Employment transfer helps Xinjiang village get rid of poverty
Bai Zhiyu, People’s Daily
Thanks to the efforts of employment transfer, the
villagers of Yarmali can finally live a wealthy life, and the aroma of fruits
is always floating in the village in summer.
Yarmali in Auitoglak township, northwest China’s Xinjiang
Uyghur Autonomous Region was once a village surrounded by the Taklamakan
Desert. Due to the encroachment of the sand, plants barely survived there and
the people were living in poverty.
Because of the harsh ecological conditions, it was difficult
for the people living at Yarmali village to shake off poverty through
agriculture. Meanwhile, the development of the village was further hindered by
the huge rural labor surplus.
As a result, a vicious circle was formed in the village,
with deteriorating ecological environment, shrinking farm production, enlarging
labor surplus, and growing poverty closely knitted with each other.
Therefore, poverty reduction became an urgent need that
must be addressed by the stationing officials and village leaders.
The village was facing two prominent problems: how it
could combine labor surplus with agricultural development and how it could
protect local ecology without impeding agricultural development and causing a
decline in population.
After repeated investigations and discussions, village
cadres decided to think differently and resorted to employment transfer as a
way to facilitate poverty alleviation.
Employment transfer is not job hopping. A
well-established industrial chain of modern agriculture, as well as the
introduction of favorable policies for relevant manufacturing enterprises is a
prerequisite for creating new jobs.
To promote employment transfer and assist relevant work,
poverty relief cadres searched hard for jobs with low recruiting standards that
were also close to the laborers, organized pre-job training and mandarin
courses.
Besides, officials were sent to the working sites with
the laborers in order to provide better management, and improve communication,
summaries and feedback.
Thanks to the employment transfer, 23-year-old Awahan
Ainiwar now works as a manager assistant at a village-run factory that owns 154
weaving machines. However, farming and cooking were all she could do three
years ago as a woman who finished only junior high school.
Awahan is not the only one that has benefited from
employment transfer. Some of the villagers in Yarmali have become pancake
makers, producing hundreds of pancakes a day; some work on a ranch, picking and
cleaning alfalfa, and selling them to supermarkets in the city; and some work
for a rose production factory.
Last year, 295 villagers were employed and lifted out of
poverty. “The new jobs have become a major source of income for many
households,” said Kou Xianmin, first secretary, or poverty-reduction official
of the village’s Party branch.
The sound development is also improving the ecology of
the village. In Yarmali, dayun, an herbal medicinal weed that grows with rose
willows and helps fixing sands, has become an important source of income for
the villagers after preliminary processing and is lending a big hand to desert
control.
The plant is making desert control profitable, and more
and more people are willing to join the combat against desertification under
such appeal. As a result, the Yarmali village has turned into a sea of green.
Employment transfer helps Xinjiang village get rid of poverty
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