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The Success of "Cinderella" Village Officials Is No Accident

The success of "Cinderella" village officials is no accident

By santa jedPublished 3 years ago 8 min read

The miracle was created by 27-year-old Yan Kemi, a woman born in the 1980s who came out of the village six years ago.

What kind of person is Yan Kemi? It is perhaps more meaningful than the story itself to know her, to dissect her village, to find an unusual pattern of getting rich from an ordinary job, and to make this pattern universal in the construction of a new countryside.

Cinderella goes back to the village

In the second half of 2008, a sensational event occurred in Honggou Village, Dangyang Township, Wushan County, Chongqing: Yan Kemi, who graduated from university in the village, did not want to work in the city, but volunteered to return to the village as the Party branch secretary, and vowed to lead the people to become rich. At that time, the villagers talked about it one after another. Most people thought that Yan Kemi did not know the height of the world. The village had been poor for many years, and could be lifted out of poverty only by your enthusiasm? It is a fool's dream.

Yan returned to her village as Party secretary six years ago. Admitted to the university of her, worry about going to school, the home to sell pigs to sell food also did not raise the cost of school, see the date of school is near, is enthusiastic villagers spontaneous donation to send her on the car...... That scene, always engraved in her heart. From that moment on, she decided to use her knowledge and ability to change the face of poverty in her hometown, and actively joined the party at school. In 2008, just after graduating from college, she approached He Wei, the party secretary of Dangyang Township, and asked him to give her a chance to return to the village as party secretary to lead the villagers to become rich. He Wei was moved by her and decided to let her go back to the village for a period of time.

When she arrived in Honggou, Yan began to walk from house to house. Despite her preparation, she was still disappointed. The road leading to the village was muddy, cars were impassable, and the villagers had to carry fertilizers, coal and other materials on their backs. Eighty percent of the 800 people in the village live in low, damp mud huts, and one of them has no housing at all, so they can only live in a villager's house. At the same time, the villagers after the disease, almost do not see a doctor, villagers Chen Zuyuan family of 7 people, there are 4 people sick bed at home, one of the knee sores can not move, if the money, just cut off he will be better...... Is it impossible to make a "primitive tribe" rich if they do not even have basic living conditions? What shocked her more was that when it came to the development of cash crops, the villagers shook their heads like rattles, with a wooden face. They ONLY BELIEVE THAT THE ANCESTRAL PLANTING OF three TUO (potato TUO, TUO TUO, SHAO TUO) CAN let them solve food AND clothing, that is their survival "ANCESTRAL INDUSTRY"! What also chilled her was that the villagers turned a blind eye to poverty and were satisfied with their own lives. They felt that development would be "colorful", and it would certainly not lead to results. They don't believe that a student fresh out of school can make a difference.

It was through interviews that Yan really felt the pressure on her shoulders.

Encounter difficulties: Farce is constantly staged

How to grasp the crux of the problem and lead the villagers out of poverty? Yan Kemi put a lot of thought into it. She closed her door for three days and laid out her ideas: repairing roads with laborers, fighting for policies to renovate rural houses, encouraging villagers to buy medical insurance, and developing a distinctive economy tailored to local conditions. She also detailed each task and submitted the materials to He Wei, Party secretary of Dangyang Township, and Guan Hong, former Party secretary of Wushan County, hoping to get their support. They were all moved by the post-80s girl and said they would come to Honggroove Village as soon as possible to investigate and give support. But what Yan didn't expect was that a series of misfortunes awaited her!

After returning to the village, Yan immediately called a meeting of the village committee to put her grand plan into practice, but she encountered the first cold water in her life. When she told everyone the whole plan, immediately called to blame: "You say easy, farm house is you said to be able to transform it?" "Taking money to buy medical insurance, villagers have never heard of it, can it work?" "Develop characteristic economy, where market?" "Your so-called measures are just words on paper!" Faced with sudden criticism, Yan Kemi explained item by item, but her explanation still seemed weak.

Next, in the process that the village reports low every year protect a door, appear strange thing again. Yan Kemi asked each member of the village committee to report their fragmented community to adopt the method of villagers' evaluation. On the spot, some people expressed different opinions. Soon, the quota was reported, and Yan Kemi soon found the problem: the quota of several clubs was in the name of the president. What was more ridiculous was that the relatives and parents of a former village cadre were all on the subsistence allowance, and that relative had a house in Wushan County! Yan Kemi was immediately indignant: "How can the national subsistence allowance policy be regarded as a joke? Orphan Zhai Zihua doesn't even have a house. Why doesn't the subsistence allowance family have him? Li, a hunchbacked 80-year-old man, is suffering from diseases and living a hard life. How can we do this in conscience?"

After that, Yan Kemi went to the community that had not been evaluated by the masses and presided over the villagers' evaluation, so that the villagers who really needed the subsistence allowance got the subsistence allowance.

Her action caused a huge reaction in the whole village, the villagers praised her, and some of the people who had benefited from the heart began to imbalance. The relatives and parents of the former village official went to the township government to complain after the allowance was cancelled, saying that Yan Kemmei had made the allowance like an election, which was time-consuming and time-consuming, and was totally a show act. They also said that Yan Kemmei was pretending to be fair under the guise of democracy, but in reality it was not fair at all. Very soon, the village organization investigation group comes to the village investigation, clear person from clear, turbid person from turbid, that former village cadre nature is with farce end.

Not long after, Guan Hong, then secretary of Wushan County Party Committee, led the relevant department heads to Hongtrough Village to conduct field research on Yan Kemi's development plan, so as to determine the special counterpart support project. In the middle of the meeting, a woman suddenly screamed out that she was wrong. Yan Kemei Yizheng turned out to be the wife of the president of a club whose subsistence allowance had been cancelled. Where did Yan Kemi go through such a battle? Helplessly watched the president's wife to the investigation to ruin......

"I was so confused that my mind was completely blank," Yan said. "I couldn't even remember how the secretary and party went." She slept the whole day over it. "I really wanted to quit and get away from this sad place and go back to the city to find a job and live a stable life," she said. "But my self-esteem told me that I couldn't do that. My original choice had doomed me to face pressure, and I pushed myself into Liangshan.

Building roads and houses: The girl touched the villagers

There is a steelyard in the hearts of the people. Yan Kemmei's subsistence allowance incident not only did not reduce her evaluation among the people, but also improved her prestige among the people. Ms. Yan then proceeded to implement her plan piece by piece.

To get rich, build roads first. Yan Kemi knows better than anyone. After the first village committee meeting raised eyebrows, she decided to take the lead in building the road herself. Honggroove Village is 1,400 meters above sea level. From November to February each year, there is a long period of rain and snow, and other farm work has been hibernated, so it is a good time to build the road.

On the muddy road leading to the village from Dangyang Township government, villagers saw a girl with her parents and relatives repairing the road. The news soon spread like wings throughout the village, and the kind-hearted villagers were gradually moved and spontaneously joined the road repair industry. The road was soon cleared. The village was waiting for the first truck to bring fertilizer to the village like the Spring Festival. The scene moved Yan Kemi to tears. Later, some people started the fertilizer business, others opened small shops, and the village slowly came to life.

With the passage of the road, the development of cash crops has a transportation foundation, but the people formed over the years to be satisfied with the status quo, do not think about the concept of progress is deeply rooted, to improve the morale of the people, is the stepping stone to change the old concept of villagers. Housing has become a local indicator of how well a family is doing, so Yan embarked on a second project: renovating farm houses. This is a huge project, the villagers have no money, what to do? Yan Kemi learned that the village counted the dilacidated houses for renovation every year, but for some unknown reason they had not been put into practice in the past. At the same time, due to the poor terrain conditions of several communities in the high mountains, the government could allocate funds to solve the housing problem by moving to other places. According to this calculation, 50% of the houses in the whole village should be solved. With such policy support, Yan Kemmei was extremely excited. She quickly prepared all the materials and walked for two hours to the township government to submit the application. For more than 20 days in a row, Yan Kemi went to the township government every day to inquire about the results, and finally, a vigorous and vigorous house repair war began. During that time, the villagers would greet each other cheerfully: "How long will it take to move into the new house?"

The villagers moved into their new houses happily, and several bachelors began to be asked to marry. The villagers' spirits were greatly improved, but Yan Kemi knew that to make the villagers rich, they needed a pillar industry, and there was no cash crop in the village except for 100 mu of flue-cured tobacco. How to do?

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