In December, the Liupanshui River was shrouded in rain and fog, and the chill hit people, but it could not stop the enthusiasm of Zhongshan people in Zhongshan City, Guangdong Province to "visit relatives". Wave after wave of Zhongshan inspection teams came here, hoping to contribute to the cooperation between the east and the west. Since the adjustment of the cooperation relationship between the eastern and western parts of the country in the new stage, Zhongshan and Liupanshui have become closer and closer with the development of multi-level cooperation work. The reporter learned from the Zhongshan Working Group stationed in Liupanshui that Zhongshan is benchmarking against the new stage, new tasks, and new requirements of the table, continuously improving the assistance mechanism, expanding the assistance fields, innovating assistance methods, and helping Liupanshui consolidate the achievements of poverty alleviation and comprehensively promote rural revitalization. At present, all indicators and tasks of the annual agreement have been exceeded.

Zhongshan, Guangdong (Data Image)

Comprehensively promote the opening of new opportunities for landscape cooperation

The main direction of cooperation between the east and the west in the new stage has shifted from 'one-way assistance' to 'two-way cooperation'. This year, we focus on key tasks, carefully plan and deploy, continuously strengthen industrial cooperation, resource complementarity, labor docking, and talent exchange between regions, and ensure that the cooperation between the east and the west starts well. "said Zeng Qingwen, the leader of the Zhongshan stationed in Liupanshui, who transferred from Zhaotong, Yunnan to Liupanshui in June this year.

On December 9th, the inspection team led by Tan Jinyu, Secretary of the Party Branch of Yakou Village, a "Internet famous village" in Nanlang Town, Zhongshan, visited six paired villages on site, signed paired assistance agreements, and visited with entrepreneurs to further explore cooperation opportunities. Nowadays, this kind of town to town and village to village pairing interaction is becoming more and more frequent, and the "group style" pairing assistance method of helping more people tightly connects the two places together. In March of this year, Zhongshan clearly designated the Torch Development Zone, Dongqu Street, and Xiaolan Town, which are among the top three in the city's economy, as the leading towns and streets, and formed three clusters consisting of 24 towns and streets in the city, respectively paired with Shuicheng District, Liuzhi Special Zone, and Panzhou City in Liupanshui City. 15 schools and 16 hospitals in Zhongshan City paired up with 15 schools and 15 hospitals in Liupanshui. 18 townships and streets in two cities have established paired relationships, and 58 villages (residential areas), enterprises, and social organizations in Zhongshan City have paired 93 villages in Liupanshui. Among them, 56 deeply impoverished villages in Shuicheng District, a key county for national rural revitalization assistance, have been paired up to achieve full coverage.

Attracting investment funds to promote regional cooperation. It is reported that Zhongshan has implemented a total of 168 million yuan in fiscal funds (112% of the 150 million yuan in completed agreements), with an average investment of 56 million yuan per county. 80 collaborative projects have been implemented, with a focus on supporting the consolidation and expansion of poverty alleviation achievements in Liupanshui and effectively connecting them with rural revitalization. Among them, 72.665 million yuan in aid funds have been arranged to build 41 demonstration villages for rural revitalization. At the same time, social forces were mobilized to donate 20.149 million yuan in donations and materials for assistance to disadvantaged groups.

Select outstanding talents to provide intellectual support. Zhongshan dispatched 14 party and government cadres to Liupanshui City for paired assistance (175% of the 8 agreement members completed); 71 professional and technical talents, including teachers, doctors, agriculture, and technology, were selected to provide exchange and support in Liupanshui (284% of the 25 agreements completed); Receive 10 party and government cadres from Liupanshui (100% of the 10 who have completed the agreement) and 126 professional and technical talents (180% of the 70 who have completed the agreement) to Zhongshan for exchange and secondment; 11 training courses for rural revitalization cadres were held, training 855 people, and 25 training courses for professional and technical personnel were held, training 6333 people.

Industrial cooperation helps rural revitalization

In the factory of Guizhou Yijun Electric Appliance Co., Ltd. located in Liupanshui High tech Zone, machines roar and workers are busy on the production line. This enterprise, which settled on May 7th, is the result of multiple proactive connections between the Zhongshan Liupanshui Working Group and the Zhongshan Guizhou Chamber of Commerce. The investor is Guangdong Quanjiale Kitchen and Bathroom Appliances, which has been operating in Zhongshan for many years, and the founder is a Guizhou entrepreneur. Not only that, Quanjiale Company also brought a supporting enterprise, a cardboard box factory, to settle in June. Dr. Wang, the general manager of Yijun Electric, said that in less than five months from its establishment to production, the company has already produced five to six thousand electric heaters, and more than 70 local people work here. "Currently, production has entered the right track, and we hope to further open up sales channels and expand the market

Zhongshan has strengthened assistance and cooperation with enterprises as the main body, guiding 23 Zhongshan (Guangdong) enterprises to invest and develop in Liupanshui. The actual investment was 1.046 billion yuan, and 1672 rural laborers were employed, including 315 poverty-stricken laborers. In promoting industrial cooperation between the eastern and western regions, frequent exchanges have been made between the two places. Zhongshan has organized 68 Zhongshan (Guangdong) enterprises to conduct on-site inspections in Liupanshui and held 47 industrial cooperation negotiations; Liupanshui organized 132 enterprises to carry out more than 46 investment promotion activities in Zhongshan (Guangdong), forming 41 projects under discussion. Focusing on rural revitalization, Zhongshan has also jointly built the "One County, One Park" modern agricultural industrial park with the local area to cultivate and strengthen the characteristic advantageous industries of Liupanshui City. Currently, 5 industrial parks have been jointly built, and 10 enterprises have been guided to settle in the parks. The actual investment of enterprises entering the parks is 394 million yuan, and 212 rural laborers have been employed, including 32 poverty-stricken laborers; 19 assistance workshops were built, employing 676 rural laborers, including 348 poverty-stricken laborers.

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Livelihood assistance benefits the local people

On December 8th, Zhang Yubin, Chairman of Guangdong Chuangsheng Agricultural Technology Co., Ltd., visited Liupanshui for the fourth time and signed a cooperation agreement with Liupanshui Agricultural Investment Company, becoming the general distributor of the company's kiwifruit and series products in Zhongshan City. Zhang Yubin told reporters that starting from increasing the popularity of Liupanshui kiwifruit, more Zhongshan residents will be able to taste one of the "Three Treasures of Liangdu" and promote consumer assistance. Next, we also intend to cooperate in the overall development and food processing of Shuicheng Ancient Town, hoping to take advantage of the cooperation between the east and west to open up new development patterns, "said Zhang Yubin. Zhongshan has promoted consumption assistance through multiple channels and vigorously implemented the "Guizhou Goods Out of the Mountains" action. With the help of the Guangdong Province East West Cooperation Product Trading Market Platform and more than 20 consumer cooperation exclusive stores in Zhongshan City, multi-level production and sales cooperation has been carried out through docking fairs, exhibitions, live streaming sales, and other forms. A total of 495 million yuan of agricultural and animal husbandry products and characteristic handicraft products from Guizhou Province were purchased and sold throughout the year (275% of the agreement amount of 180 million yuan).

We have built 40 labor workstations here, which have solved the employment of 150 local people. Before the New Year, we exported more than 110 labor force, and it is expected that we can export 1500 people after the Spring Festival in 2022. "Wang Pengfei, the deputy general manager of Zhongshan Kuaizhao Human Resources Co., Ltd., who came to Liupanshui in July, said that building labor workstations at the doorstep of local people not only increases local employment and income, but also delivers urgently needed labor force to Zhongshan enterprises and alleviates employment difficulties. It is reported that Mr. Liu, a local who works at a workstation, is physically disabled. He and his wife run a small shop in the town to support their family. After joining the labor workstation, he used his own resources to introduce seven fellow villagers to work at the Zhongshan factory, and his income also skyrocketed. Employment is the greatest livelihood. Zhongshan has established a labor export docking mechanism between the two cities, set up five city and district level labor cooperation workstations in Liupanshui, provided targeted employment services and held labor cooperation training courses, and supported Zhongshan human resources enterprises to provide services nearby in Liupanshui. A total of 4627 rural laborers in Liupanshui have been helped to achieve employment (257% of the 1800 agreements completed), including 1896 poverty-stricken laborers (1896% of the 100 agreements completed).