Early on the morning of the 12th, 59 year old Wang Chongnian began pruning damaged fruits and branches of fruit trees. There are still two months left until maturity, and the branches of the fruit tree are covered with fist sized orange pomelos and jelly oranges, which are very eye-catching. Wang Chongnian is a villager from Xiexi Village, Luxia Town, Yanping District, Nanping City, Fujian Province. If you want to grow good fruits, you need to manage them finely, remove the bad fruits that have been burned by the sun in a timely manner, and trim the branches that are too dense. "After wiping his sweat, Wang Chongnian pulled up a bench and called for the reporter to sit down." This is a lesson I have learned as a 'student' in recent years. This year, under the guidance of agricultural experts in the district, I invested tens of thousands of yuan to add sunscreen nets to fruit trees, greatly reducing the rate of bad fruits. "Wang Chongnian's orchard is located on the banks of the Minjiang River, the 'mother river' of Fujian Province. A green river flows eastward, with fresh air and chirping birds. Ancient tree houses are located along the river, and the beautiful mountain environment attracts many tourists and study groups. The village's restaurants and homestays are often fully booked on weekends. However, more than a decade ago, the scene before us was completely different. As an immigrant township in the Shuikou Reservoir area of the lower reaches of the Minjiang River, in order to solve livelihood problems, Luxia Town began to develop large-scale pig farming in the 1980s, and pig farming once became the pillar industry here. The people's wallets have swelled, and the Minjiang River has also become dirty Wang Chongnian said that at that time, he raised dozens of pigs, and almost all the houses in the village were pigsties. A large amount of untreated sewage was directly discharged into the Minjiang River, and disorderly breeding caused the ecological cost of Luxia Town. When pollution is severe, water hyacinth grows all over the water surface, mosquitoes and flies ravage the shore, and the 'Mother River' becomes a dirty ditch for the masses to walk around, "said Li Chengzheng, the first secretary of Xiexi Village in Luxia Town. The extensive pig farming has high returns, but it requires sacrificing the living environment of future generations to obtain it, and this account is not worth it... "Cadres and the masses gradually formed a consensus on ecological protection, and Yanping District began to rectify livestock and poultry breeding pollution and promote ecological transformation. Since 2017, Yanping District has reduced the scale of "small, scattered, and disorderly" pig farming by 2.16 million heads and dismantled 4469 pig farms. After bidding farewell to the pig farming industry, Wang Chongnian began his "second entrepreneurship". At first, my eyes turned black, but the agricultural department and town recommended many excellent fruit tree varieties to us and taught us ecological planting step by step. I quickly found a new way to get rich, "said Wang Chongnian. He contracted the current orchard and installed solar insecticidal lamps in it. He also used organic fertilizer fermented from rapeseed cake and sheep manure left over from oil extraction to fertilize the fruit trees, which not only minimized the impact of traditional fertilizers on the environment, but also improved the quality of the fruits. Nowadays, 30 small watersheds in the jurisdiction of Yanping have completely eliminated poor Class V water quality, and the conversion rate of the masses has also reached 91.3% Yanping District Party Secretary Huang Guicheng told reporters. Relying on the 3.8-kilometer-long Minjiang River shoreline, millennium old banyan trees, and surrounding green mountains and waters, Xiexi Village vigorously develops ecological economy, revitalizes idle cultural center buildings, grain warehouses, docks, and other resources in the village, actively introduces social capital, and builds the Chayang Kiln Cultural and Creative Hall, Zhoutou Enterprise Culture Expo Park, etc. The scale of the "agricultural tourism+cultural tourism" industry is beginning to emerge. People do not disappoint the green mountains, and the green mountains will definitely not disappoint people. Four years ago, with the continuous improvement of the ecological environment, a bird watching enthusiast captured a beautiful migratory bird - the Blue throated Bee Tiger - in Wang Chongnian's orchard. Since then, every early summer, this group of "guests" who come from afar will come to Xiexi Village to rest and breed offspring, attracting bird watching enthusiasts from all over the world to come and observe. Under the guidance of the Yanping District Photography Association, Wang Chongnian also set up a bird watching shed in the orchard and became a "bird watching tour guide", embarking on the path of ecological tourism to prosperity. (New Society)