Riding the wind of rebirth

In fact, it is best not to come to such places in the summer. The leeches in the forest may be very fierce. However, Zhou Zhi could not spoil the fun at this time: "If you like, we can go hiking every weekend. I know there are many interesting places around, such as Luoji Mountain, Lingshan Temple, Huili Ancient City, and we haven't been to many places yet."

"Don't listen to Elbow, he's a big liar." Wu Renzhong began to complain: "He told me before that he wouldn't be so busy once everything was on track, but what happened? More and more things happened!"

"I, a volunteer, haven't said anything yet, and you, a bureau-level official, are already complaining. If you have the guts, go complain to your brother-in-law." Zhou Zhi said in a serious tone, "You have now passed the most difficult hurdle of being a grassroots civil servant. You can no longer measure yourself by the standards of grassroots civil servants. You must understand the responsibilities on your shoulders, Comrade Wu Renzhong!"

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"Hahahaha..." Everyone laughed.

After he finished laughing, Jike Azi said, "Indeed, my dad said that the things that happened in the village over the past few decades combined are not as many as this year. If it weren't for the help of Brother Elbow and Brother Renzhong, we would really be too busy to handle it."

"Uncle Tu is still biased. He doesn't even think about who caused these things." Wu Renzhong immediately started complaining again.

"The key is to see whether it is a good thing or a bad thing." Shama Ricong is a sensible person and ignored Wu Renzhong's complaints: "If it is a good thing, we should actively embrace such changes, right?"

"Yes, Sister Shama is right." Mai Xiaomiao nodded obediently, then looked at Zhou Zhi: "Well, if my conditions allow..."

"With the support of the National Academy of Agricultural Sciences, it won't be long before Lianhe Township is full of cherry and pomegranate trees." Zhou Zhi sprinkled seasoning on the skewers and said, "Before the economic benefits are reflected, I think it will be difficult to sell the seedlings, so Lianhe Township will just digest them internally. It will take four to five years for the first batch of high-quality fruits to come out."

"When that time comes, the fruit seedling market in Lianhe Township will transform from a buyer's market to a seller's market, and demand will increase in a step-by-step manner. If we suppress the expansion of the breeding area in the past few years because the fruit seedlings are not selling well, it will be too late after the market changes, and it will also delay the country's promotion of high-quality fruits."

"But if we can't see any tangible benefits, it will be difficult to mobilize everyone's enthusiasm with the pure investment in the past few years." Wu Renzhong's mind is now full of government affairs. He is no longer the helpless Wu Xia A'mon of last year. He has already calculated in his mind the obstacles that will be encountered after thinking about many things carefully.

"Therefore, in recent years, there must be a corresponding supporting incentive mechanism for the villagers who promote orchard planting." Zhou Zhi said: "The village will soon be connected to the grid for power generation and there will be income, which can be effectively converted."

"Establish a collective enterprise?" Wu Renzhong immediately thought of the only feasible way. Now, establishing township collectives is an act encouraged and advocated by the state. However, due to limited vision, market and knowledge, only a very small number of township enterprises can truly achieve sustainable development. More than 90% have been defeated in the tide of the times. The main ones that can continue for a long time are some low-cost, labor-intensive brick kilns, liquor workshops, non-staple food processing for narrow regional markets, and other super small-scale enterprises, or even family-style workshops.

There are almost no successful examples of operating fruit bases as collective enterprises. If we have to talk about agricultural groups, there are semi-successful examples in the grain sector, which are in the Northeast and Northern Xinjiang. They are super-large-scale agricultural groups that were collectively reformed from the Construction Corps. I heard that they have begun to show signs of improvement.

However, such a measure would be difficult to implement even on the vast plains of the Anning River Valley, mainly because the land ownership in Shuzhong is very fragmented and difficult to integrate.

There are not many such problems on the sloping land in Lianhe Township that can be used as orchards, but many of those sloping lands have been allocated to villagers for use as "firewood hills". Although they generally belong to the state, the right to use them still has its own owners.

What Zhou Zhi could think of was a term in later generations, "transfer of land management rights." But this term was actually proposed very early, just this year.

This year, the state issued a notice called Document No. 7, which is called "Notice of the State Council on the Ministry of Agriculture's Opinions on Stabilizing and Improving Land Contracting Relations". It clearly proposed "establishing a land contracting and management rights transfer mechanism". Its legal basis is Article 15 of the Land Management Law, which stipulates: "State-owned land can be contracted and operated by units or individuals to engage in planting, forestry, animal husbandry, and fishery production."

This authorizes the transfer of land contracting and management rights through legal documents, and clarifies that the contracting and management rights of land acquired through contracting can be transferred by subcontracting, leasing, exchange, transfer or other means in accordance with the law.

However, if you take too big a step, you are bound to get into trouble. In later generations, many problems have indeed arisen in the practice of subcontracting. But Zhou Zhi believes that it is worth a try in Lianhe Township.

"It's somewhat similar to a collective enterprise, but not exactly the same," Zhou Zhi said. "At least before the orchard started to generate profits, it was more like a committee responsible for managing the power station's revenue than an enterprise."

"This committee will distribute the revenue from the power station, and it needs to take into account all aspects of the township, such as the care of poor households, education funding for children, township water conservancy, transportation, and tax collection."

"Except for this part, the rest is development. I think we can make use of the firewood mountain that is currently unused in the township and set up a collective enterprise to manage it and transform the barren mountain into an orchard."

"What about the ownership of the fruit trees?" Wu Renzhong thought of a rather thorny problem: "Fruit trees are immovable resources, or it is very difficult to move them. What if there is a dispute over property rights in the future, for example, someone does not want to plant fruit trees anymore?"

Zhou Zhi smiled: "So I just said that this enterprise is similar to a collective enterprise, but not entirely."

"Because it was established not only for profit, but to a greater extent, for effective poverty alleviation."

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"The fruit trees on Chaishan Mountain can be understood as the payment for leasing Chaishan Mountain."

"Wait a minute, Elbow..." Wu Renzhong felt that he was being tricked. "I set up a collective enterprise, gathered the firewood mountains of the villagers and planted fruit trees, and then returned the fruit trees to the villagers as compensation. After all this, what did I, or the collective, get? The title of model worker?"

“Hahahaha…” Zhou Zhi was overjoyed when he heard this: “There are actually many benefits, such as the annual income from the fruit, and the income from the saplings from the trees, etc. In short, they can all be bundled together.”

"We can think about these things slowly. What I mean is that we should use interests to bind everyone together and work together, but we should not add burdens to the villagers at the beginning. In addition, in the first few years when there is no income, we should use other methods to cleverly let them feel that they have obtained tangible benefits, so as to form a positive guidance."

"If you don't set the rules from the beginning, when the benefits really come, everyone will compete with each other without limit. If you want to take action at that time, people will say that you are abusing your power for personal gain, and it will no longer be as legitimate as it is now." (End of this chapter)