The Taihu Lake Tianshan has a common song of development - A documentary of Jiangsu Wuxi's counterpart assistance to Xinjiang Ahqi | Features | the Taihu Lake Tianshan
Li Jian, intern reporter of Guangming Daily, Su Yan, reporter of Guangming Daily
Recently, the first off-road relay race of Huocheng Business School in Xinjiang was held, with participants from 18 business schools across the country, including Peking University, Nanjing University, Southeast University, and Jiangnan University. This is an active exploration by the Jiangsu Wuxi Aid Xinjiang Working Group to promote the deep integration of culture, commerce, and tourism, promote Xinjiang, and promote Huocheng.
In 2002, Huocheng was designated as a pilot county for aiding Xinjiang by the Organization Department of the Central Committee. In 2007, Aheqi was designated as a national pilot county for poverty alleviation and development of ethnic minorities in extreme poverty on the border. Both counties were supported by Wuxi City in pairs. Over the past 20 years, more than 900 cadres, teachers and doctors have been helping Xinjiang, spanning more than 4800 kilometers, from the the Taihu Lake Lake to the depths of Tianshan Mountain, and they have devoted a lot of efforts to the border economic construction and social undertakings, and jointly wrote a "concerto" for the coordinated development of the East and the West.
Featured industries pave the way to prosperity
How to drive the rapid development of border economy? Developing characteristic industries is a key move.
Aheqi County is located in the southern part of the Tianshan Mountains, with high altitude, long sunshine, and poor soil. It is known as the "Nine Mountains, Half Water, Half Field". The Wuxi City's counterpart support for Aheqi County in Kezhou, Xinjiang fully utilizes local resource endowments and takes the characteristic forest and fruit industry, with seabuckthorn as the main planting variety, as the main direction of industrial development. In 2018, Zhongke Seabuckthorn Technology Co., Ltd. was introduced, providing support from policies to funding in various aspects.
In the production workshop of Xinjiang Zhongke Seabuckthorn Technology Co., Ltd., the reporter saw workers skillfully sorting, packaging, and boxing the raw pulp products. "In 2021, the company collaborated with Xinjiang Agricultural University to establish the Xinjiang Seabuckthorn Deep Processing Engineering Technology Research Center, which researches and develops high value-added products. It has now produced 18 best-selling products, including original pulp, fruit juice, freeze-dried powder, and seabuckthorn tea. The healthy development of the seabuckthorn industry has also driven more farmers and herdsmen to achieve income growth and prosperity," said Zhan Lihao, the company's chief engineer.
In 2022, Aheqi County introduced a medicinal garlic project with an investment of 210 million yuan. After being put into operation, the annual output value can reach 150 million yuan.
In addition, the forward working group actively promotes the new model of "reverse enclave" and has built Wuxi Aheqi Industrial Park based on the Kezhou Jiangsu Industrial Park. The main focus is on labor-intensive industries, with a focus on promoting the industrial policies of Aheqi and Kezhou in the Yangtze River Delta region, and vigorously introducing manufacturing enterprises. At present, the "enclave economy" has become a new engine for the high-quality development of the Ahqi economy.
Cultural and tourism integration activates new momentum
How to revitalize cultural heritage and empower development? It is imperative to promote the deep integration of culture and tourism.
In 2015, the Kyrgyz dance drama "Hero Manas", created by Wuxi Song and Dance Theater and Ahqi County Cultural Troupe, successfully premiered at the Great Hall of the People in Wuxi and went to Russia for cultural exchange activities.
"The girl is wearing a feather hat, the young woman's earrings are gently swaying, and the young people are wearing golden belts..." At the Manas Research Center in Aheqi County, the artists wearing ethnic costumes play Kumzi and sing "Manas" enthusiastically, making people involuntarily hum along with the rhythm. After its completion in 2021, the research center has received over 100 visits, inspections, and research activities, becoming an important public welfare institution for promoting Manas culture. At present, "Manas" has been adapted into various forms of performance such as opera, dance, and singing, becoming a business card for the promotion of Ahqi cultural tourism.
Sumutash Township in Aheqi is known as the "Hometown of Chinese Falcons". In 2022, the forward working group will increase the protection and development of local intangible cultural heritage, continue to create an integrated development model that integrates falcon culture, folk sports, tourism and leisure, form a cultural and tourism brand, drive surrounding tourism resources and consumption, and assist in rural revitalization.
Regarding the integrated development of cultural and tourism in Ahqi, Yu Zhendan, Deputy Secretary of the Ahqi County Committee and Head of the Ahqi County Front Work Group in Wuxi City, is full of confidence: "We will incorporate the Ahqi ethnic culture, characteristic humanities, and intangible cultural heritage inheritance into our tourism routes, creating high-quality immersive cultural and tourism projects. At the same time, we will leverage platforms such as the 'Wuxi Ahqi Life Museum' cultural and tourism promotion window, the Grand Canal Cultural Tourism Expo, and the Wuxi Cultural Expo to showcase the Ahqi ethnic customs, tourism resources, and non heritage cultural and creative works, singing the song 'Xinjiang is a good place, the beautiful summer capital of Ahqi' cultural and tourism brand."
Intellectual support enhances sense of achievement
How to enhance the happiness of people's livelihoods? Strengthening intellectual support is an important measure.
Wuxi has always insisted on prioritizing funding projects for aid to Xinjiang towards people's livelihoods, strengthening intellectual support in areas such as education and healthcare, and ensuring lasting benefits for grassroots people.
On August 16th and 17th, Huocheng County Jiangsu Middle School held a "Double New" training and integrated teaching seminar, including sharing experience in using new textbooks, interpreting new curriculum standards, designing collective lesson preparation assignments, and displaying new micro courses. "With the help of Wuxi City, the working and learning environment of the school has been greatly improved, and the quality of education and teaching has also been greatly improved. The undergraduate enrollment rate and the number of undergraduate enrollment have continued to rise in recent years, especially the 'Jiangyin Class' undergraduate enrollment rate has reached 100%." said Shi Xiufang, Secretary of the Party Branch of Jiangsu Middle School in Huocheng County.
Wuxi has sent over 100 teachers to assist Xinjiang in teaching in Aheqi County, and 153 outstanding teachers have been selected to carry out teaching activities. In order to better play the role of "mentoring and mentoring", Xinjiang aid teachers and local teachers have carried out "blue and blue pairing", creating an education talent team that "cannot be taken away" through special lectures, forums with renowned teachers, listening and evaluating lessons, and conducting research projects.
At the People's Hospital of Aheqi County, batches of doctors from Wuxi who have assisted Xinjiang have trained a group of professional backbone and discipline leaders for the local area. Dong Wu, the director of the People's Hospital of Aheqi County, introduced that after the 11th batch of medical teams to aid Xinjiang arrived in Aheqi County at the end of April, they reorganized the ICU, established a critical care center for pregnant women and newborns, established a 120 command and dispatch center, and completed multiple difficult surgeries.
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