"Thanks to the timely help of the resident work team, my family's life has become stable again." Mu Yongsheng, a villager in Yanchuanzi Village, Balipu Town, Lintao County, Gansu Province, said sincerely. Mu's family mainly relied on farming for income. Someone in his family got sick the year before last, and the life that had already been lifted out of poverty became a little "unstable" again.

"What does your family need to add?" "Is your physical condition okay to work outside?"... Bian Shiming, the first secretary of the resident work team, went to Mu's home to conduct an on-site survey as soon as possible. The resident work team took prompt actions to help coordinate serious illness assistance and introduced Mu's son to work on a construction site. The village also helped purchase a farm tricycle for Mu to transport Chinese medicinal materials. With multiple measures, Mu's family income has significantly improved.

Selecting and dispatching the first secretary of the village and the resident work team is an important institutional arrangement to consolidate and expand the achievements of poverty alleviation and promote the comprehensive revitalization of rural areas. Since the transition period in 2021, 31 provinces and Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps have continuously organized and dispatched more than 500,000 first secretaries of the village and resident work team members in each round. They bring advanced concepts, capital projects, and technical services to strive at the front line of the village, and strive for prosperity together with the villagers.

Employment is an important source of income for poverty-stricken households. In Zhangjiahe Village, Kang County, Gansu Province, China Construction Group has successively dispatched three first secretaries of the village. "Last year, a total of 143 people in the village went out to work." Zhang Jianfeng, the first secretary of the village, introduced that aiming at the major aspect of employment and income increase, the village communicated with the county's human resources and social security department, and the agricultural and rural department to connect villagers to the labor service projects of China Construction point to point.

Compared with the past, the development conditions of many poverty-stricken villages have been significantly improved. How can resident cadres inject new vitality into village development?

In Rongjiang County, Guizhou Province, Luo Liping from the County Bureau of Culture, Sports, Radio, Television and Tourism successfully helped Baobei Village, Xinghua Township catch the traffic of the "Village Super" event, enabling Miao villagers to benefit from tourism. Since 2023, more than 500 villagers in the village have been employed near their homes, and the collective economic income of the village has quadrupled. Zhou Qian from the Provincial Women's Federation helped Fengdeng Village, Zaima Town build a "Women and Children's Activity Station" and organized activities such as family tradition inheritance and star civilized family selection, bringing silent changes to rural governance... "We will dispatch specialized talents according to the development needs of the village." said Liu Yang, deputy director of the Cadre Information Center of Rongjiang County Party Committee Organization Department.

The needs of village development and the trust given by villagers are the driving forces for many resident cadres to be willing to stay at the front line all year round.

In Anshun Economic Development Zone, Guizhou Province, He Xiaoyou was successively dispatched to Luqi Village, Dazhi Village, and Hexing Village to carry out poverty alleviation work. For ten years, like a day, he has become the "mud-legged cadre" in the mouths of villagers.

"What He Xiaoyou always says is that if there is anything, just look for him." Last year, Wang Zaiyun, a 五保 household in Hexing Village, accidentally sprained his waist, and He Xiaoyou drove him to the hospital immediately. Before the project application for building farm roads, digging ditches, and repairing mountain ponds in the village, He Xiaoyou would hold a courtyard meeting with the work team to listen to the opinions of villagers, greatly improving everyone's enthusiasm for participating in rural construction.

"Now the village has changed a lot. As long as we work hard, we will have a good future." Driven by the resident work team and the village committee, Yang Yongxiang, a villager in Hexing Village, developed vegetable planting, and soon built a two-story building at home.

How to test the assistance effectiveness of resident cadres? Changfeng County, Anhui Province, carries out quarterly display and exchange activities, organizes the first secretaries of the village to show their actual achievements, find deficiencies, and clarify measures on stage. The results will be used as a reference for their annual assessment, awards, and evaluations. "This has strengthened the resource sharing and complementarity among dispatched villages and also helps resident cadres learn from each other." said Zhong Yu, the first secretary of Maying Village, Yangmiao Town. "The regular fairs, youth rural drama festivals and other activities held in our village are all ideas 想出的点子) in multi-party exchanges."

To promote the resident assistance work to a new level, it is necessary to continuously build a rural talent team that can settle down, stay, and be competent.

For strict selection of personnel, all regions strictly screen, refine the selection criteria, and conduct person-place matching analysis to ensure the selection of excellent and strong candidates. For strengthening training, strengthen provincial-level demonstrations and county-level rotations, and accurately target to empower resident cadres and enhance the combat effectiveness of grass-roots Party organizations. For more care, all regions actively implement measures such as the working funds, living allowances, and the inclination of the proportion of excellent assessment grades for resident cadres to encourage more outstanding resident cadres to take on responsibilities.

In 2024, the Agricultural Rural Ministry Management Cadre College established an online learning platform for the first secretaries of the village and resident work team members to provide learning services for the first 10,000 resident cadres. "This year is the last year of the five-year transition period for consolidating and expanding the achievements of poverty alleviation and effectively linking with rural revitalization. We will continue to guide all regions to strengthen guidance, supervision, and improve the assessment and evaluation mechanism to further give play to the talent support role of resident cadres." said the relevant person in charge of the Regional Cooperation Promotion Department of the Agricultural Rural Ministry.（Outlook New Era）