2008年,邵阳市民委抓住机遇,主动汇报,争取了市委、市政府领导对民族工作和民族地区的关心重视。现任市委书记童名谦从湘西来到邵阳,第一站就深入城步苗族自治县调研,并确定从2009年起将他的工作联系点放到相对贫困的洞口县大屋瑶族乡。 In 2008, Shaoyang Municipal People’s Committee seized the opportunity to take the initiative to report and strive for the leadership of the municipal party committee and municipal government attention to ethnic work and ethnic areas. Current party secretary Tong Mingqian came to Shaoyang from western Hunan, the first stop in-depth investigation of the city step Miao Autonomous County, and determined from 2009 onwards to put his work contact point to the relatively poor Dongkou Yao Township.