The Chinese Communist Party General Secretary Xi Jinping announced in February that “the battle against poverty has been fully won,” but today Luonan County in Shaanxi Province was exposed as a fake poverty alleviation project, with poor households not even living in resettlement sites; villagers so far have no water available and are forced to carry water across the province. The official asked three questions, and also grabbed the phone to drive the reporter.
Luonan County in Shaanxi Province, in the mountainous region at the southern foot of the Qinling Mountains, was once a national poverty-stricken county, and was declared out of poverty in February 2020.
The official media CCTV news reported today that according to the requirements of poverty alleviation, the countryside needs to put the “five guaranteed households” without the ability to work, no source of livelihood, etc. for centralized resettlement. However, the centralized resettlement site of the five-guarantee households in Shanghe Village, Lingkou Town, Luonan County, is now inhabited by the staff of Xiuhe, and there has been no water supply, the pool has been abandoned, and the taps on the water pipes have disappeared.
It turns out that these poor villagers who were resettled were forced to find another place to live because there was no water available at the resettlement site.
The local villagers pointed out that in order to meet the acceptance inspection of the higher level of poverty alleviation, the repair work of these five-poor households are concentrated in a hurry, the water is not connected, the village cadres are eager to let the five-poor households live in the concentration. The living conditions of these five-guarantee households have long been unattended to after Luonan County was lifted out of poverty.
According to reports, many poor households here have no water available, but a “Shangluo City Luonan County rural drinking water safety understanding card” is posted at the door, claiming that the drinking water and water supply here is up to standard.
Villager Cheng Linjun said that a few years ago, he gritted his teeth and scraped together to buy a motorized tricycle for pulling water, which can pull up to one ton of water at a time. Reports show that villagers must ride more than half an hour across the province to Henan a cistern to pull water, and obviously can see a lot of impurities. But not many people have a car to pull water, most villagers have to pay someone to pull water.
According to reports, the villagers pulled back the water, wrapped in gauze pipe, even if the filter. Because of the difficulty of getting water, villagers can only save and save. Even the wastewater from the washing machine, they do not want to dump it directly, but also take a basin then.
Lingkou town, three stars village villagers Qiao Chun’e said, home never out of the water faucet, is a fancy but not useful ornament. She pointed to a mossy, less than two meters in diameter pool, which is the water source for a dozen families around.
According to the report, the CCTV reporter and some local people went to the Luonan County Poverty Alleviation and Development Bureau, and the staff said, “Water is not our business, it’s the Water Resources Bureau.”
The reporter followed the villagers to the Luonan County Water Resources Bureau, but several staff members asked questions, including one who dialed the phone number of a township cadre in Lingkou Township. Then he hurriedly hung up the phone.
The report points out that there is a display board in front of the Luonan County Water Conservancy Bureau, in the specific work measures to combat poverty this column clearly written: adhere to the consolidation of “two do not worry about three guarantee” safe drinking water outstanding problem solving results. But when he saw the reporter filming the gate of the Water Resources Bureau, a staff member grabbed the reporter’s phone and asked him to leave immediately.
After CCTV aired the investigation report today, it triggered a lively response on the Chinese mainland network, with netizens in many places reporting that this kind of poverty alleviation formalism can be seen everywhere.
In a related news discussion on Weibo, a netizen from Luonan alleged that the county has engaged in a lot of unnecessary facade projects, spending a lot of money, just the two rows of luxury street lights on the Welcome Avenue is a RMB 50,000 (about NTD 220,000); the leaders simply do not take the truly poor people seriously, every time to cope with the inspection, after coping with it, they do not care.
Another netizen in Luonan alleged that the county governor is still building roads, digging and repairing them at intervals over the past few years, “the roads have never been better, potholes”.
Many netizens questioned that many places are actually “off the cap not off the poverty”, the central government set time to fully remove poverty, not to admit the existence of poor households, which is the same as the year of the “Great Leap Forward” what is the same.
The number of readers of the news has already broken a hundred million, but it seems that because of the negative comments, microblogging to the cutoff did not include it in the list of hot searches.
In response, the Shaanxi provincial government announced tonight that it immediately set up an investigation team to conduct a comprehensive and in-depth investigation into the reported problems, and the results of the investigation will be announced in a timely manner.
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