-Local folk songs
This is a small mountain village in eastern Qinghai. That mountain is a typical one, stretching for dozens of miles. The village is a pure small village, with dozens of families scattered inside and outside, on and off the stage.
This small mountain village is Waitai Village, Harazhigou Township, Huzhu Tu Autonomous County.
Because it is located in the mountainous area, the traffic here is inconvenient and the information is very blocked;
Because it is located in the mountainous area, the farmers depend on the weather for food;
Because it is located in the mountainous area, people here have a hard life and are in financial distress.
It is called "mountain" by the outside world, and the bare sheepskin on the mountain does not touch grass. The people here are called "mountain people", which means backward.
However, when the wheel of history entered the brand-new 2 1 century, with the implementation of the national strategy of developing the western region, since 200 1, this once poor mountain village has undergone gratifying changes through a series of preferential policies such as returning farmland to forests, Australian aid projects and poverty alleviation and development projects.
Returning farmland to forests: relying on the sky to eat becomes relying on the government to eat.
There are ***5 production cooperatives in Liwaitai Village, with 99 households and 42 1 person, including 2 15 workers. Located in the northwest of Halazhigou Township, Huzhu County, bordering Dongshan Township, it belongs to shallow mountainous areas, and the cultivated land is all mountainous areas.
There have been nine droughts for ten years here, and the people live a life of "depending on the weather".
200 1 this year is an unforgettable year for those who depend on the weather to eat in arid mountain villages inside and outside Taiwan. This year, out of consideration for the ecological environment in the west, the country decided to go to the west.
The Ministry has implemented the project of returning farmland to forests, so that local people in mountainous areas can retire some mountainous areas that have been modest for many years and plant trees and grass to protect the ecology. The state subsidizes land withdrawal, and the state gives every mu of cultivated land to farmers.
People's living allowance is 200 Jin of grain, equivalent to 160 yuan.
At first, people here didn't understand, "Good land, what can you grow without crops?" "The government only cares about eight years. What will happen in the future? " People are talking about it and are at a loss.
In fact, they don't know that it is these barren land that, while feeding them, also deeply pulls them to the edge of poverty. Someone has calculated this account: if there is a good year with good weather,
At the scene, 400 Jin of wheat can be harvested per mu of cultivated land, calculated at the market price of 0.70 yuan, and the income per mu of land is in cash and 280 yuan, after deducting the inputs such as fertilizer money, seed money and artificial labor, there is little left. In case of drought and hail.
Disaster, the result is particularly bleak. According to a document provided by the village cadres, in 200 1 year, there were 126 households in the village, and the total loans in the rural credit cooperatives reached 286,000 yuan, and the accumulated external accounts were140,000 yuan. These loans and
The arrears are basically used for agricultural inputs such as fertilizers and seeds. Due to the poor land harvest, a vicious circle of increasing loans has been formed. At that time, there were 27 farmers in the village who went to Haixi and other places to make a living and abandoned the land.
868 acres.
As a result, the township cadres talked about policies and compared benefits. After some hard persuasion, they always returned 520 mu of farmland in those years. By the end of the year, the people suddenly realized that it is unreliable to rely on the sky to eat, and only the government can be safe.
By 2007, the whole village had returned 3760 mu of farmland. In this regard, Chen Debao, secretary of the village branch, carefully calculated an account: 3,760 mu of farmland is returned to forests, and the state gives a living allowance per mu 160 yuan. Village 42 1 per capita population 1.428 yuan. According to the statistics of Harazhigou township government, the per capita income of Liwaitai village in 2006 was 2590 yuan.
It's June of the lunar calendar, standing on the high mountain in Liwaitai Village, the mountains are all green, and the cultivated land that has been returned to farmland is regularly covered with bamboo-shaped, funnel-shaped rain-collecting pits, apricot trees, Caragana and sand.
Spine, alfalfa and other crops grow happily in it. In the silent valley, one or two pheasants chirped happily from time to time. With the implementation of the project of returning farmland to forest and grassland, the ecological environment here is fragile, vegetation is sparse and soil erosion is serious.
The grim situation has been effectively improved.
Australia's aid projects have put the road to poverty alleviation on the fast track.
In 2004, several "outsiders" came to the village along the muddy mountain road. As they walked, they looked at the weeds on the mountain, the crops in the field, the dolls in the school, the alleys in the village and even the cellar water.
They come from
Experts from Australia, New Zealand and other countries.
They will implement a project here that will benefit the local people endlessly-an international aid project aimed at strengthening infrastructure construction, managing the ecological environment and improving people's production and living conditions.
In order to ensure the smooth implementation of the project, ensure a double harvest of social and economic benefits, and truly benefit the people in the project area, the party Committee and government of Halazhigou Township have taken measures in agriculture, animal husbandry and forestry.
Industry, water conservancy and other departments dispatched cadres with excellent business and strong ability to set up leading groups in demonstration areas. At the same time, the masses were organized to vote on the proposal, and 10 people who are enthusiastic about mass work and have certain working ability were selected.
Set up the management committee of the project demonstration area.
Therefore, under the direct guidance of provincial and county project offices and Chinese and foreign experts, all the work of Australian aid projects has been successfully implemented in Liwaitai Village:
In 2004, more than 654.38 million yuan was invested to build 17.36 km field road;
In 2005, it invested 290,000 yuan to draw tap water from Daquan Village, Dongshan Township.
In 2006, Mr Roland, the project leader, received 56,000 RMB from New Zealand for the renovation of dilapidated buildings in village primary schools. In the same year, two flood control dams with a total length of more than 60 meters were built;
From 2004 to 2006, more than 860 people received technical and legal training, and 56 villagers received vocational training in welding, automobile and excavator driving, cooking and so on. Management Committee members were specially trained 19 times, and members of management Committee and township project office were organized to visit Beijing, Inner Mongolia and other places 150 times.
Agricultural machinery and tools such as thresher, pulverizer, drill, ploughing plough, motor sprayer, as well as mill, oil press and dough press were purchased, and 9 1 solar cooker was installed.
Buy twenty sets of tables and chairs, buy checkers,
Chess, basketball and other cultural and sports equipment and cultural and scientific books. ...
From 2004 to 2007, the project office has invested more than 2 million yuan to control the ecology and improve the production and living conditions of the people in the project area.
As a result, the villages inside and outside Taiwan Province have changed:
-All mountain roads have achieved "social communication". The road conditions in the field have been thoroughly improved, and the level of agricultural mechanization has been improved.
-tap water enters the village and enters the household. It has solved the drinking water problem of 82 households with 375 people and more than 400 livestock in the village, and the matter of carrying water to eat cellar water from generation to generation has become an eternal history.
-Mountain people are good at the world. More than 40 young farmers have mastered a skill through training, either working as chefs in restaurants, driving cars to transport them, or engaging in water heating in construction sites. The once rustic "Shanliwa" has become a master who can make money.
-The sound of books is loud on campus, and the barren hills and slopes are covered with green clothes.
The whole village promotion project of poverty alleviation and development: the road to poverty alleviation is getting wider and wider
In 2007, Liwaitai Village was listed as a demonstration village for poverty alleviation and development in Huzhu County.
Considering that alfalfa and other forage grass are abundant after returning farmland to forest and grassland, in order to effectively develop the follow-up industry of returning farmland to forest, the Mutual Aid Poverty Alleviation Office decided to contribute 3,500 yuan to 96 households in the village.
Yuan, used to build a 30-square-meter 1 sheepfold, and put four sheep of small-tailed Han sheep and other breeds. It will also invest 6.5438+0.97 million yuan to repair public infrastructure such as school walls, classrooms and village cultural activity rooms.
Just walk into a house and you will see a busy scene. Under the guidance of technicians, the villagers carefully built a new sheepfold covering an area of 30 square meters. In their minds, these new sheepfolds are the "golden nest" for the government to help them embark on the road of poverty alleviation.
If the project of returning farmland to forests, the Australian aid project and the whole village promotion project of poverty alleviation and development are the three effective carriers provided by the government to get rid of poverty and become rich in the villages inside and outside Taiwan, then the policies of benefiting the people and the people such as two exemptions and one subsidy and the new rural cooperative medical system have given people here enough fuel and courage.
As a poor mountain village, Liwaitai Village is struggling to get rid of poverty. With the smooth implementation of the project of returning farmland to forests, the Australian aid project and the whole village promotion project of poverty alleviation and development, the appearance of villages inside and outside Taiwan has already taken place.
Or great changes are taking place. In the past, the barren hills and slopes were covered with a thick green coat, and the ecological management achieved remarkable results.
"I have food in my hand, but I don't panic in my heart." These three major projects have enabled people inside and outside Taitai Village to live a well-off life. According to statistics, as of July, 2007, there were five Li Xia and other agricultural vehicles for rent in the village.
87 cars and walking tractors,
There are 85 motorcycles, and ordinary household appliances such as color TVs and washing machines are basically popular. It is worth mentioning that many mountain people use mobile phones. There are more than 100 mobile phones and more than 30 wireless fixed telephones in the village, which closely link the "mountain people" with the outside world.
In 2006, in the comprehensive assessment of Hala Zhigou Township, Liwaitai Village ranked first. In the same year, Liwaitai Village was rated as "credit village" by Huzhu County Credit Union and other financial departments, and 86 farmers were rated as "credit farmers".