Ningxia Wuzhong: Talent "Living Water" Nourishes Rural Fertile Soil Talents | Rural | Living Water
The evening breeze of August drove away the heat that had enveloped the day. At dusk, in Sanshanjing Village, Xiamaguan Town, Tongxin County, Wuzhong City, Ningxia, the live broadcast room for agricultural assistance in the village e-commerce center became lively. "Friend who came in, thank you for following me! Let's take a look at this honey from Sanshanjing..." In front of the camera, Zhou Chang'an, the secretary of the village party branch, skillfully promoted the specialty and sold more than 30 orders in just half an hour.
"Village goods" have become "online goods", and good things have been sold at good prices, which is a topic of discussion among the villagers of Sanshanjing. "Our Secretary Zhou has a lively mind and many methods. He not only led us to do e-commerce live broadcasts, but also set up broom factories and breeding farms. Our days are getting more and more prosperous. How good this leader is!" Villager Yang Shengkui gave a thumbs up.
The key to rural revitalization lies in people. Leaders of grassroots party organizations like Zhou Chang'an from Sanshanjing Village who understand agriculture, love rural areas, and farmers are becoming increasingly popular in the vast rural areas of Ningxia. In recent years, on the track of rural revitalization, facing the realistic dilemma of population and talent loss, Ningxia Wuzhong has vigorously implemented the rural revitalization talent cultivation project. Through training, external attraction, and internal education, the main force of rural construction has been developed and strengthened to promote the modernization of rural "people" and drive the comprehensive revitalization of rural areas.
Forging frontline "commanders"
At around 5 pm on August 5th, in the suburbs of Litong District, Wuzhong City, on both sides of the road leading to Niujiafang Village in Shangqiao Town, cars and electric vehicles gradually increased, and rural nightlife began amidst the surging crowds. On the delicious street, rows of small dining carts are filled with fragrance, and each stall's flagship food is a unique part of the entire street.
"This business model was learned from Yuanjia Village in Shaanxi Province, and many of their practices in developing rural tourism are indeed worth learning from." Since participating in the "inter provincial research and learning" organized by the village party organization secretary in the city, Zhang Shaoyun, the party branch secretary of Niujiafang Village, has suddenly broadened his thinking. With his mobilization, the village rented a bus and took the wealth creation leaders and merchants out to learn and "recharge". Nowadays, not only are homestays and farmhouse entertainment continuously upgraded, but the rural tourism industry has also gradually become more diverse. Niujiafang has also been selected as a village with a national rural characteristic industry value exceeding 100 million yuan.
The secretary of the village party organization is the backbone of the rural grassroots cadre team, and also the frontline "commander" of rural revitalization. His ability and level determine the progress and effectiveness of rural revitalization. Since 2021, Wuzhong City has been replaced by a large number of capable and motivated outstanding talents through the village "two committees", who have entered the team of village party organization secretaries. The proportion of people under 35 years old, with a college degree or above, and "shoulder the responsibility" has been continuously increasing. However, the "new generation" also has many shortcomings.
"Some graduates have knowledge and passion at the grassroots level, but lack experience; some have long-term roots in rural areas, understand and love agriculture, but their ideas and perspectives are not broad enough," Liu Shuanghai, the head of the Organization Department of the Wuzhong Municipal Party Committee, told reporters. Wuzhong City starts with strengthening learning and training, and through city level demonstration training and county-level bottom-up rotation training, it has continuously trained village party organization secretaries in batches and categories for three years. Especially since the beginning of this year, the training class has been moved to outside the province, and 138 village party organization secretaries have been organized in three batches for cross provincial research and learning, helping to expand their thinking and vision, enhance their ability to do things, and improve their ability and level of revitalizing rural areas.
Wuzhong City has focused on implementing "Party building leading cross village joint construction and common prosperity", forming a number of industrial villages such as yellow cauliflower, beef cattle, and Tan sheep. It has also cultivated typical examples such as cross village joint construction in Yesheng Town, Qingtongxia City, and the Tongxin County Beef Cattle Industry Party Building Alliance. Niujiafang Village in Litong District, Yangliu Village in Hongsibao District, and Hongde Village have been selected as villages with a national rural characteristic industry output value exceeding 100 million yuan. The total collective economic income of the villages has reached 446 million yuan, and 280 villages in the city have a collective income of over 500000 yuan, accounting for 56.3%. The foundation of rural revitalization is more solid.
Play a good "first move chess" to attract intelligence
Entering the greenhouse of the agricultural industry park in Gaozha Town, Litong District, Wuzhong City, after the first batch of early spring watermelons were removed from the shelves, the second batch of summer chili peppers grew happily.
"Originally, vegetable cultivation relied solely on one's own exploration, with good and bad harvests. Since receiving expert guidance, the entire process from seedling cultivation to management and care has emphasized two words: science! After a year, I feel like I have become half an expert." Planter Yan Jun told reporters that Litong District and the Horticultural Research Institute of Ningxia Agricultural and Forestry College jointly built a vegetable doctoral workstation, and the expert promoted the arched greenhouse "early spring watermelon+summer chili non tillage continuous cropping" and four film covering planting technology, achieving two crops a year with a net income of over 20000 yuan per acre. "Recently, I am also preparing to participate in a new technology promotion competition in the city!"
It is understood that Litong District is exploring flexible talent attraction services for rural industrial development through project cooperation and targeted assistance. It has established 9 "doctoral work guidance stations" for vegetables, grapes, fruits, and forage, and introduced 9 technical guidance teams and 54 high-level talents. It comprehensively provides full guidance services for key technology research and development, agricultural technology achievement transformation, and local talent cultivation.
For a long time, "technology has been in the hands of experts, and the problem lies in farmers' fields." How can agricultural technology take root in the soil and transform it into fruit?
Wuzhong City has formulated new policies for rural talent revitalization, such as the "Twenty Measures for Flexible Talent Introduction", and proposed measures such as providing subsidies for flexible talent introduction, appointing and concurrently serving as chief experts, and establishing talent carriers, continuously strengthening the guidance of talent policies. According to the "four in one" work concept of signing cooperation agreements, establishing carrier platforms, hiring special experts, and establishing project support, 40% of talent funds have been invested in 42 agricultural talent projects in the past two years, supporting enterprises and institutions to build 14 talent carriers such as China Dairy Research Institute and Agricultural Expert Service Base, attracting intellectual resources to serve rural revitalization. Among them, more than 100 experts from universities such as China Agricultural University and Northwest A&F University were flexibly introduced, and 87 new technologies, varieties, and models were promoted and applied. This not only solved a large number of technical problems such as the comprehensive utilization of livestock and poultry manure, but also strengthened the rural scientific and technological talent team through the guidance of experts and local expertise.
Cultivate and make good use of "soil experts"
The scorching sun scorched the earth, and in the apple orchard of Fenghuodun Village, Biandangou Town, Litong District, Wuzhong City, bagged apples bent their branches. A field teaching is taking place under an apple tree.
"From my perspective, looking up, there is no obstruction, and the sunlight is fully shining in." "Summer management, the key is to open the branches and corners, pull the branches and fix them well. With sufficient light, the autumn fruits will definitely not be inferior..." Wang Yujing, who was awarded as one of the first batch of senior agronomists for farmers in Wuzhong City, squatted under the apple tree with her head up, pinching the apple branches with both hands and pulling them open on both sides, demonstrating pruning and management for fruit farmers on site.
In Fenghuodun Village, where Wang Yujing is located, almost every family grows apples. In the early years, due to a single variety and lack of technical knowledge, they could not harvest good fruits or make money after a year of hard work. The planting scale was reduced from over 4000 acres to 300 acres. After finding the root cause of the "lack of technology", Wang Yujing went to Luochuan County, Shaanxi Province with 1600 yuan to learn grafting, cultivation, irrigation and other techniques. After completing her studies, she was the first to try apple bagging technology in Ningxia. In 2009, he joined the team of technology envoys and founded a professional cooperative for fruit production and sales, leading nearby fruit farmers to adopt new technologies and introduce new varieties. Wang Yujing has become a well-known "Apple King" and "Soil Expert" in the local area, and has also been promoted to a senior agronomist for farmers on an exceptional basis.
Rural revitalization and talent gathering require both external attraction and internal cultivation. The "soil experts" and "Tian Xiucai" rooted in rural areas are the driving forces behind the development of agriculture through science and technology.
Last year, Wuzhong City carried out the first evaluation of high-quality farmer professional titles, establishing six evaluation standards for three levels of farmer assistant agronomist, farmer agronomist, and farmer senior agronomist. Personnel who obtained relevant professional titles were given a one-time bonus of 2000 to 8000 yuan, and priority support was given in research topics, project applications, education and training. Currently, 53 rural practical talents have been evaluated for high-quality farmer professional titles.
How to do after being awarded a professional title? The soil experts are licensed to work in the fields, passing on their experience, demonstrating and leading the way, and passing on their skills. Driven by Wang Yujing, more than 200 fruit farmers have returned to their old jobs, and the planting area of fruit trees in the village has returned to a historical peak of 4000 acres, with a profit of at least 13000 yuan per acre.
It is understood that Wuzhong City focuses on the leading industries of rural revitalization such as wine, beef cattle, and Tan sheep, deeply identifies talent gaps and technological needs, and determines the "6+N" agricultural industry talent precise training concept. It adopts the methods of "city level demonstration training, county-level universal training, and township bottom-up training", and trains more than 20000 industrial talents annually. The number of farmers in the city who have mastered more than one practical technology has exceeded 200000, with one driving one area and one group leading the other.
