Yingshan, Sichuan: People's Congress deputies help sell honey, and the people's "worries" have become "reassuring sweetness"

You really helped me solve a big problem! "On September 25th, the autumn sunshine in Jiantong Village, Luoshi Town, Yingshan County, Nanchong City, Sichuan Province was particularly warm, slanting into Zhang Jixiao's house. Zhang Jixiao took the brand new banknotes handed over and repeatedly rubbed the edges of the banknotes with his fingertips, pulling Guo Liquan's hand and making his eyes red. As soon as Guo Liquan, a representative of the County People's Congress, led the owners of two supermarkets in the county, 72 year old Zhang Jixiao walked up with a cane and his gaze fell on the purchase basket in the owner's hand, full of anticipation. After twisting the fine beeswax and tasting the sweet taste, the owner of the supermarket carefully inspected the amber colored earth honey in the honey bucket and decided to purchase the remaining 66 pounds of honey on the spot. Zhang Jixiao is a poverty alleviation monitoring household in the village. He suffers from high blood pressure and diabetes all the year round. His children are working outside, so they can't care about their families. Two years ago, he thought of beekeeping to supplement his family's income. He raised 12 barrels of Chinese honeybees in one go, which can produce over 180 kilograms of fragrant earth honey every year. No matter how good the honey is, it's useless if it can't be sold, "Zhang Jixiao said. I have limited mobility and don't know how to sell it, so these" good things "can only be piled up in the corners of the hall. He often crouches by the honey bucket and sighs, watching the honey slowly crystallize out of the bucket, afraid of exceeding its shelf life. The transfer occurred in October 2024. When Guo Liquan conducted a "representative joint household" visit, as soon as he stepped into Zhang Jixiao's house, he was attracted by the honey bucket in the corner of the wall. After hearing the old man talk about his difficulties, he immediately took out his public opinion notebook and wrote down "helping Zhang Jixiao sell 180 pounds of earth honey" stroke by stroke. On the same day, he dialed the phone number of Sun Guihua, the secretary of the Jiantong Village Party Branch. The next day, the two of them made a special trip to the door, not only taking samples from transparent containers to check the purity of honey, but also taking short videos of the elderly shaking honey and honey crystallization - in the camera, the golden honey flows into the bucket along the shaking machine, and the picture is particularly tempting, becoming a "live material" for later promotion.

In order to open up sales channels, the two of them split jobs: Guo Liquan carried honey samples and went to three chain supermarkets in the county, negotiating with the responsible person in a soft and hard manner, and finally reached an agreement of "trial sales of 50 pounds first, and if the reputation is good, we will continue to supply"; He also launched the "Help Farmers Purchase Honey" initiative in the WeChat group of the county people's congress representative liaison station, and 23 representatives responded in the first time. Some ordered honey to give to their relatives and friends, while others forwarded it to community and unit groups for dissemination; Sun Guihua led the village cadres to shout among the villagers in his own village and neighboring villages. Many villagers, upon hearing this, drove to their homes to make purchases, and some even helped to share on their social media. In less than half a month, over 180 pounds of honey were sold out, with sales of nearly 20000 yuan. In the future, the honey taken out every year will be directly collected by supermarkets, without you having to run a step. What reassured Zhang Jixiao even more was that Guo Liquan helped him sign long-term supply agreements with two supermarkets in the county. The people have chosen me as their representative, and I am the representative for the people, "said Guo Liquan, feeling warm in his heart as he looked at the elderly man's furrowed brow. In the future, he will continue to pay attention to the needs of disadvantaged groups in the village, practice his original intention with concrete actions, and turn more "unsold goods" into "income increasing treasures" for villagers, contributing to consolidating the achievements of poverty alleviation and supporting rural revitalization. (Zou Gang)