Xie Libing: whether the village is rich or not depends on the branch

Draw a map of the village situation and take the villagers out of poverty

Narrator: Xie Libing, first Secretary of Huashan Village Branch, Xinshao County, Hunan Province

"such city cadres will not last long if they come to gold-plated."what he brings is an iron rice bowl, and he comes to us for sightseeing experience." In March last year, the State Grid Hunan Electric Power Company sent me to Huashan Village as the leader of the poverty alleviation task force and the first secretary of the village branch. After the meeting that day, the local villagers were talking behind their backs.

Before the work was set up, it came down to power. To be honest, I was very depressed at that time. The mountain road to Huashan is winding and tortuous, so is my "road to the countryside"?

Whether the village is rich or not depends on the branch. The leaders of the company cheered me up, and if they can lead the people to become rich, they will not regard you as an outsider.

Wake up the dreamer with one word. I decided to start by being familiar with this "battlefield". Under the leadership of the village branch secretary, I traveled all over the corner of the village. Seeing the villagers at home, I knocked on the door and went in to chat. For more than a month, I drew the first detailed map of the village: whose land and whose home are clear at a glance; clan and neighborhood relations are clear.

The "family background" is also clear: the land of the whole village is narrow and the population is small, and the village collectively owes tens of thousands of yuan, with 76 poor households and 234 poor people. I know that getting rid of poverty is my number one task as first secretary.

How to fight a turnaround? At the meetings of the members of the village branch, I always raised this issue and discussed it with several people of the village branch in private.

The bottleneck lies in the lack of projects, funds and capable people. The timetable for getting rid of poverty waits for no one, and this situation must be broken. During a chat with the villagers, I heard that Lu Yong, a villager, had a certain amount of capital accumulation and the idea of going back to his hometown to start a business, but he was hesitant. Can he be persuaded to go back to the village to start an agricultural development project? I got in touch with him immediately. After more than 10 times of communication, Lu Yong finally made up his mind. Subsequently, several village cadres and I helped him to the county to win low-interest loans and went to choose a site.

3 mu of fish ponds, 3000 chickens, 3000 ducks and 10 mu of Camellia oleifera. At present, Lu Yong's project has begun to take shape. What is even more surprising is that the project has also solved the employment of more than 200 people in the village and boosted the villagers' confidence in farming and becoming rich.

There are five people in the family of Shi Shengguang, a poor family. His mother is deaf-mute and his granddaughter is mentally ill. In the past, the family life depended on government assistance. Now he relies on Lu Yong's breeding base to raise pigs, and the first pig went out in June this year and sold for 2750 yuan, which is his family's original income for the whole year.

In the past, when party members held meetings in the village, people were not active. Now, as soon as we call for a meeting, there is no need for a roll call. A veteran party member and I chatted: thank Secretary, the village committee led us to rush together, life has a rush.

Grass-roots party building in rural areas must "blow chaff and see rice." Having been the first secretary for more than a year, I have learned more and more that as the vanguard of the village, only by leading the masses to increase their income and become rich, can the village party branch be recognized and trusted by the masses. As the saying goes, "to grasp party building is to grasp development, and to grasp development is to grasp party building."

When I was working in the original unit, I was also in charge of the business electricity room and did some work such as reviewing electricity prices and calculating electricity charges. People usually joked that I was an electricity "shopkeeper". Now, as a shopkeeper, I am playing the "abacus" of Huashan Village to shake off poverty and become rich. Behind me stands the village party branch and 26 party members.

(interviewed by our reporter Hou Linliang)