The plan of the year lies in spring, and it’s the busy spring plowing season in Jilin Province around the International Labor Day. On April 28, NENU organized 30 international students to visit the family farm of Weiyu Zhonghui in Jiutai District, leading them to go into the fields, experience the real Chinese rural development and study the new model of rural revitalization.
The destination of this study trip, Weiyu Zhonghui Family Farm, was selected as the fourth batch of typical cases of new agricultural business subjects by the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs in 2023, as well as one of the Changchun science education base for 2022-2025. Once arrived at the farm, the students were warmly welcomed by the staff of Jiutai District Science and Technology Association and the general manager of the farm, Guo Yanfang, who took them on a tour of the fruit and vegetable greenhouses, explained the business model and planting experience of the farm, and answered the questions raised by the students. The group also went to the farm fields to experience the modern farming tools, sowing seeds themselves and feeling the joy of labor. At the end of the event, Manager Guo told the students her inspiring story of returning to hometown to start her own business under the encouragement of the national policy and gradually expanding her business and driving the villagers to get rich together with the support of Jutai District Science Association and other government departments. She is the epitome of a new farmer with new ideas and concepts growing up under the support of China's rural revitalization policy. Her experience gave the international students a more comprehensive and profound understanding of China's rural revitalization.
The family farm covers a total area of 47.8 hectares and has two fresh storage buildings, 65 greenhouses, and a registered trademark for all fields of agricultural products. The family farm not only grows fruits and vegetables, but also has become a modern farm with multi-functional integration of agriculture, tourism, culture and other industries after recent years of planning and development. Manager Guo Yanfang was successively awarded as the representative of the 16th People's Congress of Changchun City in 2021, senior agricultural economist of rural talents in Jilin Province, and the title of provincial returning entrepreneurial leader in 2022, etc.
The study trip of rural revitalization opened up the horizons of international students and led them to see Chinese countryside in a real and comprehensive.
