——The practice and exploration of Gala Village, Bayi District, Nyingchi City, Tibet relies on characteristic industries to promote the comprehensive revitalization of the countryside
Author: Guangming Daily Research Group (Members of the research group: Guangming Daily reporters Gama Duoji and Du Qian, Guangming Daily correspondent Zhang Meng, Tibet Autonomous Region Academy of Social Sciences Vice President Rob, researcher Chen Pu)
The Niyang River rushes south, and the Indian Ocean monsoon flows northward, forming a unique temperate humid monsoon climate in Nyingchi City in eastern Tibet, with rich vegetation and dense forests.
Located on the north bank of the Niyang River, Gala Village has hundreds of acres of wild peach forests, and every year in March and April, the peach blossoms that grow from the shore bloom for the first time, and the mountains are pink and green, and the mountains are bright. The picturesque snowy spring light has earned The village of Gala the "most beautiful peach blossom village". Relying on peach blossoms, Gala Village has vigorously developed the eco-tourism industry, driving the whole village to embark on the road to prosperity.
On July 21, 2021, general secretary Xi Jinping came to Tibet to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the peaceful liberation of Tibet. In Gala Village, Nyingchi Town, Bayi District, Nyingchi City, General Secretary Xi Jinping listened to the introduction of Gala Village's leading role in party building, leading the masses to increase income and become rich, and improving the level of grass-roots governance, and walked into the village convenience service center, the "green bank" exchange store, the health room, etc. to learn more about the relevant situation. General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out that the beautiful life of Gala Village is a microcosm of tibet's economic and social development achievements in the past 70 years of peaceful liberation, and it is where the flowers of national unity and progress bloom.
The general secretary's earnest words conveyed the beautiful changes in Gala Village under the development of the times, and encouraged the local cadres and masses to take advantage of the momentum to seek development and constantly write a new chapter of a better life.
In the past year since the general secretary inspected Gala Village, the development ideas of Gala Village have become clearer and more energetic, and the "two committees" of the village have led the masses to continuously explore the path of ecological value conversion around projects such as Gala Peach Blossom Garden and Agricultural Complex, further expand the "tourism +" development model, and make great strides forward on the road of comprehensively promoting rural revitalization.
A new look of Gala Village, Nyingchi City, Tibet. Guangming Daily reporter Gama Dorji photo /Guangming pictures
The village of Gala is in full bloom with peach blossoms. Xinhua News Agency
Overlooking the village of Gala. Xinhua News Agency
1. Eat a "tourist meal" and walk the road to prosperity together
Under the shade of green trees, the Tibetan family courtyards are scattered, the village roads are spacious and clean, and the streams are babbling. The village of Gala shows the unique charm of "Snowy Jiangnan" in the drizzle.
The muddy dirt roads that once filled the ground when it rained in The village of Gala have long been replaced by bluestone slabs; In the past, several families shared a plough truck, but now every family has a car; In the past, guarding the green water and green mountains would only sell resources, and now relying on "Peach Blossom Garden" to make the industrial chain bigger and stronger.
Looking back on the past, it is like a lifetime. Dawa Jianshan, a 38-year-old villager in Gala Village, clearly remembers that when he was a teenager, his father had to drive cattle and sheep over the mountains north of the village to graze in order to support his family, and Dawa Jian ginseng often took food for his father, set off from home in the early morning, and returned home at dusk with mushrooms, matsutake and other forest products collected by his father, when he had to drop out of school.
"My father died a few years earlier, and he has not been able to see the happy life we have today. In recent years, relying on scenic spot dividends, running transportation, circulating land, planting and breeding, etc., the family's income has reached more than 300,000 yuan a year. Not only that, the environment in the village is getting better and better, with the cement road, the quality of environmental sanitation has also been greatly improved, and the days are getting better and better. Dawa Jianshan said.
It is hard to imagine that the villagers of Gala Village, who now live sweeter than honey, are still surviving from logging in the ravines of the Sedira Mountains in the 1980s. As logging was banned, villagers switched from logging to forest protection. At that time, more than 1,200 ancient peach trees in the village were distributed to each household, and they watched the flowers blossom and fall every year, but the villagers' lives did not improve at all.
The beautiful butterfly change in Gala Village is inseparable from the strength of Tibet. Bian Ba, secretary of the village branch, said that in 2014, with the help of Guangdong cadres aiding Tibet, Gala Village focused on building the "Peach Blossom Village" brand with the idea of "promoting the whole village and integrating the village scenery", uniformly operating peach blossom forests, building tourist reception stations, gradually promoting the separation of people and animals, afforestation and greening, courtyard transformation, road hardening, pipe network into the ground and other projects, completing the butterfly change from the village to the scenic spot, attracting tourists to flock, tourism income increased year after year, and the villagers embarked on the road to prosperity by eating "tourist meals".
In recent years, with the successful creation of tourism brands such as "two festivals and one season", "the first stop into Tibet", and "the pure land on earth and drunken beauty Linzhi", the local tourism popularity has been heating up. Last year, the Peach Blossom Festival in Gala Village received a total of 140,000 tourists, achieved tourism income of more than 4.6 million yuan, and the average household dividend was 100,000 yuan.
"At present, we are integrating our ideas and improving the elements of the whole industry of 'eating, living, traveling, shopping and entertainment' by exploring the launch of boutique homestays, cultural and creative products, etc., and promoting the development of the village collective economy with higher quality, more effectiveness and more sustainability." Dazhen, who was sent to Gala Village to carry out work in the village, said.
In The village of Gala in August, the melons and fruits are fragrant and the wheat fields are golden, presenting a colorful and vibrant rural beauty, reflecting the bright smiling faces of the Gala people like peach blossoms, telling the happiness brought by the revitalization of the countryside.
2. Diversified industries go hand in hand, and villagers' pockets are getting bigger and bigger
Looking at the apples hanging from the branches of red, the villagers smiled happily. "This year, the apples in our village have high yields and good quality, one pound can be sold for 6 to 8 yuan, and there is an income of 20,000 or 30,000 yuan a year working in the orchard, which is much higher than the income from planting barley in the past." The Gala Village Sightseeing and Picking Garden covers an area of more than 100 acres, with more than ten kinds of fruits such as peaches, plums, cherries, grapes, apples, etc. Fruitful fruit trees bring a happy life within reach of the villagers.
Just a few years ago, most of the villagers in Gala Village still only grew barley and adhered to the traditional production method. With the guidance and help of the village party members and cadres, many villagers began to learn to plant fruit seedlings and entered the village-run sightseeing and picking garden.
"Whether it is poverty alleviation or comprehensive promotion of rural revitalization, giving full play to the exemplary leading role of party members and cadres at grass-roots level is the key." Benba said.
What should I do if the peach blossoms have passed the flowering period? What should I do if my seasonal income is unstable? These are all real problems facing the development of Gala Village.
In recent years, Gala Village has built and strengthened village-level party organizations, given full play to the leading role of party building, built new development models such as "party building + rural tourism", "party building + grass-roots governance", "party building + rural culture", continuously gathered development momentum, and formed a new atmosphere of rural revitalization of "industrial rich peasants, strong agricultural organizations, and cultural rejuvenation of farmers", which has driven the villagers' lives to "sesame blossoms and high".
Focusing on peach blossom tourism, the village "two committees" team led the masses to further expand the "tourism +" development model, build a sightseeing picking garden, upgrade and transform the farm, cultivate flower and grass bases, develop folk experience projects, launch cultural and creative products, and produce peach blossom special cuisine, and the tourism industry chain has been further extended.
In addition, land circulation is also one of the important sources of income for the villagers of Gala Village. At present, there are more than 100 mu of circulating land in Gala Village, with an average rent of 1300 yuan per mu, which is mainly used to grow vegetables, fruits and seedlings. "The land is transferred so that resources are not wasted, so that every piece of land can play a role, so that the villagers can benefit from it." Benba said.
Nowadays, under the leadership of the "two committees" of Gala Village, the whole village has built three major industries with the Taohuayuan Scenic Area as the mainstay, the farmers' and herdsmen's transportation team and the sightseeing and picking garden going hand in hand, and the village collective economy is growing stronger and stronger, and the villagers' pockets are getting bigger and bigger. In 2021, the collective income of Gala Village was 12.623 million yuan, an increase of 13.2% year-on-year; the per capita disposable income of 152 villagers in 33 households reached 35,000 yuan, an increase of 12.9% year-on-year.
Pieces of blooming peach blossoms pave the road to wealth in Gala Village, which is becoming a rural revitalization sample for ecological enrichment in the snowy plateau.
3. "Red Study" injects new momentum into rural revitalization
In March this year, the "Ode to Unity" Red Study Theme Education Exhibition Hall in Gala Village was officially opened. "By not forgetting the general secretary's entrustment, praising the party's kindness, running the people's exhibition well, and telling the stories of the villagers, the exhibition continues to expand the influence of red research, enhance the charm of red research, and then inject new impetus into rural revitalization." Huang Haifen, a docent and university student village official, said that since the opening of the museum, the exhibition hall has received more than 120 batches of party members and masses, and more than 10,000 people have watched the exhibition.
In order to dig deep into the profound connotation of red culture, innovate ways and methods, tell the story "new", tell the characters "near", and talk about the feelings "thick", the exhibition hall also set up a party member chuxin school, a "smiley face wall" photo message system, peach blossom real scene punch points, etc., to increase the interactive experience function, to achieve the goal of "joint exhibition, joint study, joint training, joint tour", through the development of cultural and creative sets, peach blossom masks and other cultural and creative products, forming an industrial chain and boosting rural revitalization.
"The vivid scene of General Secretary Xi Jinping's cordial exchanges with the villagers is still vividly remembered." Bianba said that after the general secretary came to Gala Village, all the villagers were greatly encouraged, set off an upsurge of studying the spirit of the general secretary's important speech, and formed an ideological consensus of uniting as one to jointly promote rural revitalization and practicing general secretary Yin Yin's entrustment with practical actions.
Combining the stories around him, Bianba explained the spirit of the general secretary's important speech to the villagers in the "rural dialect" that the villagers could understand, and combined with the achievements of poverty alleviation in Gala Village and the villagers' hard-won happy life today, especially the improvement of the living environment in the village and the changes in the living conditions of the masses, so that the villagers could truly feel that the great changes in the village were all dependent on the leadership of the party and the party's good policies.
In addition to the propaganda, the party members and cadres of Gala Village also carried out face-to-face talks and exchanges with the villagers, answered the questions raised by the villagers one by one, inquired about the production and living conditions of the masses, discussed with the masses the strategies for developing and expanding the village collective economy, sought a common development path, and stimulated the enthusiasm of the villagers to participate in the revitalization of the countryside.
"Gala Village takes the opening of the Red Study Theme Education Exhibition Hall as an opportunity to further remember the entrustment of the general secretary, practice the original mission, take the rural revitalization strategy as the guide, draw a blueprint for development, build a happy homeland, jointly protect a good ecology, share a better life, and make the flower of national unity and progress bloom more colorful!" Bianba said.
4. Polish the green signboard, ecological priority into the consensus
A paper cup cigarette butt can be exchanged for 20 points, a pound of plastic bags can be exchanged for 100 points, and 5 kilograms of waste newspaper or cardboard can be exchanged for 300 points... On the garbage exchange schedule of the "Green Bank" exchange store, the points redemption rules are clear at a glance.
On the other side of the exchange store, the shelves are full of food and daily necessities, and under each item, the unit price and the number of points needed for exchange are marked.
In recent years, Gala Village has carried out a comprehensive upgrade of garbage disposal methods with the "green bank" as the carrier. In 2022, the "two committees" of Gala Village innovated and launched the "Green Bank" points system, and built a green credit file for villagers - "Green Financial Points Ranking", and the villagers with the highest point rankings can give incremental credit in the Agricultural Bank of China's "Huinong e-Loan", and give priority to financial services such as farmer information archiving, credit rating assessment and loan amount improvement.
Behind the "Green Bank" is a beautiful picture of the integration of original ecology and modern atmosphere, and the harmonious coexistence of man and nature.
At the mouth of the village, the slogan of "green water and green mountains are golden mountains and silver mountains, and ice and snow are also golden mountains and silver mountains" is particularly eye-catching. Protecting the ecological environment not only brings economic benefits to the people of Gala Village, but also gradually internalizes into their self-awareness. In their spare time in production and life, many villagers take the opportunity to walk around the village and pick up garbage on the ground. Every time you bend down, you will add an ecological background to the "Peach Blossom Village".
According to statistics, since its operation on January 4, 2021, the "Green Bank" exchange store has exchanged more than 260,000 points to buy various commodities for villagers.
The green sign is polished and brighter, and the "ecological rice" is eaten more and more fragrantly. Gala Village has been rated as "National Rural Tourism Key Village", "National Virtue Demonstration Point in Rural Activities", "National Rural Industrial Integration Development Demonstration Park", "Autonomous Region-level Ecological Village" and "Autonomous Region Civilized Village and Town". Bian ba said that after the general secretary's inspection, the thinking of developing rural tourism in Gala Village was clearer, and the cadres and masses were more energetic.
Encouraged by the sincere teachings of General Secretary Xi Jinping, Gala Village not only carried out seasonal afforestation activities, but also further implemented projects such as greening and lighting, green fences, and the construction of melon and fruit courtyards. Today, Gala Village has achieved full coverage of courtyard greening, and the surrounding afforestation and greening area has reached 240 acres.
"On the new journey, we will take Xi Jinping Thought on Ecological Civilization as the fundamental follow-up, unswervingly implement the new development concept, unswervingly take the road of ecological priority and green development, make the gala sky bluer, the mountains greener, the water cleaner, and the ecological environment better, so that the beautiful rivers and mountains benefit the people and the descendants of Ze." For the future of Gala, the cadres and masses of Gala Village are full of expectations.
5. The practical code for the revitalization of rural areas with plateau characteristics
Relying on the good ecological development of rural tourism, continuously extending the industrial chain, driving the collective economic development of the village, and increasing the income of the villagers, Gala Village has embarked on a road of rural revitalization with plateau characteristics according to local conditions. After the interview and investigation of Gala Village, the research group held that Tibet is sparsely populated, the natural environment is harsh, the economic development foundation is thin, especially in the vast rural areas, the resource endowments are different, and the development experience of Gala Village cannot be completely copied, but there are still many references, which have an enlightening effect on tibet's implementation of the rural revitalization strategy.
Party building leadership is the key. Grassroots party organizations are the backbone of the implementation of the rural revitalization strategy. Grassroots party organizations are weak and scattered, and rural revitalization will be difficult; If the grass-roots party organizations are strong and powerful, the revitalization of the rural areas will be steady and steady. Gala Village gives full play to the leading role of the "key minority" in rural revitalization, and continuously stimulates the enthusiasm of party members and cadres for entrepreneurship through village-based working groups, double households, and "one-on-one" paired assistance; From promoting the deep integration of party building work and strengthening the collective economy of the village, to promoting the stability and long-term development of rural governance work with pragmatic measures, Gala Village insists on leading the rural revitalization with party building, and the role of the "red engine" of the grass-roots party organizations has been continuously highlighted, and the topic of the times of "transforming the party's political and organizational advantages into the red kinetic energy to promote rural revitalization" has made vivid annotations and accumulated valuable experience.
Industrial development is the path. The taolin in the village of Gala has a history of hundreds of years, but it did not bring any benefits to the local villagers before the formation of a tourism industry. Relying on resources to develop the industry is a long-term strategy to change "blood transfusion" into "hematopoiesis", and farmers and herdsmen can increase their income and become rich and improve their labor skills by engaging in industrial business activities and participating in labor, that is, they can hold a more secure "golden rice bowl".
Talent revitalization is the guarantee. Build a good environment for retaining talents, let those who are willing to stay in the countryside and build villages stay at ease, and create a strong team of rural revitalization talents. Expand funds, projects, talents and industries to the vast agricultural and pastoral areas. At the same time, a number of outstanding village-based cadres and university student village officials will be selected and dispatched to serve the grass-roots level and build the grass-roots level, and promote the deep integration of talents, funds, technologies, policies, and resource advantages.
Keeping the green is the bottom line. Gala Village relies on the peach blossom resources in the village to develop tourism, forming a "tourism +" development model, so that the villagers can eat "tourist meals" and embark on the road to prosperity. This is the vivid practice of Gala Village's in-depth practice of the "Two Mountains" concept, adhering to ecological priority and adhering to green development.
The success of Gala Village is a successful epitome of Tibet's efforts to promote rural revitalization with the cordial care of the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping as the core and the strong support of the people of the whole country. Keeping firmly in mind the entrustment and forging ahead, Tibet will certainly take more solid steps on the road of comprehensive rural revitalization.