In February, the rubber forest in Xishuangbanna Dai Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan Province was in the process of cutting, but Zhang Min, a member of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, was still busy surrounding the rubber.

As a native of Xishuangbanna, Zhang Min has been dealing with rubber for quite some time. Xishuangbanna is one of the most important rubber planting areas in China, and its natural rubber planting area and output rank first in the country. However, in the past 10 years, the price of natural rubber market has continued to decline, and the development of the local rubber industry has been setback. Zhang Min has been exploring solutions.

Traveling into the rubber plantation and factories, Zhang Min had a face-to-face exchange with new and old rubber farmers and entrepreneurs. Having seen the difficulty of rubber farmers and understanding the changes in the market, after extensive soliciting opinions, she proposed to build a composite agricultural and forestry ecosystem mainly based on rubber trees to improve the economic output function and ecological service function of rubber plantations. "This year I am planning to further refine the suggestions, promote the development of the national natural rubber industry, and promote the sustained and stable increase in income of rubber farmers." Zhang Min said.

As a Brown teacher at the Xishuangbanna Vocational and Technical College in Yunnan, Zhang Min witnessed the great changes in the frontier, and her eyes are always inseparable from the development of the frontier.

"We must transform the expectations of the people in the frontier for development into valuable suggestions and proposals." Zhang Min said, "Take a few more steps and ask a few more questions." From the development of border education to the protection of Asian elephants, many of Zhang Min's suggestions come from around him.

"The difficulty is never to investigate and write proposals, but to implement them." Zhang Min said that the problem comes from the grassroots, and it is also necessary to bring the solution to the problem back to the grassroots. After she put forward her suggestions on the natural rubber industry last year, relevant departments connected with her, which gave Zhang Min more motivation to perform her duties.

Zhang Min’s biggest feeling is to take the masses as his teacher: "Based at the grassroots level, we must not only hear the people’s voices and wishes, but also convey the people’s sentiments and opinions."

■Reporter’s Notes

"The most fulfilling thing is to satisfy the expectations of the masses"

How to draw suggestions and speak to better participate in politics and policy-making? At first, Zhang Min was also anxious, but extensive research and learning gave Zhang Min confidence. "What is the most concerned issue for the people in the frontier?" "Do you need to investigate more people?" "Is this kind of suggestion feasible?" She said: "The most fulfilling thing is to satisfy the expectations of the people."