Late Woman Official Devoted to Poverty Relief

File photo of Huang Wenxiu, a woman official who devoted her life to poverty-alleviation work in Baini, a village in Baise, a city in South China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region

Huang Wenxiu, a young member of the Communist Party of China (CPC), died when serving as a village official in the poverty alleviation work in South China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region.

Huang, then first secretary of Baini Village, Xinhua Town, Leye County, was trapped in a mountain area while on her way back to the village on June 16, 2019, after visiting her sick father in another county on the weekend. She was found dead the next day at the age of 30.

Huang graduated from Beijing Normal University with a master's degree and she became an official at the publicity department of the Communist Party Committee of Baise City.

She was appointed as the first secretary of Baini Village to help with poverty alleviation in March 2018. Since then, she had devoted herself to her career, working day and night on matters to alleviate poverty and improve villagers' welfare.

Huang was once asked why she came back to work in such a remote village. She said Baise was her hometown, an old revolutionary base area, a border land, an area inhabited by minority groups, a poverty-stricken mountainous region and a reservoir relocation site, as well as one of the main battlefields in the country's efforts to lift everyone out of poverty.

"Turning from the role of a student to a civil servant enabled me to realize that not only should I do my job wholeheartedly, but I should also be responsible for my words and deeds," Huang made the remarks when she started to work in her hometown.

When she worked as the first secretary in the village, she consciously followed Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era to guide her practice, publicized Xi's important remarks on rural work and revitalization in the village, and promoted the Party's innovation theory to take root in remote mountainous areas. She always took the cause of the Party as the top-most priority in her heart.

Huang worked hard to improve local villagers' lives and helped the whole village shake off poverty. She sought investment projects, invited experts, launched mutual-aid teams consisting of impoverished families, and set up an e-commerce service center in the village.

Huang also cared for the elderly and left-behind children, and actively resolved disputes between villagers with her professional knowledge in law, gaining the locals' trust.

File photo: Huang Wenxiu (C) visits a family in the village. [Official WeChat account of Guangxi News]

(Source: China Women's News/Translated and edited by Women of China)