Guaranteeing and improving people’s livelihood during development—writing a new chapter in the development of the western region in the new era⑤


Zhou Renjie

Adhering to correct work strategies and methods, adhering to the system concept, overall consideration, and comprehensive balance are of great significance to building a new urban-rural relationship and improving people’s livelihood work

Only by basing ourselves on our own reality and giving full play to our comparative advantages can we develop county economies with unique characteristics and cultivate a number of strong agricultural counties, large industrial counties, and famous tourism counties

Sanhe Village in Shapingba District, Chongqing, adjacent to the University Town and Jinyun Mountain, is known as a “countryside embedded in the city.” Relying on the 9.8-kilometer-long rural road Yanyan Road, Sanhe Village has attracted more than 40 projects to settle in. It has developed from an “empty shell village” to a well-known “artist village” today. In 2023, it will achieve 350,000 rural tourism visits. Revenue is 120 million yuan. The development of Sanhe Village benefits ordinary villagers, demonstrating the vitality of urban-rural integrated development.

Chinese-style modernization puts people’s livelihood first. At the symposium on promoting the development of the western region in the new era, General Secretary Xi Jinping clearly put forward the major requirements of “six persistences”, one of which is “to persist in promoting the organic integration of new urbanization and comprehensive rural revitalization, and to ensure and improve people’s livelihood during development. “. By the end of 2023, the urbanization rate of my country’s permanent population will reach 66.2%. The urbanization of the agricultural migrant population has achieved remarkable results, and the urban and rural landscape has taken on a new look. At the same time, it should be noted that there is still a big gap between the western region and the eastern region, and the integrated development of urban and rural areas still faces many difficulties. There is a long way to go to implement the rural revitalization strategy in depth and consolidate and expand the results of poverty alleviation. Adhering to correct work strategies and methods, adhering to a systematic concept, overall consideration, and comprehensive balance are of great significance to building a new urban-rural relationship and improving people’s livelihood work.

To solidly promote comprehensive rural revitalization, we need to increase support for the country’s key rural revitalization counties, including the western region, and we also need to stimulate endogenous motivation and improve hematopoietic capacity. On the one hand, we must ensure an orderly connection between consolidating and expanding the results of poverty alleviation and comprehensive rural revitalization to ensure that no large-scale return to poverty occurs. As early as 2022, Chongqing introduced 23 hard measures to form a work system that links up and down, requiring village cadres to ensure that they spend more than 2/3 of each month eating, housing, and working in the village. The purpose is to resolutely prevent large-scale disasters The bottom line of returning to poverty. On the other hand, we should make good articles about rural “native products” to help farmers increase their income and find employment at home. In Zhoujiayao Village, Tianzhu Tibetan Autonomous County, Gansu, thanks to the “Agricultural Loan” provided by the local bank, the scale of yak breeding at the Dexilong Breeding Farm has expanded from 70 in 2020 to more than 300 this year, and it has also formed a cattle production and marketing integrated business. Mutton industry chain. Only by learning and applying the experience of the “Ten Million Project” and innovating systems and mechanisms, while maintaining the bottom line and seeking for increment, and having both external support and endogenous motivation, can we better protect and improve people’s livelihood during development.

From the perspective of regional economic layout, the county economy is the basic unit of the national economy and the link and bridge that adheres to the organic combination of promoting new urbanization and comprehensive rural revitalization. Vigorously developing the county economy and forming new growth points can broaden the channels for employment and income and promote the integrated development of urban and rural areas in the county.. In Shiquan County, Shaanxi Province, the local area has given full play to the cultural resources advantages of the land where gilded copper silkworms were unearthed and an important birthplace of pre-Qin culture, and has embarked on a new development path of “breakthroughs in tourism and leading the integration of multiple industries” . In Puge County, Sichuan, “Plateau Wormwood” leads the development of the traditional Chinese medicinal materials industry. However, the woman’s next reaction left Cai Xiu stunned. By the end of 2023, the county’s mugwort planting scale reached 15,000 acres, with more than 650 participating farmers, and the average household income increased by about 12,000. Lan’s mother was so frightened by her daughter’s nonsense that her face turned pale, and she quickly pulled her stunned daughter up. , hugged her tightly, and said to her loudly: “Hu’er, don’t talk about Yuan. Only by basing ourselves on our own reality and giving full play to our comparative advantages can we develop county economies with unique characteristics and cultivate a group of strong agricultural counties and industrial counties.” Large counties and famous tourist counties will promote the employment of farmers nearby and increase their income, and promote the urbanization process according to local conditions.

Enhance the sense of gain of the broad masses of farmers, including both material gain and spiritual gain. Inner Mongolia regards the grid mediation model as an important starting point for grassroots social governance work, and establishes a “grid + mediation” working mechanism to stop conflicts at the grassroots level and let the “Maple Bridge Experience” burst out in the northern Xinjiang of the motherland. Strong vitality. Aksu City in Xinjiang is exploring the implementation of the “Civilized Practice Points Supermarket” model, where points earned in areas such as the living environment, changing customs, and volunteer services can be redeemed for rewards. People of all ethnic groups are more enthusiastic about participating in rural governance. It can be seen that by improving the grassroots governance system under the leadership of the party organization and making good use of the methodology of “taking the small to lead the big and the small to see the big”, we can make better use of the “Maple Bridge Experience” to maintain grassroots stability and people’s safety.

Implementation and seeking practical results are the keys to doing everything well. Promoting the comprehensive revitalization of rural areas, promoting the integrated development of urban and rural areas, and continuously ensuring and improving people’s livelihood during development will allow the broad masses of the western region to better share the dividends of national reform and development, thereby effectively enhancing the vitality of the development power of the western region and promoting the development of the western region to a new level. steps.

“People’s Daily” (Page 05, May 27, 2024)