What can road construction bring to poor areas?

  "If you want to be rich, build roads first", "roads are easy, all industries are prosperous", "poverty alleviation, traffic first." These familiar sayings all show the important role of transportation in poverty alleviation.

  So, what can road construction bring to poor areas? At the recent press conference held by the State Council Information Office, several poverty alleviation cadres and typical representatives of the transportation industry shared their experiences and knowledge.

  “The distance from the county seat to Ganzhou City is less than 200 kilometers. Before 2013, it takes one day to get up early and get in the dark, go over the hills and ridges.” Luo Hongbo from the Legal Department of the Ministry of Transport, 2016 In March 2018, he served as the deputy secretary of the Anyuan County Party Committee of Ganzhou City, Jiangxi Province. He said that since the counterpart support work, the Anyuan County Expressway has achieved zero breakthroughs. At present, it has been formed to go north to Nanchang, south to Guangdong, and east to Fujian and West. The highway into Hunan. Nowadays, Anyuan often uses an ad slogan when promoting tourism: Anyuan is not far away, and the scenery is in front of him.

  The improvement of infrastructure has brought visible benefits to people's travel. Wang Guangguo, Party Branch Secretary of Dianziping Village, Longping Township, Jianshi County, Enshi Tujia and Miao Autonomous Prefecture, Hubei, introduced that in his memory, some people in Dianziping Village fell down the cliff on the cliff trail, and 7 people were seized. Gone to life. Nowadays, Dianziping Village has realized household-to-house and village-to-village.

  After the road was repaired, the appearance of the village changed radically. “We used to be adobe houses. Now, due to the convenient transportation, the people have built villas and the production and living environment has been greatly improved.” Wang Guangguo, for example, said that Zhou Qiong, who works outside the village, heard that the road to his hometown has been repaired. Opened a farmhouse, and the annual income increased by more than 50,000 yuan.

  "In the past, young and middle-aged laborers in the county went out to work, and there was basically no popularity in the county. Many villages became'hollow villages'." Luo Hongbo said that with the development of transportation, the number of enterprises has increased and the amount of labor has increased. The young and middle-aged labor force returned to their hometown.

  "The relatives and friends who came from other places, including tourists, have communicated, exchanged, and even cooperated with the villagers in the village. Everyone is more open-minded." Lu Yida from the China Maritime Search and Rescue Center of the Ministry of Transport, September 9, 2017 As of September 18, 2019, he served as the first secretary in the village in Rela Village, Luhua Town, Heishui County, Aba Prefecture, Sichuan Province. He said that road construction has also brought more ideological exchanges and collisions.

  Wang Guangguo also agreed with this. Originally, the village was very closed. With more and more exchanges and more open-mindedness, some villagers now dance and sing at night and enjoy endless fun.

  The road is open, and the road to the industry is built. "The advanced agricultural production area's planting and breeding technology, agricultural machinery, feed, and production materials are very convenient to the village, which supports the development of industries such as alpine breeding of wind-tailed chickens and large-scale breeding of black water bees." Lu Yida said, the road passed. , There are more opportunities for entrepreneurship.

  Luo Hongbo said that one of the most practical changes brought about by the development of transportation is the reduction of logistics costs. Agricultural products are very sensitive to the sales of logistics costs. The reduction of logistics costs directly promotes the development of e-commerce. Currently, there are more than 1,800 e-commerce companies in Anyuan County, and 60% of the employees of these e-commerce companies are college graduates or young people who have returned to their hometowns to start businesses. In 2019, the county's e-commerce business revenue reached 2 billion yuan, and the poverty alleviation industries of e-commerce covered 80% of townships and 32% of poor farmers.

  "Such a figure can show that transportation development can gather popularity and wealth." Luo Hongbo said.

  Du Xin