farmers who got rid of poverty by planting potato in Chankou Town, anding district, Dingxi City, Gansu Province, gathered in the town cultural activity square to hold a social fire show. The villagers in Shiliba Village disguised themselves as potato babies. They praised and sang potatoes to express their joy after getting rich by potatoes. There are a lot of prosperous businesses, prosperous Spring Festival, and stable and happy events, and the stable potato is on the table ... Farmers in anding district, Dingxi: All the year round, the golden eggs and silver eggs are not as good as the earth eggs that grow in the ground. In recent years, everyone has planted potatoes and bought money, so the life is better and the enthusiasm for making social fires is higher. In Gansu, according to the folk custom, every time the Fifth Festival breaks, there will be social fires in the countryside. And more places in the north will eat jiaozi on this day. Builders who stick to the Beijing subway construction site get together, eat the "broken five" jiaozi, and enjoy the fun of the new year customs in the Spring Festival of the Year of the Ox. Dingxi area in the western part of the Loess Plateau, "the mountain is a monk's head, there is no water in the ditch, and there are droughts in nine years out of ten, which makes people worry." As early as the Qing Dynasty, Zuo Zongtang, governor of Shaanxi and Gansu, wrote to the court that the bitter and barren land in the middle of Gansu was the best in the world. After liberation, the vast majority of local farmers still live a life of "two meals of porridge all day, one quilt for three generations, turf as fuel, and flood to relieve hunger and thirst". Lack of food, water, clothes and houses ... have plagued Dingxi people for generations. "The key to poverty in Dingxi lies in drought and water shortage." Dong Yingfan, director of the Water Affairs Bureau of Dingxi City, said that before 1994, Dingxi suffered from drought for ten years and nine years, and summer grain was basically harvested. "At that time, an important task of various government agencies and units in Dingxi area was to unconditionally pull water for the masses. As soon as the waterwheel stopped, birds and cows were all surrounded." Dong Yingfan remembers the scene of water shortage before. Drought has become a roadblock for Dingxi to get rid of poverty. In order to find water for drought control, Dingxi people built reservoirs, drilled wells, and built ponds and dams ... But in Dingxi, which is "one river in jiusan is hard to see water", it still can't solve the problem of water shortage. Some people think that if water is not diverted, there is no cure at all. After the founding of New China, the Party and the government rescued Dingxi people from their predicament again and again. In 1972, Dingxi suffered from drought for three years, and the people had no food and clothing, and they took the train to escape. In 1982, it was another drought year, and 5, to 6, victims fled by train, and the disaster once again alarmed Zhongnanhai. In December of this year, the State Council held a special meeting on disaster relief in Gansu and Ningxia provinces, and the world-renowned poverty alleviation and development in China kicked off in Dingxi. Since then, Dingxi people have made great efforts to improve the production and living conditions, such as farmland water conservancy, rural transportation, rural power lines, forestry and energy construction, and carried out large-scale comprehensive management of small watersheds in accordance with the model of "wearing hats at the top of the mountain, tying belts on the mountainside and wearing boots at the bottom of the mountain". In the drought year of 1995, Dingxi people changed the traditional passive drought resistance into active drought resistance and finally created a "trick" to collect rain and fight drought. Rainwater concentration has continuously solved the water problem and terraced fields have continuously improved the ecology. In 1999, Dingxi people bid farewell to absolute poverty. In the year of drought, Dingxi had its first well-off village. From the traditional drought-resistance, such as building terraces, developing water conservancy and harrowing, popularizing plastic film mulching and popularizing drought-resistant varieties in science and technology, to adjusting crop structure in line with the weather, a rain-collecting cultivation technique based on full-film double-ridge rainwater harvesting and furrow sowing was formed, and a water-saving irrigation technique based on pit-digging and rainwater harvesting and supplementary irrigation was created, which created a drought-resistant and yield-increasing model matching agronomy, agricultural machinery, rainwater harvesting, water-saving and fertilizer-saving technologies. Dingxi people firmly held the initiative of drought resistance in their own hands. Today, the "iron theory" of Dingxi's "no cure" has been completely broken, farmers have fulfilled their dream of having enough food and clothing for generations, and the historical problems of eating, drinking, dressing and housing have been solved one by one. Despite the severe drought in 29, the development of Dingxi is exciting. "About 2 acres of terraced fields at home are the most important wealth. More than half of these terraces are planted with potatoes, which can produce about 5, kilograms a year and are the main source of income for the family. " Wang Yaonan, 65, from Yawan Village, Neiguan Town, anding district City, Dingxi City, said. After more than 4 years of development, Dingxi City has built 5 million mu of terraced fields, completed more than 88 million square kilometers of comprehensive control of soil erosion, built 151 warping dams, accumulated 15, "Project 121" and 25, water cellars, implemented more than 4, "Biogas Enrichment Project" and built 11 million square meters of concrete catchment, which not only solved the problems of 8, people and more than 3.8 million livestock in arid mountainous areas. It has also developed more than 8, courtyards, planted more than 3, mu of economic fruits and vegetables, built 33, pits with 3-5 cubic meters of rainwater harvesting and irrigation, and developed an area of 92, mu of irrigation. More than 85% of the city's slopes have been terraced; The forest and grass coverage rate reached 17.9%. In November 26, the people of Dingxi, the largest water conservancy project in the history of water conservancy construction in Gansu, looked forward to the start of the dream-drawing Taotao project for half a century. This will fundamentally solve the extreme shortage of water resources in Dingxi, and will also make 2.7 million farmers in Dingxi move from water shortage to the era of safe drinking water and comprehensive utilization of water resources, and the development of Dingxi has also entered a brand-new historical period. Understanding the new situation and embarking on the road to prosperity "Poverty alleviation and development is a main line of Dingxi development." Wen Guoliang, director of Dingxi Poverty Alleviation and Development Office, said that Dingxi's poverty alleviation first began with the relief of the central government. From 1973 to 1982, Dingxi * * ate 7 million kilograms of grain sold back. "Wearing yellow clothes (referring to military uniforms for relief), eating bitter vegetable chaff, drinking yellow mud soup and living in thatched houses" was a true portrayal of Dingxi people's life at that time. In 1999, the overall goal of basically solving food and clothing was achieved one year ahead of schedule, and food production was self-sufficient and no longer dependent on relief. However, Dingxi people found that this kind of food and clothing was still based on a single food production and was extremely unstable. In 2, taking advantage of the east wind of western development, Dingxi people further deepened their understanding of the market situation and reflected on Dingxi's development process. They have completely changed the old way of "focusing on grain, focusing on grain", which is not suitable for the development of market economy. They have seized the good opportunity of the national western development and the construction of key counties for poverty alleviation and development, and combined the village-to-household planting and breeding industry with regional adjustment and optimization of industrial structure and strengthening the economic strength of key villages, further promoting Dingxi's road to the development of characteristic agriculture. After the city was set up in Dingxi in 23, around the goal of stably solving the problem of food and clothing as soon as possible and moving towards a well-off society, and giving full play to its comparative advantages, Dingxi has achieved rapid development in agriculture and rural economy and society in accordance with the goal and orientation of "gradually building Dingxi into the largest potato seed production and processing base in China, a famous Chinese herbal medicine planting and modern pharmaceutical base in northwest China", and agriculture has generally changed from quantitative expansion to quality and efficiency. At present, Dingxi has basically formed a regional planting pattern in which potatoes, Chinese herbal medicines and broad beans are the mainstay in the alpine region, potatoes, corn and vegetables with plastic film and various intercropping modes are the mainstay in the Sichuan region, and potatoes, corn with plastic film and various autumn miscellaneous crops are the mainstay in the arid region, which has formed an industrial belt and industrial zone of superior agricultural products. With a planting area of 3.6 million mu and a total output of more than 5 million tons, potato is one of the three major potato producing areas in China, the largest potato seed production base in China, and potato has become the first dominant industry to enrich the people and strengthen the city. It has developed into a main producing area of Chinese herbal medicines, with a planting area of more than 1 million mu, accounting for 1/6 of the national planting area, with a total output of 17, tons, of which the three main cultivated varieties of Angelica sinensis, Codonopsis pilosula and Radix Astragali have an area of 239,7 mu, 287,7 mu and 26,9 mu respectively, with output of 41, tons, 46,5 tons and 53,4 tons respectively. The livestock and grass industry has developed steadily, with a scale of 5, households, and the stock and slaughter of livestock and poultry have increased steadily. New development has been made in regional characteristic industries such as vegetables, edible fungi, flowers and Jerusalem artichoke. Although the structural adjustment has reduced the area of grain crops, the total grain output has increased steadily, reaching 98, tons in 28. In 29, 7, surplus laborers were transferred to urban and rural areas, generating 2 billion yuan in labor income. The adjustment of agricultural structure, the rapid development of labor economy and the further strengthening of the policy of strengthening agriculture and benefiting farmers have driven farmers to increase their income. Tourism in Zhangxian, Tongwei calligraphy and painting, and the development of Li culture in Longxi have also injected new vitality into economic development. In 29, the city's GDP will reach 12.2 billion yuan, and the per capita net income of farmers will reach 2,3 yuan. In recent years, the seven counties in Dingxi City have been named as the hometown of potatoes in China in anding district, the hometown of flowers in China in Lintao County, the hometown of Danggui in China in Min County, the hometown of Dangshen in China and China in Weiyuan County, the hometown of Astragalus in China in Longxi County and the hometown of broad beans in China in Tongwei County. It is a glorious history of Dingxi people's struggle for many years, which indicates that this arid yellow land is moving towards glory. Adapting to the new era and marching towards the characteristic road, the degree of industrialization and urbanization is too low. Only by integrating, processing, forming industrialization and scale of agricultural resources, ecological resources, mineral resources and human resources in the region, turning products into commodities and participating in large-scale circulation, and finding a position in the big market can one side feed the other. In 26, Dingxi Electric Power made a turnaround. Power consumption ranks first in Gansu! The first power consumption means the rapid development of Dingxi industry. In order to speed up the process of industrialization, Dingxi advanced and innovatively put forward the strategic idea of building "China Potato Capital" and "China Medicine Capital" to realize the development of potato from a single planting base to a virus-free seed potato production base, a modern potato information logistics market and the largest deep processing in China; The Chinese herbal medicine industry has changed from quantitative expansion and accumulation to quality and efficiency, from "Millennium Medicine Town", "Northwest Medicine Capital" and "Medicinal Material Town" to "China Medicine Capital", which is an inevitable choice for the all-round upgrading of Chinese herbal medicine industry and the transition from traditional to modern. With the goal of building "China Potato Capital", Dingxi has built four vegetable processing, storage and fresh-keeping enterprises, with a fresh vegetable storage, sorting and packaging capacity of 187, tons. 218 wholesale markets for agricultural products have been built, including 3 professional wholesale markets with an annual turnover of more than 5 million yuan, with an annual turnover of 2.1 million tons of potatoes and a turnover of 8 million yuan. A total of 845,8 potato storage pits (warehouses) have been built, with an actual storage capacity of 2.5 million tons, basically achieving a balanced listing of potatoes. There are 33 potato starch processing enterprises with an annual processing capacity of more than 1, tons, and 2 leading potato processing enterprises with a design production capacity of more than 1, tons, including 18 refined starch processing enterprises with an annual processing capacity of more than 1, tons, 1 whole starch processing enterprise and 1 modified starch processing enterprise, and the production capacity of refined potato starch and its products reaches 35, tons; There are more than 6 registered trademarks of agricultural products in the city, and 1 agricultural products have been registered with national geographical indications of origin. In order to build "China Pharmaceutical Capital" and promote the transformation of Chinese herbal medicine industry to industrialization. The city has built five large-scale Chinese herbal medicine trading markets, such as Wenfeng and Shouyang in Longxi, and "Danggui City" in Minxian County and Shennong Chinese herbal medicine logistics park in Longxi, with an annual trading volume of 281,4 tons and a trading volume of 2.212 billion yuan. The city's static storage capacity of Chinese herbal medicines has reached more than 5, tons, and one of the three major warehouses set up by China Medicinal Materials Group Company in China is built in Dingxi. Dingxi has now developed into the largest trading market of Chinese herbal medicine origin in China and the price formation center of bulk medicinal materials in the north, with 78 large-scale Chinese herbal medicine processing enterprises. In order to give full play to the concentrated radiation effect of the industry and create a highland for Chinese herbal medicine processing, Dingxi started to build a Chinese herbal medicine processing park with an area of 5, mu and a total investment of 6 billion yuan. The processing park is divided into three main functional areas: decoction pieces production, traditional Chinese medicine extraction and modern pharmacy. The first phase covers an area of 1,18 mu with a total investment of more than 7 million yuan. At present, through attracting investment and integrating funds, six enterprises, Qianjin, Mute, Xiaoling, Livzon, Yifang and Jiufang Pharmaceutical, have settled in for construction, and 1 key investment projects, including Qizheng Tibetan Medicine and Zhejiang University of Traditional Chinese Medicine Piece Factory, are under construction gradually. After the park is fully completed, the annual output value will be 1 billion yuan, profits and taxes will be 2 billion yuan, and more than 2, people will be employed. It will become the largest Chinese herbal medicine processing base in China and a new economic growth point in Dingxi. Today, the modern industrial bases of agricultural products processing, modern pharmacy, aluminum and zinc smelting, salt chemical industry, electric energy development, equipment manufacturing and mineral development have been formed in Dingxi, and an agricultural city with western characteristics has taken a new step of leap-forward development.