supply and marketing". The cooperative has its own production base of walnuts, millet and soybeans, which can sell more than 500,000 kilograms of walnuts, 25000 kilograms of soybeans and 20,000 kilograms of millet each year, which can increase farmers' income by more than 300,000 yuan a year. At present, Xingnong Walnut Professional Cooperative has become the cooperative with the best development prospect, the highest driving benefit and the largest number of members in Puxian County.

The new "role" against feeding all the villagers

In the general election of the "two committees" of the village in 2007, the villagers unanimously elected him as the secretary of the village party branch. Yan Zhiming lived up to the villagers' expectations. Since becoming secretary of the village party branch, Yan Zhiming has raised more than 3000 yuan to build new infrastructure such as village-level organization activity rooms, leisure and cultural squares, health centers, convenient chain stores, sewage treatment plants, and landfills, which have greatly improved the living conditions of Baijiazhuang Village. In particular, in 2014, he invested 6 million yuan to start the construction of a new immigrant village for 48 families, which greatly improved the living, production and living environment of the local people. He spent 1.38 million yuan to lay purple tiles on the roofs of 56 villagers, which solved the problem of rain leakage in rainy days for farmers. At the same time, it can also play the effect of warm in winter and cool in summer.

At the same time, he also led the villagers to vigorously develop planting and aquaculture, and take the road of diversified development. Today, four breeding demonstration bases for pigs, cattle, sheep and chickens covering an area of 7500 square meters have been built, especially Yamanaka eggs have become the leading brands in the county's egg market. Aquaculture has become another important channel for Baijiazhuang villagers to increase their income. In 2015, the income of the villagers in the village reached more than 9100 yuan, 3.5 times that when he first became a branch secretary.

"it is my lifelong dream to let Zhengmao walnut brand go to the whole country and to the world." Yan Zhiming is full of confidence in the future. In the next step, he will continue to strengthen the innovative R & D efforts of the "Yangyi" product front, and continue to launch more popular and competitive new products in the market. At the same time, he also hopes to enable villagers to share more of the dividends of the development and growth of enterprises, so that people can live a richer and happier life.