From the city to the countryside: the "post-80s" couple return home to build a "rice kingdom"

Li Xiaowen (right) supports Liang Yongying, who is pregnant with her second child, in a soil remediation experimental field on May 3. The couple set aside part of the land to carry out public welfare soil remediation experiments.

Junlian Village, Zhongdu Town, Shanghang County, Longyan City, Fujian Province is located in the old revolutionary base in western Fujian, with more mountains and less land. Up to now, there are still villagers who do not understand how Li Xiaowen and Liang Yongying, who were finally admitted from this poor mountain to a big city and admitted to a university, have come back to farm, one of which has planted 869 mu of rice fields.

The "post-80s" couple Li Xiaowen and Liang Yongying knew very well that they wanted to come back and do something. "

Liang Yongying and Li Xiaowen graduated from East China University of political Science and Law and Nanchang Institute of Technology in 2006. After years of hard work in cities such as Shanghai and Fuzhou, the two young people who came out of the countryside still set their sights on their familiar hometown.

In 2013, they returned to their hometown, Junlian Village, and set up a family farm. From raising cattle, pigs and geese to growing vegetables, they experienced the initial "one hammer and one hammer". "they wanted to do everything well, but in the end they didn't care about anything. More than 100 geese died and only 10 were left, paying a lot of tuition fees." Li Xiaowen said.

After many attempts, investigations, and explorations, Li Xiaowen and Liang Yongying finally chose to grow rice with relatively mature technology. with the help and guidance of their families and agricultural departments, their planting scale expanded from more than 180 mu at the beginning to 869 mu now. more than 70 people have been employed for a long time, with an annual output of nearly 1000 tons and an annual net income of more than 100,000 yuan. They have rice transplanter, seeder, harvester and other agricultural machinery, and even spent more than 80,000 yuan to buy drones for field management.

Production and operation are on the right track, and what is more gratifying is that Liang Yongying was pregnant with "Erbao" at the end of 2015. In addition to the upcoming addition of new recruits, "this year we will also build a 600-ton grain warehouse and realize the whole process of mechanized production in the mountainous areas of the south," says Li Xiaowen.

On May 3, Liang Yongying (left) was in the field talking to the villagers she had invited to spray pesticides.

Photo collage: on May 3, Liang Yongying is in the field to check the growth of rice (above); Li Xiaowen is shooting and recording the status of rice production for future analysis (bottom).

On May 3, Li Xiaowen (right) and Liang Yongying loaded the unused organic fertilizer back.