New Farmer Style | Zhang Shuxiang: Rural "Edison" obsessed with agricultural machinery
Reporter Song Yawen "The self-propelled air-suction type red date picker we developed can pick more than 10 tons of red dates a day, and it has also solved technical problems such as the unclean separation of red dates from branches, branches and leaves, and is favored by jujube farmers." September 19 , Zhang Shuxiang, general manager of Changji Hui Autonomous Prefecture Manas County Xianghe Agricultural Machinery Co., Ltd., introduced to customers on the phone. When it comes to the agricultural machinery he invented, he has a lot to say. Zhang Shuxiang, 50 years old this year, was born in a rural area and has developed more than 60 invention patents by himself. He has become an uncompromising "grass-roots inventor" and is known as the "Edison" in the countryside. He is well-known in the field of innovative agricultural machinery. On September 23, Zhang Shuxiang (first from the left) was debugging the machine. It is hard to imagine that Zhang Shuxiang has only a junior high school education. The reason why he is obsessed with agricultural machinery is inseparable from Zhang Shuxiang's early experience. Having been farming with his parents since childhood, he was deeply impressed by the fatigue and inefficiency of manual farming. "Farming is too tiring and hard work. My dream is to invent tools to improve production efficiency and make farming easier." With such a dream, Zhang Shuxiang came to Malta from his hometown in Gansu in 1989 after graduating from junior high school. After searching for a dream in Nas County, he came to an ironware processing and repair shop as an apprentice, and learned techniques from the master, from clumsy to practice makes perfect. Soon, Zhang Shuxiang grew from an apprentice to a technical backbone of mechanical maintenance, and opened his own agricultural machinery repair shop. By chance, Zhang Shuxiang discovered that several local wood processing factories had a lot of discarded scraps, so he tried to make processing equipment himself, and used these scraps to produce rolling pins, spatula handles, etc., but he did not expect to rely on these products. , Zhang Shuxiang earned his first pot of gold. This success greatly inspired Zhang Shuxiang, and at the same time allowed him to identify this difficult and happy entrepreneurial path. Basin racks, tractor buckets, tractor suspension chains, cultivators and fertilizer spreaders, film-laying planters... From small products to large machines, Zhang Shuxiang has always insisted on inventing. But invention is not a simple thing, no one knows how much effort he spent and how many times he failed behind the scenes. Xinjiang has a large agricultural land area, and it takes a lot of manpower to plant seeds every spring. Zhang Shuxiang came up with the idea of developing a planter. "I want to develop a precision film-laying planter, which can realize the operations such as film-laying, drip irrigation, precision seeding, fertilization, and soil covering at one time. For farmers, it is time-saving and labor-saving." , After repeated tests and improvements, Zhang Shuxiang developed the first-generation multi-functional air-suction precision film-laying planter product, but the product was defective and had major problems. The carefully invented product became scrap iron, and Zhang Shuxiang also lost 50 more than ten thousand yuan. In the face of setbacks, Zhang Shuxiang did not get discouraged. Instead, he rose to the challenge and stood up wherever he fell. He specially established a research and development team, and led technicians to serve farmers for free, absorb experience in the fields, and continuously optimize product performance. Finally, the hard work paid off. He led the team to successfully develop the air-suction precision film-laying planter, and has successively obtained more than 20 national patents. In December 2010, Zhang Shuxiang established Manas County Xianghe Agricultural Machinery Co., Ltd. to continue research and development in the field of agricultural machinery. It has been popularized and used, which greatly reduces the labor intensity and improves the production efficiency. Up to now, Zhang Shuxiang has obtained more than 60 national invention patents, and has developed 28 kinds of agricultural machinery products. "Innovation is the foundation of the survival and development of an enterprise. Without innovative products, it is difficult for an enterprise to survive and develop for a long time. Now that agricultural machinery is updated faster and faster, we must continue to learn to master the latest skills. Next, we will It is necessary to increase investment in innovation, and invest 20% of profits in new product research and development every year, so that enterprises can develop faster and with higher quality." Zhang Shuxiang said.