Jiangsu: Renovating the Rural Human Settlements and Recovering the Nostalgia

Wushentan Village, bacheng town City, Kunshan City, creates a water town with "black tiles and white walls, clear and refreshing". Photo by Wu Qiong

Wushentan Village, bacheng town City, Kunshan City, creates a water town with "black tiles and white walls, clear and refreshing". Photo by Wu Qiong

  Small bridges and flowing water, white walls and tiles, sitting and watching dragonflies play in the water, and listening to children frolicking … … Is this rural area homesick in your memory? With the acceleration of rural environmental improvement, the beautiful rural picture of "seeing the mountains, seeing the water, remembering to stay homesick" is spreading in Jiangsu.

  The provincial party committee and government regard the improvement of rural human settlements as the hard task of "agriculture, rural areas and farmers" and the first battle to implement the rural revitalization strategy this year and next, and make it clear that 70% of the goal of "Three-year Action Plan for the Improvement of Rural Human Settlements in Jiangsu Province" will be completed before the end of the year, and all tasks will be successfully completed by 2020. The reporter learned from the office of the joint meeting of the provincial rural human settlements improvement that the province has achieved more than half of the tasks in the three-year plan, especially since this year, all localities and departments have comprehensively promoted the improvement of rural human settlements with high quality, and the appearance of villages has improved significantly. Recently, the reporter went to many places for on-the-spot interviews.

  Carrying rural homesickness and embodying modern civilization.

  Passing through the grassy central park at the entrance of Wushentan Village, bacheng town, Kunshan City, and walking on the slow walking trail built by the water, the uniform white-walled and black-tile water town architecture comes into view.

  Xing Long, secretary of the General Party Branch of Wushentan Village, told the reporter that in order to improve the living environment, on the basis of maintaining the original natural features, history and culture of the village, the village carried out infrastructure construction and village appearance improvement according to the overall effect of "black tiles and white walls, refreshing and refreshing".

  What is visible is beautiful scenery, but what is invisible is governance. All the 13 natural villages below Wushentan Village have been introduced into property management companies, the garbage sorting facilities have been fully covered, and all domestic sewage has been managed. Twelve automatic sewage treatment stations using biotechnology have been built. At the same time, carry out environmental improvement in front of and behind the house to further enhance the village appearance.

  "In the process of rural environmental improvement, we insist on taking into account the protection of rural pastoral features, digging deep into the ancient rhyme of history and inheriting the local context." Yu Deshan, deputy director of the Agriculture and Rural Affairs Bureau of Kunshan City, introduced that the renovation of rural human settlements pays attention to the local flavor. In the process of inheriting homesickness and excavating characteristics, it comprehensively enhances the style of Tianshui Road forest village, protects the beautiful scenery of homesickness, promotes the harmonious coexistence between man and nature, and the village form and natural environment complement each other, and builds an "upgraded village" that carries rural homesickness and reflects modern civilization.

  Last month, Kunshan added more weight to the renovation of rural human settlements, and formulated and issued the "Assessment Method of" Red and Black List "for the renovation of rural human settlements in Kunshan City (Trial)", focusing on the supervision and assessment of rural domestic garbage disposal, rural water environment management and protection, rural public toilets management and protection, and village appearance improvement. Every month, the inspection team will check and assess one-third of the total number of natural villages, and set up a "red and black list" for the top ten and the last ten natural villages, which will be publicized in the news media and government websites. If there are outstanding problems, a rectification supervision sheet will be issued, and the whole process will be tracked and supervised, and the rectification will be implemented within a time limit. The ranking results of assessment scores are included in the annual target assessment of districts and towns, and are directly linked to the year-end 100% assessment remuneration of village cadres.

  Preserve the texture of the village and build it without planning.

  The clear water winds, and every family sleeps on the river. Panlou Village, Sanbao Town, tongshan district, Xuzhou used to be one of the most remote and poor villages in the southeast of Tongshan, but now it is known as "Little Jiangnan in Northern Jiangsu".

  More than 20 years ago, when Zhang Yangang, the general secretary of the village party branch, first took office, the sanitary environment in the village was very poor. Through years of investment promotion, the enterprises in the village have continued to grow and develop. With money in his hand, Zhang Yangang began to think about how to make the living environment of the villagers beautiful. According to the development concept of "people change the environment, and the environment shapes people", Panlou Village has implemented the village environment upgrading project drastically. "Since last year, we have combined public space management to further improve the appearance of villages, implement road hardening, put all weak network cables into the ground, dredge the river ponds, and turn stagnant water into living water. Now there are fish in the river." As Zhang Yangang said, he led the reporter to the Little Square in the village. As the sun set, the villagers who were preparing to dance in the square dance gathered one after another. "This used to be an idle wasteland. We made it into a square and installed an electronic screen for the villagers to entertain and exercise." Under the premise of not changing the texture of the village, Panlou Village has greatly changed its appearance. Now walking in the village, the houses are neat and beautiful, the squares are scattered, the streets are spacious and clean, and the water is clear and the shore is green.

  According to Wu Yun, deputy director of the Agriculture and Rural Affairs Bureau of tongshan district, the improvement of rural human settlements is the highlight of Tongshan’s rural revitalization strategy. "Last year, the district carried out the demonstration of rural human settlements, the improvement of thousands of villages, and the centralized residence of thousands of households ‘ 100 million projects ’ Through the landscape renovation of villages, beautiful villages are gathered into pieces and connected into lines, and bonsai becomes scenery. "

  In the process of environmental improvement, Tongshan insists on no planning and no construction, paying special attention to highlighting the distinctive village features and making the countryside more like the countryside. "A planning and design team has been set up in the district to create different types of villages with different characteristics according to resource endowment, human characteristics, historical inheritance, industrial form and natural texture." Wu Yun said.

  Attract social capital and implement market operation.

  The abandoned cowshed has been transformed into an exquisite guest room with a price of more than 1,000 yuan a night, and a cafe with full atmosphere has been built on the former site of the pigsty. The small bungalow where farm tools were once piled up is now a popular pub … … In Sujia Village, Moling Street, Jiangning District, Nanjing, the "Hometown with Sujia" cultural tourism project, which was transformed from more than 60 farmhouses, is hard to find a room every weekend.

  "Our company invested 150 million yuan to carry out the overall transformation of the village environment. It officially opened on April 20 this year and has now received 150,000 tourists." Wen Ying, the person in charge of the township companion travel, told the reporter that Langshi property was introduced in the village and a professional cleaning and security team was formed. In Sujia Village, all domestic sewage will be filtered and purified by sewage treatment facilities before being discharged. Walking on rural roads, there will be garbage sorting facilities at intervals, and villagers will consciously sort domestic garbage.

  Rural environmental improvement needs the participation of the whole society, and the addition of social capital is conducive to reducing the burden on the government and forming a joint effort of co-construction and governance. Yang Ming, Social Undertaking Promotion Section of Agriculture and Rural Affairs Bureau of Jiangning District, introduced that the renovation of rural human settlements in the whole area actively attracts social capital and state-owned enterprise groups to participate. In addition to projects involving social capital such as "Hometown with Sujia", state-owned enterprises such as District Urban Construction Group and Jiaojian Group are also paired with five streets for construction, and the group organizes the implementation of environmental renovation projects and the streets cooperate.

  It is understood that this year, our province has budgeted over 10 billion yuan for the improvement of rural human settlements, a substantial increase compared with last year, and actively guided all localities to broaden channels and increase investment. Our province will also select 1000 villages as comprehensive demonstrations, set up a number of demonstration models of rural human settlements improvement that are easy to copy and popularize, and guide and promote the high-quality improvement work on the surface. (Xinhua Daily reporter Wu Qiong)