Lingshou County, Hebei Province, was once a state-level poverty county, in order to alleviate poverty, tried to promote a variety of photovoltaic poverty alleviation models, including centralized power stations, village-level photovoltaic power plants, household photovoltaic power plants and so on. In Tashang Village, Tashang Town, Lingshou County, since 2018, Songjiang Energy Enterprise - Mannatech Energy Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "Mannatech Energy") has invested in the construction of a photovoltaic poverty alleviation power station, undertaking the task of helping 1168 local poor households get rid of poverty.
A barren yellow land three years ago is now a greenery. Clean, reliable, green and sustainable energy supply has injected inexhaustible impetus into rural revitalization. According to incomplete statistics, in addition to photovoltaic poverty alleviation, Mannatech Energy has also donated more than 79.8 million yuan through education poverty alleviation, helping the elderly and fighting the epidemic, reflecting the responsibility and responsibility of enterprises in the G60 science and technology innovation corridor in the Yangtze River Delta.
Photovoltaic poverty alleviation illuminates the road to poverty alleviation
Mannatech Energy is a professional company specializing in the investment, construction and operation of clean energy such as wind power plants and photovoltaic power plants in Songjiang. The relevant person in charge of the company revealed that due to the precision poverty alleviation project, in 2018, the company mobilized as many resources as possible to fully support and prioritize the arrangement, and the entire project took only more than two months from the start of construction to grid-connected power generation, and was officially completed and operated at the end of December of that year.
Since its grid connection, the power station has used solar energy to provide clean, reliable, green and sustainable energy supply for local residents, and has continued to inject vitality into local poverty alleviation through the form of poverty alleviation that shares the benefits of power generation with the poor. It is understood that the power station pays 3,000 yuan per poor family every year to alleviate poverty, and has been helping for 20 consecutive years, with a total of 70.08 million yuan, and 10.512 million yuan has been paid so far.
It is not enough to rely on the income of the power station alone, how to transform the driving force of poverty alleviation into sustained vitality, and effectively link the consolidation of the results of poverty alleviation with rural revitalization? The reporter learned that last year, the power station introduced the "photovoltaic power generation + agricultural planting" model, and truly carried out the "agricultural light complementary" project according to local conditions, using the idle land in the photovoltaic field area to cultivate and plant crops such as sweet potatoes, cereals and Chinese medicinal materials. At present, the area covered by crop cultivation has reached 90%, which has greatly improved the output efficiency of the land and promoted the development of the agricultural industry. In addition, crop planting, daily maintenance of power stations give priority to absorbing nearby labor, and it is expected to generate about 3,000 labors per year, which has driven farmers' employment, achieved a double harvest of photovoltaic development and agricultural production, and promoted poverty alleviation from "blood transfusion" to "hematopoiesis", adding impetus to rural revitalization.
Education and poverty alleviation put wings on dreams
At the end of 2020, the No. 1 Middle School of Mengla County, Yunnan Province, held the "Huantai Scholarship" awarding ceremony, commending the teachers and students who achieved excellent results in the middle school entrance examination and the college entrance examination this year, and the award-winning students were each awarded 1,000 yuan to 10,000 yuan, and the teacher group was rewarded with 98,500 yuan.
The "Mannatech Scholarship" was established by Mannatech's $1 million fund, which came from the company's chairman, Nanyi. When preparing for a personal wedding in 2017, Nanyi insisted on keeping everything simple and donated the saved expenses through the Shanghai Songjiang District Guangcai Cause Promotion Association. The "Huantai Scholarship" is jointly managed by the First Middle School of Mengla County and the cadres of Songjiang District of Shanghai Municipality, and the "Huantai Scholarship" has set up the Middle School Entrance Examination Promotion Award and the College Entrance Examination Award to encourage local children to study diligently and be positive.
In fact, since 2017, Mannatech Energy has inserted the wings of dreams for poor students in Yunnan and Guangxi by donating funds to set up scholarships and helping new schools open. In 2020, the party branch of the company learned during the inspection that the junior high school of Minzu New Town in the 17 relocation and resettlement sites in the county has been built, but there is still a funding gap for the improvement of supporting facilities and equipment. The opening of the school year will begin on September 1, which is related to the normal enrollment of more than 2,000 students in the school. After learning of this matter, Chairman Nanyi made a decision on the spot: "Donate 2 million yuan!" "This donation has provided timely help for the school to start school on schedule, and solved the problem of the children of the relocation of poverty alleviation and relocation."
Helping the poor and helping the weak transmit positive energy towards goodness
It is reported that the company also regularly purchases agricultural products produced by poor households in paired villages in Yunnan every year, and realizes poverty alleviation and poverty alleviation through stable purchase and sales relations. Since 2019, the company has donated all the entrepreneurial subsidies awarded by the Songjiang District Youth League Committee to public welfare undertakings every year to purchase materials in the corresponding areas.
At the beginning of 2020, when the new crown epidemic broke out, the company donated 1 million yuan for the first time through the Songjiang District Guangcai Cause Promotion Association, which was specially used for the procurement of drugs, medical supplies and other epidemic prevention materials to provide support to Wuhan.
Nowadays, Mannatech Energy's photovoltaic, wind power and other new energy power stations are distributed in many parts of the country, and with the expansion of business territory, the tradition of "where the project is done, where the charity is done" has gradually formed. In January 2018, Anhui Bengbu Project Company donated more than 200,000 yuan to the local nursing home to transform the living environment of the rural nursing home and improve the quality of life of the five elderly. In the same year, the project company in southern Anhui purchased ankang insurance for 1,000 elderly people in the local area. In June 2020, Hebei Baixiang Project Company's love donation to local poor households added bricks and tiles to win the battle against poverty. Nanyi said: "Enterprises are not only economic organizations for profit," Nanyi said, "But also the cells of society, and should make their own contributions to the harmonious development of society." ”
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■ Text editor Ding Yijie Lu Jia
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