Chinanews.com, Beijing, August 12 (Liu Liang) "If you want to be rich, build roads first", "roads are easy, all industries are prosperous", "poverty alleviate difficulties, traffic first." These familiar sayings all show the important role of transportation in poverty alleviation. In recent years, the transportation construction in rural areas of our country has undergone earth-shaking changes, and these changes are inseparable from the struggle and dedication of traffic people.
On the 12th, the State Council Information Office held a meeting with Chinese and foreign reporters in Beijing, inviting five traffic poverty alleviation cadres from Tibet, Hubei, Sichuan, Jiangxi and other places to tell their personal stories about traffic poverty alleviation.
Luo Hongbo, Director of the Law Enforcement and Supervision Division of the Legal Affairs Department of the Ministry of Transport, served as the deputy secretary of the Anyuan County Party Committee of Ganzhou City, Jiangxi Province from 2016 to March 2018. Luo Hongbo said that before 2013, the distance from Anyuan County to Ganzhou City was less than 200 kilometers, but a trip “needs to get up early and get up and over the mountains, it takes about a day”.
Luo Hongbo said that since the start of the counterpart support work, Anyuan County’s transportation infrastructure conditions have undergone earth-shaking changes, and the expressway has achieved zero breakthroughs. At present, it has formed a way to go north to Nanchang, south to Guangdong, east to Fujian, and west to Hunan. Highway passageway. Since then, farewell to the barriers of the mountains, Anyuan's rural roads have been rapidly developed and improved. In 2017, it was rated as a model county of the "four good rural roads" in the country.
Tibet is a key area in my country's fight against poverty, and living conditions are difficult. In 2016, Xu Wenqiang came to the snow-covered plateau from the capital of Beijing as an aid cadre selected by the Ministry of Transport. Xu Wenqiang, the current director of the Transportation Department of the Tibet Autonomous Region, said that in the past four years, he has personally participated in the entire process of poverty alleviation in local transportation, and has also witnessed 2.4 million farmers and herdsmen get rid of poverty and become rich. "As a witness I feel very honored and proud to be the participants."
When talking about the achievements of road traffic in Tibet over the years, Xu Wenqiang said that there is only one township and 10 villages in the district that have not yet been connected to roads because they do not have the conditions for the time being. The road accessibility of the townships has reached 99.9%, and the accessibility of the villages is 99.9%. Reached 99.8%.
"The Shizhu River on the left, the Ladder River on the right, the Yaro River on the right, and the big hillside on the back. Our ancestors have worn their backs like camels for generations." An old saying goes away from the past hardships and pains of Dianziping Village. According to Wang Guangguo, branch secretary of Dianziping Village, Longping Township, Jianshi County, Enshi Prefecture, Hubei Province, Dianziping Village is more than 1,200 meters above sea level. In the past, villagers of Dianziping Village had to go to the nearby Gaoping Town to go to the market, along the banks of the river. It takes two or three hours to go back and forth on the cliff trails.
After Wang Guangguo was elected secretary of the village branch in 2002, he began to mobilize everyone to build roads. From cutting rough roads and repairing gravel roads to later cement roads and asphalt roads, in 2013 the village finally opened up the mountain road on the cliff. Now, Dianziping Village has achieved household-to-household and village-to-village connections. The village has also successfully lifted out of poverty and its per capita income reached over 10,000 yuan last year.
"Oxygen is scarce at work in Seda, and spirit is precious." The spirit of "anti-hypoxia" is a word often said by cadres working in Seda. Seda County is located at the junction of Sichuan and Qinghai, and is one of the 189 deeply impoverished counties in the country. According to Gui Zhijing, deputy secretary of the Seda County Party Committee of Ganzi Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan Province, Seda County has an average elevation of 4,127 meters, deep mountains and ditches, and the environment is closed. It is often winter without summer and oxygen is thin.
However, in such a difficult environment, Gui Zhijing mobilized various resources by visiting towns and towns, understanding traffic needs, etc., to complete fixed-point poverty alleviation tasks, and promote the improvement of the quality of rural road projects.
Gui Zhijing said that after 4 years of fixed-point poverty alleviation, Seda’s highway mileage reached 2,260 kilometers, and 134 administrative villages in 17 towns have achieved 100% access to hardened roads and 100% access to rural buses, successfully completing the "two connections". aims. Thanks to various efforts, in February this year, Sichuan Province officially announced that Seda County would withdraw from the poverty-stricken counties. "At the end of June this year, our remaining 90 households with 319 people were lifted out of poverty."
"A whole body of dirt on a sunny day, and a whole body of mud on a rainy day" is a true portrayal of Rela Village in the past. From 2017 to 2019, Lu Yida served as the first secretary of the village in Rela Village, Luhua Town, Heishui County, Aba Prefecture, Sichuan Province.
Speaking of the biggest feelings during his tenure in Rela Village, Lu Yida said that the biggest change is the earth-shaking changes in the transportation infrastructure. In the past, Rela Village was “all covered with soil on a sunny day, and covered with mud on a rainy day.” All villagers were visiting relatives and friends. All aspects of production and life are not convenient. Nowadays, through transportation poverty alleviation, Rela Village has opened hardened roads and buses, completed the construction of 6.9 kilometers of roads in the village group, and realized the dream of the people of the village to "go out on hardened roads and lift their feet on buses".
The "enabling" of roads has also brought new development opportunities for local people. Lu Yida pointed out that new models such as "transportation + poverty alleviation", "transportation + e-commerce", "transportation + characteristic agriculture" and so on have been very well applied in Rela Village. (Finish)