6 | DISCOVER SHANXI Friday, July 9, 2021 CHINA DAILY Targeted measures lift Economic transformation villages out of poverty By Yuan Shenggao expanded to cover 10 greenhouses in 2020. a driving force for province As one of the least-developed cit- “My family earned a net income ies in Shanxi, Xinzhou has been a of 2 million yuan ($310,000) last major battlefield for poverty year,” Hao said. reduction in province. And other members of the coop- Thanks to the targeted poverty- erative have also seen a substantial alleviation measures implement- increase in revenues. ed by the local authorities, the city In addition to dividends, each has achieved an all-around victory family earned about 18,000 yuan in this mission over the past few from their labor in the greenhous- Former industrial years. es last year. area converted into a Six counties in Xinzhou — Fansi, A similar approach to increasing Shenchi, Wuzhai, Kelan, Hequ and residents’ incomes was adopted in park is one example Baode — were removed from the the village of Caocun in Xinzhou’s of Shanxi leaving its poverty list in 2018. With another Xinfu district. five delisted in 2019, all the 11 Shi Zhenyu, a local expert farm- coal mining behind counties in the city were lifted out er in vegetable seedling cultiva- of their poverty status. tion, founded a cooperative several By Yuan Shenggao The city further announced the years ago. eradication of absolute poverty in Since 2018, the cooperative Dong Lin, a miner at Du’erping 2020 with its last group of 4,203 extended its membership to more Coal Mine, likes to spend weekends impoverished residents taken off than 500 local families. in an ecological park near the mine the poverty list. “For the families engaged in with his family. Hao Runmei, a resident in the our vegetable seedling coopera- Dong, who has been working for village of Nongfa in Fansi county, is tive, the income per hectare is decades at the coal mine in the west- one of the beneficiaries of the gov- more than 105,000 yuan, five ern suburb of Shanxi’s capital, Tai- ernment’s targeted poverty allevia- times the income from corn yuan, can remember what the park Cars are assembled at an automobile plant in Shanxi. Automaking is one of the key emerging industries tion measures. farming,” Shi said. looked like three years ago. in the province. Liu Tong / For China Daily Hao’s family was identified as a Shi began to modernize his farms “The site of the park used to be a poverty-affected family because in 2018, with automatic tempera- part of Du’erping Coal Mine, serving her husband and daughter devel- ture monitoring, irrigating and fer- as the dumping ground for waste transformation. It features a shift Among the new industries, the information technology market used oped chronic diseases and she her- tilizing devices installed in the coal,” Dong recalled. “We called it from coal-reliant heavy industries to digital technology sector is the to be dominated by big-name multi- self was the only member able to greenhouses. ‘flaming hill’ because of the sponta- high-quality development that bal- major force helping with Shanxi’s national suppliers. But now local support the family. In addition to efforts to revital- neous combustion of waste coal for ances both industrial growth and transformation. players like Trust 100 are beginning The family used to rely on farm- ize the rural economy, Xinzhou about 60 years.” environmental protection. Trust 100, a computer manufac- to increase their share of the market. ing but the limited output and rev- has also stepped up the develop- The spontaneous fires had caused According to the Shanxi govern- turer based in the Shanxi Transfor- “Based on our Kunpeng central enue due to lack of labor force ment of new industries to offer a severe challenge to the environ- ment, the province has substantially mation and Comprehensive Reform processing unit-powered computers could hardly support their liveli- more business and job opportuni- ment, with emissions of toxic gases reduced its reliance on coal mining. Demonstration Zone, is among the and servers, Trust 100 is now in a bet- hoods, according to Hao. ties to locals. and dust, Dong said. It phased out an outdated coal pro- fastest-growing companies in the ter position to offer digital solutions Hao was recommended by the One such emerging sector is the The worker said Xishan Coal Elec- duction capacity of 157 million met- sector. to Shanxi’s economic transforma- local officials to attend a training semiconductor industry. tricity Group, the company operat- ric tons during the 13th Five-Year According to Wang Xianchao, tion,” Wang said. course on growing edible fungi in The Xinzhou Semiconductor ing the mine, began to take action to Plan (2016-20). board chairman of Trust 100, the The Shanxi Transformation and 2016. Industry Park is now home to a clean up the environment three At the same time, Shanxi fostered company has achieved an “exponen- Comprehensive Reform Demon- After she completed the train- number of high-tech enterprises years ago. As a result, the fire was 14 emerging and high-tech indus- tial increase” since it settled in the stration Zone is home to more than ing, the villagers’ committee in with investment totaling 1.4 bil- extinguished and the “flaming hill” tries to take the place of coal mining zone in 2020. 160 digital and smart manufactur- Nongfa helped to build a fungi lion yuan. was turned into a public park with and other heavy industries to “As a new company, we secured ing companies. Their combined out- greenhouse for her. She had initial The city’s GDP stood at 28.09 bil- lush trees and grasses as well as become the new drivers of local eco- our first order of five computers in put value reached 107 billion yuan in success in fungi farming in 2017, lion yuan in the first quarter of this human-made features like pavil- nomic growth. 2016, with a sales revenue of only 2020. earning an income much higher year, growing 23.3 percent year- ions, ponds and streams. The 14 industries have grown at an 30,000 yuan ($4,630),” Wang said. The zone was rated as one of the than if she grew grain. on-year. The rate ranked it first in “The Du’erping Mine Ecological average annual rate of 7.8 percent “In 2020, we have completed pro- State-level intelligent manufactur- Building on the success, Hao Shanxi, according to the local gov- Park is now an ideal place for locals over the past five years. This is 3.2 per- duction for more than 300 orders, ing bases by the Ministry of Science established a fungi farming coop- ernment. to relax,” Dong said. centage points higher than overall with sales revenue amounting to and Technology last year. erative in 2018. The park is just one example of industrial growth in Shanxi, accord- 400 million yuan.” With 34 local families becoming Wang Pei contributed how Shanxi is applying an economic ing to the provincial government. The entrepreneur said Shanxi’s Guo Yanjie contributed to this story. members, the cooperative was to this story. Intelligent technology Public celebrates CPC centennial renews manufacturing By Yuan Shenggao trial base for smart manufacturing last year. From industrial operations to Another sector that benefits public services, many aspects of from intelligent technologies is socioeconomic development in logistics. Zhongding Logistics Park Shanxi have become smart thanks in the city of Jinzhong, for to the promotion of next-generation instance, is one of the major logis- information technologies. tics parks that became intelligent In the manufacturing sector, in Shanxi province. many players in Shanxi have been Operating the China-Europe upgrading their production with freight train services, Zhongding is the use of digital, automatic and the leading railway logistics park network-connected technologies. in Shanxi. It uses full automation Zhiqi Railway Equipment based in container handling, which rep- As the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China is celebrated in Beijing on July 1, a raft of activities take place in in Taiyuan is a manufacturer of resents a 50 percent increase in Shanxi. Left: In the township of Yaofeng in Xiaxian county, CPC members watched a live TV show for the grand gathering in Beijing. wheels, axles and other products efficiency compared with conven- Zhang Xiufeng / For China Daily Right: In the Shanxi provincial capital of Taiyuan, a photo exhibition illustrating the history of the CPC attracted for trains capable of speeds of 160- tional operations, according to dozens of visitors. Ruan Yang / For China Daily Throughout the province, the celebrations included studies of the Party’s history, gatherings, 400 kilometers per hour. executives of the park. awards to model Party members, Party history exhibitions, artistic performances, symposiums and forums. The company began its intelli- But for companies in the cargo gent manufacturing project in transport business, improved effi- 2017, upgrading its production ciency is not the only benefit facilities with digital and automat- brought by intelligent and auto- ic and network-connected tech- matic technologies. al development to help improve the nologies. Li Baoxian, boss of a logistics livelihoods of residents in both rural The company took about a year company, said a great technologi- Rural people make progress through and urban areas. to complete the upgrades. Its cal advancement in the industry is Yang Shufang, a resident in smart manufacturing plant for the use of online platforms pow- Longyuan village in Pinglu county, is high-speed train axles was rated ered by digital technologies.