In early winter, beside the sandy and gravel road leading to the old village of Zhaojiawa, the Chinese pine is verdant and decorated with the once exposed loess and mountains.
On June 21, 2017, along this rugged mountain road, General Secretary Xi Jinping drove to Zhaojiawa Village, Kelan County, Xinzhou City, Shanxi.
He walked into the homes of Liu Fuyou, Cao Liuren, and Wang Sannv in succession, inspected their living environment in detail, asked about family income and expenditure and the main reasons for poverty, and made a routine with everyone.
Zhaojiawa Village is a deeply impoverished village in a concentrated contiguous destitute area of Lvliang Mountain.
The mountains are deep and the land is barren, and adobe houses are built against the mountains.
The harsh living environment is intertwined with deep poverty. Here, "the soil and water on one side are not good for the other side."
After investigating in Zhaojiawa Village, General Secretary Xi Jinping hosted a symposium on poverty alleviation in deeply impoverished areas, and emphasized the need to “concentrate efforts, find the right way, and increase the relocation of people living in areas with particularly harsh natural conditions”. Strengthen the confidence to overcome the deep poverty fortress.
In September 2017, the entire village of Zhaojiawa was relocated for poverty alleviation. The original site was reclaimed, farmland was returned to forests, and barren hillsides were covered with new decorations.
Zhaojiawa villagers walked out of poverty and started a different life in Guanghuiyuan, the county seat.
At 10 o'clock in the morning, the bright sun dissipated the coolness and sprinkled on the Guanghuiyuan community in Kelan County.
The old people gathered together downstairs in the community, chatting while basking in the sun.
The 71-year-old Wang Sannv did not go out today.
She had eaten early in the morning and was at home waiting for the family doctor to visit.
"I didn't know what was happening yesterday, and I was a little swollen. I slept, and today is much better. But Secretary Chen is not relieved, he still contacted the doctor to check me."
The third daughter of Wang suffered from rheumatic heart disease and high blood pressure when she was young, which has caused chronic bronchitis in recent years.
To make matters worse, a few years ago, her husband and son passed away one after another, and her daughter-in-law also left home. She pulled her disabled grandson and granddaughter by herself, making life extremely difficult.
When visiting Zhaojiawa Village in 2017, General Secretary Xi Jinping walked into Wang Sannv's house, comforted her to live a good life, and instructed local officials to arrange special education for her grandson and granddaughter.
In order to prevent the "root of disease" from turning into "poor root", Kelan County has formulated a service guarantee plan for 24 kinds of serious diseases and 52 kinds of chronic diseases.
After being identified and going through the "chronic disease medical security assistance", the family doctor will regularly visit Wang Sannv to deliver medicines.
Wang Sannv said with emotion, “I used to live in Zhaojiawa, and seeing a doctor was a big problem. Now I move out of the mountain valley and have a good policy for seeing a doctor. I feel more at ease!” In January this year, Wang Sannv was hospitalized for more than 10 years due to cerebral infarction. Today, 90% of medical expenses were reimbursed.
Secretary Chen in the mouth of Wang Sannv is Chen Fuqing, the first secretary of Zhaojiawa Village.
On September 22, 2017, the last 6 households of 21 villagers in Zhaojiawa Village, including Wang Sannv, moved into Guanghuiyuan Immigrant Village.
"Poverty does not get rid of the policy, poverty does not get rid of assistance." Chen Fuqing and colleagues from the poverty alleviation team "move their heads" to work at the station in the Guanghuiyuan Immigration New Village.
They will visit the homes of fellow villagers from time to time on weekdays, and continue to be "caring people who cannot be separated from the masses."
With the help of the work team, Wang Sannv's grandson and granddaughter were sent to study in a special education school.
"Now the two children are not only white, but they also learn a lot of things every year, and now they can answer all questions." After checking blood pressure and other items, Wang Sannv took over Chen Fuqing. The cell phone that came up, looked at the recent photos of the children from the school teacher, and said happily.
Moved from the adobe house into the new building, the family doctor visits regularly to check the children’s future...Wang Sannv’s face is less sad, and the beauty-loving woman bought herself a wig, saying it will look good in winter It's warm again.
Speaking of the life of moving into the city, Aunt Yang said first: "In the past, at home, cooking and housework were individual tasks. Fetching water, carrying grass, cutting firewood, and serving cows were not easy tasks. Now it’s fine. Three meals a day, there will be water as soon as the tap is turned on. There will be vegetable sellers as soon as we go out, and we bought them by the way when we went out to sweep the streets."
"At that time we used to say,'Plan a nest, eat a bun.' When we work, we inevitably deal with water and soil. When the wind blows, our hands are cracked. In addition, it takes a lot of money to plant the land depending on the face of God. With a lot of effort, all kinds of problems such as lumbar disc herniation have been found in these years." Speaking of the good life now, Liu Fuyou also opened up the chatterbox: "But it's better now, we only need to use big Just use a broom to clean the asphalt road. You don't need to get water or grease to prevent cracking."
After the relocation, with the help of the poverty alleviation team, Liu Fuyou and his wife became cleaners.
Liu Fuyou said with a smile, "We both go out at a fixed time every day and go home to cook at noon. The area of responsibility is not very large, and it will be all scanned in less than an hour. When I get home in the afternoon, I will not delay watching "News Network". There is underfloor heating in the house in winter, and it's warm as soon as you walk in."
Liu Fuyou's new home is 75 square meters with two bedrooms and one living room. It is transparent from the north to the south and has plenty of light. The milky white floor tiles set off the home.
In the past 30 years, he hadn't worked on civil engineering and could not wait for a penny to break the eight petals. "I lived in a new building without spending a penny, even the furniture is complete!"
On the wall of the living room, there are pictures of the general secretary sitting on Liu Fuyou’s kang head holding the "Poverty Alleviation Manual" and talking to the old couple.
"Seeing this photo, my heart is warm and warm." Liu Fuyou recalled. The general secretary greeted their old couple to sit down beside him and said, "Come on, let's talk." From farming, drought to working, the general secretary The secretary all asked meticulously, concerned about the most important livelihood of the family.
Poverty alleviation and public welfare jobs have allowed Zhaojiawa villagers who moved to the city to "freeze and feel sluggish" to find the happiness brought by labor from light work.
"Now the land in the village has been circulated, and there is an annual rent of 300 yuan per mu of land. The most delightful thing is that I also found a new job in the city, with a monthly salary of 2800 yuan, which is more than the previous one. Earn more every year!" Cao Liuren took out his notepad, which contained bills and sentiments, and recorded densely.
Cao Liuren read the income account while looking through it.
"With part-time work and various subsidies, my wife and I have a total annual income of more than 60,000 yuan."
"This sentence,'There is no permanent poverty, only permanent hard work' is what I often chant when I cheer myself up." Cao Liuren said, pointing to a line on the notebook.
There are six people in Cao Liuren's family, and he is the only one to work.
Because he couldn't pay the tuition fee of one dollar, he left the school early.
When he became a family and had a child, Cao Liuren made up his mind to eat the chaff and let the child read a book.
The four children are also vying, and with the help of the poverty alleviation policy, they all have a good study and a good way out.
From “It’s harder for children and grandchildren to have no money, it’s harder to raise four children” to “There is no eternal poverty, only eternal diligence”, Cao Liuren looked at the past recorded in his notebook, and the corners of his mouth raised. There is nothing wrong with it, now the days are getting brighter and brighter!"
"I never thought that General Secretary Xi Jinping would be able to come to our Zhaojiawa village, and never thought that the General Secretary would still sit on the edge of the kang and chat with himself. Under the care of the General Secretary, we moved into a house in the city. There is also a regular job. People are grateful."
After moving from Zhaojiawa to Guanghui Garden, Cao Liuren was assigned to work in a cotton factory.
When the new crown pneumonia outbreak broke out at the beginning of the year, he donated 3,000 yuan to Wuhan, "The country has allowed us to live a good life, and we must be out of poverty and we must do our part for the country."
Over the past three years, Kelan County has vigorously introduced labor-intensive poverty alleviation enterprises, improved public services and other assistance policies, and vigorously implemented the "everyone with a certificate, a skilled society" project to ensure that at least one person from each relocated household achieves employment, and the average annual transfer of rural labor There were 6679.8 people employed, including 4697 poor laborers.
In 2019, the per capita disposable income of poor households in Kelan County was 13,002 yuan, an increase of 2.69 times compared with 2014.
This year, the county's 23 households and 48 people who have not been lifted out of poverty have all been lifted out of poverty, 516 households with 1094 persons "two types of households" have all lifted the warning, 8423 households of 19823 people who have been lifted out of poverty have continued to consolidate not to return to poverty and steadily move towards a well-off life.
Move out of the poor valley and live a good life.
On the original site of Zhaojiawa, the reclaimed Pinus tabulaeformis is already lush.
Beside the harvested millet, bees flock to the groove of the stone mortar for viewing from time to time, and the valley is silent.
The Guanghui Garden in the city carries the new dream of Zhaojiawa, lively and peaceful.
"It is our party's solemn promise to let the poor and poor areas enter a well-off society with the people of the whole country. No matter how arduous the task and how hard it is to gnaw, this promise must be fulfilled." General Secretary Xi Jinping inspected Zhaojiawa The time's Yin Yin entrusted him to encourage the cadres and the masses after leaving Zhaojiawa to "roll up their sleeves and work hard."
Reporter丨Zhang Yanan, Zhang Weihao, Song Yunyi