Xihaigu overcame poverty
Our reporter Tuo Zhaobing Xu Ling
More than a month ago, as the last poverty-stricken county, Xiji County, officially withdrew from the poverty-stricken counties sequence, Ningxia finally surpassed the poverty-stricken mountain that had been crushed for thousands of years.
"Under the guidance of the new development concept, in recent years, we have innovated poverty alleviation methods, gathered all forces, and launched a general attack on poverty." Zhang Zhu, member of the Standing Committee of the Party Committee of Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region and Secretary of the Guyuan Municipal Party Committee, told reporters.
Industry is the cornerstone of poverty alleviation, but Xihaigu has also gone through a detour in developing poverty alleviation industries.
"Potato was once the largest poverty alleviation industry in Xihaigu, known as the'Golden Eggs'. However, the potato market is becoming increasingly saturated and prices are also unstable." Wang Xuejun, member of the Standing Committee of the Guyuan Municipal Party Committee and Secretary of the Xiji County Party Committee, introduced. In recent years, Guyuan The city’s main line of supply-side structural reforms is to adjust the development of poverty alleviation industries. The counties and districts focus on market demand and poverty alleviation efficiency, vigorously optimize the industrial structure, reduce the planting area of potatoes, wheat and other crops, and expand grass livestock, cold vegetables, small The scale of industries with good economic benefits such as miscellaneous grains.
Driven by the planting industry, breeding industry, and labor service industry, Xihaigu got out of poverty and drove into the fast lane, realizing a historical change from relying on the sky for food, wide-ranging crops and thin harvests to industrialization and large-scale development.
At present, the annual per capita disposable income of rural residents in Guyuan City has reached 10,700 yuan, 115 times that of 93 yuan in 1983 and 2.27 times that of 4,691 yuan in 2012.
With the increasing scale of resettlement, the Guyuan Municipal Party Committee and Municipal Government proposed to implement the "Four Ones" project in 2017, that is, to develop the four major planting industries of planting one tree, one grass, one seedling, and one flower. Closely integrate ecological construction with poverty alleviation, planting industries, planting landscapes, planting wealth, achieving a win-win situation between green mountains and people's wealth, making ecological construction a bright business card for Guyuan.
"In order to support the development of poverty alleviation industries, we have also conducted a lot of innovative exploration." Chen Yuqing, director of the Guyuan Poverty Alleviation Office, introduced, such as "diverting water from the Jing River to the south and the Yellow River from the north", which completely broke the bottleneck of the production and living water in Guyuan; The "Four Ones" financial poverty alleviation mechanism, through the "one platform, one model, one association, one system" and "finance + finance + industry" financial poverty alleviation model, to solve the difficulties of mass loans, guarantees, and high risks; innovative implementation of the "two The "One Leader" project selects and cultivates leaders of party organizations, cultivates and strengthens leaders of general wealth, and organically integrates the power of the party, the masses, and the market to drive the masses out of poverty and become rich...
Over the past 20 years, Minning’s counterpart assistance has created successful experience for the poverty alleviation cooperation between the east and the west of our country, and Xihaigu’s poverty alleviation cannot be ignored.
The cadres and masses in Yuanzhou District will not forget that it was Fujian businessman Lin Shuiying who led them to use advanced planting techniques to sell cold vegetables here to the southeast coastal cities; cadres and masses in Jingyuan County remember that it was Fujian businessman Huang Shuihai who took him in Xiamen. Outdoor textile products companies moved to Perfume Town at the foot of Liupan Mountain; women workers in poverty alleviation workshops in Longde County thanked Fujian businessman Pan Wenxian for exporting their artificial flowers to Europe, America and Southeast Asia...
Over the past 24 years, Fujian has assisted Guyuan City with a total of 1.294 billion yuan of various funds, supported the establishment of Xiji and Longde Minning Industrial Parks, supported the construction of 126 village-level Minning poverty alleviation workshops, aided the construction of 158 Minning demonstration villages, primary and secondary schools With 118 kindergartens, 11 batches of 114 cadres and 20 batches of 489 teachers and doctors have been sent to support the construction of Guyuan...Chen Yuqing said with emotion: “Over the years, the Minning Cooperation has brought capital, technology, market and advanced concepts to the economy of poor areas. Social development has injected a steady stream of power."
Our reporter Tuo Zhaobing Xu Ling