China News Service, Taiyuan, September 29 (Yang Jing and Wu Qiong) The poverty alleviation goals and tasks have been fully completed, the infrastructure and public services have been significantly improved, the economic development of poverty-stricken areas has caught up quickly, and the rural governance capacity has been significantly improved.
As an important battlefield for poverty alleviation across the country, since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the Shanxi Provincial Party Committee and the Provincial Government have united and led the people of the whole province to jointly write an excellent Shanxi answer sheet for the decisive battle against poverty and a decisive victory in an all-round well-off.
"From Luliang Mountain to Taihang Mountain, from Yanmenguan to the Yellow River, there are many villages and houses moving out, arable land on steep slopes receding, barren hills and slopes greening up, photovoltaic industry brightening up, e-commerce tourism booming, job transfer coming out, and people's lives A vivid picture of getting better." Zhang Yuhong, member of the Party Group of the Shanxi Provincial Department of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Secretary of the Party Group and Director of the Shanxi Provincial Rural Revitalization Bureau, said on the 29th at the "Shanxi This Decade" series of press conferences held by the Propaganda Department of the Shanxi Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China.
Zhang Yuhong introduced that since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the lives of people who have been lifted out of poverty have undergone tremendous changes from insufficient food and clothing to an all-round well-off.
The income level of the rural poor in Shanxi Province has been significantly improved, and all of them have achieved "two worries and three guarantees".
All 3.29 million poor people were lifted out of poverty, all 7,993 poor villages were listed, and all 58 poor counties were removed, eliminating absolute poverty and overall regional poverty.
The appearance of poverty alleviation areas has undergone tremendous changes from being closed and backward to comprehensive improvement.
42,800 kilometers of newly renovated rural roads in Shanxi Province, all eligible villages have access to hardened roads and passenger cars; all impoverished villages are connected to electricity and broadband; 18,000 rural drinking water safety projects have been newly built and renovated, providing drinking water for 1.815 million poor people. difficult problems, etc.
As a whole, 3,365 deeply impoverished natural villages were relocated, with 472,000 people “relocated to the poorest nests”.
The long-standing problems of difficulty in traveling, drinking water, electricity, communication, housing, school, and medical treatment that have plagued the people for a long time have been historically resolved.
Industrial employment support has achieved a huge change from a single shortage to a prosperous industry.
Shanxi adheres to the new development concept, coordinating ecological livelihoods, coordinating green growth and increasing income, and the "five major projects" of ecological poverty alleviation have led to an increase in the income of 523,000 poor people.
Characteristic industries led to an increase in the income of 1.277 million poor people.
At the same time, e-commerce poverty alleviation covered 6,833 impoverished villages, and rural tourism poverty alleviation built 300 demonstration villages. Skills training and certified employment have become a general consensus. More than 90 characteristic labor service brands such as "Lvliangshan Nursing Workers" and "Tianzhen Nanny" have been created, driving 918,000 labor force lifted out of poverty were employed.
Grassroots organizations have achieved dramatic changes from spotty to strong.
Shanxi rectified weak and scattered grass-roots party organizations in impoverished villages, selected the best and stronger, concentrated and rotated training of party secretaries in impoverished villages, implemented the project of returning local talents in rural areas, and cultivated 35,600 leaders who started their own businesses and became rich.
Getting rid of poverty is not the end, but the starting point of a new life and new struggle.
Zhang Yuhong said: "Since entering the transitional period of the 14th Five-Year Plan, Shanxi has insisted on keeping the bottom line, focusing on development, promoting revitalization, guiding and coordinating promotion by category, doing a good job in consolidating and connecting various tasks, improving and improving the dynamic monitoring and assistance mechanism for preventing the return of poverty, strengthening the The follow-up support for ex-situ poverty alleviation and relocation, etc., has firmly maintained the bottom line of no large-scale return to poverty, promoted a more stable foundation for poverty alleviation and more sustainable results, and consolidated and expanded the achievements of poverty alleviation to effectively connect with rural revitalization and achieve a good start.” (End)