Nancheng Shigu Community, located at the junction of Dongguan Nancheng and Houjie, is an important node of Dongguan's "Millions of Projects" comprehensive demonstration area. Here, surrounded by clear water, the antique gatehouse stands, Yuqing Road is full of ancient style, and the houses along the street are neatly aligned, showing the style of Guanyi. At the turn of spring and summer, residents stroll through the ecological park or the Shigu River after tea and dinner, enjoy the breeze, taste the livable beauty in the integration of urban and rural areas, and feel the tranquility and harmony of spring.
At present, with the Shigu community as an important source, the urban and rural living environment of 15 typical villages and 10 typical towns in Dongguan is forming a chain of beads to accelerate the transformation of butterflies. This is a vivid portrayal of the transformation of Dongguan's "Millions of Millions Project" towns and villages, and it is also an important mission for Dongguan urban management to deeply participate in the "Millions of Projects" and promote the improvement of urban and rural living environments. Since 2024, Dongguan urban management has taken the "Millions and Thousands Project" as the traction, focused on the "Seven Ones" construction of the beautiful polder town, and innovatively launched the "five-step" work method of urban fine management, eliminating weak points, making up for shortcomings, improving the urban and rural living environment in the whole area, promoting the "typical" villages and villages "fine embroidery", and continuing to build a "clean and orderly city".
"Typical Village" Continues to "Finely Embroidered"
For Dongguan citizen pony, visiting the stone drum in Nancheng is to find a trace of the green field, and every time you come, you can meet new beauty and give birth to different feelings. Many years ago, the Shigu River was dirty, the buildings were old, the roads were chaotic, the village was poor, and the masses complained constantly.
"The environment is not good, and the main responsibility lies with the responsibility of the cadres of the two committees of our community. Li Zhiwei, a member of the Party Committee of Shigu Community, told reporters that in recent years, the Party Committee of the two committees of Shigu Community has combined the rural revitalization strategy and urban fine management, guided by problems, and systematically rectified the inland river chong, from underground to air, from the inside to the outside, to transform and upgrade the community gatehouse, main street road, community park, farmers' market and its surrounding roads and other public space places. Li Zhiwei said that in the rectification of the living environment, the leadership of party building is the fundamental follow, the systematic rectification is the guiding ideology, the promotion of rural revitalization is the fundamental goal, and the fine management is the fundamental means. In layman's terms, it is to establish standards, leaders take the lead in implementation, strengthen inspection and supervision, continue to polish the background color of the living environment, and realize the revitalization of the whole region.
To transform "construction drawings" into "real scene paintings", the only way is to work hard. Since then, the difficult problems of the Shigu community have been successfully solved: river surge control, source control, dredging, sewage interception, ecological restoration, and landscape upgrading; The main street is upgraded, through "beautification", "ordering" and "lighting", the façade of buildings along the street is improved, the business order of merchants is standardized, and the municipal facilities of street lamps on the main street are optimized; Parking standardization, the use of idle land, shack land integration and utilization, increase more than 1,200 parking spaces, solve the "parking difficulty"; Park construction, revitalize idle land, build pocket parks, and dress up village lanes; The market renovation solves the problem of messy shops, creates a civilized, clean and orderly environment, and provides residents with a shopping experience at their doorstep.
The environment needs to be quality, and management needs "means". In promoting the fine management of the human settlements, the community combined with the "five-in-one" working method of the fine management of Dongguan urban management, launched the daily village inspection system of the cadres of the two committees, and established a WeChat group, for the problems found in the village, it is required to be dealt with within 10 minutes, and the rectification results will be photographed and feedback. The requirement of "10 minutes to see results" is also known as "strictest management". "This system has persisted to this day." As the No. 001 project of Shigu Community of Dongguan's "Millions of Projects", the houses on both sides of Shigu Community Market Road are clean and bright after the façade renovation. On the road, I saw the sanitation team members carrying out normalized sanitation and cleaning work from time to time. According to Li Zhiwei, the community sanitation team is responsible for cleaning the internal community and the external roads are cleaned by a third-party company using smart equipment. The two models complement each other, and through fine management, the best effect of environmental governance is achieved at the lowest cost.
Since 2022, the appearance of the Shigu community has changed with each passing day, and the environment has continued to be brightened and beautified. "It's a stone drum that's constantly changing." Today's stone drums, surrounded by green water, green trees, birds and flowers, every time he visits, he lingers and indulges in it. "In the future, our community will also have a back garden and a new cultural and leisure area." On May 7th, Li Zhiwei stood on the Shigu Bridge, overlooking the fish jumping in the blue waves, and the willow green houses on the south side were neat, outlining the blueprint for the construction of the "Millions of Projects" in the Shigu Community: in the future, a commercial night market on both sides of the river will be built on the south side, and a wide view will be built on the north side.
The people's yearning for a better life is endless. The improvement of the living environment of the Shigu community has not been completed. Li Zhiwei finally said that in the future, the Party Committee of Shigu Community will lead the grassroots governance with grassroots party building, with perseverance and long-term success, and grasp the implementation with the spirit of nailing, through fine management, the formation of "ecological green to improve life, waterscape aura to gather popularity, with humanistic accumulation to reflect Lingnan culture" community characteristics, promote the construction of ecologically livable and beautiful villages, and enhance the well-being of community residents.
"Our goal is to embroider all over the world"
"Shigu community is a model for the improvement of the urban and rural living environment of Dongguan's 'Millions of Projects', relying on the guidance of party building, giving full play to the joint participation of the masses, grasping key areas, so that the environment is significantly improved, and the cost of community expenditure is well controlled." Chen Chuangye, executive deputy director of the Dongguan Municipal Urban Management Committee Office and deputy director of the Municipal Urban Management Comprehensive Law Enforcement Bureau, said after many field investigations on the living environment and fine management of Shigu community that as an important node of Dongguan's "Millions of Projects" comprehensive demonstration area, the experience of Shigu community human settlements improvement is worth promoting in the whole city, so as to realize the improvement of human settlements from the village level to the whole area of towns and villages. The construction of the seven one's important node projects will form a chain and form a ring, and then promote the overall improvement of the living environment and urban and rural quality of the entire Dongguan city."
As a deeply involved department of Dongguan's "Millions of Projects", Dongguan urban management will build a "1279" demonstration and leading system (that is, to build 1 comprehensive demonstration area, 2 demonstration towns, 7 village-level benchmarks, and carry out 9 major actions) as the traction, implement the village appearance improvement action, and coordinate the promotion of the "Seven Ones" construction of the beautiful polder town, the improvement of the village appearance and the comprehensive renovation along the important traffic corridors, etc., and all the town center areas and most of the villages (communities) have reached the provincial demonstration model construction standards of the beautiful polder town. Promote the appearance of towns and villages to be greatly improved. Among them, the "Seven Ones" construction includes: the construction of a beautiful township entrance passage, a beautiful demonstration main street, a house façade improvement model, a beautiful polder town living room, a clean and tidy farmers' market, a beautiful river, and a green ecological park.
Chen Chuangye said that Dongguan implements the system of "city directly managing towns", and the town and village economy is relatively developed, and the level of integrated urban and rural development is relatively high. Since 2023, Dongguan has focused on the work requirements of the "Millions of Thousands of Projects" to improve the appearance of villages, combined with the construction of beautiful polder towns, deepened the co-governance of towns and villages, and promoted the whole region, helping to build demonstration towns and benchmark villages, and promoting the integrated development of urban and rural areas to a higher level. At present, in accordance with the work goal of "starting in one year, achieving initial results in three years, significant changes in five years, and fundamental changes in ten years", the improvement of the quality of human settlements in Dongguan has achieved initial results. Taking 2023 as an example, a total of 392 human settlements quality projects will be completed, a total of 455 pocket parks will be built, and 1,266 parks and green spaces will be opened and shared.
However, Chen Chuangye also said that the implementation of the "Millions and Millions Project" aims to achieve the coordinated development of urban and rural areas and enhance the vitality of urban and rural economies. However, at present, there are still many places in Dongguan that are both urban and rural, and there is still a long way to go for balanced and integrated development of urban and rural areas, and the problem of unbalanced and insufficient urban and rural development still exists, and the long-term and cumulative problems affecting high-quality development are becoming increasingly prominent.
Taking Dongguan as an example, the primary challenge facing the urban and rural living environment is urban order. With the growth of urban population and the increase of travel demand, the number of cars in Dongguan (including foreign licenses) has surged to 6 million, and parking order has become a key factor affecting urban order and the quality of human settlements. The second is that there are still piles of garbage, sewage cross-flow, and stinking public toilets around complex places such as farmers' markets, and these sanitation "black spots" and "dirtiest and messy" areas are easy to rebound, which is the weak point and difficulty of urban and rural human settlements improvement.
Therefore, Chen Chuangye emphasized that the realization of refinement, quality and normalization of urban and rural environments still needs to be led by a starting point and continuously promoted. The "Millions and Thousands Project" clarifies the goals and tasks of improving the urban and rural living environment, and injects new advantages and new momentum into Dongguan's high-quality development. Through the construction of high-quality living environment and perfect service facilities, we will build nests to attract phoenixes, attract industries and population clusters, and promote the improvement of urban and rural living environment and industrial upgrading, talent recruitment and intelligence, and jointly promote the balance and comprehensive improvement of urban and rural areas.
15 villages (communities) have undergone a beautiful transformation
At the turn of spring and summer, the reporter recently came to the Shigu Community of Nancheng Street again. The weeping willows are still clinging, the blue waves are rippling, and the sheep's hoof horns blooming at the corners of the streets and alleys are blooming warmly on the branches, and there is quite a kind of surprise and comfort of "long hatred of spring returning to nowhere to go, and I don't know how to turn into this". In fact, with the improvement of the living environment, the "spring" of the Shigu community has not only added popularity, but also gathered wealth.
"Post-85" Li Jiaqi is one of the first residents of Shigu community to buy property in recent years, "Now the Shigu environment is really getting better and better, some people also joke that the road is cleaner than the bed at home, and there are more and more tourists who come for sightseeing and leisure, but there are not many corresponding supporting businesses." Li Jiaqi saw a business opportunity. In May 2023, Li Jiaqi opened a commissary with a car from Shigu Magnolia Children's Theme Park. Today, she has a good business in her commissary and has fulfilled her dream of starting a business on her doorstep. Like Li Jiaqi, Li Jiancheng also returned to the community to use his house and craftsmanship to run drinks and snacks. "I'm very satisfied to go home and earn money and take care of my family at the same time," he said. Every day when I wake up, see the green, and feel clean, I feel a hundred times more refreshed. ”
This is the case for locals, and more than 70% of non-residents also enjoy a good life of living and working in peace and contentment. There are many old houses and cheap rents in the area of the Shigu Community Ancestral Hall, which attracts outsiders from the surrounding Tian'an Cyber City and nearby industrial areas. However, some residents' old houses have fallen into disrepair and out of control, with collapsed walls, piles of garbage, and mosquito breeding, which have become "black spots" for sanitation. "You must use it, otherwise you will never be able to take off the 'black' hat." Li Zhiwei said that in recent years, the community has integrated rural revitalization and the beautiful polder town project, transforming the old house and the surrounding area into a pocket park, decorated with colorful paintings and old photos, and creating a cultural time lane; Clever use of protective slopes, the construction of red brick stairs, the placement of red paint and white drums, planting green flowers, the integration of urban and rural elements, awakening cultural memory, so that local residents and residents from other places can experience the beauty and feel the atmosphere of home. Ms. Xu, from Datong, Shanxi Province, has lived in Shigu for 8 years and has witnessed the improvement of the community environment. Ms. Chen, who also works in a cake shop in Shigu Community, said that when she moved from Dongcheng to Shigu in Nancheng two years ago, the newly renovated Yuqing Street and the newly built Village History Museum gave her a sense of déjà vu that she had entered a tourist attraction.
With the in-depth promotion of the "Millions and Millions Project", the Shigu community has accelerated its rebirth, revitalized and surging, and activated many sleeping land resources. As of the end of February 2024, Shigu Community has attracted 36 projects to settle in, and is committed to building it into a beautiful village with deep integration of industry, city and people with "collective economic multiplication, modern industrial upgrading, happy life improvement, and integration of local and foreign residents". Among them, the Altran Smart New City project, located on both sides of Dalong Road, has completed land leveling and is waiting to be launched, and will become an industry-city complex that brings together a new generation of information technology, new energy, modern service industry and other high value-added industries in the future.
"In the future, there will only be more villages (communities) like this, in addition to the Nancheng Shigu Community, now 15 villages (communities) such as Chashan Nanshe are undergoing a beautiful transformation." Zhou Yanfang, head of the Fine Management Section of the Dongguan City Management Comprehensive Law Enforcement Bureau, told reporters that as the only city in Guangdong Province with a fine management section among the 21 prefecture-level cities in Guangdong Province, it is mainly responsible for implementing the work deployment and requirements of the provincial and municipal Millions of Projects.
Anchoring the "Seven Ones" and starting 272 projects
"At present, according to the key tasks such as the 'Seven Ones' construction of the beautiful polder town, each sub-bureau has submitted more than 300 living environment improvement projects this year to create an upgraded version of the beautiful polder town." Li Liqiang, deputy chief of the Fine Management Section of the Dongguan City Management Comprehensive Law Enforcement Bureau, said that the main goal of these projects is to improve quality, for example, in the construction of beautiful township entrance passages, some town and street greening and beautification elements are too few, and the quality is not high; The façade of some beautiful demonstration main streets has not been upgraded thoroughly, and the farmers' market urgently needs to be cleaner and tidier, mainly problem-oriented, focusing on micro-renovation and strong management, and not engaging in large-scale demolition and construction. According to the data, up to now, 272 of the 362 projects planned to start construction have been started, and the others are also in full swing. At the same time, the comprehensive renovation of important traffic corridors is also a key task this year, mainly focusing on the improvement of municipal greening, the rectification of "six chaos", and the optimization and improvement of urban order. "This work has been done in 2023 and will be extended to all important traffic corridors in the city this year."
In order to realize the normalization of the improvement of the living environment, Dongguan urban management will optimize and upgrade the refined management in 2024, and innovatively launch the "five-in-one" working method of fine management, including the "one town and one promotion" of urban fine management, clean city activity day, "the most beautiful" and "dirtiest and messy" regional selection, refined inspection, and "coding mechanism" of urban fine management. Among them, the coding mechanism is designed for the problem of "fast rectification and fast rebound" of sanitary black spots, aiming to improve the efficiency of environmental sanitation unannounced visit supervision, and use this as a pilot to gradually promote to all aspects of urban management.
The mechanism is established by the refinement department of the Municipal Urban Management Bureau for 94 health black spots that are easy to rebound, and sets up "urban service codes" in each black point to implement code assignment management. The responsible entities (urban management bureaus, village communities, and sanitation enterprises) regularly inspect and upload the situation to the smart urban management platform. The platform uses big data analysis to identify problems with ineffective rectification and inspection, and notify the responsible units to rectify them. The refinement department updates the problem database every month, cancels the daily inspection of the black spots that have not rebounded for 1 month, and if it has not improved for 3 consecutive months, it will be notified to the territory and interview the person in charge, and the environmental sanitation department will punish the relevant units and enterprises. Li Liqiang said that since the trial operation of the mechanism, the urban management sub-bureaus have forced sanitation enterprises to implement the main responsibility, and the village communities and sub-bureau urban management personnel to implement the territorial responsibility through the health black spot inspection and punching mechanism, eliminating a large part of the "dirty and messy" frequent health black spots in the jurisdiction, and will be further improved and optimized.
Project-driven, mission-driven. Millions of projects, urban management in progress. As an important participating department of the Millions of Millions Project, in 2024, Dongguan Urban Management will mainly improve the mechanism, strengthen supervision, inspection and rectification, pay close attention to environmental sanitation rectification, "six chaos" rectification, corridor rectification, etc., comprehensively promote the construction and upgrading of the "Seven Ones" of beautiful polder towns at the town and village levels, consolidate the achievements of the construction of beautiful polder towns, and make every effort to improve the quality of the living environment.
Text | Reporter Qin Xiaohui
Figure | Reporter Wang Junwei Qin Xiaohui