When will a road into the village be built at Cliff Village?
On February 24, The Beijing News published an article titled "The Village on the Cliff," reporting that Atulieer Village, Zhirmo Township, Zhaojue County, Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan Province, requires climbing 17 vine ladders along a cliff to reach the outside world, which sparked widespread attention.
"Cliff Village" is Atulieer Village, Zhirmo Township, Zhaojue County, Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan Province. Due to terrain constraints, villagers need to climb down 17 vine ladders along the cliff. But these vines are the only passage connecting Atulieer Village with the outside world.
This is a group of children carrying heavy schoolbags, and under the protection of several parents, it takes them a full 2 hours to get back to Cliff Village.
We often say that no matter how poor we are, we cannot be poor in education, and no matter how hard things are, we cannot make children suffer. These children also have the right to education, and they also want to change themselves and their hometown through education and learning. Yet they have to face such a dangerous and long road to school. As the saying goes, education is the foundation of a hundred-year plan. How difficult is it to give these children in remote mountain areas a road?
Having discussed the children, let us talk about how difficult the villagers' road to prosperity is. If you want to get rich, first build roads. Without even a road, how easy can poverty alleviation and prosperity be? Living a self-sufficient life relying on one's own land will never make one rich. Even if, as experts say, there are abundant tourism resources here that could develop the tourism industry and drive economic development, the road still has to be built first!
So how difficult is building a road? Where is the difficulty? The difficulty is funding!
Apijiti, Party Secretary of Zhirmo Township, said that if considered purely from the perspective of safety, replacing the vine ladders with welded steel-bar ladders on the existing cliff path and adding guardrails would cost at least several million. The editor says such an important matter cannot be delayed!
Jike Jinsong, secretary of the Zhaojue County Party Committee Office, said that if a road is to be built, Yiwuajue Village and Shuzhu Village nearby, which also have no road access, would have to be included, and the cost of connecting them would be as high as 50 to 60 million yuan. Moreover, villagers would need to raise 50% of the funds themselves. However, asking villagers to provide half of the funding is obviously unrealistic. The county government's fiscal revenue is also not high, so this issue has been delayed again and again.
After the matter was exposed, the local county government stated: first build a steel-bar structure ladderway to solve the safety problem of residents' travel, and then immediately organize demonstration of a complete solution. We will not discuss whether this was hindsight after the exposure or helplessness in solving the problem. In any case, with the attention of the government and society, we hope this problem can be solved as soon as possible, and those children will no longer have to go to school in such a dangerous environment.
Original statement:The author of this article is Niu Zhuangzhuang. Everyone is welcome to repost it. Please indicate the author and source when reposting. Thank you.
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