Poverty Alleviators on the Long March

More than 80 years ago, the Red Army revolutionary troops climbed over the most difficult snow-capped mountains and crossed the most arduous grasslands in the Long March in Aba, western Sichuan, leaving behind such evocative stories as "The Golden Fish Hook" and "Seven Matches", making climbing snow-capped mountains and crossing grasslands synonymous with the Long March; more than 80 years later, the fight against poverty has made this place full of life again. The realistic-themed novel "The Poverty Alleviators on the Long March" takes the poverty alleviation work in Aba, a poverty-stricken area, as an entry point. It focuses on describing a group of outstanding Communist Party members and model grassroots cadres such as Lin Meijiao, a village cadre stationed under the Agricultural Expo Bureau, and Lan Hongmei, the first secretary of Iluo Village, who overcome all difficulties and lead a group of big people. It is a story about student village officials and leaders of entrepreneurship and prosperity in impoverished villages actively participating in projects such as herdsmen settlement operations and livestock breeding industries. In order to carry forward the spirit of the Long March without fear of hardships and perseverance, they fulfilled their original mission and transformed the poor and backward Tibetan areas inhabited on the plateau.