Footprints of happiness by the Yudu River

Source
China Military Online
Editor
Chen Lufan
Time
2021-03-08 17:37:39

By Wang Weidong and Deng Dongrui


The Cultural Square of Chengjiang Village in Yudu County, Ganzhou City, Jiangxi Province (PLA Daily/Deng Dongrui)

Chengjiang Village in Yudu County, Ganzhou City, Jiangxi Province is the hometown of more than 100 Red Army soldiers who joined the Red Army during the Agrarian Revolutionary War period. However, blocked by mountains from the outside world, many people in Chengjiang Village had been trapped in poverty for decades. In 2016, the PLA Rocket Force launched a pairing assistance program to carry out targeted poverty alleviation in the village.

Since 2016, the PLA Rocket Force has made a cumulative investment of more than RMB 10 million in the village in six major initiatives and twenty projects, including the infrastructure construction, industrial development, road renovation, green planting and animal husbandry base construction.

Tan Furong, a crop grower in the village, still remembered that soon after the 2018 Chinese New Year, a team comprised of 40-plus engineers from the PLA Rocket Force came to his village for road building.

Within six months, a 6.5-meter-wide asphalt road equipped with solar-powered street lamps was completed, linking Chengjiang Village to the China National Highway G319.

In just a few years, one and another infrastructure and industrial projects for poverty alleviation have achieved progress in the village. The PLA Rocket Force’s decisive, efficient work style impressed local villagers, inspiring some villagers who had worked elsewhere to return home for starting up their own business.

Tan Jinsheng was one of them. After hearing that the PLA Rocket Force was promoting poverty alleviation through developing industrial projects in the village, Tan Jinsheng quit his job in cities and went back to the village. He planned to open a chicken farm. The poverty alleviation working team of the PLA Rocket Force not only provided seed funds for Tan to construct chicken coops and warehouses but also helped equip his chicken farm with power and water supply facilities.

The team also helped Chengjiang Village set up a farming and animal husbandry cooperative, from which villagers can get dividends and salaries. This move brings each poor household an extra income of more than RMB 3,000 a year.


The picture shows a two-lane asphalt highway leading to the Chengjiang Village after the previous narrow dirt road was renovated by the PLA Rocket Force engineers in the beginning of 2018. (PLA Daily/Gu Shuai)

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