Pingxiang, Guangxi: "returning the Phoenix to the Nest" on the way out of poverty in the corner of the mountain

In Pingxiang City, Guangxi, the border city of China and Vietnam, which is known as the "south gate" on Chinese land, many poor border people have become increasingly busy "border traders" through accurate poverty alleviation through border trade. They are enjoying the "real benefits" of border trade from the national preferential policies.

Men, women and children from the villages along the border, wearing sunshade hats and braving the scorching sun, lined up in front of the customs inspection hall, chatting while waiting to declare the transaction. After passing the declaration and inspection, van after van filed out of the parking lot, with a large number of cassava, nuts, herbs and other products from Vietnam and other ASEAN countries, thus embarking on a journey to all parts of the country.

This is what the reporter recently saw at the Puzhai Exchange Trade Point in Friendship Town, Pingxiang City. "each person has a daily quota of 8000 yuan, which is tax-free. Now there are five or six hundred people in our village who often come here to buy goods and do some business, and they will have an income after delivery. " Pingxiang City Friendship Town Kafeng Village Border people Ma Xuejin said.

In fact, Ma Xuejin has only participated in the exchange trade in recent years. Pingxiang, which is located in the southern border of the motherland, is bordered by Lang Shan Province of Vietnam. The border is 97 kilometers long, and it is the largest and most convenient land port and passage for China to ASEAN countries. However, it has long been affected by natural conditions, inconvenient transportation, historical reasons, and so on. There are many poor people in the border areas.

Speaking of the past, Ma Xuejin shook his head again and again and said bluntly, "it's too difficult." Kafeng Village is close to the border, and almost all are high mountains. "one side of the soil and water cannot support one side of the people." it is not easy to find a job locally, and young people are leaving home to work.

"there are more than 2300 people in the village. at most, 80% to 90% of the young people went out, and the village was deserted. After the development of border trade in recent years, less than 10% of young people have gone out to work, and more and more people have returned to this' mountain corner'. " Huang Jiqiang, director of the Kafeng village committee, said.

In order to prosper the border and enrich the people, the state launched the trade policy of the inter-market, previously increased the duty-free import quota of the border trade from 3000 yuan to 8000 yuan, and adjusted the non-duty-free list of import and export commodities in 2010, and the trade between the border people is becoming more and more prosperous.

Qiu Minghong, secretary of the Pingxiang Municipal CPC Committee, said that from the beginning of this year to the end of 2017, Pingxiang City plans to reduce poverty by 12000 people, and all 10 poor villages should take off their hats. Vigorously developing trade between border people and people is an accurate way to help the poor. At present, Pingxiang has set up several border trade cooperatives, such as Hairun and Jinsuiyuan, and more than 6000 border people participate in mutual trade every day.

Hairun Border Trade Professional Cooperative is one of the local pilot cooperatives, with an annual transaction volume of more than 300 million yuan since its establishment in March 2014. Huang Kequan, supervisor of the cooperative, said that the cooperative provides a full range of services from loans to transaction settlement for the border residents. Border members who participate in inter-market trade can receive a subsidy of about 30 yuan per person per day; border residents with vehicles have a daily freight income of one or two hundred yuan; and cooperatives spend another 60% of their total profits as members' dividends at the end of the year.

Compared with the past, this kind of cooperative allows the border people to really participate in the process of inter-market trade, so that the material benefits are really loaded into the pockets of the border people. "at present, the membership of the cooperative has grown from the initial 25 to more than 1600, of which about 690 are from poor households, accounting for more than 40%." Huang Kequan said.

Huang Zeyu, a 78-year-old man living in Guan Aitun, Kafeng Village, whose two sons are no longer alive, took his granddaughter alone to scrape by by setting up a barber stall, but got into trouble as he got older. After getting help to join the border trade cooperative, the old man is expected to have an income of more than 10,000 yuan this year and will be able to lift himself out of poverty by the end of the year.

"We are speeding up the improvement of the professional market, promoting the construction of trade and processing parks, and enhancing the added value of products by extending the industrial chain." Huang Bo, deputy director of the Pingxiang Municipal Bureau of Commerce, said. At present, some enterprises in the Youyiguan Industrial Park, which is mainly engaged in the processing of mutual products, have been put into production, and a centralized trade and processing industrial zone will be formed from Pingxiang Youyiguan Industrial Park to Ningming County in the future.

Statistics from Pingxiang City show that from January to June this year, the total value of imports and exports of the city's mutual trade reached 910 million US dollars, an increase of 11.79 percent over the same period last year. Under the background that the national foreign trade situation is still grim, the border exchange trade in Pingxiang City is growing against the trend, showing a strong momentum of development with the support of the national favorable policy.