Yesterday, the celebration of the 70th anniversary of the peaceful liberation of Tibet was held in Lhasa.
General Secretary Xi Jinping wrote on the congratulatory plaque: "Building a beautiful and happy Tibet and fulfilling the dream of great revival".
Xi Jinping has a deep concern for Tibet and in-depth thinking about Tibet's work.
As early as when he was working in Fujian, he came to Tibet for the Fujian counterpart assistance mission.
Since then, Xi Jinping went to Tibet twice for investigation and research in 2011 and 2021.
The group sorted out some stories about Xi Jinping's heart and love for Tibet, and shared them with the group members.
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In June 1998, Xi Jinping, then deputy secretary of the Fujian Provincial Party Committee, led the second batch of Fujian cadres to Tibet.
On this trip to Tibet, Xi Jinping's schedule is full.
There was a place where everyone advised Xi Jinping not to go, but he suggested that he must go.
This place is Lang County.
The natural conditions in Lang County are harsh, and the roads are extremely difficult and dangerous. Most of the road sections are close to the Yarlung Zangbo River, and there is a vast abyss outside the car windows. You will feel dizzy at first glance. The roads are extremely narrow, and many sections are too narrow to meet cars.
In those days, a deputy county magistrate and his family fell into the river with a car and lost their lives, causing a tragedy.
The staff persuaded: "Secretary Xi, the road to Lang County is very dangerous. I suggest you not to go." But Xi Jinping said firmly: "No one can go, but I must go." So he took a few people to go. Lang County.
Fortunately, there were no dangers along the way, and the convoy drove into the county seat smoothly.
In Lang County, Xi Jinping first visited the place where the Tibetan cadres live, and asked about their living conditions, including details of how to cook and how to contact their families.
Whenever he visited a counterpart aid unit, Xi Jinping listened carefully to the reports of the first batch of outgoing Tibetan aid cadres and discussed with the local party and government leaders.
He also seized all the gap time and conducted in-depth field investigations.
The staff recalled: "Xi Jinping worked harder than anyone else."
The cadres in aid to Tibet were sent to Tibet by the deputy secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, with very high standards.
Xi Jinping's emphasis on aid to Tibet has left a deep impression on the locals.
His words warmed the hearts of Tibetan cadres and the masses: "The affairs of Linzhi area are our province's affairs." "We must send the best cadres and choose the best among the best". direction".
Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the state has further increased its support to Tibet.
Over the past 20 years, batches of aid-to-Tibet cadres have stepped onto the snow-covered plateau.
"Beijing Road" in Lhasa City, "Hunan Road" in Shannan City, "Shandong Road" in Xigaze City... Tibet brings together national thoughts.
In July of this year, during Xi Jinping’s inspection in Tibet, he met cadres who were aided in Tibet and said with emotion: “The spirit of aid to Tibet is a noble spirit of the Communist Party of China and a significant advantage of socialism with Chinese characteristics. Lack of oxygen. There is no lack of spirit. This spirit is that the revolutionary ideal is higher than the sky. You are on the plateau, and the spirit is higher than the plateau."
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Baji Village, Nyingchi City, an ordinary village on the Niyang River, Xi Jinping has visited twice.
Before liberation, the three serf owners in Baji Village exploited and oppressed more than 100 serfs. They insulted, beaten, and slashed when they were upset... The father of the village party chief was blinded by the serf owner. Female villager Jiang Yala Meng's father had a palm chopped off by the serf owner.
After the reform and opening up, Baji Village gradually became richer.
In 1998, Baji New Village was fully completed.
In the same year, Xi Jinping came here to investigate.
In Baji Village, Xi Jinping and the villagers talked about each other. Some of them spoke Tibetan and some Chinese, while the village director was busy translating.
When he learned that the per capita income of Baji Village in 1997 was over 2,000 yuan, Xi Jinping said very happily: "I hope you will continue to develop and your living standards will continue to improve."
What the villagers did not expect was that in July 2011, Xi Jinping, then member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, Vice Chairman of the State, and Vice Chairman of the Central Military Commission came to Baji Village again.
Just like 13 years ago, Xi Jinping walked into the villagers’ homes, visited the villagers’ granaries and kitchens, personally lit the biogas stoves, and learned about the use of biogas in the countryside; in the owner’s Tibetan-style living room, drinking butter tea and sitting together with the family cordially Conversation... Xi Jinping has seen the changes in more than 10 years. He instructs the party members and cadres in the village: "Do everything possible to help the people increase their income and make the lives of the people sweeter."
How the people live is Xi Jinping's constant concern.
After returning to Fujian from Tibet in 1998, Xi Jinping continued to pay attention to aid to Tibet.
Once, the staff drafted a few projects and asked him to approve it. He saw that it was a little flashy and said: "You have to come up with a few projects that can improve and improve the living standards of the people. Don't talk too much about the others. You tell me first. How to improve the sanitation and accommodation conditions of the common people, how to separate the grazing area and the living area, so that the common people have a good living environment."
In July this year, Xi Jinping once again came to the snow-covered plateau.
In Gala Village of Nyingchi, Dawajianshen told the General Secretary that his family relied on running transportation, peach blossom festival dividends, planting and breeding in recent years, and their family income last year exceeded 300,000 yuan.
Xi Jinping was very happy to hear that. He pointed out that the good life in Gala Village is a microcosm of the achievements of Tibet's economic and social development in the past 70 years since the peaceful liberation of Tibet.
By the end of 2019, all 74 impoverished counties and districts in Tibet had their caps off, and more than 620,000 impoverished people were lifted out of poverty.
Today in Tibet, all counties and villages are connected to roads, the main power grid covers all counties and major towns, the rate of optical fiber connection in the organic villages reaches 99%, and all border well-off villages have been completed...
At the 7th Central Tibet Work Forum, Xi Jinping vividly described the changes in Tibet: "Many farmers and herdsmen have made progress in their lives from buckets to water pipes, from oil lamps to electric lights, and from dirt roads to asphalt roads."
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From being poor to nothing, to getting rid of poverty, to becoming rich, it is inseparable from the magical "road to heaven."
The geological conditions in Tibet are complex, and the high cold and lack of oxygen are described as "a place where only Tibetan eagles can fly over."
Before liberation, Tibet did not have a road where cars could be used, let alone a railway.
After the founding of New China, the Sichuan-Tibet Highway was completed; in 2006, the Qinghai-Tibet Railway was opened to traffic.
Xi Jinping is very concerned about the infrastructure construction in Tibet.
Regarding the second “Tian Road” into Tibet, the Sichuan-Tibet Railway, he made arrangements for the third meeting of the Central Finance and Economics Committee, the Central Economic Work Conference, and the Seventh Central Tibet Work Symposium. Make important instructions for work.
The terrain, geology and climatic conditions along the Sichuan-Tibet Railway are complex, and the ecological environment is fragile. The difficulty of construction is rare in the world.
On July 22 this year, Xi Jinping came to Nyingchi Railway Station, an important hub station of the Sichuan-Tibet Railway.
He encouraged railway construction personnel: "The spirit of the'two roads' should be continued to be carried forward, dare to work hard, take it down one by one. Do it well."
On the train, Xi Jinping convened relevant comrades to continue to study railway planning issues in depth.
He said earnestly: "The transportation map of the whole country is like a painting. The central, eastern, and northeastern regions of China are all painted with fine brushwork. The white space in the west is too big. More beautiful."
As an important part of the Sichuan-Tibet Railway, the Lalin Railway was completed and opened on June 25 this year.
Twenty-three years ago, from Lhasa Gongga Airport to Nyingchi Bayi Town, Xi Jinping drove for a whole day.
“The road conditions at that time were very dangerous. Fortunately, there were no landslides. There were two logs across the narrow area. We moved down. The people sent by Fujian to aid Tibet were all riding horses to Medog.” Xi Jinping recalled.
This year, when he went to Tibet for an inspection, Xi Jinping took the Fuxing ship, and the time taken from Linzhi to Lhasa was reduced to more than three hours.
From a whole day to 3 hours, behind this are the vicissitudes of Tibet in 70 years.
Text/Heming, Zhong Qi
Sources/People's Daily, Xinhua News Agency, Learning Times, etc.