Taking the people as the center, the successful code of moving forward firmly in the snow-covered plateau-Written on the occasion of the 63rd anniversary of the liberation of millions of serfs in Tibet – Xianning.com

Xinhua News Agency, Lhasa, March 28. Question: People-centered, the successful code of moving forward in the snow-covered plateau-Written on the occasion of the 63rd anniversary of the liberation of millions of serfs in Tibet

Xinhua News Agency reporters Shen Hongbing, Rob Tsering and Zhai Yongguan

In the early spring, the vegetation is full of vigor and vitality. The reporter went to Dangxu Village, Cuomei County, Tibet Autonomous Region, and saw colorful flowers in the sunshine room of the villager Dorji’s house.

Drinking butter tea and teasing his little grandson, Duoji looked at ease. “I am the child of a serf, born in the old society and raised in the new China, and I am much happier than my parents.” Dorji said, “Children born in the new era have been living in the spring and are a hundred times happier than us. Oh!”

The story begins in 1959. On March 28 of that year, the history of the suffering of the Tibetan people finally turned to the last page. The democratic reform swept across the vast plateau, and millions of serfs turned and liberated and ushered in their own spring. Since then, under the leadership of the Communist Party of China, the Tibetan people have gone through the historical process of democratic reform, socialist construction, reform and opening up step by step, and completed the tough task of poverty alleviation in the new era. Now they are forging ahead with the people of the whole country on the road of realizing the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation. .

Rivers rush, snow-capped mountains confirm. Behind Tibet’s continuous march towards a bright future, there is a collection of practical explorations and valuable experience of the Communist Party of China in promoting the development of frontier ethnic areas, forging a sense of community of the Chinese nation, and promoting common prosperity.

Among them, what kind of successful “password” is hidden?

The Liberation of the People: Embracing Freedom for a New Life

The 82-year-old Tudanjian ginseng lives in Shigatse after retirement. Living in a spacious and bright Tibetan-style villa, living a life of worry-free food and clothing, he said that he is very happy now. “There are now 6 people in the family, and the whole family has an average monthly income of more than 50,000 yuan. Such a day was never imagined before.”

In the narration of Tudanjian Shen, we go back to the dark days when he was a child. In 1940, the son of a serf was born in Shannan, Tibet. He lost his mother at 9 and his father at 12, and Tudanjian was orphaned. In order to stop being a serf, Tudan Ginseng, who could not pay the poll tax, fled to Lhasa, begging around during the day and sleeping on the street at night.

In the middle of the 20th century, when slavery almost disappeared, the world’s largest fortress of serfdom still existed in China’s Tibet. At that time, the “three major lords” (official families, nobles, and upper-class monks in monasteries), who accounted for less than 5% of the population, possessed almost all the wealth in Tibet, while serfs and slaves, who accounted for 95% of the population, were struggling to die.

According to historical records, in 1950, the population of Tibet was about 1 million, of which more than 900,000 people did not have their own housing. At that time, there were only more than 20,000 people in the urban area of ​​Lhasa, while there were more than 1,000 poor people and beggars living on the streets.

But some in the upper ruling circles of Tibet tried to keep feudal serfdom forever. In March 1959, with the support of foreign reactionary forces, they openly tore up the agreement on the peaceful liberation of Tibet and launched an armed rebellion. Following the historical trend and the aspirations of the Tibetan people, the Communist Party of China quickly quelled the rebellion and led the people of all ethnic groups in Tibet to carry out democratic reforms.

The people’s democratic regime was established, and the millions of serfs who turned themselves into the masters cheered: “The sun of the nobles has gone down, and our sun has risen.”

Since then, the light of the new world has cleared away the gloom of the old society. For the first time, the turned serfs owned land, livestock and other means of production, and the socialist system in which the people were the masters of the country illuminated the snowy plateau.

The pomp of the emancipation of serfs was seen by the American writer Anna Louise Strong who was interviewed in Tibet, who later wrote in her book “Tibetan Serfs Stand Up”: “The hunger will soon end…Tibetans have finally gained free!”

“No matter how high the Himalayas are, there is a top, no matter how long the Yarlung Zangbo River is, there is a source, and no matter how hard the Tibetan people are, there are limits. The Communist Party has come and the bitterness has turned into sweetness.” In the dark days of “serving slaves and horses”, the Tibetan people firmly chose the Communist Party of China.

For Tudan Gyatshen, after the democratic reform of Tibet in 1959, he turned around and liberated, not only put on new clothes for the first time, but also was sent to a school in Lhasa. “The poor have really turned themselves into masters, and the Communist Party is my benefactor.” In 1980, Tudan Ginseng honorably joined the Communist Party of China. Every year on National Day and the anniversary of the liberation of millions of serfs, Tudan Ginseng will raise a brand-new national flag on the roof of its own building.

“I have seen with my own eyes the development and changes in Tibet in my life, especially the happier life of the Tibetan people in the new era,” said Tudan Jianshen. tomorrow.”

The liberation of rights: people’s livelihood gives priority to creating a happy new life

“Lam” means fairy in Tibetan and is one of the most common names for Tibetan women. But if she used big data as a portrait of “Ram” in old Tibet, she might be like this: illiterate, used as a “talking tool”, without basic food and clothing, with an average life expectancy of no more than 35.5 years old…

But for today’s “Ram”, she has access to higher education, is free to choose her profession, and has the right to vote and be elected. She was able to live decently, enjoy public services, and live a much longer life…

Ouzhuwangmu in Qushui County, Lhasa City is such a “lam” in the new era. Since 2000, after she successfully tried to plant seedlings, she led the women in the village to set up a cooperative to become rich together. Since 2006, Ouzhuwangmu has set up a “Women’s Night School” training class to teach women to learn about law, culture, and health.

Statistics from the Tibet Autonomous Region Women’s Federation show that the proportion of Tibetan women participating in decision-making and management has increased, with female civil servants accounting for 33.3% of the total number of civil servants, and the number of female Communist Party members has increased from 1,120 in 1960 to 110,000 in 2018. The proportion of female students in adult higher education has remained above 50%.

The fate of Tibetan women is vastly different in the old and new society, depicting the growth rings of Tibet’s development and progress, behind which is the epitome of the great changes in Tibet spanning thousands of years in just a few decades——

Ninety-five percent of the population of old Tibet was serfs and slaves. In the new era, Tibet now has more than 35,000 deputies to people’s congresses at all levels and more than 8,000 members of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference, 90% of whom are ethnic minorities.

Old Tibet did not have a school in the modern sense, and the illiteracy rate was as high as 95%. In the new era, Tibet implements 15 years of public education, and has established a modern education system covering pre-school education, basic education, vocational education, higher education, continuing education, and special education.

The medical conditions of old Tibet were backward, and the population growth was stagnant for a long time. The average life expectancy of Tibet in the new era has increased from 35.5 years in the early stage of peaceful liberation to 72.19 years, and the total population has increased from 1 million in 1959 to 3.64 million now.

Old Tibet beggars are all over the city and countryside. Tibet in the new era has established a comprehensive social security system covering all urban and rural residents with five major insurances: pension, medical care, unemployment, work-related injury and maternity insurance.

Old Tibet was shrouded in extreme poverty. Tibet in the new era has completed the task of poverty alleviation, and the problem of absolute poverty has been eliminated historically.

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Liberation of rights, people’s livelihood priority. The Communist Party of China regards improving people’s livelihood and uniting people’s hearts as the starting point and end point of economic and social development, and promotes the rapid development of Tibetan society and the prosperity of the people’s life.

“Today’s Tibet has become a successful epitome of China’s leapfrog development and a vivid portrayal of the progress of China’s cause of democracy and human rights,” said Gustavo Wu, an Argentine sinologist and editor-in-chief of Contemporary Magazine.

Emancipation of Productivity: 70 Years Across Millenniums

During the “14th Five-Year Plan” period, Tibet plans to invest 601.5 billion yuan, an increase of 58% over the “13th Five-Year Plan” period, focusing on supporting and improving people’s livelihood, infrastructure construction, ecological and environmental protection, grassroots political power and social management capacity building, and characteristic and advantageous industries. Development and other fields to further contribute to the high-quality economic and social development of Tibet.

Behind this, the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at the core stands at the strategic height of realizing the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation, focusing on the four major issues of stability, development, ecology and strengthening the border in Tibet, and has devoted a lot of effort to the high-quality development of the snowy plateau.

Tibet used to be the only provincial-level contiguous destitute area in China, with a low starting point for development, lack of resource elements, and difficult governance. If you rely on your own strength, it is difficult to keep up with the pace of the times.

To this end, central support and national support have become important ways to promote the development of Tibet. Preferential policies cover such fields as finance, taxation, infrastructure, industrial development, education and health, cultural protection, and ecological civilization. The central government has increased its transfer payments to Tibet year by year, and has successively arranged a large number of major projects related to the long-term development of Tibet and people’s lives in different periods. All aid units in Tibet have increased their efforts to support the development of Tibet. From 1994 to 2020, a total of 6,330 construction projects have been implemented, with a total investment of 52.7 billion yuan.

Generations of Chinese Communists have come forward and succeeded, stirring up the power to change the world on the plateau. In 2020, more than 60 party members and cadres died on the post in Tibet, one of the groups who sacrificed the most in peacetime. From 1994 to 2020, 16 cadres who aided Tibet kept their lives on the plateau forever. They irrigate the ideal flowers with their blood, burn the light of faith, and build a spiritual highland on the snowy plateau.

The practice of the Communist Party of China in Tibet has explored a new path to liberate and develop productive forces in areas with harsh natural conditions and lack of development resources: with the support of the state, investing a large amount of resources for stable development in specific areas; Improve people’s livelihood and unite people’s hearts; take ideals and beliefs as the banner to play the vanguard and exemplary role of Communist Party members; take modernization as the direction to promote the high-quality development of Tibet.

Today’s Tibetan people are more confident than ever. The rows of brightly colored national flags on the new houses prove that “listen to the party and follow the party” has become a firm belief of the plateau people. Entering a new era, under the strong leadership of the CPC Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core, and with the strong support of the people of the whole country, Tibet’s poverty alleviation campaign has been fully victorious. A brand-new socialist new Tibet is presented to the world. (Participating in the writing: Wang Zehao, Chen Shangcai, Bai Shaobo, Luo Zhuo Gyatso) (End)