Source: Xinhua News Agency
"Although my home is not as beautiful as a gorgeous house, it gives me great happiness..." Ayiziba Abrimiti, a 12-year-old girl in Hotan, Xinjiang, describes the home in her composition, which is spacious, bright, comfortable and warm.
Majestic Kunlun, reckless sand sea. The countryside in southern Xinjiang, bordering the Taklamakan Desert, was once impoverished and impoverished, and it was a deep poverty area in the country. In November 2020, Xinjiang achieved a historic eradication of absolute poverty and handed in a colorful poverty alleviation answer sheet.
Poverty alleviation is not the end, but the starting point of a new life and a new struggle. On the new journey of rural revitalization, Xinjiang continues to consolidate the foundation of revitalization, infrastructure and public services make up for shortcomings and strong connotations; find a way to revitalize, improve the quality and efficiency of rural industries; draw a blueprint for revitalization, and move towards a better life... The desert village is composing a new movement of a better life.
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Laying the Foundation for Revitalizing Adhere to the bottom line of not returning to poverty
The hardships of the millennium are parted, the results of poverty alleviation are not easy to come by, and not returning to poverty is the bottom line.
The hard-core defense of the bottom line benefits from the effectiveness of the anti-poverty return mechanism
At the beginning of 2021, a villager in Yaole Arihi Village, Langan Township, Yutian County, Xinjiang, suddenly fell seriously ill, and it cost a lot of money to see a doctor, although the medical insurance policy covered most of it, but he was unable to work because of illness as the "top pillar" of the family, so that the family that had just escaped poverty was in trouble again.
"Without policy support, I didn't know what to do last year." Mai Tisai said.
At the critical moment, the early warning mechanism for preventing the return to poverty plays a role. Because the income did not meet the standard for 3 consecutive months, the village cadres came to the door in time to apply for subsidies and issue relief funds for his family to solve the problem. "Thanks to the 15,000 yuan relief fund, I was able to reduce the pressure of medical treatment and reduce the burden on my family." Mai Tissedi said happily.
This is a corner of a new village in Dali Yabuyi Township, Yutian County, Xinjiang, taken on November 9, 2021 (drone photo). Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Xiong Congru
This is a successful practice of Xinjiang's monitoring, early warning and support mechanism for preventing returning to poverty. In accordance with the unified deployment of the autonomous region, all localities in Xinjiang have introduced relevant measures to implement dynamic management and assistance mechanisms for preventing poverty returns, focusing on strengthening the monitoring and assistance of households that are unstable in poverty alleviation, marginal households that are prone to poverty, and households with sudden serious difficulties, and firmly establish the bottom line of preventing poverty returns.
The hardcore defense of the bottom line has benefited from great improvements in rural infrastructure
In order to remember the old days, Aizba's father, Ablimiti Namutura, spontaneously built the "Peasant Museum", which contrasts with the old farm tools, wooden wheels and daily necessities placed in the courtyard houses and his now solid home.
Abulimiti's father told him that he was impressed by the poor days of the past, that the cold winter moon was the most difficult, the mud house leaked everywhere, his hands and face were frozen red, and the whole family could only sit around the earthen kang.
Nowadays, the rich people's housing is spacious and bright, the electric heating is warm and environmentally friendly, the courtyard grows vegetables and fruits, and the chickens and sheep behind the house are full of circles. "Now the village has asphalt roads, and there are more and more tourists." Abulimiti said, "The 'Peasant Museum' that I didn't dare to think of before has also been built!" ”
Amina Maitoheti, a villager in Dariyabuyi, Yutian County, Xinjiang, in a spacious and warm home on November 12, 2021. Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Gu Yu
Looking around, the railway that surrounds the Taklamakan Desert will soon be fully opened to traffic, the natural gas project in southern Xinjiang will be smoothly advanced, and millions of ordinary households will bid farewell to collecting firewood for fire... Bottlenecks that have long restricted the development of poor areas, such as difficulties in travel, electricity, water, and communications, have been cracked one by one.
The hard-core defense of the bottom line has benefited from a significant improvement in the level of public services
Walking into every township, you can often hear the sound of children reading in primary schools, the roar of the machines in the rural poverty alleviation workshop, and the laughter of the people of all ethnic groups in their homes...
Behind these voices is a significant increase in the level of public services such as education, medical care, culture, and social security in Various parts of Xinjiang.
"Schools, hospitals, factories, etc., are all built on the doorstep of their homes." Era Khan Tursun, a resident of Chazhek Town in Shache County, Xinjiang, said her children went to school in the town, her husband also worked in the town, and the family had a stable and happy income. In the town of Charek, more than 200 households have achieved employment and income at the doorstep of their homes.
Kunlun Mountain stands majestically, but the outside of the mountain has changed the human world. Tens of millions of people of all ethnic groups have shaken off poverty, consolidated the results of poverty alleviation, and made great strides forward on the road of rural revitalization.
Seeking the road to revitalization Characteristic industries are upgrading
"Last year, my family's 16 acres of walnuts were harvested again, and I was not worried about the purchase price at all." In Yitimukong Township, Kashgar Yecheng County, Xinjiang, the "hometown of Chinese walnuts," farmer Tulaniza Abulimiti said with a smile.
Her optimism stemmed from a walnut order from Xinjiang Meijia Food & Beverage Co., Ltd., a leading local company. While providing raw materials for walnut processing, she is also an employee of the company, "even if I don't grow walnuts, I still have a monthly salary of 2300 yuan." ”
Tulaniza Abulimiti, a farmer in Yitimukong Township, Yecheng County, Xinjiang, works for Xinjiang Meijia Food and Beverage Co., Ltd., a leading local company," on November 20, 2021. Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Gu Yu
The key to rural revitalization is industrial revitalization.
Since 2021, Xinjiang's rural industries have been upgraded and upgraded, the traditional planting and breeding of the past has been replaced by a number of high-quality development characteristic industries, modern production management has become more and more common, the integration of the first, second and third industries has accelerated, and the growing rural industries are becoming an important support for rural revitalization.
Villagers in Dali yabuyi, Yutian County, Xinjiang, develop camel breeding at the site of an old village (photo taken on November 12, 2021). Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Gu Yu
Yecheng County, where Tulaniza is located, has a walnut planting area of 580,000 mu in 2021 and an annual output of 120,000 tons of walnuts, which is a traditional leading industry and a rich industry in the local area.
Nowadays, Yecheng County has formed an industrial development pattern of "the county has leading enterprises, the township has a planting base, and the village has a cooperative", and the county has built more than 40 "rural workshops", absorbing more than 3,000 rural surplus laborers to find employment at the doorstep of their homes, and the farmers' money bags are getting bigger and bigger every year.
As with the story of walnuts, Aksu apples, Korla pears, Turpan grapes... The melon and fruit specialties that surround the Tarim Basin are also improving quality and efficiency.
Those who have developed well have been able to open up the first, second, and third industries and combine special planting, fine processing, and rural tourism. The village of Waizhanzi in Qitai County, Xinjiang is an example.
Wang Jiakui, director of the noodle workshop of the Fengyu Agricultural Service Cooperative in Waist Station Zi Village, Qitai County, Xinjiang, commissions a machine in a noodle processing workshop (photographed on August 24, 2021). Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Xu Sheng
Wang Jiakui, a villager who has been growing wheat for generations and has been growing wheat for generations, is now responsible for supervising the entire process of workshop production. "With a fixed salary of 6,000 yuan per month, I have money in my hand and A full sense of happiness." Wang Jiakui said that this does not include dividends from the village cooperative.
At the same time, waist station farming culture tourism is also gradually developing. Walking on the asphalt village road, the inside and outside of the farmhouse are clean and tidy, and the farming culture square at the head of the village is lined with many unique scarecrows, which not only spread the local farming culture, but also attract tourists to stop.
Relying on the extended industrial chain of wheat, Waizhanzi Village has become a well-known wealthy village. There are 443 households, and the per capita net income in 2020 will reach 24180 yuan.
Animal husbandry is a traditional basic industry and advantageous industry in Xinjiang, in recent years, Xinjiang proposed to accelerate the promotion of animal husbandry regions towards a strong livestock husbandry area, driven by a number of leading enterprises, industrial clusters are taking shape.
Villagers in Mitizi Village, Langru Township, Hotan County, Xinjiang, feed sheep on November 16, 2021. Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Gu Yu
"The wind blows stones and runs, and there is no grass everywhere", this is the inherent impression of people in the Gobi Desert. However, walking into the Moyu County Modern Agricultural Industrial Park built on the Gobi, people will be surprised by the scene in front of them - Xinjiang Meibit Food Co., Ltd. has a daily processing capacity of 200,000 broiler chickens and 140 cold chain logistics trucks running at full capacity; not far away, Xinjiang Wanfeng Animal Husbandry Development Co., Ltd. has an annual processing capacity of 3 million meat sheep, creating a whole industrial chain of breeding, breeding, slaughtering and sales.
Build an industry to benefit the people.
At present, industrial parks are rising in the north and south of the Tianshan Mountains, boxes of featured products "flying" to the whole country, and beautiful scenery everywhere attract tourists from all over the world to "punch in"... The characteristic industries developed in various parts of Xinjiang according to local conditions are converging and shaking their fingers into fists, effectively promoting rural revitalization.
Drawing a blueprint for revitalization The desert villages show vitality
The new village in Dariyabuyi Township, Yutian County, Hotan County, Xinjiang is only "two years old" and is a new village born after the implementation of the relocation project for poverty alleviation. In the past, the village was far away from the county seat and more than 200 kilometers deep into the desert hinterland, with no roads, no water, no big power grid, and was called "the last desert tribe".
"What should I do if I move out of the old village?" The new relocation site is only 90 kilometers from the county seat, but for a long time, such questions have been haunting the mind of Jia Cunpeng, the party secretary of Dariyabuyi Township.
The people's money bags must be inflated, but not only the money bags must be inflated. Industrial prosperity, ecological livability, rural civilization, effective governance, and cultural prosperity are the meaning of rural revitalization.
Abulimiti Namutula, a villager in Towanhan Erik Village, Khan Erik Town, Hotan County, Xinjiang, gives an explanation to visitors at a self-built "Peasant Museum" (photo taken on November 14, 2021). Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Gu Yu
"We have decided to preserve the original appearance of the old village, protect the historical, cultural and natural landscape of the old village to the greatest extent, so that the villagers can see the fence house, see the hand pressed well, remember the nostalgia, and moderately develop animal husbandry and tourism, while boldly developing modern planting and breeding at the new relocation site." Jia Cunpeng said.
Today, the village's large yun has been dug up, the number of sheep in the livestock breeding cooperative has reached 20,000, and more than 30 farmers and herdsmen are engaged in tourism.
At the same time, the new relocation site is surrounded by greenery: newly planted poplars, thousands of acres of sophora forests planted in 2020 and the meandering Kriya River, becoming a dazzling sight in the yellow sand sea.
The former "desert isolated village" is embarking on a path of green development and ecological livability for rural revitalization.
Rapidly improving economic conditions, coupled with ecologically livable living conditions, more and more young people are willing to work among the countryside.
The 31-year-old Tusun Mamuti Yiming relocated from Dashanli to the town of Aktash in Yecheng County in 2019, and he began to learn vegetable growing techniques as a former herder. Last July, he contracted seven greenhouses for 5,000 yuan per year, four of which grow tomatoes and three grow watermelons, melons and off-season vegetables.
Parents of Tusun Mamuti Yiming, a resident of Aktash Township in Yecheng County, Xinjiang, box the harvested tomatoes on November 19, 2021. Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Gu Yu
"Just two days ago, I took another stubble of tomatoes to sell, my annual income is more than 50,000 yuan, and I will contract 3 greenhouses this year." Tusun Mamuti said that after the relocation, the village regularly held various trainings, as long as you work hard, you will definitely get rich.
Nowadays, the town of Aktash has built a planting and breeding base, a rural workshop, a shop along the street, a farmer's market, and the living and production conditions have been continuously improved. The 14,000 farmers and herdsmen who have moved since 2018 live and work in peace and contentment, and young people with lofty ideals are showing their fists.
Tusun Mamuti Yiming, a resident of Aktash Township in Yecheng County, Xinjiang, picks tomatoes in a greenhouse contracted by himself on November 19, 2021. Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Gu Yu
Today, the people of all ethnic groups in Xinjiang are continuing to struggle and making continuous efforts to achieve the consolidation and expansion of the achievements in poverty alleviation and the effective connection with rural revitalization.
Text reporters: Gu Yu, Xiong Congru, Xu Sheng
Participation in the writing: Su Chuanyi
Video reporters: Su Chuanyi, Xiong Congru, Gu Yu, Xu Sheng
Poster design: Jiang Zihan
New Media Editor: Qiu Shijie