Source: The Great Wall Network
In early autumn, the red and green hawthorns in the trees all over mountains in Gaozhuang Village, Caonian Township, Qinglong Manchu Autonomous County, Qinhuangdao City are attractive.
Villagers live in the villas of the government relocation project
Workers are dredging the river and renovating the river bed.
“I have planted hawthorn trees since I was 20 years old, and I am 60 years old now. The price of hawthorn was only 3 cents per kilogram in 2003. Do you know what it is now? 90 cents!” Zhang Ke said that the price of the hawthorn soared after they cooperated with Guanfang Group in Wuqing District of Tianjin. Last year, Zhang Ke earned 10,000 yuan from his 200 fruit-bearing hawthorn trees, and he bought a new tricycle by which he goes up and down the mountains. Now he has a total of more than 800 hawthorn trees after planting another 400 hawthorn trees this year, Zhang Ke said he was lucky living in such a great time.
Zhang Ke is happy to live in such a great time.
Zhang Ke’s wife is happy to see the harvest of millet
Wang Guoqiang, secretary of the residential team in Gaozhuang Village from the Municipal Party Committee, is proud of the hawthorn trees. “The hawthorn here is authentic, with high quality, intense texture, good taste, and easy storage. It is said that hawthorn has functions of fruit and medicine, while our hawthorn is better than others. It is one of the traditional Chinese medicine, and also can be make into hawthorn juice and haw jelly...”
Wang Guoqiang said that the Qinhuangdao Municipal Committee Office dispatched a poverty alleviation working team to Gaozhuang Village in 2016, and they worked together with the village Party branch to conduct investigation and exploration, in order to play the leading role of the industry, and promote the steady development of the village, taking the hawthorn industry as a major economic supporting point of Gaozhuang Village, an building the village a “Demonstration Village for Hawthorn Industry”.
A mountain road was built on September 11 for the convenience of the villagers.
Thanks to the excellent quality of hawthorn, Gaozhuang Village received a big order. Guanfang Coke Beverage Company, a subsidiary of Tianjin Guanfang Investment Group Co., Ltd., a large hawthorn beverage manufacturer with an annual output value of 2 billion yuan, signed a long-term development and acquisition protocol in 2019, to build Gaozhuang a demonstration village of 10,000-mu hawthorn planting base, which will surely benefit the farmers and the society as well.
In 2015, Guanfang Group registered the hawthorn nectar trademark Shanzha Shuxia, which means under the hawthorn trees. Shan Zuoyu, general manager of Guanfang Group, said that Gaozhuang Village boasts strong sunshine, fertile soil, and high quality hawthorns. But the planting scale of hawthorn trees is no big with low yield. Seeing difficulties and hardships of villagers, Guanfang Group decided to purchase hawthorn at a premium. Last year, the price given by Guanfang Group was almost twice the market price.
The greenhouse is under construction. After the completion, all the rent belong to the village collective, and the income of the villagers will be greatly increased.
“Guanfang Group has driven the development of our hawthorn industry, extended the hawthorn industry chain, increased the added value of the hawthorn industry, and provided reliable production and marketing guarantees for the hawthorn in Gaozhuang Village and surrounding areas.” Wang Guoqiang said, adding that there are more than 1,400 mu of hawthorn planting demonstration base in the village now, with an annual output of 150,000 kilogram, the average income of hawthorn growers has increased by more than 1,300 yuan per capita.
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