If the media hadn't disclosed Chu's growing oranges in the mountainous areas of Yunnan, people might have forgotten this once sensational old man. What do you remember with his name, and? Hongtashan? 、? Tobacco king? 、? Misappropriation of public funds? And then what? Controversy? Wait a minute. But he used it? Orange king? And then what? Orange? Refreshed people's memories.

Growing oranges 10 years ago, the 85-year-old man, who has rarely been interviewed by the media, shared his present life with our reporter in his own orchard and talked about his past life.

? It is expected to be collected in late June this year 10, earlier than in previous years. Call the market to prepare. ? One afternoon in early September, on a mountain nearly 1000 meters above sea level in gasa town, Xinping County, Yuxi City, Yunnan Province, Chu Shi Jian stood in his orchard, looking at the fruits hanging on the trees and telling the managers around him.

At this time, Chu was wearing a sunshade straw hat, a white T-shirt, black pants and a pair of sports shoes. He was very popular at this age. He can't talk without oranges.

Origin of orange planting: anxiety and unwillingness

No one expected where Chu, a once-popular and controversial financial figure, came from. Smoke king? The spire fell, but where is it? Orange king? The top of the mountain regained its footing. In 2002, Chu, the former chairman of Hongtashan Group, who was sentenced to life imprisonment for corruption, was released on parole after his sentence was reduced to 17. Since then, he has contracted more than 2,000 acres of orchards and planted sugar oranges under Ailao Mountain in Yunnan.

Guangzhou Daily:? Can live for a long time, but run between home and orchard? "

Chu Shijian: "When I develop my character, I must have something to do, whether adversity is good or bad, so that my life can be spent." Once you start doing it, you will not be satisfied if you don't do it well. "

Guangzhou Daily: "Why do you want to plant oranges?"

Chu Shijian: "At first, we were inspired by the American Sunkist, and this product sold at a high price in our country. We thought that the competition in the fruit industry would be fierce in the future, and there would be no quality characteristics. "

Guangzhou Daily: "That? Orange? What are the quality characteristics of? With what high price? "

Chu Shijian: "Our fruit is ripe and tastes different from others'. We carefully manage, good fruit should be conditional, pay attention to air, water and soil. There is no chimney near our house, and the air is the best. Our water is taken from the mountain spring of Ailao Mountain and will not be polluted by surface water. And the soil at this altitude is also very thick, which is very suitable for growing oranges. ?

Guangzhou Daily:? How to implement

Chu Shijian:? Yunnan has been very dry in the past three years, but our water can meet the needs of fruit trees. We need 300,000 cubic meters of water in advance, enough for 100 days. ?

Guangzhou Daily:? How much have you invested in these infrastructures?

Chu Shijian:? To divert water from Ailao Mountain, one water pipe1780,000, and we built five pipes, which ordinary farmers can't afford. At the beginning, funds were still difficult. I only have more than one million yuan, so I can only borrow it from my friends. There is no one who doesn't borrow it. What if I say I can't afford it? They said, "If you are guaranteed, you won't borrow money if you are not sure." . So I borrowed it for three or four years, and now I have paid it all off. ?

Guangzhou Daily:? How big is the orchard?

Chu Shijian:? At present, the orchard covers an area of 2,800 mu, and we are divided into four operation stations, and one operation station manages more than 30 households. At present, there are 1 15 households, and each household has two laborers. A family is in charge of 2500 fruit trees. They are relatively stable contract workers. Responsible for managing 26 people, mainly technical teams. ?

Farmers are willing to come to me. They do a good job of 60,000 to 70,000 a year, and one person is more than 2,000 a month.

Guangzhou Daily:? What is the income of the orchard now?

Chu Shijian:? Our annual sales are more than 60 million, and after deducting two-thirds of the cost, there are more than 20 million. Our initial investment was 1000 million, and now we have more than one billion assets. A lot of the money earned is invested in water conservancy construction. This year, we built a cold storage with more than 40 million yuan, which can store 5000 tons. ?

Guangzhou Daily:? How much do you take yourself? Do you get paid?

Chu Shijian:? I can't spend 6000 yuan a month. ?

? Smoke king? Memories: Did going to prison make you feel relaxed?

After the news of planting oranges was exposed, Chu returned to the public eye. Will people think of the former? China Tobacco King? Under his leadership, the little-known Yuxi Cigarette Factory has built itself into hongta group, the largest tobacco enterprise in China and the fifth in the world. From 65438 to 0998, hongta group's profits and taxes reached 20 billion yuan, nearly half of Yunnan's fiscal revenue. ? Hongtashan? The brand value was assessed as high as 38.6 billion yuan, making it the largest brand in China. Chu Shijian recalled that it was the best time.

Guangzhou Daily:? Is your idea of growing oranges consistent with your idea of making tobacco?

Chu Shijian:? At that time, tobacco was difficult to control, and tobacco companies and factories were separated. We put millions of acres of tobacco fields in the hands of tobacco factories. Provide farmers with fertilizer subsidies to solve the problem of water conservancy transportation. First of all, the quality of our tobacco has improved. ?

I remember that around 1985, in economically developed coastal areas, such as Guangdong, dacron clothes were popular, and a pack of cigarettes in the chest pocket was filled with American cigarettes. At that time, we thought, why doesn't Chinese tobacco have this value? Later, when we finished the raw materials, the quality of our tobacco leaves came up. It took five or six years to replace the cigarettes in our pockets with Hongtashan cigarettes.

Guangzhou Daily:? Are you still doing tobacco work now?

Chu Shijian:? Whatever. Looking for me is still annoying. I have been engaged in tobacco 18 years and tobacco has many friends. Acquaintances, just sit and talk, see what shortcomings this cigarette has, and leave the rest alone. ?

Guangzhou Daily:? How to solve the problem after the surplus funds?

Chu Shijian:? We will have water, electricity and transportation. This is definitely a shortcoming of China market in the future, but the investment time is too long. We invested in cascade hydropower stations in Lancang River, and now the power stations are very profitable, so we don't need to sell electricity. It can be said responsibly that we can do more with a small amount of input and seriously consider the country. ?

Guangzhou Daily:? What do you think is your contribution to the industry?

Chu Shijian:? Don't talk about contribution What we can rest assured is that we did these things in Yunnan, especially in Yuxi, and asked a farmer if he had seen me and knew me well. In those years, not only our country was better, but also the farmers. Planting tobacco, the country takes the big head and we take the small head. ?

Guangzhou Daily:? Some people say that because of your high prestige, it is a bit like traditional feudal paternalistic management. ?

Chu Shijian:? There was no modern management model at that time. China has just developed, and all the problems it encounters are new, so we must meet the problems and then solve them. It was not until the mid-1990s that a new management mechanism was established. ?

Guangzhou Daily:? Some people say that you fell from heaven to hell in a prison at the peak.

Chu Shijian:? Actually, I was relaxed at that time. I know what I did, and the final punishment is none of my business. Let future generations judge the merits and demerits, and let the society judge them. ?

Guangzhou Daily:? Have you ever thought about leaving when things happen?

Chu Shijian:? It was easy to walk, but I didn't think about it. I was in America when my daughter was arrested. Many friends advised me not to go back, I don't know, and my home is in China. ?

Our generation is different from today's people, and we still feel foreign. I know some people get a lot of money from the country, but they are not happy outside.

Comfort in old age: too many troubled families have never been dissolved.

For Chu, what about his? Falling horse? It's not unbearable What really hit him was that his beloved first wife was imprisoned for four years and his beloved daughter committed suicide in prison. He said that his generation had a strong family concept, and it was precisely because of his family that he never wanted to run away when something happened.

Guangzhou Daily:? At that time, your investigation began because your wife wholesales cigarettes. Have you ever blamed her?

Chu Shijian:? You can't blame her for such a thing, all enterprises have it. They come to do these things and pay taxes as usual. At that time, social management was not standardized now. Thousands of people do this. ?

Guangzhou Daily:? After you came out, your wife said that she would do something without asking Dont Ask For Help, and finally chose to grow oranges. How much influence does your wife have on you?

Chu Shijian:? I said we should do something, not ask for help. Although we have many quarrels, we are in agreement on this matter. We've been through too many ups and downs, but we haven't broken up the family. We are real feelings. She's fine. She did not ask for a divorce. ?

I used to be classified as? Rightists? When the farm was rebuilt, she left her job without pay and could only stay in Kunming, with only a few hundred dollars on her. I couldn't spend all my money, but I made money by knitting sweaters, and I broke a finger.

When we were on the farm, her salary was 40 cents a day, and she went to raise pigs to make money. She wants to live like that and be with me.

A day without rest

Saturday September 1. At 7: 30 in the morning, Chu Shijian set off from his home in Dayingzi Street, Yuxi City and took a bus to the orchard. Nearly ten o'clock, the car arrived at Gasa Town, Xinping County, and then drove all the way up the mountain along the highway around the mountain. Soon, it began to see the whole orange forest. After about 100 meters, it would pass a family who looked after the fruit forest.

The car stopped in front of a two-story building halfway up the mountain. This is the command center of the orchard, facing a pond in front of the door.

At 3 o'clock in the afternoon, the sun was a little fierce, and Chu and he went to the orchard by car. At an operation station, Xiao Wang, the person in charge of the operation, saw him and moved a chair to sit him in the shade. After sitting down, Chu assigned tasks to Xiao Wang, calculated the composition of fertilizer, and called XXX and XXX to the command center for a meeting in the evening. I talked about fertilizer for nearly twenty minutes. Xiao Wang began to report on the current growth of his fruit. Go and have a look. ? Chu Shijian stood up and approached the forest. Squeeze this and that. Xiao Wang cut off an orange that was about to ripen and gave it to Chu. As soon as he took it, he peeled it off and greeted the people around him to eat together. To taste, to taste is to examine the problem. ? Although oranges are blue, they don't taste sour.

After dinner, Chu moved his chair to the pond and chatted with three or two employees. As soon as he spoke, Chu Shijian was about to light a cigarette, so he sat for an hour. Chu Shijian gave an order: Let's go to the meeting. ?

A dozen employees followed Chu into the conference room, just like every time he came over. 1 1, the meeting is over. Chu Shijian went to the kitchen and found several kinds of dried noodles on the table. He looked at the dried noodles and calculated whether there would be enough breakfast for seven people tomorrow morning. A pot of sparerib soup was heated in the electric cooker, and he said, this soup will be cooked all night and will be ready tomorrow morning. ?

He calculated his breakfast and went to bed. Tomorrow, he will discuss the 30-year renewal of orchard land with Yuxi people.

Chu Shijian:

1979, 5 1 year-old Chu was appointed as the director of Yuxi cigarette factory, a director who started smoking as soon as he arrived at the factory. At that time, Yuxi cigarette factory was no different from thousands of small cigarette factories in Yunnan, and its fixed assets were only about10 million yuan.

From 65438 to 0995, Yuxi Cigarette Factory was transformed into Yuxi Hongta Tobacco (Group) Co., Ltd., which brought Chu's life to the peak. The annual tax profit of cigarette factories soared from 97 million to 20.6 billion, ranking second in the country with 1998 (the first is Daqing Petroleum). Yuxi cigarette factory was once called? Banknote printing factory? Hongta group has also developed into the first tobacco enterprise in Asia and the fifth tobacco enterprise in the world. From 1995 to 200 1 year, Hongtashan? Seven years in a row The most valuable brand in China? Title, 1997, Hongtashan? Its intangible assets are 35.3 billion yuan, ranking first among all brands in China.

With the rapid development of his career, Chu has also achieved? National model worker? And then what? National outstanding entrepreneurs? Title, and was awarded the highest award for entrepreneurs in China? Golden Globe Award? . 1994 was rated as one of the top ten reformers in China, so he was called? China Tobacco King? His three apprentices in hongta group are now the heads of Honghe Tobacco Factory, Qujing Tobacco Factory and Yunnan China Tobacco Group. In China tobacco industry, Chu has an unshakable position.

However, a tip-off letter pulled Chu Shijian off the horse and accused him of corruption and bribery.

1February, 1995, the petition office in CPC Central Commission for Discipline Inspection received a tip-off, which stated the fact that someone in Sanmenxia Tobacco Branch colluded with temporary worker Lin of Luoyang Cement Factory to pay bribes to Chu, director of Yuxi Cigarette Factory in Yunnan. Lin confessed that he bought more than 8,000 cigarettes from Yuxi Cigarette Factory five times and made huge profits. He also confessed that he gave Chu's wife Ma Jingfen, his sister Ma and his younger brother more than 900,000 yuan.

1On October 9th, Chu was sentenced to life imprisonment, which was later commuted to 17.

In 2002, he was released on medical parole for suffering from severe diabetes. In the same year, Chu Shijian began to grow oranges. He chose the place where he was reformed through labor when he was young to build an orchard, which is two hours' drive from Dayingzi Street where he lives. According to him, here? Familiar people? And then what? With the growth of age, my health is getting worse and worse, and I can't run outside. There are too many people in my family, and I never tire of it. Come to the orchard once every half month. It's quiet. ?

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