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Brother and Sister Growing Blueberries in Remote Mountains
2014-08-14 10:38:30

  "I’ve heard someone in Xingshan transferred 1,000 mu of mountains to grow blueberries!" Reporter overheard a piece of news. On July 24, following someone familiar with the situation, the reporter went to visit the person in the news.
  Starting from Xingshan County, the car stopped after two hours’ drive at the edge of a reservoir. " Tianchiya reservoir will be our base camp, where we are ready to build trading centers, leisure farms, villagers sports center, rainbow trout breeding for tourists to fish." Wang Jing, one of the two blueberry bosses enthusiastically told us about their vision.
  The person who was said to transfer 1,000 mu of mountains to grow blueberries was not just one, but brother and sister. The brother, Wang Xiong, 45 this year, was burly but talks less while the sister, Wang Jing, 42 years old, was competent and generous. “My brother mainly deals with planting while I go out to look for market.”Wang Jing described their labor Pision.
  The closer the blueberry base was, the more difficult it was to go. The country lanes were muddy because of rain. Our SUV finally arrived at a farmhouse. Wang Jing told us that it was their office, which was an adobe house with potholes on the ground.    
  "You often live here?" the reporter asked. “Generally we go back to the County two or three times a month and live here the rest of the time. ” said Wang Xiong. Then, the report came across several employees of local power supply station on the way to the blueberry base. ”Why do them come here?” the reporters doubted. Wang Xiong joked that in the past they worried about low voltage would suck back power in their phone batteries. In order to change this situation, the employees came to transform low voltage in "dog days”. Pointing to a tall pine, Wang Xiong said:”That is our signal tree here. Owing to an altitude of about 1500 meters, communication signal is weak in Dacao Village. Only poor signal is available nearby the tall pines.” Wang Xiong also told that China Mobile had been sent to survey there, a signal tower would be erected soon.  
  An open blueberry garden came into view after ten minutes’ walking. The foot-high blueberry seedlings grew well, and some have begun to bear fruit. Wang Xiong introduced that, the trial blueberry base was 36 mu which was expected to bear fruit overall in three years. We grew 17 varieties of blueberry seedlings in this trial base. Two varieties of them, namely Nangao and Beigao, were confirmed after a year of survival of the fittest.        
  Not far from the base, site leveling has been completed. Wang Xiong said, they were ready to build a 200 square meters’ seed chamber and a 600 square meters’ nursery greenhouses. After that they would cultivate blueberry seedlings themselves and would not buy seedlings elsewhere.
  Such hardship made a sharp contrast to the two siblings previous living condition. They used to own garment factory and import and export trading company of electronic products, then why did they come to invest here? By chance, Wang Xiong once learned that his hometown, Dacao Village in Xingshan County, was quite suitable for planting blueberries, and the government was vigorously supporting characteristic industrial development. The two siblings decided to seize such opportunity returning hometown to grow blueberries.   
  They successfully transferred 1600 mu of land. Through building roads and water Persions at inconvenient places the two siblings soon developed close relationship with local villagers in Dacao Village. In 2013, they established cooperative. “It is more meaningful to lead all local villagers to become rich than just being rich ourselves.” said Wang Jing.  
  The two siblings led cooperative villagers to interplant medicinal herbs before they benefited from blueberry growing in order to guarantee income. In the future, two siblings will introduce supermarket to set up plantations in the village, so that local villagers will have greater benefits.
  To set up a blueberry base of 250 mu is the two sibling’s goal which will be reached soon. A thousands mu of blueberry base is their further aim. Leading villagers in Dacao village to live prosperous life is their persistent pursuit.  (Reporter: Ye Xiaomei, Jing Zhi)