Consolidate poverty alleviation achievements and promote rural revitalization (Foreign media looking at China)
Since the implementation of the Law of the People's Republic of China on Promoting Rural Revitalization, foreign media have continued to pay attention to the overall planning and specific measures of China's rural revitalization, focusing on the poverty alleviation stories and development experience of China's mountainous villages, and praising the various measures taken by the Chinese government to consolidate the achievements of poverty alleviation and comprehensively promote rural revitalization.
"Inspire greater vitality in the agricultural sector"
The Spanish newspaper El Pa¨ªs recently published an article stating that in the 21st century, China will once again focus on the agricultural sector for future development, hoping to "make full use of high-tech, improve agricultural productivity, and stimulate greater vitality in the agricultural sector." The article stated that at the beginning of this year, China's Central Document No. 1 indicated that China's current "three rural" work will "accelerate the promotion of agricultural modernization" and "realize the effective connection between consolidating and expanding the achievements of poverty alleviation and rural revitalization." Evan Rogers Pai, an analyst at Trivium China, an agricultural technology consulting company, said that the Chinese government hopes to prevent the return of people who have been lifted out of poverty, and transform the achievements of poverty alleviation into more employment, more efficient agriculture and better connectivity, so as to promote better development in rural areas.
The article on the El Pa¨ªs website also stated that the goal of rural revitalization also includes promoting rural income and consumption, and major Chinese technology companies are actively involved in this field. JD.com provides a service that allows consumers to buy fresh vegetables that have not yet been picked from the field. It is reported that after consumers complete the transaction through the digital platform, farmers pick the ordered agricultural products from the fields and deliver them to the delivery point within 4 hours, which helps to reduce storage costs and waste, and achieves a win-win situation for farmers and consumers.
Thailand's Spring News Network recently reported that after years of hard work, China has eliminated absolute poverty in rural areas. In the future, it will guide talents to return to rural areas, create employment opportunities in rural areas, improve rural living conditions, retain talents, and achieve rural revitalization.
The website of the Spanish European News Agency recently published an article saying that the official establishment of the National Rural Revitalization Bureau of China means that China has begun to comprehensively promote rural revitalization after achieving a comprehensive victory in poverty alleviation. The article said: "Poverty alleviation is not the end, but the starting point of a new life and new struggle." The article took Sichuan as an example to introduce that China's rural revitalization plan has entered the implementation stage. As a major agricultural province, Sichuan uses modern agricultural parks as a starting point to accelerate the modernization of agriculture and rural areas, consolidate and expand the effective connection between the results of poverty alleviation and rural revitalization. Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture in Sichuan Province has planned and built 118 modern agricultural industry integration demonstration parks. Poverty alleviation industries cover more than 80% of the poor households. Traditional planting and breeding industries are developing towards modern agriculture and high-efficiency agriculture.
"Local residents have more income"
From the vivid cases of poverty alleviation and revitalization of villages, foreign media have paid attention to the changes in the lives of Chinese people and explored China's rural development experience.
Japan's Akahata newspaper recently published an article reporting that China is vigorously developing renewable energy and helping rural areas to get rid of poverty through the photovoltaic industry. The article introduced that in Desheng Village, Zhangbei County, Zhangjiakou City, Hebei Province, Chinese private enterprises have built village-level photovoltaic poverty alleviation power stations to help the poor get rid of poverty. The annual electricity sales income of Desheng Village is used to pay wages for poverty alleviation public welfare positions, issue special assistance, increase the collective income of the village, and build 280 plastic greenhouses to grow high-quality potatoes. Through land transfer, management of solar power stations, and planting potato seedlings, villager Lu Jinwang's annual income is now four times higher than before. He said: "Our lives have changed a lot."
The Nihon Keizai Shimbun recently reported that the Yesanpo area in Laishui County, Hebei Province has beautiful scenery. With the help of the local government, some villages have developed rural tourism, and villagers have increased their income and achieved poverty alleviation. For example, Gougezhuang Village and Nanyu Village have established cooperatives, and farmers have participated in dividends by investing in land and other means. The article said that local roads were built with government funds, and Laishui County invested 10 million yuan in the construction of the Yesanpo scenic area.
The Nigerian Leadership Newspaper website recently published an article saying that the improvement of Chinese farmers' scientific literacy has provided strong support for rural revitalization. Today, new policies and measures are being introduced across China to encourage farmers to learn technology. Shandong has established a professional title system for professional farmers, Kunshan, Jiangsu, provides free university education for professional farmers, and Gansu provides training for heads of professional cooperatives and animal epidemic prevention coordinators to promote technology to the field and solve practical problems in agricultural production.
Morocco's Hespress news website published an article using Xitou Village in Conghua District, Guangzhou City, Guangdong Province as an example to tell China's experience in poverty alleviation. The article said that the local government cooperated with universities and scientific researchers to analyze competitive advantages and formulate corresponding measures, such as developing tourism facilities, guiding villagers to renovate traditional buildings, and developing distinctive industries such as fruits and vegetables, food and agricultural and sideline products, so that "return customers" continue to come, and "local residents have more income."
Japan's Yomiuri Shimbun recently published a full-page report introducing how Shanbei Village in Longnan City, Gansu Province has achieved poverty alleviation through relocation, live streaming, and vocational training. Five photos were published on the page, showing the new homes of villagers who have been relocated for poverty alleviation, as well as scenes such as villagers selling fungus through live streaming and rural young people learning cooking techniques for free. The article said that during the "Thirteenth Five-Year Plan" period, the total population of China's relocation for poverty alleviation reached 10 million, and the government also helped them find jobs to prevent people who have been lifted out of poverty from returning to poverty.
"It provides reference experience for global poverty reduction"
Foreign media also paid attention to the various measures taken by the Chinese government to consolidate the achievements of poverty alleviation and comprehensively promote rural revitalization, and believed that China's experience is of reference significance for global poverty reduction.
Thailand's Siam Online recently published an article reporting that China strengthens road infrastructure construction to promote rural revitalization and prosperity. The article said that over the years, China has continuously improved the road infrastructure between urban and rural areas and between plains and mountainous areas, which has helped to improve the efficiency of social and economic development and played an important role in the development of the vast mountainous areas. The report took the No. 1 tourist highway jointly built by Jiangsu and Anhui to connect Langxi, Anhui and Liyang, Jiangsu as an example and said: "The living conditions and facilities of the villages along the No. 1 tourist highway are constantly improving, the local characteristic industry tea planting is also in full swing, and the construction of new rural areas has achieved positive results."
CNN reported that the development of rural leisure tourism is an important part of China's poverty alleviation plan. Since the 13th Five-Year Plan, in Yunnan Province alone, rural tourism has comprehensively driven more than 800,000 people out of poverty and increased their income, and achieved tourism revenue of more than 130 billion US dollars.
Morocco's "Tomorrow 24" news website has published a number of comments on China's poverty alleviation experience, introducing China's poverty alleviation practices and China's strong support for poverty alleviation in Africa. The article highly praised the strong leadership of the Communist Party of China in the fight against poverty, and believed that "China's approach to poverty alleviation provides reference experience for global poverty alleviation", which is worth sharing and learning from, and will benefit world development.
The World Economic Forum website published an article saying that the Internet and digital technology have a profound impact on China's rural economy. More Chinese farmers have become e-commerce entrepreneurs. The upgrade of digital infrastructure and the application of digital technology are changing the traditional agricultural model and making farmers more profitable. Chinese farmers use social e-commerce platforms to obtain user demand information and adjust their production and sales plans accordingly. Farmers increase their income with lower delivery costs and more orders. China's "digital village" pilot is of valuable reference significance for the digital divide challenges faced by the world.
Zimbabwe's "Business Weekly" commented that China's rural development experience is worth learning from Zimbabwe. Over the past few decades, China's rural areas have gradually become richer, productivity has increased significantly, farmers' living standards have improved significantly, and agricultural investment and mechanized production have continued to increase. An article on the website of Nigeria's Blueprint Newspaper Company emphasized that China has won the battle against poverty and will continue to consolidate its achievements in poverty alleviation and strive to promote rural revitalization.
(Reporters Gong Ming, Jiang Bo, Zhao Yipu, Liu Junguo, Yan Yunming, Zhou Yi, Li Zhiwei, Beijing, Madrid, Bangkok, Tokyo, Johannesburg, Cairo, Washington, August 14)