Matougang Village is located in the Yellow River beach area, which used to be called the Great Northern Wilderness of Zhengzhou. Today, there are 368 two-story garden villa-style residences covering an area of ??more than 300 acres. All 1,053 people in the village live in the new village with green trees and wide roads, and the per capita housing area reaches more than 80 square meters. The spacious cement square in the center of the village, complete with fitness equipment, is nestled among green trees and villas. In the north of the village, the busy salad oil factory and feed factory production lines are running happily. The village holding enterprises-Henan Northern Modern Agriculture Development Co., Ltd. and Henan Matougang Green Ecological Park Co., Ltd. have now become agricultural products approved by the provincial and municipal governments. A leading industrial enterprise.
In more than 10 years, Matougang Village has developed from a poor village with a per capita income of less than 400 yuan to a wealthy and civilized village with a wealth of over 100 million yuan. In October 2004, Zeng Qinghong, member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and Vice President of the People's Republic of China, came to Henan for an inspection. He inspected Matougang Village. He praised very happily: From here, I saw the hope of rural China and the hope of billions of people. A bright future for farmers. Abandoning a comfortable life, determined to return to his hometown to start a business
Ten years ago, Matougang was located on the old path of the Yellow River, with many deserted beaches and few fertile fields. The agricultural planting model was single, with an output of less than 300 kilograms per mu. The average annual per capita The income is less than 400 yuan. The people live in thatched houses and houses with broken tiles. The village's collective economy is empty, and it owes more than 200,000 yuan in external debts, and cannot even pay the electricity bill. Before 1993, the village's two committees had been replaced six times in five years. People's hearts were in disarray, and gambling and security incidents occurred from time to time.
At that time, China’s vast rural areas were gradually getting richer in the process of rural reform and opening up. The stagnant Ma Tou Gang is heartbreaking. Looking at the sad faces of thousands of fellow villagers, and facing the lifeless homeland where he was born and raised, Hua Erjun, who had left his hometown and worked in a state-owned enterprise in Zhengzhou, resolutely returned to his hometown in the spring of 1993 and took on the role of Ma Tou. Taking on the important task of being the leader of the post, together with the two village committees, he led the people in the village to embark on the arduous road of entrepreneurship.
To this day, villagers living in the villa-style new village of Matougang are often reluctant to talk about the past. However, Hua Erjun often reminded village cadres and the masses: Do not forget the painful history of the Great Northern Wilderness in the past. That painful experience was precisely the source of motivation for the two village committees to change the backwardness of Matougang.
Fighting a thousand acres of deserted land, vowing to make the people rich
Only if you are a bad village cadre, you will not lead bad people. This sentence is regarded as a famous saying by Hua Erjun. He is well aware that with the development of the times, what the masses need are good cadres and capable cadres who can not only do a good job in grassroots party and government work, but also lead farmers to get rich.
In Hua Erjun’s blood, there is the proud pride of a tough guy; in Hua Erjun’s heart, there is the delicate feeling for the common people. The two blended together to form his bold and careful character. He started by uniting cadres and stabilizing people's hearts, strengthened the cadre management system, and at the same time fully promoted democracy, made democratic decisions on everything, and let the people have the final say on major matters, using collective wisdom and strength to win people's hearts and develop the economy. Based on the actual situation and opportunities faced by Matougang Village, Hua Erjun proposed an entrepreneurial idea of ??adjusting the agricultural industry structure, serving the needs of the urban market, and achieving self-development and prosperity.
Matougang, adjacent to the urban area of ??Zhengzhou, has a lot of barren land. Hua Erjun summarized the specific development model into three sentences: growing fruits and grain in the south of the village, digging fish ponds in the north of the village, and building greenhouses in the east of the village. .
In the winter of 1993, the battle to dig fish ponds began amid the dilemma of lack of funds and the ideological obstacles of a small number of cadres and the masses. Hua Erjun understood the wait-and-see attitude of farmers whose ancestors had been silent in the sandy land, and he decided to verify all this with facts. If there was no money, he took the lead in donating; if there was no equipment, he asked relatives and friends to borrow it. The colitis recurred, so I took some medicine and still stayed at the construction site. The villagers were moved by his spirit, donated their money and devoted themselves to the battle on the thousand-acre desert beach.
In the northern suburbs of Zhengzhou, the people of Matougang took the lead in excavating a large series of 987 acres of aquaculture bases.
That winter, when Hua Erjun led a mighty convoy to deliver the aquatic products he fed for the first time, the whole village supported the old and young, set off firecrackers, and lined the streets to see off the warrior! This year, the income from fish farming in Matougang Village reached 1.26 million yuan. In 1995, the output value expanded rapidly to 6 million yuan. Subsequently, nearly a hundred solar greenhouses were built one after another. The people of Matougang, who have struggled in the Yellow River floodplain area for generations, tasted the joy of success for the first time. The long-lost smile began to dance on everyone's face.
After the village collective gained savings, Matougang paid off a large amount of electricity bills it owed, built 8,000 meters of high and low voltage lines, strengthened road construction in the village, and initially brought the dirty, chaotic and poor situation in the village under control. .
Develop modern agriculture and realize a completely new life
Deep in the hearts of Matougang villagers, there is such a yearning: to be like city dwellers at all times, to be able to go to and from get off work on time every day, and work every month. Monthly salary?
Hua Erjun understands the wishes of the folks. The population of Zhengzhou, which is rapidly expanding, is expanding rapidly, and there are endless opportunities for the supply of non-staple food for citizens. After the success of aquaculture, Hua Erjun discovered the huge demand in the production market for vegetables, fish, meat and other non-staple food, and decided to gradually develop an industry that relies on fish farming as a big tree to drive the simultaneous development of feed production and fresh fish transportation and marketing. chain economic model. His idea was unanimously approved by the villagers. In 1996, Matougang Village raised 1.48 million yuan to establish the Northern Feed Company, with an output value of 10 million yuan that year. In 1997, a fresh fish transportation and marketing fleet was established to form a fishery economic growth chain integrating production, supply and marketing.
Hua Erjun pays great attention to market changes, focuses on adapting to the current situation, following market rules, and exploring a phased and chain-type industrial development strategy with Matougang characteristics. In order to reduce the transportation cost of soybean meal, the raw material required for feed production, in September 2000, Matougang invested another 19 million yuan to build a vegetable oil factory with an annual output value of 230 million yuan. In 2005, it jointly invested with Northwest Agricultural University to build the Terric Feed Research and Test Base, which is now in use.
In order to activate the development of agricultural economy and further increase farmers' income, under the leadership of Hua Erjun, Matougang Village based on its advantages, introduced more than 10 million yuan in investment to build Zhengzhou Hoisting Equipment Factory in 2002. In 2003 An annual investment of more than 5 million yuan was invested in the construction of the Yellow River Hot Air Stove Factory. In 2004, a high-tech industry was introduced to produce mobile phone display screens... The rapid rise of village-run enterprises not only fulfilled the workers' dream of the people in the village, but also arranged for nearly a hundred laid-off workers to re-employ. It also allowed Matougang to embark on the path of prosperity by using industry to lead agriculture and using industry to promote agriculture.
After every successful start-up, Hua Erjun always strengthened his sense of worry and crisis. He organized village cadres to discuss: Why do many township enterprises only have a life span of five to ten years? After studying at Renmin University of China, Hua Erjun realized that in the era of market economy, the law of competition in which big fish eat small fish is being replaced by the law of competition in which fast fish eat slow fish. Subsequently, Matougang carried out modern enterprise restructuring on village-run enterprises: the collective enterprise fully owned and managed by the village committee was changed to a joint-stock company controlled by the village committee and all villagers voluntarily participated in the company. Senior management experts were hired to serve in the enterprise to strengthen Policy analysis and development planning.
By the end of 2005, the total industrial and agricultural output value of Matougang Village had exceeded 150 million yuan, and the per capita annual income was 7,008 yuan, 16 times that of ten years ago.
Material and spiritual synchronization, the whole village is harmonious and prosperous
Material wealth does not count as wealth. For people to truly live a good life, spiritual needs are essential. Under the leadership of Hua Erjun, Matougang Village invested more than 60 million yuan to build a villa-style residential complex with a total area of ??288 acres and complete functions. Every household in the village has a two-story European-style small house with a courtyard.
No matter how poor we are, we cannot afford education, and no matter how miserable we are, we must not suffer for our children. The people of Matougang invested 5.6 million yuan to build a modern middle school covering an area of ??52 acres and a construction area of ??6,000 square meters on the side of the new village, completely solving the problem of nearby schooling for more than 1,600 children in more than ten surrounding villages.
In order to enrich the spiritual and cultural life of the villagers, in addition to the folk art troupe and yangko troupe organized voluntarily by the people, Matougang Village also established a small troupe of 40 people headed by folk artist Zhou Haiquan, which performs every month Perform performances, voluntarily promote the party's policies, and advocate new rural trends.
Strive for the party and the people, and the smooth journey will bring great beauty
In the minds of the villagers of Matougang, there are too many memories of the good Party Secretary Hua Erjun: the fish pond under construction, During the period of improving the industrial structure, he was the commando who made the most donations and carried the most mud; during the stage of running factories and developing collective enterprises, he was an explorer who changed his ideas and ventured into the business world; at the decisive moment of changing the appearance of the village and creating the Century New Village, He is a public servant of the people who sacrifices his own interests and devotes himself to public service; during the Henan TV station’s charity rescue trip and Zhengzhou City’s New Year’s greeting and warmth activities, he was a loving messenger who made voluntary donations to help out-of-school children; when the people of the country united as one to resist the Communist Party of China At the critical moment of SARS, he was a pioneer in public welfare undertakings who called on all the villagers of Matougang to donate to society...
Since 1993, Matougang Village has been rated as an advanced civilized security village by the province, city and district. , an advanced village in family planning work, and a model village for supporting the army. In 2002, the Matougang Village Party Branch was rated as one of the Five Advanced Party Branches in Henan Province, and Matougang Village was rated as a national civilized village by the National Spiritual Civilization Office. In 2005, it was awarded the National Democracy and Legal System Demonstration Village by the Ministry of Civil Affairs and the Ministry of Justice.
After more than ten years of hard work, Hua Erjun has achieved fruitful results and received various honorary titles: one hundred national pacesetters for rural youth entrepreneurship and wealth creation, one of the top ten outstanding youths in Henan Province, a model worker in Henan Province, and an outstanding provincial figure* Member of the Communist Party of China, model secretary of Zhengzhou Shuangqiang Party Branch, one of the top ten outstanding young people in Zhengzhou, Zhengzhou May 1st Labor Medal, etc. In 2002, Hua Erjun was elected as a representative of the 10th People's Congress of Henan Province. In 2005, he was re-elected as Secretary of the Party Branch of Matougang Village.
He Ruiqin, a simple villager, said: The people in our village trust the Second Army, and if we work with him, we will be successful.