Yang Youping: planting flowers and trees on the road to prosperity

Yang Youping, the boss of Lotus landscaping Co., Ltd., is a very busy man. She has made several appointments with her. She is either on the way of driving out on an inspection tour or in negotiations with customers. As a successful woman with assets of more than 10 million yuan, today's Yang Youping is mature and steady, and she can no longer see the shadow of the rural migrant girl who was running around for a living, but her ability to acquire knowledge has not changed at all.

Yang Youping grew up in Shibantan Town, Dingcheng District, where her parents were both farmers. because her family was poor, at the age of 19, she had to go into society to shoulder the burden of life. She has successively worked as a helper in a printing factory and a cement factory, as well as individual transportation. Although she has saved a little money, she can only make ends meet. Naturally strong, she is always thinking about doing something more profitable.

By chance, Yang Youping saw a report saying that with the development of urbanization in the country, there are broad prospects for the development of flower and tree planting market in rural areas. She, who came up with the idea of trying it, subscribed to many newspapers and books, such as Hunan Agriculture, Hunan Science and Technology News, and Flower Daily, and taught herself flower and tree cultivation techniques as soon as she had time. She also made a detailed analysis of the topography, geomorphology, climate and environment of Shibantan, and went to Yunnan, Jiangxi, and Jiangsu at her own expense to study their experience in planting flowers and trees. In 1995, she spent more than 10,000 yuan to buy seedlings such as gardenia, camellia and sweet-scented osmanthus and made a preliminary attempt in her 5-mu responsible field. In a year, she took good care of those flowers and plants as if they were her own children. Tiandao rewards hard work. A year later, 5 mu of flowers and trees earned 20,000 yuan.

At that time, other villagers in the village were still operating traditional agriculture, working hard but earning little. Yang Youping is determined to mobilize the villagers to develop the flower and tree industry. Her ideas and successful examples have touched the hearts of the villagers. She did her best to help the villagers get rich. If she doesn't know the technology, she teaches hand in hand; without funds, she advances the money on credit first. Through several years of efforts, the flower and tree industry in Shibantan has gradually become a climate, and the income of villagers has also leapt to the top of Dingcheng District.

In 1998, Yang Youping set up Lotus Landscape Co., Ltd., which made her plant flowers and trees on the fast track by adopting the method of "company + base + farmers". Up to now, the company has more than 100 employees, including 37 engineering professionals and 7 senior technical personnel, forming a base of thousands of mu and planting scale of more than 200 varieties. The company has successively created a number of excellent projects for urban gardens and highway greening in our city. The scenic belt of Liuye Lake, the greening transformation of the northern section of Wuling Avenue and the greening of Changzhang Expressway are all praised by experts as models of greening projects.