Walking into the orchard, you can see that fruits in different seasons bear fruit in the same season. Purple grapes, green pears, crimson plums and red peaches are all filled with the joy of harvest, which seems to tell people the extraordinary entrepreneurial story of orchard owner Shi Zhimin.

Shi Zhimin grew up in Guihua Town, Xian 'an District, Xianning City, Hubei Province. Since he was a child, he has special feelings for the green mountains and green waters, birds and flowers in his hometown. One summer vacation, the teacher organized them to conduct a social survey. In the home of a fruit grower, Shi Zhimin saw such a scene: pears were harvested, but the fruit grower looked at the mountains of pears and worried. Because pears don't sell well, we have to watch them rot. The helpless eyes of the fruit grower deeply hurt Shi Zhimin's heart. He secretly vowed to use knowledge to ignite the hope of the villagers to get rid of poverty and become rich.

After the college entrance examination, he asked to fill in the Agricultural University, but his family strongly opposed it. Hard times make this family afraid of poverty, and they want Shi Zhimin to jump out of the door of "agriculture". Under pressure, Shi Zhimin played a "trick". Volunteer to fill in Huazhong University of Science and Technology and Huazhong Agricultural University. He thought that his exam results could not be recorded as his first choice. Unexpectedly, it was the admission notice from Huazhong University of Science and Technology.

In Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Shi Zhimin studied a popular mechanical major, but his heart couldn't warm up. Every time he walks into a fruit forest or grassland, he stops to meditate, and he can't erase the farmer's eyes. A kind of self-reproach came at him: Shi Zhimin, Shi Zhimin, how to realize that green dream! He is depressed inside. Once, in an ideological and moral class at school, when talking about ideals and interests, the teacher was very emotional and Shi Zhimin was extremely involved. When the teacher said that "a life without ideal is like walking into a rainy night", he could no longer hold back his surging passion and resolutely asked to transfer to Huazhong Agricultural University.

A stone stirs up a thousand waves. Shi Zhimin's transfer behavior caused an uproar in the school. "This man didn't lose his mind. He has a good hot major and doesn't want to learn it. He must be a farmer. " "I'm afraid I want to be famous. Nowadays, college students don't study hard and just want to be famous. " When I got home, grandma got up and fainted. My mother Lacrimosa and my father sat there and sighed. ...

Rumors and family boycotts didn't make Shi Zhimin back down. In two semesters, my father was forced to transfer to Huazhong Agricultural University. Shi Zhimin is like a duck to water and easy to learn. Other students pay attention to the instructions in the textbook, but he spends most of his spare time in the school botanical garden to help teachers participate in the custom of fruit seedlings and flowers. He carefully observed and understood the growth characteristics and cultivation techniques of every fruit and flower in the school biological garden, and only kept a diary.

Four years of college life passed quickly. Faced with graduation assignment, Shi Zhimin was recommended by the school to engage in agricultural research in an agricultural research institute in the provincial capital because of his excellent grades.

If the transfer four years ago broke the heart of my family, then this graduation assignment can finally soothe my parents' sad hearts. Yes, staying in the provincial capital is the dream of many students. After all, a national cadre finally came out of the teacher's family. However, Shi Zhimin once again made an incomprehensible decision: to return to his hometown to start a business. Everyone in my hometown thinks that Shi Zhimin is "stupid to take home", and some even say, "Even if you clean the toilet outside, don't be ashamed to come back." But Shi Zhimin is determined to realize his green dream.

The reality is not as beautiful as Shi Zhimin imagined. If you want to start a business, you must have the minimum material foundation-land and capital, but there is nothing in Shi Zhimin. After wandering around the village for a few days, he decided to work as a technician in a fruit tree base in other places, and then went home to start a business when the time was ripe.

199965438+In February, Shi Zhimin, a migrant worker, heard that Guihua Town in Xian 'an District planned to develop osmanthus seedlings on a large scale and decided to quit his job and return to his hometown when it was time to start a business.

However, the fact gave him a ruthless stick. Osmanthus fragrans seedling technology does not look complicated, but because of his technical problems in heat preservation technology, less than 30 thousand seedlings survived from the lucky 80 thousand seedlings. Looking at the dead osmanthus seedlings, Shi Zhimin wanted to cry. He felt ashamed: is this the answer given by a talented student of an agricultural university to the people in his hometown?

In August 2000, Shi Zhimin, who went out to study art again, came to a pipa demonstration base in Panzhihua, Sichuan. On the mountain at an altitude of 1000 meters, he settled down and used the guidance he learned in college to gradually explore and solve various technical problems in pipa production, which brought hundreds of thousands of yuan of benefits to the company. Soon he became a technical expert of the company and served as the deputy general manager of the company, and his income rose to more than 4,000 yuan. Once, an old expert of the company said excitedly at the planting meeting, "I want to pursue life." I am over 80 years old, but as long as I am alive, I will make some contributions to the people. " Hearing these words, Shi Zhimin's green dream was ignited again.

In 2002 1 month, it was the season of planting fruit trees, and Shi Zhimin returned to his hometown. Facing the familiar soil, after carefully analyzing the development prospect of fruit industry, he set the goal of starting a business on the introduction, breeding and promotion of new fruit varieties. After more than a year's efforts, a demonstration garden of more than ten acres of fruit trees has finally been built, and now most varieties have borne fruit. Later, he wanted to extend this successful experience to neighboring villages and build a 50-mu demonstration garden in Mao Ping Village, Guihua Town. This year, he plans to invest 6,543,800 yuan to rent 200 mu of land in Qianshan Village, maqiao town, and build a unique sightseeing orchard. At present, all the fruit seedlings have been planted in place.

Being in Shi Zhimin's orchard, feeling the outdated fragrance, bees and butterflies flying and flowing water gurgling, is this Shi Zhimin's dream world?

However, he is no longer satisfied with this dream. He also has a bigger dream, that is, to build a larger nursery base to meet the needs of local farmers and help farmers in their hometown get rid of poverty and become rich by planting fruit trees. He plans to double the planting area of fruit trees every year, and strive to build an orchard 10000 mu in five years, and support more poor farmers to build 10/2 mu of high-quality orchards every year for them to get rid of poverty as soon as possible.