Editor's note: "No matter what step our career is, no matter how much we have achieved, we must vigorously carry forward the spirit of the Great Long March and continue to forge ahead on the new Long March road." "Since the Eighteenth National Congress of the Communist Party of China, General Secretary Xi Jinping has repeatedly set foot on the holy site of the Red Army's Long March revolution during local inspections, and made a series of important expositions on inheriting and carrying forward the spirit of the Great Long March. In order to commemorate the 85th anniversary of the victory of the Red Army's Long March, the People's Daily launched a series of reports on "Following the Footsteps of the General Secretary and Taking the Long March in the New Era".
Shazhou Yao village. People's Daily Photo by Li Fangsen
Chenzhou has many forests, since ancient times, it is a city in the forest, and the word "郴" belongs to Chenzhou alone, and a Chinese character is a city;
Chenzhou has many stories, the Red Army's Long March passed through this place, leaving behind "half a quilt", a past is a spirit.
On October 21, 2016, General Secretary Xi Jinping told this touching story that occurred during the Long March in his speech at the conference commemorating the 80th anniversary of the victory of the Red Army's Long March, "In Shazhou Village, Rucheng County, Hunan Province, three female Red Army soldiers stayed in Xu Xiexiu's old man's home, and when they left, they cut off half of their only quilt and left it for the elderly. The old man said, what is the Communist Party? The Communist Party is the one who has a quilt of its own and has to cut off half of it for the common people. ”
On the afternoon of September 16, 2020, General Secretary Xi Jinping came to the story of Shazhou Yao Nationality Village in Wenming Yao Nationality Township, Rucheng County, Chenzhou City, Hunan Province. The history here has turned a new page.
The sculptures in the Folklore Square reproduce the scene of the gift quilt. People's Daily Photo by Li Fangsen
The popularity of "Red Heart Hotel"
The party and the masses are deeply in love with each other to go to a happy day
Zhu Xiaohong, 53, is the grandson of Xu Xiexiu, the protagonist of the "Half Quilt" story. Although there are only a few faces, the man who grew up in the mountains has always been enthusiastic.
Zhu Xiaohong's native restaurant. People's Daily Photo by Li Fangsen
Zhu Xiaohong was once a poor household in the village, and she was almost breathless in the face of her meager income, elderly and sick parents, and two children who were going to school.
In 2017, Zhu Xiaohong had a skill by participating in the chef skills training organized by the local party committee and government. On October 1 of the same year, the first local restaurant in Shazhou was born in Zhu Xiaohong's hands. Look at the "half a quilt" and taste the "landlord" craftsmanship. Many tourists who come to Shazhou Yao Village choose to try Zhu Xiaohong's craftsmanship.
"At first, there weren't many people, so we could get busy with two people. In the past two years, there have been more and more guests, and I have to ask for help. A fixed chef, 4 to 7 waiters, once a "mom-and-pop shop", a "catering giant" in the village, the "little red brother" in the villagers' mouths, has now become "Boss Zhu".
On September 16, 2020, when General Secretary Xi Jinping came to Zhu Xiaohong's home to visit and offer condolences, he pointed out that the goal of the Communist Party of China is to let the people turn themselves into liberation and live a good life. We must always adhere to the fundamental purpose of serving the people wholeheartedly and continue to strive for the realization of the people's yearning for a better life.
"In 2014, the family traveled for a year, and the income was less than 10,000 yuan. In 2020, it will increase to 150,000 yuan. "Zhu Xiaohong deeply feels the earth-shaking changes in her life and is also fully confident in a better life in the future." It can be doubled this year! ”
"In those days, the Red Army sent half a quilt to my house; now, the Communist Party has brought us happy days." Referring to the change in life, Zhu Xiaohong couldn't help but sigh.
In the "tourism + poverty alleviation" model of Shazhou Yao nationality village, Zhu Xiaohong is not the only beneficiary. Through the "everyone has skills" training, the farm cook, rural tourism training classes, etc., to achieve more than 350 people in front of the door to start a business and employment, in 2020 per capita disposable income reached 15,000 yuan, an increase of nearly 10,000 yuan over 2014.
"Revitalize resource advantages and promote industrial revitalization." He Zhicheng, deputy governor of the Rucheng County People's Government, said.
A Yao village in a sandbar in the smoke and rain. People's Daily Photo by Li Fangsen
Septuagenarians are busy gatherings
Grassroots public services are completed in one stop
Lowering his trouser legs, straightening his collar, and combing his hair in front of the mirror, Zhu Sishu, 78, put away his elderly bus card and walked out of the house to go to this month's class reunion.
Earlier, the procedures for the elderly in the village to apply for the old age card were more cumbersome, not only to have a village-level certificate, a township-level seal, but also to the county government service center to get a card, and there were few trips that could not be done, which was prohibitive.
Shazhou Yao Village Service Center. People's Daily Photo by Li Fangsen
"The general secretary stressed that it is necessary to build the village service center for the people as an important position in the grass-roots governance system, improve and enrich the service matters, improve the level of service for the people, and enhance the accuracy and effectiveness of the service for the people." Zhu Xiangqun, secretary of the party branch of Shazhou Yao Nationality Village, cannot forget General Secretary Xi Jinping's instructions at the village service center. "We provide what the people need."
In October 2020, Shazhou Yao Ethnic Village applied for the permission to apply for an elderly bus card, and the elderly who have reached the age of 65 can handle it in the village. "Surrounding villagers also came to our village to handle it, and we handled about 60 tickets in the first month."
Zhu Sishu was one of the first villagers to apply for an elderly bus card, and the life of "one card in hand, the whole county can go" has entered the homes of more than 300 villagers.
Not only that, the 38-square-meter Shazhou Yao Village Service Center now has 4 office windows such as party affairs services, social affairs, agricultural affairs, and emergency affairs, undertaking 48 affairs in 36 categories such as living expenses, issuing certificates, and applying for social security, and promoting the full coverage of grass-roots public services.
"With the goal of 'precision and effectiveness' and the purpose of 'convenience, efficiency, and 100% satisfaction', the Shazhou Yao Village Service Center has added online services such as bus cards for the elderly and birth certificates, and innovated the 'five offices' service model of immediately, online, appointment, guidance, and door-to-door agency, basically realizing that the masses do not leave the village and complete one-stop." Zhu Xiangqun introduced that as of now, in 2021, the Shazhou Village Service Center will handle 395 matters for the masses, and the satisfaction rate of the masses will reach 100%.
"Build a spiritual homeland and promote cultural revitalization." Always regard the spirit of 'half a quilt' as an heirloom, do a good job in the organic combination of spiritual education and service for the people, so that every villager is a 'preacher' of the 'half quilt' spirit, and every cadre and group is a 'spokesperson' of the 'half quilt' spirit. Li Chunwen, deputy director of the Propaganda Department of the Rucheng County CPC Committee, introduced. In the future, Rucheng County will fully excavate the profound connotation and spiritual strength of the "Half Quilt", revise and improve the Zhu family ancestral training, the village rules and regulations, the red and white celebration charter, the beautiful civilization convention, the scholarship, teaching, scholarship and other statutes, further form a "sandbar culture" that integrates the national style, the village style, and the family style, and lead the change of customs, the establishment of the civilization of the rural style, the construction of civic morality, and the cultivation of patriotic sentiments.
100 acres of orchards in Shazhou Yao village. People's Daily Photo by Li Fangsen
Urgent and difficult to solve
The blueprint for rural revitalization shines into the sandbar
"There are so many jobs in the scenic spots, if you don't arrange a post for me, I won't leave today." In Shazhou Yao village, villager Cao Jianliang once sat angrily in the office of the village committee and refused to leave.
"When the crayfish are well raised, you must try them." Today, Cao Jianliang is cleaning up weeds in the newly contracted fish pond, describing the advantages of farming crayfish and smiling.
From being "angry" in the past to being "smiling and smiling" today, this is the result of the rural revitalization task force of the Yao nationality villages stationed in Chenzhou City in Shazhou City and working together with the rural two levels to solve the problem of "urgent difficulties and sorrows" that the masses have strongly complained about.
General Secretary Xi Jinping stressed during his inspection of Shazhou Yao Nationality Village that in the process of continuing to promote rural revitalization, it is necessary to continue to select the first secretary of the village, strengthen the construction of grass-roots party organizations, and improve the political quality and combat effectiveness of grass-roots party organizations.
Keep in mind yin Yin's entrustment and shoulder the heavy responsibility of the times. On May 27, 2021, led by the Chenzhou Municipal Finance Bureau, the Rural Revitalization Task Force in Shazhou Village, Rucheng County, jointly dispatched by six units, including the Political Research Office of the Municipal Party Committee, the Municipal Taxation Bureau, the Municipal Women's Federation, the Municipal Meteorological Bureau, and the Municipal Investment and Financing Service Center, was officially settled.
The village team visits the villagers. Courtesy of respondents
"On the first night, we held a villagers' congress to ask the people about their plans." Wu Yuanhua, a member of the task force, said that their first task in going to the village was to do practical things for the masses, that is, to win the trust and support of the masses with real actions.
Next, it is a month-long home visit, focusing on the composition of villagers' family members, the main sources of income, the contradictions and disputes that exist, the willingness to appeal, and the opinions and suggestions on the revitalization of the countryside.
"The spirit of 'half a quilt' is a precious wealth left by the ancestors to the people in the old revolutionary areas, or a spiritual energy to promote the revitalization of the countryside." Tan Shihua, leader of the task force and first secretary of the village, introduced. It is understood that Shazhou Village has collected 219 opinions and suggestions from the masses in areas such as "accelerating the construction of happy new villages", "developing boutique homestays" and "improving the quality of village lighting", and 39 problems that the masses have strongly complained about, such as "the phenomenon of dirty and chaotic villages is prominent", "the function of flood discharge and sewage facilities is not perfect", and "the daily management of scenic spots is not standardized". At the same time, we have solved 21 problems while discovering, and 18 problems are being solved.
The main responsible comrades of the Rucheng County CPC Committee described to reporters the blueprint for the revitalization of the Yao nationality village in Shazhou: Adhere to ideological guidance, make good use of red resources, tell the story of "half a quilt", and strive to build Shazhou into a classic scenic spot for red tourism and a first-class base for red education; adhere to industry leadership, make good use of the support policy, focus on developing advantageous characteristic industries, and explore a road to rural industrial revitalization; persist in optimizing governance, expand effective ways for villagers to participate in village-level decision-making, and stimulate the "driving force" for building a beautiful and happy home. Transform the effectiveness of governance into the effectiveness of development; persist in development for the people, not let a single ordinary person be left behind on the road to prosperity, continuously improve the quality of life of the people, and polish the business card of the sandbar more brightly and louder...
Source: People's Daily News