Ji Guangxia: planting thousands of trees in seven years

Seven years ago, Ji Guangxia, a 28-year-old Shandong girl, married Guo Enhe Lao Du's family in Tengke Town, Moqi. Over the past few years, with her extraordinary courage and unique vision, she has carried out afforestation on a large scale. In seven years, she planted ten million trees, not only repaid the loan of 3 million yuan, but also earned more than 2 million yuan.

When Ji Guangxia first entered Du's family, nearly 200 hectares of cultivated land contracted by her husband's family decreased year by year due to successive years of soil erosion and soil desertification. She suddenly had the idea of returning farmland to forests. She discussed her ideas with her in-laws and finally reached an agreement. She carefully studied the market demand, learned the experience of planting trees from books, and led the whole family to start the hard work of afforestation. More than seven years of efforts have not been in vain, 850 mu of land has been planted with larch, pine and fir nearly 10 million seedlings. Since 2004, it has sold more than 800,000 saplings, earning 2 million yuan. Villagers say that now more than 10 million saplings of the old Du family are like "interest" in the bank, rolling up.

Ji Guangxia, who became rich first by afforestation, did not forget the villagers. She was thinking about setting up a tree planting team in the village to impart her years of experience in planting seedlings to the villagers, so that more people could plant more trees and return the clear water and blue sky of her hometown.