A classroom with bright windows, brand-new computers, blackboards and projectors … But this is not an ordinary school, and the students who come to attend classes are not naughty pupils. Those who sit in the classroom and listen carefully are all authentic farmers who are used to holding hoes. This is a new quality training base for farmers in Lantian Village, Nan 'an City, Quanzhou, Fujian Province. This day is Friday, and a training course on "New Information Technology" is being held. Nearly a hundred pairs of dedicated eyes were cast on the rostrum, and Huang Zhicong, the project manager of the local telecom company, was teaching everyone the promotion and help of informatization to the construction of new countryside and the training of new farmers.
This is what the reporter witnessed when he visited Lantian Village on September 1. Entering the training center, a couplet at the gate is very eye-catching: new ideas and new cultures, cultivating new farmers; New ideas and measures for building a new countryside. Horizontal identity is: harmonious society, starting from the heart. "Although we are in the countryside, the informatization construction in the village is not bad compared with that in the city. Through various information service platforms provided by telecommunications, the village has set up a' clairvoyance' to help us manage public security, set up a sales network and help us engage in production. Today's training enabled us to master the technology and usage of surfing the Internet. Farmers should also be able to keep up with the pace of the city and stress modernization. " After listening to the expert's lecture, Lao Xu, a villager from Lantian Village, told the reporter excitedly.
Since the establishment of 16 in February this year, Lantian Village's new farmers' quality training base has successfully held more than 30 trainings and seminars, and more than 5,000 villagers have participated in the training. The training contents include agricultural science and technology, common sense of bird flu prevention and control, common sense of traffic, Nanyin performance, computer knowledge, physical and mental health, education of honor and disgrace, and vegetable management technology. And seminars on the organization of village party branches, rural neighborhood relations and family disputes.
This is a training base aimed at improving farmers' quality. It was its founder, Pan Chunlai, the party secretary of Lantian Village, who started this new exploration. "Building a new socialist countryside requires not only material construction, but also the quality construction of farmers. Including political quality, ideological quality, cultural quality and technical skill quality. The training base is established to provide more farmers with a platform for learning and training, and to cultivate more new farmers. " Pan Chunlai told reporters his original intention of establishing the first new farmer training base in China.
Pan Chunlai transformed the old school building of a rural primary school into a training base. The base covers an area of 5,600 square meters, with a building area of 1.800 square meters. At present, there are staff 10 and professional instructors 1 10. Entering here, there are all kinds of offices, villagers' consulting rooms, computer training rooms, reading rooms, instrumental training rooms, catering training points, fitness centers and demonstration bases for high-quality vegetables. "We invite experts to teach almost every week and provide all kinds of practical training for everyone free of charge." Pan Chunlai said. Since the establishment of the training base, the former scene of villagers gathering on the roadside to chat has disappeared. Instead, it thrives here. Sometimes hundreds of people come to the training class at once, and the classroom can't sit down, so everyone has to stand in the yard and listen.
Since the establishment of the training base, not only the cultural quality of the villagers has improved, but also gratifying changes have taken place in the village. In the past, this village was full of garbage and sewage. Now the villagers consciously send the garbage to a fixed place, and the village appearance has been greatly improved. At the same time, more and more farmers believe in science and agricultural technology. Therefore, the village was rated as the first in "Old Village Reconstruction and New Village Construction" by Nan 'an City, and was also identified as "New Rural Construction Demonstration Village" by Fujian Province and Quanzhou City.
"Lantian Village, Yantian Village." At that time, this sentence spread far and near became the pain of Lantian Village. Two years ago, he was criminally punished for corruption and bribery of the former village party secretary and village head. At that time, Pan Chunlai, the chairman of this self-run enterprise, was appointed as the village party secretary. At that time, the village collective owed more than 400 thousand. More than 70% farmers earn their living by going out to work.
To help the village, help people first! At the beginning of taking office, facing the situation that everything is ready, Pan Chunlai put forward a new idea-establishing a new farmer training base. But in the face of deficit village finance, how can there be money to "help people"? Pan Chunlai thought of the road of personal donation.
From construction to operation, the base has invested nearly 6.5438+0.6 million yuan. And the money, except for the 654.38+million yuan subsidized by the higher government, was "paid" by Pan Chunlai himself.
Pan Chunlai's efforts have been highly valued by governments at all levels. Nan 'an held a coordination meeting on the construction of a new farmers' quality training base in Lantian Village on August 15, 2005, to study how to support and popularize the practice of Lantian Village, and proposed that nine village officials (namely village agronomists, family planners, public security administrators, etc.) should organize training in this base in a planned way from September, and establish a new farmers' training school in Nan 'an as soon as possible on the basis of this base.
The government's support has given Pan Chunlai great confidence. According to the planning of Pan Chunlai, the new training base will invest 5 million yuan in the future to build a 3,500-square-meter comprehensive building of the new farmers' quality training base, which integrates training, books, entertainment, fitness and other functions. It costs a lot of money. "Farmers' training and education should belong to the rural public education system and is a public education resource. I hope that the relevant departments at higher levels will give support in terms of funds and equipment. " Pan Chunlai said. To Pan Chunlai's delight, the training base has begun to produce tangible benefits: through training, villagers have set up their own catering service teams and bands. , and became famous in the surrounding villages, and their business is also overwhelmed. "I believe that under such a good momentum, the training base will surely usher in a good situation of relying on its own rolling development in the future. "Pan Chunlai is very optimistic about this. At present, Pan Chunlai has planned a new "trilogy" for the new farmer training base: establishing online training and distance education training to provide "a la carte" training services for everyone; Apply for a TV program that directly serves "agriculture, countryside and farmers" and broadcast it on Quanzhou TV station, and combine the educational resources of the training base with the communication advantages of TV station, so that Quanzhou farmers can join the ranks of new farmers' quality training and fully enjoy the sunshine and rain of new rural construction; The training base will be extended to various types of practice bases in surrounding factories and workshops, so that farmers can master basic vocational and technical skills and lay the foundation for rural labor transfer. At the same time, he also wants to set up an employment agency in the base to find jobs for villagers who need employment.
Nowadays, farmers in Lantian Village have taken off their "rotten hats". The per capita annual net income of villagers is 6400 yuan, and the village income in fiscal year is 654.38+0.3 million yuan. "Relying on new farmers, new rural construction is promising!" This is Pan Chunlai's voice.