(Building a Well-off Together) China Siyuan Project Poverty Alleviation Foundation: Not a single one is left behind on the road of rural revitalization

  China News Service, Beijing, May 11th, title: China Siyuan Project Poverty Alleviation Foundation: No one is left behind on the road of rural revitalization

  Author Zhou Xiaohang

  "You may not know who I am, but I always miss you. I know you have a dream, but you may not know it, that is our common dream." Li Xiaolin, deputy to the National People's Congress and vice chairman and secretary general of the China Siyuan Project Poverty Alleviation Foundation, wrote a speech with the theme of rural revitalization and common prosperity.

  China Siyuan Project Poverty Alleviation Foundation was established in March 2007. It is a national public fundraising foundation headed by the United Front Work Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, initiated by the Central China Democratic Construction Association and responsible for daily management.

The foundation adheres to the concept of "drinking water, thinking of the source, and giving back to the society", and carries out public welfare undertakings in various fields such as education and training, medical care, disaster relief, helping the disabled, helping the young and the elderly, and cultural environmental protection in economically underdeveloped areas.

  On December 17, 2021, the selection and commendation conference of various democratic parties, federations of industry and commerce, and people without party affiliation for their contributions to building a well-off society in an all-round way was held in Beijing. Outstanding achievements in social services were commended.

China Siyuan Project Poverty Alleviation Foundation is one of the advanced collectives.

  Recently, Li Xiaolin was interviewed by a reporter from Chinanews.com, and described the foundation's public welfare philosophy, projects and achievements, from helping impoverished areas get rid of poverty and becoming rich, to participating in the consolidation and expansion of poverty alleviation achievements and the effective connection of rural revitalization.

Photo courtesy of China Siyuan Project Poverty Alleviation Foundation, China Siyuan Project Poverty Alleviation Foundation, China Siyuan Project Poverty Alleviation Foundation

Digital Commerce and Agriculture From "Precision Poverty Alleviation" to "Rural Revitalization"

  In order to help poverty-stricken areas get rid of poverty and become rich, in August 2018, China Siyuan Project Poverty Alleviation Foundation and social e-commerce enterprises and other units jointly initiated the establishment of China E-commerce Poverty Alleviation Alliance (renamed China E-commerce Rural Revitalization Alliance in May 2021), dedicated to Explore high-quality agricultural special products in poverty-stricken areas, build star brands, promote the connection between production and sales, and promote the transformation and upgrading of production and processing.

  The alliance member unit Daily Youxian made Sanbaishan Sweet Potatoes in Anyuan County, Jiangxi Province a "popular product" to help increase local income.

Li Xiaolin introduced that through the front-end diversified layout and the big data analysis of the platform, Daily Youxian determined the product positioning, packaging, specifications and marketing methods for sweet potatoes, and worked with the upstream to optimize the planting end and set standards to select high-quality sweet potatoes.

When it was put on the shelves, the sweet potatoes were covered with shock-proof foam nets and packed in boxes with the words "Gannan Sweet Potatoes" and "Childhood Taste".

After the "makeover", sweet potatoes were once in short supply, increasing local income.

"One mu of sweet potatoes has a net income of about 2,000 yuan (RMB, the same below) in one season, which is equivalent to the net income of some local poor households in one year."

  In 2021, my country will achieve a comprehensive victory in the battle against poverty.

In May of the same year, the "China E-commerce Poverty Alleviation Alliance" officially changed its name to "China E-commerce Rural Revitalization Alliance", with the main goal of rural revitalization and the establishment and improvement of a long-term mechanism to consolidate and expand the achievements of poverty alleviation, and further leverage the advantages of multi-platform resource aggregation. Intensify efforts to connect production and sales, carry out regional high-quality brand cultivation, improve the level of new infrastructure construction for rural e-commerce, and cultivate rural digital business talents.

  By the end of 2021, the alliance has helped 1,678 agricultural product enterprises in poverty-stricken areas and economically underdeveloped areas to carry out "three products and one standard" certification training, and subsidized 386 companies to pass the certification; through holding agricultural product brand promotion and negotiation activities, it guides member enterprises to carry out various forms of production, sales and marketing. Concentrated assistance, etc., accumulatively helped connect and sell agricultural products with more than 26 billion yuan.

China Siyuan Project Poverty Alleviation Foundation Bazaar Charity Fund has assisted in the construction of more than 400 aesthetic education classrooms. Photo courtesy of China Siyuan Project Poverty Alleviation Foundation

Educational assistance, poverty alleviation, wisdom and aspirations

  "A century-old plan, education is the foundation." Over the years, China Siyuan Project Poverty Alleviation Foundation has taken education aid as one of its key assistance projects, and has carried out various forms of public welfare projects.

  For example, the "Siyuan Educational Immigration Plan" aims to provide educational assistance to prevent the continuation of intergenerational poverty, and takes resettlement as the starting point to create entrepreneurial and employment conditions for rural migrants, while protecting the natural environment, expanding rural industries and poverty alleviation, and guiding the development of integrated A five-in-one compound and innovative poverty alleviation project of "educational poverty alleviation, relocation, entrepreneurship and employment, ecological restoration, and industrial poverty alleviation".

  The "Siyuan·Aerial Classroom" public welfare project jointly initiated by the Foundation and China Education TV Station, through the donation and installation of satellite live broadcast receiving equipment to many schools and teaching points, the establishment of an online education system, to help the economically underdeveloped areas, poverty alleviation areas and other places Primary school teaching sites or school teachers and students provide assistance to ensure that they can fully open the national curriculum.

  The foundation adheres to the concept of combining poverty alleviation with intellectual and aspirational support.

Li Xiaolin told reporters that the foundation has carried out a series of projects that will help improve their overall quality, so that students can develop in an all-round way in morality, intelligence, physique, beauty and labor.

For example, "Bazaar One Hour After Class" encourages students to receive aesthetic education, and has built more than 400 aesthetic education classrooms in rural boarding primary schools.

The "Change Cinema" provides students with the opportunity to contact movies and broaden their horizons. It has donated and built 143 cinemas in schools for children of migrant workers and schools in underdeveloped areas, benefiting more than 150,000 children.

  By the end of 2021, the China Siyuan Project Poverty Alleviation Foundation has carried out assistance work in more than 10,000 schools, aided the construction of more than 100 schools, donated the construction of electric classrooms for more than 3,000 schools, and continued to sponsor 17,717 students from disadvantaged families in 145 schools. Donated to many schools to build libraries, cinemas, aesthetic education classrooms, satellite broadcast receiving equipment, etc.

  "Obtaining an advanced collective is a recognition and affirmation of the 'Siyuan Project', and it is also an award and an incentive." Li Xiaolin believes that this honor belongs not only to the foundation and the team, but also to caring enterprises, caring people and the media from all walks of life. Charity and selfless dedication make our country and society a better place, and make the lives of our parents and villagers go to the next level."

  This year, the foundation will continue to play the leading role of "rural revitalization" e-commerce and leading enterprises to improve the level of agricultural industrialization and market competitiveness; take quality education as the starting point to consolidate the talent foundation for national development and national revitalization; continue to increase health care The efforts of medical precision assistance have boosted the development of medical undertakings in poverty-stricken areas; the channels for fundraising have been continuously expanded to comprehensively enhance the ability of charitable fundraising.

  "The foundation should be a 'new force' that effectively connects the achievements of poverty alleviation and expansion with rural revitalization, makes new and greater contributions to charity and rural revitalization, and welcomes the victory of the 20th Party Congress with practical actions and outstanding achievements. "Li Xiaolin said.

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