Yingpan Village of Daju Town in Yulong County, Lijiang

Yiping Village is located in Peiliang Village Committee (培良村委会), Daju Township (大具乡), Yulong Naxi Autonomous County (玉龙纳西族自治县), Lijiang City (丽江市), Yunnan Province. It is a typical mountainous village. The village has a total arable land area of 1,447.00 acres, including 920.00 acres of paddy fields and 527.00 acres of dry land. The per capita arable land is 1.58 acres, mainly used for growing food crops and corn seed breeding. In addition to these, the village also has 42.00 acres of water surface, 900.00 acres of grassland, and 780.00 acres of wasteland.

The main industry of Yiping Village is corn seed breeding, which is mainly sold within the province. In 2007, the total sales income of the main industry in the village reached 956,000 yuan. In recent years, Daju Township has developed the corn seed breeding industry through the “company + base + farmer” model. Corn seed breeding has become the largest grain crop order agriculture in the township.

In 2007, the total rural economic income of Yiping Village was 1,526,000 yuan, of which 956,000 yuan came from planting, 120,000 yuan from animal husbandry, 450,000 yuan from the secondary and tertiary industries, and 85,000 yuan from wages. The per capita net income of farmers was 2,530.00 yuan, with income mainly coming from agriculture and services.

Yiping Village is about 3 kilometers away from the township government of Daju and about 40 kilometers away from the county town of Yulong. It is conveniently accessible by transportation. You can start from the county town of Yulong, travel along the main road to Daju Township, and then to Yiping Village.

Yulong County, where Yiping Village is located, is rich in natural landscapes and cultural relics. Although Yiping Village itself is not a famous tourist attraction, there are many places worth visiting in the surrounding areas, such as Shigu Town and Liming Township.

Yiping Village has 76 households and a total population of 210 people, including 184 Han people, 14 Yugur people, and 2 Tibetan people. There are 134 labor forces in the village. Primary school students in the village attend Shigu Primary School, and middle school students attend the Fourth Middle School.

By the end of 2008, Yiping Village had signed 24 agricultural contract agreements, with a total contracted area of 156.00 acres. The village had established a “one matter one discussion” system for rural public welfare construction. The total collective income at the end of the year was 0.00 yuan, and there were fixed assets worth 93,600 yuan. Rural financial management was implemented independently, with regular village affairs disclosure and a democratic financial management group established.

The main difficulties and problems currently faced by Yiping Village include poor living environment, crowded homesteads; weak infrastructure for public welfare, insufficient water sources for human and livestock drinking, severely aging drinking water network, which urgently needs to be renovated; the rural power grid has not been transformed, and the safety of electricity use is difficult to guarantee; rural roads are accessible in fine weather but blocked in rainy weather; the hardening degree of village roads is low and needs to be improved; drainage ditches, garbage bins, public toilets, cultural and entertainment places in the village urgently need to be built, the appearance of the village is poor and needs to be rectified, and the overall quality of the masses needs to be further improved.

Yiping Village, with its unique geographical location, rich natural resources, and profound agricultural cultural background, has certain development potential. In the future, Yiping Village can combine the rural revitalization policy to further improve infrastructure, optimize the industrial structure, develop characteristic agriculture and rural tourism, and improve the living standards of villagers.