Ren Gaofei, Secretary of District Party Committee of Ansai District, Yan'an:
The Essence of Rural Revitalization is Rural Renewal, Agricultural Prosperity and Farmers Richness

Recently, the Interview Team "Voice of Shaanxi, via Which We Communicate with the World" interviewed Ren Gaofei, the Secretary of District Party Committee of Ansai District, Yan'an City, talking about the exploration and practice on implementation of solid promotion of the rural revitalization strategy in Ansai. Ren Gaofei said: the essence of rural revitalization is rural renewal, agricultural prosperity and farmers richness.

The following is the transcript:

First, rural revitalization is a major strategy of achieving the two centenary goals in two steps proposed in the report to the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, rural revitalization is also a general goal of the "issues of agriculture, farmer and rural area" as well as a key point of the "issues of agriculture, farmer and rural area". Based on the current situation on consolidation and promotion of poverty alleviation, agricultural and rural work as well as rural revitalization are complementary and confluent.

The consolidation and promotion of poverty alleviation must rely on the solid promotion of rural and agricultural work, which means that we should first solve the problems of people's production and livelihood, and second, we should solve the problems of increasing people's income. The agricultural and rural work can constantly consolidate the quality and efficiency of poverty alleviation and the follow-up achievements, laying a solid foundation for rural revitalization.

Second, the systematic planning should be based on local conditions, adjusting measures to local conditions and seeking truth from facts. For example, this year, we have carried out three tasks in 117 administrative villages: first, we plan the rural living environment for each village; second, we have set up enterprises in each village to continuously cultivate village collective enterprises; finally, we help every village have at least one dominant industry.

Third, with regard to making solid progress in implementing targeted measures, we have made efforts in the fight against poverty and ensuring safe drinking water: first of all, we fundamentally solve intergenerational poverty through migration; we solve people's housing safety through the renovation of dangerous houses and kilns; we solve people's living problems through the implementation of safe drinking water; we solve the quality of people's lives through compulsory education and basic medical care; we solve the problems of people's production and living through the improvement of infrastructure and public facilities.

At the same time, what we still need to do at present is the improvement of rural living environment and the classification of rural garbage, as well as the problem of accurate collection and treatment; we also need to solve the problem of the expansion and cultivation of village collective economy; in addition, we should constantly improve the construction of grassroots organization system, which is not only an organizational guarantee for poverty alleviation and rural revitalization, but also a political guarantee.

Only through these aspects of systematic promotion and resource integration, can we achieve the goals of industrial prosperity, livable ecology, rural civilization, effective governance and rich life. That is to say, the essence of rural revitalization is rural renewal, agricultural prosperity and farmers richness. (Gao Gang, Yuan Linna, Chen Rong)