Danwater Town, Xixia County: Beautiful Rural Environment, Broad Path to Poverty Alleviation and Prosperity
Located in Danwater Town, Xixia County, Henan Province, there is a beautiful natural village called Sanli Miao Village. It boasts picturesque scenery, a temperate climate, and abundant cultural heritage. As a Class A scenic area featuring dinosaur relics, it's also known as the 'back garden' of Henan Province's beautiful rural revitalization demonstration point.
Previously, Sanli Miao Village was characterized by dilapidated village appearance, a lack of pillar industries, and a weak economic foundation. In 2013, it was designated as a provincial poor village, posing significant challenges to poverty alleviation. However, today, entering Sanli Miao Village is like stepping into a beautiful rural landscape painting, with charming scenery and (genuine) local customs. The village appearance and the spiritual state of the residents have been completely transformed. The deeper you go into the village, the more refreshing and captivating it becomes. When talking about the village’s new changes, villagers readily smile and are full of joy, praising the working teams dispatched by the township government and the responsibility group leaders and village cadres in charge of poverty alleviation.
In 2016, the Municipal Committee of Discipline Inspection dispatched a working team to the village, closely cooperating with the township government and the village committee, strictly implementing policies, precisely targeting, and effectively promoting poverty alleviation work. They identified ‘ecological priority, industrial leadership, and infrastructure improvement’ as a rural revitalization model.
Focusing on poverty alleviation through industry development and cultivating distinctive, high-quality products, standing on the (hillside) of Sanli Miao Village, you can see rows of kiwi fruit, black li (a type of plum), yellow ginger, and fragrant mushrooms, all plentiful and impressive. Sanli Miao Village leverages its location advantage near the dinosaur relic scenic area to build eight hundred acres of kiwi ‘agritourism integrated’ ecological agricultural tourism bases in phases and batches, creating an efficient ecological agricultural sightseeing garden. Furthermore, they encourage villagers to plant yellow ginger (1500 acres) and fragrant mushrooms (50,000 bags), and by establishing an e-commerce network service platform, they provide a strong guarantee for the villagers’ income growth and prosperity.
Improving rural human settlements and building beautiful countryside is not only a need for the people but also an important task in implementing the rural revitalization strategy. On the one hand, focusing on infrastructure construction. Constructing ‘four-level rural roads’, achieving full coverage in the village, and newly building 15,000 square meters of concrete roads, along with 207 solar-powered streetlights, significantly improving villagers’ travel convenience. The drainage network has been improved, with 1500 meters of drainage pipes (channels) built, eliminating the situation of sewage flowing in front of houses and yards, and the toilet renovation project has been implemented step by step, with 30 pilot households already completed, laying a foundation for the comprehensive implementation of the village-wide toilet renovation project, greatly improving the overall hygiene of residential areas. The agricultural water conservancy is continuously strengthened, effectively meeting the villagers’ production and living water needs. The cultural and sports facilities are continuously improved, with three village cultural squares and four gardens constructed, and fitness equipment installed, providing a complete venue for villagers to participate in extracurricular activities, realizing a comprehensive improvement of the village’s overall appearance. On the other hand, improving the level of township-style culture and civilization. By building cultural and propaganda corridors, formulating village rules and customs, advocating for public order and good customs, promoting family traditions and family virtues, and comprehensively improving the township-style culture and civilization level of Sanli Miao Village. Through the ‘transmit and emulate’ activities, deepening moral construction, enriching the meaning of civilization, and improving the quality of the masses, this has smoothed the local customs, encouraging people to be benevolent, and promoting the advancement of people's minds. Strengthening the publicity and participation of activities such as ‘five good civilized families’ selection and ‘good wife’, ‘good mother’ selection, gradually transforming people’s thoughts, improving people’s mental state, and letting the beautiful countryside permeate the fragrance of civilized township culture, which helps to build a more beautiful and harmonious village.
Poverty alleviation is a political undertaking and a humanitarian undertaking. Responsibility like a mountain, action is better than words. Sanli Miao Village implemented targeted poverty alleviation strategies – tailoring measures to each village, household, and individual. They promoted beautiful countryside construction and integrated poverty alleviation with beautiful countryside, serving as a typical demonstration point.
