Guangxi Power Grid Corporation: Joint-building party branches creatively to promote rural harmony

Company Profile
As a wholly-owned subsidiary of China Southern Power Grid, Guangxi Power Grid Corporation is mainly responsible for the investment, construction and management, facilitates the PTD management, electric power marketing, power deals and dispatch, and optimal allocation of power resources, playing a significant role to ensure the high quality reliable power supplies for economic and social development in Guangxi.
The Company sets up power supply bureaus in 14 cities and manages 44 county-level power supply enterprises. Guangxi Power Grid is located in the middle of the main channel for "sending electrical power from west to east”, and is an important part of the southern power grid. Its 500 kV system has covered Nanning, Liuzhou, Guilin, Yulin, Wuzhou, Hechi, Baise, Laibin, Hezhou, Qinzhou, Fangchenggang, Guigang and power grid in Chongzuo.the 220 kV system has formed close ties to greatly improve the power supply reliability and power supply capacity of Guangxi power grid.
Challenges
In Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, 58% of its population live in rural areas and the annual rural net income per capita only equals to 75% of China’s average level. Rural areas also face a series of challenges, like inadequate resources, limited investments, weak foundations and lack of talents, so badly need the help and support from the outside.
In terms of the building of rural party organizations, challenges like older party members, low cultural quality, shortage of material basis to unite the mass, and weak cohesive and inspirational forces of rural party organizations, to a certain degree, hinder Guangxi Power Grid Corporation to reconstruct and maintain the power grid in rural areas, which restricts rural development in turn. Therefore, an essential issue in the development of Guangxi Power Grid Corporation is how to build a win-win and mutual development operation pattern for enterprises and rural areas and to promote the harmonious development of society.
Solutions
In order to support the development of rural areas in Guangxi effectively, Guangxi Power Grid Corporation has moved the power supply service stations into party branch joint-building communities, which gets through the last kilometer in providing excellent power supply services. By providing door-to-door service actively and solving power utilization problems on the spot, a series of special service carriers are refined and promoted in practice.
Setting an example for the grass-roots party building, and forming a good pattern for the coordinated development of party building in urban and rural areas
Under the guidance of Guangxi Power Grid Corporation, Nanning Power Supply Bureau, a pilot unit, has organized and guided 158 grass-roots party branches to form joint-building branches with the rural party branches in the same power grid region, thus forming 167 power protection teams to carry out the work of protecting electricity facilities. Party members and bad-off rural party members in the same power grid region have formed 164 assistance-pairs to deepen training on policy theory, power utilization safety, practical techniques and agricultural production. A series of measures, including building teams, venues and mechanisms, are also taken to strengthen grass-roots party branches building of the two concerned parties and to inspire them to play a strong role in fighting bastion, as well as to make party members to set an example for others. Through establishing systems of joint conference and mass appraisal, a long-term mechanism for the overall urban-rural grass-roots party building is established.
Intensifying work on helping and supporting the poor in rural areas, and facilitating electric power reconstruction
Guangxi Power Grid Corporation has launched targeted support and help activities systematically. Providing help to joint-building villages in aspects of mind, life, production and project, the company has signed party branch joint-building agreements with 409 villages in the area and invested a poverty alleviation fund of around RMB 12,000,000 to introduce nearly 350 projects for the joint-building parties, which makes power a brightness line, connection line and wealth line for the new socialist countryside construction.
Chengxi branch of Nanning Power Supply Bureau has carried out joint-building with the party branch of Jingling village Jinling county. Taking five helps and five promotions as a breakthrough point, Chengxi branch set up party member service teams actively and launched 37 activities, like opening green power service access, holding banana competition, and assisting in land amelioration, to improve rural production environment, cultural quality and income level. In order to solve the difficulties of power for production use in the joint-building villages, Guangxi Power Grid Corporation has invested RMB 1,090,000 to support the production development of its joint-building village, Tiandong village Donglan county Hechi city, so as to help peasants make a fortune. Nangning Power Supply Bureau has invested a fund of RMB 7,000,000 to build 47 power tower foundations and 34.8 kilometers 10 kilovolts overhead lines to help Liuxiaopo village, a party joint-building village, to break the bottleneck in power utilization.
Using mechanism to guarantee system advancement, expanding services to overcome power utilization difficulties
Guangxi Power Grid Corporation focuses on guaranteeing the normalizing operation of party branch joint-building from the perspective of institution, like perfecting Guangxi Power Grid Party Branch Joint-building Implementation Rules to specify the working principles, procedures, contents and requirements of joint-building. Thus, a mechanism for Joint-building Agreement is established. At the beginning of each year, the two concerned parties will reach an agreement on the key practical projects and sign the Joint-building Agreement for that very year, and then concentrate efforts to implement the project. Exemplary joint-building party branches are also launched, and 75 exemplary joint-building party branches with distinct themes and of outstanding effects are established in the first batch. Also, a party branch joint-building support award has been introduced. In 2012, Guangxi Power Grid Corporation conferred this award to 19 party branches, which inspires the initiative of joint-building parties.
Achievements
Social benefits
Improving the power utilization situation in rural areas to facilitate peasants to increase income. Problems facing the villagers of joint-building villages, like power utilization bottlenecks and unstable electric voltage are solved through strengthening work on power grid reconstruction. In December 2015, the electricity consumption of Liuxiaopo village reached 6,720,000 kilowatt hours, increasing 3,090,000 kilowatt hours compared with December 2014, that is, increasing by 85%. Households with unqualified electric voltage in the area were reduced from 852 to 0, thus realizing the fundamental transformation of electric power quality. Based on the platform provided by joint-building, 46 production and life training of various types have been held and more than 5,000 people have received the training, which improve the villagers’ production skills. With the investment of support fund and the establishment of service teams, the income of residents is greatly improved. For instance, in a joint-building village, Jinling village Jinling county Nanning city, which has been supported and helped by Chengxi branch of Nanning Power Supply Bureau, the average annual income of those villagers has increased from RMB 4,530 in the beginning of joint-building to RMB 12,330 by 2015.
Economic benefits
Improving the satisfaction degree of rural clients, and reducing the losses of electricity larceny. The responsible acts of Guangxi Power Grid Corporation to take the initiative to help the rural mass solve difficulties in production and life are supported and embraced by local people, and the satisfaction degree of rural clients is significantly improved. Apart from this, the advancement of party branch joint-building encourages both the rural party members and the mass to be involved in protecting power lines and grids voluntarily, and preventing and stopping the outlaws from destroying, stealing and plundering electric facilities and power supply equipment. Owing to these, 80,000 hi-crops along the power transmission lines are cleared and 400 incidents relating to blocked power construction and power line obstacles are solved successfully, which guarantees the smooth advancement of power grid construction and realizes the goal of joint development of enterprises and countries. It is an exploration of a new route for central enterprises to perform social responsibility, and has become the example for joint-building of urban and rural areas.
Prospect
The party branch joint-building has renewed both the form and the carriers of the grass-roots party building, as well as the grass-roots social responsibility management. This is a vivid embodiment of Guangxi Power Grid Corporation to follow the mass line and to make the development achievements benefiting the mass. In the future, Guangxi Power Grid Corporation will further deepen the work of party branch joint-building, and spare more efforts on expanding the area of party branch joint-building, deepening joint-building projects and perfecting the joint-building mechanism, perform corporate social responsibility actively and make a contribution to the scientific development of economic society and building a harmonious society.