A talented businessman in Sichuan as a village official spends money to subsidize the "cash cow" planted in the stone seam.

Wang Jiayuan (middle) and the villagers check the growth of the plum tree.

On April 20, Wang Jiayuan, party branch secretary of Chunfeng Village, Tengda Town, Yunlian County, Yibin City, was awarded the honorary title of "Model of the Times".

In the eyes of the villagers, Wang Jiayuan has long been a well-known "big shot". He led everyone to work hard and turned the grinning stone mountain into a treasure basin of "getting rid of poverty and becoming rich." The man who let the stone "blossom and bear fruit" won the trust and respect of the villagers by his actions.

When a person who can do business returns to his hometown, when a village official promises to build an access road, he will leave.

"there are women who do not marry Maowan Bay, where there are only rocky mountains, the land is barren and the road is difficult to walk, so they have a meal all the time." This folk song shows the old appearance of Chunfeng Village. In Chunfeng Village in the past, not only girls were reluctant to come, but most adult men also went out to work, trying to change the living conditions of their families.

Wang Jiayuan is one of the "going out" members of the village. The third in his family, he traveled north and south at the age of 15, successively served as a student of the Sichuan Opera Troupe in Yunlian County, ran through Shanxi and entered Beijing, saved hundreds of thousands of yuan by working and doing business, and became an able person in everyone's eyes. But in the face of envious eyes, he chose to return to his hometown.

In the view of the people of Chunfeng village, Wang Jiayuan, who can buy a big house and mine a quarry in the county, is definitely not a simple figure. On November 9, 2004, a general election of the village committee was held in Chunfeng Village. Wang Jiayuan was elected village director with 95% of the votes. Father and wife immediately came forward to oppose it. It is very difficult for them to understand why Wang Jiayuan, who is doing well in business, wants to be a "thankless" village cadre.

"I've only been doing this for three years, and I don't care if I fix the road." Wang Jiayuan temporarily appeased his father and wife, but thought, "if you are rich alone, you are really rich." As soon as he took office, he issued a military writ: "if the mountain road cannot be built during the three-year term of office, I will leave!"

The villagers clapped their hands and praised them, but the real action was that there was too much thunder and little rain. "there is no road, no hands to plane, no money, everyone together, as long as everyone clasps their hands, the stone will also be gnawed out." While going door to door, Wang Jiayuan went back to the county to "borrow money" from his wife's cold restaurant. He also contributed the stone from his quarry free of charge, spending more than 100,000 yuan before and after building the road.

Seeing this scene, the whole village began to respond positively. After more than three months of struggle, a gravel road was finally carved out on the steep rock.

In early 2005, when the off-road vehicle outside the mountain first drove into Chunfeng Village, the villagers burst into tears.

I often take money to subsidize the villagers to plant a "cash cow" in the stone crevice.

The road is open, but where is the key to getting rich?

Chunfeng Village is a typical karst landform, and the area of rocky desertification accounts for 1/3. In the face of the grinning limestone all over the mountain, it is difficult for the "two committees" of all previous villages. Wang Jiayuan, who has seen the world, knows that to develop industry, hard work alone is not enough, but also science. Seeing several attempts of the project, he invited agricultural experts to analyze and study on the spot, and finally decided to plant plum trees according to the geographical environment of Chunfeng Village.

"growing grain won't starve rice. Can plums be eaten if you can't sell them?" It is not easy for scared villagers to plant plum trees. To this end, Wang Jiayuan and party members and cadres took the lead in the demonstration, and the villagers followed suit.

Of course, there will also be unsalable plums. Recalling the scene at that time, Liao Yunlan, Wang Jiayuan's wife, said, "some villagers can't sell plums, so they carry them home and let Wang Jiayuan underwrite them." Some people also complained to the town leaders that Wang Jiayuan was not a good cadre and secretly worked as a "middleman." In fact, when Wang Jiayuan contacted the merchants to sell plums, not only did he not make a difference, but when the selling price was too low, he often used his own money to subsidize the villagers.

Where there's a will, there's a way. In 2005, the planting scale of plums in Chunfeng Village reached 1000 mu. Liu Yuanheng, the "king of plums" who has planted more than 30 mu of plums, said that Wang Jiayuan set up a plum association in the village to unify packaging and pricing. He also went to the Bureau of Industry and Commerce to register the trademark, which started the brand of Chunfeng Village Plum Association. The plum tree planted in the crack in the stone has become a cash cow for the villagers.

Now, looking at the plum blossoms in the cracks in the mountains and rocks, the spring breeze people who got rich first are sincerely grateful to their good master Wang Jiayuan.

The chaotic Stone Mountain has become a paradise and is building a 4A ecological scenic spot.

There are three groups in Chunfeng Village. The villagers of Chunfeng group are rich in plums, but Wang Jiayuan has no successful experience of simple "cloning". He calculates that Longtang and Zhongsha groups must take a different path, and multi-variety development can avoid risks and achieve complementary advantages. In the end, the two groups adapted measures to local conditions, planted flower seedlings, built tea gardens, developed the economy and made the people rich.

Today, walking into Chunfeng Village, green bricks, black tiles, full of trees and flowers, the former karst hills and mountains, showing a different scenery, people seem to be in a paradise. Wang Jiayuan encourages everyone to set up farm music, develop rural tourism, and form an eco-tourism agricultural tourism brand of "spring flowers, summer fruits, autumn scenery, and winter health".

In March this year, there was a steady stream of tourists coming to Chunfeng Village to enjoy pear flowers, and Wang Jiayuan is planning to join hands with a non-local group to build Chunfeng Village into a national 4A-level rural ecological leisure tourism scenic spot. Next year, it will be a tourist destination that receives more than 200000 tourists a year, so that people can travel to Chunfeng Village.