CCTV News: The three districts and three prefectures were once deeply impoverished areas at the national level. With the comprehensive victory in poverty alleviation, these areas have also moved towards rural revitalization. This year is the last year for the five-year transition period for consolidating and expanding the results of poverty alleviation and effectively connecting with rural revitalization. In Linxia Prefecture, Gansu, the poverty incidence here once was as high as 32.5%. By the end of 2020, Linxia Prefecture got rid of the label of absolute poverty. How are the villagers living now? Let’s go to Laozhuang Village, Dongxiang County to have a look.
Dongxiang County is located in the transitional zone of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau and the Loess Plateau, with ravines and scarce resources. It is one of the last eight deeply impoverished counties in Gansu to get rid of poverty.
The 45 families in Laozhuang Village were originally scattered in the valley. During the fight against poverty, they moved to this ridge as a whole and began to engage in breeding and develop industries.
Ma Jian, the mayor of Longquan Town, Dongxiang County, Linxia Prefecture, Gansu Province, said: "This is a villager named Ma Yibula Rye in our village. He is our anti-poverty monitoring household. He was newly included in 2024. This is Ma Yibula Rye."
Ma Yibula Rye suffers from lumbar tuberculosis, his wife has heart disease, and there are three children at home who are in school. When he first moved to Laozhuang Village in 2015, his family was the most economically disadvantaged family in the village. In Dongxiang County, families with difficulties like Ma Yibra Rye can be included in the monitoring target for poverty alleviation by scanning the QR code by scanning the QR code. A subsidy for buying a breeding sheep is 60%. Families who are not able to raise can be handed over to breeding cooperatives and dividends are paid according to proportion after being slaughtered. If they are worried that the sheep will get infectious diseases, they will be given insurance. The technicians from the county and township veterinary stations come to visit the door; if they build or expand the sheep pen, they will be rewarded with 180 yuan per square meter; if they buy a forage crusher, they will be rewarded with 25%-30% per unit; if they do not understand breeding technology, they will be sent to vocational technical school for training. The real "one-stop" service policy provides the villagers with the bottom line.
In 2015, Ma Yibra Rye tried to buy 2 breeding sheep, big sheep gave birth to small sheep, selling sheep and then buying sheep, and there were more than 30 sheep in a year.
Now, with the 8 lambs I have recently taken, there are already 79 sheep in Ma Yibra Rye. He told reporters: "This is our passbook."
Meng Xianwei, a village cadre in Laozhuang Village, Longquan Town, Dongxiang County, Linxia Prefecture, Gansu Province, said: "We are like Ma Yibula rye, and we are confident that the scale of breeding will develop naturally. In 2024, we have a stock of 3.2 million to 3.5 million, and the per capita income of sheep raising in the county is 3,500 to 3,800 yuan."
Du Honghong, deputy secretary of the Dongxiang County Party Committee of Linxia Prefecture, Gansu Province, said that each monitoring household has formulated a "one household, one policy" assistance plan. In terms of industry, there are rewards and subsidies for Dongxiang ewes, subsidies for employment, "Rain and Dew Plan" in education, and there are contracted doctors on-site services in medical care, and overall assistance in all aspects, firmly maintaining the bottom line of preventing large-scale poverty relapse.
In the past few days, I heard that a batch of good-bred sheep have arrived at the breeding base. Ma Yibra Rye immediately called on the neighbors to go see each other.
In 2023, the government introduced this modern breeding base. The breeding base provides farmers with feed formulas and explains how to feed scientifically. Through government subsidies, farmers can only spend one dollar on artificial insemination of breeding sheep.
As the Spring Festival approaches, the two children in Ma Yibra rye who are also returning from holidays.
I heard that the family had a little lamb, and my daughter Ma Xiaolan was so happy.
When he lived in a mountain valley, the school was far away from home. Ma Xiaolan only went to elementary school at the age of 12, but now she is 22 years old and is only in her second year of high school. My daughter is very successful. Not only does she have good academic performance, she also becomes the class monitor.
Ma Yibra Rye's daughter Ma Xiaolan said: "I have read a particularly good sentence in the book, 'You work hard and hide the happiness of your parents.' Although our family's economic foundation is relatively weak, now through various national policies, coupled with the efforts of our three of us and the persistence of my parents, I believe that we will live a better life in the near future."
In the past few days of visiting the Rye home of Mayibula, the couple's love for their children, the children's consideration for their parents, and the patient help of the village cadres have all made us feel a kind of power, and try every means to overcome difficulties on the road of rural revitalization. In this mountain, there are busy figures every day, and everyone is the protagonist of life. They have good hearts and will definitely work together toward a better life.
The comprehensive revitalization of rural areas is reflected in the prosperity of every small family
The comprehensive revitalization of rural areas is reflected in the prosperity of every small family. We wish the rye family a prosperous life and a prosperous life.
In Linxia, there is a saying that "no family can be achieved without cattle and sheep", and the development of the entire cattle and sheep industry chain is being promoted at full speed locally. Industrial revitalization is the top priority of rural revitalization. Only by developing and growing rural characteristic industries can the people be supported by the stable happiness.