As an important carrier of cultural continuation and inheritance, place names are living fossils of history and culture. Zhengzhou is known as one of the eight ancient capitals, is an important birthplace of Chinese civilization, is a national historical and cultural city, do a good job in the management of geographical names, strengthen the protection of geographical name culture, to excavate the cultural heritage of Zhengzhou, to promote the construction of Zhengzhou national central city is of great significance.
Recently, the Ministry of Civil Affairs announced the "Measures for the Implementation of the Regulations on the Administration of Geographical Names", which will come into force on May 1, 2024. In order to promote the study and publicity of the newly revised "Implementation Measures of the Regulations on the Administration of Geographical Names", on May 8, the Zhengzhou Civil Affairs Bureau organized volunteers to go deep into the Baihua community to interpret the "Implementation Measures of the Regulations on the Administration of Geographical Names" for the masses, which was widely praised by the residents and community workers.
"The streets and alleys of the Central Plains District are named after the east and west for the river, and the north and south are the mountains, such as: Huaihe Road, Yihe Road, Songshan Road, Tongbai Road, ......" Zhu Kunjie, director of the District Geographical Names Office, explained the road naming rules of Zhengzhou City to everyone on the spot, and everyone listened to it with relish and high interest.
"Auntie, I see that you insist on exercising, and your body is very tough. We are from the Civil Affairs Bureau, this is a propaganda leaflet, welcome you to give more valuable comments on the naming of roads in Zhengzhou City......" Wang Shaoxiao, the Discipline Inspection Commission of the organ, warmly sent an invitation to the eldest lady who was exercising.
"Since the Ministry of Civil Affairs promulgated the implementation measures for the management of geographical names, our Zhengzhou Civil Affairs Bureau attaches great importance to and responds quickly, taking a variety of forms to learn and publicize the implementation of the newly revised measures for the implementation of the regulations on the management of geographical names, and constantly expanding the scope of publicity and social awareness of the implementation of the regulations on the management of geographical names, and setting off an upsurge of learning and publicizing the implementation of the regulations on the management of geographical names in the city." Li Jieren, director of the Division of Geographical Names, said.
In recent years, the Geographical Names Office of Zhengzhou Civil Affairs Bureau has played an important role in strengthening the management of geographical names, protecting and inheriting old geographical names, retaining the root and soul of urban construction and development, carrying out famous rural actions, empowering local characteristic industries, and helping rural revitalization. He has successively published "Zhengzhou Administrative Division Map", "Zhengzhou Geographical Names", and "Zhengzhou Geographical Names Cultural Stories". It injects the elements of place names and cultural charm into the construction of Zhengzhou civilized city, and promotes economic development. It has contributed to the construction of civilized Zhengzhou.
Source: Central Plains District Civilization Office