China News Service, Hangzhou, August 11 (Reporter Cao Luhao) In April 2018, Zhang Weidong, deputy chairman of the Zhejiang Jinhua Municipal Committee of the Democratic League and chairman of the Pujiang branch of the Democratic League, was selected by the organization to span more than 2,000 kilometers from Pujiang County, Jinhua, Zhejiang. In the Jinkouhe District of Leshan, Sichuan, he was appointed as the deputy head of the People's Government of Jinkouhe District, Leshan City, Sichuan Province to carry out poverty alleviation work in the east and west and help Jinkouhe District win the battle against poverty.

  Jinkouhe District is located in the hinterland of Xiaoliang Mountain, on the Dadu River, 120 kilometers away from the downtown area of ​​Leshan City. It is a "special zone" set up during the construction of the "Big Third Line". It is a deeply impoverished county in Sichuan Province and enjoys ethnic minority regional policies. There are ravines in the region, with an area of ​​598 square kilometers, 99% of the mountain area, 5 towns and 26 administrative villages, with a total population of 51,000, of which the Yi population accounts for 15%.

Panoramic view of Jinkouhe city. Photo courtesy of respondents

Although it is difficult for Shu Road to courageously establish poverty alleviation cooperation "Foolish Public Aspirations"

  In order to understand the actual situation of Jinkou River in detail, Zhang Weidong traveled all the towns in the region in the shortest time, visited key poverty-stricken villages, poor households and some non-poor households, and got an in-depth understanding of the main points of the east-west cooperation in poverty alleviation and poverty alleviation. work tasks. "Sichuan and Zhejiang have different historical and cultural backgrounds. Zhejiang experience cannot directly take root in Jinkouhe District." Zhang Weidong said.

  After learning about the actual situation in Jinkouhe District, on May 21, 2018, Zhang Weidong matched Ma Shan, Dean of the Fourth Branch of the China Academy of Art Landscape Architecture Design Institute, and Ma Shan and his party went to Jinkouhe District to carry out public welfare tourism and Beautiful country design.

  "Thank the people of Zhejiang for making our country a big change." A villager said that the redesigned village has not only become neater, but also looks better.

  The inconvenient transportation in Jinkouhe District also adds a lot of difficulty to poverty alleviation.

  According to Zhang Weidong, Jinkouhe District has not yet opened highways and high-speed railways. Going to meetings outside often encounter traffic jams due to traffic accidents and road collapses. In the longest traffic jam, it took 10 hours to drive a distance of 120 kilometers. In the flood season, rolling rocks on the mountain fly down and mudslides occur from time to time.

  One early morning in August 2019, Zhang Weidong learned that there was a flash flood in the Bison Creek in Jinhe Town, and the situation was extremely dangerous. It was not time for Zhang Weidong to take the shift, but thinking of the safety of the people in the mountains, Zhang Weidong immediately got up and rushed to the scene first. The river soared and some houses along the river were submerged... Zhang Weidong immediately directed the people to evacuate. After fighting for more than three hours, more than 400 people were safely transferred. The rare mountain torrent did not cause a single death.

Zhang Weidong went to the industrial base to investigate the poverty alleviation cooperation project between the east and the west. Photo courtesy of respondents

Instruct him to fish to create a "new model" for poverty alleviation by tourism

  Layers of unnamed high mountains, huge valleys cut vertically from the mountains, and the extremely fast-moving Dadu River rushes into it. And among these high mountains and valleys, there is also an ancestor who has lived on the cliffs for generations. All the supplies have to be carried in a back basket. "Monkeys are more common and people are rare." The local famous "cliff village"-Shengli Village, Yonghe Town. "How can the villagers here get rid of poverty and become rich?" This question has been haunting Zhang Weidong's heart for a long time and cannot be forgotten.

  In recent years, Jinkouhe District has successively moved 72 households of villagers scattered in "clouds" down the mountain for centralized resettlement. In order to allow the villagers to "take roots firmly", Zhang Weidong discussed with other officials and decided to follow the development concept of "green water and green mountains are golden mountains and silver mountains", relying on the natural advantages of the ecological environment and the cultural advantages of the Yi people's customs to help the locals build tourism for poverty alleviation "New model".

  Zhang Weidong bridged the Jinhua Pujiang River and incorporated Shengli Village into the poverty alleviation project between Pujiang County and Jinkouhe District. Combining the unique advantages of Shengli Village in the Jinkou Grand Canyon scenic spot of Dadu River and adjacent to the Chengdu-Kunming Railway, the new "Chengkun Railway" was built. Build a monument” and the only “Railroad Soldier Museum” in the country; harden Dingmugou hiking and mountaineering experience trails; build sightseeing pavilions to further improve tourism infrastructure.

  Today, Shengli Village has become a beautiful and exquisite tourist village in western Sichuan and a popular scenic spot for canyon tourism.

  In May 2018, relying on the Zhejiang Province Labor Union Recuperation Policy, Jinhua City and Pujiang County took Jinkouhe District as the cadre and employee labor union recuperation destination, combining recuperation work with counterpart assistance, and hosted Jinhua City and Pujiang County There are more than 100 batches of recuperation cadres and more than 4,000 people, and tourism income is more than 10 million yuan. This project of benefiting people ranks first in Sichuan Province. "Poverty alleviation through tourism has promoted the increase of local people's income and created a poverty alleviation base that cannot be taken away." Zhang Weidong said.

Zhang Weidong walked into the village to learn about the situation at the grassroots level. Photo courtesy of respondents

"Multiple highlights" for poverty alleviation cooperation

  Can use all forces, invincible in the world. Over the past few years, the three-level party committees and governments of Zhejiang Province, cities, and counties have shared responsibility and mission with Jinkouhe District. With the help of the “East Wind” of the East-West Poverty Alleviation Cooperation, two-way interaction and multi-dimensional communication have been completed. The counterpart assistance fund invested 130 million yuan to implement 37 poverty alleviation projects in the eastern and western regions; completed the construction of 4 tourism poverty alleviation demonstration villages "Huaxi Shuguang" and "Gorge First Village", and jointly built authentic Chinese medicinal materials, alpine edible fungi, and giant salamander breeding Developed 10 village-level e-commerce service sites, achieved a characteristic industry output value of 180 million yuan, and drove more than 2,000 farmers to continuously increase their income; introduced 5 Zhejiang merchants registered enterprises in the gold, with a cumulative investment of more than 50 million yuan. Use online and offline sales platforms to vigorously carry out consumption poverty alleviation and help Jinkouhe sell more than 30 million yuan of agricultural and sideline products.

  In addition, the Party Committee and Government of Jinhua Jindong District has also actively participated in helping Jinkouhe District with high-quality poverty alleviation, helping the development of Jinkouhe District in all aspects. Jinhua Charity Federation, Red Cross, Federation of Industry and Commerce and other groups and social organizations gave charcoal and generous donations, with a cumulative donation of more than 19 million yuan, injecting love for Jinkouhe to fight poverty.

  On Zhang Weidong’s poverty alleviation road, “Party Building Leads East-West Poverty Alleviation Cooperation”, “Jingkouhe District has successfully established Sichuan Province’s key counties of traditional Chinese medicinal materials”, “Cloud Classroom Education”, “Opening the Green Channel of Life”, “Five-in-One New Consumption Poverty Alleviation” Models and other typical cases were selected as typical cases in Zhejiang and Sichuan and promoted throughout the province.

  2020 is the final year of cooperation in poverty alleviation between the east and the west, winning the fight against poverty, and entering a well-off society in an all-round way.

  "Two no worries, three guarantees" has always been an important basic work of the eastern and western poverty alleviation cooperation. For more than two years, Zhang Weidong has coordinated various forces and led a number of party and government cadres and professional and technical personnel in Pujiang County to Jinkouhe to help local people solve the livelihood projects and projects that many people urgently need, laying the foundation for a decisive battle and victory over a well-off society.

  "Xiongguan Mandao is really like iron, and now it's stepping forward from the beginning." "It is the solemn promise of thousands of poverty alleviation cadres to let the poor in Jinkouhe district join the people of the whole country to enter a well-off society in an all-round way." Zhang Weidong said. (Finish)