Lei Hongwei, a provincial labor model, never forgets his hometown when he gets rich.

Lei Hongwei, male, 48, is currently the director of Suxi Village, Suxi Town, Taihe County, and the Party Branch Secretary of Suxi Town Lily Farmers' specialized Cooperative. Since becoming the village director of Suxi Village, Lei Hongwei has always maintained a good state of mind and devoted himself to his work with the spirit of pioneering and enterprising, persevering, advancing in the face of difficulties, and courageously shouldering a heavy burden. put forward the goal of "laying the foundation in one year, raising the stage in two years, and creating advanced in three years", establish the concept of development to enrich the people first, enrich the people to start a business first internal force, entrepreneurship first measures. In 2013, it was awarded as "Top Ten talents of Taihe County" by Taihe County Party Committee, and was awarded as excellent Communist Party member for many times. Under his leadership, earth-shaking changes have taken place in Suxi village, with well-off households in the whole village accounting for 78.6%. Bright and chic small foreign buildings rise from the ground, wide and flat rural roads extend in all directions, showing a rich farm scene everywhere. Recently, the reporter interviewed Lei Hongwei, a provincial labor model.

Lei Hongwei picks lilies in the lily field

Devote oneself to research to drive the villagers to become rich

In the early 1990s, there was a lily fever in Suxi town. Lei Hongwei began to ask around where there are successful farmers to grow lilies, and went to learn the planting experience. In order to achieve high yield, lilies must first select suitable land for planting, and then select good seeds, and at the same time improve the level of management, such as soil disinfection, seed disinfection, field ditch drainage, pest control, every step is closely linked, should not be neglected.

Lei Hongwei, who has mastered the technology of planting lilies, not only grows lilies himself, but also actively encourages surrounding villagers to grow them, driving them to become rich and helping them buy seeds and choose sites. In dealing with the problems raised by growers, such as soil disinfection, seed disinfection, field management, and so on, he responded to every request, and the villagers' economic benefits were considerable, thus opening the door to wealth. Since then, the reputation of "hometown of lilies" has become famous throughout the county, even the whole province and the whole country.

At present, the lily planting industry in Suxi town has developed rapidly, and the economic benefit has improved by leaps and bounds year by year, reaching a planting area of more than 2000 mu in 2008.

The healthy and rapid development of the industry adds icing on the cake for the construction of beautiful villages and provides a continuous driving force for the sound and rapid development of Suxi Village and even the whole town.

Driven by innovation to promote economic development

In 2009, Lei Hongwei established a professional cooperative for lily growers, which has won the strong support and trust of the common people. With the "base + peasant household" business model, it has developed 156 cooperative members, with a planting area of more than 2000 mu and a town-wide planting area of more than 5000 mu, realizing an output value of more than 80 million yuan. Help more than 150 poor peasant households shake off poverty and become rich, solve more than 100 surplus rural labor force every year, and pay millions of yuan in wages.

In order to further improve the operating mechanism of the industry and strive to create its own brand products, Lei Hongwei registered the trademark of "Xinhe" for a series of lily products in 2011, and worked hard to improve the popularity of the products. promote Suxi lily industry to form an one-stop development channel of seed, production and marketing, making the industry one of the pillars of Suxi town.

In 2013, the cooperative invested more than 2 million yuan on the original basis to build a lily hall and a deep processing plant of lilies, in which hardcover gift boxes, pollution-free dried lilies, lily powder and other products were welcomed by consumers. At the same time, the cooperative gave full play to the exemplary vanguard role of party members by setting up a rural party branch of the "three have", with Lei Hongwei as its secretary, making the masses feel in their hearts that the party organization has a stage, party members help and help, and the masses have a background for getting rich. Always insist that party lessons are built in the countryside, notes are recorded in the countryside, members impart support in the countryside, and help families in need take the lead. "when the people are moved, I feel more gratified. When the masses become rich, I am also happy." Lei Hongwei said.

Under the dazzling halo, Lei Hongwei is not arrogant and impetuous, modest and prudent, and he knows very well that a hundred feet can go further. Therefore, Lei Hongwei's efforts have also been recognized by the whole village. Lei Hongwei, who was re-elected as village director with 100% of the votes in the 2014 village election, said he was full of confidence and determination in the future development of Suxi Village.