The year is approaching, and happy events are coming. For Meng Fanyou, who lives in Nanxiangchenggu Village, Xiangchenggu Town, Qiu County, this Spring Festival is a double happiness. Yixi, under the care of the party and **, Meng Fanyou, who got rid of poverty, renovated his 40-year-old house; Erxi's son Meng Xiangshuo got married not long ago, and a new person has been added to the original family of three.
February 8, the twenty-eighth day of the lunar calendar. The reporter walked into Meng Fanyou's home, and the red lanterns at the door, the clean and tidy courtyard, and the big red happy characters everywhere made it difficult for people to imagine that this was once a poor family.
Meng Fanyou, 69 years old this year, suffered from a leg disability due to illness when he was a child, and his wife was sick all the year round and had no ability to work. At the age of 40, Meng Fanyou had a son, Meng Xiangshuo. Despite his limited mobility, Meng Fanyou is very careful and serious about taking care of his wife and children. "My son has hardly been sick since he was a child. Meng Fanyou said.
With the help of the "Rain and Dew Plan" education policy, his son Meng Xiangshuo was successfully admitted to university. In order to supplement his son's living expenses, Meng Fanyou was frugal and unwilling to waste a single penny. He also grows vegetables in his yard to save money. The family's 7 acres of land are well taken care of by him.
At the end of 2017, Meng Fanyou's family was identified as a registered poor household, enjoying policy subsidies such as subsistence allowance and disability subsidies. At the same time, he invested in the poverty alleviation forest in the village orchard, and received dividends every year, with a per capita income of nearly 20,000 yuan a year.
Thanks to the party's policies, I have been lifted out of poverty, and we are also fighting for strength and working hard to live a good life. Meng Fanyou said that the leaders and departments of the county's Baolian often came to visit him, and he also applied for the village's public welfare post as a cleaner, with an income of 450 yuan per month. In this way, Meng Fanyou not only repaid his debts, but also redecorated his family's house, with white floor tiles, neat furniture, and freshly painted walls, and the old house had a new look.
After graduating from university, Meng Xiangshuo found a job in Shijiazhuang and had a stable income every month. On the eighth day of the lunar month, he returned to the village to do a happy event, but Meng Fanyou's biggest heartfelt event.
It's the Chinese New Year soon, I stewed the chicken early, cooked the meat, bought leeks, and waited for my son and daughter-in-law to come home and make dumplings ......Looking forward to a new life, Meng Fanyou is full of expectations.
Handan News and Media Center reporter Xie Guoying.