Southwest China’s Chongqing attracts talents to revitalize villages
Southwestern China’s Chongqing
municipality, putting great efforts on attracting talents in rural areas,
witnessed huge improvement in its rural revitalization work in recent years.
Xiong Xiong, a young designer of
Chongqing Planning and Design Institute, was one of the many that are attracted
to work in the rural part of the municipality.
He is among the first batch of Chongqing’s
“village designers”, and started working at Huashi village, Jindai township of
Chongqing’s Liangping district since last June.
Xiong, born in the urban area,
gave all of him to the village in the past 9 months, from village planning, to
the renovation of local water supply and lavatories. Though he has caught the
sun when working in the village, he is happy about what he has done. “It’s
worthy to do what I can for the villagers,” Xiong said.
Talent is the key to revitalizing
China's rural areas. By thoroughly implements the guidance of the Communist
Party of China Central Committee, Chongqing takes talent construction as a
priority for the work of rural revitalization. It not only attracts
professionals from other regions of the country, but also nurtures talents of
its own.
Guiding talents to the rural
areas, Chongqing has created a powerful force to revitalize the countryside.
Making full use of related
policies such as poverty alleviation, Chongqing attracted over 8,900 rural
talents back to their hometown to lead the locals for entrepreneur
projects.
Meanwhile, Chongqing carried out
a series of trainings for the villagers, hoping to turn them into professional
farmers, young ranch owners, and e-commerce talents. A batch of rural entrepreneurs
are playing their due roles in the countryside.
Zhang Youhua is one of the returnees.
He rented a 200-hectare farming land and established an ecological agriculture
in his hometown Yongchuan district of Chongqing.
His business did not go well at
the very beginning, as the sales dropped after a peak in August. It even became
a headache for him when he settled account at the year end.
Fortunately, the agriculture
committee of Yongchuan district recommended him to a training course, during
which he received expert lectures and attended field investigations.
It largely broadened Zhang’s horizon.
He built a workshop for processing lotus leaves, upgraded his ecological park,
and made the park a base for tour study and research.
“Now I’m always kept busy by the
business, and I have to recruit more villagers,” he said, adding that his gross
income hit 20 million yuan last year.
In addition to talents
attraction, Chongqing also rolled out a package of plans to provide
intellectual support for rural revitalization, allocating professionals,
projects and resources to villages.
In 2018, more than 2,700
technological experts were commissioned to aid the impoverished villages of
Chongqing, including Dong Peng, a section chief who is in charge of vegetable
planting at the Chongqing agricultural technology promotion center.
Dong was sent to a vegetable base
in Guanba, Tongnan district. Being quite popular among local villagers, he often
provided them effective measures to control and prevent diseases and pests.
“Thanks to Dong who helped me optimize
fertilizer structure, my cabbage hit the market in advance. The yield of my
plant was up by 500 kilograms every 0.07 hectare, and I can gain an extra 700
yuan from each 500 kilograms added,” said Peng Yingping, a local villager.
Besides, Chongqing also upgraded
its system for talent training and development in rural areas, offered
favorable policies in employment, professional title reviewing and treatment. It
established an evaluation mechanism that matches the characteristics of
personnel at the grass-roots level. These measures have effectively motivated the
rural talents to start businesses.
Chongqing kept enhancing its
efforts on the multi-channel training of professionals at grass-root level. Every
year, a batch of young and middle-aged researchers from the Three Gorges Dam
are sent to universities and research institutes for a half-year study and
training. By far, a total of over 1,900 personnel from the city have joined in
the training program.
27-year-old Zou Jian now works as
the head of villagers’ committee of Linkou village, Mawu town in Fuling district.
He quitted his decent job in another city, and decided to come back after a
long talk with the former Party chief in the village.
Zou is quite busy with the
village affairs, such as road construction, commercial crops planting, and landscape
lifting projects.
“We’re highly encouraged by the favorable
government policies and will make more efforts to revitalize rural areas,” Zou
said.
(Source: People’s Daily)
The aerial photo shows terraces,
new houses as well as new road network of a village in Wusheng county, Guang’an,
southwest China’s Sichuan province, March 16, 2019. (Photo: People’s Daily Online)
Southwest China’s Chongqing attracts talents to revitalize villages
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