The towering Tianshan Mountains, the vast Kunlun Mountains.
In the northwest corner of the motherland, on the land of more than 1.66 million square kilometers, the happiness and joy of more than 25 million people of all ethnic groups in the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region are surging.
Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at the core has attached great importance to Xinjiang work, reviewed, planned and deployed Xinjiang work from a strategic and overall perspective, deepened the understanding and grasp of the laws of Xinjiang governance, and formed the party's governance in the new era. Border strategy.
In ten years, we have witnessed great changes.
The cadres and masses of all ethnic groups in Xinjiang are united and striding forward, fully and accurately implementing the party's Xinjiang governance strategy in the new era, and striving to build a new era of socialist Xinjiang with Chinese characteristics that is united, harmonious, prosperous, civilized and progressive, living and working in peace and contentment, and a good ecology.
In the first half of 2022, Xinjiang will achieve a regional GDP of 827.904 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 4.9% at constant prices, 2.4 percentage points higher than the national growth rate.
People of all ethnic groups are getting more and more prosperous
In the midsummer of Turpan, the sun is like fire.
Equally hot, there are the hearts of the villagers in Xincheng Ximen Village, Xincheng Area, Ya'er Town, Gaochang District, Turpan City.
On July 14, 2022, General Secretary Xi Jinping came here to inspect the party-mass service center and agricultural product processing enterprises successively.
General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out that in building a modern socialist country in an all-round way, no nation can be missing.
It is necessary to consolidate and expand the achievements of poverty alleviation, solidly promote rural revitalization, and promote the realization of more prosperous rural areas, happier lives, and more beautiful rural areas.
General Secretary Xi Jinping wished the villagers' days would be more prosperous and the children would thrive.
"A bunch of grapes is sweeter than a bunch of grapes, and the days are getting better every day." Chen Jiacun, Secretary of the Party Working Committee of Xincheng District, Gaochang District, Turpan City, is full of confidence, "Next, we must promote the integrated development of primary, secondary and tertiary industries, and improve rural sustainable Continue to develop a long-term mechanism to drive more people to increase their income and become rich.”
Not only Turpan, but the lives of more than 25 million people of all ethnic groups in Xinjiang have become more and more prosperous.
Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, Xinjiang has always adhered to the people-centered approach, insisted on implementing development to improve people's livelihood, implement it to benefit the local area, and implement it to enhance unity, and continued to promote employment, education, medical care, social security and other projects that benefit the people. Solve the worries, worries, and worries of the people of all ethnic groups.
Winning the battle against poverty is a crucial step.
Xinjiang used to be one of the main battlegrounds for poverty alleviation in the country.
The four prefectures in southern Xinjiang—Hotian, Kashgar, Aksu and Kizilsu Kirgiz Autonomous Prefecture—have even more arduous tasks of poverty alleviation.
After arduous efforts, at the end of 2020, Xinjiang successfully conquered the fortress of deep poverty and won the battle of targeted poverty alleviation. All 3.0649 million rural poor people were lifted out of poverty, all 3,666 impoverished villages were withdrawn, and all 35 impoverished counties were removed from their hats, and the problem of absolute poverty was historically resolved. .
Continue to work after getting out of poverty.
By formulating and improving the development of industries, stabilizing jobs and employment, and comprehensively guaranteeing the bottom line of targeted assistance measures, Xinjiang has ensured that the lives of people who have been lifted out of poverty will be improved to a higher level.
In 2021, the per capita disposable income of rural residents in poverty alleviation areas in the region will reach 14,800 yuan, an increase of 12.08%.
People's livelihood is the first, love is full of Tianshan.
Xinjiang has made great efforts to do practical things that benefit the people's livelihood.
By the end of 2021, the gross enrollment rate of pre-school education, the consolidation rate of nine-year compulsory education, and the gross enrollment rate of senior high school will reach 98.19%, 95.69%, and 98.87%, respectively; it is the first in the country to pilot rural household registration personnel in the local public hospital. "Pay" one-stop settlement; the improvement of the rural living environment has been comprehensively promoted, and the greening and beautification of 1,000 villages has been completed... The sense of gain, happiness and security of people of all ethnic groups in Xinjiang has been continuously enhanced.
Hold together like pomegranate seeds
In July this year, General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized during his inspection and investigation in Xinjiang that it is necessary to forge a strong sense of community of the Chinese nation and promote exchanges and integration of various ethnic groups.
In recent years, Xinjiang has fully implemented the party's ethnic policy, adhered to the main line of forging a sense of community of the Chinese nation, and continuously consolidated the great unity of all ethnic groups.
"After the cadres and workers of the Zhaosu County Taxation Bureau became 'relatives' with us, as soon as they arrived in the village, they helped us clean up the sheepfold, repair the canals, and took the initiative to help us solve our living difficulties." Senta, Kachagar Town, Zhaosu County Said Baibaheti Saudbaali Khan, a villager in Si Village.
Xinjiang has continued to carry out "ethnic unity as one family" and ethnic unity and friendship activities. More than 1.2 million cadres and workers have paired up with more than 1.6 million households of all ethnic groups to recognize their relatives, and have done more than 24 million deeds and good deeds.
In-depth implementation of the village work of "visiting people's sentiments, benefiting people's livelihood, and gathering people's hearts", more than 70,000 cadres are sent to grass-roots rural communities every year to listen to the opinions of the masses, implement policies to benefit the people, build strong grass-roots organizations, and promote ethnic unity.
All parts of Xinjiang have carried out in-depth activities to create national unity and progress, and have worked hard to deepen the connotation, enrich the forms, and innovate methods.
Altay City actively organizes activities such as national unity knowledge network answering and other activities, and also organizes publicity teams to go deep into the fields and into thousands of households to carry out "micro publicity" of national unity.
Jimsar County of Changji Hui Autonomous Prefecture organized a series of activities such as "mutual learning of folk customs", making dumplings, making pilaf, making zongzi, and visiting each other during festivals, so that people of all ethnic groups can enhance ethnic unity in a variety of activities.
General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized at the third Central Xinjiang Work Symposium that it is necessary to do a good job in the ideological field and carry out in-depth cultural enrichment projects.
Following the direction guided by the general secretary, Xinjiang has effectively and effectively done the work of building a sense of community of the Chinese nation, comprehensively and deeply promoted the cultural enrichment project, and built a shared spiritual home for the Chinese nation.
——Efforts will be made to promote the popularization of Chinese excellent traditional culture.
"Writing Ceremony" and "Entry Ceremony"... Every year, students of Yangming Primary School in Kuqa City participate in various entrance ceremonies.
In 2020, the Xinjiang Aid Headquarters of Ningbo City, Zhejiang Province will build a high-standard full-chain Chinese excellent traditional cultural education enclave project in the basic education stage, promote the organic integration of educational aid to Xinjiang and cultural enrichment, and integrate classic reading and Chinese studies into the library. Every school in Auto City.
Today, the excellent traditional Chinese culture has not only entered the campus, but also entered the communities and villages of Xinjiang, and is flourishing in the north and south of the Tianshan Mountains.
——Efforts will be made to create a group of people-centered literary and artistic works.
A large number of excellent works such as the movie "Why Are Flowers So Red", the documentary "The Historical Imprint of China's Xinjiang", the dance drama "Zhang Qian", the drama "Golden Populus euphratica", and the symphony concert "Tianshan Children's Heart to the Party" emerged one after another. While the spiritual life of the people of all ethnic groups, the ideological foundation of the community of the Chinese nation has been continuously consolidated.
——Efforts should be made to strengthen the research and application of cultural relics protection.
In recent years, on the one hand, Xinjiang has organized research findings on cultural relics and archaeology in easy-to-understand language, and on the other hand, it has developed tourism on the premise of protecting historical and cultural heritage, making tourism a process for people to perceive Chinese culture and enhance cultural self-confidence.
"Next, we will fully excavate and effectively use the historical facts, archaeological objects, and cultural relics of the exchanges between various ethnic groups in Xinjiang, and make it clear that Xinjiang has been an inseparable part of my country and a multi-ethnic area since ancient times, and all ethnic groups in Xinjiang are the big family of the Chinese nation. Important members who are connected by blood and share a common destiny." said Yu Zhiyong, director of the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region Museum.
High-quality development is sonorous
In July this year, General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized during his inspection and investigation in Xinjiang that it is necessary to deeply understand the close connection between development and stability, development and people's livelihood, and development and people's hearts, so as to promote development achievements to benefit people's livelihood and unite people's hearts.
Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, Xinjiang has unswervingly practiced the people-centered development philosophy, insisted on promoting high-quality development closely related to people's livelihood, and achieved unprecedented achievements in economic and social development and improvement of people's livelihood.
The whistle sounded, and the China-Europe trains ran day and night.
In recent years, Xinjiang has accelerated the construction of the core area of the Silk Road Economic Belt, creating a highland for inland opening and border opening.
There are 57 fixed routes of China-Europe (Central Asia) trains passing through the two major ports of Horgos and Alashankou, with a total of more than 50,000 inbound and outbound trains.
According to data released by Urumqi Customs, in the first half of this year, the total value of foreign trade import and export in Xinjiang was 91.51 billion yuan, the highest point of foreign trade data in the same period in the past 10 years, an increase of 39.1% compared with the same period of the previous year, 29.7 percentage points higher than the national growth rate .
A towering wind turbine stands in the vast Gobi.
In March this year, the first multi-functional clean energy base in Xinjiang that integrates "wind energy, photovoltaics, thermal power and energy storage" - Huadian Urumqi 1 million kilowatt wind and solar base project started construction.
In recent years, Xinjiang has formed a strategic emerging industry system based on new materials, new energy, high-end equipment manufacturing, energy conservation and environmental protection, biology and biomedicine, and new-generation information technology through continuous extension of the industrial chain.
The jujube from Qiemo, the melon from Jiashi, the pomegranate from Cele... The characteristic forest and fruit industry has become an important pillar industry to increase the income of local farmers.
In order to sell these characteristic agricultural products well, Xinjiang continues to promote the construction of "two networks". The purchase network in the autonomous region covers the forest and fruit production areas in an all-round way, the storage, processing, transaction and distribution capacity reaches 5 million tons, and there are 5,370 sales outlets outside the autonomous region.
Kanas Lake is full of tourists, and the popularity of Cocoto Sea is booming.
In May of this year, Xinjiang's 5A-level tourist attractions received an average of 19,000 tourists per day, and in June it climbed to an average of 57,300 tourists per day. Since July, the average daily number of tourists has exceeded 110,000... Since the beginning of this year, Xinjiang tourism has continued to heat up.
Xinjiang has deeply implemented the strategy of revitalizing Xinjiang through tourism, and has continued to release stable dividends, policy dividends, and resource dividends, making tourism increasingly an important engine for Xinjiang's high-quality development.
The land of more than 1.66 million square kilometers has witnessed the pace of high-quality development and painted a new picture of thriving development.
(Our reporter Yang Mingfang Ardak)