Taiyuan, 3 March (Xinhua) -- Ten Years of Changes in Five Villages -- Following General Secretary Xi Jinping's Footsteps in Shanxi's Rural Inspection to See Rural Revitalization
Xinhua News Agency reporters Zhao Donghui, Yan Guozheng, Sun Liangquan, and Li Ziwei
Spring and Jingming, all things Zhaosu. Spring ploughing and preparation are carried out in Shanxi from south to north.
Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, General Secretary Xi Jinping has come to Shanxi three times, going deep into many villages and giving important instructions on promoting poverty alleviation and rural revitalization.
Embarked on a new journey, following the footsteps of General Secretary Xi Jinping, we once again went to Taihang and visited Lüliang, going deep into the five villages visited by the general secretary, listening to the villagers talk about the changes in the past ten years, and feeling the vitality of rural revitalization.
One responsibility: "In promoting the modernization of agriculture and rural areas, we will go further and further"
Near noon, the Lüliang Mountains are warm. In Duan Village, Sengnian Town, Fenxi County, Shanxi Province, the roads are straight and tidy, and the newly built day care center for the elderly and other facilities are eye-catching. When he met Cai Wenming, he was driving the sheep home, and more than 120 cashmere goats were his family's "baby bumps". "Selling wool in summer and meat in winter, earning tens of thousands of dollars a year." Speaking of his current life, Lao Cai couldn't close his mouth with a smile.
A year ago, on January 1, General Secretary Xi Jinping braved the wind and snow to come to Duan Village, walked into Cai Wenming's house, talked with him about household life, asked about income, calculated income, and carefully inquired about life after poverty alleviation. The general secretary told the villagers that building a modern country is inseparable from agricultural and rural modernization, and that it is necessary to continue to consolidate the achievements in poverty alleviation, solidly promote rural revitalization, and make the people's lives go to a higher level, and go further and further in promoting agricultural and rural modernization.
Shanxi is an old revolutionary area and a once impoverished area. Letting the lives of the people in the old areas get better is a deep concern for General Secretary Xi Jinping.
If you think of it, there will be an echo. From tackling deep poverty to consolidating and expanding the achievements in poverty alleviation, and then continuing to promote rural revitalization, General Secretary Xi Jinping made important instructions on doing a good job in the "three rural areas" work at different stages during his three visits to Shanxi, guiding the earth-shaking changes in the rural areas of Sanjin.
Liu Fuyou from Gonglan County, Xinzhou City, feels this deeply. Liu Fuyou, who now lives in a county building, cleaned up his new home and opened the chatterbox while beckoning us to eat fruit. "Now I have a job, an income, and a decent life." He said.
Ten years ago, Liu Fuyou was not "decent". At that time, he was a special poor family in Zhaojiawa Village, and he had no intention of thinking about anything other than subsistence. The Lüliangshan area, where Zhao Jiawa is located, is intertwined with deep poverty and fragile ecology, and is the main battlefield for poverty alleviation in Shanxi Province.
How to overcome these poor and strong? On June 2017, 6, General Secretary Xi Jinping came to Zhaojiawa Village to visit the deeply impoverished people and attack the fortress of deep poverty.
Liu Fuyou clearly remembers the scene of the general secretary sitting on the edge of his house and "talking": "Ask the family about the difficulties and requirements for getting rid of poverty, and ask the cadres about the measures and plans for poverty alleviation." ”
After visiting poverty-stricken areas and poor people, General Secretary Xi Jinping presided over a symposium on poverty alleviation in deep-poverty areas in Taiyuan, listened to the progress report on poverty alleviation, focused on studying strategies to solve deep poverty, and issued an order to gnaw the hard bones of deep poverty.
Relocation and resettlement communities, supporting poverty alleviation workshops to arrange nearby employment for relocated people, family doctors to sign door-to-door services... One by one, strong deployments and extraordinary measures have been tilted towards deeply impoverished areas. A few months later, the last left-behind villagers in Zhaojiawa Village, including Liu Fuyou, "checked in" into the new area of Guanghuiyuan Immigration in the county seat, starting a new life that they "never thought about".
After getting rid of poverty, can it be stable, and how can we continue to increase income and become rich? In May 2020, at the critical moment of building a moderately prosperous society in an all-round way and fighting a decisive battle against poverty, General Secretary Xi Jinping came to Shanxi again. In Datong, the general secretary went deep into the fields to inspect the growth of yellow flowers. He told the villagers that after the villagers got rid of poverty, what I was most concerned about was how to consolidate poverty alleviation, prevent them from falling back into poverty, and ensure that the villagers continued to increase their income and become rich.
Villagers pick yellow flowers at the Datong Yellow Flower Organic Standardized Planting Base in Tangjiabao Village, Yunzhou District (pictured on July 2022, 7). Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Yang Chenguang
During the inspection, General Secretary Xi Jinping stressed that it is necessary to "strengthen follow-up support for relocation", "develop rural industries according to local conditions" and "strengthen community construction and management"... Scientific and precise methods allow the poverty alleviation households to take a "reassuring pill" and point out the development path for the poverty alleviation villages.
"The words of the general secretary deeply inspired me," said Yang Qi, who had exchanges with the general secretary at the yellow flower planting base, saying that it is necessary to upgrade the yellow flower industry as soon as possible and lead more people to become rich. This yellow flower broker, the person in charge of the yellow flower planting cooperative, has become the head of the yellow flower processing industry company. "The enterprise has solved the employment of more than 200 villagers in the surrounding villages, and everyone has increased their income together." He said.
Overcome millennial poverty and embark on a new journey. How to consolidate and expand the achievements in poverty alleviation and continue to promote rural revitalization has become the focus of the general secretary's attention.
On the wall of the Duan Village Convenience Service Center, a "dynamic monitoring and assistance operation map to prevent poverty return" is very eye-catching, and the monitoring and identification time, risk classification, person responsible for help, and assistance measures are clear at a glance.
Before this operational map, General Secretary Xi Jinping asked in detail about the relevant situation. Li Jiali, secretary of the Duancun party branch who reported to him, said that only one of the 16 households that were lifted out of poverty and vulnerable to poverty was listed at that time. The young man, who was paralyzed by sudden myelitis, currently enjoys seven support policies such as anti-poverty liability insurance, nursing subsidies for the disabled and living subsidies uniformly insured by the government, and has no worries about life.
The mission is on the shoulders, and the responsibility is like a mountain. From getting rid of poverty to revitalizing the countryside, from promoting agricultural and rural modernization to comprehensively building a modern socialist country, the people's yearning for a better life has always been the goal of our party. Endeavor is on the road of rural revitalization, and people are full of confidence and hope.
One path: "Develop rural industries according to local conditions"
Spring arrives in northern Jin, and the greenery is budding. Outside Yanmen Pass, the land outside Tangjiabao Village under the Datong Volcanic Group has seen green, and a plant that spewed green earlier than the willow tree quietly emerged.
This perennial herb is different from the corn and small grains grown by local ancestors. Those crops only allowed the people to "make a living", but it changed the fate of the locals. This little yellow flower gave birth to a large industry that enriches the people.
Rural revitalization and industrial revitalization are the top priorities.
General Secretary Xi Jinping has always attached great importance to the development of rural industries, emphasizing that "the prosperity of industry is the prerequisite for solving all problems in rural areas", and it is necessary to "do a good job in the articles of 'native products'", "develop rural industries according to local conditions" and "closely focus on the development of modern agriculture, around the integrated development of rural primary, secondary and tertiary industries, build a rural industrial system, and achieve industrial prosperity".
During inspections and investigations across the country, General Secretary Xi Jinping has repeatedly praised rural characteristic industries, and Datong Xiaohuanghua is one of them.
In May 2020, General Secretary Xi Jinping came to Yunzhou District, Datong City, got off the bus, and went straight to the field to gain an in-depth understanding of the development of the local yellow flower industry. He advised the local cadres to protect and develop the yellow flower industry well, so that it can become a good way for the villagers to get rich and a "flower for getting rich" for the masses.
Villagers inspect the quality of yellow flowers in Tangjiabao Village, Yunzhou District, July 2022, 7. Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Yang Chenguang
The standardized planting base of organic yellow flowers that the general secretary saw was planted and managed by Yang Qi's cooperative. Yang Qi said that after several "iterative upgrades", yellow flower planting has changed from a traditional planting method to a modern "three unified increase" planting management system of unified cultivation and weeding, fertilizer water management, pest prevention and control, and increased application of organic fertilizer.
An Chunxia, a villager in Tangjiabao Village, Yunzhou District, kept in mind the instructions of the general secretary and expanded the planting area of yellow flowers to 1100,<> mu in recent years, created her own yellow flower brand, and expanded the industrial chain from planting to processing and sales.
An Yiping, director of the Datong Huanghua Industry Development Service Center, said: "The general secretary's instructions have given us great encouragement. "On the basis of 26,5 mu of yellow flower planting, the local cadres and masses have cultivated more than 170 production and management subjects, developed five series of more than 100 kinds of yellow flower products, and increased the output value of the whole yellow flower industry chain from 18.40 billion yuan to <> billion yuan. Under the linkage of the three industries, the "flower of revitalization" of the little yellow flower is blooming more and more brightly.
There are yellow flowers in the north and Nian Bun in the south.
General Secretary Xi Jinping clearly proposed during his inspection tour in Shanxi that Shanxi should develop "special" and "excellent" agriculture. Following the direction guided by the general secretary, the "native products" on the land of the Three Jin Dynasties gradually grew into a large industry for rural revitalization.
Before the Spring Festival last year, General Secretary Xi Jinping came to Feng Nanyuan Village, Shizhuang Township, Huozhou City, in southern Shanxi. In the home of the villager division Hongbing, the general secretary kneaded a jujube dough and lit red dates for the dough. In the midst of laughter, the New Year's buns were made one by one, which was particularly festive.
In Feng Nanyuan Village, Shizhuang Township, Huozhou City, Shanxi Province, Shi Jingyue, the granddaughter of Shi Hongbing, is sorting out the New Year Bun (pictured on May 2022, 5). Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Zhan Yan
This small New Year bun made by the general secretary himself has triggered more thinking among the cadres and masses in Huozhou: as long as the market favors it, the New Year Bun, a festive product that is only made during the Spring Festival, can not be popular all year round.
Zhu Ruihua, secretary of the Shizhuang Township Party Committee, who reported the situation in the village to the general secretary, said that in the past year, Feng Nanyuan Village identified market demand and used the idle houses in the village to build a standardized New Year Bun processing enterprise. Shi Hongbing's family, who has the "ancestral craft" of steaming nian buns, is not far behind. Shi Yalong, the second son of Shi Hongbing, is preparing to set up his own Nian Bun factory and plans to return to the village to do a big job.
Shi Jingyue (middle), grandfather Shi Hongbing (right) and grandmother Zhu Haidan (left) display the Nian Bun in Feng Nanyuan Village, Shizhuang Township, Huozhou City, Shanxi Province (pictured on May 2022, 5). Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Zhan Yan
Nian Bun has become a major industry for the "rich pocket" of Huozhou people. Last year, the output value of Huozhou's annual bread exceeded 108 million yuan, and the city's <> Nianyun workshops solved the employment problem of a large number of rural women. With the increase in market demand, the income of women who make steamed buns has doubled compared with previous years.
From a flower to a bun, from a flock of sheep to a street, Tangjiabao Village and Fangcheng New Village in Yunzhou District, Datong District, Songjiagou New Village in Gonglan County, Xinzhou, Feng Nanyuan Village in Huozhou City, and Duan Village in Fenxi County, with the help of one characteristic industry, have become more and more solid and broad on the road of rural revitalization of rich people and strong villages.
This is a small shop in front of the house of Zheng Xianxian, a villager in Songjiagou Village, Yuanlan County, Xinzhou City, Shanxi Province (taken on August 2022, 8). Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Sun Liangquan
A feeling: "Create a happy life with unremitting struggle"
Spacious and tidy courtyards, sturdy and durable houses, and in the new houses rebuilt after heavy rains, the division red soldiers have passed two Spring Festivals. This Spring Festival, he posted another couplet that "expressed his feelings": The Reconstruction Home Party leads the way, and then revitalizes the prosperity of the people and the people.
In October 2021, heavy rainfall suddenly occurred in Shanxi, and all four caves in Shi Hongbing's house collapsed. With the help of the local government, he quickly moved into a new house rebuilt on the same site. Before the Spring Festival last year, General Secretary Xi Jinping came to Feng Nanyuan Village to inspect the post-disaster recovery and reconstruction situation. The general secretary pointed out that it is necessary to "lead the people to rebuild a beautiful homeland with hardworking hands and create a happy life with unremitting struggle."
Shi Hongbing snapped his fingers and said that many modern living facilities were added to the village this year. The newly built asphalt road stretches out, street lamps stand in line, sewage pipe networks enter farmers' households, traditional dry toilets become flushing toilets, and the air can solve the problem of heating villagers in winter, "living in the village is becoming more and more comfortable."
To promote the modernization of agriculture and rural areas, we must not only make agriculture a promising industry and make farmers an attractive occupation, but also make rural areas suitable for living and working and beautiful villages. In accordance with the requirements of General Secretary Xi Jinping, the cadres and masses of Shanxi rolled up their sleeves and worked hard, turning one beautiful vision after another into reality with unremitting struggle.
Located deep in the Lüliang Mountains, Songjiagou New Village in Yuanlan County is a village for poverty alleviation migrants. On the Sankeshu Square at the head of the village, General Secretary Xi Jinping once told the villagers that the Party Central Committee is to lead everyone to get rid of poverty and become rich, so that the people's life can blossom and flourish.
This is a corner of Songjiagou Village, Gonglan County, Xinzhou City, Shanxi Province (drone photo, taken on October 2022, 10). Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Yang Chenguang
Liu Lintao's house is next to the square. Talking about the changes in her life in recent years, she is full of emotion. "After moving from a stone house to a new home, drinking running water, using a flush toilet, and heating in winter, I would not have dared to imagine the change." Liu Lintao said that he did not expect that in the past two years, there have been more and more modern facilities at home, and new home items such as refrigerators and mobile phones have been added.
"Roll up your sleeves and work hard!" This sentence was deeply imprinted in the hearts of the people of Songjiagou. In recent years, Songjiagou has implemented beautiful village construction projects, optimized the overall planning of the village, and improved public facilities, and now has achieved rainwater separation, line access to the ground, and full coverage of 5G networks. Songjiagou, which is becoming more and more beautiful year by year, has become the first 3A-level tourist attraction in Gonglan County, and the once dilapidated old street connecting the square has become a road to prosperity with flowing water and tourists.
The changes in the village attracted the attention of Wang Hongbin, a villager of the "post-80s". After some thought, he decided to go back to the village to run a farmhouse with his parents. Not only Wang Hongbin, in recent years, 5 "juniors" who have worked outside have returned to Songjiagou to start a business.
The people's pursuit of a happy life is endless, and the work for the benefit of the people is also endless. At the Central Rural Work Conference held at the end of last year, General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out that it is necessary to aim at the goal of "basically modern living conditions in rural areas", "organize and implement rural construction actions", and "improve the completeness of rural infrastructure, the convenience of public services, and the comfort of living environment, so that farmers can live a modern and civilized life on the spot."
Hearing these words in the news, Bai Gaoshan, a villager in Fangcheng New Village, Yunzhou District, Datong City, felt even deeper. I remember that when General Secretary Xi Jinping came to the house in May 2020, his little grandson was still holding him in his arms. Now that his grandson is three years old, Bai Gaoshan was still worried about where to go to school, but he didn't expect that the kindergarten in the village was built a few years ago, and the problem of his little grandson's admission was solved.
"Last year, the village solved the problem of 'one old and one small', and the newly built elderly care service center and kindergarten were put into use one after another." Bai Gaoshan said that most of the parents of the children in the kindergarten work in the village industrial park. Solving the problem of children's admission to the kindergarten, these young people are more secure when they return to the village to work.
Spring blossoms, green dyes Lu Liang. Cai Wenming, a villager in Duan Village, planned to install an electric water heater in the bathing room at home, so that it would be more convenient for the family to bathe. Thinking that life at home will change again, General Secretary Xi Jinping's words on the village cultural square echoed in Cai Wenming's mind——
"The only option for the Communist Party of China to govern is to do good things for the masses of the people, and to fight, dedicate and serve for the people's happy life."