China Focus: 40 years on, Xiaogang still testbed of China's rural reform

    Source: Xinhua| 2018-10-14 18:40:13|Editor: Yamei
    Video PlayerClose

    HEFEI, Oct. 14 (Xinhua) -- China's agricultural conglomerate Beidahuang Group has just concluded the first season harvest on a modern rice plantation in Xiaogang Village, east China's Anhui Province.

    More than 30 rice varieties were harvested in the pilot plantation of 33 hectares of field.

    Entrusted by the Xiaogang village committee, the company made the project so that farmers can have a free and assured choice of what rice strains they would like to grow next season. The selection method meant the newly harvested rice was cooked so that farmers could taste of each one before making the decision.

    Yan Lihua, 74, has leased his farmland to another villager, so that his family can focus on running the countryside bed & breakfast business, and those more able can get more farmland in the village to carry out larger scale farming.

    Seniors like Yan have childhood memories of hunger, and the village was known for producing beggars because of the land's low yield, before it won the fame as the birthplace of China's rural reform.

    Yan remembered the autumn harvest of 1979 was particularly joyous after decades of famine.

    The unprecedented harvest came a year after farmers made a secret pact to resist the country's egalitarian agricultural system. This was the event that ignited China's nationwide rural land reform.

    The pact meant that after the farmers handed a certain percentage of their produce to the government, they were able to keep the rest of the harvest from their contracted land themselves. Owning their own fields gave farmers enthusiasm to carry out intensive farming.

    "That year, the village recorded a harvest of 66,500 kg of rice, six times of that reaped a year ago," said Yan Yushan, whose father Yan Hongchang was among the first 18 farmers to sign the secret agreement to divide communally owned farmland into family plots in 1978.

    The family land contract responsibility system that derived from Xiaogang was spread nationwide by 1984, when China's per-capita grain amount reached 400 kg. It basically solved the country's food problem.

    The name of Xiaogang has since been fixed in the nation's memory as the start of China's reform.

    "We fought hard to get the land use right. Now we transfer it to earn rent. We are relieved from farming and can focus on things that we want to do," said Yan the senior.

    The pioneering reform spirit has been taken on by village, which continues to motivate new reform initiatives.

    Yin Yurong, a pig farmer in the village, recently brought up a new idea -- setting up a land stock cooperative.

    "The former reform helped ensure us food. It is the responsibility of our generation to make new reforms to make people rich," she said.

    Yin explained that her idea of land stock was not just to reward land leasing with rental fees, but also a certain amount of dividends from the land use if the land leaser joins the cooperative.

    In August, her proposal was endorsed by the village committee. So far, over 40 households have signed to join the cooperative.

    "We encourage the idea because it can help pool together redundant labor and release unused farmland kept by villagers," said Li Jinzhu, Party chief of the village committee.

    Besides the individual endeavors, all 4,288 villagers in Xiaogang were turned into shareholders of the village's collective in 2017, to benefit from the business development from Xiaogang's intangible assets.

    Villagers each received a dividend of 350 yuan (about 55.5 U.S. dollars) in February from the village collective's earnings of 8.2 million yuan from the operation in agriculture, education, tourism and capital management in 2017.

    "Though it's not a big sum of money, it definitely marks a hopeful beginning," Yan Yushan said.

    As a member of the village committee, Yan said the village's reform history was its intangible assets, attracting hundreds of thousands of visitors every year.

    He said the village's collective had a think tank, with 18 entrepreneurs, all fellows from the village doing business in big Chinese cities.

    With the intellectual supports, the village has set up a 400 million-yuan modern agricultural reform fund, invited the Beidahuang Group to begin modern farming and develop farm produce under the Xiaogang trademark.

    TOP STORIES
    EDITOR’S CHOICE
    MOST VIEWED
    EXPLORE XINHUANET
    010020070750000000000000011103261375323191
    主站蜘蛛池模板: 成年在线网站免费观看无广告| 精品亚洲麻豆1区2区3区| 波多野结衣教师在线观看| 国产色综合天天综合网| 久久99国产精品久久99果冻传媒 | 最近最新中文字幕2018 | 99久久国产热无码精品免费| 欧美人与z0xxx另类| 古代肉多荤话文高h| 欧美日韩一区二区三区麻豆| 女bbbbxxxx另类亚洲| 久久久久久久国产a∨| 福利视频第一区| 国产黄色大片网站| 亚洲a∨无码男人的天堂| 蜜芽国产尤物AV尤物在线看| 好看的中文字幕在线| 久久国产精品自由自在| 精品久久久无码人妻中文字幕豆芽| 国产成人免费电影| 一级做a爱视频| 日韩人妻无码精品专区| 再深点灬舒服灬太大了添学长| 67194熟妇人妻欧美日韩| 巨胸喷奶水视频www网免费| 亚洲国产成人va在线观看| 边亲边摸边做视频免费| 国产精品女同一区二区| eva樱花动漫网| 日韩精品无码免费一区二区三区| 亚洲精品国产精品国自产网站| 黄色大片在线播放| 国产精品自拍电影| 久久久久久久久久国产精品免费 | 欧美视频免费在线播放| 国产午夜三级一区二区三| 2021国产成人午夜精品| 最近中文字幕2019高清视频| 叶山豪是真吃蓝燕奶| 麻豆精品不卡国产免费看| 国产精品对白刺激久久久|