Lin Xiuzhen: quit Education and get Rich from farming Bamboo

In Huqiu Town, Anxi County, Fujian Province, almost everyone knows about the afforestation giant Lin Xiuzhen for dozens of miles around.

We have to start with the Hu Nan farming team. Originally, this mountain ploughing team is located in the northwest of Jinbang Village, Huqiu Town, with dozens of mu of tea garden and hundreds of mu of mountain area. After 1990, due to the restructuring of the mountain ploughing team and the disbanding of the personnel, the mountain forest was destroyed and the tea garden was overgrown with weeds. In 1998, Huqiu Town decided to set up a Ma Zhu base in the former Tiger South farming team of Jinbang Village and openly contracted it to the villagers of the whole village, but in the face of this dilapidated stall, no one in the village dared to do it.

Lin Xiuzhen is determined to take advantage of this opportunity to develop diversified economy. She quit her preschool education job and contracted this "mess" to the town and village.

In the face of hundreds of mu of barren mountain with a contract period of 30 years, it is not easy to put it on green and build it into a bamboo forest demonstration base without a certain amount of capital investment. With the support of her lover, Lin Xiuzhen began to dig mountains, dig holes, fertilize and cultivate soil after winning some start-up funds from her superiors. At the end of 1999, more than 100 mu of Ma Zhu has been developed and planted, and the base is beginning to take shape. At the time of a bumper harvest, more than 90% of Ma Bamboo was damaged by the worst typhoon in decades.

In the face of natural disasters, Lin Xiuzhen was not knocked down by setbacks. She resumed her arduous entrepreneurial journey with renewed fanfare. A year later, her planting area of Ma Bamboo expanded to 500 mu. Seeing that a good harvest is readily available, who knows that it is hard to encounter the frost in hundreds of years, and hundreds of mu of bamboo are all frozen to death by the frost, and the loss is even more serious.

After Huqiu Town and relevant departments knew about Lin Xiuzhen's deeds, they gave them financial support. In the face of the concern of many leaders, she once again plucked up the courage to continue afforestation. After several years of efforts, Lin Xiuzhen built a base of more than 500 mu of Ma Zhu.