In recent years, Relying on its location advantages, Tianhua Village, Zhuhe Street, Fangchenggang City, has vigorously developed industries such as cattle breeding and planting of traditional Chinese medicinal materials, and the collective economic profits have increased year by year. From the village's collective economic income of 43,000 yuan in 2018 to 128,000 yuan in 2020, the living standards of the masses have also improved year by year. Nowadays, the village road is clean, the trees are overgrown, the flowers are gorgeous, the environment is becoming more and more beautiful, the village has become a demonstration point for the happy village, and the flower village has blossomed "beautiful flowers", "rich flowers" and "happy flowers" that day.
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Beautiful Flowers: The infrastructure is gradually improving, and the old appearance of the countryside is renewed
On the afternoon of July 7, the client reporter of the Southern Morning Post set off from Fangcheng District to Tianhua Village, winding several kilometers of cement hardened roads, like a white silk belt leading directly to the village. Coming to the village, what comes into sight is the small Western-style buildings of each family, the green trees in front of the households, the flowers are blooming, the longan and yellow peel fruits are pressed all over the branches, the propaganda slogans such as "Be a civilized villager, create a beautiful home" can be seen everywhere on the wall, and the turquoise Fangcheng River water passes around the village, as if coming to a back garden.
Bird's eye view of the flower village. Photo by Zheng Yunyun
That day Flower Village Branch Secretary, Director of the Village Committee Shi Jiayin is a post-90s, she is a native of the Flower Of that day. In her impression, the village used to have muddy roads, low tile houses, and household garbage littered everywhere. Although the diameter distance from the village to the city is only 4 kilometers, it is very inconvenient for them to first go to the riverside ferry port to take a boat, and then walk out by car.
The Fangcheng River flows around the village. Nanguo Morning Post client reporter Zhong Xiaoqi took photos
Wang Hui, first secretary of Tianhua Village, introduced that improving the living environment in rural areas and building beautiful and livable villages is an important task in implementing the strategy of rural revitalization. Since 2017, the higher-level government has successively carried out the construction of "livable villages", "beautiful villages" and "happy villages" in Tianhua Village, hardening roads, planting greenery, and installing street lights.
The ancient house of the Shi Clan Ancestral Hall. Nanguo Morning Post client reporter Zhong Xiaoqi took photos
On that day, almost all the people in the village were surnamed Shi, and there was a certain history and culture, and the old houses of the ancestral hall for more than 200 years were repaired. Wang Hui said that since the beginning of this year, the relevant departments have invested 2.6 million yuan to build and improve the farmland water conservancy irrigation system, and another 300,000 yuan to build and improve the villagers' water diversion consolidation and upgrading project. According to the overall plan for rural revitalization, 4 million yuan will be invested in the near future to promote the construction of "happy villages", improve the appearance of the village, repair the Shi Ancestral Hall, and build and improve the drainage and sewage system.
The Flower of Prosperity: The planting and breeding industry is getting higher and higher, and the villagers are increasing their income
The total area of the village is 3.5 square kilometers, with more than 120 households and more than 500 people. The village is not big, but the industry is not small. Shi Jiayin said that Tianhua Village is rich in water resources and fertile land, and as early as many years ago, it developed a collective economy of cattle breeding and reservoir breeding.
Fence trails. Nanguo Morning Post client reporter Zhong Xiaoqi took photos
In recent years, due to poor market conditions, pests and diseases and other reasons, the annual orange has been eliminated, that day flower village according to local conditions, changed to planting vegetables, Chinese herbal medicine, Taiwan Bale, Vietnamese eggs and fruits, guiwei lychee and other industries, cattle breeding also set up a cooperative, villagers planted to make money, the annual collective economic income climbed steadily, in 2020 the village's collective economic income totaled 124,200 yuan.
That day flower village new house. Photo by Zheng Yunyun
Shi Jiayin said that after the village is close to the urban area and the transportation is convenient, many young and middle-aged people go to the urban area to work, mostly in the form of construction. Villagers have made money, many people have bought houses outside, and small Western-style buildings have been built at home, "some people come from the village to the city every day, leaving early and returning late, like office workers."
Shi Xiyi, a 55-year-old villager who is the leader of the four groups of Tianhua Village, talked about his family's situation, he proudly said that he was one of the first villagers in the village to go out to work, and after making money, he bought a suite in the urban area in 2010, and built a building in the village in 2013, and the decoration of the front courtyard cost 50,000 yuan. Today, as an elderly man, he returns to the village to raise chickens, ducks and geese, and his wife does wholesale work in the city's vegetable market, and the family's life is getting more and more prosperous.
The Flower of Happiness: Scientifically build a demonstration belt, and the pace of rural revitalization is large
After the "livable village" and "beautiful countryside" have been built one after another, the "happy village" of Tianhua Village is being built. In the past June, the signing activity of the Ecological Agriculture Project of Zhuhe Street, a rural revitalization industry in Fangcheng District, was held in Tianhua Village, where a vegetable planting project with an investment of 180 million yuan was landed.
Propaganda slogans posted in the village. Nanguo Morning Post client reporter Zhong Xiaoqi took photos
The project is divided into three phases of construction, the first phase has been transferred 100 acres of land, is currently grasping the leveling of land, planning to give priority to hiring local farmers to plant beans, sold to Liuzhou as one of the raw materials for snail powder. At the same time, that day, The Flower Village signed a cooperation agreement with the enterprise to support the development of the project and participate in the dividends of the project income, and continuously develop and expand the collective economy of the village.
Wang Hui introduced that in accordance with the requirements of rural revitalization deployment, the future planning of Tianhua Village will be unified with the adjacent Danzhujiang Village and Shiling Village, and scientifically create a demonstration belt for the revitalization of the ecological, healthy and leisure agriculture and rural revitalization on both sides of the Fangcheng River with the core functions of "green production, agricultural tourism and leisure, health and livability, and cultural entertainment".
Including the construction of reservoir leisure and health training base, ecological fruit planting and processing, oil tea base, etc.; to create a modern vegetable planting base, a characteristic flower garden base, pastoral science popularization garden, etc.; to build a Shi's traditional culture base, village history museum, ancient tree landscape, bamboo forest landscape, ancient village cultural research base, ancient fortress dock ruins, etc.; to build a modern rural pastoral complex, party building corridor, leisure square, rural gathering activity center, local landscape sketches, leisure jogging tracks, etc.
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