Returnees come back to plant oranges and have something to eat in mid-August.

Lin Dongdong talks about oranges

Orange Garden Panorama

What were you doing at 25? Graduate school in college or working nine to six in an office building? 'I'm growing oranges in Yongquan, Zhejiang Province,' said Lin Dongdong, 25.

After Lin Dongdong graduated from high school in 2009, his parents sent him to study in Britain. Parents who had spent half their lives in agriculture had hoped he would jump out of farming, find a decent job and take a different path. However, the experience of studying abroad and drinking foreign ink made Lin Dongdong realize that agriculture is precisely a gold mine. So, while still studying in England, he decided to return home to be a farmer and help his father grow oranges.

Citrus harvest period of only half a year, Lin Dongdong first thought, is to extend the orange sales cycle, expand benefits. " We're working with the China Citrus Research Institute to build a greenhouse. By controlling its temperature, we can make it blossom earlier." At present, the oranges in Lin Dongdong's greenhouse are ripening earlier than those in Yunnan, Fujian and other places with high temperatures, and can be picked in mid-August every year.

From the beginning, he couldn't even tell which orange was delicious. Until now, when talking about oranges, Lin Dongdong said his goal was to "let all Chinese know that my oranges are delicious."

The quality of oranges has gone up, so naturally we have to consider the sales of oranges. Lin Dongdong, who returned home, found that neighbors were still selling oranges in the most traditional way: "Because the older generation of people can't surf the Internet or use WeChat, their information sources often come from TV, but young people like us can access a lot of new knowledge and new technologies in this area through the Internet and WeChat." So he mobilized villagers to sell together through e-commerce platforms, doubling orange sales several times.

As the head of the brand, Lin Dongdong also gave himself a task this year, that is, how to make good quality oranges sell more valuable. He said: "Now there is a fruit shop in Tokyo, Japan, which sells a fruit such as a Hami melon for more than 1,000 yuan and an orange for more than 30 yuan, but they are all of very good quality. We hope that one day our oranges can also reach that quality and sell at that high price."

The young people all go out to work, leaving only the old, weak, women and children, which is the common situation in rural China at present. Young people like Lin Dongdong choose to return to traditional agriculture, bringing new hope to the countryside. "I hope that young people with knowledge and culture like us will help our hometown change its economy, change the traditional planting mode of our hometown, turn our traditional agriculture into our modern agriculture, and increase our farmers 'income."