Xia Yu: infatuated flowers spend a lot of money to build the highest mountain flower village in Chongqing

Walk into Damu Township, the most remote and more than 1000 meters above sea level in Fuling District, and you will be surprised to find that there is a fairy-tale situation deep in the mountain: surrounded by 100,000 mu of forest, rows of country villas and thousands of acres of colorful gardens make people feel like they have arrived in a paradise.

Xia Yu (middle) is teaching the staff about flower cultivation skills in the garden. Photographe: Wu Guofu

Zhong Tao, party secretary of Damu Township, who received reporters, said that four years ago it was a completely different scene. At that time, the farmers in the township lived a life with an annual per capita income of less than 1000 yuan, which was the poorest village in Chongqing. Last year, the per capita annual income of farmers here was as high as 8000 yuan, and they began to set foot on the road to prosperity. These great changes are inseparable from Xia Yu, the female boss of "Flower Addict" and her Chongqing Tianmu Agricultural Development Co., Ltd., who has invested 20 million yuan in the past four years to create Chongqing's first mountain flower village.

The first flower sold for 17.5 yuan

Standing among thousands of acres of blooming sunflowers, Lu Binghua and lavender, Xia Yu, 44, has retreated from the atmosphere of intellectuals and looks a bit like a township cadre.

Xia Yu, who is not good at talking, said that in 1983, she was admitted to Nanjing University of Chemical Technology from Fuling to study chemical machinery, which she did not like at all. Four years later, she was assigned to Nanjing Chemical Industry Company. Because the environment where the enterprise is located is relatively poor, she began to raise flowers and plants. After working for 9 years, she was transferred back to Fuling with her husband from Nanjing to work, but because her work unit was very idle, especially affected by her retired father planting flowers, she began to be obsessed with flower cultivation. Subsequently, Xia Yu resolutely left the sea to start the cause of planting flowers and selling flowers.

At that time, her father spent 400 yuan from others to buy a small nursery, Xia Yu from Singapore and other places to introduce rose flowers, and then back to Fuling vegetable market to sell. The first time she sold it for 17.5 yuan, an income she would never forget.

Direct administration opportunity to earn the first bucket of gold

After having the experience of selling flowers successfully, Xia Yu did her best to cultivate all kinds of flowers. She said that there was no flower plantation in Fuling at that time. Before and after Chongqing was directly under the jurisdiction, Fuling introduced Wahaha and other large-scale enterprises, especially when the municipal greening construction was greatly accelerated, she was catching up with the opportunity.

In 1997, she not only opened a flower shop of several square meters in Fuling, but also received the first large single-Fuling a large greening project. That year she earned more than 30,000 yuan by selling flowers and greening projects. In order to expand the career space, from 10 years ago, the thriving Xia Yu began to enter Chongqing main city to carry out greening projects. Before the 50th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China, her tens of thousands of pots of flowers were moved to Jiefangbei Square, and Chongqing Tianzi Agricultural Development Co., Ltd. was established, becoming the leading enterprise of flower industry in our city. At the same time, she also saw the market opportunity, bought out the German Wesson company primrose seed sales agency in China, every October after the seedlings come out, chartered flights to East China for sale.

Rent 1,000 mu of land for sightseeing agriculture

Four years ago, Xia Yu was invited by the government of Fuling Damu Township to build a mountain flower base of more than 500 mu on a sunny mountain with an altitude of more than 1500 meters. After success, she negotiated with the local government and farmers, rented more than 1700 mu of land, established Chongqing Tianmu Agricultural Development Co., Ltd., and began to build Chongqing's first mountain flower township sightseeing agricultural theme park.

How do farmers in poor townships shake off poverty and become rich? Zhong Tao, secretary of the party committee of Damu Township, calculated an account for reporters. After farmers provided land circulation, they could earn 200 yuan per mu of land every year. Farmers with tickets for scenic spots could also be divided into parts. At the same time, they could also work in enterprises, such as planting flowers and weeding. Zhong Tao said, Tourism has developed, A large number of agricultural and sideline products such as bacon, Native chicken and other selling prices have also increased significantly, Local set up more than 50 farmhouses, Last year alone local farmers per capita annual income reached 8000 yuan.

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