(Interview between the two sessions) Ye Jianming, member of the CPPCC National Committee in Hong Kong
China News Service, Hong Kong, February 26. Title: Ye Jianming, member of the CPPCC National Committee of the Hong Kong District: Setting a monument for the "Chinese backbone" on the road to poverty alleviation
China News Agency reporter Suo Youwei
"In 2020, China will eliminate absolute poverty and regional overall poverty as scheduled. This significance cannot be overemphasized. Because this is an unprecedented miracle in China's 5000-year history and a miracle in the history of poverty alleviation in the world." , Ye Jianming, director of the China Economic and Social Council, said in an exclusive interview with a reporter from China News Agency on the eve of the national "two sessions".
Ye Jianming, whose ancestral home is Quanzhou, Fujian, grew up curled up under the burden of his grandmother selling goods. Poverty is the deepest background of his childhood.
He dropped out of school at the age of 13, earning money to support his family by raising ducks, feeding pigs, and selling popsicles.
Because of this, Ye Jianming, who started from scratch and worked hard in Hong Kong for 36 years and turned from a "wage earner" to an industrialist, has a strong empathy for China's miracle of poverty alleviation.
Ye Jianming is also a member of the Chinese army participating in the poverty alleviation century project.
He started the glove processing project in Pingli County, Ankang City, Qinba Mountain, Shaanxi in 2015, and set up a workshop in each town in the form of a “community factory”, which not only facilitates the people in the town to go to work nearby, but also helps the local people from Dashan. The farmers who moved up and down were employed.
“Most of our recruits are women. The company flexibly commutes to get off work according to the children’s school and school hours. It not only arranges local idle labor and enables local poor families to obtain a fixed income, but also solves the family and social problems of caring for the elderly and children.” Ye Jianming said.
Because of his involvement, Ye Jianming paid close attention to news about poverty alleviation in various places.
"I have seen many grassroots poverty alleviation deeds in the media. They have overcome the difficulties that ordinary people can't overcome, and some people have even fallen on the road of poverty alleviation. They are the backbone of China and the heroes of the new era. We must not forget them. , Should build a stele for them.” Ye Jianming revealed that he will propose at the Fourth Session of the 13th CPPCC National Committee to build a monument for China’s great poverty alleviation and establish a digital museum for poverty eradication, which will include pictures, videos, A large number of historical documents such as text are loaded into the digital museum, so that people will always remember the pioneering work of this blue thread, and let this Chinese spirit be passed on from generation to generation.
In 2020, China handed in qualified answers in front of the rigorous exam.
"I have noticed that some data is very interesting." Ye Jianming cited as an example. In 2020, China surpassed the United States to become the EU's largest trading partner; China surpassed the United States to become the world's largest foreign inflow country with US$163 billion.
China has become the only major economy in the world with positive economic growth.
"This shows that external pressure cannot overwhelm us. As long as we do our own internal affairs, we can always get various opportunities for development."
Ye Jianming has beautiful visions and expectations for 2021: "Every new policy and development progress in the country is an opportunity for Hong Kong. In December last year, the value of Hong Kong’s exports rose 11.7% year-on-year to 392.2 billion Hong Kong dollars, which is the year of October 2018. The key factor for the biggest increase since the month is the country’s economic recovery."
Ye Jianming said that for Hong Kong, the restoration of normal customs clearance is the most important step for the recovery of the economy, especially the restoration of service industries such as tourism and retail.
Once the epidemic in Hong Kong is under control, the export-oriented economy should resume growth relatively quickly.
Hong Kong's economy is resilient. What's more important is that Hong Kong's economy and the country are getting closer and closer. With the help of the country's recovery momentum, Hong Kong's economic turnaround this year is foreseeable.
2021 is the first year of China's 14th Five-Year Plan.
Ye Jianming is very concerned about the in-depth development of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area proposed in the "14th Five-Year Plan".
"The Bay Area economy is an advanced form of regional economic development. We must accelerate pragmatic progress." Due to an epidemic, obstacles to customs clearance between the two places have affected people, materials, capital, and information. The important "flow of people" is unblocked.
Ye Jianming said that the problems of systems and mechanisms that restrict the integration and development of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area cannot be achieved overnight. Further reform and opening up under the framework of "one country, two systems" are needed to design at the top level, reduce differences in systems and mechanisms, and eliminate barriers to the flow of factors in the region. Institutional innovation in other aspects.
“Now we must first focus on the easy-to-start areas, and pragmatically promote the integration of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, especially how to integrate the two special zones of Hong Kong and Macau. Various fields are also looking for entry points and some practices are advancing, among them Including measures such as employment of Hong Kong youths in the Greater Bay Area, some cities in the Greater Bay Area have already recruited civil servants from Hong Kong youth. I believe such innovations will continue to come." Ye Jianming said.
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