China News Service, Urumqi, March 7 (Reporter Tao Shuanke) At the National Poverty Alleviation Summary and Commendation Conference held recently, Alimu Yimingjiang, the head of the Alimu Breeding Farmers Professional Cooperative in Heshuo County, Xinjiang, was awarded the National Advanced Individual in Poverty Alleviation Honorary title.

In the past few days, the touching story of Alimu Yimingjiang has been chased and discussed by local folks.

  Alimu Yimingjiang was born in Chaganbuhu Village, Haqi Town, Heshuo County, Xinjiang. At the age of 6, he accidentally fell off the wall while playing, causing damage to his waist and spine.

Due to the poverty of the family, the parents borrowed money to seek medical treatment to no avail, and eventually became disabled.

Until now, I can stand and walk slowly with a cloth belt wrapped around my waist every day. The pain is unbearable every day.

"The most unforgettable thing for me at that time was the help of neighbors, relatives and friends to my family, which made me through the most difficult time." Alimu Yimingjiang said.

  He recalled: "When I was 20 years old, I went to Urumqi with my family for the first time. When I was strolling in the market, I accidentally discovered that the ketchup business could be done. After returning home, I analyzed the price difference between the two places with my parents. I decided to start making ketchup. Business. With the help of my parents, I borrowed 20,000 yuan from the bank to sell ketchup from the Ketchup Factory in Heshuo County to Urumqi for sales. Because the distance between Heshuo County and Urumqi is more than 300 kilometers, it takes two or three days for a long journey. Time, it took too much time on the road. Later, I set up a sales point in Urumqi and hired a driver to pull ketchup from Heshuo to Urumqi."

On February 25th, Alimu Yimingjiang saw the picture provided by the interviewees at the National Poverty Alleviation Summary and Commendation Conference at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing 

  With the development of information and businesses directly contacting manufacturers, Alimu·Yimingjiang tomato sauce business is getting more and more difficult.

In 2002, Alimu Yimingjiang ended his ketchup business and took the 2 million yuan he earned back home to develop.

  After returning home, Alimu Yimingjiang invested money in breeding and planting industries, and his business expanded year by year.

At the same time, he tried his best to help the villagers increase their incomes and get rich. Every year, he helped to visit disabled, widowed, and needy families, sent TV sets to nursing homes, and helped more than 30 poor students complete their studies.

"At that time, when I returned to the village, I began to engage in planting and breeding. My business was getting bigger and bigger. I felt that the development of the business was also inseparable from the support of the villagers. Daily necessities: rice, noodles, and oil." Alimu Yimingjiang said.

  "Because I am a disabled person, my company has absorbed more than 10 disabled people. They can also come to see the gate and let them have an income." Alimu Yimingjiang said.

  Yang Minglan, a villager in Chaganbuhu Village, recalled: “Since 2014, Alimu Yimingjiang has come to visit us every year during the New Year and New Years. Every time he brings rice, noodles and oil, he gives us hundreds of dollars in spending when he leaves. Money, every year, our family is also very grateful for his care and visits to us."

  In addition to visiting disadvantaged groups, Alimu Yimingjiang also provides family-style assistance to some villagers in difficult lives.

Villager Midig said: "Our family has many children and life is relatively difficult. Especially in the past few years, Alimu Yimingjiang has helped my family a lot. She sends us chicken fry every year and helps us raise sheep to increase our income. Now my family’s sheep has grown to 150, and I am especially grateful to him for his help."

  In 2016, after the fight against poverty began, Alimu Yimingjiang took the initiative to connect with 10 poor households in the township, donate 10 sheep to each poor household, provide for poor households to develop breeding, and help poor households develop breeding and increase income.

With the help of Alimu Yimingjiang, 10 impoverished households have their own industries and smoothly escaped poverty.

  Today, Alimu Yimingjiang adopts the method of "cooperative + households in difficulties", actively cooperates with village collectives, and adopts the mode of "village collectives + cooperatives + poor households" to support poor animals to help poor households get rid of poverty.

Since 2017, 500 poor households have been distributed 2,500 yuan in dividends per household each year.

The road of assistance has been uninterrupted for 10 years. More than 300 people in need have been assisted, and 600,000 yuan of direct assistance funds.

  Alimu Yimingjiang successively won the "2009 National Model of Self-improvement for the Disabled and National Model of National Unity". He has long adhered to the cause of poverty alleviation and led the villagers out of poverty and became rich. He has been commended as an outstanding farmer broker and a wealthy expert in the autonomous region. 2019 Won the Endeavour Award for Poverty Alleviation in the Autonomous Region

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