Entrepreneurship is not afraid of expedition, and getting rich benefits the whole village.
—— Record the advanced deeds of Zhou, deputy of the Municipal People's Congress and chairman of Shanghai Lulu Greening Engineering Co., Ltd.
Zhou is the general party branch secretary of Hongli Village, Beijiang Town, the chairman of Shanghai Lulu Greening Company, the secretary of the party branch, and the representative of the Fifth Municipal People's Congress.
Zhou used to be an ordinary farmer in the village. Although he did a lot of business, he never became rich. Since the Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, he has actively responded to the call of the Party and the country for reform and opening up, devoted himself to economic construction, seized development opportunities, and made unremitting efforts to set up Lulu Greening Company in Shanghai, which has made remarkable achievements.
Ambition is everywhere, and starting a business is not afraid of difficulties.
When he was young, Zhou only studied intermittently for two and a half years because of his poor family. In order to make a living, when I was nine years old, my sister and I went to Shanghai to collect cinders. At the age of thirteen, I herded ducks for the production team. Later, I became a fan in grinding bean curd. Although I have suffered a lot, I still can't earn a few points. The hard living environment forced him to learn how to be a carpenter. /kloc-I am 0/6 years old, with a weight of 200 kilograms. I walked dozens and hundreds of miles a day and was bent prematurely by creaking telephone poles. During this period, he has been to many rural areas in Jiangsu, Shandong, Anhui, Shanghai and Zhejiang. Long-distance trekking and camping have doubled the difficulty of making a living and strengthened his confidence in starting a business.
From 65438 to 0978, the spring breeze of reform spread all over China. A diamond sand factory was built in the village. Because of his smart mind, wide connections and hard work, he was invited by the factory to run the supply and marketing. Since then, he has often traveled to and from Sichuan, Shanghai, Liaoning and other places to purchase silicon carbide, the raw material for the production of diamond sand for the factory; And constantly go to Jilin, Heilongjiang, Guangdong and other places to promote the products of the factory. 1983, director of diamond sand factory. During his tenure, the benefit of the factory was "sesame blossoms are rising day by day", which not only accepted more than 30 workers, but also turned over nearly 20,000 yuan to the village every year. 1986, he took over the contract of the insolvent foundry in the village, which was on the verge of bankruptcy, and made a military order: pay off the debts within two years and turn over the profits of the village in the third year. With that indomitable stubbornness, he really kept his promise. In a few years, he not only paid off the debts in the factory, but also turned them over to the village for retention, making a net profit of more than 50,000 yuan.
The practice and long-term experience of several factory directors not only made him see the outside world earlier, but also honed his perseverance and perseverance. No matter what difficulties and setbacks he encountered, he always maintained an optimistic attitude towards life, which laid a solid foundation for his later career development.
The road is under your feet, and it keeps developing.
Maybe he went to Shanghai when he was young. Zhou is familiar with it and has more feelings. He feels that Shanghai is more suitable for his development, and he firmly believes that he can do more in Shanghai. So he told his family that he would travel to Shanghai.
1One day in February 1996, Zhou read a news from Xinmin Evening News. A leader in Shanghai suggested that if Shanghai wants to develop and connect with the international community, it should vigorously implement beautification, greening and lighting projects, and move 300,000 trees into Shanghai within five years. Zhou, who is quick-thinking and good at grasping opportunities, saw the broad prospects and potential huge business opportunities of Shanghai flower and tree market from this news, broadened his thinking and activated his inspiration. He decided to give up his job, run seedlings and flowers, and set up Lulu Greening Company.
In the first year when I first entered the seedling and flower business, because of lack of technology and experience, the market information was ineffective. Not only did I not earn a penny, but I lost 700,000 yuan. However, the heavy debt did not scare Zhou. Where he fell, he got up. Maybe that's what makes him different. In order to master the first-hand information, he ran around with two legs, climbed mountains and waded, and slept in the wind. Once he ran out of four pairs of cloth shoes in 46 days. Sometimes he spends the night in the mountains, and the howling of wild wolves in the valley is endless. He is still fresh in his memory and still has a lingering fear. On another occasion, he went to Jiaxing, Zhejiang Province to transfer a batch of camphor. Because some seedlings did not meet the requirements, there was a dispute between the two sides. When loading the car, he tried to drag the tree down, but the stevedore pulled hard on the car. As a result, the tree fell from the car. Although he was quick-sighted and sideways, the branches of the big tree severely knocked him down. If this half-ton tree really hits him, the consequences will be unimaginable. In order to choose good saplings and trees, he took a stupid camera and photographed some precious and valuable saplings everywhere. Over the past few years, thousands of rolls of film have been used, and the developed photos are one person high. While running a business, he also learned gardening knowledge, seriously asked local farmers and forestry experts about the growth habits of various seedlings, and learned a lot that books could not learn. Soon, he became an expert in managing and cultivating seedlings.
Shanghai Pudong Century Park covers an area of 140 hectares and is the largest ecological park in China. 1998 10 in order to cooperate with the opening ceremony of the park on the first day of New Year's Day 1999, the park construction headquarters decided to plant 2000 camphor trees in the park. Because June+10 in 5438 has passed the best time to plant Cinnamomum camphora, and the weather in Shanghai that winter was particularly cold, it was very risky to plant Cinnamomum camphora rashly. The headquarters contacted several landscaping units in Shanghai, and none of them dared to accept it. After learning this information, Zhou stood up and accepted the task boldly. In view of the low temperature, he and relevant experts studied the special technical treatment scheme and adopted unique heat preservation measures. Before the opening of the park, 2,000 camphor trees were planted with high standards and specifications. In May 2000, the headquarters organized experts to check and accept the planted Cinnamomum camphora, and the survival rate was as high as 98%. Because of this, Zhou also won the reputation of "the king of camphor trees", and Lulu Greening Company became famous in Shanghai. It has undertaken more than 60 greening design, construction and maintenance projects in Pudong century avenue, Shanghai Science and Technology City, Shanghai Municipal Government 165, Hongqiao International Airport, Pudong International Airport, etc. The survival rate of the main Cinnamomum camphora, Ginkgo biloba and Cedar is over 98%. Due to Lulu's outstanding achievements in Shanghai's greening, the company also won the highest award for landscaping "Magnolia Award" and the national gold award issued by the Shanghai Municipal Government, which was personally awarded by the Shanghai Municipal Party Committee and Municipal Government.
After gaining a firm foothold in the Shanghai market, Zhou did not stop. In order to seize the opportunity of the country's western development, in 200 1 year, he put forward the development idea of "based on Shanghai and advancing into the northwest" and quickly extended the company's market to the west. Xiaolangdi Garden Company was established in cooperation with Luoyang authorities, and successively undertook greening projects in Zhengzhou, Henan Province and Zhumadian Expressway. He actually participated in the construction of the west. By the end of last year, the total assets of the company had reached more than 70 million yuan, the annual output value reached more than 60 million yuan, and the total number of employees reached more than 2,200. In 2004, the company paid more than 3.6 million yuan in state taxes and made more than 3.5 million yuan in profits.
Love at home, never forget your roots when you get rich.
After 10 years of hard work, Zhou's career has developed and he has become rich personally, but he has never forgotten that he was born in the hometown where he grew up, and he has never forgotten that he is a NPC deputy. He often said: individuals are rich but not rich, and villagers are rich only when they are rich. I want to take Lulu Company as the leader, break out a road of getting rich by adding companies and farmers, and really take the villagers to the road of getting rich.
At the beginning of 1999, due to business needs, Zhou decided to invest in establishing his own seedling base. On the issue of site selection, someone suggested to him that it is best to put it in the suburbs of Shanghai. One is convenient management, and the other is to reduce transportation costs. However, after careful consideration, when he finally made a decision, he built the base in his hometown of Beijiang. People in the company didn't understand, but Zhou said to him, "Lulu Greening Company is a private enterprise, which came out of the fields of Beijiang River. Now the enterprise has developed, but we can't forget the villagers. I built a base in my hometown to find ways to make money for the people in my hometown and lead them to common prosperity. "
With the support of the Party committee and government, in recent years, Lulu Greening Company has expanded its seedling base in its hometown from one village to eight villages, from more than 20 households to more than 400 households, and from dozens of acres to the current 1200 mu, with an investment of more than 50 million yuan. In terms of business form, the company provides funds, farmers take shares in land and services, the company is responsible for production and marketing, and farmers pay dividends in land, thus establishing an industrial chain of agricultural restructuring of "company+farmers+market", which not only solves the employment problem of a large number of hometown people, but also sets a model for agricultural restructuring in the whole region. Under his leadership, more than 400 farmers in the village transferred from pure grain farmers to greening companies. He plans to transfer all the farmers in the village and develop the secondary and tertiary industries through three years' efforts.
Zhou not only helped thousands of farmers find a way to get rich at home, but also took nearly a thousand people out. Some people who went to work in Shanghai from their hometown found him, hoping to find a job with him. He always gives them anything they want and provides them with jobs as much as possible. At present, the company has more than 2,200 employees, 85% of whom are from Beijiang and Yancheng. Some of them participated in the construction and maintenance of street greening projects in Shanghai Century Park and Pudong New Area, some engaged in urban cleaning, some became small bosses selling seedlings, bid farewell to food and clothing, and entered a well-off society.
In order to drive more villagers to get rich, he put forward new development goals this year, with an annual output value of more than 65 million, a base area of 2,000 mu, 200 new farmers and 400 new jobs. To this end, he invested in two new projects: one is to build an eco-agricultural sightseeing belt on Buhu Road, with a planned investment of 20 million yuan, and the first phase has invested120,000 yuan to build a high-grade flower base of 150 mu; The second is to develop two farmers' markets in Pudong, Shanghai, and plant anti-season greenhouse vegetables in Beijiang, so that agricultural industrialization will reach a new level.
The cause is endless, and the struggle is endless. This is Zhou's motto. He wants Lulu Company to develop continuously, and he wants more folks to get rich together. This is the unremitting pursuit of an NPC deputy! This is the noble feelings of a branch secretary!