Dai Jie, a young man in Daixian County, graduated from Art School and returned to his hometown to grow rice and become rich.

Dai Jie put the harvested rice into the bag and returned to the warehouse.

Dai Jie drives his own harvester to harvest rice

Dai Jie, a 36-year-old young man from Daixian County, voluntarily gave up the preferential treatment of being a music and dance teacher in the city after graduating from Xinzhou Art School in 2009. He resolutely returned to Xiguan Village, Shangguan Town, to become a farmer and took the road of starting his own business. He leased 140 mu of saline-alkali wasteland of 16 farmers for 20 years at a rent of 60 yuan per mu. Through development and management, he has turned barren beaches into fertile fields, and for five consecutive years he has planted high-quality rice such as Dongdao 4, Jindao 9, Wuchang Daohuaxiang 3, and Jingji 511, with a yield of more than 550 kilograms per mu, a bumper harvest in successive years, and a net income of more than 500,000 yuan. Over the past few days, Dai Jie, with the help of the villagers, is driving a self-purchased combine harvester to harvest a bumper harvest of rice to ensure that the grains return to the warehouse. Under the influence of Dai Jie, 70 farmers in Xiguan Village planted more than a thousand mu of rice this year.