Yan'er Valley, Luotian County. (Photo by ZhiXin)
Photovoltaics help alleviate poverty. (Photo by Zeng Xianfeng)
Beautiful new village. (Photo by Zhang Faxi)
The water jumps. (Photo by Xu Shiguo)
21 years ago, in 1999, Huanggang completed the "87" poverty alleviation target two years ahead of schedule, and was set up by the State Council Poverty Alleviation Office as a banner for national poverty alleviation and development.
"By 2020, all the rural poor under the current standards will be lifted out of poverty." After the Eighteenth National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the Party Central Committee made a solemn commitment to the people of the whole country.
"Guided by the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping's important exposition on poverty alleviation work, resolutely implement the decision-making and deployment of the Party Central Committee, use the strength of the whole city to win the decisive battle, ensure that the city's poverty alleviation task is completed on schedule, and then set up a banner of accurate poverty alleviation." In September 2015, the 13th plenary (expanded) meeting of the Fourth Municipal Party Committee issued a sonorous oath to the people of the city to fight poverty in the new era.
A promise is out, and it is impossible to hinder!
In the final year of poverty alleviation, the epidemic situation and flood situation are superimposed, and the difficulties and challenges are unprecedented. Our city adheres to the same goal, keeps the bullseye in mind, takes into account overall planning, responds scientifically, and goes all out to fight poverty alleviation.
After 8 years of targeted poverty alleviation and 5 years of poverty alleviation, Huanggang handed over a historical answer sheet: 6 poverty-stricken counties were all removed from the hat, 892 poverty-stricken villages were all listed, 1.028 million poor people were all lifted out of poverty, the incidence of poverty dropped from 16.83% to 0.14%, and the overall poverty in the region was solved.
On November 14, 2020, Liu Xuerong, secretary of the Municipal Party Committee, was invited to give a lecture on "Huanggang Practice of DecisiveLy Winning the Battle to Overcome Poverty" in the main class of the 2020 autumn semester of the Party School of the Provincial Party Committee, which attracted widespread attention and formed a good response.
12 live meetings in six years – hammer after hammer, gnawing on hard bones
On January 5 this year, on a wide and clean cement road, a school bus slowly stopped at the mouth of Gaolou Village in Gaoqiao Town, Hong'an County.
Waiting here, Wu Maole quickly greeted him, took the hand of his first-grade granddaughter who got off the car, and happily returned to his home less than 500 meters from the village entrance.
Wu Maole's family, who originally lived in He Jiatian, was assessed as a poor household due to his son's sudden major illness, and was relocated to his current place of residence. "Healthy poverty alleviation helped my son cure his illness, he could go out to work, education poverty alleviation let his granddaughter go to school without worry, I worked odd jobs in the surrounding areas, and my life was getting more and more hopeful."
If the changes in Wu Maole's home are obvious, then the changes in the high-rise villages are earth-shaking: human settlement environment improvement, hardening of village group roads, street lights, photovoltaic power generation... The village's collective economic income reached 230,000 yuan, 28 poor households were all lifted out of poverty, and the villagers' sense of happiness and gain was continuously improved.
Like Gaolou Village and Wu Maole, the city's poverty-stricken mountainous areas have achieved "two worries and three guarantees", learning and teaching, treating the sick, living in housing, and helping the poor, bidding farewell to the absolute poverty that has lasted for thousands of years, and synchronously moving towards a well-off.
Our city integrates the old area, mountainous area and reservoir area, and is the main battlefield for poverty alleviation in the Dabie Mountain area. At the end of 2014, there were 6 poverty-stricken counties, 892 poverty-stricken villages, and 1.028 million poor people in the city, and the number and degree of poverty in poor villages and poor people ranked among the top in the province, and the task of poverty alleviation was extremely arduous.
Even if the thorns carry the road, thousands of gullies, courageous actions will always cross one pass after another, and break out one road of happiness after another——
"The party's leadership is the fixed star for winning the battle against poverty." Liu Xuerong, secretary of the municipal party committee, stressed after in-depth investigation and investigation that promoting poverty alleviation is like military operations, and it is necessary to stress both strategy and tactics. Strategy is the top-level design; tactics are the action plan.
The strongest strength is hard work. Since 2015, the Municipal Party Committee and the Municipal Government have held 12 consecutive on-site promotion meetings for poverty alleviation, organized on-site teaching of city, county, and township secretaries, one theme at a time, perseverance, long-term achievements, strengths and weaknesses, making up for shortcomings, and consolidating foundations——
In August 2015, the first on-site meeting was held in Luotian, focusing on industrial poverty alleviation and promoting Luotian's "five-in-one" industrial poverty alleviation experience.
In October 2015, the second on-site meeting was held in Hong'an to further clarify the overall ideas, key tasks, promotion models and work requirements of the city's poverty alleviation.
In December 2015, the third on-site meeting was held in Puchun to deploy the city's relocation work for poverty alleviation.
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The 12 on-site meetings in 6 years, the location from 6 poor counties to non-poor counties, the theme from focusing on industrial poverty alleviation, to focusing on a number of problems in the government's pocket; from sorting out the "four batches" of prominent problems, proposing countermeasures, to deploying to increase the rectification of inspection feedback problems; from researching to stimulate the endogenous motivation of the poor population, to deploying capable people to return to their hometowns to start a business; from researching and promoting accurate poverty alleviation, consolidating and upgrading, and effectively connecting with the comprehensive beginning of rural revitalization, to deploying the overall battle against the epidemic and fighting poverty, and fighting the final battle.
Solve a big problem at a time, hammer after hammer: around the implementation of the "five-level secretary to grasp poverty alleviation", put forward the "four clear and two clear" test standards; for the relocation of poverty alleviation, put forward the "Song of the Seven Sons"; created the "985" medical poverty alleviation model...
In the past 8 years, the city's cadres and masses have carried forward the spirit of the old district of "unity of purpose, closely following the party, Park Cheng's courage and perseverance, and endless victory", and continued to tackle tough problems, drawing a blueprint to the end, and gnawing down hard bones one by one: in 2017, Hong'an took the lead in withdrawing from the sequence of nationally designated poverty-stricken counties in the Dabie Mountain area; in 2018, Luotian, Yingshan, and Tuanfeng took off their hats; in 2019, Macheng and Puchun took off their hats...
Three hard battles are fought together -- cracking the "plus test questions" and winning the war of annihilation
The one who walks a hundred miles is half ninety. By the beginning of 2020, there are 4,083 households and 8,437 people left in poverty in our city.
At that time, Huanggang was riveted and determined to completely win the battle against poverty in another year.
An unprecedented undertaking is bound to be difficult. This year, the unexpected new crown pneumonia epidemic, the historical rare flood disaster, the impact is unprecedented, two "plus test questions", so that the difficulty of the city's poverty alleviation test has increased sharply:
Among the 2,907 confirmed patients in the city, 140 poor people are at increased risk of returning to poverty due to illness; strict sealing and isolation have prevented the 120,000 poor people who originally established a file to go out to work, the sales of agricultural products are not smooth, and it is difficult to resume work and production...
Nine rounds of heavy rainfall caused more than 3.65 million people in the city to be affected, 3.713 million mu of crops were affected, 3,353 houses were seriously damaged, and agricultural losses were 2.176 billion yuan, and the risk of returning to poverty due to disasters increased.
General Secretary Xi Jinping made an important deployment: "We must do a solid job in the 'six stability' work, fully implement the 'six guarantees' task, and ensure the completion of the task of building a moderately prosperous society in an all-round way and fighting a decisive battle to overcome poverty." ”
Ying Yong, secretary of the provincial party committee, has repeatedly gone deep into the city's industrial poverty alleviation enterprises and rural farmers to investigate the work of poverty alleviation, emphasizing the need to ensure the high-quality completion of the goal of poverty alleviation and ensure that a well-off society is built in an all-round way on schedule.
The municipal party committee and the municipal government led the people of the whole city to "fight three hard battles together, and will not collect troops unless they win a complete victory", and strive to turn "additional test questions" into "extra points".
Focus on the "four categories of personnel" such as the remaining poor population, the unstable households that have been lifted out of poverty, the marginal households, the poverty caused by the epidemic or other reasons, and other reasons for the sudden decline in income, comprehensively investigate, do not miss a household, issue the "Several Opinions on Increasing Assistance to Prevent Poverty From Returning to Poverty Due to Disasters", establish a "one household, one policy" help account, implement one household and one policy, and accurately help;
Promote the "four batches" and start a battle to defend the employment of poor laborers——
In view of the difficulties of poor households in our city in going out to work and the shortage of migrant jobs in the city during the epidemic period, with the "four advances" action as the starting point, four batches of employment poverty alleviation measures have been adopted to "connect with the delivery of a batch of migrant workers, increase the number of public welfare posts, support the main body of the poverty alleviation market to drive a batch, and encourage the independent development of industries to stabilize a batch".
"One more day at home earns one less day, and I always want to get back to work as soon as possible." Thank you to the government for organizing a special bus to return to work to send us back to Dongguan to work. Weng Baode, 33, said happily.
Like Weng Baode, on March 20, the city's first special train for migrant workers to return to work carried 1,410 migrant workers on the road back to work in Shenzhen.
In 2020, the city has gone out to employ 392,100 poor laborers, an increase of 9.1% over 2019. Liu Xuerong, secretary of the municipal party committee, and Qiu Lixin, deputy secretary of the municipal party committee and mayor, have gone to the station six times to send off tens of thousands of migrant workers.
Implement consumption poverty alleviation and launch a "war to defend agricultural products" ————
Seizing the opportunity of the state to "build a handle and pull a hand" for Hubei, the live broadcast with goods in Huanggang heated up.
Mayors, county mayors, township mayors have become "anchors with goods", Yingshan Cloud Mist Tea, Luotian Chestnut, Macheng Fu BaiJu, Bahe Lotus Root... Huanggang characteristic agricultural products have become internet celebrity products.
In order to mobilize the whole society to participate in consumption poverty alleviation, the municipal government issued incentive policies to promote the "Ten Major Actions" of consumer poverty alleviation, set up the "Huanggang Landmark Excellent Product Poverty Alleviation Pavilion", and simultaneously exerted efforts online and offline, achieving sales of 2.287 billion yuan.
Carry out visits to the poor and ask for results, and win the war of annihilation --
How to consolidate the results of poverty alleviation in our city in the past five years? What are the other shortcomings?
From November 1 to 6, 2020, a research activity dedicated to visiting the facts, checking practical results, doing practical things, consolidating the results of poverty alleviation, and improving the quality of poverty alleviation was conducted in the city.
Leaders at the city and county levels each visit no less than 10 poor households, do not say hello, do not accompany, light car, into the village, to see the base, to visit the peasant household, to stay in the farmhouse, to pull the family routine, to solve the problem:
"The shortage of funds for the construction of the red army cave traditional education base in the grass shoe shop village has fallen"; "the problem of the relocation of grandchildren proposed by the poor household Ma Guihua has been solved"; "4 prominent problems such as the relocation of the relocated households in the big maple village have been handed over on the spot"... According to the data, leaders at the city and county levels visited 4310 rural households, found 1101 problems, and solved 744 problems on the spot.
Continue to implement the "Thousand Talents Plan" for capable people to return to their hometowns - "five-in-one" industrial poverty alleviation, and promote the effective connection between poverty alleviation and rural revitalization
The warm winter sun shines on the Shenfeng Mountain Villa in Kongjiafang Township, Yingshan County. Farmers in the 10,000-mu planting base are picking various vegetables, 24 kilometers of ecological leisure agricultural tourism and tourism with tourists, and 50 tons of agricultural products are sold from here to big cities every day.
It was once a barren mountain range, and the villagers were not wealthy. In 2013, Wen Binjun, a capable person who has been wandering outside for 20 years, resolutely returned to his hometown to invest in the industry under the call of hometown sentiment.
In the past 7 years, he has invested 450 million yuan to build Hubei Xiannongtan Ecological Agriculture Co., Ltd., circulating 6580 mu of land in the city, taking Shenfeng Mountain Villa as the core base, through the integration of three industries, village-enterprise marriage, mass joining and other ecological cycle agriculture three-dimensional model, the products are sold to more than 20 provinces and cities across the country, receiving 600,000 tourists a year, achieving an annual comprehensive income of 450 million yuan, driving 70,000 farmers to increase their income and get rid of poverty.
The development of industry is the fundamental strategy to achieve poverty alleviation, and it is also the key to promoting the effective connection between poverty alleviation and rural revitalization.
Over the years, the city has tightly held the industrial "bull nose", worked hard for a long time, gave full play to the advantages of Huanggang's "Wuhua Tianbao, Renjie Diling", and stepped out of the unique industrial poverty alleviation road: through the implementation of the "Thousand Talents Plan" for capable people to return to their hometowns, the development of tea, Chinese herbal medicine, oil tea and other ten major industries, the formation of "government + market players + finance + insurance + poor households" five-in-one industrial poverty alleviation model.
Since 2018, Liu Xuerong, secretary of the Municipal Party Committee, has presided over a symposium on the return of capable people to their hometowns to start a business on the occasion of the Qingming Dynasty on April 6 for three consecutive years, and appealed with heart and affection: Hometown fathers and elders call you back to start a business!
Suddenly, like a spring breeze in the night, thousands of trees and pear blossoms bloomed. Capable people return to their hometowns to start a business "Thousand Talents Plan", stirring up the Dabie Mountain Township ——
In the past three years, the city has introduced 3,474 projects, with an agreed investment of 268.2 billion yuan, and has completed an investment of 91.1 billion yuan. It has achieved "four thousand" and "five brings": that is, the implementation of the thousand-person plan, the signing of thousands of projects, the introduction of hundreds of billions of investment, and the promotion of thousands of households; bringing funds, technology, talents, concepts, and income.
Luotian County Bird's Nest Village was once a key poor village. Under the leadership of Xu Zhixin, a returnee entrepreneur, he explored a new model of "joint construction of village enterprises", developed the first, second and third industries, established e-commerce platforms such as "Nine Guys and Eighteen Craftsmen", and set up the first "express delivery into the village" direct sales point of Hubei SF, so that Yan'er Valley became a rural revitalization model of "industrial prosperity, ecological livability, rural style civilization, effective governance, and affluent life"——
Villagers are rich - the per capita annual income of villagers is 16,000 yuan, which is 10 times that of 9 years ago; the village is beautiful - from the dirty and messy poor ravine in the past to a 3A-level scenic spot; the popularity is booming - driving more than 160 able people from 7 surrounding villages to return to their hometowns to start businesses, and adding 64 new market entities...
In Puchun, a group of capable people returned to their hometowns, promoting the ai industry to form an industrial chain from research and development, processing to sales "smile curve": more than 200 R & D patents, more than 800 kinds of products, more than 2,000 AIDS-related market entities, more than 30,000 moxibustionists, more than 100,000 employees, brand value of 10 billion yuan.
Macheng Loess Gang "Chrysanthemum Town", Huangmei Liu Zuo "Ginkgo Town"... The industrial scale of the city's "one county, one industry, one township and one product" has further expanded and strengthened, and more than 60% of the city's poor people have eaten industrial meals and embarked on the road to prosperity.
The well was dug for nine times before the spring was reached, and the well was abandoned.
Victory is not yet in sight, and efforts are still needed.
At the intersection of the "two hundred years" goal, let us be cautious and consistent, work together to create a miracle of human poverty reduction, and go to the covenant of moderate prosperity with a total victory posture to start a new journey of rural revitalization. Hand over a qualified answer sheet to history and the people of Huanggang, and let the banner of accurate poverty alleviation in the whole country be planted on Dabie Mountain in Huanggang again!
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The Experience of Huanggang in Poverty Alleviation resounded throughout the country
In the evaluation of the effectiveness of the province's municipal and state party committees and governments in poverty alleviation and development, Huanggang has been rated as "good" in comprehensive evaluation for four consecutive years.
Important meetings such as the national "10,000 enterprises helping 10,000 villages" precision poverty alleviation action site meeting, the national industrial poverty alleviation site meeting, and the provincial health poverty alleviation site meeting were held in Huanggang, and the experience of "five-in-one" industrial poverty alleviation, health poverty alleviation, and relocation of poverty alleviation was promoted to the whole province and the whole country.
Liu Jinxiu and Wen Binjun won the 2017 and 2018 National Poverty Alleviation Awards Dedication Awards respectively; Fang Rong, as the only director of the prefecture-level poverty alleviation office, won the 2019 National Poverty Alleviation Award Contribution Award.
The poverty alleviation model of "Shenfeng Mountain Villa" was selected as one of the top ten typical cases of national industrial poverty alleviation, and was translated into Chinese and English versions, which were publicized to the world as a typical case of national poverty reduction; Luotian Yange Valley was selected as a tourism poverty reduction case of the World Tourism Alliance.
"Two Guarantees" Are Really Not Worried The "Three Guarantees" are guaranteed
In terms of education, it has funded nearly 2 million students from poor families, with a fund of 2.4 billion yuan, and invested 3 billion yuan to renovate nearly 2,000 rural schools.
In terms of medical treatment, we adhere to the "four-in-one" guarantee of basic medical insurance, major illness insurance, medical assistance and supplementary medical treatment, and the comprehensive reimbursement ratio has reached 86.35%.
In terms of housing, 1526 centralized resettlement sites were built, and the relocation tasks of 36,790 households and 69,563 people were completed. 56,000 dangerous houses of poor households were renovated and established, and 345,000 poor households were safely liquidated.
In terms of policy coverage, the target of the guarantee reached 426,400 people during the peak period, and the rural minimum guarantee standard and the special hardship support standard were raised from 2440 yuan / year and 4900 yuan / year in 2014 to 4853 yuan / year and 9710 yuan / year, respectively.
The city upgraded 3,431 kilometers of rural roads throughout the city; the problem of drinking water difficulties for 320,000 poor people was all cleared.