Foreign military cadets visited the mountainous area of ​​Chongqing and listened to the Chinese story of poverty alleviation

　　Recently, the Army Service Academy organized foreign military students to visit Zhongling Village, Houping Township, Wulong District, Chongqing——

　　Wulong Mountain, listening to the Chinese story of poverty alleviation

　　Recently, after taking measures to prevent and control the epidemic, the Foreign Training Brigade of the Army Service Academy organized students to visit Zhongling Village, Houping Miao and Tujia Township, Wulong District, Chongqing City. More than 50 foreign military trainees from 30 Asian and African countries have personally experienced China's tremendous achievements in poverty alleviation.

　　Houping Township is about 1,000 meters above sea level, with high mountains, deep ridges and deep ditches, and lagging economic development. It is listed as a deeply impoverished town in Chongqing. Zhongling Village in this township is a poor village assisted by the Army Service Academy.

　　Three years ago, it took seven or eight hours to drive from downtown Chongqing to Zhongling Village. Now with the improvement of road infrastructure, it only takes more than 4 hours to reach it.

　　"Poverty alleviation starts by helping the will. Some poor households feel that they have no hope of getting rid of poverty. This is not possible. They have to change their minds." At the village committee, Hu Shuhong, the first secretary of Zhongling Village in the village, talked about his experience with foreign military students. . In the past three years in the village, he has a good understanding of the situation of every household in Zhongling Village.

　　The story of Huang Jiangping's success in poverty alleviation is a microcosm of the road to poverty alleviation in Zhongling Village. In 2018, Huang Jiangping traveled from Hangzhou to Zhongling Village, the hometown of her lover, from Hangzhou. In the mountains and deep valleys, Huang Jiangping couldn't see hope and wanted to leave. Later, the roads in the village were repaired and the network was established. With the full support of the local government from subsidies, training to sales, and the help of the Army Service Academy, various industries in Zhongling Village, including beekeeping, were flourishing. Huang Jiangping's family The days have also become more prosperous.

　　"It's not bad to make a home here. Now the net income of the family is about the same as the income of our couple who went to work outside..." Huang Jiangping used vivid language to describe the changes that have taken place in his family in the past few years. Everyone's applause sounded again and again.

　　Walking out of the village committee, there was a patter of light rain under the sky and clouds and mist in the mountains. After passing through the high mountain tea planting demonstration base and passing a small bridge named "Red Army Bridge", we arrive at Zhongling Village Bee Pregnancy Garden.

　　Hu Shuhong and Tan Xiaochun, political commissar of the foreign training brigade, explained as they walked, the poor households were lifted out of poverty through industry and told the guests from afar.

　　The beautiful and moving story of poverty alleviation has aroused great interest among foreign military students. They listened and asked, walked and memorized, taking pictures of what they saw and heard with the camera from time to time. "The Communist Party of China serves the people wholeheartedly, and China's targeted poverty alleviation policies are worth learning from!" Major Salman from Sri Lanka gave a heartfelt thumbs up.

　　After visiting the apiary, the students came to Aimin Primary School in Houping Township. "Hello, kids", "Hello, uncles and aunts"... The children happily waved to the uncles and aunts from afar; the students also gifted these cute mountain dolls with the cultural and sports goods they had prepared. Aimin Primary School has more than 200 pupils and is a school supported and built by the Army Service Academy.

　　After walking through the newly-built plastic runway in the playground and entering the classrooms with complete teaching facilities, Ran Qufeng, the principal of Aimin Primary School, took foreign military students to the campus while talking about the school's development and changes. Over the past eight years, the Army Service Academy has helped the school rebuild the playground, repair dormitories, update teaching facilities, and set up teaching assistant funds and send teachers to teach on-site. Major Vakas from Pakistan said: "I deeply feel that the People's Army under the leadership of the Communist Party of China is the strong backing of the Chinese people..."

　　During this trip to Zhongling Village, the foreign military cadets saw and remembered the story of the Chinese people's struggle against poverty while appreciating the Chinese mountain villages and Chinese national culture.

　　"China is an active contributor to the cause of international poverty reduction, and it is also a very good example. African countries can learn from China's poverty alleviation process." After this trip, Lieutenant Ndavana from Gabon wrote in his notebook. Write.