"Food is the priority for the people, and water is the priority for food." General Secretary Xi Jinping has always been concerned about the problem of rural water supply, and proposed that "the rural population must be assured of drinking water, and the problem of unsafe drinking water cannot be brought into a well-off society."

　　Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, tens of thousands of rural drinking water safety projects have been rolled out across China.

The pipeline network that goes over mountains and mountains bears witness to the determination and will to make all rural people drink safe water.

　　This is the Dongxiang Autonomous County of Linxia, ​​Gansu, observed by satellite.

In the past ten years, 8 water plants and 603 storage and pressure regulating pools have been built here.

　　Using GIS, we tried to restore this historic water supply project.

Choose any one of the water pipelines, and in the process of extending forward, we saw collapsible loess, channels, steep mountains, such a complex and changeable terrain.

The pipeline eventually covered the entire Dongxiang County, and when we counted their total length, the number reached more than 7,200 kilometers.

Today, clean water flows into the homes of more than 300,000 people in Dongxiang.

The villagers no longer need to rely on donkeys to carry water and rely on water cellars to store water, and the entire mountain village has also changed dramatically because of the water.

　　Ma Alimu, a villager in Bulengou Village, Dongxiang County, Linxia Prefecture, Gansu Province: This is our original water cellar.

It's different now, now we have clean tap water to drink anytime, anywhere.

And our school, including these fruit trees on our mountain, all developed with water.

　　In order to solve the problem of drinking water safety in all rural areas, in the past ten years, Chinese people have traveled to remote areas and deep mountains that have never been reached before, looking for water sources and repairing channels.

　　In the Guyuan Mountains of Ningxia, starting from the reservoir in Jingyuan County, six pumping stations have pumped up the water by more than 600 meters, which is equivalent to the height of nearly 200 stories.

Let a small village of more than 700 people 230 kilometers away, every household has tap water to drink at any time.

　　There are more than 500,000 rural centralized water supply projects in China today.

When we marked their locations one by one on the map, there was such a blue ocean in front of us.

Comparing it with the Chinese population distribution map, you will find that the distribution of the two maps is basically the same.

In the past ten years, the penetration rate of rural tap water has increased by 19 percentage points. During the "13th Five-Year Plan" period alone, 9.75 million people bid farewell to drinking water with excessive fluoride, and 1.2 million people no longer need to drink brackish water.

　　Liu Zhiliang, a villager from Kushuiying Village, Jingxian County, Hebei Province: Our village is called "Kushuiying" village. We drink well water with high fluoride content and have yellow teeth. When you speak or smile, you will know that you are "Kushuiying" of.

Well now, we are drinking the "South Water" from the South-to-North Water Transfer Project. The children's teeth are white. It used to be called "Bitter Water Camp", but now it has become "Sweet Water Camp".

　　Water can quench thirst and make you richer.

In the National Poverty Alleviation and Development Information System, we found households that have been "impoverished by water" in the past decade.

When we check the poverty alleviation measures and consolidation and improvement measures of these poor households, we can see that "solving safe drinking water" and "special planting and breeding industries" will always appear at the same time.

　　In Hangjinqi, Inner Mongolia, there is no need to worry about water shortage anymore. The villagers still have water to raise cattle and sheep. In Baojing County, Hunan Province, with water, local peaches and daylily have become industrial characteristics.

In Getou Village, deep in the mountains of Guizhou, because of the availability of water, the villagers ate "tourist meals" at their doorsteps.

　　In the past ten years, water plants and reservoirs have been erected on the once barren and dry land, and water supply pipelines have been criss-crossed, resulting in a historic change in the way of rural water use, and the problem of drinking water safety for the poor in my country has been fully resolved.

Today, the penetration rate of tap water in rural areas has reached 84%. While delivering clean and hygienic drinking water to hundreds of millions of farmers, it has also injected a steady stream of impetus into rural revitalization.

　　(Reporter Xiao Zhensheng, Zhang Qinyuequn, Liang Lijuan, Li Bin, Zhu Jiang, Wang Shiyu, Zhao Shuguang, Chen Bo, Liu Jiaxin, Zhang Zhi, Sun Xingting, Gou Yuguang, Wang Zhong, Liu Haichao, Liu Long, Liu Zhan, Wang Peng, Chai Shiwen, Wanling, Wang Lei, Baihao, Hebei, Gansu, Linxia, ​​Hunan, Guizhou)