A cultural performance on the 40th anniversary of the Jishishan Baoan Dongxiang Salar Autonomous County.
(The pictures are all taken by Xin Gansu·Gansu Daily reporter Ma Ying except for the signature)
New Gansu·Gansu Daily reporter Ma Ying
"High Jishi Mountain, colorful clouds are reflected on the top of the mountain, the stream in the mountainside is laughing and laughing, and the mountain is beautiful, my lovely hometown..." September 23rd is Jishishan Baoan Autonomous County, Dongxiang Nationality and Salar Nationality Autonomous County 40th Anniversary County Celebration.
At the celebration ceremony, people dressed in gorgeous national costumes sang and danced, and the streets and alleys were decorated with lights and festoons. Everyone was witnessing and sharing the great changes and development achievements of Jishishan County in the past 40 years.
The 40-year development history of Jishishan County is a microcosm of the economic and social development of the ethnic regions in our province.
In recent years, our province has thoroughly studied and implemented General Secretary Xi Jinping’s important thoughts on strengthening and improving ethnic work and the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping’s important speech and instructions to Gansu, focusing on forging the consciousness of the Chinese nation community as the main line, and continuously promoting the province’s ethnic work in the new era. High-quality development paints a harmonious picture of the unity and struggle of all ethnic groups and common prosperity and development.
Characteristic industries "full bloom" and people's lives are thriving
Tianzhu’s quinoa, Zhangjiachuan’s peppercorns, Linxia’s raspberries, Dongxiang’s tribute sheep...In this hot land of Gansu, you can see industries with unique local characteristics in ethnic regions.
In September of the golden autumn, when walking into the farmhouse in Zheqiao Town, Linxia City, besides the special delicacies on the table, there are plates of red and yellow, crystal-clear and lovely raspberries.
It is understood that Linxia City has taken land transfer as the starting point, actively adjusted the structure of the agricultural industry, developed raspberry planting in accordance with local conditions, and achieved land efficiency and farmers' income.
"Go to work at 7 am, go home at noon to cook, take a lunch break, and leave work at 6 pm. The Raspberry Industrial Park is at the door of the house, and you can get a salary of 3,000 yuan a month." Speaking of changing from a farmer to an "office worker." Chen Linping, a villager in Dazhuang Village, Zheqiao Town, Linxia City, felt fulfilled and satisfied with her new life.
According to reports, since the completion of the first phase of the Raspberry Industrial Park in Zheqiao Town, more than 50 jobs have been provided.
With the continuous expansion of the scale of the follow-up industry and the extension of the industrial chain, the Raspberry Industrial Park will drive more local people to achieve employment at home.
Special delicacies of the farmhouse in Zheqiao Town, Linxia City.
In Lixiang Village, Songshan Township, Tianzhu County, the colorful and wind-blown quinoa is eye-catching, and many people take pictures in the quinoa field to “check in”.
Lixiang Village is a new immigrant village set up by Tianzhu County after the implementation of the relocation project for poverty alleviation and relocation. It is a new immigrant village composed of Han, Tibetan, and Tibetan ethnic groups. Lixiang Village actively promotes the revitalization of industries, organizations, talents, ecology, and culture, and has embarked on a path of rural revitalization that "the people are rich, the village is strong, and the scenery is beautiful and the people are harmonious".
The 44-year-old Tibetan villager Suoqingshan and his family moved to Lixiang Village in 2019 to grow quinoa and edible fungi.
"This year, my family has planted 100 acres of quinoa and is expected to earn 80,000 yuan. In addition to the income of 10 edible mushroom greenhouses, the annual income of more than 100,000 yuan is not a problem!" Suo Qingshan said. After moving to Lixiang Village, the whole family lives In a new house, it is much easier for children to go to school and for the elderly to see a doctor. Neighbors from different emigration areas and different ethnic groups live in harmony, and life becomes more enjoyable.
In the fight against poverty, our province has done its utmost to improve infrastructure such as roads, water, electricity, and housing, as well as education, medical care, and pension protection in ethnic areas, and strive to cultivate and expand industries that enrich the people, earnestly increase employment support, and strengthen the villages. Helping the work force to ensure that the minority areas complete the poverty alleviation goals and tasks as scheduled, and embark on a new journey of rural revitalization.
After being lifted out of poverty, people's faces are filled with happy smiles.
(Photo courtesy of the Provincial People's Committee)
Eat the "cultural travel meal" and rush to get rich
Gansu has beautiful natural scenery and strong ethnic customs.
Relying on their diligence and wisdom, the people of all ethnic groups in the minority areas of our province have eaten the "cultural travel meal" and broaden the way to get rich.
At the end of September, the grasslands in Gannan had gradually turned yellow.
However, in Ohela Village, not far from the Meiren Prairie, all the homestays for the "Eleventh" Golden Week have been booked.
This village is located in the grassland, and there is a small river passing by, and the scenery is beautiful.
Once, the only source of income for the villagers was animal husbandry.
"Your village is so beautiful. I really want to stay for two days, but I don't even have a hotel or restaurant." A foreign tourist stopped to take pictures when he passed through Okhola Village. What he said was something for the local people. A new idea: the development of cultural tourism industry.
Just do it!
In 2019, the Ehola Village invited a professional design team to design a homestay based on the local Tibetan style, and created the "Muyun Ehola" scenic spot that is consistent with the surrounding natural environment. It was put into operation in June this year.
Ehola Village has used villagers’ land to invest in shares and government fund support to drive the villagers to transform their outdated production and lifestyles. After the completion of the scenic spot, more than 20 jobs have been provided.
With the improvement of the subsequent entertainment and leisure, cultural and creative products and other subsidiary projects, the Okhola Village will also attract more tourists and drive more villagers to find employment at their doorsteps.
Newly built homestay in Okhola Village.
The 13 Alleys of Bafang and Thirteenth Lane in Linxia City was originally a village in the city, with backward infrastructure and poor living conditions for the people.
In recent years, relying on unique traditional dwellings and ancient buildings, Linxia City has planned and built Bafang 13 Alleys into 8 functional areas including cultural exhibition area, folk customs area, and creative workshop area, which has changed the poverty and backwardness. Its appearance also provides jobs for the people in the alley.
Today’s Bafang 13 Alleys, with blue bricks and black tiles, are decorated with antiques. The Hui brick carvings, Han woodcuts and Tibetan painted paintings are full of strong ethnic customs.
It is understood that from October 2016 to June this year, Bafang 13 Alleys received a total of 9.88 million tourists, and the comprehensive tourism income reached 726 million yuan.
In 2018, the typical experience of "Eight Lanes and 13 Alleys renewed their old appearance, and the'Village in the City' turned into a new tourist landmark" was successively approved by the State Council and the Provincial Government.
A corner of Eight Lanes and Thirteen Alleys.
Promote unity with openness, and promote development with change.
Our province insists on taking development as the master key to solve various problems in ethnic regions, cultivates new momentum with reform and innovation, broadens new paths with ecological priority, and builds new support with industrial revitalization. It has developed a high-level project with Gansu characteristics and in line with the reality of ethnic regions. The road to quality development.
The beauty and beauty are shared to build the common spiritual home of the Chinese nation
There are 56 ethnic groups in Gansu Province, among which the Yugu, Dongxiang, and Baoan ethnic minorities are unique to Gansu.
Each ethnic group has distinctive cultural characteristics. In the process of fusion and development with the excellent Chinese traditional culture, it has formed a strong spiritual bond of unity and forge ahead, and has built a common spiritual home for the Chinese nation.
Zhangjiachuan Hui Autonomous County is a national demonstration county for national unity and progress, with more than 20 ethnic groups including Hui, Han, Tibetan, and Kazakh.
In the Zhangjiachuan County Museum, there is a display of cultural relics that blend the excellent Chinese traditional culture and local ethnic characteristics, telling the story of ethnic unity passed down by word of mouth in this land.
Relying on the cultural relics in the collection, the county museum deeply interprets the Chinese cultural genes contained in the local history, actively collects and organizes the cultural resources of ethnic minorities, and holds a variety of content and various forms of missionary activities and mobile exhibitions of cultural relics.
At the same time, on the occasion of traditional festivals and memorial days, we will go to primary and secondary schools and kindergartens to preach national cultural stories to students and carry out handicraft activities, so that the consciousness of the Chinese nation’s community can be deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.
The staff of Zhangjiachuan County Museum went to the kindergarten to carry out social education activities.
(Photo courtesy of Zhangjiachuan County Museum)
In Xinyi Village, Maguan Town, not far from Zhangjiachuan County, the village folk custom memory hall on the village cultural square has become a new place for villagers.
The residents of the town are mainly Hui and Han people. The town has a profound historical and cultural heritage. The folklore and culture such as temple fires, calligraphy, paper-cutting, and grass root carving are rich and colorful. It is known as the "town of culture" in Zhangjiachuan County.
It is understood that Maguan Town has built the "Four Ones" project of the town cultural center, the Xinyi Village Memory Center, the Shichuan Village Ethnic Co-construction Commercial Market, and the Xinyi Village Ethnic Unity and Progress Education Base with the main line of forging the consciousness of the Chinese nation community. Celebrate the Farmers’ Harvest Festival, cultural performances of national unity and progress, exhibitions of literary and calligraphy works, increase support and promotion of calligraphy and calligraphy talents, vigorously cultivate inheritors of the art of paper-cut root carving, and unite and lead the people of all ethnic groups to strive to build a common spiritual home for the Chinese nation.
The cultural square in Xinyi Village, Maguan Town.
In recent years, our province has accelerated the creation of the “Belt and Road” cultural commanding heights, vigorously promoted the construction of the Chinese civilization inheritance and innovation zone, formulated and implemented a series of policies and measures, promoted the creative transformation and innovative development of the outstanding traditional culture of various ethnic groups, and actively built the common spiritual home of all ethnic groups. .
We will improve the public cultural service system in ethnic areas, and achieve full coverage of the four-level public cultural service system in the "three halls" of prefectures and counties, township cultural stations, and village comprehensive cultural service centers.
At the same time, strengthen the protection and inheritance of the intangible cultural heritage of ethnic minorities. "Hua'er" and "Gesar" were selected as the representative list of human intangible cultural heritage, and 23 ethnic minority intangible cultural heritage projects such as "Namute Tibetan Opera" were selected as national-level intangible cultural heritage projects. In the protection list, 35 inheritors of minority intangible cultural heritage items were selected into the national list, and 110 intangible cultural heritage items in ethnic areas were included in the provincial list.
The "People of All Ethnic Groups Favor the Party" literary party celebrating the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China.
(Photo courtesy of the Provincial People's Committee)
In addition, our province also actively builds a platform for cultural exchanges and mutual learning among all ethnic groups, insists on holding the "Pomegranate Cup" provincial minority cultural performances every 5 years, and the province’s minority traditional sports games every 4 years, and every 3 years. The "Pomegranate Cup" national painting, calligraphy and photography exhibition, etc., these activities have played an important role in promoting the cause of national unity and progress in the province and forging the consciousness of the Chinese nation community.
The Chinese nation is a family, and we work together to build the Chinese dream.
From poverty alleviation to rural rejuvenation, the people of all ethnic groups in Gansu, under the strong leadership of the party and the brilliance of the party’s ethnic policy, tore off the label of absolute poverty for thousands of years, forming a powerful force to promote leap-forward development. Notable achievements have been made in social development.
Our province will focus on forging the consciousness of the Chinese nation's community as the main line, hold high the banner of the great unity of the Chinese nation, and promote all ethnic groups in the big family of the Chinese nation to hold together like pomegranate seeds, so that the consciousness of the Chinese nation's community will be deeply rooted in the land of Longyuan. Taking root makes Gansu's "Ruyi" embedded in the land of China more shining.