Mar.10, 2014
Li Xinrong is one of the many university graduates who chose to work as a cadre in the countryside. The place she chose to work for is Masi Village, Xincheng City, Guangxi Autonomous Region. She has been staying there since 2008 and has made a great success. What she did was a great inspiration to us.
Unlike many other university graduates who chose to work in the countryside for some time for their own good, Li Xinrong chose to work there because she was eager to give the local people practical help. So instead of staying in the office, she walked out and paid visits to villagers’ home to get to know their life situations and find out what they need. She found that their income was low. She tried to find out how she could help the villagers by observing the environment. When she saw the bumpy dust road that leads from the village to the outside world, she saw a big problem. How could the villagers get their sugarcanes transported and sold to other places smoothly if the road was not good enough? So she used her knowledge of the national favor policy to get a fund from the government and had a better road built. Because of this, she gained respect from the villagers.
Another way she helped the villagers was encouraging them to grow Hami-melon in the local place. To convince the villagers, she started experimenting on a small scale. During the experiment, she worked very hard and felt exhausted. But she felt proud of being able to do labor work and came to understand how hard it was for peasants to grow something. A month before the Hami-melon grew ripe, the plants caught some disease and started to die. Although measures were taken, they still died. Because of this, she lost all her invested capital and was left with a loan to pay back. It was such a blow to her that she even shut herself in a car and cried hard. But with the help of the villagers, she gathered herself up again. She learned her lesson and started all over again. This time she succeeded and all the villagers followed her. After years of planting Hami-melon, the villagers got much richer than before. The respect for her increased and she was chosen Vice Party Secretary of Masi Village Committee. She became more and more ambitious and was going to be a woman entrepreneur in the future.
What she did may look ordinary at the beginning, but as she did all this for the good of others, she was blessed with success in the end. That reflected one of her good qualities—caring more about how she could give rather than how she could get. And by putting giving in the first place, she gained respect and realized her value, found her goal and harvested a promising career. From her experience, we could also learn that it is not always in the city that one can achieve success, but there are even more opportunities for achieving success in the countryside.
