Poverty alleviation has borne fruit, and rural revitalization has opened a new chapter. In order to promote the consolidation and expansion of the results of poverty alleviation and the effective connection between rural revitalization, this year the central government set up a special subsidy fund for rural revitalization, with a scale of 156.1 billion yuan, an increase of 10 billion yuan over the original central financial special poverty alleviation fund last year, and the overall scale of financial support policies and funds remained stable.
How effective have these fiscal funds and policies been in recent years? The reporter visited Guangdong, Hubei, and Shaanxi to conduct interviews.
In the vegetable greenhouse of Fengkeng Village, Sankeng Town, Qingyuan City, Guangdong Province, the verdant mountain Su vegetables grow happily. "These vegetables are not only popular in the local area, but also have a lot of orders from other places!" He Daoyi, full-time deputy director of the Sankeng Town Poverty Alleviation Office, head of the vegetable planting base, said.
Shansu vegetables from the vegetable planting base of Fengkeng Village, Sankeng Town, Qingxin District, Qingyuan City. Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Shen Cheng
The reporter learned that with the support of financial poverty alleviation funds, in recent years, Sankeng Town has combined local superior resources to actively develop high-quality agricultural projects and characteristic industrial projects, and through the construction of online and offline industrial chains, more than 200 households and more than 1,000 people have participated in the planting and processing of agricultural products, promoting the development of planting in surrounding villages, and enabling many farmers to realize the dream of "employment at the doorstep".
"This year is the first year to promote the consolidation and expansion of the results of poverty alleviation and the effective connection between rural revitalization, and we insist on taking agriculture and rural areas as the priority guarantee area of fiscal expenditure, and invest more effectively." Dai Yunlong, director of the Department of Finance of Guangdong Province, said that this year's Guangdong Provincial Budget arranged about 120 billion yuan of agricultural, forestry and water expenditure, and the provincial finance used to consolidate and expand the effective connection between poverty alleviation and rural revitalization reached 12.32 billion yuan, which was further increased compared with last year's investment in poverty alleviation.
At the same time, Guangdong will also accelerate the formation of a diversified investment pattern of financial priority guarantee, financial focus and active social participation. "We will standardize the use of local government bonds, PPP and other funding channels, improve agricultural funds, agricultural credit guarantees, agricultural insurance and other policies, and implement the use of awards in lieu of compensation, loan discounts and other ways to attract and leverage more financial social capital and raise more funds." Dai Yunlong said.
In the chrysanthemum high-tech industrial park in Huangtugang Town, Macheng City, Hubei Province, a series of facilities such as chrysanthemum planting greenhouses, chrysanthemum processing plants, chrysanthemum seedling tissue cultivation workshops, and chrysanthemum science popularization halls are dazzling.
Chrysanthemum tea from Macheng, Hubei Province. Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Shen Cheng
"In recent years, we have integrated more than 80 million yuan of various financial funds to support the development and construction of Chrysanthemum High-tech Industrial Park. Today, the industrial park has directly helped 226 poverty-alleviated households to increase their income steadily and become rich, and radiation has driven 12,000 households in 5 surrounding townships to increase their income by 1,200 yuan per mu. Hu Qingchao, a member of the party group of the Finance Bureau of Macheng City, Hubei Province, said.
The policy of integrating agriculture-related funds can turn "change" into "whole money" and collect "whole money" into "big money", which is a major policy measure to innovate the management method of agriculture-related funds and promote the reform of "decentralization and management of services" in the field of poverty alleviation.
"This year, we will continue to implement the policy of integrating agriculture-related funds and strengthen the ability of cities and counties to coordinate resources at the grass-roots level." Jin Weifeng, director of the Agricultural Department of the Hubei Provincial Department of Finance, told reporters that Hubei Province has comprehensively sorted out and optimized the financial support policies during the poverty alleviation period, and is formulating the hubei provincial financial convergence to promote the rural revitalization subsidy fund management measures and the implementation rules for the overall integration of agriculture-related funds, and further manage and make good use of the precious "real money and silver".
Apple town, mushroom town, Chinese herbal medicine town... The reporter saw in Yaozhou District, Tongchuan City, Shaanxi Province, that with the continuous help of industrial poverty alleviation project funds, Yaozhou District has basically realized "one town and one industry", with an average of 1 to 2 collective industries per village, and the masses continue to increase their income steadily.
"In the next step, we will actively establish a financial fund guarantee mechanism that matches the consolidation and expansion of the results of poverty alleviation, maintain the overall stability of investment, and give priority to supporting the development of advantageous industries with underdeveloped areas." Cao Heng, director of the Agricultural and Rural Affairs Division of the Shaanxi Provincial Department of Finance, said that for the funds arranged by the financial arrangements at all levels for agricultural production development and rural infrastructure construction, "the authority for project approval is decentralized, and the funds are cut into blocks" to further strengthen policy support and fund guarantees. (Reporter Shen Cheng)