Rebirth Starts From 2006

Some people say that the poorest places have the most beautiful scenery.

The person who said this probably has never seen what a truly poor place is like.

The sky is full of wind and sand, there are no weeds on the ground, you look at the sky without tears, you ask about the ground without water, that kind of abject poverty is truly despairing.

In his previous life, Chen Yang read a poverty alleviation story.

There is an old couple in their eighties in Zhangjiakou, living in the middle of the Gobi desert. Since all the young people in the village went out to work, and later their elders were picked up one after another, by the next few years, the whole village would only have There are only two people left, the old couple.

The old couple guarded the Gobi Desert and lived there year after year. The water they drank was brackish water drawn from an ancient well at the head of the village. The food they relied on to sustain their lives was grown in the Gobi Desert. acres of potatoes planted,

Since there is almost no fertilizer in the Gobi Desert, the potato yield they cultivate is pitiful. After a year of hard work, they can barely make ends meet.

If he was sick, he would go there. If there was no salt at home, the old man would take a bag of potatoes and walk to the market more than twenty miles away. He would sell the potatoes and replace them with a bag of salt. If there was still money left, Just weigh a few cents of candy for the old lady.

They don't need oil, because they don't need oil to boil potatoes or bake potatoes, and they don't need anything else. The clothes at home can be mended and mended to last them a lifetime.

Until one day, the superiors issued a task to alleviate poverty in poor villages. The first step was to connect every village with electricity and the Internet.

When the government was conducting an investigation across the entire territory, the old couple finally came into the sight of the county leaders.

Then the leaders were shocked. They did not expect that a pair of old people actually lived in that area that was almost considered a restricted area for life.

According to the above requirements, any place where people live must have electricity and Internet access. However, there are only two old people there. They don’t need electricity, let alone the Internet. What should we do?

At that time, the county came up with a solution.

They wanted to bring this old couple to the county, and the government would arrange a house for them to live in, and also provide them with relief funds, ensuring that their lives would be dozens of times better than before.

Moreover, as long as they move there, the county can save hundreds of thousands of dollars,

Because it would take hundreds of thousands of dollars to pull electricity and wire from the county to the village that had long been considered abandoned.

But the old couple didn't want to,

Because their only son was lying on that land, and they wanted to stay with him all the time. They also knew that they might not have many days to live, and they didn't want to be separated from their son in the remaining days.

In the end, the government couldn't persuade them, so they had no choice but to spend hundreds of thousands to bring the wire to the door of the old couple's house and electrify them.

Although the old couple's annual electricity bill was only 80 cents, the telephone pole was erected in front of their house.

At the same time, relief funds have been arranged for them. During holidays, there will be people delivering rice and fuel to their doorsteps.

The story of this old couple is just a microcosm of thousands of poverty alleviation stories.

What if there wasn't just that old couple in that place?

When hundreds of people in a village live in such a place, will they see hope?

Of course, there are some places that are much better than that.

But it cannot be denied that there are indeed many places that are worse than the village where the old couple lived, with no access to roads, electricity, or the Internet.

Compared to those places, Meigu is lucky,

Although Meigu's economic indicators are at the bottom of the country, there are green mountains and green waters here, as well as colorful ethnic customs. These are ecological agricultural resources and tourism resources with great market development value. What they lack , just an opportunity.

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The direct flight from Beijin to Xichang arrived at Xichang Qingshan Airport at 2:30 in the afternoon.

Two airport pick-up buses arranged by Hengli Group's Chengdu Branch and three bulletproof off-road vehicles airlifted from Beijin had already arrived at the airport two hours ago. They only waited for the plane to arrive and took the three project teams with them. A total of more than 80 people from Chen Yang's security team went straight to the three counties of Liangshan.

Butuo, Zhaojue and Meigu counties are all located in the east of Xichang. Zhaojue is next to Xichang, Meigu is in the north of Zhaojue, and Butuo is in the south of Zhaojue.

After the convoy arrived at Zhaojue, some people disembarked, and the rest were divided into two teams, one heading south and one heading north.

Chen Yang was still sitting on the bus, looking at the rolling green mountains outside the window. He turned to Lao Ma and said, "Mei Gu's natural scenery is not bad!"

Lao Ma's face stiffened slightly, "Haha, Director Chen, this is still Zhaojue. We have to cross the two mountains in front to reach Meigu."

Old Pan thinks Old Matt is stupid. Does Mr. Chen care if this is Zhaojue or Meigu? Whether it is Zhaojue or Meigu, isn’t it still the scenery of Daliang Mountain?

He immediately glared at Lao Ma, leaned down, and smiled at Boss Chen who was grinning as if nothing had happened, "Actually, the situation of Mei Gu and Zhao Jue is similar. Otherwise, our Mayflower Company wouldn't have taken care of Zhao Jue at the same time. Juehe Meigu has been listed as the first batch of project launch locations."

"It's still different!"

The upright old horse corrected him seriously, "Meigu is Meigu, and Zhaojue is Zhaojue. Although the two places are similar in some places, they also have many differences, such as Meigu's scenery and Meigu's beautiful girls!"

Chen Yang turned to look at Zou Rong helplessly, trying hard not to laugh.

Can we not mention the beautiful girl? !

Lao Ma is still correcting Lao Pan's wrong thinking, "Meigu is a geomantic treasure land with many unique natural resources and humanistic features. Otherwise, why would Mr. Chen not go to Zhaojue or Butuo instead?" Where’s the beautiful girl?!”

As he said that, he turned to look at Boss Chen and said with a grin, "You think so, Director Chen?!"

Chen Yang turned around and nodded seriously, "Yeah, right."

God knows how he chose the beautiful girl. He probably thought there was a word "beautiful" in the name!

Lao Pan felt that he was a bit redundant. How could Lao Ma, who was so straightforward, be recognized by Director Chen?

Hell no!

Seeing Boss Chen nodding, Lao Ma thought he was right and suddenly became very excited, but warned himself to exercise restraint!

Then he tried his best to put down his face and said in a pretentious tone,

"Meigu is located in the heart of the Daliang Mountains. It has natural geographical constraints such as high mountains, steep slopes, and deep valleys. It also suffers from common economic development limitations such as lagging social development, large historical debts, and weak foundation.

Because of poverty, the existing mental, cultural, disease and other social factors are superimposed, which in turn aggravates poverty.

In view of this realistic situation, our previous poverty alleviation work has repeatedly suffered setbacks.

The higher authorities have been working hard to help us. Poverty alleviation funds have never been cut off, and working groups have also been dispatched to help us completely reverse the situation.

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However, they were all frustrated to a greater or lesser extent,

Of course, it can’t be said that there are no achievements at all, it’s just..."

After a two-second pause, Lao Ma, who was looking sad, suddenly turned to look at Lao Pan, "How do you say that?"

Lao Pan quickly lowered his head to cover his face and said in a low but clear voice, "Treating the symptoms but not the root cause."

Lao Ma turned his head and said decisively, "Yes, treating the symptoms but not the root cause!"

Boss Chen blinked and looked at the loyal old Ma and the old Pan who continued to cover his face, silently wondering if he had been plotted?

Of course, Lao Ma didn't notice the change in Boss Chen's expression. He tried hard to continue his previous mood and said in a deep voice,

"Treating the symptoms but not the root cause. They did leave some things behind, which were of great help to the local people. But after they leave, those villages will continue to live as they did before.

So, after we were notified that Director Chen had specially established the Mayflower Company to help poor areas like us, we knew that the opportunity for Meigu to make a comeback had come! "

At this point, Lao Ma's voice suddenly became louder by three points, "I have always believed that it's not that Meigu doesn't have good resources, it's just that she doesn't have good ways to meet good people. Otherwise, Meigu would never be where she is today." Look!"

Looking at Lao Ma with a solemn and impassioned face, Chen Yang couldn't help but gently scratch his forehead, squinted his eyes and thought for a while, then asked, "Lao Ma, what do you think is the main reason for the beauty's poverty?"

Hearing this, Lao Ma immediately gave a thumbs up, "As expected of a big boss, he got the point in just one sentence!"

Chen Yang grinned and laughed twice. This flattery was a bit stiff.

Lao Pan on the other side couldn't help but put his head down and nodded secretly,

It seems that what I instilled in Lao Ma has finally taken effect.

As the saying goes, it’s not strange to be polite to many people. Although a big boss like Chairman Chen is definitely used to flattery, as a landlord of a beautiful girl, it is the right thing to be as polite as possible to the guests, and Lao Ma is so kind An honest person who looks very honest at first glance must be sincere in what he says!

Look, isn’t Director Chen smiling happily?

When Lao Ma saw Director Chen agreeing with him with a smile, he happily thought that he was right, and his tone suddenly increased by three points,

But when I thought about what I wanted to say, I unconsciously became depressed again,

“The reasons for poverty in Meigu County are relatively complex. On the one hand, Meigu is a typical deeply impoverished area that directly transitioned from a slave society to a socialist society. The county has high mountains, steep slopes, deep valleys, and three mountains sandwiched between three rivers. This has resulted in a long-term , traffic congestion, weak foundation, economic backwardness, educational lag and other problems hinder the rapid development of Meigu,

On the other hand, the degree of social development is low and the causes of poverty are complex, such as poverty caused by illness, poverty caused by disasters, lack of funds, lack of technology, lack of labor force, backward transportation conditions, lack of self-development motivation, etc.

These are all important factors that make it difficult for the American girl to return to poverty."

Having said this, Lao Ma pointed to the mountains outside the window and said, "Dr. Chen, look outside."

Chen Yang and Zou Rong turned their heads together and saw that beyond the highway, there was a desolate, slightly red soil, and in the distance there were rolling mountains with green plants.

Lao Ma said seriously, "This area is still within the scope of Zhaojue County, but it is not far from Meigu. The geological conditions on both sides are similar.

Just in January this year, a storm caused landslides and mudslides to submerge two villages.

The ensuing cold wave, frost and low temperatures made the rescue work extremely difficult. We, Meigu and Zhaojue, worked together to barely ensure that no one died,"

He turned his head and looked at Chen Yang, "In this place, if we want to achieve something, the most important thing is to fight against the sky and the earth.

Hail, storms, mudslides, drought, cold waves, frost, and low temperatures are all our opponents,"

Having said this, he turned his attention to the vast land outside the window.

"Meigu has 292 administrative villages, of which 272 are poor villages. The other 20, although not poor villages, are not much better in conditions. They can only be described as short. There are tall people in there, and they can barely get by.

Among these two hundred and seventy-two poor villages, a total of 20,655 households with 102,424 people have been identified as poor in the county.

You know, the entire population of Meigu County is only over 220,000 people.

Based on this population ratio, the poverty incidence rate is as high as 40%, and the number of impoverished villages ranks third in the province and first in the state..."

As he talked, Lao Ma looked out the window and was speechless.

Lao Pan also rarely reminded Lao Ma. He leaned his head on the back of the chair and looked at the mountains outside the window with extremely complicated eyes.

After a brief silence, Chen Yang reached out, patted Lao Ma's shoulder gently, and said in a deep voice, "If you can report these data in one sentence, Lao Ma, you are qualified!"

Reporting these most basic data should be the basic skill that every grassroots cadre should have.

However, not every cadre can achieve this basic skill that should not cause any hesitation.

Even most cadres cannot do it.

From this point of view alone, Lao Ma is competent in his job.

Being patted by Boss Chen, Lao Ma came back to his senses, quickly lowered his head and wiped his eyes, then turned around and said with a smile, "What a shame, you're not qualified for your job, you're just doing it blindly.

If you were really competent, I wouldn't have gone to Beijin to pick you up, and would have gone around giving reports to other counties and talking about my experience! "

"take it easy,"

Chen Yang put his hand on his shoulder, but looked out the window and said softly, "All your hard work pays off. As long as you are determined, there is no difficulty that cannot be overcome."

At this time, the car was driving on a cement road, but the road surface was already in tatters. The car was probably traveling less than 40 kilometers. Despite this, it still bumped twice from time to time.

The project team assigned to Meigu County all sat up straight and looked at the scenery outside the window. Their moods were filled with anxiety and a bit of anticipation.

The endless mountains and the clear and calm sea all reveal a unique kind of original beauty.

However, this team is not here for a trip after all. Before setting off here, each of them had read the information on Meigu County countless times.

Meigu is unfortunate. The continuous Daliang Mountains isolate them from the outside world. It cuts off not only transportation, but also many connections with the outside world.

But at the same time, Meigu is lucky,

Compared with some places of real poverty, Meigu in Daliang Mountain relies on this isolation to allow hundreds of Yi villages to live here and breed a unique and colorful Yi culture.

Whether it is ecological resources or cultural resources, there is much to be done.

Fortunately or unfortunately, it's up to them to watch their performance on this stage.