General Secretary Hu Jintao in the work of the 17th National People's Congress report put forward "integrated urban and rural development, and promote the construction of a new socialist countryside. Solve the problem of agriculture, rural areas, farmers, is related to the overall situation of building a moderately prosperous society, must always be the party's work as a top priority. It is necessary to strengthen the fundamental status of agriculture, take the road of agricultural modernization with Chinese characteristics, establish a long-term mechanism for promoting agriculture with industry and bringing the countryside to the city, and form a new pattern of integration of urban and rural economic and social development. Adhere to the development of modern agriculture and prosperity of the rural economy as the primary task, strengthen the construction of rural infrastructure, and improve the rural market and agricultural service system." Although the words are not much, but I am very encouraged. Because I personally felt the 16th National Congress since my hometown has undergone radical changes. My hometown is located in the northwest of Gui, is Zhuang, Yao, Miao and other ethnic minorities inhabited areas, but also the birthplace of the seventh Chinese Red Army, the heart of the Right River Revolutionary Base and Baise Uprising, can be called an old revolutionary area. Although it is now lush, beautiful scenery, but in my memory of my hometown is indeed a veritable "poor countryside", the village is located in the depression, the local people playfully called "nine points of stone, one point of the ground", the village of very few flat fields, most of them are in the hillside! There are very few flat fields in the village, most of which are carts and carts between the rocks on the mountain slopes, so the villagers can only plant drought-resistant crops such as corn, groundnuts and potatoes. Since there is no river in the village, the whole village relies on underground water in the caves for drinking water for people and animals. The forests around the village were cut down during the "Great Iron and Steel Refining" period, and the function of the land to contain water was basically lost, and when there were flash floods, the village often became a swampy country, and in the past, the village was built in the 60's of the adobe houses, and the danger was imaginable, and when there were droughts, they could only trek a few miles to the outside to draw water. The village nearest the county, the drive also takes nearly three hours, a variety of agricultural materials, agricultural products, both in and out, seriously restricting the development of the rural economy and the improvement of the standard of living of farmers.
"To get rich, first repair the road, repair the road", the village changes in my memory with the road in the extension, through the village of the earliest highway is the national government during the war period to repair the mountain highway, the road around the mountain, the mountain surrounded by the road, the use of "the mountain eighteen curved" to describe the more graphic, but also to describe the road. "to describe the image is no more, the memory of the car is at the foot of the mountain and the top of the mountain between the rotation, the roadbed with all the gravel, the road is no guardrail, and occasionally there will be a few sparse trees, whenever the car reaches the top of the mountain, looking down the cliffs of the hamlet of the rising smoke, you know that home is very close. Fear was not necessary, although nine times out of ten people would get carsick, but every time we turned the corner, we hoped that the driver would slow down a little bit, and then slow down a little bit more. In the early nineties, the village opened a second road, the newly built asphalt road is more spacious than before, the roadside finally has a fixed concrete pier guardrail, to the county town of the travel time shortened to 2 hours, the small mountain village and the outside world has more contact and communication, the villagers can bring some of their own agricultural products to the county town of catching up with the need for daily necessities in exchange for the market. The village out of the first to work in Guangdong youth, the outside world is wonderful, followed by the second, third ......, soon, some villagers at home appeared color TV, but that can only be a kind of decoration, because the village simply can not receive TV signals. The village has seen the world of young people humming Hong Kong and Taiwan's popular music, and is no longer the mouth of the grandparents and fathers humming songs, the village of adobe houses gradually turned into brick houses. Instant noodles and soft drinks appeared in the village kiosk for the first time. Local chestnut production, known as the "chestnut township", but the chestnut storage time is very short, after two days will not be fresh, and the village from the nearest train station takes seven hours by car, the transportation is still a bottleneck restricting the development of the local farmers affluent, "eighteen curves of the mountain road "The overall character of the mountain road remains fundamentally unchanged.
In 2002, the party's 16th National Congress was held triumphantly, the Party Central Committee put forward the concern of the three rural issues, since the construction of the new socialist countryside, the development of small mountain villages met a new historical opportunity, from the central to local governments at all levels have increased the construction of infrastructure in the west, the local implementation of the infrastructure construction of the General Assembly war in 2004 after the village passed the third highway, the latest repaired through the secondary cement highway, the village to the county town, the village is still in a state of emergency. So that the village to the county drive was shortened to half an hour to the nearest train station also does not take 3 hours, spacious and straight highway is the villagers how many years of obscurantism to seek, the day the road was completed, the whole village households burning firecrackers to celebrate. Now the village's agricultural products no longer need to worry about transportation problems can not be sold out, to the harvest season, many provincial vehicles will come to the village to buy goats, chestnuts, three chicken and other specialties. The local government has contracted the management of the mountains, farmers have a higher incentive to produce, the past barren mountains, after recent years of vegetation planting and protection, has been the grass and trees, the mountains and forests have disappeared for decades of wild boars, the ecological environment has been greatly improved, the occurrence of droughts and floods and other natural disasters, the chances of a decrease in the village. Village through the project so that the village finally had a television signal, television has become the villagers' new favorite, in 2005 I first received in the village to see the CCTV's Spring Festival Gala, the villagers also installed more phones in their homes, cell phones are no longer a novelty. 2006, the village highway side of the construction of a gas station, along with the life of the affluent, the village bought motorcycles in the village, some villagers have also purchased a minivan to run up the transport. Villagers in the local government's leadership and help, combined with the actual situation of the local mountainous land, the development of special planting and breeding, mulberry silkworms, planting valuable Chinese medicinal herbs has become the village's main agricultural and sideline industries, the villagers' standard of living can be said to be in the 16th National Congress put forward the construction of a new countryside, every year after the improvement. 2007 Spring Festival home, I was surprised to find that the family has a washing machine, water heaters, gas stoves, a lot of the villagers brick house has now been turned into a new home, and the villagers are now in a new home. The brick houses of the villagers have now become three- or four-story houses, and the villagers' lives are on the road to happiness. Not long ago, the state also reduced the agricultural tax, the establishment of a new rural cooperative medical system, everyone is very grateful to the government to implement these policies to benefit farmers. Our local community is also recognized by academics as the "township of copper drums", villages have copper drums as weekday celebrations, rituals, accompanied by the copper drums in the past, sung songs are used to pray for rain, nowadays, people sing more, to express their gratitude to the party and the government.
Looking back at the past five years, for the small mountain village is turning the world upside down in five years, the triumph of the 17th National People's Congress, the central government's sustained attention to rural issues, so that the villagers are full of confidence in the future of the happy life, we believe that the next five years of economic and cultural development in rural areas, the standard of living of the peasants will certainly be on the new historical stage. I am learning American history, to paraphrase a Kennedy quote "Do not ask what the country has done for you, but should ask what you have done for the country." Eating water does not forget to dig a well, now the motherland and the party has done so much for us, so what should we do for the motherland? Let us work hard to learn scientific and cultural knowledge, in the social practice of flying ideal, as long as our students for the motherland to contribute to the prosperity and strength of the motherland, will be able to build the motherland into a strong, democratic, civilized and harmonious modern socialist power.