"Wu Xirong, where have you been? Hurry up and come to the entrance of the village, waiting for you to do the hospitalization reimbursement together......" In the "loudspeaker" of Dayuan Village, an authentic Zhang Beifang dialect is shouting loudly to find the villagers, making people seem to see the classic picture in the movie "Mobile Phone". Following the prestige, she is a modern young woman dressed as a professional manager.
This post-90s college student village official is named Li Lijuan, who has been the village secretary for 3 years since she returned to her hometown to start a business. When talking about why she returned to her hometown to start a business and why she served as a village cadre, Li Lijuan said, "Without rural revitalization, I may not choose to come back; With rural revitalization, it gave me the confidence to take over the village secretary. ”
Li Lijuan with the villagers.
If you are rich, you are not rich, but the whole village is rich
Li Lijuan's Daqiyuan Village, located in Tailugou Township, Zhangbei County, Zhangjiakou City, Hebei Province, 12 kilometers away from the county seat, was once a typical "hollow village". Although the village has a registered population of 210 households, the minimum permanent resident population is only about 40 households. "The rest are basically old, weak, sick and disabled, almost like seven people with eight teeth. Houses are broken, roads are rotten, and most people have no choice but to go out to work except for growing potatoes and wheat. Li Xiuqing, a 73-year-old villager, recalled.
Before poverty alleviation, situations like those in Daqiyuan Village were very common in Zhangjiakou City. As the main battlefield of poverty alleviation in the province, Zhangjiakou City's poverty alleviation work is arduous. Among the 19 counties and districts in the city, 11 counties, including Zhangbei County, are designated as poverty-stricken counties, of which 5 are deeply impoverished, accounting for 1/2 of the province's deeply-impoverished counties.
On February 29, 2020, the Hebei Provincial People's Government issued an announcement that, with the consent of the Provincial Leading Group for Poverty Alleviation and Development and Poverty Alleviation, 13 counties, including Weichang Manchu and Mongolian Autonomous County, and Zhaojiapeng District of Zhuolu County were withdrawn from poverty-stricken counties, marking that all poverty-stricken counties in Hebei Province have "taken off their hats". It was also in this year that Li Lijuan chose to return to her hometown to start a business.
"I haven't lived in the village for long, and I've been studying abroad since I graduated from primary school," Li Lijuan said. In 2015, after graduating from the Music Department of Hebei Normal University, she and her lover engaged in cultural tourism in Chengdu, Sichuan, Beijing and other places. During this period, the young couple came up with the idea of bringing the homestay industry back to their hometown many times. "Although the conditions of our village are poor, it is only 5 kilometers away from the west line of the Grassland Sky Road. There are a lot of tourists every summer, and it should be a good development to open the homestay to your hometown. ”
The scenery of Zhangjiakou Grassland Tianlu is beautiful.
In fact, long before Li Lijuan's "idea of playing the grassland road", Zhangjiakou City had relevant plans, planning to turn the grassland road, a "net red road" for tourists, into a "road to prosperity" for villagers. In recent years, the city has actively promoted the "transportation +" development model, continuously improved the rural road infrastructure, and completed a total of 562.2 kilometers of new and renovated rural roads, using transportation to support the masses to boost their confidence in getting rich, and help rural revitalization run out of "acceleration". For example, in order to maximize the driving role of the grassland road in Zhangbei County, 51 grassland road connection lines have been built, including 2 provincial trunk road connections, 5 major county and township road connections, and 44 rural road connections. Relying on the grassland road, Zhangbei rural tourism covers 16 townships and 85 administrative villages in the county, including 35 poor villages, benefiting more than 10,000 farmers and employing more than 30,000 people.
Some rural revitalization measures in Zhangjiakou City have given Li Lijuan full confidence. At the beginning of 2020, Li Lijuan raised 400,000 yuan in various ways and began to return to her hometown to start a business, transforming an old house into a high-end homestay.
"At the beginning, my relatives and friends around me were not optimistic." Li Lijuan introduced that at that time, some people felt that it was inconvenient for the homestay to not be next to the grassland road, some people felt that there was already a farmhouse in the village and there was no need to build a homestay, and some people felt that the fee was high and there was no source of customers. From the start of construction to the operation of the B&B two months later, the effect surprised those who opposed it at the beginning. One villager was deeply impressed by the hot scene, "At that time, their courtyard was full of cars parked in front of it, and it was full every day. ”
Rural revitalization, talent first. While the villagers were enthusiastic about Li Lijuan's successful entrepreneurship, the township also focused on the returning college student. In order to let Li Lijuan drive more villagers to get rich, in April 2021, on the eve of the village general election, the Tailugou Township Party Committee and the former village secretary came to do Li Lijuan's work, hoping that she could participate in the election.
"It scared the hell out of me. I have the impression that the village secretaries are all very prestigious elders, how can I do it when I am so young? And his homestay has just opened, so he doesn't have much confidence in whether he can drive the villagers to get rich. Li Lijuan admitted that she was full of worries at the time.
A high-end homestay in Dayuan Village.
After some deliberation, the complex of returning to her hometown and the desire to lead the villagers to get rich strengthened her confidence in participating in the election. "During my time in the village, I learned more about the city and county's plans for the Grassland Sky Road, which also gave me full confidence." Li Lijuan affectionately introduced, "The current village committee is the classroom when I was in primary school. I used to go out from here, but now that I'm back, of course, I hope to change the backward appearance of the village. ”
If you are rich, you are not rich, but the whole village is rich. The high return of the B&B, as well as Li Lijuan's aggressiveness, made the villagers believe that she was the leader who led everyone on the road to prosperity. In the end, Li Lijuan was elected with a high vote.
From a homestay manager to a "number one" in the village, Li Lijuan suddenly had more things to consider. From repairing houses, paving roads, greening, improving water and other living environments, to building separate farms for humans and animals, uniformly implementing rooftop photovoltaics, building demonstration homestays and other projects, and then to solving employment, income and other problems for households with living difficulties, she has been busy with the development and construction of the village for more than three years. Among them, Daqiyuan Village has benefited the most from the cultural and tourism industry that relies on the development of Grassland Tianlu. It not only drove the villagers' income, but also increased the village's collective income a lot.
Driven by Li Lijuan, a number of farmhouses in the village have been modernized, and the 42-room Star Homestay will also be put into operation in August 2023. Relying on the tourists of the Grassland Sky Road, in 2023, the annual turnover of the tourism industry in Dayuan Village will reach 3 million yuan, and the village-level collective economic income has been greatly improved.
The government helps to promote the real, and the masses also get it
During the May Day holiday, Zhangbei ushered in a small tourist season. In Daqiyuan Village, a B&B built by Zhangjiakou Cultural Tourism Investment Group with an investment of 600,000 yuan opened its doors to welcome guests. In the past few days, Li Lijuan has been busy receiving tourists who have come to the village to stay. "The village can receive more tourists, and the villagers will earn more." Li Lijuan said happily.
Not only in Daqiyuan Village, but also in Zhangjiakou City, the driving effect of Grassland Tianlu on rural revitalization is gradually emerging.
In August 2019, the grassland Tianlu with a total length of about 323.9 kilometers from Zhangchengjie to Jimengjie was completed, and the radiation scope reached 6 counties and districts of Chicheng, Zhangbei, Chongli, Guyuan, Wanquan and Shangyi, which was 2.5 times the length of the previous line. With the growing popularity of the local grassland Tianlu tourism brand, Zhangjiakou City has also reached a new level of helping rural revitalization through the cultural tourism industry.
Recruiting tourists to ride horses on the grassland road has become a new way for villagers along the route to increase their income.
Starting from 2023, the transformation and upgrading work along the grassland sky road is in full swing. Zhai Yufeng, a second-level researcher of the Zhangjiakou Municipal Bureau of Culture and Tourism, introduced that the main measures include repairing the damaged road surface, repaving asphalt, renovating and upgrading the post stations along the way, building parking lots, toilets and shopping places, etc., and at the same time focusing on building several scenic spots on the route. "In 2023, the number of tourists received by Grassland Tianlu will reach more than 3 million, making it the route that receives the most tourists in Zhangjiakou City." Zhai Yufeng said that the grassland road is becoming a rich road, ecological road, and industrial road in Zhangjiakou City, and has become a new scenery in rural revitalization.
Helping rural revitalization through cultural tourism is a microcosm of Zhangjiakou City's implementation of the rural revitalization strategy. Since entering the transition period of consolidating and expanding the achievements of poverty alleviation and the effective connection of rural revitalization, Zhangjiakou City has always put the consolidation and expansion of the achievements of poverty alleviation in the first place, and has integrated with the preparation of the Winter Olympics, the construction of the "two districts of the capital", the acceleration of the construction of the Beijing-Zhangjiakou sports and cultural tourism belt, and the comprehensive promotion of renewable energy demonstration zones. The bottom line of zero poverty.
At the same time, the local government is also committed to building 10 green agriculture and animal husbandry industrial clusters such as vegetables, potatoes and high-end dairy products, building, renovating and upgrading 100 modern demonstration farms, and promoting the construction of 10 billion-level food processing industrial parks, so as to promote the large-scale development of rural industries and the upgrading of the whole chain, so that the employment of migrant workers can be embedded in the industrial chain and share the development dividends. In 2021 and 2022, Zhangjiakou City entered the "good" grade for two consecutive years in the national and provincial evaluation of consolidating the achievements of poverty alleviation.
The villagers moved into new houses and made a good living.
"These measures of rural revitalization are happening all around us, and the changes brought about are in front of our eyes, which makes us full of expectations for the future." Li Lijuan introduced that after becoming the village secretary, she also became a part of rural revitalization. "The changes brought about by rural revitalization are the result of cadres at all levels who have really implemented the national policy of benefiting the people." For her, the most profound feeling is the change in the style of cadres.
"Now that I am also a village cadre, from the situation I have come into contact with, the style of cadres is really different, they are more pragmatic and closer to the people." Li Lijuan said excitedly that the whole city of Zhangjiakou attaches great importance to rural revitalization and is doing its best to do practical things for the village. "City and county leaders have come to the village for research, the county Agriculture and Rural Bureau and the Rural Revitalization Bureau have given a lot of support, and the township leaders have taken the affairs of the village to heart and took the initiative to help us go to the Municipal Cultural Tourism Investment Group and other units to fight for funds." Li Lijuan introduced that in recent years, the higher-level government has invested more than 8 million yuan in the project funds alone, 3.2 kilometers of hardened roads in the village, 5,500 square meters of pavement bricks, a new drinking fountain well, a water supply pipeline, and a direct small ring line of the grassland road, which has greatly shortened the passage time to the Jiguan Mountain Scenic Area and brought many tourists to the village.
If the cadre's style is good, the "Internet celebrity" can become "long-term red"
In the Zhangjiakou Municipal Commission for Discipline Inspection, the comrades of the Party Style Office introduced that the implementation of the rural revitalization strategy is a major decision made by the Party Central Committee with a view to building a modern socialist country in an all-round way, a continuation of poverty alleviation, and a prosperity for farmers. The Zhangjiakou Municipal Party Committee and Municipal Government have fully implemented the decisions and arrangements of the CPC Central Committee, the Hebei Provincial Party Committee and the Provincial Government, and made every effort to promote the implementation of poverty alleviation policies and rural revitalization measures. Discipline inspection and supervision organs at all levels in Zhangjiakou City have taken strengthening the supervision of rural revitalization as an important political task, carried out supervision and inspection in an embedded and normalized manner, conducted pressure at all levels, compacted responsibilities step by step, and resonated at the same frequency in cities, counties and townships, and inserted a rod into the end to ensure that the comprehensive revitalization of the countryside was well served.
On May 6, 2023, clues about a problem that seriously infringed on the interests of the masses attracted great attention from the Zhangbei County Commission for Discipline Inspection and Supervision. Dai Fu, former deputy director of the Zhangbei County Agriculture and Animal Husbandry Bureau, took advantage of his position to accept bribes and ask for bribes from farmers many times. The Zhangbei County Commission for Discipline Inspection and Supervision quickly carried out verification, and after grasping the relevant evidence, Dai Fu was placed in custody in accordance with the law, and then given party discipline and government sanctions, and his suspected crime was transferred to the procuratorate for review and prosecution in accordance with the law.
"Although the people and grassroots cadres have felt the changes, it does not mean that they can breathe a sigh of relief." The comrades of the Party Style Office of the Zhangjiakou Municipal Commission for Discipline Inspection said that judging from the investigation and handling in recent years, the frequent occurrence of violations of discipline and law in the field of rural revitalization has been significantly improved, and the problems of rural cadres wantonly eating and taking cards, intercepting and misappropriating them, and plucking geese have been significantly reduced. "But there are still problems of non-convergence and inaction, as well as inaction and inaction, which remind us that we must not take it lightly."
Kangbao County boarding school students eating dinner.
From poverty alleviation to rural revitalization, it is inseparable from the support of cadres' work style. In order to consolidate this foundation, the Zhangjiakou Municipal Commission for Discipline Inspection and Supervision has grasped the concretization, precision, and normalization of political supervision on the one hand, and the strict enforcement of discipline and intensive reporting on the other, so as to create an atmosphere of constant deterrence. Since 2023, the city's discipline inspection and supervision system has carried out in-depth special rectification of unhealthy trends and corruption in the field of rural revitalization, in accordance with the work idea of "small incision introduction, case-handling promotion, and normalized notification", with the construction of funds and projects benefiting farmers, adhering to the "two-line governance" of the distribution of funds and subsidies for benefiting farmers and the construction of projects in the field of rural revitalization, the "double effect synchronization" of supervision and inspection and village-level inspections, the "two-way deep digging" of petition reporting and mass participation, the "two-wheel drive" of finding problems and investigating cases, and the main responsibility and supervision responsibility Double Guarantee". On the basis of one year's practice, the work concept of "systematic governance" was further proposed, and four supervision mechanisms were introduced to promote the implementation of strict requirements, and party organizations at all levels were urged to effectively assume their functions and responsibilities, and major decisions on rural revitalization were implemented one by one.
Examination and investigation are the most powerful supervision, and investigation and handling of cases are the most effective deterrent. With the intensification of supervision, discipline and anti-corruption, a number of unhealthy trends and corruption in the field of rural revitalization have surfaced. At the same time, the Municipal Commission for Discipline Inspection and Supervision adheres to the case as the most vivid discipline style education, regularly screens typical cases, and names and reports on the official website on multiple platforms and calibers, so that those who violate discipline and law are punished and shocked, and those who are lucky are discouraged and think twice. At the same time, with the theme of rural revitalization, a number of honest cultural works that the masses like to see such as "Golden Ring", "Human Debt" and "Secretary Father and Son" were arranged and performed, and the spring breeze and rain of integrity education were deeply rooted in the brain.
"It is necessary to strengthen the sense of responsibility, firmly establish the employment orientation of 'emphasizing practical work and actual performance', resolutely abandon the idea of perfunctory response, and discover problems and promote development with a strong revolutionary spirit." According to the relevant responsible comrades of the Zhangjiakou Municipal Commission for Discipline Inspection and Supervision, since 2023, the Zhangjiakou Municipal Party Committee has successively deployed and carried out the activities of "finding problems, finding gaps, and finding shortcomings" and "striving for first-class and being champions" to promote cadres to perform their duties loyally and take the initiative to take the initiative. The city's discipline inspection and supervision organs pay close attention to the problem of cadre style, and take the lead in carrying out the supervision work of "resolutely correcting inaction, slow action, and chaotic action, and encouraging party members and cadres to take the initiative", and vigorously rectify the behavior of mediocrity, laziness, and slackness.
"Before I became the village secretary, I didn't pay much attention to this aspect, but when I really did it, I found that it was really difficult. The state and local governments have invested so much money in the rural areas, how much money can be spent all year round. Li Lijuan said that when the county and township helped, they really helped, and they were really ruthless. In the past few years, when she heard that other village cadres around her had accidents, although she didn't understand why these people still took the people's money, she also deeply felt the risks and responsibilities.
"The people's money cannot be less, and the money for rural revitalization cannot be touched." In the interview, Bi Xiaojian, a member of the Standing Committee of the Zhangjiakou Municipal Commission for Discipline Inspection, introduced that in view of the corruption and style problems in the field of rural revitalization, the Zhangjiakou Municipal Commission for Discipline Inspection and Supervision insisted on investigating together, catching one by one, and dealing with them in accordance with regulations, discipline and law, in order to release a signal that will be stricter and stricter in the future. "Don't look at such a grassland road, how many people are pointing to this to eat, and how many rural areas are looking forward to getting rich through this. Any time there is a gust of supervision, it may lead to a dream of getting rich. Only by persevering with hammer after hammer can we truly turn 'Internet celebrities' into 'ever-popular celebrities' and turn rural revitalization into tangible facts. ”
(This article was published in the 10th issue of China Discipline Inspection and Supervision magazine in 2024, author: Kang Chunning and Yuan Xiaohong)