Village Party Secretary Liu Hongsheng of the Mushroom Effect

Background

Liu Hongsheng, 47 years old, is the party branch secretary of Pingyi Village, Pingan Town, Zunhua City. He is nicknamed the "Mushroom King". Over the years, he was like that magical mushroom stick that "infected" farmers in villages all over the country and became rich all of a sudden by relying on this little mushroom. Ping'an Town has thus become the largest edible fungi production base in North China. The villagers said: "We admire such a good secretary!"

"If you are rich, you don't want to be rich, you have to find ways for the villagers to make money."

When I met Liu Hongsheng, He was walking out of villager Liu Hai's greenhouse. Liu Hongsheng has dark skin, a stocky build, and is not good at words. He came to invite Liu Hai to give a lecture on mushroom cultivation at Shangheyuan Agricultural Development Co., Ltd. Lao Liu said: "I am the apprentice you single-handedly brought out. I can do whatever you ask me to do. However, I say you are stupid enough. They give you an annual salary of tens of thousands and a Honda. You don't even think about it." No."

Liu Hai was talking about a boss in Xingwang Village who was building a greenhouse and wanted to hire Liu Hongsheng as a consultant. At that time, Liu Hongsheng's head was shaking like a rattle: "No, I can give you some guidance now and then, no matter how much I pay for a long time, there are so many things waiting for me in the village!"

In the spacious and bright village committee, He talked with reporters about the process of leading villagers to find "ways to get rich" -

"Our village is not close to mountains and rivers. It turns out there is a jingle: 'First-class households are engaged in transportation, while second-class households are fattening Pigs really can't grow mushrooms. "Growing mushrooms is a technical job with high risks. People preferred to dig in the soil for food. In 1997, they elected me as the village secretary because they were afraid of being poor. They hoped that I, as a party member, could lead everyone to get rich." I can't let the villagers say that I am an incompetent secretary, so I am determined to find a way to make a fortune for the young and old men in the village."

Liu Hongsheng gave up his original rice wholesale business. After an inspection from the south, he was optimistic about the market prospects of edible fungi, so he teamed up with 13 farmers to pool 300,000 yuan and built 12 greenhouses to grow mushrooms. But at the critical moment of fruiting, the technicians from Fujian left without saying goodbye. The investment of hundreds of thousands of yuan was about to go down the drain. Everyone sat in the greenhouse without thinking about food and tea, with despair and helplessness on their faces. Liu Hongsheng, the leader, is under greater pressure.

"Everything was said at the time. Some people said, 'Plant a crooked-neck tree in front of the greenhouse as soon as possible and wait for hangings.' Others said I was fooling around. 'Crushing sawdust to grow mushrooms won't just grow roots.' Long hat'...I have a stubborn temper. I won't do anything when I'm not sure. I won't let go when I'm sure. I won't let go when I can't do it. I must do this well and set a good example for everyone. A role model!"

Liu Hongsheng kept his wife secret and took out the little savings he had at home to hire four technicians from Henan to tide over the crisis. All costs were recovered that year, with each household making a net profit of more than 40,000 yuan.

Nowadays, there are more than 300 edible fungus greenhouses in Pingyi Village, and the per capita annual income has increased from 2,000 yuan 10 years ago to 11,000 yuan. Building greenhouses requires overall planning. Liu Hongsheng and members of the "two committees" team worked door to door to adjust the land. The investment in edible fungi is huge, and with the support of the town, the whole village applied for a small agricultural loan of more than 5.6 million yuan. He alone guaranteed more than 900,000 yuan for the masses.

"People say that if you teach an apprentice, you will starve the master to death. I say, I will only be happy when everyone is rich."

In Ping'an Town, Liu Hongsheng is a well-known figure: Tangshan City's "Five "One" Labor Medal winner, Hebei Provincial Model Worker, and Provincial Seventh Party Representative... But the villagers prefer to regard him as a planting expert - the "Mushroom King".

After the enthusiasm of villagers to build greenhouses suddenly increased, technical difficulties became more prominent. Liu Hongsheng thought: It is better to ask for help than to ask for help from others. Instead of hiring technicians with high salaries, it is better for the villagers to master this technology themselves. He studied under teachers everywhere, including Gutian in Fujian, Biyang in Henan, Beijing Agricultural University, Changli Academy of Agricultural Sciences...Liu Hongsheng almost kicked down the threshold of others and gave classes to everyone when he came back. His "apprentices" are spread throughout the town. "People say that if you teach an apprentice, you will starve the master to death. I said, I will only be happy when everyone is rich!"

He went to the capital to study skills

There is a rumor in the village that Liu Hongsheng went to the capital to study skills. The story of being kicked out and then invited in again——

It was in 2003. Liu Hongsheng encountered difficulties in growing mushrooms, so he went to the Beijing Academy of Agricultural Sciences to find the famous edible fungi expert Zhang Jinxia. The guard kept him out. He sneaked in, but was kicked out again. He just waited outside until Professor Zhang got off work.

When he learned that he came from Zunhua, hundreds of miles away, and waited outside the door for a whole day without even going to the toilet, Professor Zhang chuckled: "Old Liu, come in. You go to the toilet first, and I will go to the toilet with you tomorrow." Go to the village and have a look."

Zhang Jinxia recommended many high-quality strains of bacteria. She always came and went in a hurry when she came to Zunhua for guidance, and she didn't even have time to eat. Liu Hongsheng felt sorry and sent some local specialties on behalf of the villagers. Professor Zhang politely declined: "Old Liu, I am also a party member, and I am several years older than you. Seeing that you are sincerely leading the masses to get rich and have suffered a lot, I I admire you from the bottom of my heart. I will be satisfied if I can use the strains I developed to make the folks live a better life."

Liu Hongsheng said, "Then I will visit you more often. You're quite busy, and it's not convenient at such an old age." From then on, he hired a "face person" and brought village representatives with him to Beijing for advice.

After introducing the strains from the Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Liu Hongsheng personally checked and supervised the production of the bacteria sticks. He also reduced the bran content in mushroom sticks from 20% to 15% to increase mushroom yields. In the past, one mushroom stick produced one pound of mushrooms, but now it produces two and a half kilograms. The highest yield of mushroom mushrooms in the country was born in Ping'an Town. Liu Hongsheng achieved a bioconversion rate of 120%!

At present, Liu Hongsheng is focusing on the demonstration garden again, trying to grow Agaricus bisporus in 10 greenhouses. He wants the improved new strains to bring greater benefits to the villagers.

“As farmers’ living standards improve, people’s hearts will stabilize.”

Pingan towns were not “peaceful” in the past. Li Haipeng, secretary of the town party committee, said frankly that in the past this place was poor and it was once a famous town for petitioning in Tangshan and even across the country. Ping'an City Village in particular was famous for being a poor and chaotic village. "It's better now. The farmers are dedicated to pursuing a well-off life. In the past five years, there has not been a single petition to complain."

The edible fungus greenhouses have "tied" the hearts of the farmers. Walking into Pingyi Village, oh! Greenhouses are closely connected. There are people who select bran, sell bacterial strains, make rods, and weave straw curtains. There is no one in every house. After the mushroom farming-related industries became prosperous, even elderly people could earn 70 or 80 yuan a day. (Continued from the second page) (Continued from the first page) Not to mention idleness, there are even fewer people gathering together to bask in the sun.

Liu Hongsheng is even busier. His cell phone rings all day long, and it’s common for him to call at one or two o’clock in the night, talking about strains and mushrooms. Villages from ten miles away begged him, and he would go immediately. The "Elantra" awarded to him by the Zunhua Municipal Party Committee also became a bus. After becoming party secretary, he led everyone to build cement roads and set up public utilities, and he was very busy. His daughter-in-law, Xu Shulan, complained that he didn’t care about the two greenhouses at home. He laughed: "Who said we are party members? We have to pretend to be everyone in our hearts."

Led by Pingyi Village, the town's mushroom industry multiplied rapidly like spores, with 38 out of 39 villages. It has become a professional village for growing edible fungi. The town took advantage of the situation, increased capital investment, popularized standardized greenhouses, and promoted micro-spraying technology. Under the leadership of Liu Hongsheng, the town also established an "Edible Fungi Association" to unify the purchase of raw materials, unify the rod making time, and unify the purchase and use of larger production equipment such as chippers and crushers. They also built their own marketing team. More than 100 "agents" traveled to Tianjin and Beijing. Fresh mushrooms appeared in the vegetable baskets of Beijing and Tianjin citizens soon after they came out of the greenhouse.

The villagers of Pingyi Village saw their pockets bulging. Villager Wang Zhanli used to live a very tight life. With Liu Hongsheng's guarantee, he took a loan of 40,000 yuan to build a mushroom greenhouse, thus removing his reputation as the "poorest". What also makes Liu Hongsheng happy is the stability and unity in the village. "Raising mushrooms not only provides a way for everyone to get rich, improves the lives of villagers, but also enhances the relationship between cadres and the masses. If there is a small gap or something, nothing will happen once we communicate. As farmers' living standards improve, people's hearts will stabilize. . ”

Today, the mushroom production scale of Pingan Town in Zunhua City has reached 65 million sticks, with an annual output of more than 40,000 tons of mushrooms. The output value of mushrooms alone in the town reaches 120 million yuan. A small mushroom stick can produce several times the amount of mushrooms. The "mushroom effect" brought by Communist Party member Liu Hongsheng is changing the face of this place and composing a harmonious movement for a safe town...