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Stepping confidently into a new life –Dzongkyi talks about overcoming poverty
By:China Tibet News
update:April 27,2020

 
Photo shows Dzongkyi weeding in the field. [China Tibet News/Shi Jinru]
 
April 27,2020 -- Dzongkyi's family is one of the 5 registered households in Langnai Village, Mainri Town, Bayi District of Nyingchi City, southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region. In recent years, with the help of the party's good policies and family members' unremitting efforts, her family has successfully gotten rid of poverty and no longer needed to worry about food and clothing while enjoying access to compulsory education, basic medical care as well as safe housing.
 
This family's story of poverty alleviation started in 2015. In that year, Dzongkyi's husband died, with an aged father, a son studying at school, and a 4-year–old niece in the family, only she and her younger sister Guoguo were able to work.
 
"It was getting more and more difficult to take care of the elderly and child, farm and do housework at the same time," Says Dzongkyi. In those days, to make a living, her younger sister went out to earn money while she stayed at home taking care of the family and 11,267 m2 of farmland. Even so, their income was barely enough to support the family.
 
After knowing about this situation, the town's Party committee and government, village Party branch and village committee assigned workers to guide her patiently and help her shake off poverty. In 2016, the village Party branch was allocated with some poverty alleviation project funds, with which the village planted 33,333 m2 of fruit trees, built pig farms and greenhouses for registered poor households, and purchased 2 zhoes for each family in the village.
 
Relying on targeted poverty alleviation, she participated in planting fruit trees and building pig farms under the village committee's arrangement. In that year, she received 15,200 yuan RMB of labor salary and 5,800 yuan RMB from selling vegetables, butter, milk and milk dregs. The same year, her younger sister Guoguo and brother-in-law opened a restaurant in Lhasa, which earned 120,000 yuan RMB then.
 
With the help of government and under their own efforts, her family's life has been better and better since then. In 2019, she found another channel to get rich by taking advantage of the village's opportunity of building chicken sheds and buying Tibetan chickens for registered households.
 
"The per capita income of our family exceeded 30,000 yuan RMB in 2019, including 8,000 yuan RMB from selling Tibetan chicken eggs, 18,800 yuan RMB from working outside, 5,000 yuan RMB from selling tricholoma matsutake, 600 yuan RMB from orchard dividend, plus various policy subsidies as well as my younger sister's income." She says happily.
 
By:Liu Fang, Zhu Nan
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