Wang succeeded in persuading 18 households in the village to sign up to be the first batch of strawberry cultivators.

Wang Lina, a graduate of Beijing Union University, is a college graduate "village official" in Ertiao Village, Mafang Town of Pinggu District. She has now become a household name in Mafang. The villagers kindly call her "Strawberry angel".

In 2006, she became one of the first group of the college graduate "village officials" to serve in the rural area.

During the first several days after she began work, Wang collected and read reference materials about rural policies and other relevant information. After becoming familiar with the policy that Beijing encourages farmers to build greenhouses with a subsidy of 5,000 yuan, she suggested to the village Party secretary that greenhouses should be built and an area should be designated to cultivate strawberries. After discussion, the village committee agreed with her suggestion and decided to designate an area to cultivate strawberries.

In order to learn more about strawberry cultivation, Wang went to all the well-known strawberry cultivation bases in Hebei, Henan, Shandong and other provinces within two months, bringing back a large amount of cultivation experiences. The 69 strawberry greenhouses in the village were built as planned. At that time, few villagers showed interest in planting strawberries. Through broadcast in the village, Wang introduced to villagers the cultivating knowledge and analyzed the profits of planting strawberries. Wang succeeded in persuading 18 households in the village to sign up to be the first batch of strawberry cultivators.

Wang is selling newly harvested strawberries to her classmates.

When her work in the village was under full swing, however, she received a job offer from the Bank of China, with whom she previously had an interview with. She hesitated because she was still an intern and was able to leave if she wanted.

Two roasted corns however, made her change her mind. Wang went to the broadcasting station at 5:00 or 6:00 am every morning. She remembered one morning that an auntie came to her with two roasted corns and said, "Girl, it is not good if you do not have breakfast. Here is some corn grown by my family, and roasted for you before the sun rose. They are burnt, but strike them against the wall, they will be fine, eat them now!"

Wang said she was touched by that, and she felt determined to achieve something in the village.

Every week, Wang spent four hours on the bus to get to Beijing Forestry and Fruit Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences at the Fragrant Hills Park from the village, to learn cultivating knowledge. She recorded the cultivating technologies taught by the experts on camera and played the video for the villagers when she came back.

(Source: CCTV.com)