Xi’s report echoes among walks of life in Yunnan

Xi Jinping delivered a report to the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (CPC) on October 16, and the ideas of the report have resonated among diverse walks of life in Yunnan even since.

"I read and listened to the report word by word, especially the part referring to education development,” said Zhang Guimei, a delegate to the 20th CPC National Congress. “From this report, I also saw that the Party set goals to develop education and pointed out the direction for the future."

For decades, Zhang has devoted herself to free education for senior high school girls in the mountainous areas, northwest Yunnan’s Huaping county, and now she is regarded as a role modal for teachers in the country.

Zhu Youyong speaks during an interview at the Great Hall of the People on Oct. 16. (Xinhua/Xing Guangli)

Zhu Youyong, also a delegate to the 20th CPC National Congress, said he and his team had bred novel rice strains for growing in the dry land, during an interview at the Great Hall of the People on October 16.

“The new rice varieties have been grown on an acreage of 500,000 mu, or 33,333 hectares in Yunnan this year,” said Zhu, adding that a maximum of 788 kilograms of rice had been harvested in each mu of the dry land in Haozhiba village, southwest Yunnan’s Lancang county.

As an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, Zhu has been famously recognized as a scholar who “wrote his papers on the earth” by putting into perfect practice what he had learned on books and thus becoming a role model in the Chinese battle against poverty.

"In the past, it took me three days and three nights to get out of the Dulongjiang valley and reach the county seat for study," said Gao Derong, another delegate from northwest Yunnan’s Nujinag Lisu autonomous prefecture.

Now, the original bumpy gravel road has been replaced by smooth asphalt pavement, and the trip from the county seat to Dulongjiang was shortened from 3 days to 3 hours, according to Gao.

 

Cadres and workers at Yunnan Provincial Committee of the China National Democratic Construction Association watch the opening meeting of the 20th CPC National Congress. Photo/Yunnan Daily 

Zhang Ge, a researcher at the Marxist Institute, Yunnan Provincial Academy of Social Sciences, said that he will focus on the major theoretical and practical issues in the new era, studying the overall, strategic and forward-looking issues related to the socioeconomic development in Yunnan.

When watching the opening session of the 20th CPC National Congress with his fellow scholars in Kunming, Zang Ziyi, a fourth-level director at the Yunnan Provincial Committee of the Jiusan Society, was very excited.

"In the report, Xi Jinping reviewed the great changes in the five years since the 19th CPC National Congress and in the decade of the new era at large, boosting the morale for national rejuvenation," said Zang, adding that he would bear in mind the spirit of a united front for greater progress in a new journey.

Source: Xinhua, Yunnan Daily and others; Trans-editing by Wang Shixue and Zu Hongbing