In Mizhi County, Yulin City, Shaanxi Province, there is a once unknown small mountain village-Gaoxigou Village, Yinzhou Street. After the struggle of Gaoxigou people in past dynasties, it has become a national demonstration village for soil and water conservation and ecological construction. It is known as a star on the Loess Plateau in northern Shaanxi, attracting the attention of people all over the country and becoming a place where network celebrities compete to punch in. ?
In the former Gaoxigou village, the land was barren and the soil erosion was serious. Since 1950s, Gaoxigou people began to gather mountains to control water. In practice, they explored the "three-thirds system" governance model (fields, woodlands and grasslands each account for one third), and kept pace with the times and innovated into the "three-two-one" model (three woodlands, two grasslands and one field). ?
A large amount of sediment in the Yellow River has caused harm to the people in the lower reaches, and the sediment in the Yellow River mainly comes from the middle reaches. Loess structure in Shanxi-Shaanxi Loess Plateau is loose, and soil erosion is very serious. Mizhi County, located in the hinterland of the Loess Plateau, is a typical hilly and gully region of the Loess Plateau. "Not to import a grain of sediment into the Yellow River", Gaoxigou people solemnly promised to the people of the whole country. ?
For more than 60 years, Gaoxigou people have always insisted on grain, animal husbandry and forest. Terraces are built on gentle slopes in the mountains, dams are built with ditches, trees are planted in deep mountains, orchards are built on sunny slopes near mountains, grass is planted on steep slopes, and Caragana is planted on the banks of collapsed cliffs. Today's Gaoxigou Village is green with mountains and rivers, and all the sediment is fixed, which perfectly fulfilled the promise made at the beginning. ?
As a banner of ecological construction, Gaoxigou has created "comprehensive management to ensure soil erosion; Damming and silting up land to ensure that returning farmland does not rebound; Diversification ensures that income will not decrease. Gaoxigou spirit is a vivid teaching material for the education of the party's mass line, and the spirit of self-reliance and hard struggle of Gaoxigou people is always worth inheriting and admiring by young people. (Li Shengya)