Organize and arrange for him to decline to grow oranges in the retirement hall.

On November 21, 2006, Fan Jingchao, then director of the Provincial Agricultural Construction Office and director of the Provincial disaster Relief Office, and his party investigated the capital construction of irrigation and water conservancy in Anju District of Suining City.

Fan Jingchao checked the picking line before the fruit picking festival.

Fan Jingchao's oranges are ripe. Eight years of hard work was finally rewarded. Everyone can imagine the hardship of starting a business. And this former hall official, after retirement, started from scratch, returned home to start a business, suffering is even more difficult for ordinary people to understand. The long-awaited happy old age of his wife was broken by Lao Fan's entrepreneurial plan, and at one point she was so angry that she wanted to divorce. Lao Fan raised money for the sale of houses to expand the industrial scale, and her wife threatened to divorce again. However, my wife only said that she finally accompanied Lao Fan on the road to starting a business. At present, Fan Jingchao has a citrus planting area of 10100 mu, and he has been keeping an eye on Chu Shijian, an old entrepreneur. "I have more citrus varieties than Chu Shijian," he said proudly.

Fan Jingchao

Age: 68 years old place of origin: Jingyan County, Leshan City

Fan Jingchao once served as the director of the Sichuan Provincial Government disaster Relief Office, the executive deputy director of the Provincial Agriculture Department, and the deputy director of the Provincial Water Resources Department.

After retirement, he returned to his hometown to start a business and grow oranges. In 2010, the establishment of Jingyan County prosperous hybrid citrus professional cooperative, Fan Jingchao is currently the party branch secretary of the society.

January 9, Fang Rong Village, Jiyi Township, Jingyan County, Leshan City. The haze finally dissipated during the New year, and a winter rain made the air more fresh. The village is very busy, and there are many respectable people here. A "fruit harvest festival" is being held here. The operator is an agricultural cooperative and the secretary is Fan Jingchao.

Fan Jingchao is quite famous in the village, some are called "Director Fan", some are called "Director Fan", and some are called "Secretary Fan". He said hello and grinned. The former hall official will be 68 in 19 days. He started his business eight years ago, and now he is reaping the "fruit" that has been growing for eight years.

Entrepreneurial dream

Go back to your hometown to start a business and refuse to organize.

January 7th, sunny. Starting from Jingyan County, along National Highway 213 to the north, after 8 kilometers of asphalt road, it is the market town of Jiyi Township. To the east of the town is Fangrong Village, where a concrete road extends, and at the entrance of the village stands an archway-"Orange Dream Garden". Further inside, there is a brand-new village settlement. The small buildings with gray tiles and white walls are particularly eye-catching, and there are still cars in many courtyards.

On both sides of the cement road, there are continuous orchards. All kinds of hybrid oranges are ripe and hang all over the branches. "Chun Jian" is the one who has to wait for several months to mature. In addition, there are "do not know Fire", "Ehime 38", "Mercott" …... The trees with fruit are all covered with film in order to prevent frostbite. When the wind blows, the hills rise and fall like rolling waves.

Fan Jingchao appeared from time to time in the waves, making final preparations for the fruit harvest festival two days later. "look at the picking line again." He held up his glasses and wiped the sweat on his forehead, with unconcealed excitement in his voice. "after eight years of work, I can finally take it out to meet people." Around him, it is now surrounded by 10100 mu of orchards, covering 19 administrative villages in 4 towns, including Jiyi and Jingjing.

"it wasn't like this before. It was all barren mountains at that time." Fan Jingchao's mind goes back to eight years ago.

In 2007, he was also director of the disaster Relief Office of the Sichuan Provincial Government. Because he is about to reach the age of 60, the organization is ready to arrange for him to work as a leader in another department-level unit. "but I want to come back as a farmer." Fan Jingchao found the leader in charge at that time twice and finally got understanding and support.

In 2008, Fan Jingchao came back alone, in Fangrong Village, Jiyi Township, Jingyan County, where he has been away for many years. He was born in this small mountain village on January 28, 1948 and lived until he graduated from high school in 1969. Later, he became a private teacher, became a public teacher, and went to work in a radio station. since then, he has embarked on an official career, at the departmental level, at the departmental level and even at the departmental level. After that, he would come back during the holidays, but he would leave again before long.

This time, Fan Jingchao was in no hurry to go. A few days later, the villagers were curious: what kind of medicine is sold in the gourd of "Director Fan"?

Entrepreneurial storm

Sell houses and grow oranges

My wife is so angry that she wants a divorce.

"I want to grow oranges!" Fan Jingchao's response surprised the villagers.

In fact, in early 2007, he made plans to return to his hometown to start a business after retirement, in the direction of the combination of modern agriculture, farming and aquaculture. He asked his sister to do further experiments, raising ducks, rabbits and fish in his hometown, but the results were not satisfactory.

The idea of growing oranges appeared on April 23, 2007, and Fan Jingchao still remembers it. That day, Fan Jingchao went to Xindian Township, Renshou County to investigate. See the mountains full of oranges, called "Qingjian", large, good taste, obvious economic benefits. "at that time, I felt the light in front of my eyes!" Fan Jingchao immediately thought that Renshou is adjacent to Jingyan, the natural environment and climatic conditions are similar, and the topography of his hometown is better than here, so why not try growing oranges?

After the investigation, he found Xu Wenke, the owner of the orange orchard. Xu Wenke, a famous local leader in getting rich, led the fruit growers to create the "hometown of clear views of China". In the face of Fan Jingchao's request, Xu Wenke enthusiastically patted his chest. Soon after, he shipped 505 "Qingjian" seedlings, which later survived 500, and now produces bumper crops in successive years. These 500 saplings officially opened Fan Jingchao's dream of citrus industry, so he named his orchard "Orange Dream Garden".

The dream didn't start smoothly. "first of all, the family does not support it." Fan Jingchao's decision was unanimously opposed by his family, and his wife accused him of not being around, and even threatened with divorce at one point. Daughters, sons-in-law, younger brothers and others are afraid that he will not only wear out his health, but also worry that he will lose money and owe debts. Later, Fan Jingchao said that he would start on a small scale and would judge the hour and size up the situation and develop steadily, so his family reluctantly accepted his choice. But he is still the only one who returns to his hometown to start a business.

Fan Jingchao is stretched financially because his family does not support him. He took out all his savings as start-up capital, which was only more than 100,000 yuan. When the orchard grew to more than 100 mu, he worked hard and mobilized his relatives and friends to raise hundreds of thousands of yuan. Later, when the orchard grew to 600 mu, he sold his house in Chengdu and his father's house in Leshan. "as a result, family relations are even more strained." To Fan Jingchao's relief, his wife didn't really divorce him.

Entrepreneurial achievement

The orchard is expanded into ten thousand mu, driving the villagers to become rich.

The family doesn't understand, and neither do the villagers. Even if 505 "Qingjian" seedlings have been planted, the doubts about Fan Jingchao have never stopped. When the expansion of the scale requires the transfer of land, the villagers will always have all kinds of worries: "an official who comes back to be a farmer, right?" "people who are in their sixties, how long can they do it?"