When historians write the opening chapter of the third decade of the 21st century, they will mark a miracle while recording the once-in-a-century pandemic that ravaged the world.
In the past eight years, under the strong leadership of the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core, through the world’s largest and most powerful fight against poverty, nearly 100 million people have been lifted out of absolute poverty and the poverty reduction set by the United Nations Sustainable Development Agenda has been achieved 10 years ahead of schedule. Goal, 1.4 billion people are about to enter a well-off life...
(1) Solemn promise
In the rainy season, Fuping, Hebei, deep in the Taihang Mountains, is warm in spring.
In the villages at the foot of the mountains, the new dwellings are strewn together, and lanterns are hung high, which is festive.
There were people living in Fuping during the Xia and Shang periods.
In modern history, the name of Fuping has touched the eyes of countless people-the Jinchaji border area including Fuping is known as the "prototype of New China", and it has made important contributions to the victory of the Chinese War of Resistance and the Chinese Revolution.
With harsh natural conditions and lack of resources, the masses of Fuping struggle with poverty all the year round.
Farmer Tang Zongxiu kept a photo taken in 2012: The village is a yellow earth color, and the house is an adobe house from the 1950s.
She described "It's black and you are black, I can't say who is the darkest", and when it rains, "It's big outside, but it's small inside."
From December 29th to 30th, 2012, General Secretary Xi Jinping came to Luotuowan Village and Gujiatai Village in Fuping County against the wind and snow, entered the villages to see the real poverty, and issued a mobilization order to the entire party and the country to fight poverty.
"To build a well-off society in an all-round way, the most arduous and arduous task lies in the rural areas, especially in poor areas. Without a well-off society in rural areas, especially in poor areas, there will be no comprehensive construction of a well-off society."
This is a special visit-more than a month ago, the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China was held and the strategic plan for building a moderately prosperous society in an all-round way was made. Poverty alleviation is the bottom line task and landmark target for achieving the first century-old goal.
On February 4, 2021, the new year of the lunar calendar, Qiu Donghua, a villager in Baiyinhu Village, Jinggangshan, Jiangxi, posted a new couplet——
Shanghai United: "All poverty alleviation depends on benefiting the people";
Bottom line: "Getting rich will usher in a happy spring";
Horizontal batch: "Long live the Communist Party."
More than 90 years ago, in 1928, Qiu Donghua’s great-grandfather, Qiu Qishan, who was a teacher, also wrote a couplet. That year, the Chinese Communists divided the land with local tyrants and formulated the "Land Law of Jinggang Mountain". Poor farmers got their dream land——
Shanghai Federation: "divide the fields without forgetting the Communist Party";
Bottom line: "Happiness keeps in mind the Chairman Mao";
Horizontal batch: "Long live the Communist Party."
The two couplets, the same horizontal criticism, bear in mind the constant promise of the Communists.
From the land reform to the founding of New China, the Chinese Communist Party has historically eliminated the institutional roots that caused the Chinese people to fall into poverty.
From the basic social security system based on the "five guarantees" system and relief for the extremely poor, to the implementation of rural economic system reforms to promote poverty reduction, China has achieved a sharp reduction in the number of people in absolute poverty.
"Chop up a loess, half is thirsty, and half is hungry." Dingxi, Hexi, and Ningxia Xihaigu in Gansu, collectively known as "Sanxi", were once the poorest places in China.
More than 40 years ago, UN experts left a desperate evaluation after an inspection: "There are no basic conditions for human existence."
However, there is no "impossible" in the dictionary of Chinese Communists!
In 1982, China launched the "Three West" agricultural construction special plan, the first planned, organized and large-scale "development-based poverty alleviation" in human history.
In 1994, New China's first poverty alleviation and development work program with clear goals, targets, measures and deadlines-the "National August 7 Poverty Alleviation Plan" was introduced.
In the 21st century, China has implemented two 10-year rural poverty alleviation and development programs and raised poverty alleviation standards twice.
"Eliminating poverty, improving people's livelihood, and achieving common prosperity are the essential requirements of socialism." General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized during his inspection in Fuping.
As of the end of 2012, there were still 98.99 million rural poor people under the current poverty alleviation standards, with a poverty incidence rate of 10.2%, which is more than the population of more than 90% of countries in the world.
International experience shows that when the number of poor people in a country accounts for less than 10% of the total population, poverty reduction enters the "hardest stage."
For more than eight years, General Secretary Xi Jinping has weathered the wind and snow, braved the severe cold, walked in the mud, traversed mountains and ridges, trekking through mountains and rivers, and traveled to 14 concentrated contiguous destitute areas across the country, and successively investigated and guided more than 20 poor villages.
A couple of farmers remembered that General Secretary Xi Jinping sat cross-legged on their kang, making things easy.
Some forestry workers said that the general secretary inspected the cellar at his house, touched the fire wall, and looked at the new year's goods.
Some village party secretary remembered that the general secretary asked the village "how many people married wives last year".
There was also the old man with a thumbs up facing the general secretary and said, "You, that's not bad!"
Coming from the loess land, Xi Jinping has always been close to his fathers and villagers in the "ordinary world".
When he jumped in at Liangjiahe, his biggest wish was to let the villagers "feast with meat."
When he arrived in Zhengding, Hebei, he was willing to take the risk to pick up the title of "high-yield poor county".
In Ningde, Fujian, he led the exploration of the road to poverty alleviation of "the weak birds fly first".
He has always "spent the most energy" on poverty alleviation in Zhejiang, Shanghai, and the central government...
General Secretary Xi Jinping personally takes command, personally deploys, and personally supervises the war. China's poverty reduction has entered a new historical stage of poverty alleviation——
The undulating mountains of Wuling, and the poetic-like scenery of Xiangxi are "heartbreakingly beautiful" in the writer's writing.
However, the mountain was blocked, the traffic was blocked, and the development was lagging behind. This place was once "heartbroken by poverty".
Walking into the Miao Village in Shibadong Village, Huayuan County, western Hunan, the fire pond of the three sisters of Shiba, the villager, is covered with bacon.
"The general secretary opened my granary and asked me if I have enough food? Can I grow fruit trees? Can I raise pigs? He also walked to the pig pen to see if the pigs I raised were fat or not." She said to Xi Jinping more than 7 years ago. The scene of the general secretary visiting her house is still fresh in my memory.
At that time, in the three dark rooms of Shiba, the only electrical appliance was a 5-watt energy-saving lamp.
Today, her home has added LCD TVs, electric fans and rice cookers, and has set up a small stall in front of her house.
In the late autumn of 2013, General Secretary Xi Jinping put forward the concept of “precise poverty alleviation” for the first time on a small piece of flat ground in front of the Miaojia Heiwamu Building, giving important instructions of “seeking truth from facts, tailoring measures to local conditions, classified guidance, and precise poverty alleviation”.
Why do we need targeted poverty alleviation?
General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out vividly that "grenade bombing of fleas" is not acceptable.
Don't shout big slogans for helping the poor, and don't set those lofty goals. Do one thing one thing.
Since then, focusing on the core issues of "who will support, who will support, how to support, and how to withdraw", General Secretary Xi Jinping put forward specific requirements for "six precisions" and "five batches."
In 2015, poverty alleviation became the main line of the general secretary's work: a visit to poverty-stricken areas in Yunnan at the beginning of the year pointed out that "time is not waiting, poverty alleviation and development must increase the sense of urgency"; on the eve of the Spring Festival, hosted a forum on poverty alleviation and prosperity in the old revolutionary areas of Shaanxi, Gansu and Ningxia; 3 At the National Congress of the People’s Republic of China and the National People’s Congress this month, it was proposed that “poverty alleviation must be firmly grasped in place”; afterwards, he went to many places to investigate and proposed “use a set of policy combinations to ensure that the fight against poverty alleviation and development is won at a given time.”
In October, the Fifth Plenary Session of the 18th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China proposed to resolutely win the battle against poverty.
Chinese and foreign media have noticed that the party’s document changed the phrase "poverty alleviation" to "poverty alleviation."
In November, the "Highest Level in History" Central Poverty Alleviation and Development Work Conference was held, sounding the Charge horn for the fight against poverty.
"We must set up the ambition of moving the mountains from the Foolish Old Man, set our goals, work hard, and resolutely win the fight against poverty, and ensure that by 2020 all impoverished areas and poor people will enter a well-off society in an all-round way." General Secretary Xi Jinping made a solemn promise on behalf of the entire party.
Promises are like gold, and the drums of war urge the levy.
From 2015 to 2020, focusing on the key tasks of winning the battle against poverty, General Secretary Xi Jinping convened 7 consecutive thematic conferences for system deployment and promotion.
March 6, 2020, Beijing.
At the critical moment of epidemic prevention, General Secretary Xi Jinping personally presided over the largest poverty alleviation symposium since the start of the fight against poverty.
"The work of poverty alleviation is arduous, and the end of the year was affected by the epidemic", General Secretary Xi Jinping said: "We must not forget our original aspirations, keep our mission in mind, strengthen our confidence, fight stubbornly, and win an all-round victory in the fight against poverty, and resolutely complete this mission to the Chinese nation. , A great cause of great significance to mankind!"
(2) Great practice
At the beginning of 2020, China still has 5.51 million rural poor and 52 impoverished counties.
The remaining poverty-stricken counties and poor population are all in difficulty and poverty in poverty.
These poverty-stricken counties are located in the seven provinces of Gui, Sichuan, Gui, Yun, Gan, Ning, and Xin. The poverty level is deep, the natural conditions are poor, and the causes of poverty are complex. They are all "mountains" that have not been overcome after several rounds of tough attacks.
The sudden new crown pneumonia epidemic disrupted the established rhythm: spring ploughing materials and fodder could not be transported into the village, once nearly 30 million migrant workers returned to their hometowns, a large number of agricultural products could not be exported, and some poverty alleviation workshops and industrial projects were stalled.
The biggest flood raid since 1998 directly affected more than 2 million poor people.
The people who have just escaped from poverty face the risk of returning to poverty, and the people who have not escaped from poverty are in a difficult situation. The final battle is even more difficult. What should be done?
Listed to supervise the battle, with extraordinary actions and extraordinary battles!
In 2020, Ningxia.
More than 80 years ago, the Red Army climbed here, the last high mountain in the Long March-Liupan Mountain.
At this time, Xiji County, the last impoverished county in Ningxia that did not take off its hat, was also crossing the "Liupan Mountain" on the road to poverty alleviation.
"Ten kinds of nine are not harvested, and sparrows are thirsty to drink diesel." Water shortage has been a problem that the Xiji people have not solved for several lifetimes. Many local people have the word "water" in their names.
"Every day before dawn, you have to rush to the springs four or five kilometers away to carry water. The buckets on the ground can be more than 20 meters long. If you go late, you can't afford it." said Liu Zhijun, a 65-year-old Hongyao country resident.
Xiji County regards the drinking water safety improvement project as the focus of its supervision.
Building pumping stations, repairing pools, and changing water sources-these are specific actions implemented after targeting shortcomings and formulating combat lists.
At the same time, focusing on poverty alleviation standards, targeting to tackle difficulties, the "four investigations and four supplements" were carried out: 452 suspected drop-out students were advised to return, and 1,530 dilapidated houses in rural areas were renovated...
By autumn, Xiji County's "two things and three guarantees" compliance rate was 100%.
Looking at the whole country, 52 impoverished counties have been listed to supervise the war. Not only have they received special financial aid funds for poverty alleviation, they also received 18.4 billion yuan from the central government to make up for shortcomings.
Each listed county in the country has a provincial leader to supervise the county.
The 2008 social forces in the eastern and central regions paired to help 1,113 listed supervising villages.
In the face of the "additional test questions" of the epidemic, new measures to combat the poor came into being:
On April 15, 2020, the 29-year-old Jin Susu received nearly 4,000 yuan in wages from Xihaigu, Ningxia, to Fuzhou, Fujian on the 49th day as a migrant worker, which was also the first income since the epidemic.
"Even if you suffer a little bit, as long as you have work to do, you will be at ease."
This time "Going South" was Jin Susu's first flight, and he took a "work chartered plane."
In the days when the epidemic hit, “work chartered flights”, “worker trains” and “workers chartered vehicles” sent warmth to the poor...
Looking back on the eight years of poverty alleviation, satellites have witnessed the miraculous changes that have taken place in China's poverty zone from a unique perspective——
From Heihe in Heilongjiang in the north to Tengchong in Yunnan in the south, the luminous light in the area west of the "Hu Huanyong Line" is getting brighter.
The luminous area in this area has increased by about 55% in 8 years. Behind this is the expansion of the power grid in the western region, the increase of the length of roads above the township level by about 64% in 5 years, and the active growth of the Internet economy.
In the Yarlung Zangbo River Valley, the satellite discovered a rapidly growing residential community.
The new residents come from a pastoral area in northern Tibet above 4,800 meters above sea level. When they moved over, many people did not use electricity, water, or gas, and community workers taught them individually.
Their retired homeland in northern Tibet is equivalent to 21 Beijing.
In the past eight years, more than 9.6 million poor people across the country have moved into new homes through relocation.
Near 30 degrees north latitude, there is a "yellow necklace", which is a famous desert belt on earth.
In Keping County, Xinjiang, near Taklimakan, the world’s second-largest mobile desert, 30,000 mu of new farmland is clearly visible in satellite images.
The government has built a safe drinking water project to connect sweet and clean drinking water to every farmhouse.
From a broader perspective, satellites have witnessed the water conservancy projects in the west bringing nourishment to the dry land.
The "three districts and three states" distributed on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau and the fringe are growing green, roads are extending, and industries are developing...
Looking at the whole of China, in eight years of fighting poverty, 128,000 poverty-stricken villages and 832 poverty-stricken counties have taken off their hats. Nearly 100 million people have been lifted out of absolute poverty, creating a miracle of poverty reduction for mankind.
The miracle of poverty reduction comes from a precise strategy-
This is an unprecedented level of precision to the person, clearly "who is helping": in 8 years, nearly 20 million people entered the village and households to carry out dynamic management of the poor population and information collection.
This is a rare and accurate organization in the world. It is clear that "who will help": more than 250,000 working teams in villages, more than 3 million village cadres sent by units at the county level and above, so that households have responsible persons and villages can help. Help the team.
This is a pragmatic and precise implementation of policies that clearly "how to help": implement "six precisions" and "five batches" according to different causes of poverty, and implement policies based on local conditions and people.
This is a prudent, scientific and precise assessment that clarifies the "how to withdraw": clarify the "timetable", introduce a third party, and focus on endogenous and development capabilities... Innovatively build the most stringent evaluation and evaluation system to ensure that the results of poverty alleviation can withstand the test of history.
At the junction of Yunnan, Guizhou and Sichuan, there is a "Jimming Three Provinces Village".
Villager Shen Zhaoshi erected a stone monument "Thanks to the Communist Party" at the intersection of Tonghu Road.
Four years ago, the government helped to renovate the house. Two years ago, the road to the house was rebuilt to the doorstep.
Since then, his disabled wife can get in and out by himself in a wheelchair, and he can go out to work, ending the days of staying at home and carrying his wife in and out.
If there is a road to households that shortens the distance between poor households and the outside world, then a language opens the window for the poor to understand the world.
In Daliangshan, Sichuan, 82 poor villagers from Xiaduo New Village, Hexi County, Yuexi County, moved to a new village with clinics, kindergartens and activity squares in the autumn of 2019.
Children who have entered the village kindergarten now speak Mandarin with clear pronunciation standards.
For thousands of years, the Yi people who have lived in high mountains and deep valleys have been multiplying for generations in a closed environment.
"I remember the first time I went to work in Guangdong, I didn't know how to ask for directions when I went to the toilet, and I couldn't read the signs." A Yi woman recalled the embarrassment.
Not being able to speak Mandarin has become a major obstacle for Yi children to learn.
In 2018, the Poverty Alleviation Office of the State Council, the Ministry of Education and the local government launched the “Learn Mandarin in Preschool” initiative in Liangshan.
So far, 430,000 pre-school children have benefited from this. More and more Yi children have become bilingual "little masters" who can master Mandarin without forgetting their mother tongue. Some Yi parents have also learned Mandarin with their children.
Educational poverty alleviation makes up for the shortcomings of labor quality, solves the internal motivation to make up for the shortcomings of ideology, and the poor people's ability to independently get out of poverty has increased. The per capita net income has increased from 2,982 yuan in 2015 to 10,740 yuan in 2020, an average annual increase of 29.2%.
The miracle of poverty reduction comes from industry support——
"Before 2018, I had never heard of cherries, let alone eat them. I ate my own cherries for the first time in 2019, and it was really sweet!" 22 Nishi Village, Jiantang Town, Shangri-La City, Yunnan Province Yangzong, a year-old villager, said that the cherries used to be fresh from the family grazing and planting highland barley and potatoes for generations.
Nowadays, the village has built a cherries base. She has learned planting techniques and earns about 120 yuan of labor income every day.
Many villages, such as Nishi Village, located in deeply impoverished areas in the “three districts and three states”, used to cultivate limited agricultural products and low yield per mu.
Since the implementation of targeted poverty alleviation, these villages have introduced agricultural enterprises in accordance with local conditions, realizing the historical leap of characteristic industries "from scratch". Liangshan pepper, Nujiang grass and fruit, Linxia cattle and sheep, southern Xinjiang forest and fruit, and Tibetan barley yak have emerged. Batch characteristic brands.
Every impoverished county in the country has formed a leading industry for poverty alleviation.
Industrial poverty alleviation is a poverty alleviation measure with the widest coverage, the largest population, and the strongest sustainability.
Relying on order production, land transfer, production trusteeship, on-site work, share cooperation, asset leasing, etc., 72% of poor households across the country have established a relationship of interest with new agricultural business entities, and more than 70% of poor households have accepted production guidance and technology Through training, more than 900,000 people have been trained to become wealthy leaders in various industries.
Industrial development, relocation, ecological compensation... Behind every poor household's poverty alleviation is a systematic project and a tough battle.
The miracle of poverty reduction comes from the social security network-
The basic old-age insurance and basic medical care for the poor have basically achieved full coverage, hospital reimbursement has increased from more than 50% to about 80%, and about 20 million poor people have been included in the scope of assistance for the subsistence allowances and the destitute, so that the sick, the elderly and the elderly The weak
The enrollment rate of school-age children, the consolidation rate of nine-year compulsory education, and the gross enrollment rate of high school education have increased significantly;
Full coverage of village-level clinics;
Through the development of new-type vocational farmer training and skills training for migrant workers, a large number of people’s employment opportunities have become wider and wider...
Looking at the data of the eight-year poverty alleviation battle, two curves with completely opposite trends can be found.
An upward curve: The central government has continuously increased its financial investment, and the central government’s subsidies for local special poverty alleviation funds have increased by 20 billion yuan each year for five consecutive years.
A downward curve: Every year, the remaining poor population is getting smaller and smaller, from 98.99 million in 2012 to the end of 2020 all out of poverty.
(3) The power of the people
"His Royal Highness: Please forgive the minister and leave without saying goodbye today. Your Highness is still in her infant. Before the full moon, the minister shouldn't have said goodbye early..."
This is an "invitation letter" written by a young father to his daughter.
That year, Yu Yongliu of the Agriculture and Rural Bureau of Huichuan District, Zunyi City, Guizhou Province bid farewell to the little girl who had not yet reached the full moon and went to the countryside to help the poor.
Since 2015, more than 3 million first secretaries and village cadres like Yu Yongliu have left their young children, beloved partners, and elderly parents for the time being, embracing the passion to change the destiny of the poor, and walked into all parts of the motherland. The deep ditch and huge ravines launched a charge against poverty.
Yu Jing, the first secretary of Anhui Jinzhai County Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital stationed in Dawan Village, is a "post-80s" woman working in the county.
Since we are here to help the poor, we must act like helping the poor!
Yu Jing spent more than half a year traversing mountains and ridges, basically figuring out the causes of poverty for each impoverished household.
Those who lose their ability to work can apply for shares in photovoltaic power generation to participate in dividends; those who are older and cannot do heavy jobs, provide auxiliary public welfare positions; those who are younger and lack capital and technology, help apply for microloans and technical counseling...
The more than 3 million first secretaries, cadres stationed in villages, and cadres in the vast villages all over the country, just like the Red Army soldiers in the Long March, not only changed the poor areas, but also sowed the fire for self-reliance and hard work.
At the junction of Gansu and Qinghai, there is a series of peaks that stretch for 50 kilometers. Legend has it that Nuwa piled up stones. Dayu used to control the water here. People call it "Jishi Mountain".
This is also an iconic mountain range from the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau to the Loess Plateau.
On both sides of the mountain, one is Gansu Jishi Mountain, and the other is Qinghai Xunhua. The two counties are inhabited by the Baoan and Salar ethnic groups with a population of about 20,000 and 101,000.
In August 2020, Han Ga Yulan, a farmer in Labian Village, Xunhua County, returned to his hometown from a long-term noodle restaurant in Hangzhou, Zhejiang, to marry his son Zhang Luo. For the first time in his life, he took an airplane.
"It feels like one word: Hurry!" Han Ga Yulan talked about the trip with excitement in front of her bright house.
Han Ga Yulan’s son is deaf and mute, and his family lives on odd jobs. At the beginning of the poverty alleviation campaign, he was included in the key support for the poor households who were registered and registered.
"Thanks to the good policy of the party, I invested the government-funded household property funds into my sister's ramen restaurant, and the whole family also worked in the ramen restaurant. Now, I finally saved enough money for my son to marry a wife!" Han Ga Yulan said.
There are more than 40,000 people like Han Ga Yulan who have gone out of Xunhua County to make a living by ramen, and they have opened more than 7,000 ramen restaurants all over the country.
The Baoan tribe across the river developed the "waist knife" industry, spurring a group of poor households out of poverty.
Small features, big industry.
When we expand our sights to the whole country, "Walnut Village", "Taro Village", "Snack Village", "E-commerce Village", and "Internet Celebrity Village"...there are scattered characteristic villages all over the country, writing for the great changes in the poverty alleviation. Give a clear footnote of the times.
Poverty is by no means fate.
Yang Shuting, a "post-90s" Miao girl from Changsha, Hunan, was paraplegic due to an accidental car accident. She refused to admit her life and opened her own business in a wheelchair, driving hundreds of poor households out of poverty; Wang Xiling, a villager in Wujia Village, Fufeng County, Shaanxi, was unfortunately lost. Pain, stubborn, she worked hard, became self-reliant, and became the first person in Fufeng County to quit poverty-stricken households a few years later...
The spirit of self-improvement and struggle to get rid of poverty is full of agitation in the vast land of China.
Some rural children who once left their hometowns were also inspired by the craze and resolutely returned to their homeland and built their homes.
Huang Zhongcheng, a veteran of Tangtian Village, Yixian County, Anhui Province, who has walked out of the mountains, took care of the timber business after he retired from the army.
But he was always worried about going to the village and returned to his hometown to serve as the village committee director. "I want to help the villagers get rid of poverty and become rich!"
Tangtian Village is located in the mountainous area of southern Anhui. It is rich in tea resources, but it has not been able to sell well.
He paid out of his pocket and even borrowed money to transfer land and build factories, mobilizing villagers to buy shares in professional tea cooperatives.
The barren mountains that had been silent for a long time began to regain their vitality.
On September 5, 2016, Huang Zhongcheng fulfilled his promise to poor households when he formed the cooperative and distributed dividends to poor households.
During the happy days, he suddenly suffered a cerebral hemorrhage due to overwork, and suddenly fell to the scene of the dividend...
This is a sad number. Over the past eight years, more than 1,500 poverty alleviation cadres have sacrificed their lives on the battlefield of poverty alleviation across the country.
Traffic accidents, natural disasters, overwork, sudden illnesses... This is probably the "battle" with the largest number of sacrifices in the peaceful era.
Today, when we look back on this epic journey, we can never forget this long list of sacrifices——
Jiang Shikun, Huang Shiyan, Meng Han, Ze Xiaoyong, Huang Wenxiu, Yu Yongliu, Qing Fanghua, Lan Biaohe, Qin Yanjun, Zhang Xiaojuan, Wu Guoliang, Wu Yingpu, Fan Zhenzi...
Among them, there are not only the county party committee secretary, county head, but also township and village cadres who were born and raised in Sri Lanka, as well as the first secretary, village task force members and poverty alleviation volunteers who came from all directions to treat their hometown as their hometown.
On December 1, 2020, when the fight against poverty is about to play a triumphant song, Yu Yongliu is overworked, and his life is fixed at the 33-year-old annual ring; at the memorial service three days later, his youngest daughter, "Her Royal Highness Princess", who is less than 3 years old , I don’t know what happened, this "civilian" has never said goodbye...
Wanting to be with the people and working together is the original aspiration of the communists who have gone through years of hard work.
In order to make the country's last roadless road to the constructed village on the cliff, the roaring helicopter flew into the former quiet Abuloha Village of Liangshan, Sichuan, and brought construction equipment for the road workers;
In order to connect the country’s last prefecture-level administrative area to the national power grid, the construction workers carried oxygen cylinders and took heart-protective medicine against the harsh environment of high cold and lack of oxygen, and erected towers and frames on the top of the mountain in Ali, Tibet. Cable
In order to let the last "crowd at the bottom of the pot" step into a well-off society with the people of the whole country, all the poverty alleviation cadres fight with great pressure from the impact of a rare epidemic in the world and spread their sweat on every ditch...
The great practice of poverty alleviation has stirred up the great spirit of poverty alleviation: it is the spirit of responsibility that does not believe in the east wind, the spirit of daring to teach the sun and the moon to change the sky, the spirit of hard work that does not relax, and the loyalty has always been the home country. Dedication……
A small town in a remote corner of the Jinsha River in Huaping County, Yunnan.
Everyone who came to Huaping Girls’ High School was shocked by an oath——
"I was born as a mountain instead of a stream. I want to look down on mediocre ravines from the top of the peaks. I am born as a man, not a grass, and I stand on the shoulders of great men and despise humble cowards!"
Zhang Guimei, the head of Huaping Girls’ Senior High School who wrote this oath, is not a “poverty alleviation cadre” in the strict sense.
But her weak body is full of scorn for poverty and thirst for fate.
The 63-year-old principal has been rooted in frontier education for more than 40 years. With the help of the party, government and all walks of life, he has promoted the creation of a high school that admits impoverished girls free of charge. He has helped more than 1,800 girls get out of the mountain and enter university.
Zhang Guimei illuminates the life dreams of thousands of rural girls with love and wisdom, and is affectionately called "Mother Zhang" by the children.
Everyone gathered firewood, shimmering together.
In the epic picture of anti-poverty, the 1.4 billion Chinese are all “supernumerary” poverty alleviation cadres like Zhang Guimei.
On the summer night of 2020, the playground of Haiga Primary School, Haiga Village, Liupanshui City, the highest village in Guizhou, was very lively.
Eleven children in the mountains, dressed in simple blue and white school uniforms, completed their first concert in their lives-"The Summer of Haiga Boys".
Maybe immature, maybe young, people from all over the country are still happily praising and cheering the children on the other end of the screen.
Viewers who watch online can fill up to 15 "bird's nests."
More than a decade ago, this elementary school, which was jokingly called the "highest institution" in Guizhou due to its altitude, had only one teacher, two grades, and eight students, and no graduating class all year round.
When the spring breeze of poverty alleviation blows into the depths of the mountains, Danghaiga Primary School has real musical instruments and a complete six grades, and when the last batch of poor households in the village set up files and registered cards are all lifted out of poverty, everything has changed. .
In the pure singing, the children's dreams dance in the night and fly to the bright starry sky.
This dream belongs not only to the once impoverished but fearless Haiga boy, but also to countless Chinese people who have worked tirelessly to create miracles of the times...
(4) Responsibilities of big countries
On March 24, 2017, a small white building in Northeast Fourth Ring Road, Beijing.
In the conference room, one party is the main person in charge of the Office of Poverty Alleviation of the State Council, and the other is Bill Gates, co-chairman of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation of the United States.
The two sides signed a memorandum of understanding on strategic cooperation, and will cooperate in the summary and exchange of China's anti-poverty experience, and the training of poverty alleviation talents.
"China is the biggest contributor to the goal of halving the poverty population in the United Nations Millennium Development Goals." Gates, who has visited poor areas in China, said that China's innovative experience and development achievements in poverty alleviation have attracted worldwide attention and are valuable to other developing countries. Reference significance.
Put on a straw hat, pick up a hoe, and a bamboo basket on your back. Sowing, weeding, and watering fields at an altitude of more than 1,800 meters... This is the daily life of the former Belgian ambassador to China in Yuanzi Village, Dongchuan District, Kunming City, Yunnan.
Ness lived in China for 23 years, of which 8 years lived in the countryside.
Dongchuan District was once the only deeply impoverished county in Kunming.
When Nasi moved to Yuanzi Village in 2012, the house he lived in had no running water. It took 5 hours to get from Kunming city to the village.
Now, with the completion of the highway, the journey has been shortened to two and a half hours, the dilapidated houses in the village have been renovated, and the villagers’ homes have been connected to broadband.
As the villagers walked out of the mountains, more and more tourists came to Yuanzi Village, and the villagers had more ways to increase their income.
Ness often communicates with the poverty alleviation officials in the village on how to develop agriculture and tourism, and he admires them very much.
"Thanks to the diligent work of these village cadres, the central policies can be implemented quickly and effectively. This is China's institutional advantage." Ness said.
In the spring of 2018, a conference room in Zhongnanhai, Beijing.
The secretary and governor of a province in North China sat on the "interviewed seat."
In order to consolidate responsibilities, the main responsible comrades of the party and government in 22 provinces, autonomous regions, and municipalities in the central and western regions signed a "military order" to the central government to fight poverty.
The final assessment is divided into 4 grades: "good", "good", "fair" and "bad".
The province of North China was interviewed because of "poor".
In the following year, this North China province faced the problem squarely and put a lot of effort into poverty alleviation. The assessment that year changed from "poor" to "good".
Not only the provincial and ministerial leaders were interviewed by the Party Central Committee, but also the county party secretary who was the "frontline commander" who was responsible for poverty alleviation was also directly interviewed by the Party Central Committee.
On April 13, 2020, 24 county party committee secretaries from 11 provinces in the central and western regions were interviewed.
"Interviews are not only for supervision and pressure, but also for trust and refueling." A central leading comrade who presided over this video and telephone interview said that it is necessary to deal with problems more realistically, carry out work creatively based on actual conditions, and earnestly undertake high-quality combat. Political responsibility to win the battle against poverty.
"Using the organizational advantages of the Communist Party of China and strict supervision and evaluation is one of the institutional reasons behind China's feat of precision poverty alleviation." said Indian Sinologist and Director of the Center for China and Southeast Asia Studies at Nehru University Di Bojie.
“In order to attract companies, the Chinese government encourages wealthy coastal areas to pair up with poor areas. The Xiamen-based Kailin Footwear Group opened a branch in Linxia Hui Autonomous Prefecture in southern Gansu in 2019. 90 female workers work there, among them 70% come from poor families, and the salary is 2000-4000 yuan per month."
In a report entitled "Absolute Poverty in Rural China Is About to Disappear" in 2020, a reporter from Le Monde, France, introduced China's "pairing" poverty alleviation.
This approach, which seems quite unique to Western readers, has a well-known name in China-the East-West Poverty Alleviation Cooperation.
In January 2021, people from Ma Wenxianghe village in Minning Town, Yongning County, Yinchuan City, Ningxia, were chasing the hit drama "Mountain and Sea Love" and saw Ma Debao who was the first to participate in the cultivation of Agaricus bisporus and learn technology from Fujian experts. He has a kind heart-isn't this who he was back then?
“It’s really exciting to see the white-flowered mushrooms growing out. It’s exactly the same as in the TV series.” Ma Wenxiang, 63, said. Hearing the non-standard Xihaigu dialect in the play, they would laugh, and some would cry when they smiled. .
In 1997, Xi Jinping, who took the lead in Minning and Ningxia's counterpart assistance, went to Ningxia to implement a major project "Diaozhuang Migration": relocating the Xihaigu people living in barren land to the Yellow River irrigation area at the foot of Helan Mountain.
He named the immigrant village "Minning Village": "Minning Village is now a dry beach, and it will be a golden beach in the future."
This year, as the first batch of immigrants from Diaozhuang, Ma Wenxiang moved his family of ten from Dashan to Minning Village.
Over the years, nearly a million people in Ningxia have moved out of the southern mountainous areas, and Guangminning Village has received more than 40,000 immigrants.
Today, Minning Village has been upgraded to Minning Town with more than 60,000 people. It has cultivated characteristic industries such as mushrooms and wine grapes, with a per capita net income of more than 14,000 yuan.
The Minning Cooperation, which has stretched for 24 years and spanned more than 2,000 kilometers, has not only allowed Minning Town to grow from nothing, from poor to rich, but also brought about great changes in the mountainous and rural areas that were once barren and rich. Ready to come out.
Looking at the whole country, in 2016, the central government adjusted the pairing relationship between the east and the west for poverty alleviation, expanded the scope of assistance, and achieved full coverage of paired assistance in 30 ethnic autonomous prefectures.
This is exactly the embodiment of the advantages of the socialist system with Chinese characteristics and the national governance system.
Corresponding assistance, east-west interoperability, and north-south assistance, not only channel resources, but also spread ideas.
In the remote and poor mountainous areas, "Beijing doctors" and "Shanghai teachers" are active, and "Guangdong bosses" and "Zhejiang engineers" are ushered in... To make up for the shortcomings of the west with the advantages of the east, and promote the effect of the latter with the advantages of the first mover. "Poverty alleviation by means of hematopoietic poverty", which stimulates the endogenous motivation of impoverished areas and catches up.
For more than 20 years, the East-West Poverty Alleviation Cooperation has formed a multi-level, multi-form, all-round poverty alleviation cooperation and counterpart assistance pattern, providing a "Chinese solution" for solving the poverty problem.
As General Secretary Xi Jinping said: "This is what only our party and country can do in the world, which fully demonstrates our political and institutional advantages."
The 83-year-old Lao People’s Revolutionary Party’s 10th General Secretary Boon Yang cherished a book-Xi Jinping’s "Escape from Poverty."
As one of the least developed countries in the world, Laos has also set the goal of achieving poverty alleviation by 2020, which echoes the time course of China.
When General Secretary Xi Jinping visited Laos in 2017, the dialogue between the leaders of China and Laos was heart-warming.
Bunyang said that Laos has good agricultural natural endowments, but it is constrained by capital and technology.
Xi Jinping replied that the agricultural sector can become a key area of cooperation between the two sides. China can not only help Laos play its natural advantages, but also help more people get rid of poverty.
In the following two years, Bunyang visited China twice, going to Shibadong Village, deep in the mountains, to inspect "precise poverty alleviation", and then to Ningde, Fujian, where General Secretary Xi Jinping worked in the early years, to learn from the experience of "weak birds fly first".
On the eve of the 2020 International Poverty Eradication Day, data released by the World Bank show that China’s contribution to the world’s poverty reduction is more than 70%.
"China's greatest contribution to the cause of poverty reduction in the world is China's own achievements." UN Secretary-General Guterres lamented that China has adopted a policy of cooperation, win-win and common development for developing countries such as Africa. This is China's contribution to the world. Another contribution to poverty reduction.
(5) A bright way forward
February 3, 2021, the beginning of spring.
Located in Huawu Village, Qianxi County, Bijie City, Guizhou, in the hinterland of Wumeng Mountain, rape blossoms are quietly blooming on the roadside, and cherry trees in front of the house are in buds.
"The general secretary came to visit us during the Spring Festival and wish us a happier and sweeter life in the future. We will definitely work harder!" said Zhao Yuxue, a Miao villager, and the general secretary looked up and down in his house. Ask about household electricity, draft, economic income, etc.
Lao Zhao’s previous home was ventilated with wind and rain, without water and electricity. With the help of the relocation policy for poverty alleviation four years ago, he lived in a two-story building of 150 square meters.
The husband and wife work in Fujian and earn more than 40,000 yuan a year.
The three children go to junior high school and elementary school, tuition, accommodation and meals are free.
Pulling the long axis, Wumeng Mountain has undergone more than 30 years of changes, so magnificent.
"Four people have only 3 bowls, and they have been out of food for 5 days." In the 1980s, Xinhua News Agency reporter Liu Zifu's report on extreme poverty in the Wumeng Mountains alarmed Zhongnanhai.
After that, the central government approved the establishment of the Bijie "Development Poverty Alleviation, Ecological Construction" pilot zone.
Over the past 30 years, more than 6.3 million people have been reduced in poverty. Bijie has carried on the mission of exploring new paths for poverty alleviation in China.
Today, when I walk into some villages in Bijie, I always hear the cadres and the masses say: "ramp economy", "order rice", "rural running errands", "trunk economy"... These hot words interpret the local innovation and exploration of rural revitalization.
If the nation is to rejuvenate, the village must be rejuvenated.
Getting out of poverty is not the end, but the starting point for a new life and a new struggle.
Starting from a new starting point, we must solidly consolidate and expand the results of poverty alleviation——
In the early spring, the warm sun was shining, the red lanterns were high up, and there were bursts of laughter from the farmhouse courtyard. Lu Zhi and his wife were busy serving the guests.
"Half a year ago, who would have thought that we could welcome the new year with a smile," he said.
The Lvzhi family used to be a poor household in Fuyudi Village, Wangyefu Town, Kalaqin Banner, Chifeng City, Inner Mongolia. With the help of policies, their family raised sheep, grew vegetable greenhouses, and repaid loans to run a farmhouse. Prosperous.
But in the summer of 2020, a fire destroyed Lu Zhi’s farmhouse.
Faced with the desperate situation of returning to poverty, the local area launched anti-poverty assistance, and a sum of funds brought hope of life. Lu Zhijia’s farmhouse reopened at the end of October 2020.
He sighed: "It will be a good day in the future."
Improve the dynamic monitoring and assistance mechanism for preventing the return to poverty, and achieve early detection, early intervention, and early assistance for the unstable population and the marginalized people who are prone to poverty... To prevent the return to poverty and the creation of new poverty, China has already moved.
A huge suitcase with shoulders higher than a person's shoulders, carrying a worn-out backpack in one hand, and the sleeping baby in the swaddle in the other, looking forward with determination and determination...
11 years ago, a photo of a young mother preparing to return home at the train station made millions of readers cry.
Not long ago, the "Spring Festival Mother" who moved China was found.
This woman, Bamu Yubumu, from Taoyuan Village, Wayan Township, Yuexi County, Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan Province, had to go out to work hard that year, "I just hope that my children can live a good life and get out of the mountains."
After returning home, Bamu Yubumu and her husband tried to grow tobacco.
With the help of poverty alleviation cadres, technicians, etc., the days that are gradually prosperous, Taoyuan Village where she is also lifted out of poverty and has access to roads, electricity, internet, and running water.
Bamu Yubumu has a new dream.
After the Yi nationality's New Year, in February, she came to Xiapu County, located on the coast of Fujian, and joined her husband Wu Qishi and her husband's sister and brother-in-law to start fishing and sea cucumber farming.
Bamu Yubumu said: "We still have to work hard to make the family's life better."
For counties that have been lifted out of poverty, a 5-year transition period will be established from the date of poverty alleviation; during the transition period, the overall stability of the main assistance policies will be maintained; and the steady transition from concentrated resources to support poverty alleviation to comprehensive promotion of rural revitalization will be gradually realized...
Starting from a new starting point, we must comprehensively promote rural revitalization——
On February 16, 2021, an article signed "Party Group of the National Rural Revitalization Bureau of the Communist Party of China" attracted attention, which means that the National Rural Revitalization Bureau has taken over a new historical baton.
"After the victory in the fight against poverty, we must comprehensively promote rural revitalization. This is a historic shift in the focus of the work on agriculture, rural areas and farmers."
The Central Rural Work Conference to be held at the end of 2020 sent a clear signal to the entire party and society: to build a modern socialist country in an all-round way and realize the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation, the most arduous and arduous tasks still lie in the rural areas, and the broadest and deepest foundation remains in the rural areas. .
"I used to drink'big wine' to relieve my sorrow; now I occasionally drink'little wine', which is happy!" Niu Baole, a villager in Azitan Village, Zhuoni County, Gannan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Gansu Province, was a little shy when he saw the reporter.
Niu Baole, 46, had his wife suffering from cerebral infarction a few years ago. In order to take care of his wife and daughter, he gave up running long-distance transportation, but his family lost their livelihood and was listed as a poor household with a registered card.
After the local tourism industry started, Niu Baole ran short-distance transportation, and also undertook the work of garbage removal and cleaning in the village, with a monthly income of more than 2,000 yuan.
Now that he is out of poverty, he plans to build a few rooms in the open space in the yard to open a homestay.
"Our whole village has started tourism." said Wang Changlong, the village party secretary. Nowadays, the village collectively develops scenic spots, and every household has a herd family. During peak seasons, the average daily income of a household is two to three thousand yuan, and the barley wine produced in the village is often cut off.
Shaanxi Zhashui small fungus has been turned into a large industry, Shanxi Datong Xiaohuanghua has built a large base... The rapidly developing rural industry is adding "wings" to the revitalization of the countryside.
The revitalization of the countryside requires both shaping and soul.
Not long ago, Liu Renxiang and her husband Lai Jilin took wedding photos 35 years late at home.
Hengjiang Village, Xiazao Town, Wan'an County, Jiangxi Province, where Liu Renxiang is located, was once a poor village in a poor county.
In 2020, the last two poor households in the village will be lifted out of poverty smoothly.
After getting rid of poverty, taking a real group photo or wedding photo is the wish of many villagers.
The couple Dai Yuewu and their 80-year-old parents took two generations of wedding photos after being lifted out of poverty and loneliness. After getting out of poverty, Wang Sicai and his wife also caught up with fashion and took a happy wedding photo in traditional clothes...
Against the backdrop of the beautiful countryside, in the photographer's lens, the late wedding photos freeze the new look of the poor after they have been lifted out of poverty.
The depth, breadth, and difficulty of implementing the rural revitalization strategy are no less than that of poverty alleviation, and it also requires the "essence" of overcoming difficulties.
In Jiangxi, Jinggangshan Shenshan Village took pictures of the moments when the villagers laughed loudly after they were lifted out of poverty, and made a wall of smiling faces standing at the head of the village for self-reliance and self-improvement;
In Hunan, Shibadong Village is even more famous after being filmed into a movie. They are aiming to build "China's most beautiful village" and strive to create an "upgraded version" of targeted poverty alleviation and targeted poverty alleviation...
On February 21, 2021, the 18th Central Document No. 1 to guide the work of "agriculture, rural areas and farmers" since the 21st century was officially released, with the theme of "Promoting rural revitalization and accelerating agricultural and rural modernization."
Put rural construction at an important position in the construction of socialist modernization, comprehensively promote the revitalization of rural industry, talents, culture, ecology, and organization, take the road of socialist rural revitalization with Chinese characteristics, and promote high-quality and high-efficiency agriculture, livable and workable rural areas, and affluent farmers Prosperity... The clarion call for comprehensive promotion of rural revitalization has been sounded.
——"The people's life is better, the all-round development of people and the common prosperity of all people have made more obvious substantive progress."
Standing at a new historical starting point, the Fifth Plenary Session of the 19th Central Committee of the Party pointed out the way forward and the goal of struggle.
——"We must insist on the green mountains not to relax, work hard on the ground, work hard to paint a magnificent picture of rural revitalization, and move steadily towards the goal of common prosperity."
Standing at a new historical intersection, under the strong leadership of the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at the core, the Chinese people are striding forward courageously.
(Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, February 23, reporters Zhao Cheng, Zhang Xudong, Xiong Zhengyan, Hou Xuejing, Chen Weiwei, Lin Hui)