Now, wherever cadres of our Communist Party go, we must ask the villagers: What kind of good life do we still want to live? A better life, we come together to promote, to achieve.
——Xi Jinping
Under the warm midday sun, the red tile and yellow wall Tibetan-style room, the window is bright and bright. Sonam, a 51-year-old herdsman, let him play with his little grandson, and the table in the house was full of steamed buns, twist flowers and fruits, and the fire was burning vigorously, and the milk tea was mellow.
This is the village of Goluozang Gongma in Gangcha County, Haibei Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Qinghai Province, with an average altitude of 3300 meters.
On June 8, 2021, General Secretary Xi Jinping came to this new village where Tibetan herders were relocated and resettled, and walked into Sonam to let his home be a guest. In the face of the enthusiastic villagers, the general secretary said to everyone with deep feelings: "I feel very happy and kind to see you, we are all family, brothers and sisters. We are very relieved to see that your village has changed a lot and that everyone is living a very happy life, and we can feel everyone's deep friendship with the party and the government. ”
At the beginning of the New Year, the reporter visited the village and heard bursts of joyful songs from time to time, and every household was filled with the taste of happiness.
"We want to build a demonstration site for rural revitalization"
"I offered hada to the general secretary at my doorstep."
Sonam cai let the scene when General Secretary Xi Jinping was a guest, "After the general secretary came home, he did not sit down immediately, but carefully inspected the inside and outside of the house and pulled the family with everyone." The general secretary's concern for our production and life is real. ”
Sonam asked him to pull out a few photos from under the table, and he was taking these photos to introduce the changes in his home to General Secretary Xi Jinping. "In the past, my family had two simple adobe houses, 30 square meters, no water and electricity in the grassland, open toilets, and no decent roads."
At the end of 2014, after the introduction of the relocation policy for poverty alleviation, Sonam heard that the government subsidy of 47,000 yuan and his own 15,000 yuan could live in the bright brick house courtyard, immediately signed up, and moved from the grassland into the new village for herders. "Water, electricity and heating are available, cement roads are paved to the doorstep, Agudu (Tibetan: great)!"
Happy to move to a new home, the days are still tight. "I used to be a small livestock household, living on only 8 cows." At the end of 2015, Sonam let a family be identified as a poor household with a record card. "The village used the poverty alleviation funds to buy me sheep, and I couldn't 'wait to rely on it', so I applied for a small loan of 50,000 yuan to expand the scale of breeding."
After several years of hard work, Sonam had 80 sheep and 20 cows in his home. The daughter won a public welfare post, earning 2400 yuan a month, and the son-in-law was hired for the county television station, earning 2700 yuan per month. In 2021, Sonam let the family's total income exceed 110,000 yuan, and the per capita income increased from 2,100 yuan in 2015 to more than 20,000 yuan.
"After moving out of the grassland, it is more convenient for the elderly to see a doctor and for their children to go to school." In 2017, our village achieved poverty alleviation in the whole village. The village secretary Sonam Caifudan is a "post-90s", he showed the 2021 report card of Guoluozang Gongma Village: the per capita net income of the villagers is 14,000 yuan, the establishment of a file card household is 8600 yuan, and the village's collective economic income exceeds 390,000 yuan through project leasing and other means.
Speaking of the future, Zhang Ming, the first secretary of the village's rural revitalization, rolled out a construction plan map that has been changed three times, "We want to build a rural revitalization demonstration site, integrating catering and homestays, national handicrafts, and sightseeing and animal husbandry." ”
Sonam plans to open a shop selling his own rice dumplings, ghee, and curd. "We Tibetans have a proverb: If you don't work hard, where happiness comes." With a good policy, do a good job yourself, and the sweeter days are still to come! The little grandson in his arms just had his first birthday, and the daimyo was only given up by Sonam - "Dawa Dongzhi", which means that his future is bright and happy!
"The chalet will be open this year"
In addition to cattle and sheep breeding and public welfare posts, ecological protection is also an important source of income for Sonam's family.
"The general secretary is very concerned about the protection of the ecological environment, and before coming to the village, he first went to see the Fairy Bay of Qinghai Lake." Sonam Cairang said that he reported to General Secretary Xi Jinping on his position as a grassland steward at that time, and said that he still had a monthly salary of 1200 yuan, and the general secretary was very pleased after listening.
At present, there are 19 grassland stewards in Goluozang Gongma Village. Every day or two, Sonam and his companions rode on a motorcycle and went to the area of responsibility to patrol, picking up garbage, repairing fences, and publicizing fire prevention. It's hard work, but it's fun. In the past, simple grassland users have transformed into ecological protectors and dividend sharers. Herders who strictly abide by the regulations on the prohibition of grazing and rotational grazing can also receive ecological rewards.
In recent years, the water level of Qinghai Lake has continued to rise, and the ecological environment has been continuously improved. "Wild antelopes, everywhere around the pasture." Sonam is talking about the nearly extinct Przewalski's gazelle, and Qinghai Lake is their only remaining habitat in the world. Over the past 14 years, the population of Przewalski's gazelle on the shores of Qinghai Lake has increased by about 9 times. "Now call them the Chinese diagonal antelope!"
"The ecology is good, our village has been rated as a beautiful leisure village in China, and more people have come to visit!" Zhang Ming said that this is their confidence in developing rural tourism. On the hillside grassland behind the village, there are red Tibetan-style chalets and tents scattered like pearls strung together by winding wooden boardwalks.
"It's the Gangri Meadow Resort, the catering is up, and the accommodation chalet will be open this year." Zhang Ming led the reporter up the wooden boardwalk, "The surrounding area should also build supporting facilities such as children's paradise and animal husbandry sightseeing to give tourists a richer experience." ”
The resort owner, Ren Qingcailang, has just returned from the county with a van with a bed custom-made for the wooden house. Since he contracted the resort in October 2020, he has not been idle for a moment. In 2021, the chalet catering project opened, focusing on Tibetan food and Sichuan cuisine, receiving more than 4,000 tourists and 300,000 yuan in 4 months. "More than a dozen herders in the village have worked as waiters here and achieved employment at the doorstep of their homes." Ren Qingcai Lang said.
Renqing Tseiro is a capable person in the village of Goluozang Gongma. "When I was a child, I lived in a black tent woven of yak wool, and in winter I had to live in a leather jacket, and I still slept in that leather jacket." When he grew up, he sold hollow bricks, opened a clothing store, and set up a construction team to build a greenhouse and barn for the villagers. Today, he has completely bid farewell to herdsman life and is "full-time" as a boss.
Speaking of "new formats", Ren Qingcai Lang laughed heartily: "I am not yet 60 years old, I can still take everyone to work for another 10 years, make the business of the cabin bigger, and the sesame blossoms are getting higher and higher!" ”
"Now yak down is a treasure"
A long coffee-colored scarf around Sonam Tsefudan's neck is eye-catching.
"This is a yak velvet scarf, produced by the village Dorje's enterprise, bell cloth (Tibetan: warm)!" What is the difference between yak wool and yak hair? With curiosity, the reporter came to the Ajac Yak Wool Products Cultural Experience Center outside the village.
Inside the museum, scarves, felt top hats, slippers, hanging ornaments, tablecloths... All kinds of yak down products are placed on the shelves. Soyoshi, 23, is packing up her belongings, and she's in charge of sales, who is also from her village.
"Yak wool is softer and warmer than yak hair." Zongji grabbed a handful of yak down and introduced, "In the past, as soon as the yak changed its hair, the yak down drifted away with the wind, and now the yak velvet can become a treasure!" ”
Turning "waste" into treasure, Dorje let the business opportunities be accurate. He was born in the village of Goluozang Gongma, and his mother took him and his sister to school and took them to the county tannery warehouse where his mother worked. The young Dorje cai let not be knocked down by poverty, he chose to struggle, took the college entrance examination and was admitted to Qinghai Normal University, and after graduation, he worked as a translator in Chengdu.
"When I approached customers, I found that yak down products were popular in many places and had great market potential." Thinking that his hometown was so rich in yak cashmere resources, Dorje resolutely returned to his hometown and founded Gangcha Ajak Cashmere Development and Sales Co., Ltd. in 2014. With the support of the government, he purchased the first velvet comb. At first, the herders did not believe that yak wool could sell for money, "so we ran from house to house, explained the economic value of yak down, and bid for it." ”
Herders saw the benefits and rushed to collect yak wool, and the county also offered training related to the production and manufacture of cashmere. Penghe Mao in the village worked in the company of Dorje Cai Rang for 6 years, grew into a technical backbone, and was able to design new tricks by himself. "They all take orders on their phones, and 80% of them are sold through e-commerce." "Our products are also sold abroad," she said. ”
The market is bigger, and the road to entrepreneurship is getting wider and wider. In 2021, Ayak sold more than 4,000 pieces of various yak wool products, with an operating income of 2 million yuan, and more than 1,000 herders in Guoluo Zanggongma Village and surrounding areas increased their income. Dorje Cairang was named "Leader of Youth Enrichment in Agricultural and Pastoral Areas of Qinghai Province".
"General Secretary Xi Jinping has always been concerned about the development of ethnic minorities and ethnic minority areas." Dorje Said, "Happiness is a struggle, and we will bring more herders to increase their income and become rich, Xiujie (Tibetan: come on)!" ”