Zunyi City: Revolutionary Site, Warm Sunshine (5)

Optimize the “Sunshine Project” mode in combination with the local actuality

Zunyi City seriously studied the drug situation of the local area and adopted measures suitable to the local actuality in the anti-drug works through the utilization of a variety of social resources aiming at job placement and self-reliance of the addicts, and helped the community-based rehab patients solve the difficulties in production and in life, get rid of drug addiction, lead a normal life, and return to the society.

In respect of the concrete work, various counties, districts (cities) in Zunyi City carried out serious researches and selected local enterprises with a sense of social responsibility and projects with sustainable development potential to jointly build the “Sunshine Project” without pursuing for hasty achievements but promote the construction of the project in a steady way.

Features: “Fenggang Mode” and support for self-employment

With the work ideas of “assistance for employment, encouragement for confidence, enhancement of education, and promotion of harmony”, Fenggang County relies on the Chamber of Commerce and established the Fenggang Sunshine Employment Aid Center with the member enterprises of the Chamber as placement bases, to help solve the employment problem of the drug rehab patients and the released prisoners; in counties with relatively less drug addicts, the scattered placement mode of the “Sunshine Project” is established. The Provincial Narcotics Control Commission spoke highly of the “Fenggang Mode”. Currently, this mode is promoted in all five drug-free counties throughout Zunyi City. Other counties, districts (cities) with relatively more serious drug conditions are also encouraged to adopt this mode as a supplementary approach.

Suiyang County and Zheng’an County actively encourages rural community-based drug rehab patients to start their own businesses and carried out the activity with the theme “the salvation of every addict means the salvation of a family; the employment of every one more addict means one more social harmony factor”. Under the support of the Public Security Bureau, the Narcotics Control Commission, and the Agriculture and Animal Husbandry Bureau of Zheng’an County and the People's Government of Xinzhou Town, Lou Xu, a community-based drug rehab patient who formerly pastured cattle in the rural areas as a way of drug rehabilitation, now contracts more than 1,000mu of barren hills and 100mu of arable land to feed 37 heads of cattle and more than 140 sheep (which became known as the “Sunshine Farm”). With the support of various government bodies in Suiyang County, the community-based drug rehab patient Zhao Dekai contracted arable land and created the plantation cooperatives.