CCTV News (Focus Interview): Continue to focus on "the concern of the General Secretary".

Today we are going to visit two small villages in deep mountains and ravines in Gansu.

In February 2013, General Secretary Xi Jinping successively visited Yuangudui Village, Weiyuan County, Dingxi City, and Bulenggou Village, Dongxiang Autonomous County, Linxia Hui Autonomous Prefecture to visit veteran party members and people in need.

"Barrenness is the best in the world" was once a true portrayal of this place.

Difficulty in drinking water and walking is common in almost every impoverished village here.

That year, the general secretary brought New Year's goods to the villagers.

He told the cadres and the masses that the party and the government attach great importance to poverty alleviation and development, especially the development of ethnic minorities and ethnic areas, and will definitely give more support and help to the villagers. , Hard work, change the face of poverty as soon as possible.

The reporter of "Focus Interview" visited these two villages twice, and witnessed the changes of the people here step by step from the outside to the inside.

　　Starting from Lanzhou, the capital of Gansu Province, heading south, it takes about an hour to arrive at Bulenggou Village, Dongxiang Autonomous County, Linxia Hui Autonomous Prefecture.

Before and after the Spring Festival, the number of children in the village increased significantly. The renovation of the village style just completed last year has added a bit of quaint charm to Bulenggou Village.

　　Ma Maizhi is an old friend that the reporter visits every few years.

　　In 2013, General Secretary Xi Jinping once traveled across mountains and mountains to Bulenggou Village, which is more than 1,900 meters above sea level.

Ma Maizhi is the farmer that General Secretary Xi Jinping once visited.

At that time, Bulenggou Village was the poorest place in Dongxiang County—drought, lack of water, and inconvenient transportation. It was difficult for the masses to seek medical treatment, go to school, and increase their income.

　　Bringing in water, repairing roads, building new villages, and enabling the poor to get rid of poverty as soon as possible and live a well-off life are the general secretary's entrustment to the development of Bulengou Village.

　　2019 is the sixth year since the General Secretary visited Bulenggou Village, and Ma Maizhi already feels that his village is very good.

　　He told reporters: "Now we have water, roads, and new houses, and the general secretary's entrustment has been fulfilled."

　　Another four years have passed, what new changes have been made in Ma Maizhi's life?

　　Ma Maizhi said: "The transportation is much more convenient than before, and the bus is also available, and it is also convenient to go to Daban Town."

　　More than a month ago, Bulenggou Village had just received natural gas, and Ma Maizhi was about to visit other people's homes.

　　This family raised a lot of flowers, which was rare in Bulenggou Village in the past.

　　Hearing that Ma Maizhi came to see the natural gas, Ma Yilai immediately showed off his new gas stove.

Ma Maizhi was very tempted by the clean natural gas at his home, and he decided to buy a gas stove in the next year.

　　There are new changes in the village every year, but the current changes are different from the past.

　　Ma Maizhi said: "Those who don't know it will say that this is not a doll from Bulengou, but a doll from the county town. Now all the dolls go to school, can write Mandarin, and they are all very eloquent. The change is great."

　　Every time the media comes, Ma Maizhi always takes the reporters to visit his old house.

　　The old house has now been turned into a village history museum, and the photos on the walls are all memories of the past.

　　It is no wonder that Ma Maizhi was in a mess at the moment, because the Zhehong Secondary Highway was originally suspended in the air, and a bridge flew from north to south, pulling this once remote and closed village into the road network extending in all directions.

　　Ma Maizhi's eldest son, Ma Yousu, just bought a car before New Year's Day this year, and it's been less than two months.

Every day, he would send his younger brother Ma Jianzhong to work in the Dongxiang Economic Development Zone along the newly built Zhehong Highway.

　　Ma Jianzhong will be graduating from university this year, and now is the internship period.

　　Dongxiang Economic Development Zone is an industrial park dedicated to solving employment.

At present, there are 50 enterprises here, which have absorbed 9,700 people from nearby Dongxiang to work here.

　　As a college student, Ma Jianzhong received a salary of 3,000 yuan during his internship, which made him very satisfied and worked very hard.

　　Ten years ago, the general secretary gave him a schoolbag, a box of stationery and a dictionary to him who was in junior high school.

His life has changed since then.

　　Ma Jianzhong said: "I used to go out to work early like my brother. After the general secretary came, he changed my parents' thinking and supported us to study."

　　After the Spring Festival, 20 other villagers from Bulenggou Village will also work in the Economic Development Zone like Ma Jianzhong.

At the other end of the development zone, a highway connecting the provincial capital is under planning.

　　The young people in the village are looking forward to a new future. They can still have good jobs if they stay in the village; the journey to the city of Lanzhou is only an hour away.

The boundaries between city and country have blurred.

Their life is like this road that cuts through the mountains, smooth and convenient, without obstacles.

　　On the eve of the Spring Festival in 2013, General Secretary Xi Jinping also went to Yuangudui Village in Dingxi City for investigation and research. At the home of the old party member Ma Gang, he took a ladle of water from Ma Hailong, the grandson of Ma Gang.

Looking at this dilapidated and deeply impoverished village, he told the cadres and the masses, let's work together to make life more prosperous.

　　Guo Lianbing is the leader of the two committees of Yuangudui Village.

In 2013, when the general secretary came to this village, Guo Lianbing was one of the few people in the village who had a good life because of the good sales of the traditional Chinese medicine angelica. The village cadres introduced him to the general secretary.

　　A few months later, Dingxi City wanted to send a group of young people with the desire to become rich to train in rural Fujian, and Guo Lianbing was chosen.

　　At the end of this training, on April 18, 2013, Guo Lianbing wrote down the application for joining the party.

　　After returning to the village, Guo Lianbing applied for a public welfare position in the village committee and began to learn and work.

Later, in the general election of the village committee, Guo Lianbing was elected as the village director.

　　In 2020, reporters also came to this village for interviews.

At that time, Yuangudui Village had been lifted out of poverty, and Guo Lianbing was leading the village cadres to explore the path of rural revitalization.

　　That year, villager Zeng Yucheng had just contracted 40 mu of land to plant lilies.

　　Before the Spring Festival in 2023, the reporter came to Yuangudui again.

I saw Zeng Yucheng's family bought a gasoline car and an electric car.

A ceiling was installed in the main room, and a sun shed was set up in the yard.


　　Today's Yuangudui Village no longer looks like it used to be "poor and barren".

Based on local advantages, they vigorously promoted the cultivation of Chinese herbal medicine and the development of tourism, overcame difficulties, insisted on construction, and the pace of development has never stopped.

During the Spring Festival this year, the number of tourists rebounded, and all the facilities in Yuangudui Village were ready, and the "earth taste" party set off a happy climax.