Members of the village management teams and representatives from 7 villages participated in the survey of needs of individual communities in early November, 2019, which was held in Bei-zi-tian Village of Mianning County. Project staff and participants of the survey spent long time on understanding the family income, schooling status of the children and sharing the experience of each community in a friendly and open way, all participants were willing to express their needs and experiences genuinely. |

During the interview and conversation, representative from Meigu expressed his feelings about his village, he analysed the problem he found regarding his own community that the villagers were not proactive, they have been dependent, like to ask and they would rather wait for help instead of doing by their own; the consciousness in health and community hygiene has also been low. Representative from cluster 10 and 11 of Ta-er-ti village in Yanyuan also shared their experience of implementation of the water project, and issues in community hygiene of Mianning.

At the discussion session, through the issues finding in Mianninig, most of the representatives had the same feeling that they all had similar issues such as, community infrastructure, environment and weak consciousness in health. They all believed that if they wanted to develop, they needed to have capable villagers to operate the community / village management teams, a harmonious neighborhood and to diversify community cultural and entertainment activities. After the discussion, new plans were added to the annual plan for 2020 in addition to those on-going and confirmed programs.
Women health management teams comprised of female villagers were set up for different communities in helping the project promote health education, especially on women’s health.
Community artistic and performing group was proposed to set in in the community in order to meet the needs in cultural and entertainment activities, especially for elderly persons affected by leprosy and villagers.
On agricultural development, new species of economic crops such as konjac, mango trees, citrus trees and livestock such as beef cattle, goats shall be introduced to the villages to improve their economic incomes.
Women health management teams comprised of female villagers were set up for different communities in helping the project promote health education, especially on women’s health.
Community artistic and performing group was proposed to set in in the community in order to meet the needs in cultural and entertainment activities, especially for elderly persons affected by leprosy and villagers.
On agricultural development, new species of economic crops such as konjac, mango trees, citrus trees and livestock such as beef cattle, goats shall be introduced to the villages to improve their economic incomes.

At the summary session, representatives summarized their works for the year, shared their experience and lessons learned at the end. During the meeting, some of the participants also participated in the Annual Xichang international Marathon together with some of the project staff. An appraisal of outstanding members of the management teams at the end highlighted the meeting, all winners were elected by the villagers and project staff.