Pursuant to the provincial Party Committee and Provincial Government's routine arrangements for paired assistance, on November 4, Liu Zhongjie, Deputy Secretary of the Hengyang Municipal Party Committee and Mayor of Hengyang City, led a municipal government delegation to Yongshun County in Xiangxi Tujia and Miao Autonomous Prefecture to conduct targeted assistance activities in support of rural revitalization. Liu Zhongjie emphasized the need to thoroughly implement the central authorities and provincial Party Committee's strategic deployments and specific requirements concerning paired assistance; to treat Yongshun’s development priorities as Hengyang's own responsibilities; and to align assistance efforts precisely with "Yongshun's needs" and "Hengyang's capabilities." Adhering to the principles of complementary strengths and industrial integration, the delegation underscored the importance of enhancing the effectiveness, sustainability, and impact of targeted assistance initiatives. Shang Shenglong, Deputy Secretary of the Xiangxi Prefectural Party Committee and Acting Governor of Xiangxi Prefecture, also attended the activities.

Liu Zhongjie conducted on-site inspections at Da Feng Ecological Agriculture Development Co., Ltd., the integrated agriculture–culture–tourism project in Fushu Village (Furong Town), Songbai Town, and Hengyong Cooperative Park. During these visits, he gained first-hand insights into the development of the berry tea industry, the operational status of the integrated agriculture–culture–tourism initiative, and the progress of enterprise onboarding within the cooperative park. He commended Yongshun County's successful practices in cultivating distinctive industries and expressed Hengyang's commitment to deepening experience-sharing and collaborative learning—particularly in oil-tea and other priority sectors—to foster mutually beneficial and win-win industrial development.

At the subsequent working symposium, Liu Zhongjie listened to briefings on Yongshun County's socioeconomic development and the progress of paired assistance efforts. He noted that since the establishment of the Hengyang–Yongshun paired assistance partnership in 2021, Hengyang has consistently approached Yongshun's challenges with sincerity, substantial resource commitment, and pragmatic action—implementing a total of 256 cooperative projects to date. A multidimensional assistance framework—encompassing industrial support, livelihood improvement, and consumption-driven assistance—has taken increasingly concrete shape.

Looking ahead, Liu Zhongjie outlined three strategic directions: First, strengthening institutional mechanisms—including high-level coordination across jurisdictions and departments, performance-oriented project implementation, and professionalized team management—to ensure long-term effectiveness. Second, advancing income growth for local residents through enhanced industrial empowerment, accelerated rollout of substantive cooperation projects, and bolstered endogenous development capacity. Third, expanding consumption-based assistance by diversifying sales channels—including the "origin warehouse + sales warehouse" dual-warehouse linkage model—as well as leveraging e-commerce platforms, offline supermarkets, and mobile specialty cabinets to facilitate broader market access for high-quality Yongshun products in Hengyang. Furthermore, he stressed deepening people-centered livelihood support, particularly through group-based medical and educational assistance and employment promotion initiatives, to help Yongshun residents achieve more prosperous and sustainable livelihoods.

Shang Shenglong extended sincere gratitude to Hengyang for its sustained, dedicated, and results-oriented assistance. He affirmed Xiangxi Prefecture's and Yongshun County's firm commitment to fulfilling their principal responsibilities, implementing central and provincial directives with rigor, clarifying implementation pathways, prioritizing key tasks, and providing robust logistical and administrative support for all paired assistance initiatives—jointly advancing the path of high-quality rural revitalization and delivering tangible developmental outcomes as a meaningful expression of gratitude for Hengyang's profound solidarity and support.

Also participating in the inspection and symposium were Wang Yan and Gong Chang, municipal leaders of Hengyang; Zou Kun, Secretary-General of the Hengyang Municipal Government Office; and Zou Xingwang, Xiang Jiamao, Shi Zhenwei, and other leading officials from Xiangxi Prefecture and Yongshun County.