In recent years, Longsheng Autonomous County has firmly grasped the theme of ethnic work of "common unity and struggle, common prosperity and development" of all ethnic groups, with the formation of the sense of the Chinese national community as the main line, innovated the "national +" model, integrated the work of creating national unity and progress into various fields, made overall progress, and explored a road of innovation and creation with Longsheng characteristics. Longsheng has twice won the title of "National Model Collective of National Unity and Progress", 3 units have won the title of "National Model Collective of National Unity and Progress", 4 comrades have been awarded the title of "Model Individual of National Unity and Progress", 1 middle school has been named "Demonstration Unit of National Unity and Progress Creation Activity", and 5 units have been named "Demonstration Unit of National Unity and Progress Creation Activity of the Whole Region".
The innovative "national + culture" inheritance model blooms the charm of national traditional culture
Longsheng is inhabited by 5 ethnic groups, including Miao, Yao, Dong, Zhuang and Han, of which ethnic minorities account for 81% of the total population of the county, which is the first place where the Red Army's Long March successfully implemented the minority policy, the earliest ethnic minority autonomous county established in central and southern China, one of the only two autonomous counties in the country, and a model for safeguarding national unity and progress. The national culture is rich and colorful, with the best preserved original ecological culture of various ethnic groups, with the great integration culture of "Miao Yao Dong Zhuang Han, unity of family affinity", and is an important destination for Chinese and foreign tourists to visit multi-ethnic culture.
Create a brand with national characteristics. Longsheng National Festival is very rich, known as "the county of 100 festivals", and was awarded the "Chinese Brand Festival Demonstration Base" by the China National Festivals Special Committee. The ethnic festivals organized at the village group level include the Dong New Year Festival, the Festival of Sacrifice, the Festival of Songs, the Fireworks Festival, the Guangfu King Festival, the Red Cloth Festival, the Girls' Festival, the Cultivation Festival, the Tea Festival, and so on. Longsheng has also successfully held 8 consecutive Longji Rice Terrace Cultural Festival, 2 farmers' harvest festivals, and 4 Longji Rice Terrace 100 km mountain running race. Known as the "world's first long-haired village", the Long-hair Grooming and Longji Rice Terrace Cultural Festival performed by Hongyao women in HuangluoYao Village has become a beautiful national cultural brand in Longsheng County, and the county's "Chinese Farmers' Harvest Festival and Longji Rice Farming Cultural Tourism Festival of Longji Rice Terraces Globally Important Agricultural Cultural Heritage" has been listed among the 70 most distinctive harvest celebrations in the country. These ethnic festivals and cultural activities are embedded, implanted, and integrated into the elements of national unity and progress, promoting the exchanges and blending of various ethnic groups, and protecting and inheriting national culture very well.
Deeply cultivate the inheritance of intangible cultural heritage. Longsheng promulgated the "Regulations on the Protection of Ethnic and Folk Traditional Culture in Longsheng Autonomous County" to carry out the excavation, sorting out and protection of ethnic and folk traditional culture in the form of legislation. It excavated, collected, and sorted out the folk culture and art of the whole county, such as folk songs, dances, music arts, and folk literature, and completed the compilation and publication of the "Ancient Books of Ethnic Minorities in Longsheng Autonomous County", "Collection of Inscriptions of Longsheng Autonomous County", "Reading Book of Knowledge of Ethnic Minorities in Longsheng Autonomous County" and "Overview of Ethnic Minorities in Longsheng". At present, Longsheng County has declared 1 item at the national level, 12 items at the autonomous region level, 17 items at the municipal level and 58 items at the county level. There is a demonstration base for the inheritance of Hongyao costumes, 4 people have been listed as the inheritors of intangible cultural heritage at the autonomous region level, and there are more than 1,000 backbone folk artists and folk culture inheritors. In 2017, the "Guangnan Traditional Architecture and Folk Culture International Protection Center" was established in Guangnan Dongzhai in Pingping Town.
Innovative publicity and promotion channels. CCTV, Guangxi Television and other news media were invited to Longsheng to interview and shoot large-scale documentaries commemorating the victory of the Red Army's Long March, and launched a red cultural brand with the theme of "inheriting red memory and traveling through time". Through the CCTV "One Village, One Village, One Village, General Concern" special report on the practice of Hongyao compatriots in Dazhai Village to get rid of poverty and become rich, Dazhai Village and Laos Xianglong Village formed a friendly village for poverty alleviation experience exchange. He created and launched a number of ethnic minority cultural masterpieces with strong national characteristics and the atmosphere of the times, such as "Washing the Three Dynasties", "Yao Mei Shy", "OilIng", "DouZhu", "Legend of Dongzhai", etc., and won different awards at or above the autonomous region level. In September this year, Longsheng organized a delegation to participate in the 2021 China Shenzhen (7th) International Modern Green Agriculture Expo held at the Shenzhen Convention and Exhibition Center, pushing the Longsheng characteristic agricultural tourism brand to the Pearl River Delta region and the whole country, and boosting the revitalization and development of Longsheng's countryside.
Create a "national + industry" development model to stimulate the vitality of national rural development
Since 2016, Longsheng has regarded poverty alleviation and rural revitalization as the greatest political responsibility and the largest people's livelihood project to promote national unity and progress, cohesiveness, real work, further consolidate the foundation of rural economic development in ethnic minority areas, and gradually achieve the goal of "strong agriculture, rural beauty, and rich farmers". In April 2019, 59 poor villages and 45,200 rural poor people in the county achieved high-quality poverty alleviation. The per capita disposable income of rural residents increased from 6637 yuan in 2015 to 13931 yuan in 2020, an average annual growth of 10%. The collective economic income of all villages in the county has reached more than 50,000 yuan. Explore the integrated development model of "cultural tourism business". Focusing on national culture, farming culture, red culture, and health care culture, we will implement the strategy of fine cultural products, and take the road of "cultural stage, tourism singing, and economic development". In addition to the "world's best" Longji Rice Terraces, "Yaochi on Earth" Longsheng Hot Spring and other famous scenic spots, relying on the Red Army's Long March through the red relics left by Longsheng, the "25,000th Long March Experience Tour" and "Long March Deep Tour Across Guixiang" were newly launched, promoting the construction of the red tourism consortium in northern Guizhou and embarking on a characteristic road suitable for the development of longsheng red cultural tourism. The county's direct tourism employment reached 30,000 people, indirect employees reached 50,000 people, more than 35% of the ethnic minority poor people through scenic spot dividends, land shares, folklore display, construction workers, catering and accommodation, special product sales and other ways to achieve poverty alleviation. Last year, 1,246 Hongyao compatriots from 275 households in Dazhai Village, Longji Town, relying on the local farming culture and ethnic culture, received a total of 7.2 million yuan in tourism dividends, and the household with the largest dividend reached 65,000 yuan. Longsheng County won the title of "National Leisure Agriculture and Rural Tourism Demonstration County".
Promote the "multi-point blossoming" of characteristic industries. Based on advantages and local conditions, it has formed a three-dimensional agricultural development pattern of "planting fir trees and medicinal materials in the alpine area, planting oil tea, tea, pepper, tomatoes, corn, etc. in the semi-alpine area, and planting monk fruit, passion fruit, kiwi fruit, vegetables, etc. along the river". With geographical advantages and natural resources, with "two teas and two fruits + characteristic breeding" as the starting point, vigorously develop unique and regional green food, and promote the "Longsheng products" to "Longsheng brand" leap. At present, Longsheng has 16 agricultural products such as luo han guo, golden chrysanthemum, tea oil, bamboo shoots and so on to obtain organic agricultural product certification, Longsheng phoenix chicken, Longsheng jade duck, Longji pepper, Longji tea, Diling flower pig, Longsheng red glutinous and other 6 agricultural products have obtained the national agricultural product geographical indication certification, producing 15,000 tons of green agricultural products and 100 tons of organic food every year, with an output value of more than 1 billion yuan. The national countryside has released great vitality for development.
Explore the development path of new farmers. Build a platform for innovation and entrepreneurship, guide university graduates, retired soldiers, scientific and technological personnel and other returnees to the countryside and "soil experts" and "township makers" to innovate and start a business, cultivate a group of innovation and entrepreneurship leaders, national entrepreneurs, etc., a large number of ethnic minority people can become a new force to help get rid of poverty and become rich, and achieve rural revitalization. They build their hometowns, repay the society, and achieve themselves by investing in factories, inventing patents, building e-commerce platforms, establishing farmers' professional cooperatives, and circulating barren land. Hou Linsong is a Dong private entrepreneur with only a primary school education, who has obtained five national invention patents in the hydropower fields such as "automatic control device for turbine drifting", "manual automatic dual-purpose regulator for hydroelectric generator" and "hydropower station motor control system", and is known as "inventor". After returning to his hometown, Liu Huangrong, a Miao veteran of Longjia Village, Mati Township, led the Miao masses to build roads and bridges, developed breeding and breeding, became a rich and civilized village, was elected secretary of the village party branch and director of the villagers' committee, and wrote the struggle life of retired soldiers in the new era.
The construction of a "national + social" governance model promotes the co-creation, co-construction and sharing pattern
Longsheng County has always adhered to the strengthening of ethnic unity as the focus and focus of work, constantly improved the service management mechanism, accelerated the formation of a rural governance pattern, built a demonstration area of national unity and progress, and provided strong support for the implementation of the rural revitalization strategy.
Explore mass service mechanisms. Through measures such as improving the infrastructure construction of ethnic minority villages, improving the living environment of people of all ethnic groups, and innovating the service management mechanism for floating populations, the sense of gain, happiness and security of ethnic minorities will be continuously enhanced. Since 2016, Longsheng County has invested 1.664 billion yuan in infrastructure construction, agricultural production development, relocation of poverty alleviation, village-level collective economy, social undertakings, etc. In particular, the whole county is regarded as a large scenic spot, based on the "ecological, tourism, and poverty alleviation ring road" connecting 80% of the administrative villages in 10 townships, public service facilities are laid out, scenic spots are built, and linkage industries are developed, which solves the "urgent difficulties and anxieties" of the people of all ethnic groups. In recent years, the county has also invested more than 10 million yuan in special funds for the development of ethnic minorities, and integrated more than 9 million yuan of project funds from development and reform, agriculture, culture, transportation, poverty alleviation, water conservancy, tourism, ethnic groups and other departments to participate in the construction of characteristic villages. At present, 30 ethnic villages in the county have been named "Traditional Chinese Villages", 16 ethnic villages have been named "Chinese Ethnic Minority Characteristic Villages", and 6 ethnic villages have been named "Guangxi Ethnic Minority Characteristic Villages".
Explore mechanisms for resolving ethnic disputes. Longsheng County has firmly established the awareness that "grasping national unity and progress is to grasp social harmony"; the county, township, and village levels have all formulated work plans for the investigation and mediation of contradictions and disputes, established and improved a three-level network for the investigation of contradictions and disputes in counties, townships (towns), and villages, formed people's mediation committees, professional mediation committees, and other organizations, and promptly discovered and resolved all kinds of contradictions and disputes through various forms such as visits, secret investigations, and mapping, so as to resolve contradictions and disputes in the early stages, in the bud, and at the initial stage. Under the legal framework, we will improve village rules and people's covenants, form villagers' councils, give play to the role of rural autonomy, and maintain social harmony and stability and ethnic unity. Many concentric pavilions, lianxin bridges, and harmony roads with the meaning of national unity have been built between tun and tun, village and village, and township and township. In 2019, Jinjiang Village, Longji Town, which is inhabited by Yao, Zhuang, Han and other ethnic groups, was rated as a "National Rural Governance Demonstration Village". Longsheng has been ranked first in the Guangxi Public Security Survey for many consecutive years.
Explore co-construction and sharing mechanisms. In the "seven advances" activities such as vigorously promoting the creation of national unity and progress into organs, enterprises, communities, townships, schools, religious sites, and military camps, the creation work has been included in the year-end target assessment of all townships and departments in the county, giving full play to the responsibilities of each functional department and the role of the autonomous region, city, county, and township four-level poverty alleviation (rural revitalization) task force, as well as the participation role of social work institutions, implementing the communication and coordination mechanism for the creation of national unity and progress, sharing resources, and jointly building and co-creating. Through the activities of the National Unity and Progress Publicity Month, we have produced propaganda slogans, special propaganda films, and pamphlets on the creation of national unity and progress, carried out colorful propaganda and education activities that have cast a solid sense of the Chinese national community, stimulated the enthusiasm, initiative and creativity of the masses of all ethnic groups to participate in the creation of national unity and progress, and planted the flower of "national unity" in their hearts and hugged them tightly like pomegranate seeds. The touching story of the Hou Guangzu family of Longdian Village in Surabaya Township, where Miao Yao Dong Zhuanghan and Harmony Family of "Nine Families Love And Five Nationalities", and the "Seventy-two Families Love Relay" of Pingping Town' Shitian Dongzhai jointly cared for the five elderly.
Implement the "national + ecological" symbiosis model to build a harmonious and beautiful home for all things
When ecology prospers, civilization prospers, and when ecology declines, civilization declines. Longsheng County has always adhered to the development concept of "ecological county, green rise", promoted green development, and promoted the harmonious coexistence between man and nature. There are key centralized ecological protection areas such as Huaping National Nature Reserve, Longsheng Hot Spring National Forest Park, Longji National Wetland Park, And Longsheng Nanshan Nature Reserve, which are national key ecological function areas and lay a good foundation for the construction of "China's strong ecological tourism county".
Practice the "Two Mountains" theory. Practice the "two mountains" theory of "green water and green mountains are golden mountains and silver mountains", keep the two bottom lines of national economic development and ecology, innovate and develop ecological agriculture, ecological industry and ecological tourism, transform a good ecological environment into an ecological economy, and create a sustainable development path of industrial prosperity, mass prosperity and ecological beauty. The quality of the county's ecological environment ranks in the forefront of the city, and it has won the honorary titles of the fourth batch of "green water and green mountains are golden mountains and silver mountains" practice and innovation base, "national forest tourism demonstration county", "autonomous region-level ecological county" and so on. 15 green mines have been built, which have been listed as the first batch of "green mining development demonstration zones" in Guangxi, which has promoted the ecology of the national economy and promoted the economic and social development of ethnic minority areas.
Promote ecological governance. Longsheng formulated and promulgated the "Regulations on Forest Protection in Longsheng Autonomous County" to delineate the red line of forest protection. Persistently and deeply carry out the defense war against pollution such as blue sky, clear water, and pure land, change the long-term bad habits of the masses of all ethnic groups such as indiscriminate logging, vigorously promote measures such as banning logging, sand mining, fishing, and hunting, and deeply implement key ecological projects such as returning farmland to forests and comprehensive treatment of rocky desertification, and have completed afforestation of 800,000 mu in total, and effectively protected the ecological environment. The county's excellent air quality rate reached 99.7%, drinking water and surface water quality compliance rate of 100%, forest coverage rate of 82.36%.
Unleash the ecological dividend. Give full play to the role of river cleaners, ecological forest rangers, and village cleaners. The county has set up a team of 3346 ecological rangers composed of Miao, Yao, Dong, Zhuang, Han and other ethnic groups, patrolling the mountains and protecting the forests all year round, guarding the green waters and green mountains, and issuing an annual subsidy of 28.5 million yuan for ecological rangers, with a per capita annual income of more than 8500 yuan, from the former "relying on the mountains to eat the mountains" to today's "raising mountains and rich mountains". Tan Zhoulin, a Zhuang ecological ranger in Dadi Village, Sanmen Town, was named "the most beautiful ecological ranger in The Country". The production of longji naxiu, longji yi bamboo, bamboo frog mountain spring and other high-quality drinking water has transformed ecological advantages into economic advantages, and ecological dividends have been continuously released among green waters and green mountains, realizing ecological enrichment and ecological benefits.