Yunnan is mountainous, with high mountains and curved roads. After more than two hours’ drive and more than 20 minutes’ walk, I finally came to a village in the folds of the mountain — — Shuangmidi Village, Liuku Town, Lushui County, Nujiang Lisu Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan Province. Looking down, the cliffs of Gaoligong Mountain stand tall and the Dulong River flows down, but who would have thought that it was in such a remote and dangerous ravine that an "information highway" was simply set up.
"The network repairman just came home to debug the signal two days ago, and now he can watch Internet TV every day." Walking into the home of Mi Yuezhong, a poor household who set up a file in Shuangmidi Village, he skillfully demonstrated to reporters how to operate the newly changed network TV. "In the past, I couldn’t watch TV when it was windy and rainy. Now every household has connected the optical fiber network, listened to the news and watched movies, and felt that life was beautiful."
What Mi Yuezhong is most proud of is that he increased his income by more than 4,000 yuan a year with the knowledge of crop cultivation he learned from Internet TV last year. "I have access to the Internet at home, and I watch agricultural technology programs from the Internet every day. Now most of my 30 mu of land has been replanted with walnuts and pepper trees, and the growth is very gratifying." Looking forward to the coming year, Mi Yuezhong is full of expectations: this year is only the first crop, and the harvest next year will be better than this year.
Not only Shuangmidi Village, "Look at a crack in the sky, look at a ditch in the ground, go out by sliding rope, and plant land like rock climbing", which was once a true portrayal of Nujiang Prefecture in Yunnan Province. More than 98% of the state’s area is high mountains and canyons, belonging to a state-level deep poverty-stricken area. In order to repair the network "highway" to help get rid of poverty and get rich, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology tilted resources to support telecom enterprises to vigorously improve rural Internet infrastructure. Since 2014, 4G networks and broadband have been connected here one after another, and the "information express train" has begun to catch up. Distance education and e-commerce have come one after another, and the steps of getting rid of poverty and getting rich are getting bigger and bigger.
Since the theme education was launched, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology has insisted on the implementation of rectification throughout the whole process of promoting the universal service of telecommunications, and has made real efforts in network poverty alleviation. At present, the universal service pilot of China Telecom has supported the construction of optical fiber and 4G in more than 130,000 administrative villages, and it is difficult to achieve full coverage of supervision and inspection by manpower. To this end, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology proposed to build a telecom universal service management platform to realize online monitoring of the network completion and network quality of pilot administrative villages through technical means.
"From the actual effect, the universal service of telecommunications has achieved remarkable results in helping poverty alleviation." According to the relevant person in charge of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, at present, China’s telecom universal service pilot supports more than 43,000 poverty-stricken villages to access broadband, and the proportion of broadband access to poverty-stricken villages has exceeded 98%, and 90% of the goals in the "Thirteenth Five-Year Plan" for poverty alleviation have been completed ahead of schedule. "Broadband network plays a fundamental supporting role in tackling poverty, effectively promoting the development of rural e-commerce, e-government, telemedicine, distance education and other applications, effectively improving production and living conditions, promoting the equalization of public services, and broadening the road to poverty alleviation." The person in charge said.
It is not easy to make all rural and remote areas have access to the Internet. In some rural areas, high mountains and dangerous roads and frequent natural disasters often bring great challenges to network construction and maintenance. "Take Nujiang Prefecture as an example. The rainy season is about 200 days every year. In March, there is often a light rain every day and a heavy rain every three days. Frequent rainfall causes frequent landslides and mudslides, and important optical cable interruptions often occur." The person in charge of Nujiang Branch of China Mobile Yunnan Company admitted that the emergency repair task was heavy and difficult, so the maintenance personnel got up early and greedy for the dark, and rushed to the scene at the first time, risking danger to carry out emergency repair.
Front-line employees are moving forward, and the policy mechanism is also strengthening. According to reports, in order to achieve deep network coverage in rural and remote areas, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology will, on the one hand, expand the scope of support and promote 4G network coverage in rural areas with more than 20 households in need; On the other hand, we will expand technical methods, encourage local conditions, and adopt various technical means such as optical fiber, 4G, satellite and microwave to achieve network coverage in remote areas.
Coming out of Mi Yuezhong’s home, a group of three network maintenance workers, wearing helmets and slung maintenance bags, are rushing to a village group at the top of the mountain. "Just now, some farmers reported a network failure, put down the phone and drove over." While talking, I saw Bai Jiahua, a maintenance worker, who was agile and climbed a pole standing on the edge of a cliff. Looking up, more than a dozen lines were radiated from the fiber distribution box at the top, extending to a farmer at the top of the mountain. Bai Jiahua said, "There are more than 20 villagers living on the top of the mountain. The pole selection here does not occupy the roads in the village, but also covers all farmers as much as possible, so that they can get online and watch TV." (Reporter Han Xin)
