Let's clean the village
- Village Cleaning -
In harmony with the countryside, the environment must come first. Through environmental remediation, it can not only enhance the environmental awareness and civilization literacy of the villagers, improve the appearance and health status of the village, but also improve the quality of life of the villagers and develop healthy and hygienic living habits. By the end of 2023, more than 95% of villages across the country have carried out village cleaning operations, and the appearance of villages has improved significantly.
This April marks the 36th National Patriotic Health Campaign Month. The patriotic health campaign is not a simple cleaning, but a bit by bit integrated into personal life, cleaning the home with practical actions, eliminating bad hygiene habits, and consciously cultivating a civilized, healthy, green and environmentally friendly lifestyle.
From now on, this official account will focus on the theme of clean villages and healthy life, and open a column of "Clean Villages", inviting experts and scholars in relevant fields of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs and the National Patriotic Health Office to popularize scientific knowledge of cleaning villages and protecting health, so stay tuned.
Small toilets, big livelihoods
Zheng Xiangqun
Small toilets, big people's livelihood. From "one pit with two bricks, swarms of mosquitoes and flies" to the realization of walls and roofs, odorless and maggots. The change of the small toilet reflects the great changes in the hygiene habits and lifestyles of the vast number of farmers, which is related to the construction of rural living environment and the overall situation of rural revitalization.
Some farmers may still be wondering, what kind of toilet can be regarded as a sanitary toilet? Zheng Xiangqun, director of the Rural Human Settlements Research Center of the Institute of Agricultural Environment and Sustainable Development of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, gave an answer:
What is a sanitary toilet
The meaning of a sanitary toilet
Sanitary toilets must have doors, roofs, walls, and ventilation, free of flies and maggots, basically to ensure that they are clean and odorless.
In addition, the temporary storage of manure or the treatment facilities are not seepage or leakage, and the human feces can not meet, and after on-site treatment or off-site treatment, some pathogenic factors in the feces can be effectively eliminated, which is called a sanitary toilet.
Key points for the construction of sanitary toilets
In general, there are three main aspects of sanitary toilets:
First, it is necessary to ensure that farmers have a clean, hygienic, comfortable and private toilet environment;
Second, it is necessary to avoid the indiscriminate discharge of toilet feces, polluting the environment and causing environmental risks;
Third, it is necessary to kill the pathogens in the feces to avoid the spread of pathogens, thereby threatening the health of the people and causing health risks.
Reporter: Yang Zonghui
Editor: Wang Tingting
Supervisor: Wang Xuemei