By Liu Lingling from People\u2019s Daily<\/p>\n
Thanks to the regular\u00a0training and guidance\u00a0offered by sci-tech \u201ccommissioners\u201d, the 51-year-old woman Wu Xiufeng from Zhangdun Village in Nanping of southeast China\u2019s Fujian Province has now grown into an expert of viticulture from a farmer that knew nothing about grape planting more than a decade ago.<\/p>\n
The sci-tech commissioner system was firstly implemented in Nanping in February 1999. The city sent 225\u00a0sci-tech personnel to 215\u00a0administrative villages, bringing technology to the countryside and laying solid foundation of human resource for targeted poverty alleviation.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe commissioners taught me everything step by step from seedlings selection and growing to cultivation,\u201d Wu recalled.\u00a0 Underthe technical guidance, she has built her own vineyard.<\/p>\n
Apart from planting techniques, Wu has also been taught marketing.\u00a0 Now she earns nearly 100,000 yuan ($16,000) each year from her prospering grape business. Her family has moved into a spacious and bright house because of this.<\/p>\n
Wu is not the only farmer in Nanping that has shaken off poverty by learning technologies, and Cikou Village in Chuanshi Township that traditionally relies on bamboo growing is a great example.<\/p>\n
Low bamboo production, late shooting season and low industrial profits had long been bothering the villagers. It was the sci-tech commissioners sent there who promoted scientific management of the crops that have helped advance shooting season, increase bamboo yields, and benefit more than 30 impoverished villagers.<\/p>\n
Now Cikou is home to 1,086 mu, or 72.4 hectares of bamboo, with each mu of bamboo making a pure profit of 15,000 yuan. The crops have made economic value totaling 16 million yuan.<\/p>\n
The\u00a0Nanping\u00a0sci-tech commissioner\u00a0system has been promoted to national level as a reference for the rest of the country after the city held a national sci-tech commissioner meeting in 2017.<\/p>\n
So far, Nanping has sent 10 batches of 9,483 sci-tech commissioners to all villages under its administration. In 2017 alone, 1,282 people were sent to the countryside.<\/p>\n
In addition, the city has established partnerships with 60\u00a0institutions\u00a0and organizations such as Chinese Academy of Engineering, Chinese\u00a0Academy\u00a0of Sciences and Tsinghua University.<\/p>\n
Currently, the sci-tech commissioner system is expanding its coverage from issues related to agriculture, rural areas and rural people to sectors of high-tech and rural tourism.<\/p>\n
Yuan Yi, Secretary of Nanping Municipal Party Committee introduced that Nanping is a city where nearly 80 percent of the land is covered by forest.\u00a0According to him, planning experts and ecologiests will be prioritized in the next round of selection of\u00a0sci-tech commissioners.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
By Liu Lingling from People\u2019s Daily Thanks to the regular\u00a0training and guidance\u00a0offered by sci-tech \u201ccommissioners\u201d, the 51-year-old woman Wu Xiufeng from Zhangdun Village in Nanping of southeast China\u2019s Fujian Province has now grown into an expert of viticulture from a farmer that knew nothing about grape planting more than a decade ago. The sci-tech commissioner […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-27149","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-lead-cpec"},"yoast_head":"\n