(In the past ten years in China) Minning Town, the "landmark" of China's poverty reduction: "Dry Beach" has become "Golden Beach"

　　China News Agency, Yinchuan, February 28, title: Minning Town, China's "Landmark" for Poverty Alleviation: "Dry Beach" Butterfly Becomes "Golden Beach"

　　China News Agency reporter Li Peishan

　　The rain has passed, and the sting is approaching. Minning Town, Yongning County, 50 kilometers away from Yinchuan City, the capital of Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, on the endless plain, a new type of agricultural machinery "booms", and a large area of ​​wine grape vines under Helan Mountain gradually "wake up" ", turning over the hibernating land, 66,000 immigrants planted the hope of spring.

In the live broadcast room of Qiao Daughter-in-law, the villagers acted as anchors to sell Ningxia special agricultural products.

Photo by Yu Jing

　　From the "dry beach" with no birds flying in the sky and no grass growing underground, to the "golden beach" with shady trees, fertile fields and rich people, Minning Town is a multi-ethnic ecological immigrant town in Ningxia.

　　In 1997, Xi Jinping, then deputy secretary of the Fujian Provincial Party Committee, came to Ningxia to investigate counterpart assistance work and deploy the "immigration hanging village" project.

He named the Huangyangtan Diaozhuang resettlement point in the Yuquanying Development Zone on the Ningxia Plain as Minning Village (now Minning Town), and the people in the "Xihaigu" mountainous area began a history of large-scale resettlement from south to north.

　　Xie Xingchang was the first family to move here.

In that year, he and his 5 fellow villagers traveled more than 300 kilometers from Xiji County, Guyuan City to Minning Village.

"We moved from Shangougou to Dapingtan, and our destiny has changed." Recalling that year, Xie Xingchang still had hope written all over his face, building houses, leveling land, introducing yellow water to the beach... Overcoming various difficulties, batch after batch Immigrants took root.

Tourists check in at the Minning Town Visitor Center.

Photo by Li Peishan

　　The town of Minning, which was built due to immigration, has attracted tens of thousands of Fujianese people in the fields of management, technology, education, and medical care, and more than 300 million yuan (RMB, the same below) Fujian national aid funds.

It is also since then that a new chapter in the collaborative development of the East and the West has begun on the land of China.

　　With the support of various parties, Minning Town has developed industries such as characteristic planting and breeding, cultural tourism, photovoltaic power generation, trade and logistics according to local conditions. One production line has been laid on the doorstep, and one poverty alleviation project has also been invested in the village entrance.

Minning Town, which is prosperous for poverty alleviation, has infinitely extended the poverty alleviation industry chain.

　　In the newly built 52 facility greenhouses in the gardening village, the cherries that are about to ripen have been booked in advance by the merchants; the fish farming facilities in the vegetable greenhouses in Yuanlong Village have made pollution a "past tense"; the beef cattle in the standardized cattle sheds in each village are in stock. More than 23,000 heads; more than 80,000 mu of wine grapes in the town have become the best place for villagers to work on the spot... The most surprising thing for the villagers in Minning Town is that mobile phones have become new agricultural tools, and e-commerce has also become New farm work.

　　"Welcome to the live broadcast room of Qiao Daughter-in-law..." On the mobile phone end of the Minning Qiao Daughter-in-law's live broadcast poverty alleviation workshop, 13 poor households who had been registered and registered became "anchors", bringing the honey, tomatoes, wine, goats of Minning Town Special agricultural products such as milk and morel mushrooms are sent to all parts of China through e-commerce. The newly established Fujian goods area has also opened up the northwest sales of Fujian native products such as white fungus, seaweed, tea tree mushroom, Agaricus mushroom, and shiitake mushroom.

　　According to Zhou Deqiang, member of the Standing Committee of the Yongning County Party Committee and Secretary of the Party Committee of Minning Town, by the end of 2021, the intensive and large-scale operation of land in Minning Town will account for 60%, and the annual collective economic income of the 6 administrative villages will exceed 6 million yuan, and the per capita disposable income of immigrants will be It reached more than 16,000 yuan, an increase of more than 30 times compared with the beginning of the relocation.

As a landmark in the history of poverty alleviation in China, Minning Town has accumulated a series of valuable experiences that can be promoted and replicated in the poverty alleviation cooperation between the east and the west, and has successively won the "National Model of Poverty Alleviation", "National Model Collective of National Unity and Progress", "National Rural Governance". It has won the titles of "Model Township" and "National Rural Tourism Key Town", and has been successfully selected as a national characteristic town and "2021 National Top 1000 Towns".

　　Driven by the demonstration of Minning cooperation, more than 110 Minning cooperation demonstration villages, more than 20 Minning cooperation immigrant villages, and 320 resettlement areas have emerged in Ningxia, with a total of more than 1 million people relocated.

The construction of "Minning Demonstration Village" has also been written into the "Guiding Opinions of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the State Council on the Three-Year Action to Win the Battle of Poverty Alleviation", which has been promoted nationwide.

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