The expectation and echo of the southern foothills of Daxing'anling - the experience of poverty alleviation in Kedong County, Heilongjiang Province

Harbin, 15 Jan (Xinhua) -- Title: The Expectation and Echo of the Southern Foothills of daxing'anling -- Insights and Stories on Poverty Alleviation in Kedong County, Heilongjiang Province

Xinhua News Agency reporters Liang Dong, Yang Zhe and Xu Kaixin

Kedong County, Heilongjiang Province, located in the southern foothills of the Daxing'anling Mountains, was once a provincial-level poverty-stricken county with a poverty incidence rate of 8.5%.

On the eve of the Spring Festival, the reporter visited the county and learned that with the deepening of poverty alleviation, many poor households have found a "way out" to get rid of poverty and set the goal of getting rich. Today, 19,809 people from 8,735 poor households in Kedong County have all been lifted out of poverty, and the county has completed the task of poverty alleviation. The expectation of pulling out the "poor roots" has been realized, and a new happy life is coming.

Looking forward to employment: there are "office workers" in the village

At Heilongjiang Manyi Crafts Co., Ltd. in Kedong County, Yang Lingli, a poverty-alleviated household in Jianguo Village, Yugang Town, is busy making a full embroidery work with several embroidery girls. Threading needles and leads, as the needles shuttle up and down the silk cloth, the embroidered characters gradually take shape.

"I used to be idle at home and had nothing to do, but now I do full embroidery, which can increase my income by nearly 1,500 yuan per month." Yang Lingli told reporters that her husband was not in good health, the children were going to school again, and there was no one in the family land, so they had to circulate. 3 years ago, she attended the full embroidery training class, and after learning and exercising, she can now participate in the production of fine full embroidery.

According to the staff of the government department of Kedong County, the cultivated land area of Kedong County is 1.885 million mu, of which 1.6 million mu are operated on a large scale, accounting for 85%, and the total number of rural households is 56,000, of which 47,600 are circulating land. The large-scale operation of land is promoting more and more poor households to liberate the labor force and become "office workers" like Yang Lingli.

At the Beichen Fruit and Vegetable Planting Farmers' Professional Cooperative, Song Guixiang, a poverty alleviation household in Hongsheng Village, Qianfeng Town, stood in front of the desk and carefully screened the slippery mushrooms. "To classify these mushrooms according to different grades, it is still quite a test of eyesight!" Song Guixiang said with a smile that "after going to work", it can increase the income by about 15,000 yuan per year.

In Beichen Cooperative, the model of "cooperative + industry + farmer" has driven more than 650 poor households, and the dividend for poor households in 2019 reached more than 460,000 yuan.

"It's really good to work locally, take care of the crops, transfer employment to one person, and achieve poverty alleviation for the whole family." Today, this sentence has been passed on by word of mouth among many poor households in Kedong County, and has become a vivid portrayal of their new life.

Hope to increase income: there is a "new way to get rich"

Recently, in the milking workshop of Kedong and Pingyuan Ecological Ranch, which belongs to Heilongjiang Feihe Dairy Co., Ltd., more than 20 cows walked into the milking position in turn, and Zhang Pengjiu, a poverty alleviation household in Lirang Village, Runjin Township, was busy operating modern equipment to milk cows back and forth. Every day, he travels hundreds of times in a work tunnel more than 10 meters long.

"After coming here, life has changed a lot, and you can earn about 3,000 yuan per month." Zhang Pengjiu said, "Every day there is a commuter car transfer, 8 hours of work, and five social insurance and one gold. ”

Cheng Wanshan, deputy secretary of the Kedong County CPC Committee, introduced that Kedong County has formed an industrial poverty alleviation pattern of multiple industries superimposed, multiple models at the same time, and multiple doors to increase income, and poor households have more than 2 industrial supports, realizing "villages have rich industries, households have business projects, and people have channels to increase income."

Kedong County has driven 19,627 people from 8,724 poor households through leading enterprises, new business entities, characteristic breeding, photovoltaic industry, agricultural incentives, etc., with an income of 66.076 million yuan and an average household income of 7,574 yuan.

In order to encourage the development of poverty alleviation industries, Kedong County has also established a reward and compensation mechanism to subsidize the agricultural business entities and agricultural industry poverty alleviation projects that drive poor households, and implement the issuance of agricultural incentive subsidies and full embroidery training subsidies of 4.225 million yuan, 5070 households (people) have received incentive subsidies, and 39 new business entities have been supported.

Hope for development: struggle has a "spirit of spirit"

After the heavy snow, Fuxing Village in Yugang Town was wrapped in silver. Wang Jizhe, a 67-year-old poverty alleviation household, put on a reflective vest, picked up tools, and cleaned the snow from the road with more than a dozen poverty alleviation households in the village who participated in public welfare posts.

"The party's policy is so good now, I can't lie still and take money, I still have to do it." Wang Jizhe said. Wang Jizhe and his wife Yan Tingqin both suffer from heart disease and cannot do heavy work, and increase their income by more than 2400 yuan per year by participating in public welfare posts.

In order to stimulate the endogenous motivation of poor households and make them use their own capabilities and take the initiative to seek development, Kedong County rewards villagers who have helped stabilize poverty alleviation through policies, funds and projects, and issued incentive bonuses of 1.143 million yuan to 2286 poverty alleviation households, with an average household income of 500 yuan.

Gao Liqiu, a poverty alleviation household in the permanent village of Yugang Town, Kedong County, was once a "strong woman", and everyone said that Gao Liqiu "did not want to die" when he worked. But in 2013, a heart attack made Gao Liqiu spend all his family savings and still owe a huge foreign debt, and the whole person gradually became depressed...

"At that time, I didn't have any confidence in myself, and I lost hope in my life." Gao Liqiu said.

Today, the geological sample bag making industry introduced by the Heilongjiang Provincial Bureau of Geology and Mineral Resources dispatched to the permanent village team has rekindled gao Liqiu's hope for life.

"Last year, the income from making cloth bags was 16,000 yuan, and the task force commended them in public, and also issued certificates and bonuses, not to mention how happy!" Gao Liqiu said.

To stimulate the "spirit of the spirit" of poverty alleviation, Kedong County carried out the activity of "filial piety and respect for the elderly" through mission and education, cultural infiltration, civilization leadership, popularization of the rule of law, and typical demonstrations, established 113 advanced models of poverty alleviation, and selected 758 "three good families". (Contributor: Xie Jianfei)