The place where the "miracle on earth" set sail: The eighteen-hole village of Miaozhai in Hunan Province

(Centennial Birthday of the Communist Party of China) The place where the "miracle on earth" set sail: The Eighteen-Hole Village of Miaozhai in Hunan Province

China News Service Xiangxi April 29 Title: The place where the "miracle on earth" set sail: Eighteen-hole village of Miaozhai in Hunan Province

Written by Fu Jingyi

In the spring, the 18-hole village of Miaozhai, surrounded by mountains, is surrounded by clouds and mist. The neat stone road is strung with stilt houses, and the tour guide dressed in characteristic Miao costumes leads a group of tourists through the village, and finally arrives at the "Zhenshan Stone" engraved with the words "Precision Poverty Alleviation" in the hilltop square.

Located in the hinterland of Wuling Mountain, The Eighteen-Dong Village of Huayuan County, Xiangxi, Hunan Province, which was still a typical Miao-inhabited poor village with "difficult to walk in the mountains and deep ditches" eight years ago, has now been renewed, and rural tourism and sales of special products are in full swing.

On November 3, 2013, General Secretary Xi Jinping came to Eighteen-Hole Village to inspect, sat down with the villagers to discuss the way out of poverty, and put forward the concept of "precision poverty alleviation" for the first time. This small mountain village has thus become the starting point for China's targeted poverty alleviation, and eight years later, it has achieved the miracle of lifting all 98.99 million rural people out of poverty under the current standards.

"It is necessary to seek truth from facts, adapt to local conditions, classify guidance, and accurately alleviate poverty." It is necessary to think clearly about what to plant, what to raise, and where to increase income, and help the villagers find a good way to get rid of poverty and get rich. Recalling the past, Long Zhenzhang, a member of the poverty alleviation task force of Huayuan County in Eighteen-Hole Village, said that the backward Miaozhai took the accurate poverty alleviation as an exploration and took the lead in attacking the millennium poverty.

Poverty data is accurate from household to person, which has never been seen in history. "In a village, who is the poor? There are no standards and specific regulations, and we find our own way to evaluate them. Long Zhenzhang said that the eighteen-hole village let the people themselves evaluate the poor objects that need government support, and took the lead in exploring the "nine non-evaluation" and "seven-step method" accurate identification mode.

Eighteen-hole village to "precision poverty alleviation" focus on the development of poverty alleviation industry, according to local conditions to form a rural tourism, kiwifruit, mountain spring water and other "tourism +" industrial system, only three years to get rid of poverty, young people have "fly" back to the village, beekeeping, opening shops, embroidery, running farms. "In recent years, the income driven by rural tourism to the village has been more than 10 million yuan (RMB, the same below)."

In 2020, the per capita net income of the villagers in Eighteen-Hole Village increased from 1668 yuan in 2013 to 18369 yuan, and the village's collective economic income exceeded 2 million yuan, not only achieving poverty alleviation by itself, but also exploring the "replicable and generalizable" poverty alleviation experience, becoming a well-known "Beautiful Leisure Village in China".

"In fact, the biggest change in Eighteen-Hole Village is the change from the idea of 'waiting for help' to actively finding a way to get rid of poverty and get rich." In the past eight years in the eighteen-hole village, what Long Zhenzhang has experienced most is that the people have a real sense of gain and happiness in the process of poverty alleviation.

"Precision poverty alleviation" has taken off eighteen holes, and Hunan has also firmly shouldered the responsibility of "precision poverty alleviation" to continuously explore and innovate, providing a "Hunan sample" for China's precision poverty alleviation: exploring the "four and four walking" industrial poverty alleviation model to help poor households develop industry and increase income steadily; taking the lead in formulating and issuing the "Work Plan for Identifying and Establishing Archives for Poor Villages in the Province" to accurately identify poor targets; establishing the first poor labor service cooperation market to achieve "one person employment, the whole family out of poverty"...

Starting from the Eighteen-Hole Village, China's poverty alleviation ship has sailed into a new era of "precision poverty alleviation", and after 8 years of continuous struggle, it has completed the goal of poverty alleviation in the new era on schedule, creating a miracle in the annals of history. Behind this is the happy smiling face of the poor people bidding farewell to poverty and moving towards a well-off life.

"This is no longer a poor remote Miao village, but our happy home, a fertile land for entrepreneurship full of hope and vitality." As one of the first college student entrepreneurs to quit their stable urban work and return to the eighteen-hole village, "post-90s" Shi Linjiao said that the miracle is continuing in his hometown, "Miaozhai will be our ideal place to fly."

Shi Linjiao's cousin Shi Chunyan returned to her hometown in 2019 and became a tour guide for the village tourism company, and her family also sold agricultural specialties at the "mountain goods market" at the mouth of the village, and no longer had to go out to run. "In the past, I didn't know what to do, but now everyone is full of energy, thinking about how to use the village's own advantages to develop the industry, and is full of confidence in coming back to development."

"Poverty alleviation is not the end, but the starting point of a new life and a new struggle." Sun Zhongyuan, the first secretary of the Eighteen-Hole Village, said that in the face of the "Fourteenth Five-Year Plan", the Eighteen-Hole Village will find gaps and make up for shortcomings in the vision of benchmarking rural revitalization, focus on the two major goals of industrial prosperity and rural governance, and continue to explore new paths and new experiences for high-quality development. (End)

Source: China News Network