Jingyu strong woman Li Xiaoqin grows roses and leads the villagers to become rich.

In Fuyang Village, Hanjiang Township, surrounded by mountains on all sides, there is a strong woman. She contracted a poor hillside that once had no grain, brought red roses to this hillside, and set up a women's cooperative specializing in roses, turning a poor mountain cove into a sea of flowers, leading everyone on the road to wealth. She is Li Xiaoqin, chairman of the Meihua Edible Rose Farmers' Professional Cooperative in Jingyu County.

Go through many twists and turns to find the right way

In 1995, the wood factory in Jingyu County, where Li Xiaoqin works, disintegrated. She was laid off, and her family had to rely on her husband's low monthly salary to support her. "I can't just sit at home and depend on my husband. I have to find a way to make a living." With this idea, Li Xiaoqin started his own business.

Li Xiaoqin first opened an Internet bar, but after the Internet bar was opened, all the children and teenagers came. Indulging in the Internet would inevitably affect her study. She felt that she could not do it even if she earned any money. Then she opened a laundry, which soon failed. However, Li Xiaoqin never gave up her dream of starting a business. through her relatives, she rented 70 mu of sloping land in Fuyang Village to grow corn and soybeans. Due to lack of experience, she planted it for four years and lost four years. Li Xiaoqin is not reconciled to it. She learns the latest agricultural information through various channels every day and tries her best to find a way to get rich that suits her. Finally, she found that there were broad prospects for growing roses, and the land she contracted was very suitable for growing roses. In spite of the cold winter weather, she took a bus and transferred to the remote city of Hunchun to consult her predecessors on the planting method and origin of roses. When the flowers bloomed in spring, she went to open source in Liaoning Province to purchase roses for cultivation. In the third year of growing roses, Li Xiaoqin finally succeeded, earning more than 20,000 yuan.

Make the roses more alive

Li Xiaoqin constantly learned the knowledge of health care, looked up the nutrients of roses, and learned that this flower has the functions of relieving mood, relieving fatigue, tonifying blood gas, beauty and skin care. She decided to let the roses play a greater role.

June in Changbai Mountain is the season for roses to bloom. She selected the best buds for processing, registered her own trademark-Changbai Mountain Edible Rose Tea, and launched her new products in the county. Soon, her rose tea opened up the market.

Li Xiaoqin's innovative products do not stop there. Then she learned to make rose sauce. In 2009, Li Xiaoqin's rose field could earn more than 6000 yuan per mu, and at the same time, a 280square meter factory was built at the foot of the mountain.

Drive the whole village to get rich together.

In the late autumn of 2009, Li Xiaoqin began to set up a rose cooperative organization to mobilize poor women to plant roses. Li Guiying, a rural woman, is over 60, and her husband and son are ill and unable to work. The burden of the family is all on her. Li Xiaoqin mobilized her to work in the rose garden, gave her 1000 yuan a month, taught her to grow roses, led her to join the cooperative, and gave her 110 rose seedlings. In 2012, Li Xiaoqin's cooperative grew from five women to 74 families in the village. The villagers grow roses, taste the fragrance and enjoy a high income, which not only turns this small village into a sea of flowers, but also makes life more and more prosperous. Li Xiaoqin is also getting bigger and bigger, registered and established Jingyu County Jianying Agriculture and Forestry Biotechnology Development Co., Ltd.

The once barren hillside has become a sea of roses, and Li Xiaoqin is leading members of the cooperative along this flower-scented road to wealth.