Liupanshui City: Let the Sun Shine on the Special Group (3)

Xu Liping, member of the Standing Committee of the Municipal Party Committee, secretary of the Politics and Law Committee, and chief of the Public Security Bureau presided over the promotion conference for the construction of the “Sunshine Project” and make specific deployments for the unconventional propulsion of the project.

In order to properly implement the various supportive measures for the project, the municipal party committee and government selected five cadres with higher political consciousness and richer practical work experience from some of the subordinate organs to work in the Municipal Narcotics Control Commission as the fourth batch of supervisors for anti-drug works to strengthen the inspection, supervision, and guidance on the “Sunshine Project”. The municipal party committee and government formulated and issued the Opinions on Strengthening the Construction of the “Sunshine Project”, made specific requirements on the guiding ideology, general concept, constructional plan, and basic objectives of the project, incorporated the community-based drug detoxification and rehabilitation as well as the rectification of released prisoners into the coverage of the project in accordance with the actuality of the city, and gave the project maximum preferential support polices to the "Sunshine Enterprises” and “Sunshine bases” in the eight respects of fiscal, tax, land use, industrial support, entrepreneurship support, financial support, administrative tax relief, and product support.

Establishment of 11 placement sites of various kinds

"Drug addicts often relapse after released from compulsory treatment or labor camp due to discrimination, lack of care, and poor self-control when back to the neighborhood and the community. The difficulties in finding jobs and staying idle with nothing to occupy them are the major reason for relapse. The employment problem is the most important premise for solution of the tricky problems of high relapse rate, difficult consolidation, and difficult administration of the drug rehabilitation persons,” said the officials from the Municipal Narcotics Control Commission. Only the vigorous advance of the “Sunshine Project” can make the drug rehabilitation persons thorough with detoxification.

The construction of the “Sunshine Project” is an important approach for innovation in anti-drug works In order to give good play to the project as a carrier, continuously enrich its content in form and in connotation, eradicate or reduce the cruxes during its development such as “non-standardized management” and “lack of vitality”, Liupanshui City boldly explored and practiced new ways adaptive to the overall actuality of the city. According to statistics, since the commencement of the “Sunshine Project” in Liupanshui City, the city has established a total of 11 “Sunshine enterprises placement bases (sites)”, including eight in Pan County, one in Shuicheng County, one in Zhongshan District, and one in Liuzhi Special Administration Area; placed a total of 466 persons through concentrated placement, 729 persons through scattered placement, 153 through self-employment, 65 through public welfare jobs, and 1,302 through independent job-hunting; input a total of 14 million yuan of construction funds; supported 20,144 square meters of land for use of factory buildings; and hired 297 full-time cadres for community-based drug rehabilitation work.