"Ice Flower Boy" and Ludian, his hometown, used to have "Ice Flower" on his head as a normal life. Now the "clear weather and rain resistance" have long since disappeared

  In 2020, we will achieve great historic achievements in building a moderately prosperous society in all respects and a decisive victory in the decisive battle against poverty.

We launched a general attack on the deep poverty fortress and gnawed down the hardest "hard bones".

After 8 years, nearly 100 million rural poor people under current standards have all been lifted out of poverty, and 832 poor counties have all lifted their heads.

  Children represent the hope of mankind, and children are the future of the country and nation.

The study found that compared to the national average, children are more likely to fall into poverty than other groups.

The faces of poor children are always the most distressing, and their stories touch countless people's hearts.

  We selected the faces of impoverished children in some news reports and revisited their lives and growth from their appearance in the public eye to today.

The stories of these children reflect the changes in his hometown, record the journey of poverty alleviation in poverty-stricken villages, and show the great changes that have occurred in the depths of the mountains.

  This winter, "Ice Flower Boy" Wang Fuman no longer has to brave frost and get up early to go to school on foot.

  In September 2020, he and his classmates transferred to the Xinjie Town Center School. The dormitory he now lives in is only a few hundred meters away from the cafeteria and classroom, so he doesn't need to spend a lot of time on mountain roads anymore.

Compared with Zhuanshanbao Village where I live, the altitude here is about 800 meters lower and the climate is more suitable.

  Three years ago, Wang Fuman, a third-grade boy of Zhuanshanbao Primary School in Ludian County, Zhaotong City, Yunnan Province, was affectionately called "Binghua Boy" by netizens because of a frosty photo.

In the photo, Wang Fuman is standing in the classroom with his hair and eyebrows "dyed" white by the wind and frost.

His cheeks were flushed and he was wearing not thick clothes. The classmates behind him looked at his "ice flower shape" and laughed.

  "Children are relatively cute. They made a weird face when they arrived in class, which made their classmates laugh." At that time, the principal of the boy’s school told the Chengdu Commercial Daily-Red Star News reporter that the day was the final exam of the school and the child’s home was left. The school is 4.5 kilometers away, and it usually takes more than an hour to walk to school, driving at a low temperature of -9 degrees Celsius, this has become the appearance of ice and snow in the photo.

  Behind this photo, some netizens encouraged and praised the optimistic and positive life attitude of the "Ice Flower Boy", and it also carried countless people's concerns about the local harsh natural conditions and traffic inconvenience.

  Ludian County was once a poor county with 40 deeply impoverished villages. Zhuanshanbao Village where Wang Fuman is located is one of them.

However, in recent years, earth-shaking changes have taken place in the local areas of education and transportation.

  The heads of the Ludian County Poverty Alleviation Office, the Education Bureau, and the Transportation Bureau all told reporters that the phenomenon of local children walking to school on long distances has basically disappeared because of the two highways crossing the territory, the local highway "aorta" and the road network driven by it. "Capillaries" make Ludian's traffic extend in all directions.

  "Binghua Boy" became a boarder:

  There is no need to rush the mountain road every day, more learning time

  Today, Wang Fuman is already a boarding student in Class 3 of the sixth grade at Xinjie Town Central School. In the past three years, he has grown taller and has become a lot stronger.

  "I have a small goal, which is to get good grades when I graduate from elementary school." He told the Chengdu Commercial Daily-Red Star News reporter that the distance between the dormitory he currently lives in and the cafeteria and classroom is only a few hundred meters. There is no need to spend a lot of time on the mountain roads, and there is no need to go home after school and help with housework as before, and I can spend two or three hours more studying every day.

  Wang Fuman still remembered the scene full of ice and flowers that day.

“It’s not cold when I walk, but I only feel cold when I get to the classroom.” He told reporters that such a scene used to be encountered two or three times a year, and he was far more likely to experience similar encounters in the local area. “Later, Binghua Just dropped."

  Wang Fuman's father, Wang Gangkui, told reporters that the town center school is more than 20 kilometers away from Zhuanshanbao Village. Wang Fuman goes home every Friday and returns to school on Sunday morning.

If the weather is fine, Wang Fuman will walk home with his sister and return to school. It takes more than 3 hours to walk one way.

Wang Gangkui has a van, and when the weather is bad, he will pick up a pair of children. "During this time, the family was busy collecting potatoes, so there was no pick up."

  The Wang family still remember that after "Binghuazhao" screened the Internet, Li Caoliang, director of the Leifeng Police Station of the Wanghua Branch of the Public Security Bureau of Fushun City, Liaoning Province, because I heard that Wang Fuman’s dream was to become a people’s policeman when he grew up, and he gave it back. Binghua Boy" wrote a letter.

  In the letter, Li Caoliang wrote: "Even if the road to school is hard, don't shrink back, because only knowledge can achieve your ideals, and your ideal is to be a policeman. Just like your uncle's dream when he was a child, let this ideal. Become your strength to study hard and work hard."

  That year, it was sent around the same time as Li Caoliang’s letter, and there were also enthusiastic letters from children of the same age from Chengdu, Guangzhou, Wenzhou and other cities. They wished Wang Fuman "extraordinarily happy" as his name was. Invite him to "take a look in the big city" and hope that "you can reply."

  There are too many letters. Most people in Zhuanshanbao Village where Wang Fuman lives have never received a similar letter in their entire lives.

Now, although there are not so many letters, Wang Fuman is still a local "little star", and from time to time there will be visitors who make Wang Gangkui unable to distinguish his identity.

  Wang Fuman told reporters that his dream of "being a policeman" has not changed, and hopes to go to Beijing to go to university in the future.

  Great changes in mountain villages in five years: the incidence of poverty dropped from 40% to 1.27%

  Wang Fuman's family is not a poor household, but Zhuanshanbao Village is a poor village.

There are 274 impoverished households with 1,324 people in the village with registered cards. Half of the staff of the county poverty alleviation office are linked to the poor households in the village, and each person is responsible for connecting 8 households.

There are 40 deeply impoverished villages in Ludian County. Zhuanshanbao Village is a poverty alleviation point linked to the county's poverty alleviation office, and 4 team members are stationed in the village all year round.

  The natural conditions here are harsh. As soon as the winter begins, extreme weather with a roar of cold wind, heavy fog, and visibility of only a few meters occurs from time to time.

In addition, there is a huge temperature difference between day and night, and roads can still be walked during the day, but ice and slippery at night, and traffic at night is stagnant.

  In the eyes of Zhou Chengxing, deputy director of the Ludian County Poverty Alleviation Office, "ice flowers on the top of the head" are really normal.

"Our conditions here are more difficult, but whether it is our Ludian or the neighboring Yiliang and Zhenxiong, in this season, as long as we don't wear an umbrella or a hat, frost will form when we stay outdoors for 20 minutes. Our team members in the village have been outdoors for a long time.

  "According to the county government's arrangement, we have supported Zhuanshanbao Village for more than ten years. We have been doing it before the'Binghua Boys' attracted attention in January 2018." According to Zhou Chengxing, after the targeted poverty alleviation work began, they " First, a rough plan was formulated to help Zhuanshanbao Village get rid of poverty. Later, the focus was to work around the principle of filling what is lacking."

  In 2014, the incidence of poverty in Zhuanshanbao Village was 40%, and nearly half of the people were poor households; Ludian County “takes off their hats” in 2019, and Zhuanshanbao Village also came out. This year, the county’s poverty The incidence rate dropped to 1.27%.

  The industries in Zhuanshanbao Village are mainly traditional planting and breeding industries.

The local area is suitable for growing potatoes, buckwheat, and oats. Because of the altitude of 2,800 meters, it is difficult for the emerging planting industry to stand out.

In addition, the wide grassland in Zhuanshanbao Village is conducive to vigorously developing cattle, sheep and pig breeding.

"We also promote labor skills training and implement labor transfer output." Zhou Chengxing said, the data statistics in the first half of 2020 show that the entire Zhuanshanbao village migrant workers accounted for about 60%.

  As of the first half of 2020, the government's funds to support Zhuanshanbao Village totaled about 76 million yuan, of which 36.7 million yuan was spent on local road improvement and 38 million yuan was spent on housing renovation.

  At present, the hardened road in Zhuanshanbao Village can reach each village group, and the cumulative hardened road is 42 kilometers.

According to data provided by the Ludian County Poverty Alleviation Office, in order to solve the housing problem of the whole village, the government implemented relocation of some households in the village. The cost was 19.434 million yuan.

  In addition, 91 rural dilapidated houses in the village have been renovated, and dozens of houses have been restored and rebuilt in projects such as geological disaster avoidance.

In terms of public service places and per capita environmental improvement, the government has built 1 village-level activity place, 2 villager group activity places, and 1 basketball court. The benefits of medical treatment and drinking water policies have been further implemented and guaranteed.

  Two "traffic arteries" run through the county's "capillaries" for more than 700 kilometers

  On August 3, 2014, a magnitude 6.5 earthquake occurred in Ludian County, killing 617 people.

  After the grief, the rebuilding of the united homeland began quickly.

According to Zhang Zunqiao, deputy director of the Ludian County Transportation Bureau, during the "Twelfth Five-Year Plan" period, Ludian County’s rural hardened roads (project library or database) were about 2,500 kilometers. In 2019, the bureau hired a third-party qualified unit to work in rural areas. Carrying out clearing and arranging, the total mileage of rural hardened roads according to statistics reached 4198 kilometers.

  At present, there is the Yukun Expressway opened in Ludian County, and the Duxiang Expressway (Duyun, Guizhou to Shangri-La, Yunnan) that has been opened to traffic in the upper half passes.

According to Zhang Zunqiao, these two highways are like the two main traffic arteries in Ludian County, running through 10 towns in the county. “The other two towns are also our focus in 2021. The two secondary roads have been designed and are now Actively raise funds."

  The popularity of the "Ice Flower Boy" has aroused the attention of the outside world to local traffic and road difficulties.

Zhang Zunqiao said that, in fact, Ludian County has its own location advantages. “Zhaotong is located in the arc of the Wumeng Mountain area in Sichuan, Yunnan and Chongqing, and has a strategic position as a transportation hub. However, Ludian County and Zhaoyang District (Zhaotong) The seat of the city government) belongs to the same dam, adjacent to five counties, so we can build our outward traffic based on regional traffic."

  However, in Zhang Zunqiao's view, the people who benefit most and need it most are rural roads. "They are the capillaries of the entire road network and the center of our construction."

  Zhang Zunqiao said that from the central to the local governments, a consensus among governments at all levels is that transportation is a necessary and prerequisite for development.

There are 97 administrative villages and more than 1,700 natural villages in Ludian County. At present, more than 50 natural villages must be connected to roads. "The city bureau assigned us a task of 853 kilometers. Now we have completed more than 700 kilometers."

  In addition to building rural roads, one of the main tasks of the Ludian County Transportation Bureau is to improve the transportation infrastructure to ensure the safety of people traveling.

According to Zhang Zunqiao, this part of the work is mainly aimed at the construction of Linya, Linhe, and Linbian highways. "In these areas, we will build protective walls and fences. From 2017 to the present, this upgrading project is 1,504 kilometers."

  "Clearness and rain resistance" used to be a normal life, the villagers relocated for poverty alleviation became "urban people"

  Zhang Zunqiao said that if there is an easy-to-understand sentence to describe the improvement of rural traffic conditions in Ludian County, it is: the phenomenon of "clearing through rain" has basically disappeared.

  "All the rural areas in China used to be in such a situation. The phenomenon of'clear weather and rain resistance' is more prominent. Like our hometown, although there are highways, it is a mud road without hardening. When it rains, it is all mud and mud. It's still thicker, and there will be more dust on sunny days." Zhang Zunqiao said, now that every household in rural areas has cement roads, the situation that it is difficult to move an inch when it rains has completely changed.

  Located in Ludian County, Maojiawan is the second largest cross-county relocation area for poverty alleviation and resettlement in the country. It was opened in 2019.

This is a new city. Nearly 40,000 people in 5 counties and districts of Zhaotong City have since settled down and become "city people".

  According to Zhou Chengxing, deputy director of the Ludian County Poverty Alleviation Office, 101 households and 477 people have been relocated in Shanbao Village. Except for two poor households who have moved from the scattered mountains to the concentrated villages, the other 99 poor households have all moved to Maojia Bay.

  In Zhou Chengxing's view, the "Ice Flower Boy" has aroused the attention of the outside world to the local living conditions, but it cannot be said that the local poverty alleviation work has been influenced and affected by the "flow".

The local poverty alleviation work was started long before the "Binghua Boys" became popular on the Internet. Since then, they have been "promoting related work step by step at specified nodes in accordance with time and plan."

  In order to improve the production and living conditions of the people, the local government has implemented relocation for poverty alleviation in Zhuanshanbao Village in recent years.

With the relocation of the masses and the large number of local migrant workers, the permanent resident population of Zhuanshanbao Village has declined year after year, followed by a sharp drop in the number of students.

With the approval of the higher-level department, starting from September 2020, the 4th, 5th, and 6th grades of Shanbao Primary School will be transferred to the Xinjie Town Central School.

  Cai Hui, deputy director of the Ludian County Education Bureau, said that in the local area, "a mountain bag is connected to a mountain bag." Some villages seem to be close, but they are actually far away.

Limited by these natural conditions, the construction of compulsory education schools can only be arranged as reasonably as possible, and it is impossible to take care of every household.

  Cai Hui said that the "Binghua Boys" are highly concerned, but the local "Binghua Boys" are far more than Wang Fuman.

"Even if there is only one household left in Zhuanshanbao Village, we will not withdraw the primary school in Zhuanshanbao." Cai Hui told the Chengdu Commercial Daily-Red Star News reporter that in Ludian now, students have to travel long distances to go to school. Basically disappeared".

  Chengdu Commercial Daily-Red Star News reporter Liu Mumu Photography Wang Hongqiang Miao Ruizhe from Yunnan