[Hunan Daily] Village-based Cadres’ Log on Poverty Reduction: ”Time Bomb” Is Removed
2015-12-15
Editor's Note:
If we compare accurate helping to irrigation, village-based cadres are the pipelines for poverty reduction. The effectiveness and success of accurate helping depends largely on the cadres’ work. From today, Hunan Daily adds a sub-column called “Village-based Cadres’ Log on Poverty Reduction” under the already existing column "Accurate Helping for Fairly Well-off Life" for 8000 villages teams to share experiences and learn from each other. Mailbox for submission is: 602104248@qq.com. And for more logs, please check website of New Hunan.
Zhou Junjun, now a team leader in Xinjia Village, Tanxi Town of Xinshao County from Hunan University of Commerce
September 10 Cloudy
Today was Teacher's Day and although I was working in Xinshao County for poverty reduction, I received many text messages of blessings through QQ or Wechat from my students and relatives, which made me feel very honored.
Of course, I did not forget my identity of being the provincial helping team leader stationing in the village as well as being secretary of the village Party branch. A member of the team Wang Bolin, village cadres and I together had just sent some money as well as our blessings to the 6 teachers in Xingjia Elementary School. With great surprise and amazement, all the teachers repeatedly said “thank you” in our communication.
In fact, I was being anxious all day long because a name list was made public declaring all those people as accurate poverty reduction targets from 2015 to 2017 by the village cadres this morning. This list, originally considered as a "time bomb" no longer remained hidden.
In recent years’ selection for basic living allowance and poverty targets, many people in Xingjia Village quarreled from time to time. Some households even filed petitions to the government. The village cadres and I were worried that the publicity would bring more quarrels in the neighborhood, ready to be encircled by villagers and to have no peace .
The long day ended by finding that two villagers phoned me to express their views, while other four came in person to Wang Bolin and me to present their suggestions. No quarrel turned up, and this may be accounted for by lots of preliminary work we did before.
It took almost 4 months to have this name list with detailed information for the poor people that needed help. 29 voluntary teachers and students worked for two consecutive weeks to investigate every household for exact data during the summer vacation. This “highly difficult movement” in poverty investigation considered by many leaders turned out to be much better than expectation, thanks to the team members’ and village cadres’ comprehensive theoretical study, careful research design, wonderful personnel organization, several rounds of information filtering, scientific analysis of household situation, and friendly communication.
In the afternoon, according to the suggestions of the villagers, Wang Bolin and I again visited three villagers, collecting their poverty information. Just during the process, Personnel Director Li Ge from Hunan University of Commerce phoned and told me they would send four outstanding postgraduates this year in different batches to support education in the village, which made us overjoyed.
To Precisely identify poverty reduction target is only a small step in poverty reduction project, but it means a great deal for the helping teams.
