A few years later, Jintan Village has finally lifted out of poverty. The average annual income of villagers has reached 20,000 yuan. Although it is not comparable to the income in the southeastern coastal areas, in Ning Province, an annual income of 20,000 yuan is definitely at a well-off level.
At least every household has built a new house and can eat meat every day. The villagers no longer have to worry about hunger.
In addition, the environment around Jintan Village has also been greatly changed. It was originally a barren Gobi Desert. After several years of struggle, green has returned here.
On this day, Ma Defu rode back to the village slowly after a meeting in the county. After entering the village, a middle-aged man carrying a large package greeted him with a smile.
"Defu, are you back from the meeting?"
"Yes, uncle, what are you doing? Carrying such a big bag of things?"
"Haha, this is the bonus given out by the factory today." The middle-aged man said as he patted the bulging cloth bag: "It's almost autumn, so I bought a few pieces from the factory at the internal price.
Cardigan, give it back to relatives and friends."
"Oh, that's right."
Ma Defu smiled and nodded. He had personally approved this benefit.
Three years ago, as the scale of Tan sheep breeding became larger and larger, Jintan Village officially established a Tan sheep breeding base. Its model is the same as that of the brick factory, and it still adopts the collective shareholding model.
The breeding base covers feed processing, breeding, breeding, slaughtering and meat product processing, opening up the entire industrial chain. After several years of development, the scale of the breeding base is increasing.
Nowadays, the lambs cultivated in Jintan Village can not only be used by the family, but also sold to surrounding areas.
In addition, Jintan Village has also shed its identity as a raw material supplier. To put it bluntly, no sheep can leave Jintan Village alive, except for lambs.
All the Tan sheep, wool, 2-hair furs, sheepskins, and mutton raised by Jintan Village are all properly arranged.
Every year, the wool harvested, the second-hair fur and tan sheepskin peeled off are sent to the village's own garment factory as soon as possible.
The mutton is sent to the food processing center next to the clothing factory for sorting and sorting. If the mutton is purchased locally, it will be delivered directly to your door on the same day.
If it is purchased from other places, it will first undergo a vacuum compression process and then be loaded and sent to other places.
"Uncle, I have something to do when I get back, so I'll leave first. You can take your time and get busy."
“Very good.”
After bidding farewell to the middle-aged man, Ma Defu got on his car and rushed home.
Over the past few years, with the subsequent arrival of immigrants, the area of Jintan Village has also expanded, covering an area of more than 3,600 acres.
3,600 acres is approximately equal to 2.4 square kilometers, equivalent to a square 1.2 kilometers long and 1.2 kilometers wide, and approximately the size of 160 standard track and field sports fields.
This does not include the cultivated land cultivated by the villagers, nor does it include the village's breeding base, food processing factory, clothing factory, brick factory, licorice breeding center, and wolfberry plantation.
If all industrial and agricultural land were included, the area of Jintan Village would have to be doubled several times.
The area has become larger, so the time to go around has naturally become longer. A few years ago, it only took Ma Defu three or four minutes to ride from the village entrance to his home, but now it takes seven or eight minutes.
If we encounter a situation like the one just now, sometimes it will take Ma Defu half an hour to get home from the village entrance.
There is no way, Ma Defu is too popular.
If we were to select the most popular person within Jintan Village, there is no doubt that Ma Defu would definitely be number one. His popularity is even higher than that of Li Jie.
As for why Ma Defu is more popular than Li Jie?
The reason is very simple, Li Jie is too low-key.
Except for the first few years, Li Jie would often appear in people's sight. Later, when everything was on track, he deliberately reduced his sense of existence.
Most of the time, he hides behind the scenes and commands remotely.
In addition, subsequent immigrants to Jintan Village did not come from Yongquan Village, but from other areas in Xihaigu.
When these people came to Jintan Village for resettlement, Li Jie was basically out of the public eye, and they had no idea about the specific situation in the village.
Therefore, the later immigrants did not know Li Jie at all. They always thought that Jintan Village developed so well because of Ma Defu's effective leadership.
The villagers of the original Yongquan Village all had a tacit understanding not to mention the real contributors of Jintan Village in front of the new immigrants.
Because they were not familiar with these later immigrants, they did not want them to know about Li Jie.
Originally, in the eyes of the villagers of the original Yongquan Village, these latecomers were ‘outsiders’. When they came to Jintan Village, Li Jie and Ma Defu did not treat them any differently.
What benefits can original villagers of Yongquan Village enjoy, and newcomers can also enjoy the same benefits.
For example, when it comes to buying shares in a factory, outsiders also have the right to choose to invest in shares. If outsiders have no money, they can also apply for a loan from the village.
Of course, these benefits are limited to the factories built after they arrived, such as the earliest brick factory, licorice breeding center and Tan Sheep Breeding Center. These latecomers will not have a share.
Ma Defu did not return to his home immediately, but came to his father's home.
"Dad, come back."
Entering the courtyard gate, Ma Defu looked around, but he saw neither his father nor his children.
'Huh? Where is dad?'
"dad?"
"dad?"
In the study room, hearing the shouts of his son, Li Jie put down the books in his hands and walked out of the room slowly.
"What's the matter?"
"Dad, you are at home. I thought you were not at home. By the way, where is Xiaojiu? Where has he gone?"
Xiaojiu is the nickname of Ma Defu's son, who is five years old this year. Ma Defu is usually busy with work and has no time to take care of it, and Shui Hua has opened a supermarket in the village, so he doesn't have much time to take care of it.
Therefore, the important task of taking care of their son was placed in the hands of Li Jie and his wife.
"His grandma took him to the square to play."
Ma Defu nodded and didn't say much. He came today not to see his son, but because of another matter.
Last year, the official held a poverty alleviation cooperation meeting in Beijing, deploying 9 economically developed provinces (municipalities) and 4 separately planned cities to assist 10 economically underdeveloped provinces (autonomous regions) respectively.
As an economically developed region, Fujian Province is naturally among the 9 provinces, and its assistance target is Ning Province.
One year later, with the successive advancement of counterpart assistance work, Minning and Ningxia provinces jointly agreed to organize and implement Minning and Ningbo counterpart poverty alleviation cooperation in the Yuquanying area and establish an immigration demonstration area.
The most developed immigrant village in the Yuquanying area is Jintan Village. Today Ma Defu went to the county for a meeting just for the sake of this demonstration area.