Dabie Mountain Gao Jinlei looks up at the stars on Dabie Mountain

As a college student born in the 1980s, who wouldn’t want to walk glamorously in a CBD office building? Who doesn’t want to experience the thrill of the weekend racing scene? If you were asked to work at a rural pig farm at a arrogant age, getting up early and staying up late, shoveling pig manure, getting vaccinated, and delivering sows, how long would you be able to persist in such a life?

If he were not working as a village official in Yingshan County, deep in the Dabie Mountains, Gao Jinlei would probably be working in Wuhan at this time, in this city that Yi Zhongtian praised as "good enough to be the capital" Enjoy the prosperity.

In 2008, Gao Jinlei, who graduated from China Three Gorges University, worked in an advertising company in Wuhan. In three months, he opened up a market of more than 200,000 yuan, won the trust of his leaders, and was about to be sent to the branch as a project manager. . At the same time, Hubei Province is openly recruiting college student village officials. Where to go? Gao Jinlei chose the latter, packed his bags and rushed to Baizhanghe Village in Yingshan County.

In fact, rural work is more complicated than he imagined. As soon as he came to the village, he encountered resettlement and demolition, so Gao Jinlei went to work from house to house. When he arrived at Cha Maoying's house, the old man kicked him out with a stool. This situation was completely unexpected for him. "The villagers simply cannot accept a young man trying to reason with him." How can we win the villagers' trust? Gao Jinlei is determined to work day and night to impress the villagers - "Make tea with them, even until 2 o'clock in the night; carry water for them, send them an agricultural technology briefing, or Make them happy, let them feel that this young man is really doing something, and they will slowly accept you." Heart-warming things accumulated one by one, and Gao Jinlei gradually became a young man in the village.

Not long after Gao Jinlei arrived in the village, a 10,000-head pig farm was built in the village. He volunteered to take charge of the pig farm's material storage records and project supervision. He moved his luggage and moved into a pig farm, where he stayed for three years. He became an authentic pig farmer: in addition to studying in large-scale breeding enterprises in Wuhan and Xianning, feeding, vaccination, artificial insemination, and carrying feed with the employees? Everything about the pig farm, Gao Jinlei, a law major Learn and do everything from scratch. I get up at 6:30 every morning to enter the pig pen and clean the pigsty; in the morning, I have to process the feed and drag it to each pen and feed it rationed; in the evening, I have to learn the knowledge of veterinary pharmacology and breeding management. This is the day of pigherder Gao Jinlei.

In November 2009, the first batch of pigs from the pig farm were released. Gao Jinlei and the farm director took dozens of pigs to Wuhan for sale. It rains heavily and the car has a flat tire. If a pig is soaked to death, it means a loss of 1,500 yuan. On a rainy night when he couldn't see his fingers, Gao Jinlei trekked on the mountain road for nearly an hour, finally found another car and arrived in Wuhan at dawn.

Pig farms are reaching a higher level every year. In 2011, the sales of Baizhanghe 10,000-head pig farm reached 18 million yuan and the profit was nearly 2.6 million yuan, making it a key leading enterprise at the municipal level.

In order to activate rural cultural life, he organized the village's first farmers' sports meeting and managed the farm bookstore; in order to broaden the villagers' horizons, he opened computer technology training classes, Mandarin and breeding technology training classes to teach villagers Self-edited courseware.

Three years after graduating from college, when the salaries of his classmates continued to rise, Gao Jinlei became a "negative man". His classmates often teased him: "Your salary is not enough for my monthly allowance." Gao Jinlei, on the other hand, is quite calm - whenever I see the expectations of the villagers, I feel that everything I do cannot be measured by money or materials.

In 2011, Gao Jinlei was admitted to the civil service of the Hubei Provincial Local Taxation System with first place, but he gave up. His parents scolded him for being unfilial. In order to support his education in college, the family sold their old house and finally found a job as a city civil servant. Why should they give up? In Gao Jinlei's view, rural areas are the most suitable stage for youth. "Because my dream is in the countryside, and my stage is also in the countryside."

In July 2011, Gao Jinlei became a member of the Party Committee and deputy mayor of Caopandi Town, Yingshan County. Now, what he thinks about every day is how to use practical actions to change the face of poverty and backwardness in Caopandi Town. He plans to develop the livestock breeding industry and introduce a large-scale medicinal materials processing enterprise to make people's pockets richer.

In February of this year, Gao Jinlei ran around and returned to his alma mater to ask for help in order to rebuild the dangerous bridge in front of Caopandi Central Primary School. The Yichang Democratic Construction Entrepreneurs Association sent 200,000 yuan. The common people tell everyone they meet that we need such good cadres.

"The countryside is not a soil that breeds poverty, but a place that can breed passion, dreams and hopes. I am willing to take root, watch and never stop here." Gao Jinlei wrote in his diary.

He said that he would never forget the night when he was busy with the village-level general election in Xingguang Village - "Standing on the top of the high mountain in Xingguang Village and looking up at the stars, I was even more filled with awe and more convinced that I should take root in the countryside and Realize your ideal belief! ”