In a mountain nest 3 kilometers southwest of Hushan Town, Rongcheng City, there is a small village called Jinqujia. Yu Sikuan was born and raised here. In 1944, when Yu Sikuan was 7 years old, his father died of illness, and his mother took care of their four children. You can imagine how difficult life was. As the eldest son, Yu Sikuan's sad memory is even more unforgettable. The suffering of his childhood was buried in the depths of his memory, and he did not want to open it but it often appeared in front of his eyes. Recalling the past, what he said most was: "I did not starve to death at that time. Thanks to the help of the villagers, I was I grew up eating hundreds of meals and wearing hundreds of clothes. Without the folks in Jinqujia Village, there would be no Yu Sikuan."
The misfortune of his family and the hardships of life did not crush him, but they did. Endowed him with an indomitable strong will and the ambition to fight against fate. Due to family difficulties, he only attended school intermittently for 2 years. In his 20s, Yu Sikuan became the village's team accountant. His leadership skills gradually emerged and he became an outstanding figure in the village. But as the eldest son, he had to shoulder the responsibility of supporting his family. The real life made him choose fishing, a career with high risk and high income. In order to make a living, he left Jinqujia Village, where he was born and raised, for forty or fifty years. At the end of 1998, Yu Sikuan retired as deputy secretary of the Party Committee of Qiujia Fishery Company. He lives in the Haodangjia Group residential area. There is a 3-story building and a small courtyard where you can grow flowers and grass, and tend to the vegetable garden. You have savings and a pension, and your four children are married and starting a business. In the eyes of ordinary people, it is simply a life lived by gods. You can go wherever you want, spend money however you want, play poker or chess when you have nothing to do, and just take care of yourself in peace. His children also taught him this way. Yu Sikuan also worked hard to adapt to the new life, trying to chat, play poker and mahjong in places with many elderly people. But as time went by, he felt that he couldn't stand it anymore. He didn't do anything. Instead, he felt sore in his back and legs, and felt dizzy. After being busy for most of his life, he couldn't stand the leisure of doing nothing and always felt that he should do something.
While Yu Sikuan was thinking about doing something, in 1999, the leader of the Huangshan Town Party Committee came to visit and asked him to help save the Huangshan Town Refrigeration Factory that was about to collapse. What a refrigeration plant this is! The factory is located in a remote village 6 kilometers away from the town, with only a narrow dirt road connected to the outside world. Of the more than 40 factory buildings, everything that could be taken was stolen. The warehouses did not even have doors or windows, leaving only crumbling tiles and ruins. Several factory directors in a year failed to do a good job. Faced with such a mess, everyone around him advised Yu Sikuan not to do it. Even his son, an entrepreneur, advised him not to come out. Because his children all know his character: if he doesn't do something, he will devote himself to it and do it well resolutely. But after all, I am over 60 years old, and my family's conditions are so good, there is no need to endure this hardship or suffer that. But Secretary Yu said very firmly to his children: "If a person is sick, he can be cured and can still work, but if he has lost his motivation and doesn't want to do anything, what's the point of living? It doesn't matter how old he is. "Being able to do something is the greatest happiness." After careful consideration, he accepted this failed enterprise. Relying on his credibility and reputation, he borrowed money from friends and banks, and tried every means to raise hundreds of thousands of funds to buy the refrigeration plant.
It is difficult to start a business, and it is even more difficult to start a business after you are over 60. Faced with the situation of hundreds of wastes waiting to be renovated and a shortage of major generals, he was an old man working for several young people. In order to see benefits as soon as possible, he knocked down the original factory and rebuilt it. He produced while building and squatted in the workshop around the clock, focusing on production and production. quality. When the fishing boats came into port at midnight, he organized loading and unloading at midnight, took over the order faxes at midnight, and arranged production at midnight. In order to save money, he often squeezed into buses and buses when going out to discuss business, and even stayed in a bathhouse at night. In his operations, he insisted on the supremacy of credibility, harmonious management, and good treatment of employees. Through export trade, the small factory finally regained its vitality. Like a snowball that kept accelerating, it grew bigger and bigger, and developed into the current comprehensive aquatic food processing enterprise. - Rongcheng Hexin Aquatic Food Co., Ltd. After six years of hard work, by 2005, the company's assets had reached 20 million yuan, and annual profits and taxes were 1.13 million yuan. Surrounding villages have also benefited from it, village roads have been hardened, and more than 1,000 rural surplus laborers have jobs and stable incomes in the company. Yu Sikuan's home is not far from Jinqujia Village. When he returned to the village to visit his old mother before retiring, he always came and went in a hurry because of his busy work.
Now that he is retired, his own business is on the right track. He travels three to four miles and takes half an hour. If he has nothing to do, he will "go home often and take a look." A tree that is a thousand feet tall cannot forget its roots!
Hometown is a big magnet. Within a few days, he was "sucked" to the point where his legs wandered away, and he felt empty in his heart if he didn't go there for a day. Sometimes, the old man handed me a maza, and ten or eight old people sat by the wall. They chatted for most of the day in the garden and on the field, and it seemed like what happened in those hours was just yesterday. After we finished chatting, we took a look around the village, visiting all the streets and alleys, and walking through all the ditches and ditches. But the more he looked at him, the more uncomfortable he felt: The village was too poor! The appearance of the village is basically the same as before. There are no village-run enterprises, no self-employed businesses, and not even an orchard. The villagers rely on these 500 acres of hilly land to make a living. The village cadres have not been able to pay their wages for five consecutive years. The wooden windows of my childhood friend Yu Siben's home were so rotten that they couldn't be opened, and the door was so broken that it fell to the ground.
The more I looked at Yu Sikuan, the less peaceful I felt. I started my own business and became a multi-millionaire, but my hometown is still so poor. He can never forget the hundreds of meals he ate and the hundreds of clothes he wore in his childhood, as well as the help and training from his fellow villagers. The scenes of the poor people living in poverty have been lingering in his mind and deeply hurt his heart! If you are rich, shouldn't you do something for the fellow villagers? He fell into deep thought. He wanted to use the money to help the villagers, but he was afraid that the children would not be willing. Although they now had enough food and clothing, if he left all the property he had accumulated over the years to his children, it would definitely be the icing on the cake, the more the merrier. But is having more money necessarily good? Spend as much money as you can on food and clothing, spend money on serious things, and let the people live a good life. This is what a Communist Party member should do. He secretly vowed to help the villagers change the face of the village, devote all his energy for the rest of his life to his beloved hometown, and give back to the Jinqujia Village that raised him. Having made up his mind, Yu Sikuan discussed it with his son, an entrepreneur. The son expressed his position on behalf of his four children, "Dad, you are doing big things and good things in building a new countryside and helping the villagers. As long as you want to do it, you will be fine." , we will do our best to support you!”
Yu Sikuan told the town leaders about his idea, and received strong support from the town party committee and government. In December 2003, Yu Sikuan Kuan's party organization relationship was transferred to Jinqujia Village and he was elected as the village party branch secretary.
Yu Sikuan led the two committees of the village and started by changing the appearance of the village. There is a small river in Jinqujia Village that is dirty and messy. It overflows when it rains heavily, flooding farmland, destroying crops, and paralyzing the village road across the river. He invested 800,000 yuan to clear the river, build river dams, and plant more than 4,000 fast-growing poplar trees on the bank, turning the small river that used to make people sad in rainy days and smelly in dry days into a leisure attraction in the village. More than 50 acres of fertile farmland were developed.
The second thing is to improve the villagers’ travel environment. Jinqujia Village used to be the junction of Qiujia and Huangshan towns. A 3-kilometer long dirt road is winding, narrow, and full of potholes, making it very inconvenient for people to travel. He spent 1 million yuan to straighten, widen and harden the road with cement.
Yu Sikuan believes that river management and road construction are just "blood transfusions" to boost the villagers' confidence in pursuing a better life and to solve urgent needs; undertaking projects to "generate blood" for the village is The key to allowing villagers to increase their income and improve their quality of life. Based on the resources of his village, Yu Sikuan made drastic adjustments to the agricultural structure and developed efficient agriculture, green agriculture, and circular agriculture. An investment of 1.2 million yuan was made to build a large-scale pig farm with a stock of 1,000 pigs. It adopted ecological pig raising methods and the pig slaughter rate was greatly improved. It invested 400,000 yuan to build a duck farm next to the reservoir to implement mixed breeding of ducks and fish; investment A flour mill was built with 300,000 yuan, providing jobs for more than 150 people in the village; more than 300 acres of land in the village were intensively managed, vegetable greenhouses were built, and pollution-free vegetables were grown, which were provided to food processing companies and exported in exchange for foreign exchange; pigs, The ducks are transported to the processing plant and used as raw materials; the excrement and waste from the farm are used to produce biogas, the biogas slurry and biogas residue are used to produce organic vegetables and pollution-free fruits, and the grain is processed on site and supplied to villagers and enterprises. This virtuous cycle allows the land to "Generate gold" and make villagers "rich".
While doing these things, Yu Sikuan was brewing a bolder idea that was unexpected by the villagers: demolish the old houses and build new houses for all the villagers for free! Just after the Spring Festival in 2006, Yu Sikuan called everyone together and shared an idea he had been brewing for a long time. What Yu Sikuan did not expect was that after the idea was put forward, there were no voices of praise and all kinds of doubts. The voices of criticism and criticism were overwhelming.
“It’s like pie in the sky. Is there such a good thing? People still believe it!”
“140 households will cost tens of millions, Yu Sikuan Can you really spend so much money? What if the house is demolished and there is no money to build it?”
“Did Yu Sikuan do this for another reason?”
“ Yu Sikuan said that he wanted to help Jinqujia Village, so he might as well share the more than 10 million yuan, so he wouldn’t have to worry about it. Who among us, young and old, wouldn’t remember his kindness?”
I can’t think of doing such a good deed. Disaster! Yu Sikuan knew that the money could not be divided. He wanted to use it to change the backwardness of the village and realize his wish.
He gathered everyone together again and had a heart-to-heart talk with the villagers for more than two hours: "I am almost 70 years old and my children are still up to par. I am seeking fame and fortune. I just want to I want to help the village do something to make everyone's life richer. If I divide this 10 million, you will definitely say that I am a good old man. However, when money is in hand and meat is in mouth, money will always be spent, but our Jinqujia Village is still in ruins. , or poor, what will happen to our future and our children and grandchildren?”
His character and sincerity moved the villagers.
Build a building or live in a bungalow? Yu Sikuan plans to build a building, but most villagers prefer to live in bungalows. He respected the wishes of the people and hired experts from the Shandong Planning Institute to plan and build traditional single-family bungalows. He unified planning, construction, and standards on the old site, demolishing the old and building new ones. Large-scale reconstruction of old villages began. However, at the juncture of large-scale demolition and construction, which requires a large amount of funds, an incident involving Chinese companies exporting unsafe food happened in Japan, which caused a huge impact on domestic food processing companies. His company has received many orders, production funds are suddenly tight, and housing construction funds are in short supply! what to do? The things promised to the villagers must be carried out to the end. Secretary Yu mobilized the whole family to help and asked his children to borrow funds, ensuring the normal operation of the business and the construction of the new house as usual.
Yu Sikuan is rich, but his money is earned through sweat and hard work. His big accounts are calculated meticulously, and his small accounts are also unambiguous. In order to spend money wisely, he used stones from the demolition of old houses to lay the foundation, and fished sand from the river in the village. Craftsmen, small laborers, and even villagers all learned his "picking" method: at more than five o'clock every day, the sky is still empty. Before dawn, he came to the construction site and walked around. He found that the big rocks had not been picked out when the old house was demolished, and there was sand and dust under the wall that had not been cleaned up. Sometimes he could squat on the construction site for most of the day, watching the craftsmen at work. Inadvertently, he knew exactly how much material, how much labor, and construction progress was used for each room. The craftsmen said, "Secretary Yu is too stingy. If you work for him, you will have to pay for it if you don't pay attention. He knows the work to the core."
Jinqujia Village is higher in the west and lower in the east. The low-lying area often accumulates water during heavy rains. After the masses put forward their opinions, he decided to raise the foundations of the new houses in the east of the village and backfill 600,000 square meters of soil. This alone increased the cost by 300,000 yuan. He did not hesitate to receive the additional 300,000 yuan. That's how he is, he is very "lenient" in taking care of the common people's affairs.
One year later, the first batch of 42 new houses were completed, all with plastered walls and cement floors. Small warehouses and bathrooms were neatly equipped with pots, stoves, and aluminum alloy doors and windows. The installation of running water and electricity equipment is free of charge. The relocation fees for television and telephone lines are paid by the village collective. The collective is also responsible for painting the exterior walls of each household. Villagers can move in with just their blankets rolled up. Now, 89 households in the village have moved into new homes, and the rest will be delivered for use at the end of this month. At the same time, a community office building and villager activity room have been built in the village. The community square, villagers' stage, and cultural and sports square in the east of the village are currently under construction as planned to ensure that they are all completed and put into use by the end of the year. What the villagers thought of, Yu Sikuan did for them. What the villagers didn't dare to think of, he also tried his best to do for the villagers.
When young people join a company, the company pays insurance. The middle-aged and elderly people in the village are not protected, which has become a worry for Yu Sikuan. What if the company's performance is not good one day, or if he gets sick, what will the villagers do? The more Yu Sikuan thought about it, the more uneasy he became. The next step was to buy insurance for the villagers so that they could receive living expenses regularly like retired people in the city. This is estimated to cost him another 1 million yuan.
Now, each villager over 60 years old receives 35 kilograms of flour and 60 yuan for free every month, and all new rural cooperative medical expenses are paid collectively. During the New Year and festivals, the villagers all enjoy the benefits of corporate employees, including fish, meat, rice and other benefits, and the people's lives have improved qualitatively.
In October 2008, five of Yu Sikuan’s Japanese customers came to negotiate business. They learned that he also served as the party branch secretary of Jinqujia Community and insisted on visiting the village. They witnessed the changes in the village and listened to the villagers' stories. They all raised their thumbs and sighed, "From you, we see the spirit of the Chinese people. China's greatest hope for development in the future lies in the countryside!"
Big investment brings big changes. This year, the whole village will move into new homes. They are also planning to continue investing and spend 1 million to build a large biogas digester so that all villagers can use clean energy for free.
In just 5 years, under the leadership of Yu Sikuan in Jinqujia Village, people’s money bags are bulging, rice bags are full, there are fewer oil stains on their bodies, there are more smiles on their faces, and they are full of energy in life. God is enough.
"I am the son of the common people in the village and a party member who came out of the countryside. It is my greatest wish to repay the land where I was born and raised and lead the villagers to become rich."
"What I do is not worth mentioning. I just want to attract more capable people to repay society and support the construction of new rural areas."
"Leaders at all levels support me and have good policies. I will definitely handle the people's affairs well and let the people say that the Communist Party is good and socialism is good."
This is Yu Sikuan’s feelings!