First Secretary of Guangxi Village: build Happiness Road for Shenshan Miao Township

In the mobile phone of Zhou Zheng, the first secretary of Datian Village in Anyi Township, Rongshui Miao Autonomous County, Liuzhou City, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous region, there is such a photo: on November 7 this year, he came to the home of Dong Yinshu, a Miao girl in Hongkou Tangtun, Datian Village, bringing her new clothes, shoes, schoolbags and some school supplies. After receiving the condolences, the little girl went back to the house to change into a set of Miao holiday clothes, put on the new cloth shoes that she was usually reluctant to wear, and invited her uncle to take a group photo in front of her cabin.

"come on, take your new schoolbag apart and put it on your back."

"I won't memorize it, uncle. I'll keep it until next semester."

This photo always brings Zhou Zheng's mind back to a year ago, when he first visited Hongkou Tangtun.

A picture of wading across the river speeds up the construction of the road

Zhou Zheng is the party branch secretary of the road management team of Guangxi Liuzhou Iron and Steel Group Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "Liugang"). In October 2015, he was arranged to be the first secretary of Datian Village, Anyi Township, Rongshui County. Datian Village is a Miao village in the depths of the mountains, with beautiful scenery and beautiful scenery, but the local economic conditions are relatively backward.

When Zhou Zheng took office, it was just in time for Guangxi to carry out a new round of accurate identification of poor households. In those months, Zhou Zheng and village cadres went door to door every morning and night to investigate and verify the property information of the villagers and set up files and cards for poor households.

Hongkou Tangtun is a relatively remote village in Datian village. before going there, Zhou Zheng heard that there was no sand and gravel road there, and the villagers could only travel on foot, and the traffic was very inconvenient. On December 29, 2015, he, Dong Jianbing, secretary of the League Branch of Datian Village, and Shen Jianqiang, a working member, went to Hongkou Tangtun by car. Half an hour later, the car arrived at the foot of the mountain where Hongkou Tangtun is located. Ahead is the Datian River, which is more than 30 meters wide. Everyone can only get out of the car and walk on foot.

Dong Jianbing led the way, and the three men walked slowly barefoot into the river. As soon as he entered the water, the cold water of the river soon numbed Zhou Zheng's feet, and he had to gnash his teeth and keep up step by step. After crossing the river, in front of them was a "sheep's path" that could not be called a road at all. On rainy days, the road was slippery, and although he used both hands and feet, there was no lack of wrestling along the way.

Half an hour later, the party finally came to Hongkou Tangtun, which is located halfway up the mountain. Dong Shunfu's home is a traditional wooden house of the Miao nationality, and the eaves are made of bark. Dong Shunfu briefed Zhou Zheng on some basic conditions in Tuen Li: Hongkou Tangtun has 34 households and 111 people, of which 17 are poor households with archives and cards, 59 people are poor, and the per capita income is 2 points of land and 3 mu of mountain forest. the main source of income is growing rice and Chinese fir, raising poultry and going out to work, with a per capita income of more than 2100 yuan. After the original machine ploughing road in Tuen Li was destroyed by mountain torrents a few years ago, it has been unable to be repaired due to funds and other reasons.

Dong Shunfu's daughter Dong Yinshu, seeing a stranger, blushed and dared not speak. Zhou Zheng noticed that although it was the depths of winter, Dong Yinshu was still barefoot wearing a pair of sandals. When asked why she didn't wear cloth shoes, Dong Yinshu said that the road was full of mud, and as soon as she wore them out, they would get dirty, so it was convenient to wear sandals.

During the conversation, Zhou Zheng also learned that every Monday, Dong Shunfu would get up early and walk more than an hour on the mountain road to send his daughter to the teaching point at the foot of the mountain to study. On the way, Lao Dong, who was physically disabled, had to wade his daughter across the river. Looking at the humble house and the certificates of honor posted by his daughter on the wall, Zhou Zheng felt sad for a while.

After returning to the village committee, Zhou Zheng posted a photo of himself wading across the river in the exchange group of the first secretary of the village in Rongshui County, which attracted the attention of the county leaders. He coordinated and communicated with the county and township governments in the hope that the road from Hongkou Tangtun to Dayuan Dapinggoutun would be established and started as soon as possible, with the understanding and support of higher government departments. The construction project of Hongkou Tangtun Village Road, which was originally scheduled to be completed at the end of 2016 or 2017, was approved after the Spring Festival in 2016.

The construction project of Hongkou Tangtun Village Road officially started in March this year. Seeing the engineering team entering the field, the villagers also spontaneously pooled money to invite the workers to dinner. The Miao people loved singing and dancing, and they had a barbecue party that night.

In June this year, a gravel road with a total mileage of more than 6 kilometers was built, making it much more convenient for villagers to travel. Zhou Zheng said that the cement road is planned to be paved in the second half of next year, so it will be more convenient to drive to Tunli.

? Create a "hematopoietic" way to help the poor

Once, when talking to du Wensheng, a 77-year-old branch secretary of Datian Village, the old man told Zhou Zheng that at present, after solving the infrastructure and road traffic problems, it is necessary to get rid of poverty and become rich by developing industrial projects in the village. At the same time, du Wensheng also said that under the leadership of the party, the life of farmers is getting better and better, but there are few cultural activities in the village. Young people who return home during the holidays have nothing to do and get together to eat, drink and gamble, and the influence is very bad. I hope that Zhou Zheng, as the first secretary, will do a good job in the construction of the cultural infrastructure in the village and coordinate the relevant departments to repair and renovate the basketball court and stage in the village. To provide a good place for cultural activities for the villagers, especially the young people.

After consultation with the original unit, in June this year, Liugang provided a batch of steel and cement to Liuxiutun in Datian Village for the construction of village stage, background wall and pavilion. Driven by the cadres of the village party committee and members of the Communist Party, the villagers joined the labour force.

Seeing this scene after scene, Zhou Zheng wrote in his diary: although poor households cannot shake off poverty and become rich without the support and input of superior party committees and governments, not everything can be done well by investment and money. In this respect, Liuxiutun on Datian Village has made a useful exploration. In the face of difficulties, they do not complain, they do not blindly wait for support, they adopt "the government gives a little, the masses invest a little." Social forces should come up with the method of "actively guiding and organizing party members, cadres and the masses to carry out voluntary work and build a better home by themselves."

In the course of visiting poor households in Datian Village, Zhou Zheng learned that local villagers have a tradition of raising grass carp in rice fields, but due to objective reasons such as the quality of fish fry, culture techniques, and loose ridges and easy leakage, the growth cycle of locally bred grass carp is long. generally, it takes two to three years to harvest, the yield is low, and the economic benefit is poor.

In order to create a "blood-making" way of accurate poverty alleviation, Zhou Zheng contacted the local leading agricultural companies to actively guide villagers to adopt the form of comprehensive cultivation in rice fields, improve breeding varieties, and achieve diversified farming, so as to increase production and income. Replacing new breeds is not only expensive, but also difficult to manage and risky. In order to dispel villagers' doubts, he came to communicate many times and persuaded this agricultural company to give 6000 new Phnom Penh carps to poor families in Shangliutun for trial cultivation. In the next step, he also plans to contact township animal husbandry stations and other relevant departments to provide centralized technical guidance to poor households.