"Thanks to the timely help of the village work team, the family's life is stable again." Mou Yongsheng, a villager in Yanchuanzi Village, Balipu Town, Lintao County, Gansu Province, said sincerely. Lao Mou's family's income mainly relies on farming. Someone at home got sick the year before yesterday, and his life, which had been lifted out of poverty, was a bit "slobber".

"What do you need to add at home?" "Can you be healthy when you go out to work?"... Bian Shiming, the first secretary of the village, went to the household to survey the village work team acted quickly to help coordinate the rescue of serious illnesses, and introduced Lao Mou's son to work at the construction site. The village also helped to purchase agricultural tricycles to allow Lao Mula to transport Chinese medicinal materials. By taking a multi-pronged approach, the income of the Lao Mou family has improved significantly.

Selecting the first secretary and working team in the village is an important institutional arrangement to consolidate and expand the achievements of poverty alleviation and promote the comprehensive revitalization of rural areas. Since the transition period in 2021, 31 provinces and the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps have continuously organized and selected more than 500,000 first secretaries and working team members in each round. They are struggling on the front line of the village with advanced concepts, financial projects, and technical services, and are rushing towards prosperity with the villagers.

Working is an important source of income for households who have been lifted out of poverty. In Zhangjiahe Village, Kang County, Gansu Province, China Construction Group has successively selected three first secretaries in the village. "Last year, a total of 143 people in the village went out to work." Zhang Jianfeng, the first secretary of the village, introduced that aiming at the big head of employment and income increase, the village communicated with the county's human resources and social security, agriculture and rural areas and other departments to connect villagers to China Construction's labor project point-to-point.

Compared with the past, the development conditions of many poverty-stricken villages have been significantly improved. How can village cadres inject new vitality into the development of villages?

In Rongjiang County, Guizhou Province, Luo Liping from the County Culture, Sports, Radio, Film and Tourism Bureau successfully caught the traffic of "village super" events for Baibei Village, Xinghua Township, and Miao villagers had "tourism meal". Since 2023, more than 500 people in the village have been employed at their doorsteps, and the village's collective economic income has quadrupled; Zhou Qian from the Provincial Women's Federation helped Fengdeng Village, Zaima Town to build a "women and children's activity station" to organize family tradition inheritance and star-rated civilized family selection activities, bringing silent changes to rural governance... "If the village has any development needs, we will dispatch corresponding professional talents." Liu Yang, deputy director of the Cadre Information Center of the Organization Department of Rongjiang County Party Committee, said.

The need for village development and the trust given by villagers are the source of motivation for many village cadres to be on the front line all year round.

In Anshun Economic Development Zone, Guizhou Province, He Xiaoyou was successively selected to Luqi Village, Tazhi Village, and Hexing Village to carry out village-based assistance. For ten years, he has become a "mud-legged cadre" called by the villagers.

"Xiaoyou always talks about it, and you have something to ask him for help." Last year, Wang Zaiyun, a five-guarantee household in Hexing Village, accidentally flashed his waist, and He Xiaoyou drove him to see him for medical treatment as soon as possible. The village built mechanized farming roads, opened ditches, and repaired mountain ponds. Before the project was applied, He Xiaoyou had to hold a courtyard meeting with the working team to listen to the opinions of the villagers, and everyone's enthusiasm for participating in rural construction was greatly improved.

"The village has changed a lot now. As long as you work diligently, your life will be successful." Under the leadership of the village work team and the village committee, Yang Yongxiang, a villager in Hexing Village, developed vegetable planting and quickly built a two-story building at home.

How to test the assistance results of village cadres? Changfeng County, Anhui Province, carried out display and exchange activities quarterly, and organized the first secretary stationed in the village to take the stage to show off his actual performance, find shortcomings, and clarify measures. The results are used as a reference for his annual assessment and evaluation of the top and top scores. "This strengthens the sharing and complementary resources between the dispatched villages, and also helps the village cadres learn from each other." Zhong Yu, the first secretary of the village in Maying Village, Yangmiao Town, said, "The markets, Youth Rural Drama Festivals and other activities held regularly in our village are all ideas come up with multi-party exchanges."

To promote the village assistance work to a higher level, it is necessary to continuously build a team of rural talents that can be subsisted, retained and effective.

Strictly select people, all localities strictly control the "screening" and refine the candidate standards, carry out human-to-land matching analysis to ensure that the best is selected and strong; strengthen training, strengthen provincial demonstrations and municipal and county-level rotation training, accurately target the empowerment and accumulating energy for village cadres, and enhance the combat effectiveness of grassroots party organizations; care more, and all localities actively implement measures such as the work funds for village cadres, living allowances, and assessment of excellent grades, and encourage more outstanding village cadres to take responsibility.

In 2024, the Management Cadre College of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs established an online learning platform for the first secretary and working team members in the village, providing learning services to the first batch of 10,000 village cadres. "This year is the last year of the five-year transition period for effectively connecting the consolidation and expansion of poverty alleviation achievements with rural revitalization. We will continue to guide local governments to strengthen guidance, supervision and improvement of assessment and evaluation mechanisms, and further play the talent support role of village cadres." A relevant person in charge of the Regional Cooperation Promotion Department of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs said.

(Zhou Nan participated in the interview and writing)