If the nation is to be revived, the countryside will be revitalized. Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, under the strong leadership of the CPC Central Committee with the Supreme Leader as the core, China has made great strides from a big agricultural country to a powerful agricultural country, and the rural areas have taken on a new look, and farmers’ lives have become better and better. A magnificent picture of the prosperity of villages, people and industries has slowly spread out in the land of China.
Report to the 20th CPC National Congress pointed out that "the most arduous and arduous task of building a socialist modern country in an all-round way is still in the countryside. Adhere to the priority development of agriculture and rural areas, adhere to the integrated development of urban and rural areas, and smooth the flow of urban and rural factors. Accelerate the construction of a strong agricultural country and solidly promote the revitalization of rural industries, talents, culture, ecology and organization. " The People’s Forum Network launched a series of reports on "Great Country New Village: Following the footsteps of the General Secretary" to tell the story of the revitalization of the vast rural areas of China. Today, the research team of People’s Forum takes you into Zhangbei County, Zhangjiakou City, Hebei Province to see how Desheng Village can recite the "Victory Sutra".
Desheng Village, Zhangjiakou City, Hebei Province is located in Bashang area on the southern edge of Inner Mongolia Plateau, with barren land and extremely cold climate. In the past, Desheng village was a well-known poor village. The villagers’ income mainly depended on traditional farming and migrant workers, and the collective economy was "blank".
On January 24, 2017, on the eve of the Lunar New Year, General Secretary of the Supreme Leader braved the cold of 1949 and came to Desheng Village with snow, visited the people in need, and worked with grassroots cadres and the masses to calculate poverty alleviation accounts and seek poverty alleviation plans. The General Secretary stressed that it is necessary to play the chess game of "precision" and organically combine poverty alleviation and development, modern agricultural development and beautiful countryside construction to achieve rich farmers, strong agriculture and beautiful countryside.
In recent years, Desheng Village keeps in mind the entrustment, is grateful to forge ahead, and with the care and support of party committees and governments at all levels, insists on cultivating teams, developing industries and building new countryside, and gives full play to its advantages according to local conditions. The whole village has undergone earth-shaking changes in planting structure, industrial layout, living environment and villagers’ appearance. By 2022, the per capita income of the villagers in the village reached 21,600 yuan, and the collective income of the village reached 2.22 million yuan, making solid progress in rural revitalization.
The cadres and the masses are United, with both "leading geese" and "new blood"
The train runs fast, thanks to the headband. The locomotive of promoting rural revitalization is the party branch.
"It is necessary to strengthen the construction of rural grassroots organizations, so that the party branch can better play its role as a fighting fortress, become the backbone of leading the peasants to get rid of poverty and get rich, and do a good job in the affairs of the villagers." Ye Runbing, secretary of the Party branch of Desheng Village, firmly remembered the entrustment of the Supreme Leader General Secretary when he visited Desheng Village and turned it into the actual action of the village party branch.
In recent years, Desheng Village has actively played a leading role in the demonstration of the cadres of the "two committees" in the village, placing the construction of the cadres of the "two committees", the team of party member and the team of rich experts in a prominent position. By enhancing the initiative of grassroots organizations, stimulating the motive force of the party member team and casting the entrepreneurial drive of the officers, the ability and ability of the team will be enhanced and an excellent team will be built in the urgent and dangerous big exam war.
The Party branch of Desheng Village took the opportunity of the change of the village’s "two committees" to further optimize the team structure, and gradually selected a group of experts who went out to start businesses and led the rich into the village’s "two committees" team, realizing the combination of the old and the young, and the role of village cadres as "leaders" in leading development was further highlighted.
The key to improving the fighting capacity of grass-roots party organizations is to select the "leading geese" and give further play to the vanguard and exemplary role of party member.
Desheng Village has continuously improved its organizational system and assessment mechanism, carried out service activities such as "I am party member and I take the lead" and "I do practical things for the masses", and provided "point-and-order" services to make the party member team a "Depth Charge" with courage and dedication.
The key to rural revitalization lies in people. Building beautiful countryside needs both "leading geese" and "new blood". Desheng village adopts the combination of selection, construction, education, management and use, and strives to build leaders in various fields to lay a solid foundation for village-level development and the masses to get rich.
As soon as Xu Yaru graduated from university, she decided to return to her hometown to start a business. She used her professional knowledge of traditional Chinese medicine to help the village develop medicated diet culture and health care industry, and used the new media platform after work to share her little growth in the construction of her hometown and tell the story of Desheng. In 2021, Xu Yaru was elected as a member of the Party branch of Desheng Village and officially joined the team of the "two committees" of the village, injecting fresh blood into the revitalization of Desheng Village.
Industry-driven, breaking a new way to get rich
The sunny Zhangbei grassland, potato greenhouses and rows of photovoltaic panels have become a beautiful landscape.
Industrial development is the fundamental policy to promote farmers to get rich and increase their income. Desheng village insists on leading development with innovation, focusing on advantageous industries and strengthening characteristic industries, and has embarked on a new way of getting rich in industries.
Thanks to the unique climatic conditions, Desheng Village has the advantage of planting potatoes. In order to encourage villagers to actively plant and cultivate potatoes, the village attracted Liu Guirong, who started a business outside the village, to return to the village to take the lead in developing the micro-potato industry, constantly experimenting with planting new varieties of micro-potatoes with high quality, and teaching villagers planting techniques, thus becoming a famous "local expert" in the village.
Surprisingly, small potatoes can also become a big industry.
In order to expand the potato industry, with the strong support of Zhangbei County Party Committee and county government, Desheng Village won the project fund of 5.589 million yuan, built a potato mini-potato breeding park and processing park covering an area of 300 mu, built 280 breeding greenhouses, and cooperated with enterprises such as Da Nong Seed Industry, Beijing Yunong and China Potato Network to carry out market-oriented, standardized and networked production and management, thus realizing the industrialization and scale of potatoes.
Up to now, more than 180 villagers in the village have contracted greenhouses, and each greenhouse produces more than 140,000 seed potatoes every year, with an annual net income of more than 20,000 yuan. In order to further expand its influence and build a brand, Desheng people also registered the trademark of "Yufu Desheng" potato seed, which was included in the eighth batch of "One Village, One Product" list by the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, and was also awarded the gold medal of Xiamen National Green Expo, and "Yam Egg" became the "Jin Doudou" for villagers to get rich.
Mini-potato has become the "Jin Doudou" Desheng Village Committee of Zhangbei people to increase their income and get rich.
Zhangbei is rich in solar energy resources. Desheng village is 1400 meters above sea level, with an average annual sunshine of more than 3000 hours, which is suitable for developing photovoltaic industry.
Walking into Desheng village, you can see rows of photovoltaic panels, which are called "hardcore crops" by the villagers, and it is they that make the per capita annual income of the villagers reach more than 10,000 yuan.
Photo courtesy of Desheng Village Committee, photovoltaic industry in Desheng Village
On the one hand, Desheng Village actively strives for a project fund of 4.5 million yuan to build two 500-kilowatt photovoltaic power stations with an annual power generation capacity of 750,000 kWh, and the collective economy steadily increases its income by more than 650,000 yuan each year. On the other hand, more than 2,600 mu of idle land, such as barren hills, slopes and grasslands, was transferred, and Desheng Village introduced enterprises to invest in photovoltaic power stations by market-oriented mechanism, and built a 50,000-kilowatt complementary power station for agriculture and light, with land transfer and equipment maintenance income of more than 1 million yuan. In terms of photovoltaic income distribution, Desheng Village adopts the principle of "public welfare posts+poor relief+village collective undertakings" to effectively realize accurate and differentiated distribution.
Nowadays, low-carbon development has become one of the labels of Desheng Village. In 2022, Desheng Village became the base of the 3rd China International Solar Decathlon Competition. From superior investment and construction to independent introduction of market players, from single photovoltaic power generation to complementary mode of agriculture and light, Desheng people use their diligence and wisdom to accelerate the pace of villagers’ green wealth.
Photo courtesy of Desheng Village Committee, photovoltaic industry in Desheng Village
Besides "Jin Doudou" and "die-hard crops", villagers’ "earth nests" can also become "golden nests" for getting rich.
In recent years, Desheng Village has begun to vigorously develop homestay tourism, relying on the advantages of key projects such as complementary light and grass, Desheng residential buildings, miniature potato parks and ecological bases such as picking gardens and flower belts.
Desheng B&B creates a variety of styles to attract tourists to punch in. Photo courtesy of Desheng Village Committee
Desheng Industrial Group was introduced into the village to invest and develop, and 139 sets of two-story new residential buildings and 46 sets of boutique homestays were planned and built in a unified way. Led by Desheng Rural Industry Company, unique homestay courtyards such as Deshengwei Homestead, Custom Pastoral Commune and Pasture Art Museum were successively built, and 42 sets of homestay sample rooms were built, so as to simultaneously develop the rural tourism industry with eco-sightseeing, agricultural science and technology exhibition, complementary agriculture and light and homestay visits as the core, and the village received more than 50,000 tourists every year.
B&B tourism has become a new growth point of villagers’ income, and Desheng Village has been rated as "National Key Village for Rural Tourism" by the Ministry of Culture and Tourism.
Today, Desheng Village has formed a development model with potato seed planting, photovoltaic, homestay tourism as the leading factor, ecological breeding, wormwood planting and other characteristic industries going hand in hand, with obvious industrial driving effect and villagers’ income increasing year by year.
Desheng B&B creates a variety of styles to attract tourists to punch in. Photo courtesy of Desheng Village Committee
Livable and suitable for business, showing beautiful countryside.Xinfengcai
While driving the villagers to increase their income and get rich, Desheng village has also made great efforts to grasp the planning and construction of the village. In order to achieve the goal of "beautiful village, beautiful environment and beautiful rural style", Desheng Village insisted on closely combining the village renovation with the construction of green ecological homes from the planning, taking a multi-pronged approach, both inside and outside, and striving to create a beautiful countryside on the dam with both "face value" and "temperament".
The whole village pays attention to industrial cultivation and improvement of infrastructure conditions. According to the development model of "government guidance, market operation, project traction and diversified investment", it introduces powerful enterprises and implements new construction, relocation, transformation and upgrading of the whole village.
At the same time, around the function improvement, Desheng Village has also vigorously promoted the construction of infrastructure and public cultural service facilities, implemented projects such as main street hardening, tap water entering households, underground water supply and drainage, sewage treatment, and power supply, and built cultural service facilities such as Happiness Mutual Aid House, Desheng Impression Hall, Cultural Square, Villager Service Center, Health Room and Kindergarten. Incorporating rural greening and beautification into overall consideration and integrated design of village planning, adhering to local conditions, planting a variety of green plants, such as elm, pine, clove and begonia, which are suitable for trees, grass and flowers, has greatly improved the greening rate, and achieved the beauty of scientific planning and layout, the beauty of village capacity improvement environment and the beauty of village civilization and spirit.
To show the new countryside, we should not only pay attention to the "external beauty" of clean environment, but also polish the "internal beauty" of civilized Suntech.
In recent years, relying on moral banks and love supermarkets, Desheng Village actively encourages villagers to exchange points by participating in collective labor and public welfare undertakings, which greatly stimulates the internal motivation of villagers’ self-reliance; Relying on the activity of "the most beautiful Desheng" and centering on the socialist core values, various typical tree selection activities were carried out, which cultivated a good atmosphere of advocating civilization and promoted the construction of rural civilization.
Nowadays, walking in the village, with white walls and grey tiles and beautiful roads, Desheng Village has achieved a beautiful butterfly change and the villagers’ spirit has been greatly improved.
Photo courtesy of Desheng Village Committee of Beautiful Desheng Village
Grateful to forge ahead, set sail. After years of development, Desheng Village has successively won many honors, such as the national advanced grass-roots party organization, the national advanced collective for tackling poverty, the national civilized villages and towns, the national model village for democracy and rule of law, the national model village for rural governance, the national key tourist village, and the national village-level practice exchange base for consolidating and expanding the achievements of tackling poverty. A new socialist countryside with green ecology is moving from "planning map" to "real map". (Author: People’s Forum Research Group, written by Qu Tongyu)