Jia Xiuqin of Qiu County: Leading Villagers to Build Beautiful Villages in 11 Years

During this period of time, a farm vegetable garden has just been built on the cleared idle homestead, and Jia Xiuqin, secretary of the party branch of Dongzhaotun Village, Xiangchenggu Town, Qiu County, has led the villagers to build a square for villagers' cultural activities non-stop.

Jia Xiuqin, 64, was originally a village doctor in Dongzhaotun village. For more than 30 years, regardless of the wind and rain, as long as the villagers have needs, she will arrive as soon as possible. In 1996, her sons and daughters working in Handan took her to the city and lived a comfortable life, but she was always worried about the poverty and backwardness of her hometown. "I would rather work in the village than eat idle in the city." In 2004, her lover went out to work, she returned to her hometown alone, and the following year she was elected secretary of the village party branch.

At the beginning of taking office, Jia Xiuqin started from what the people looked forward to most, raised funds in many ways, hardened the main streets of the village, and the villagers bid farewell to the days of walking on the muddy road. Seizing the key to improving agricultural infrastructure, she spent money on projects, repaired and newly drilled 13 motor wells, renovated more than 3000 meters of field roads and more than 4000 meters of underground pipelines, so that 1300 mu of arable land in the village realized "square fields, canals into a network, drought can be watered, and waterlogging can be drained." She also led the villagers to develop characteristic planting, carried out environmental sanitation renovation, and greatly improved the life of the villagers and the appearance of the village.

Since Qiu County promoted the construction of beautiful villages with "hollow village" governance last year, Jia Xiuqin has begun a new round of struggle. Most of the young and middle-aged people in the village went out to work, and in the face of the plight of a small number of people and poor villages, Jia Xiuqin rushed to the front line to take the lead, while extensively mobilizing villagers to participate in joint construction.

Led by her, the village has become volunteers for the construction of beautiful villages from an 84-year-old to a daughter-in-law in her early 20s. At less than 6 o'clock every morning, at least 30 villagers, as many as nearly 100 people, spontaneously took to the streets, bringing their own shovels, carts and other tools to take part in labor.

"Secretary Jia, my newly steamed buns, come to my house later."my family has just cooked porridge. I'll bring it to you when I'm done."... He got up at 5 o'clock in the morning and was still working at 10:00 in the evening. Jia Xiuqin was too busy to drink or cook every day. Looking at her becoming black and thin, the villagers were so distressed that they invited her to eat at home one after another, or brought her meals spontaneously.

Up to now, the village has demolished more than 30 old homesteads, vacated more than 30 mu of land, cleaned up more than 900 domestic waste, and planted more than 300 peach trees. "when the square for villagers' cultural activities is completed, we will also build a leisure park nearby. When the villagers have a place for leisure and entertainment, the village will become more and more beautiful." Jia Xiuqin said with a smile. (reporter Ye Juanjuan)