"The people take food as the sky, and food takes water as the first." General Secretary Xi Jinping has always been concerned about the problem of rural water supply, proposing that "the rural population should drink water with confidence, and the insecurity of drinking water should not be brought into a well-off society."
Since the Eighteenth National Congress of the Communist Party of China, tens of thousands of rural drinking water safety projects have been fully rolled out on the land of China. The pipe network that crosses the mountains and mountains bears witness to the determination and will of all rural people to drink safe water.
This is linxia dongxiang autonomous county in Gansu province observed by satellite. In the past ten years, 8 water plants and 603 regulatory tanks have been built here.
Using gigas, we tried to restore this historic water supply project. Choose any of the water pipelines, and as it extends forward, we see collapsible loess, ditches, steep mountains, and such a complex and changeable terrain. The pipeline eventually covered the entire Dongxiang County, and when we counted their total length, the number reached more than 7200 kilometers. Today, clean water flows into the homes of more than 300,000 People in Dongxiang. Villagers no longer need to rely on donkeys to carry water and rely on water cellars to store water, and the whole mountain village has been earth-shaking because of water.
Ma Alimu, a villager in Bulengou Village, Dongxiang County, Linxia Prefecture, Gansu Province: This is our original water cellar, which will be stored when it rains, and we must save to drink. Now it's different, now we have clean tap water to drink anytime, anywhere. And our school, including these fruit trees on our mountain, which developed with water.
In order to solve the problem of drinking water safety in all rural areas, in the past ten years, Chinese footprints have traveled all over remote areas and deep mountains that have never been touched before, looking for water sources and repairing channels.
In the Guyuan Mountains of Ningxia, from the reservoir in Jingyuan County, six pumping stations have lifted more than 600 meters of water, equivalent to nearly 200 stories high. Let a small village of more than 700 people 230 kilometers away, every household has tap water at all times.
There are more than 500,000 centralized water supply projects in rural areas like this in China today. When we marked their locations one by one on the map, we saw such a blue ocean. Comparing it with the Chinese distribution map, it will be found that the distribution of the two maps is basically the same. In the past decade, the penetration rate of tap water in rural areas has increased by 19 percentage points, and during the "13th Five-Year Plan" period alone, 9.75 million people have bid farewell to drinking water-type fluoride standards, and 1.2 million people no longer have to drink brackish water.
Liu Zhiliang, a villager in Bitter Water Camp Village, Jing County, Hebei Province: Our village is called "Bitter Water Camp" Village, and it turns out that we drank well water with high fluoride content and our teeth were yellow. Now, we are drinking the "South Water" of the South-to-North Water Diversion, and the children's teeth are white, originally called "Bitter Water Camp", and now it has become "Sweet Water Camp".
Water quenches thirst and makes you richer. In the National Poverty Alleviation and Development Information System, we found families who had been "impoverished by water" over the past decade. When we inquire about the poverty alleviation measures and consolidation and improvement measures of these poor households, we can see that "solving safe drinking water" and "characteristic planting and breeding industries" will always appear at the same time.
In Hangjinqi, Inner Mongolia, there is no need to worry about water shortage, and the villagers still have water to raise cattle and sheep; In Baojing County, Xiangxi, Hunan, with water, the local peaches and yellow cauliflower have become industrial characteristics. In Getou Village, deep in the mountains of Guizhou, because of the water, the villagers ate a "tourist meal" at their doorstep.
In the past ten years, water plants and reservoirs have been erected on the once barren and dry land, and water supply pipelines have crisscrossed each other, which has brought about a historic change in the way rural water is used, and the drinking water safety problem of the poor people on the mainland has been comprehensively solved. Today, the rural tap water penetration rate has reached 84%, while sending clean and hygienic drinking water to hundreds of millions of farmers, it has also injected a source of power into rural revitalization.
(Reporter Xiao Zhensheng, Zhang Qin, Yue Qun, Liang Lijuan, Li Bin, Zhu Jiang, Wang Shiyu, Zhao Shuguang, Chen Bo, Liu Jiaxin, Zhang Zhi, Sun Xingting, Gou Yuguang, Wang Zhong, Liu Haichao, Liu Long, Liu Zhan, Wang Peng, Chai Shiwen, Wanling, Wang Lei, Bai Hao, Hebei Tai, Gansu Tai, Linxiatai, Hunan Tai, Guizhou)