In Comrade Deng Xiaoping's
hometown Guang'an, southwest China's Sichuan Province, the three
consecutive Party committees of the local military sub-command have upheld
Deng Xiaoping Theory and the important thought of "Three Represents" as
guidance and organized 100,000 militiamen and reservists to carry out
activities to help the poor and the needy and build a well-off society. In
the past ten years, the Party committees of the military sub-command have
assisted the local Party committees and governments to help more than one
million impoverished people to shake off poverty and become well off.
Thanks to the assistance, the annual net income per capita of these
impoverished people has increased from less than 400 yuan ten years ago to
today's more than 2,300 yuan.
In the past ten
years, the military sub-command has organized militia to take part in
rural infrastructure construction and regarded it as the most tenacious
battle in helping the poor and the needy to lift out of poverty and become
well off. With their persistent efforts, they have built, in the past
decade, more than 1,300 kilometers of country roads and over 500
kilometers of concrete roads, forming a road network in Guang'an area. In
order to solve water deficiency problem, the military sub-command has
organized militia to build more than 2，000 kilometers of water channels,
3,100 reservoirs and more than 500 water wells, which have provided
reliable support for bumper harvest of crops every year.
In addition, by replying on militia
training bases in various counties (cities and districts), the military
sub-command has also run professional training courses for farmers, such
as computer science, household service and finance and economics to foster
"skill-enabled and science-oriented farmers" in cooperation with 15
vocational schools. Thanks to its efforts, the military sub-command has
helped 313,000 local people to obtain new skills for becoming well
off.
By Zeng Shan and Lai
Bing
(August 20 , PLA
Daily)
