"Highway is the way out for people in the mountains"-- 120000 kilometers of roads in Chongqing hold up the hope of getting rich in the countryside

Chongqing, June 1st (Xinhua)-- "Highway is the way out for people in the mountains"-- 120000 kilometers of roads in Chongqing hold up the hope of getting rich in the countryside

Xinhua News Agency reporters Han Zhen, Ke Gaoyang, Hu Ruohan

In four years, 40 billion yuan was invested to build 42000 km of rural roads, with a total mileage of 123000 km. In order to enable the masses to shake off poverty and become rich, Chongqing has solidly promoted the "unobstructed access project" in recent years. All 11000 withdrawal and merger villages have realized highway access, more than 8000 administrative villages have achieved highway access, opened the "last kilometer" of traffic, broke through the "bottleneck" of development, and gradually bid farewell to "rich poverty" in rural areas.

Increase investment and strengthen the construction of rural road network

No one understands the importance of roads better than the villagers of Xiazhuang Village. Wushan Xiazhuang, at the junction of Chongqing and Hubei, is a village located in the "Tiankeng". Six villagers were sacrificed in order to build a road leading to the outside of the village.

Chongqing, with deep mountains and ditches, traffic barriers, and a large number of resources "hidden in the mountains and people do not know" are the important reasons for the poverty in the local rural areas. Twenty years ago, it took the villagers of Xiazhuang Village seven or eight hours to go back and forth to the town. More than 10% of the villagers have never been out of the village, and it is difficult for the villagers to have enough to eat and wear. "the highway is the way out for the people in the mountains!" Mao Xianglin, director of the Xiazhuang village committee, said that he wrote a letter calling on the labourers of the whole village to build roads.

At that time, the local government was very poor and had no funds to help, so it could only provide some mountain explosives. It took the whole village six years and six villagers to build a 7.3 km long mountain road.

In the vast rural areas of Chongqing, many villagers' thirst for highways is as strong as that of Zhuang people. In order to enable villagers to take to the highway and achieve the overall development of urban and rural areas, Chongqing began to increase investment in 2013 to strengthen the construction of rural road network. For a time, many remote areas set off an upsurge of highway construction.

"the municipal party committee and municipal government attach great importance to the development of rural transportation, and for four consecutive years, rural highway construction has been included in the 'practical work of people's livelihood' promised to the people of the whole city, and as an important project to overcome poverty, with the support of the Ministry of Transport of the State, this provides a fundamental driving force and a strong starting point for us to speed up the development of rural transportation." Qiao Dun, director of the Chongqing Municipal Traffic Commission, said.

In order to promote rural highway construction, the Chongqing Municipal Communications Committee has also specially set up a construction supervision group, which will supervise and inspect the counties by month, and promptly inform the whole city of the construction situation, so as to ensure that the rural traffic development policy does not go out of shape, do not deviate, and do not discount.

Since 2013, Chongqing has invested a total of 40 billion yuan to build roads and implement the withdrawal and merger of village access projects. In addition, Chongqing has also vigorously subsidized rural passenger transport, and the passenger rate of qualified administrative villages has reached 100%.

Green water and green mountains turn into golden mountains and silver mountains

Chengkou is the most remote and impoverished district and county in Chongqing, which is rich in green resources, but it is locked in deep mountains and ditches, which can not produce economic benefits. Today, with the improvement of roads, the local ecological conditions, the development of rural tourism, to build a "forest family" brand, green water and green mountains have been transformed into Jinshan and Yinshan.

Yang Shihui is the hostess of "Jinyan Dabashan Forest Family" in Xinglong Village, Dongan Town, Chengkou County. In the past, due to inconvenient transportation, she and her husband went out to work for years, but they could not save much money all the year round. After the village road was repaired, she returned to the village to set up farm music, with an annual income of more than 300,000 yuan, which completely got rid of poverty.

"before the traffic improvement, the villagers lived on the mountain, and many trees were cut down, causing damage to the environment. After the development of tourism, green water and green mountains have become Jinshan and Silver Mountains, and people not only stop cutting down trees, but also plant trees vigorously. Now the forest coverage rate of the whole town has reached more than 96%, and there is a new connotation of relying on the mountain to make a living. " Li Zhangping, secretary of the party committee of Dongan Town, said.

The change of Chengkou is only a microcosm of Chongqing relying on traffic improvement and mining ecological benefits. This change is more fully reflected in some resource-exhausted cities. Chongqing Wansheng is a national resource-exhausted city, finding alternative industries and driving people out of poverty to become rich has been a major headache for the local "headache". In recent years, the power conversion has been gradually completed by improving traffic, perfecting supporting facilities and developing tourism.

Wansheng Liangfeng Village has beautiful scenery, but its location is remote. In the past, there was only a 4-meter-wide machine ploughing road, and villagers who went out to work were reluctant to return to their hometown. Not long ago, an 8-meter-wide asphalt road passed through the village, which immediately injected infinite vitality into Liangfeng Village. There is an endless stream of tourists, and the villagers who go out to work have returned to their hometown to start a business, gradually embarking on the road of getting rid of poverty and becoming rich.

The highway has changed the "brain" for the countryside.

The reporter interviewed many places in Chongqing and learned that roads bring not only wealth to rural areas, but also a change in ideas and changes in the way they are organized.

After the road of Liangfeng Village was repaired, the villagers developed the tourism industry relying on the beautiful scenery, which not only changed the production and life style of migrant workers in the past, but also especially cherished every plant and tree in the village, making the appearance of the village more tidy. The village also integrated the scattered fish ponds, set up professional cooperatives by the way of villagers' shareholding, and developed the fishery economy, so that the villagers tasted the sweetness from the development of holding groups.

With the development of large-scale agriculture, cooperatives, enterprises and other economic organizations have grown rapidly in rural areas, which has also given the government more "grasp" in its poverty alleviation work. Some districts and counties have explored converting financial subsidy funds into shares, which have been directly distributed to enterprises or cooperatives in the past to villagers, and then villagers have invested in cooperatives or enterprises for dividends, so as to improve the efficiency of financial subsidy funds. solved the problem of villagers getting rich permanently.

In addition, after the full coverage of the rural road network, the Internet and the road network are closely integrated, opening up a new dimension of agricultural product sales. In Chengkou, Yunyang and other remote districts and counties in southeast and northeast Chongqing, platforms such as "online villages" and "online e-commerce" are playing an increasingly important role in building an unimpeded fast channel between the supply and demand of agricultural products.