A weekend passed in a blink of an eye.
When Pang Zhifeng went to work on Monday, anyone could see that he looked listless.
However, Xiuyuan was full of energy and accompanied Yun Yanchang to the central town for investigation again.
The mixed mining village in the central town is called Meilin Village. The name of the village is also very unique. There are more than 720 households in the village, and the registered population is more than 2,800.
But in reality, the household registration is inflated, the permanent population has dropped sharply, and the structure has been torn apart. Many villagers have left. Those who have not become miners have their arable land polluted and have no way to make a living, so they can only go out to work.
Adding some outsiders, the actual permanent population is only 2,000, and most of them are outsiders. The population of this village is now more than 1,600.
The entire village is right next to a coal mine, which is a subsidiary of Jinyuan Coal Mine and is called Jinxin Coal Mine. The efficiency of Jinxin Coal Mine is not good. Coal mining is becoming more and more difficult and the cost is getting higher and higher. It is now almost in a state of suspension.
So life in Meilin Village became increasingly difficult.
Originally, even though the coal mine had a great impact on the village, it was still possible to make some money, after all, it relied on the coal mine. But now the coal mine is no longer viable, and the village relying on the coal mine can no longer quench its thirst even if it wants to drink poison.
The township party committee secretary, town mayor, deputy town mayor of the central town, as well as the director and village chief of Meilin Village, accompanied Yun Yanchang in the investigation. The village chief and village director introduced the situation of the village to him.
There is a river to the north of the village. Originally, it was called Baishijian, but now it is called Heishi River Valley. The river flows from west to east.
"Dear leaders, this is the Black Stone River Valley. In the past, there was still water flowing over the White Stone Stream, which could clean up some of the pollution every day. But now there are two reasons. One is the accumulation of silt from coal washing, which has caused the entire riverbed to rise nearly two meters above the village. Every rainy season, the entire village faces the risk of collapse.
Secondly, the deep wells at the coal mine have cut off some of the water flow, causing it to decrease and even stop flowing at times, completely eliminating the entire source of clean water.
Water supply is a problem in our village now..."
The village chief, Yun Yanchang, Xiuyuan and others stood at the edge of the Black Stone River Valley. Looking at the stinking river hanging on the ground, everyone fell silent.
Yun Yanchang looked at the Party Secretary of the Central Town, the Mayor and other leaders standing nearby. The leaders of the Central Town all lowered their heads in silence. It was not that they did not want to solve the problem, but that they had no way to solve it.
"Is there a slag mountain across the river? Let's go and take a look." Yun Yanchang did not scold the leaders of the central town. Although he was dissatisfied, this situation obviously did not form in one day.
To the north of the village, after crossing the Black Stone River, the first thing you face is a subsidence area, surrounded by farmland, and next to it is a slag mountain.
Before coming here, both Yun Yanchang and Yu Xiuyuan were mentally prepared, but they remained silent after seeing this scene.
Especially after listening to the villagers introduce these arable lands, I realized that basically all the land in the village had problems, not to mention the land in the subsidence area.
I spent the entire morning wandering around Meilin Village. While resource extraction has certainly boosted the county's economic development, the damage it has caused to the local area is also very obvious.
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