Archives empower the neijiang practice of rural grassroots social governance

A file helped Xiao Liu find the "80 square meter house". Xiao Liu, a villager in Yunfeng Village, Yunding Town, Longchang City, Neijiang City, Sichuan Province, originally lived in an old adobe house with a homestead area of 180 square meters, which later collapsed. In 2000, when Xiao Liu's brother applied to build a new house of 100 square meters, he reserved an old homestead area of 80 square meters for him to build in the future. In December 2020, when Xiao Liu was preparing to apply for a house, he had an unpleasant quarrel with the villagers. The villagers thought: "Your brother has already built a house with a homestead, why can you still build it?" With the help of village cadres, Xiao Liu found the 2000 old homestead area division filing material in the village archives, which clearly stated: "Only 100 square meters of the old homestead area are used, and there are 80 square meters to be used!" In the face of "ironclad evidence", the matter was satisfactorily resolved. A file that helped the old man retrieve the "two years that were stolen". That year, the old man of the Gongjia community in Shijia Town, Shizhong District, Neijiang City, reached retirement age and went to retire according to regulations. However, when he was applying for retirement, he found that the date of birth of the identity card and the file registration were inconsistent, and the age of work history registration was 2 years younger than the actual age, so he had to "postpone" it for two years before he could retire. The old man was not convinced. After that, he went to the Municipal Public Security Bureau, the District Human Resources and Social Security Bureau, the District Archives, the Police Station and other units, but he did not find any files that could prove his true age. Finally, he found the real age information in the 1978 version of the old household registration file kept in the Gong family community archives. After verification by the relevant departments, Lao Zeng returned "in the two years that he was stolen" and was able to retire smoothly. This is the epitome of Neijiang City's archival work serving rural grassroots social governance.

Neijiang City is located in the heart of Chengdu and Chongqing, is the hometown of Chinese painting master Zhang Daqian, rich in sugarcane, sugar and candied fruit, so it has the reputation of "the heart of Chengdu and Chongqing, the hometown of Daqian, and the sweet city inside the river". In December 2019, Neijiang City was identified by the State Archives Bureau as one of the first batch of overall pilot areas for "archival work to serve rural grassroots social governance". Since the launch of the pilot work, Neijiang City has based on local reality, based on the pilot project of the rural revitalization strategy of archival services, and taking the adjustment and reform of the village-level structure as an opportunity, innovating the institutional mechanism of archival work, focusing on "rich, living and serving", actively playing the role of archival reference vouchers, and embarking on a road of archives empowering rural grassroots social governance.

Grasping the word "rich" promotes the village-level archives to become global

On October 28, 2021, in Shangteng New Village, Yong'an Town, Shizhong District, Neijiang City, Fu Dejian, deputy secretary general of the Neijiang Municipal Party Committee and director of the Neijiang Municipal Archives Bureau, led law enforcement personnel to inspect whether the village-level archives management here meets the norms and whether it meets the requirements of rural grassroots social governance.

"The villagers' awareness of archives has increased, archival resources have become more and more abundant, and some new physical archives have recently been added to the village." Seeing Fu Dejian, Pan Junliang, a village cadre in Shangteng New Village, happily shared the "new treasure" in the village archives - an old-fashioned bicycle.

"Rich" is synonymous with neijiang village-level archives.

In order to form a joint force in archival work and promote the "enrichment" of village-level archives, Neijiang has focused on building a four-level linkage mechanism of "city, county (city, district), town (street), and village (field town community)", that is, the municipal archives bureau and the municipal archives are linked, conscientiously performing their duties and taking the initiative; the county (city, district) archives bureau organizes the towns and villages under its jurisdiction to promote the pilot work as a whole in accordance with the supervision requirements of the municipal archives bureau; the town (street) sets up a "business backbone team"; and the village-level archival cadres make every effort to grasp it and formulate a village-level archive collection and collation catalog (list).

Archives are a highly professional work, how should rural grassroots cadres accurately do a good job in archival work?

Fu Dejian explained the "Secret of Neijiang": Neijiang Innovation compiled 6 easy-to-understand "village-level archives slip through the mouth". One is a familiar slip of the tongue, which provides a guide for doing a good job in village-level archives. Village cadres have gradually grown into "competent, capable, and capable" archival business experts, and they are handy in doing archival work.

Walking into the village-level archives in Neijiang, people can not only see the volume of text files that are sorted out and standardized, but also see the old photos that carry the memories of the villagers, and they can also see the old objects with historical memories. After a year of hard work, the Neijiang village-level archives have become globalized, and the proportion of townships and administrative villages has reached 100%.

Focus on the word "living" to promote the diversification of village-level archives

On the afternoon of October 28, 2021, in the Yangling Village Rural Revitalization Hall in Gaoliang Town, Dongxing District, Neijiang City, Deng Lijun, a village cadre, enthusiastically introduced the situation in the village to a group of guests who came to visit. From the industrial development of Yangling Village to the changes in life, from the township sages to the organization construction... Deng Lijun spoke with flying eyebrows, and the guests listened with relish.

This is a village-level archive with the theme of rural revitalization. The entire archive room is divided into two floors, the first floor mainly displays the historical materials of Yangling Village, and the second floor mainly preserves the archives of Yangling Village.

"It's both an exhibition hall and an archive." Deng Lijun spoke of the flexibility of the function of the village-level archives.

"Live" is another adjective in the Neijiang village-level archives.

"On the one hand, we should highlight the convenience and practicality of the village-level archives; on the other hand, we also strive to diversify the functions of the village-level archives." Fu Dejian said. Since the pilot work was carried out, Neijiang has comprehensively upgraded the software and hardware facilities of the village-level archives, and realized the collection and standardization of agriculture-related archives such as village affairs management, land rights confirmation, and household registration management. For villages with better comprehensive conditions, archive digitization work has also been carried out.

Fu Dejian said: "We attach great importance to excavating the regional characteristics of Neijiang, doing a good job of 'archives +' articles, and making the village-level archives a new format for the integration of neijiang culture and tourism." ”

Zhangxue Village, Baihe Town, Dongxing District, is the hometown of the famous monk Zhangxue in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties. While doing a good job in standardizing the archives, Zhangxue Village has created the "Zhangxue Farming Culture Showroom" based on Zhangxue's positive contribution to agricultural development. Guyu Village, Guhu Subdistrict, Longchang City, was once a small fishing village. Guyu Village has dug deep into its own "beautiful fishing village" history and created a village-level "fish museum" to show the unique "fishing village culture". Sifang Village, Xiangyi Town, Weiyuan County, is a beautiful village rich in figs. Combined with its own characteristics, Sifang Village has created a village-level archive that integrates the Fig Culture Center, the Folk Museum, the Sifang Village History Museum, and the Village Culture Exhibition Hall.

A variety of village-level archives with the characteristics of Neijiang regional culture, the display of village history and rural cultural tourist attractions have blossomed everywhere in Neijiang, becoming a beautiful landscape in Neijiang.

Do a good job of the word "service" to promote the village-level archives to become close to the people

"Do you want to settle your bills and not pay them back?" In the face of his daughter-in-law's "doubts", Li Qing (pseudonym), a villager in Hongxing Village, Yanling Town, Weiyuan County, "cannot argue with a hundred mouths".

It turned out that a few years ago, when the village built a highway to acquire land, Li Qing borrowed 10,000 yuan from his daughter-in-law to buy social security, promising to return the compensation for land requisition to her after the compensation for land acquisition arrived. At the end of 2019, the daughter-in-law who worked outside the home heard that the compensation had arrived for several months, but Li Qing did not mention the matter of repaying the money, thinking that the mother-in-law wanted to pay the account and did not pay it back, and there was a contradiction between the mother-in-law and the daughter-in-law.

"The money for the demolition has not arrived at all..." Li Qing was also very aggrieved. The matter reached the village committee, and the village cadres found that the bank account number reported by Li Qing was wrong by checking the files retained in the village, so the compensation money was delayed. According to this, the village re-reported the bank card information for Li Qing, and a week later, the compensation money arrived, and Li Qing returned the money to his daughter-in-law as promised.

A file recovered the "demolition money that did not arrive" and resolved the contradiction between the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law. "I didn't expect the archives to be so useful and helped me a lot..." After this incident, Li Qing had a deeper understanding of the archives work.

"Fu" is another adjective for the Neijiang village-level archives.

Archives are traces and witnesses of historical development, as well as important credentials and bases for serving people's livelihood and helping rural grassroots social governance. At present, Neijiang City has formed more than 202,000 volumes and more than 479,000 archives of rural governance, people's livelihood protection, land rights confirmation, poverty alleviation, and rural customs and customs. In the process of promoting rural grassroots social governance, Neijiang City has focused on the word "service", focused on revitalizing sleeping archival resources, and created a village-level archives scientific management and convenient use of archives management platforms, which has greatly improved the ability of archives to serve rural grassroots social governance.

Wuhuang Village used village-level archives as the basis to recover collective economic losses. Wuhuang Village, Longhui Town, Weiyuan County, used superior funds to build a fish farm and contracted this collective asset to operate externally. However, in the process of leasing, the owner did not pay the contract fee and did not return the fish farm due to poor income, and the problem dragged on for nearly a year. Therefore, the "two committees" of Wuhuangcun Village resolved the contradictions and disputes in a reasonable and well-founded manner in accordance with the contracting agreement contract kept by the village archives.

The Hongguang community has safeguarded the legitimate rights and interests of the village collective through village-level archives. As a result of the construction of the hydropower station, the local government designated the barren land of the Hongguang community in Xinjiang Street, Dongxing District, as a state-owned asset. Based on the agricultural tax vouchers paid on the river beach land in 1954, the residents of the Hongguang community confirmed that the land was actually a collective asset, and Hongguang Village was compensated with more than 3 million yuan in compensation for the land.

Looking through the archives and using the register, from land confirmation to social security supplementary payment, from age confirmation to housing approval... On average, the city's village-level archives provide more than 10,000 archival access and utilization services for the masses every year, and resolve more than 2,000 contradictions and disputes.0 Although pile after pile and case seem to be trivial and trivial, it serves the people's livelihood, condenses the people's hearts, and builds the "cornerstone" of rural grassroots social governance.

Archives store memories, history learns the future. Nowadays, in Neijiang, the awareness of archives has penetrated into thousands of households, and the role of archives in rural grassroots social governance has become increasingly prominent, and the masses have become the biggest beneficiaries.

Source: China Archives Daily