All the way to the west, I saw the most authentic Xinjiang： shepherding on the plateau, reclaiming land on the border, and the lights on Vakvak …

　　CCTV News:All the way to the west, I have witnessed the truest poverty and prosperity here, and I have also buried the deepest feelings and dreams.

　　South Xinjiang, south of Tianshan Mountain in Xinjiang. The unique customs of the western regions have cast a mysterious veil on this place. Walking on the streets of Kashgar, countless deep Gu Xiang stretches in the corners of the city, and exotic buildings are collided with high saturation colors, outlining the diversity and blending of national cultures. Tankeng, musical instrument shop, gold and silver shop … … Witnessing the thousand-year history of this land, children’s play and the strong smell of food inject boiling and freshness into it.

　　Located in Pamirs, it has been bearing the generous gift of sunshine since ancient times. Southern Xinjiang was once an important commercial port on the ancient Silk Road, but it also struggled in poverty. Due to poor natural conditions and backward infrastructure, the "four prefectures" here once belonged to deep poverty-stricken areas in the country.

　　Nowadays, in the construction of aiding Xinjiang from generation to generation, Kashgar, Kezhou and other places have already taken off their poor hats and made a big step forward. There are indelible sadness and hard work behind this, as well as enthusiasm and determination to move forward wholeheartedly.

　　Vakvak, the light is on.

　　In the early morning of March 23, 2019, Xi Kewei refused to see his family off, carrying his luggage alone and boarding a flight to Kashgar, ready to start his work in the village. On that day, all he could think about was He Jingzhi’s Window of the Westbound Train.

　　The first night I arrived in Vakvak Village, it was getting late. In the middle of the night, Xi Kewei was awakened by a chat. Reached out and turned on the light, but it didn’t work. When I opened the door, I saw the village cadres on duty in the corridor. It turned out to be a power failure.

The kitchen of a villager’s house in Vakvak village before poverty alleviation.

　　Here, villagers are used to power outages.

　　Back in the house, he lit a candle and called the secretary of the village branch to learn more about the situation. The village has no financial power, and the village finances the township. The daily office expenses have to wait for the township government to allocate, and the township government’s expenses are also stretched. Power cuts and water cuts are common, and every accounting charging fee can only be charged to 50 yuan.

　　At the beginning of his stay in the village, Xi Kewei lit candles for a month and paid the electricity bill for the village Committee for three months with his own money.

　　Vakvak Village is located in the southwest of Xinjiang, at the southern foot of Tianshan Mountain and the western edge of Tarim Basin. It is rich in sunshine resources, with an annual sunshine duration of 2,500-3,000 hours.

On the roof of Vakvak Village Committee, photovoltaic power generation has brought light and hope to the villagers.

　　In order to make full use of the local sunshine resources, Xi Kewei, who was born in the power industry, quickly started to declare the implementation of distributed photovoltaic power generation projects. With the assistance of Huadian, 196 photovoltaic modules were laid on the roof of the village Committee. The project was put into use in August 2019. In less than one year, these photovoltaic panels not only met the living electricity consumption of the surrounding residents, but also brought the first income-generating funds to the village collective through the way of surfing the Internet with surplus electricity.

The family of Zilaihan Mi Jiti, a villager, took a group photo in front of the new house.

After the villagers moved into the anjufang, the kitchen was equipped with a gas stove.

　　The report of the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China once described the general requirements of the rural revitalization strategy: industrial prosperity, ecological livability, rural civilization, effective governance and affluent life.

　　Build an ecologically livable village, Lucid waters and lush mountains are invaluable assets.

　　Over the past two years, the fully automatic cold pressed brick production line has produced the first environmentally friendly brick in Vakvak Village, completely eliminating the backward production mode of brick factory. After the ecological restoration of the 300-mu brick kiln wasteland, it is now full of fruit trees, and its branches are full of fruitful results.

The beautiful village of Vakvak has already taken on a new look.

　　"The Boguzi River, which originated in the Pamirs, rushed out of the Bozitage Mountain and became a fan-shaped alluvial plain, and Vakvak Village was an oasis by the river." This is an introduction that Xi Kewei came up with to promote the development of rural eco-leisure tourism.

　　Due to the regional environment, Vakvak Village belongs to saline-alkali land, and the fluoride and hardness in tap water are seriously exceeding the standard. In the village, the advantages of power plant water treatment specialty were brought into play, and direct drinking water devices were tailored for primary schools and kindergartens in Vakvak Village, which effectively filtered out all kinds of impurities, bacteria, microorganisms and other harmful substances, and allowed children to drink clean water and safe water.

Vakvak Village Primary School, children are attending physical education class.

　　In the frontier of the motherland, it has become history that "one side of the soil and water can not support one side".

　　On February 25th, 2021, China solemnly declared to the world that China had won an all-round victory in the fight against poverty, and the problem of absolute poverty that had plagued the Chinese nation for thousands of years had been solved historically. The change of Vakvak Village is a vivid footnote in this great history. There are too many such stories in southern Xinjiang.

　　Going online into the clouds, cattle and sheep "walk out" of Pamir.

　　Bayin Kuruti Village, Wuqia County, Kezhou, Xinjiang, is located on an economic artery leading to foreign countries next to National Highway 315 in Pamirs Plateau.

　　12 kilometers is the farthest distance between the pastoral area and the village Committee; 23 kilometers is the distance between the village Committee and the Topa port; 3500-4500 meters, which is the altitude of grassland; There are 208 households with 717 people, which used to be the number of poor households in the village. At that time, there were only 353 households with 1,230 people in the village.

　　In December 2018, 48-year-old Tan Xuan was selected here as the first secretary.

　　Bayin Kuruti village is an animal husbandry village. The grassland is located in a high altitude and cold area with harsh natural conditions. The villagers mainly graze cattle and sheep, and their income level is low. However, cattle and sheep raised in the traditional way are of good quality and few in quantity.

Overlooking Bayin Kuruti village from the mountain.

　　Tan Xuan still remembers eating boiled mutton for the first time. "Boiled in white water, only with salt, without any seasoning, it is very delicious to tear it with your hands." At that time, the idea of "building a brand of Pamirs sheep" came into his mind.

　　Just do it. If there is no transportation channel, look for logistics cooperation; When there was no market, it was promoted to relatives, friends and colleagues through WeChat circle of friends. This post-70s engineering male also tried to shoot a vibrato video and live broadcast with goods.

　　Under the leadership of Tan Xuan, the operation mode of "internet plus Cooperative+Herdsmen" has been gradually established in the village, forming a supply and sales chain integrating online order taking, cooperative supply, intensive processing of slaughterhouses and villagers’ dividends. In the past two years, Kirgiz beef and mutton have sold more than 20 million yuan to more than 20 provinces and cities across the country, and registered its own brand — — "Green Ridge Shepherd".

At that time, Tan Xuan, the first secretary of Bayin Kuruti Village, carried the goods live.

　　In 2019, with the assistance of Huadian, the photovoltaic power station began to operate in Bayin Kuruti village and was successfully connected to the grid, bringing a stable income of 700,000 yuan to the village collective every year.

　　The villagers in Bayin Kuruti village said: "In the past, when we were herding sheep, we lived in a felt house, and life was hard. In the sixties and seventies, we could only use camels for grazing. Now that I have moved to a new house, I can watch TV with water and electricity. "

　　In the fields, the little days of "planting"

　　The lives of ordinary people are always about food, clothing, housing and transportation.

　　Poverty alleviation laid the foundation for rural revitalization, and also stimulated the endogenous motivation of people in poverty-stricken areas to get rid of poverty and become rich.

　　In July 2019, the night market in the village of Arik, Kashidun opened in the cheerful sound of dongbula. The smell of barbecue, mutton offal, yogurt and cold rice noodles came from the nose, and people were buzzing and very lively. The night market is open in front of the house, doing some small business every day, and the villager Mohammad Ming Rouzi is so happy that he keeps smiling.

In the courtyard of a villager in Dun ‘airike village, the vines that grow with the trend are full of vitality.

　　Compared with two years ago, today’s Dunairike village has undergone earth-shaking changes.

　　"Before, there was no kitchen, and a shed was built against the wall. The stove built by laying bricks or stones had no flue, and the whole wall was dark, and firewood was scattered all over the yard. It’s different now. The living, planting and breeding areas are separated, and the life is comfortable and the mood is good. " Mohammad Ming Rouzi’s wife said.

　　Nowadays, walking in Dun ‘airike village, you can see neat anjufang everywhere. The characteristic courtyard economy of "one grape, one border vegetable field and one orchard" is impressive. The old way of life has long been history in the modern civilization of "sitting with a stool, sleeping with a bed, learning to eat with tables and chairs".

　　In 2020, 1,174 poverty-stricken households in Dunairike Village were all lifted out of poverty, with a per capita net income of 12,035 yuan.

In the home of a villager in Dunairike village, the drawing board on the bedside wall is an electric heating board, which can be used as decoration every day and can be heated to keep out the cold in winter.

　　"Jujube+Pomegranate+Vegetable Intercropping" planted the villagers’ dream of getting rich in the fields, which not only met the villagers’ daily demand for vegetables and fruits, but also was one of the important sources of their income. The mode of "enterprise+rural workshop+industrial workers" has solved the employment problem of 70 villagers and effectively utilized the labor force. Dunairike village also relies on local leading enterprises to support villagers to breed pigeons, and the cooperative industry is growing day by day.

　　In the past, a family of five villagers, Mulamu Wupur, had a monthly income of only 1000 yuan. With the help of Chloe Wang, the first secretary of the village, and the paired cadres, Mulamu Wupur found an ideal job in Kashgar Thermal Power Company, while his wife worked in the industrial park. Now their annual income can reach more than 40,000 yuan.

Women in Dun ‘airike Village are employed at their doorsteps, and can receive a monthly salary of not less than 1,800 yuan.

　　On the opening day of the night market, Chloe Wang received a bouquet of flowers specially sent by the Uighur aunt. He said that this was the first time he had received flowers in his life.

　　Everything goes without saying.

　　Eliminating poverty has been the common ideal of mankind since ancient times. In the recorded history, the development of human society has been confined to poverty and its series of problems such as hunger, disease and social conflicts. As the largest developing country, China’s poverty alleviation has an unprecedented scale, the greatest strength and the largest population, which has created a great miracle in the history of human poverty reduction.

　　From poverty alleviation to rural revitalization, the lives of ordinary people have once again stood at a new starting point.

　　In March 2021, after two years in the village, Xi Kewei applied to stay in the village. He told reporters that in the past two years, three comrades in the task force have successively written applications for joining the Party. "They said that they will really realize what communist party is when they retire soon.". (Reporter/Proofread by Sun Xiaoyuan/Song Chunyan)