On August 3, 2014, a magnitude 6.5 earthquake struck Ludian, leaving the epicenter of Longtoushan Town in ruins. After the earthquake, General Secretary Xi Jinping immediately issued important instructions, calling for all-out efforts to do a good job in the resettlement of the affected people and post-disaster recovery and reconstruction.
"Post-disaster recovery and reconstruction should be tackled together with poverty alleviation and development", and "when recovery and reconstruction are completed, it will be the day when the disaster-stricken areas will be lifted out of poverty...... On January 19, 2015, General Secretary Xi Jinping was earnestly entrusted.
Surrounded by mountains and embraced by pepper trees, Longtoushan Town has neatly arranged houses and clear functional planning. This brand-new town, rebuilt from the ruins, comes alive in the bright July sun. The asphalt roads are wide and tidy, the buildings are beautiful and freehand, the smiling faces are full of happiness, and the pepper trees all over the mountains exude a strong fragrance, and the green and tall walnut trees are full of fruits. The town of Longtoushan, which has been reborn in Nirvana, has undergone earth-shaking changes, and people are living like living in a picture scroll and living a happy life.
The cadres and people of all ethnic groups in Longtoushan Town keep in mind the earnest entrustment of General Secretary Xi Jinping, be grateful and forge ahead, grasp reconstruction, fight poverty, develop industry, promote employment, and benefit people's livelihood, rebuild a beautiful new home on the ruins, explore new ways of industrial development in the process of forging ahead, promote rural revitalization to a new level, and live and work in peace and contentment.
In the Ludian Earthquake Memorial Hall, docent Li Chaohui is introducing the scene of the 2014 Ludian earthquake. At that time, Li Chaohui was pregnant, and now she is a mother of two children. After witnessing the disaster, reconstruction, and the earth-shaking changes that are taking place today, Lee Cho-hye became the first docent of the Earthquake Memorial Hall.
Zhang Xingjiang is a native of Guangming Village, Longtoushan Town, since he was a child, he has no hearing ability, after the earthquake in 2014, under the care of the party, he went to Ludian County Special Education School to study primary school, middle school, under the guidance of the teacher, he studied bamboo weaving skills hard, learned a skill, and had a certain income. In July this year, he also stood out in the bamboo and hemp products processing (bamboo weaving) project in the "2024 Yunnan Provincial Vocational Skills Competition for Disabled Persons and Vocational Guidance Competition for the Staff of the Provincial Employment Service Institutions for the Disabled", and won the first place and the first prize in the province.
In the process of restoration and reconstruction, Longtoushan Town took out the best plot of land in Luomakou Community, Longtoushan Xinji Town, and unified the planning of three types: one-and-a-half, two-and-a-half, and three-and-a-half-storey, and built a new Ganjiazhai community. In December 2015, all 89 households in the village moved into their new homes. On the day of the move, the whole village spontaneously pulled up the red banner of "General Secretary Xi, we have moved to a new house" to report the good news to the general secretary. Today's new community of Ganjiazhai is full of vitality, some use their own courtyards to open farmhouses and inns, some run transportation, and some go out to do business and work, and their lives are not only stable, but also far exceed the pre-disaster level.
"The market town is not only beautiful, but it has also expanded by more than five times." Kang Jian, Secretary of the Party Committee of Longtoushan Town, said that the built-up area of today's Longtoushan Market Town has expanded from the original 0.25 square kilometers to 1.23 square kilometers, and the residents of the market town have increased from the original 905 households and 1,528 people to 3,019 households and 12,470 people.
Longtoushan Town, which rises from the ruins, is relying on the long-standing Zhutiyin culture, Zanthoxylum pepper industry, livable and tourist-friendly climate, ecology and other natural endowments, and in accordance with the idea of integrated development of primary, secondary and tertiary industries, to build a characteristic tourist town integrating history and culture, earthquake relief and rural revitalization, reproducing the style of "Millennium Silver Capital" and demonstrating the new vitality of "Zanthoxylum Town".
Source丨Ludian County Financial Media Center
Editor丨Li Xuan Editor丨Kong Xiangshu Submission Email: [email protected]