Before the 1990s, Zaoyuan Village had neither enterprises nor resources. It was a small mountain village with crisscrossed ravines, sparse vegetation, inconvenient transportation, lack of information, and poverty. The villagers’ annual income depended on a few dollars. acres of corn and millet fields. Many villagers are busy all year round but cannot even earn enough money for food rations. Difficulties in drinking water, traveling, going to school, and seeking medical treatment have always been a problem for the villagers. People in Chajiuyan Village, a natural village in Zaoyuan Village, have to go several kilometers away to pick up water. Having safe and clean tap water seems to be just a luxury for them. Due to the harsh living environment and poverty, girls in the village cannot be retained and girls from outside the village are unwilling to come, so it is a problem for many young people to find wives. This small mountain village with "a draft outside the village, no TV signal, no phone calls, no bridge across the river, no salary, only brother but not sister-in-law" has become a well-known poor village in the city and district.

Since 1997, under the leadership of Secretary Ma Yutian, the two committees of the Zaoyuan Village Village Branch have given full play to Zaoyuan Village’s advantages of being surrounded by mountains and rivers and without pollution. The idea of ????"comprehensive development of Mucaiguo", carrying forward the spirit of "rather working hard than suffering", boldly innovating, advancing with the times, with the fundamental purpose of developing the economy, doing practical things for the people, and promoting the common prosperity of the whole village, The cadres and the masses united as one, worked hard, successfully completed all the planned goals, and achieved good results, making the formerly poor and backward Zaoyuan Village change every year and three years, becoming a township, district , the city’s red flag units and advanced villages. Today, Zaoyuan Village has formed a scene where heavy rain does not flood, light rain does not go down the mountain, ecological forest on the mountain, economic forest on the mountainside, greenhouses built on the river, green mountains and green water. 1. Leading industries. From 1999 to 2001, more than 500,000 yuan was invested to build 88 greenhouse vegetable greenhouses, with an annual income of 440,000 yuan; in 2002, a fish pond covering an area of ??8 acres was built; in 2002, an investment of 1 million yuan was invested to build 30,000 chickens, with an annual income of 1.3 million yuan. A breeding community covering an area of ??5,000 square meters; Shanxi Zaoyuan Agricultural Products Development Co., Ltd. was established in 2002 and registered the "Yutian" brand trademark; the registered capital is 3.65 million yuan. In March 2003, it was recognized as a pollution-free agricultural product origin by the Department of Agriculture, and four types of pollution-free agricultural products were certified. 2. Infrastructure construction. From 1997 to 2003, *** invested more than 1.8 million yuan, used more than 100,000 cubic meters of earth and rock, built 3 main dams, 4 sand dams, 180 valley dams, 7 undercurrent interception projects, 5 herringbone gates, and built new forests. There are 6 kilometers of winding mountain roads in the district's green belt. From 2002 to 2003, 1.34 million yuan was invested to harden 3 kilometers of village roads and natural village branch roads; 100 acres of new irrigated land were created. 3. Ecological environment construction. Zaoyuan Village has carried out large-scale and continuous ecological construction and water conservancy and water conservation management. As of this autumn, the entire village has planted 160,000 pines and cypresses, 15,000 fast-growing white poplars, 150,000 fragrant Sophora japonicas, and 100,000 Caraganas. Plants, 300 acres of apricots for kernels, 860 acres of farmland converted to forests, 2,000 acres of supporting facilities converted to forests, 5,000 acres of green barren hills, the forest coverage rate reached 30%, and the total investment was more than 1.2 million yuan. 4. Quality of life of villagers. After several years of unremitting efforts, gratifying changes have occurred in the villagers' food, clothing, housing and transportation. The income of villagers has increased by 1,200 yuan compared with 1997, an increase of 200%; an artesian water project has been built, and every household has access to convenient and hygienic tap water; a cable television viewing system and a program-controlled telephone have been installed, and the popularity of television telephones has increased reached 90% and 80% respectively; a village health center was established; in 2001, 100,000 yuan was invested to build a 6-meter-wide and 40-meter-long convenient happiness bridge connecting the east and west banks; 300,000 yuan was invested to build new kindergartens and primary school teaching buildings. In 2003, 200,000 yuan was invested to build the village committee office and the village central square. Zaoyuan Village now has a total fixed assets of more than 5 million yuan. In 2003, it invested 200,000 yuan to build a pure water plant, which was put into operation in 2004. In May, it invested another 200,000 yuan to build Yuquangou Ecological Park.

Zaoyuan Village embodies a spirit, which is "don't wait, don't rely, be diligent, work hard, and be unyielding." In the future, Zaoyuan Village will move more unswervingly towards the goal of building an ecological township, a strong economy, and a civilized new township, creating a bright future for Zaoyuan.