She originally received the "golden rice bowl" allocated by the state, but she resolutely returned to Longxing Village deep in the mountains and founded Longxing Coal Mine with her husband.

She and her husband went through the coal mine being flooded, the investment of 800,000 yuan "wasted", the hardships of collecting "triangular debt", the plight of low coal prices, etc., and finally found the first pot of gold.

In order to change the backwardness of her hometown, in the past 14 years, she has donated more than 12 million yuan to build village roads, schools, hospitals, nursing homes, and invested in social welfare undertakings such as poverty alleviation, disaster relief, and student aid. With her persistence in faith and

She is determined and leads the villagers to build Qiongshan Valley into a prosperous and happy "paradise on earth." She, affectionately called "Sister Wu" by the villagers, is the 43-year-old village director and women's director of Longxing Village, Longtang Town, Leiyang City

Wu Donglan.

In order to build a road, my 80-year-old mother-in-law had no one to take care of her, so she slipped and fell and died; in order to build a road, she passed out on the construction site, and the first thing she said when she woke up was asking about the progress of the road construction.

Longxing Village is rich in Camellia oleifera, Nanzhu, Chinese fir, and rich in coal resources.

But because roads are impassable, resources cannot be turned into wealth.

"If you want to go to the Dragon-shaped Road, you have to cross three cols. There are trees that cannot be sold, and there are coals but no charcoal to burn. Buying things and selling things depends on your shoulders." This folk song is a true portrayal of this place.

Before 1993, the per capita income of farmers was less than 300 yuan.

After becoming the village director, Wu Donglan led the villagers to build roads.

In 1992, Wu Donglan persuaded her husband to spend 390,000 yuan from her family's business to widen and straighten the Yangchang path between Longxing Village and Pantang Village, and pave it with gravel, making it much easier for farmers in Longxing Village to get in and out.

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In 1994, she invested another 640,000 yuan to widen the 8-kilometer-long tractor road between Longxing Village and Provincial Highway 1817 and build it into a gravel road that can be passed by cars.

To build this road, Wu Donglan left a lifelong regret.

In January 1994, the road construction started. Wu Donglan and Li Xuanfang, together with the villagers, carried earth and stones, and provided food and accommodation on the construction site. Their mother-in-law, who was in her 80s, had no one to take care of her. She slipped and fell from a 3-meter-high wooden building and was unable to be rescued.

died in time.

What Wu Luying, the village party secretary, still remembers is that November 2006 was the critical moment for repairing the dragon-shaped road to the village. It was the middle of winter and the cold was approaching.

At 8 o'clock that morning, Wu Donglan came to the second group construction site. Wu Luying saw Wu Donglan's face turned blue and told her to rest.

Wu Donglan said: "It doesn't matter, the road is not repaired, so I don't worry." She took the medicine she brought with her and stayed at the construction site.

At two o'clock in the afternoon, Wu Donglan fainted on the construction site and was taken to the hospital to save her life. The first thing she said when she woke up was to ask about the progress of road construction.

In today's Longxing Village, the cement roads are like jade belt nets, entwining the green mountains and clear waters; the villages are like jade inlaid on the net.

Connected to the Internet is a high-grade highway leading to the wonderful world outside.

From "underground" to "above ground", from "black" to "green", a wonderful show of major adjustment and transformation of industrial structure is taking place deep in the mountains.

The per capita cultivated land in Longxing Village is only 4 points.

How to drive everyone to get rich together?

The first step that Wu Donglan and the comrades of the village branch committee made was to change the farming model and develop diversified operations.

Since 1994, Wu Donglan has provided start-up capital of 6.43 million yuan in the form of loans and free subsidies, helping villagers build three large-scale pig farms with 1,000 pigs and five chicken farms with 10,000 feathers; transformed more than 2,000 acres of Camellia oleifera forest and 300 tea farms.

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Today's Longxing Village, with its lush mountains and forests, is like a "treasure bowl".

The mature fir trees and the camellia oleifera and tea leaves that have produced benefits can increase the per capita income of farmers by 500 yuan every year.

Looking from the entrance of Longxing Village, we can see a row of neat and well-proportioned new houses built on the hillside behind the village.

Knocking on the door of a farm, Liu Lijiao, the 30-year-old hostess of the farm, was busy working in the chicken coop.

She calculated the account and said: "I started raising chickens in 2005. Director Wu Donglan lent me 40,000 yuan to buy 6,000 chicks. She helped me contact Guangdong Wen's Group to provide one-stop services in technology, feed and sales, and the chickens were released every year."

There are more than 30,000 broiler chickens." Wu Donglan told us that the village's development idea is to consolidate traditional industries such as coal and transportation, and develop and expand new industries such as planting and breeding.

In 2007, the village's total industrial and agricultural output value reached more than 60 million yuan.

The village is following the path of "relying on resources to develop industry and using industry to feed agriculture". The whole village will invest 4 million yuan to develop the breeding industry and guide farmers to shift their industrial focus from "underground" to "above ground" and from "black" to "green"

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"As long as there are still people suffering deep in the mountains, I should donate and I can afford to donate this money." Cao Linghua, who is in his sixties from Group 6 of Zhushan Village, Donghu Township, bursts into tears whenever he mentions Wu Donglan and Li Xuanfang.

It turned out that Cao Linghua originally worked in Longxing Coal Mine. In 1995, his father passed away, and Wu Donglan donated 14,000 yuan; in 2003, his mother was ill for a long time and had no money for treatment, so Wu Donglan sent a car to the hospital and paid 5,000 yuan for medical expenses.

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After the old man died of illness, she spent another 8,000 yuan to pay for the funeral.

At 3 o'clock in the morning on December 24, 2012, Cao Linghua suffered from emphysema. Wu Donglan and Li Xuanfang called the driver to drive him to Leiyang Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital for rescue. They donated 10,000 yuan in hospitalization expenses and medical expenses.

The two primary schools in Dongchong Village and Longxing Village have fallen into disrepair and have become dilapidated buildings.