Water, bring hope to the people here

Xinhua News Agency, Lanzhou, June 17th. Question: Water, bring hope to the people here

Xinhua News Agency reporter Cui Hanchao

In the past, 50 -year -old Ma Jijun was accustomed to the warm sun, but distressed the green crops. Fortunately, there is a sub -film "quenching thirst" as a crop, and the rippling of the rippling in the Yongtaichuan Reservoir makes him reassuring.

"After leading the water, watching the water in this reservoir, I don't worry about the crops being drought." Ma Jijun was so worried that the local people were "scared" for so many years.

On June 16, a scene of Yongtaichuan Reservoir, Jingtai County. (Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Cui Hanchao)

This is Yongtaichuan, Jingtai County, Baiyin City, Gansu Province. It is barren due to drought. Ten years of drought is the norm. The local use of "lambskin is not dipped in grass" to describe the drought to incoming grass.

In 2003, Ma Jijun could not raise six people at home and decided to go out to work. But Ma Jijun, who grew up in the countryside, often nostalgic for his hometown: "Although we have entered the city, the land is rooted, and we are familiar with the land. Who doesn't want to do something at the door of the house?"

On June 16, Ma Jijun checked the growth of crops in the field. (Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Cui Hanchao)

In order to solve the problem of drought, the local Yongtaichuan irrigation water drainage project in Jingtai County was launched in 2017. The project enters the water from the end of the East Erxiang canal from the Qin project to take water, cross -border "two cities and three counties" (Yongdeng County, Lanzhou City, Lanlan County, Jingtai County, Baiyin City), and diversion to Yongtaichuan, Jingtai County. Essence

Zhang Zhirong, commander of the Jingtai Water Supply Engineering Headquarters, introduced that on May 10, 2020, the project took the lead in completing the main project of the pipeline and exerted the efficiency of the project in advance; the overall penetration was achieved on April 17, 2022 to meet the water traffic conditions. The project approval annual water supply index is 30 million cubic meters, and the current water -saving irrigation area is 150,000 mu.

In 2021, Ma Jijun learned that "the water is coming" and immediately decided to go home to plant planting and contracted more than 2,000 acres of fields through land transfer. It took a year to settle the land and established a professional cooperative of planting. This year, corn, oil, and wheat ...

"Now it is a high -standard farmland, good species and convenient." In the eyes of Ma Jijun, the water fundamentally solved the drought, and the construction of high -standard farmland was icing on the cake.

It is understood that in recent years, by breaking the restrictions on the original land bar fields in recent years, it has fully pushed the fields, field roads and water canals, and uniformly supported facilities such as irrigation pipe networks, forest belts, roads, and other facilities. The rate is more than 90%. At the same time, the efficient water saving irrigation was implemented. The average water saving of water per mu was 300 cubic meters, and the utilization rate of water resources was greatly improved. As of the end of 2021, Jingtai County has established a total of 313,000 mu of high -standard farmland.

On June 16, Li Chongren checked crops in the field. (Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Cui Hanchao)

Land circulation brought by high -standard farmland also benefits more people. 71 -year -old Li Chongren flowed out of more than 70 acres of land at home, and could have at least 7,000 yuan a year. He now returns to the ground from time to time and watch large -scale agricultural machinery through the green crops. The corn thrived in the ground, looking at the tanchen stream from the drip irrigation belt, he sighed from time to time "no longer afraid of not eating."

The sun is still high, and the reservoir is rippling. Ma Jijun knew that after the water came, the sun and water sources plus the flat land, and he could also plant a career in his own land and harvest a happiness.

[Editor in charge: Zhang Yongsu]

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