"We have done something for the country, and the country has never forgotten us!" (Thriving China (7))

Source: People's Daily Overseas Edition

Source: People's Daily Overseas Edition

In order for the people along the route to be able to drink good water, everyone gave up their small homes for everyone and moved out. It's a great dedication.

——Xi Jinping

The 69-year-old Zou Xin once had two homes, each of which was missed by General Secretary Xi Jinping.

One home is a small two-story building with red tiles and white walls, in Zouzhuang Village, Jiuchong Town, Huaichuan County, Nanyang City, Henan Province. On May 13, 2021, General Secretary Xi Jinping walked into this small building and asked in detail how Zou Xinzeng's family was living.

The other home is in the village of Yau Fangang, 16 km away. 11 years ago, due to the construction of the south-to-north water diversion project, Zou Xin, together with hundreds of villagers in Youfanggang Village, relocated to Zouzhuang Village. Their hometown sank into the Danjiangkou Reservoir, in exchange for the turbulent Danjiang river water all the way north, running to Beijing Tuancheng Lake, 1277 kilometers away, along the way to run more than 20 large and medium-sized cities, 130 counties, benefiting 79 million people.

General Secretary Xi Jinping said: "In order for the people along the route to be able to drink good water, everyone gave up their small homes for everyone and moved out." It's a great dedication. ”

Huaichuan County is the location and core water source area of the canal head of the South-north Water Diversion Project. Repairing reservoirs, protecting clean water, the people of Huaichuan do not say a word, the relocation of their families, the conversion of production and occupation, the planting of trees and afforestation... The state continues to help the reservoir area, and the life of the people of Huaichuan is becoming more and more exciting.

"Immigrants miss their hometown but prefer to live in a new home"

At noon in the New Year, the sun was just right, and Zou Xinzeng's courtyard was very lively. Several masons were measuring the size and stacking bricks, and Zou Xin had set up a handle on the side. When he saw the reporter enter the hospital, he smiled and greeted: "A new wall is being built, and it is almost finished." ”

"In addition to the courtyard wall, has there been any change in the family for a while?" The reporter asked.

"Weird! Come into the house and say. ”

The living room is spacious and neatly furnished. As soon as he sat down, Zou Xin once boasted about the current living conditions: "Our village families live in two-story 'small villas', and the village is also paved with cement roads. Unlike the old days when there were only a few old tile houses in my hometown, the whole village is full of dirt roads..."

Zouzhuang Village has been celebrating recently, and the villagers have received a "New Year gift package" from the county. "The government pays for the villagers to build walls, and soon they will have to renovate the power grid and sewers, build apartments for the elderly, and build strawberry greenhouses." Zou Xin once said. He raised his eyebrows and held out two fingers: "This strawberry greenhouse, an acre of land is estimated to earn 20,000 yuan a year!" I signed up yesterday and wanted to contract 30 acres. ”

Over the years, Zou Xinzeng's life has changed a lot, but one thing has not changed, that is, he often rides an electric car back to his hometown of Oil Mill Gang Village to see. Today's hometown, looking at it, the water and the sky are on the line.

For his hometown, Zou Xinzeng's grandson had a vague memory, and he once asked his grandfather: "Why did we move?" "Beijing is short of water, so we have to give them some water." Zou Xin had answered.

In Zouzhuang Village, General Secretary Xi Jinping said emotionally: "The people along the route and the people of the whole country should thank you, the grace of dripping water gushes out to repay each other, and the people who do not forget to dig wells when drafting water are not forgotten. ”

Zou Xin once sighed to reporters: "We have done something for the country, and the country has not forgotten us!" ”

Over the years, nearly 400,000 immigrants have been relocated in Huaichuan County. Under the care of the party and the government, their relocation road has become a road to happiness.

When Zou Xin was thinking about growing strawberries to get rich, villager Zhang Guangxian was looking forward to a good harvest of kiwifruit.

At the Danjiang Green Fruit and Vegetable Garden Base in Zouzhuang Village, under the rows of kiwifruit trees, Zhang Guangxian cut off the excess twigs sharply. She also relocated to Zouzhuang Village due to the construction of the reservoir, and is now an employee of the fruit and vegetable garden base, earning about 2,000 yuan a month. "Picking buds in spring, combing flowers in summer, weeding in autumn, pruning in winter, working all year round, there are tickets to earn." Zhang Guangxian said.

Why should the relocated masses be stable, develop, and get rich? Since 2015, Zouzhuang Village has used the industrial development funds of the South-to-North Water Diversion Migrant Village to build a green fruit and vegetable garden base in Danjiang, circulating 652 mu of land, planting kiwifruit, grapes, lotus roots, etc., and absorbing more than 300 villagers for employment.

In the interview, Zhang Guangxian told reporters: "To tell the truth, immigrants miss their hometown, but they prefer to live in their new home. ”

"The factory was closed for water protection, leaving us with the opportunity for transformation"

Under the sunset, the boiler is rusty, two chimneys are towering, and the handwriting on the gate plaque is still faintly recognizable - Huaichuan County Fengyuan Chemical Co., Ltd. Nineteen years ago, the local "star enterprise" was shut down, but the company's head Wang Yunbin has not sold the factory. He said that he planned to build this place into a heritage park to commemorate the contribution of the people of Huaichuan to the south-to-north water diversion.

Guarding a reservoir of clean water is a great responsibility. Huaichuan County's "brave man broke his wrist" and shut down more than 380 polluting enterprises, and Fengyuan Chemical was among them.

After the closure of the enterprise, Huaichuan County guided the transformation and upgrading of the enterprise. There are 87 auto parts related enterprises in the county, with an annual output value of 10 billion yuan, forming a characteristic industrial cluster. With the support of government funds, Wang Yunbin founded Tianyi Shock Absorber Technology Co., Ltd., which successfully transformed into a green and environmentally friendly automobile shock absorber manufacturer.

In the workshop of Tianyi Shock Absorber Company, the reporter met Wei Qingmei. She worked at Fengyuan Chemical and later transformed with the company to become an operator on the shock absorber production line. "Now the working environment is good, and I earn a lot, three or four thousand yuan a month." Wei Qingmei said.

"Unexpectedly, the factory was closed for water protection, leaving us with the opportunity for transformation." Wang Yunbin said that in December last year, the company won the title of "Henan Province Intellectual Property Advantage Enterprise", and then it will increase investment in research and development and accelerate the move towards high-end manufacturing.

Local agriculture has also undergone a transformation. Huaichuan was once a large county for pepper cultivation, but the cultivation of peppers required a large amount of chemical fertilizer, and the fertilizer flowed into the Danjiang River with rainwater, polluting the water source. As a result, Huaichuan County reduced pepper cultivation in a large area, which made Mei Fa De worried.

Mei Fade is a native of Xigang Village, Xianghua Town, Huaichuan County, who has been processing peppers for many years, and the county's pepper production has been reduced, and his business is on the verge of bankruptcy. In March 2013, the county issued opinions on supporting the development of ecological industries, focusing on supporting soft-seed pomegranates, honeysuckle and other industries. Mei Fade, who has a keen sense of smell, immediately seized the opportunity and invested millions of yuan to build a soft seed pomegranate base in Danya Lake, Jiuchong Town, which is more than 600 acres.

At the danya lake soft seed pomegranate base, the reporter saw that one pomegranate tree after another stretched its branches and spread along the hillside until the sparkling Danjiangkou Reservoir in the distance.

Spring cold material steep, just is the pomegranate tree fertilization season, the reporter met Mei Fade, he is operating the "water and fertilizer integration" small program on the mobile phone - select the area that needs to be watered, click "Start", in an instant, the organic fertilizer stored in the water tank, along the thin pipe quasi-quasi quasi-drip irrigation to each pomegranate tree.

"This set of intelligent irrigation equipment is free for the county to install." Mei Fa DeLe said hehehe, "The government also subsidizes the base with 200 tons of organic fertilizer every year, and sends technicians to guide pomegranate planting on the spot." ”

Talking about the operation of the base, Mei Fa Delian said a few "not bad." In a year, his base can earn more than 1 million yuan. Standing under the pomegranate tree, he calculated the new year to reporters: when the pomegranate sprouted and blossomed, the bright red fruit pressed all over the branches... "It must be another good year!" ”

"The water of the Danjiang River is not clear, just look at the green of the Huaichuan Mountains"

There is a local saying in Huaichuan: "If the water of the Danjiang River is not clear, it depends on whether the mountains of Huaichuan are green or not." "There are no trees on many mountains in the Keshu River, and the area of desertified mountains in the county once reached 1.25 million mu, of which 550,000 mu were severely rocky desertification, and they were concentrated around the Danjiangkou Reservoir." Barren mountains can easily lead to soil erosion and threaten the water quality of reservoirs.

Huaichuan County has tried every means to innovate the afforestation mechanism, adopted a market-oriented operation and contracted afforestation model, signed afforestation contracts with enterprises and large afforestation households, and paid afforestation funds according to the survival rate, which greatly improved the afforestation survival rate.

When interviewing in Dashiqiao Township, the reporter walked north along the Danjiangkou Reservoir, full of greenery. The pines stretch from the base of the mountain to the top of the mountain, and stand tenaciously between the stone crevices. Many of these pines are the "babies" of Shi Junxia, a large afforestation household. He used to say, "Raising a tree is the same as raising a baby." ”

Since 2013, Shi Junxia has led villagers to plant forests on Stone Mountain. There was no soil on the mountain, so they carried the soil up on their shoulders; there was no water on the mountain, so they brought water from pot to pot, and invented the "wine bottle drip irrigation method" - tens of thousands of beer bottles filled with water were upside down at the roots of the trees, allowing the water to slowly seep into the soil. I don't know how many pickaxes and pickaxes are broken, and I don't know how many pairs of shoes have been worn.

It is precisely because there are many "Shi Junxia", in recent years, the annual new afforestation area of Huaichuan is more than 100,000 mu. At present, the forest coverage rate of the county is more than 45%, and 532,000 mu of barren mountains are heavily clothed in green.

The mountains are green and the water is green, and the people of Huaichuan guard the mountains and waters, but they do not guard the poor. Pines and cypresses can be planted on stone hills, and "golden fruits" can also be planted.

In Baidu Village, Mabu Town, some people are stunned that a large area of winter peaches have been planted in the slopes of Stone Mountain. When I met the reporter, Wu Hongming, a big winter peach grower, was full of joy. It turned out that the winter peach he planted sold for 300,000 yuan.

"Growing peaches on a stone mountain is not blown. There is no road in the barren mountains, so you have to use an excavator to open the way, and then carry the soil and seedlings up. Wu Hongming said.

"It's so hard to go up the mountain and plant peaches, why don't you change places?" The reporter asked.

Wu Hongming raised his head: "Nowhere is it good!" The winter peach watered by Danjiang River is big, tastes good, and sells well! ”

The people in the reservoir area understand more and more a truth: if the ecology is good, the days will be better. By the end of last year, Huaichuan County had cultivated 20 forest villages, 36 rural tourism demonstration villages, and more than 11,000 households had eaten "ecological rice".

Local villagers said: "How green the mountains are, how clear the water is." "Through the unremitting efforts of the people of Huaichuan, the monitoring results of each water quality section of the Danjiangkou Reservoir have reached or exceeded the surface water class II standard, and the water quality has reached the standard and continued to improve." On the occasion of the New Year, the reporter looked at the Tao Fork Canal of the South-to-North Water Diversion Project and saw that the water surface was clear, like a crystal clear jasper, nourishing thousands of households in the reservoir area. (Reporters Pan Xutao, Jia Pingfan, Zhu Peixian)

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