The immigrants from the Hexi Corridor are gradually “stopping” to highlight the new concept of scientific poverty alleviation

The Qianli Hexi Corridor was once a dream site for hundreds of thousands of impoverished farmers in Gansu Province. It moved out of the drought, cold, and damp hometowns to build a new home in a flat corridor where farming is not waterlogged.

“This is the government’s call and the wishes of the family.” said Li Hongwu, Xinmin Village, Camel Township, Gaotai County, Zhangye City. In 1990, his family of five emigrated from Dingxi. The sight of the corridor is that the land is flat and smooth. Irrigation, firewood, and draughts are free, and the water is sweet.

The "Three West" immigration poverty alleviation project connects Dingxi and Hexi, which are separated by thousands of kilometers. Statistics from Gansu Poverty Alleviation Office show that from 1982 to the end of 2010, the total number of immigrants in Gansu Province was 948,800. Among them, the Hexi Corridor organized by the government had more than 150,000 immigrants, and there were also many spontaneous immigrants who took the form of investing in friends and relatives. Ten thousand people.

Li Hongwu's 22-year immigration life was not tormented. He opened stores, sold food, collected waste products, and earned money in addition to making life easier. The rated achievement was for two children to go to college. Now that he is reluctant to plant food on the land, he has begun to lead the villagers to build greenhouses on the Gobi Desert to grow more expensive vegetables. However, he discovered that the deeper the well was, the less water went out.

Li Hongwu is not clear about how many immigrants like him are on this old Silk Road. He is even more unaware that about 200,000 immigrants have been influxing for 30 years, gradually overwhelming the Hexi Corridor.

In order to resettle the migrants, a total of more than 400,000 mu of cultivated land has been newly reclaimed in the Gobi Desert along the Hexi Corridor. In the Jiuquan immigrant city, which is rated as a corridor, immigrants have accounted for a quarter of the city's total rural population. The annual irrigation water gap is as high as 485 million cubic meters. Zhao Shengqiang, director of the Bureau of Poverty Alleviation in Guazhou County, said that due to the large-scale land reclamation and construction of supporting facilities, the local forest and grass vegetation has been reduced by nearly 500,000 mu, and some areas have formed quicksand areas.

Large-scale immigration has increased the ecological pressure on the Hexi Corridor, forcing the government to gradually adjust its immigration policy. The first one to make significant adjustments is the poverty-stricken resettlement project of the Hexi Corridor--a comprehensive development project of agricultural irrigation and resettlement of the Shule River.

This project, which was started in 1996, originally planned to develop a new area of ​​819,000 mu of land and mobilize 200,000 people. In 2000, Gansu Province reassessed and reduced the total area of ​​newly reclaimed land to 408,200 mu. The actual land reclaimed was 299,000 mu. The resettlement scale was reduced to 75,000 and the resettlement was 65,000. Li Feng, head of the Shule River Basin Water Resources Management Bureau, said: “Large reductions in land development and resettlement are an active adjustment.”

In 2008, Gansu Province announced the complete cessation of migration to the Hexi Corridor after completing the resettlement of more than 9,200 people in the Jiudianxia Reservoir area on the Weihe River. “Stop immigration is the need to coordinate the development of local water resources, population, and the environment,” said Shabaishi Li, director of the Gansu Provincial Poverty Alleviation Office. “Among these settlements, the ecology of the Hexi Corridor immigration zone is fragile.”

The fragility of the Hexi Corridor's ecology has caused Li Hongwu to feel sandstorms. Each immigrant can vividly describe the initial fear of the sand and the incomprehensible story. And now, they have slowly felt the increasingly tense changes in water use.

This made Li Hongwu have to dispel the idea of ​​migrating his family. Li Hongwu has three brothers. His younger brother later emigrated to Inner Mongolia. In his hometown of Heiying Village, Gejiabang Township, Anding District, Dingxi City, there is also a family of two younger brothers and his parents. What makes Li Hongwu reassured is that the days of the second-born family are getting better and better. After the two brothers immigrated, the land in their homes increased, and the income of these potatoes was also good.

Qu Wei, director of the Gansu Provincial Academy of Social Sciences’ Institute of Rural Economics, believes that in the past 30 years, the entire village has been promoted to contiguous development, and from large-scale immigration to the final stop of immigration, the Chinese government is constantly exploring new ideas and methods for poverty alleviation. “The changes in the immigration story of the Hexi Corridor demonstrate the scientific concept of poverty alleviation in the harmonious development of man and nature.”

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