Chapter 18 17. Wang Youde—Hero of sand control works to enrich the people

Wang Youde, male, Hui nationality, native of Lingwu City, Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, member of the Communist Party of China. Born in 1954, he is currently Secretary of the Party Committee and Director of Ningxia Lingwu Baijitan National Nature Reserve Administration. Wang Youde paid attention to strengthening the team building of party members and gave full play to the exemplary and leading role of party members and leading cadres.He united and led the cadres and workers, insisted on controlling sand and sowing greenery, promoting farms and enriching the people for more than 20 years, completed sand control and afforestation of 450,000 mu, controlled quicksand area of ​​580,000 mu, built more than 4,000 mu of sandy orchards, established 5 multi-management companies, established More than 1,000 mu of nursery stock and flower cultivation center, contracted more than 100 greening projects, generated more than 100 million yuan in revenue, made up for the lack of funds for sand control, and successfully walked out of a "forestation-based, forest-side development, multiple operations, and comprehensive development" The road of reform and development has built a green barrier in the vast Mu Us Desert, which has greatly improved the ecological environment of the forest farm and the living conditions of all the employees in the forest, showing a gratifying situation where people enter the desert and retreat.He successfully organized and implemented 6 foreign-aid desertification control projects, exploring a new way for foreign cooperation and exchanges of my country's forestry.At present, the fixed assets of the forest farm have increased from less than 400,000 yuan before 1985 to the current 63 million yuan, the forest assets have increased from less than 5 million yuan before 1985 to 300 million yuan, and the per capita annual income of employees has exceeded 20,000 yuan. The goal of "green on the mountain, live in the field, rich in employees".He is a representative of the Seventeenth National Congress of the Communist Party of China and a representative of the Tenth National People's Congress. He has been awarded honorary titles such as National Outstanding Communist Party Member, National Model Worker, and National Advanced Worker.

Established in 1953, Baijitan Forest Farm is located on the southwestern edge of the Mu Us Desert, serving as a barrier to prevent the desert from advancing towards Yinchuan, the capital of Ningxia, and the Yellow River. In the 1980s, the extensive management and outdated concepts of the planned economic system caused the forestry production of forest farms to stagnate, the desertification of forest land was serious, and large tracts of good land were abandoned.The workers have nothing to do for 7 months of the year, their annual income is only a few hundred yuan, and their lives are very poor. Two-thirds of them ask to be transferred.

In March 1985, 30-year-old Wang Youde was appointed as the deputy director of Baijitan Forest Farm. "That was the beginning of China's reform and opening up. If there is no reform, there will be no way out! We must revitalize the farm, make the employees rich, and make the desert green!" The drive to reform the status quo of the forest farm and the sense of mission to improve the lives of the employees converged together. An irresistible force sprouted in Wang Youde's heart... He resisted all opinions and started three drastic reforms in the forestry farm: one was to reduce non-production personnel and streamline logistics management personnel; The task is broken down and contracted to be completed by the workers themselves, allowing the workers to "do their own work and earn their own money", which has completely changed the work of "afforestation and tending depends on migrant workers, and forest farm workers only lead workers", which only focuses on quantity but not quality and efficiency. Way.

In the year of the reform, 5,093 mu of forests were afforested, reducing the cost of raising young forests by 25,000 yuan, and realized a net income of more than 90,000 yuan. After deducting the 80,000 yuan wages and other expenses of the 12 streamlined logistics personnel, the income of the forest farm was 170,000 yuan. ten thousand yuan.Baijitan Forest Farm has achieved a great reversal of "returning from the dead". On July 1, 2008, as the last torchbearer of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games in Yinchuan, Ningxia, Wang Youde lit the cauldron in the eyes of everyone. This year, Wang Youde has been busy with the "three 10,000" Olympic projects, namely the 10,000-mu grass grid construction project, the 10,000-mu drought and desertification control and afforestation project, and the 10,000-meter Olympic Green Corridor——Wang Youde and Forest farm workers are using their own unique ways to welcome this great event of the Chinese nation.

"The Olympic spirit is 'faster, higher, and stronger'. As a veteran forestry worker, I will actively carry forward the Olympic spirit, so that the speed of sand control and afforestation will be faster, the quality will be higher, and the momentum will be stronger. I will support green forestry with practical actions. Olympics." Wang Youde didn't say much, but he was powerful. One year later, Wang Youde and his staff fulfilled their original green Olympic promise, but his green dream did not stop...