China News Service, Liangshan, August 10th: "Cliff Village" in Daliangshan flew back to "Homecoming Swallow"
Reporter Yue Yitong
Although the family has moved, a 29-year-old villager of Atulier Village, Zhaojue County, Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan Province, Su Buja, still lives in the old village site on a cliff all year round.
Atulier Village, deep in the Daliang Mountains, is located on a cliff with an altitude of more than 1,400 meters. The 17 rattan ladders perpendicular to the cliff used to be the only way for the villagers to connect with the outside world, which was very dangerous.
In the past 10 years, the rattan ladders in "Cliff Village" have been replaced by safer steel ladders. The villagers have also enjoyed the policy of relocation for poverty alleviation and moved to the resettlement site in the county town, and lived in bright and spacious buildings.
Today, every family in the village of Abu Loha has motorcycles.
Photo by Wang Lei
"After people moved down the mountain, the land on the mountain was idle, which was a bit of a waste. I just wanted to make use of the land and develop the industry." Su Buja of a certain color said in an interview with a reporter from Chinanews.com a few days ago that in 2019, he took the lead. Established the Subuja Breeding Farmers Professional Cooperative in Zhaojue County, and returned to the mountain with more than 10 like-minded young people in the village to start a business. He only gave himself 4 days off each month and returned to his new home to reunite with his family.
During the period of poverty alleviation, Liangshan Prefecture "crossed the millennium in one step", all 11 poverty-stricken counties were removed, all 2,072 poverty-stricken villages were listed, and all 1.052 million registered poor people were lifted out of poverty.
Today, with the continuous advancement of rural revitalization, Daliangshan villages are welcoming more and more young people.
"Ten years ago, I could not have imagined that the village would undergo such an earth-shaking change." Gillie Ziri, the first college student in Abuluoha Village, Butuo County, Liangshan Prefecture, and the party secretary of the "post-90s" village party, walked out of the mountain. Choose to return.
As the last administrative village in China with access to a highway, Abuluoha Village, surrounded by mountains on three sides and facing cliffs on the other, was once closed. The villagers could only rely on people to carry their daily necessities on horseback. village.
In June 2020, a 3.8-kilometer-long cement road connected the village to the outside world along the high mountain cliffs, ending the "hundred years of loneliness" in this Yi village.
Abu Loha village surrounded by mountains.
Photo by Wang Lei
When the reporter visited the village of Abu Luoha by car a few days ago, he saw that the temporary means of transportation during the construction of the road, the ferry car suspended on the high-altitude cableway of hundreds of meters, has long been stopped and has become a thing of the past.
The spacious highway that is far away from it "takes over the baton" and takes the villagers to the big world.
Gillette led the reporter to the village. He proudly introduced the changes in the village: all the villagers have moved into new houses, and there is a small courtyard in front of the door, where vegetables, flowers and plants are grown; this is a newly built farmhouse, which is convenient for reception. Tourists; the village primary school has been renovated, and the facilities are perfect now; all the horses in the village have been sold, and now every family has a motorcycle, and a few households have even bought a car; Think sweet...
"In poverty alleviation and rural revitalization, no one has been left behind in the development of the times. The days of studying with oil lamps and saving food for food have become a thing of the past. I believe that there will be more college students in our village in the future." Gillette said.
With the hard work of Su Buja and his colleagues, the former site of Atulier Village has also been transformed from an idle vacant land into a production base.
More than 200 acres of olives are growing vigorously, and the sheep that are raised are ordered in advance by Shenzhen companies before they grow up; through live webcasts, specialties such as honey and citrus are sold to all parts of the country...
"Last year, the cooperative earned 380,000 yuan just from selling sheep. All kinds of income combined, my family earns more than 100,000 yuan a year, which is much higher than going out to work." A certain color Su said without making a smile, ten years ago In the past, young people in the village "shaved their heads" and wanted to run outside, but now more and more people are returning to the village to do business.
On weekdays, in addition to live broadcasts, Su Buja also often shares the new look of "Cliff Village" on the Internet.
He admitted that he has a strong hometown complex, "I don't want the 'Cliff Village' to be forgotten, because the changes in the village have also witnessed the changes in our lives. As long as the younger generation is still struggling, the village will never disappear, and it will definitely become more and more The better." (End)