Thankful Words from Self-Employed Drug Rehabilitation Persons regarding the “Sunshine Project” (2)

Zhang Yongsheng: a big hand guided me back to the starting line of life

(Hui nationality, born on Sept. 27, 1971 in Chengguan Town, Xingren County, Zhang started using drugs since February 1998 and was subject to compulsory treatment for three times because of drug abuse, and sentenced twice because of trading drugs. Since when he was released again in March 2006, he has never relapsed so far. With the help from community cadres, he has now started the fishing tackle business, has more than 300,000 yuan of fixed assets, and average monthly income of 6,000 yuan.)

Thankful words

The drug pushed me from the ground into the abyss; but a big hand pulled me back to the starting line of life. I want spend my entire lifetime with industrious hands to give thanks to the hand that guided me to the road of return.

Ming Zhonghua: Persistence is the most difficult for successful drug treatment

(Han nationality, born on Nov. 7, 1976 in Wanglong Town, Chishui City, Ming Zhonghua was ordered to receive compulsory treatment due to drug abuse in March 2009. Under the help of the Municipal Narcotics Control Committee and the anti-drug cadre of the community, he was stimulated with a hard-working and unremitting spirit of entrepreneurship, contract 2,500 mu of barren hills in Honghua Village, Wanglong Town for afforestation with the help from the town government, family, and friends, and built three kilometers of road that leads to the forest through his own effort. Today, the barren hill has become a forest, and produces more than 50,000 trunks of bamboo, achieving an annual profit of more than 200,000 yuan. Ming Zhonghua once again invested 250,000 yuan to rent four mu of land in Xinchun Village in Wanglong Town to construct steel shed to plant dendrobium seedlings. Today, a total of 150,000 seedlings have been produced, earning a profit of 100,000 yuan. This year, Ming Zhonghua established a plant in the town with an investment of 180,000 yuan to process and slice bamboo raw materials. The plant has also started production now.)

Ming Zhonghua not only received profits and tasted the sweetness in starting his own business, but also encouraged many fellow villagers to start planting dendrobium and bamboo. Ming Zhonghua gives instructions and demonstrations for the villagers on the hill when they encounter technical difficulties, which constantly raised their technical level, and gave an impetus to the economic development of Wanglong Town. So far, the hill forest, dendrobium greenhouses, and bamboo raw materials processing plant Ming Zhonghua established has helped 60 people in Wanglong Town solve the employment problem.