Dawa: Lead the border masses to live a good life

【New era as a typical style】

Original title: Leading the Border Masses to Live a Better Life -- Remembering Dawa, Secretary of the Party Branch of Yumai Township, Longzi County, Shannan, Tibet

Guangming Daily reporter Gama Dorji

"The mountain road has become smooth, every family has moved into a new house, the villagers have used the Internet, and they have learned to scan the WeChat code to pay." Since becoming the mayor of Yumai Township in Longzi County, Shannan, Tibet in 2011, Dawa has personally felt the changes in the border of the motherland in the past seven years. "In the year since General Secretary Xi Jinping replied to the Zhuoga sisters, the whole township has changed faster, and we must not only protect the national territory, but also lead the border masses to get rich and live a better life!"

Dawa, who graduated from the Agricultural Mechanization School in Heilongjiang Province, is a post-80s generation. Growing up in Downtown Lhasa, Dawa stepped into Yumai Township for the first time and truly realized what hardship was. In 2011, the organization appointed Dawa as the mayor of Yumai Township. In order to enter Yumai to work before the snow closed the mountain, Dawa hurried up the mountain in June, who knew that when he reached the top of Rila Mountain, the road was still blocked by waist-deep snow. At that time, Dawa thought in his heart, "Even if you climb it, you must climb to Yumai", so he abandoned the car and walked on foot, carrying a bag and a stick, and walked to Yumai one foot deep and one foot shallow. "Even if the snow doesn't seal the mountain, it will take the masses here two or three days to go to the county seat, which is very inconvenient." Dawa said.

Yumai Township, with an area of thousands of square kilometers, is the least populous organized township in China, and by the end of 2017, there were only 9 households and 32 residents in the township. Because it is blocked by several mountains with an altitude of more than 5,000 meters, since the establishment of the township in 1960, for a long time, only the elderly Sanjay Quba has lived here with two daughters, Zhuoga and Yangzong, and is known as the "Three People Township". Dawa's arrival ended the history of Yumai Township without civil servants for more than 50 years.

When he first arrived in Yumai, the story of the first township mayor, Sanjay Quba's father and daughter, herding and guarding the border, deeply touched Dawa. Yumai is a famous border township with a border line of 79 kilometers. The vast majority of the areas under its jurisdiction are no-man's land, and while developing production and building homes, the masses are also shouldering the heavy responsibility of guarding the border. As the third mayor of Yumai Township, Dawa felt a great responsibility.

In order to accurately grasp the actual situation in the surrounding area, Dawa often walked on the border alone, a pot of water, a bag of rice, and a sleeping bag, measuring the actual border line with her feet. In addition, he has crossed 13 large and small mountain passes with an average altitude of 4700 meters six times, walked into no man's land, and drew a "mileage map of no man's land on the border of Yumai Township".

Due to climatic factors, jade wheat does not produce a single grain of grain, and the living materials are all transported in from the outside world, and the masses live in poverty. "To guard this land, we must first build a good homeland." In March 2016, after Dawa became the secretary of the party branch of Yumai Township, she took the establishment of a strong grass-roots party organization as the primary task of leading the masses to control poverty and become rich, and established the Party Branch of Yumai Village, opening up the "last kilometer" of serving the people.

Through the party organization to lead the masses to develop side businesses, the masses opened family hotels, shops, transportation, and pig farms while grazing and guarding the border. With the implementation of the state's strategy of consolidating borders and enriching the people, the Yumai Township Road was opened in 2011, and the income of villagers continued to increase. "By the end of last year, the per capita annual income of Yumai Township reached more than 50,000 yuan, far exceeding the average level of the whole district, of which policy-oriented income accounted for more than 30%." Dawa said, "With the increase in the circulation of commodities, the masses' operating income, animal husbandry income, transportation income, and handicraft income will further increase, and the masses' lives will become better and better." ”

"The country's action to rejuvenate the border and enrich the people is the fundamental driving force for us to build Yumai." Through the ongoing construction of border well-off villages, Dawa actively sought funds of 1.78 million yuan, carried out construction projects such as housing projects and xingbian fubian, upgraded the main roads of the township government, renovated the housing of 9 families in the township, built and renovated 4 grazing points, and solved the problems of difficult travel, living and grazing difficulties for the masses.

Yumai is developing and changing at an unprecedented speed. Dawa said: "General Secretary Xi Jinping's reply has deeply inspired the cadres and masses of the whole township. We will certainly continue to lead the cadres and masses of Yumai to guard the border and consolidate the border, develop the economy, guard every grass and tree on the territory of the motherland, and create a better life. ”

Guangming Daily (November 19, 2018, 04 edition)