"Young people should keenly seize the historic opportunity of rural revitalization." Li Jun, a deputy to the National People's Congress and secretary of the party branch of Xiuyun Village, Baiyi Town, Cangxi County, Sichuan Province, said in an exclusive interview with a reporter from the China Youth Daily and China Youth Network recently that "the hope for rural revitalization lies in the struggle of our generation of young people."
He believes that attracting young people to return to the countryside is not only based on feelings, but also through more dynamic policies, "so that more young people can see the hope of returning to their hometown to start a business."
The post-85 village party secretary has been fighting in the front line of poverty alleviation for 13 years. At the recent national poverty alleviation summary and commendation conference, Li Jun and 1980 representatives from all walks of life from the grassroots level won the title of "National Advanced Individual in Poverty Alleviation".
13 years ago, Li Jun, who graduated from university, gave up the management position of a company in Chengdu and returned to Xiuyun Village to become a "doll secretary". Under the leadership of Li Jun, Xiuyun Village has changed from a backward small mountain village with no roads, no tourism resources, and no pillar industries in the depths of the Qinba Mountains to a "place that makes many people in the city envious", and achieved poverty alleviation in 2014.
Toward the revitalization of the countryside, the revitalization of talents is the guarantee. A few months ago, Li Jun widely solicited suggestions from netizens on "how to attract more young people to return to their hometowns to start a business" through short videos and live broadcasts, and recruited short video talents and other professionals who were willing to come to Xiuyun Village to start a business.
In Li Jun's view, young people's entrepreneurship in rural areas drives and influences not only a family, but also the development of a village and a region. Young people who have returned to their hometowns have gone out from the countryside, received new education, have new ideas, and have a strong nostalgia for the countryside, "If such young people can come back to build their hometowns, I believe there will be great gains." And young people returning home with skills and technology can better revitalize the countryside and realize "a broad world and great potential."
In recent years, Xiuyun Village has used the Internet platform to help the development of the new rural economy and help farmers get rich and increase income. Last year, the village also concentrated the land in the village and built an ecological agricultural park of more than 300 mu. The development opportunity of rural revitalization has attracted 18 young people to return to their hometowns to start a business.
During this year's Spring Festival, Li Jun deliberately held a mobilization meeting for young people to return to their hometowns to start a business to publicize relevant policies and plans. Li Jun said, "Only by coming back one by one can we attract more young people to return to their hometowns." ”
Recently, the CPC Central Committee And the State Council jointly issued a document on the revitalization of rural talents, saying that in order to give hope to the countryside, it is necessary to have young people with ideas and culture. This made Li Jun very excited.
He suggested the introduction of strong support policies to encourage and support young people to return to their hometowns to start businesses, to promote the revitalization of rural industries with the revitalization of talents, to give greater support to young people who return to their hometowns to start a business, to create a better entrepreneurial environment for them, and to bring together the strength of different departments in terms of financial support, funds, and project support, so that the groups that return to their hometowns to start businesses can make money and see hope.
At the same time, he suggested that the relevant departments set up full-time posts for college students at the grass-roots level in the context of rural revitalization, such as the original college student village officials, social organization service personnel in the village, etc., which can not only serve rural revitalization, but also cultivate a large number of grass-roots talents.
Source: China Youth Daily