Photovoltaic Industry Development Helps Heishui County in Aba Prefecture with Targeted Poverty Alleviation and with Realization of Well-off Life
26-03-2019 sc.xinhuanet.com

 

 

Chengdu, March 26, people.cn (Wang Jun) Recently, a short video called "All For You" became a hit on the Internet and was spammed by netizens. The video is about the work and life of some grass-roots electric power workers who devote themselves to bringing light to millions of families. One of the stories took place in Ruoduo Village, Zhawo Township, Heishui County, Aba Prefecture, Sichuan Province, which resonated with many netizens. The video went viral on the website homepage of the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of the State Council and the short video platform "Guozixiaoxin". The positive energy of "we are pursuers of dreams" expressed in the short video has won tons of thumbs-up and triggered heated discussion among netizens.


What kind of touching story is it behind the short video craze? The journalist came to Aba Prefecture in Sichuan Province and met face to face with the characters in the short video.


1:00 p.m. is the time of the day when the light is the strongest. Rows of blue photovoltaic panels were glistening in the sun under the blue sky in Ruduo Village, Zhawo Township, Heishui County, Aba Prefecture, Sichuan Province, providing power supply for Tibetan families along the Heishui River. "Photovoltaic panels can bring about income by basking in the sun every day, which is really amazing." The villagers around were so delighted.


The photovoltaic farm helps the poverty-stricken county shake off poverty on the New Long March Road


Heishui County in Aba Prefecture is a national poverty-stricken county. At the same time, it has a long history of revolutionary culture and is a must-pass place for the Red Army in the Long March.


Due to the climate of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, Heishui County is known as a constant sufferer of natural disasters. Drought, rainstorm, hail and flood are very common here. Since 1994, Heishui County has been rated as a national key county for poverty alleviation and contiguous development.

 
CR Heishui 30MW Photovoltaic Poverty Alleviation Project is located in the eastern part of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. It is a cooperative project between CR Power Southwest China Region and Heishui County, Aba Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan Province, located in Ruoduo Village, Zhawo Township, Heishui County.

 
In November 2016, CR Power and Heishui County signed the Strategic Cooperation Framework Agreement for Heishui County's Solar Photovoltaic Poverty Alleviation and Development Project. On April 11, 2017, the Sichuan Provincial Development and Reform Commission announced the List of Sichuan Province's Photovoltaic Poverty Alleviation and Development Cooperative Enterprises. CR Power was on the list as a photovoltaic poverty alleviation and development cooperative enterprise, opening up the road for CR Power Southwest China Region to realize targeted poverty alleviation through photovoltaic poverty alleviation.

 
The project started construction on April 1, 2018 and achieved the objective of grid-connected power generation as scheduled on June 30. It is one of the two photovoltaic power stations in Sichuan Province that have realized "6·30" power generation and the only photovoltaic power station in Aba Prefecture that has realized "6·30" power generation.

 
The project helped 4,032 poor people in Heishui County through targeted poverty alleviation and provided 4.032 million yuan of poverty alleviation funds for Heishui County every year. The local villagers' income varied from 20,000 to 80,000 yuan per household due to their participation in the construction of the photovoltaic power station. The project construction created employment opportunities, effectively helping the villagers to shake off poverty by changing "blood transfusion into blood creation" and assisting the government in completing the targeted poverty alleviation task. The project rented land as the photovoltaic farm area, increasing income by 2,640 yuan per year for 75 poor people in Ruoduo Village. During the construction of the project, local village roads were reinforced and renovated, thus improving local traffic conditions.

 
At an industry poverty alleviation and investment fair of Sichuan province, the project, as the representative of the outstanding industry poverty alleviation enterprises in Aba Prefecture, was named one of the "outstanding non-local investment enterprises for industry poverty alleviation in Sichuan province".

 
Take root at the grass-roots level and bring light to help Tibetans to become rich

 
"I am working day and night on this poverty alleviation project, but we still face tons of difficulties. There are times when I got angry, frustrated and confused. Until one day when I saw these innocent eyes, I finally came to realize what I should do..." Yun Feng, the shift supervisor of Heishui Photovoltaic Power Station, said that it is the team's unremitting efforts that have changed the lives of local villagers.

 
The photovoltaic farm of CR Heishui Photovoltaic Poverty Alleviation Project was built on Mount. Mawo behind Ruoduo Village in Zhawo Township, covering 1,105 mu, with a straight-line distance of only 5 kilometers from Mount. Guxue.


The project construction increased employment opportunities. If the vast majority of villagers participated in equipment transportation and the construction of the photovoltaic farm, the income of each household involved in the photovoltaic power station construction ranged from 20,000 to 80,000 yuan. San Jixue, a 46-year-old villager, used to earn only 4,000 to 5,000 yuan a year from farming and gathering mountain herbs. Since the project was started, he has actively thrown himself into the work of watching the site, repairing the dam, digging drainage ditches and carrying photovoltaic panels. From April 7 to early November, he earned 40,000 to 50,000 yuan, which was almost ten times the income of the previous year. "The whole village has 120 households and 367 people who took part in the construction of the photovoltaic power station and almost got rid of poverty instantly," said head of the village E Muxue. By providing employment opportunities, the project helped most villagers here to shake off poverty and become rich, changing "blood transfusion into blood creation" and assisting the government in completing the task of targeted poverty alleviation.


"CR Heishui Photovoltaic Poverty Alleviation Project can not only save energy and reduce emissions, improve the local energy structure, but also effectively promote economic development and achieve targeted poverty alleviation," said a county official.

 
On the basis that CR Power Southwest China Region and Heishui County have laid the foundation for poverty alleviation cooperation, the two sides are striving to push forward the cooperation between them to a higher level, in a wider range and on a larger scale in order to further strengthen cooperation and exchanges in Party building, resource development, industrial development and poverty alleviation. On November 23, 2018, CR Power Southwest China Region and Heishui County in Aba Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture held a Party construction pairing ceremony for the grass-roots Party organizations in Qinglang Township.

 
"CR Heishui Photovoltaic Poverty Alleviation is a step taken by CR Power to fulfill its responsibility of poverty alleviation as a Central enterprise and is its first poverty alleviation project explored in Sichuan which benefits the local people by making full use of the local resources," said Liu Wei, Party secretary and general manager of CR Power Southwest China Region. "Through the company's industrial advantages, we are striving to help the local poor people to shake off poverty and to create wealth."


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