"You can see the mountains, you can see the water, and you can remember the nostalgia." A village carries the history, culture and nostalgia of a village, condenses the past of the village, and shows the present and the future. This year, our province launched the theme propaganda and education activity of "Nostalgia Imprint - Collection of Village History and Village Affairs in Guizhou", aiming to record and display rural culture and development achievements. From September 28th, the WeChat public account of "Millennium Ancient Yi Red Weng'an" of Weng'an County Rong Media Center has opened a column of "Our Village's Affairs", taking the village history and village affairs as the context to take you to pursue those dusty historical memories together.
Walking in Xintu Village, Zhongping Town, a ridge of verdant crops is spread all over the mountains and fields, and the growth is good. Reservoirs and irrigation ditches continuously deliver clean water to the fields, providing a guarantee for agricultural irrigation.
Who would have thought that Xintu Village used to be a village with a serious shortage of water, especially water conservancy facilities, which were basically maintained at the level of the 70s, restricting the local economic and social development. Due to the influence of geological and natural conditions, there is no water source near Xintu Village, and in the dry season every year, people and animals have to travel about 10 miles to pick up drinking water back and forth, and it takes half a day to go back and forth. Due to the lack of water and the poor people, the girl is reluctant to marry here, marrying the relatives said that the daughter-in-law is very difficult, the local once spread the folk song of "the tea flat place is poor, the draft must first climb the slope, the mountain is high and the road is steep and difficult to walk, and the thirty-year-old man has no wife". When the water is safe, the people are safe, and when the water is prosperous, the people are rich. In order to solve the problem of drinking water for the masses, the local party committee and government will take the Xintu Village drinking water project as a political task, give strong support in terms of manpower, material resources and financial resources, adapt measures to local conditions, introduce when introduced, mention when mentioned, and solve the problem mainly in small segments, combine special construction with water conservancy construction, combine short-term needs with long-term interests, according to the priority, the difficulty of the project and labor, capital and materials, etc., mainly self-raising, supplemented by state subsidies, build reservoirs, vigorously implement drinking water projects, and ensure the safety of drinking water for the masses.
With a total investment of 200,000 yuan, the financial convergence to promote rural revitalization subsidy fund machine well supporting facilities project implemented in 2022 provides a guarantee for the water supply of 122 households and 474 people in Xintu Village. With the successive use of drinking water projects in villages such as Datian Dam, Nanmutou, Dadi Dam, Yanluoshui, and Baiguo Groove, the sweet and clear tap water is transported to thousands of households through water pipelines, moistening people's hearts...... In order to ensure the water for agricultural irrigation and stabilize the foundation of food production safety, in 2023, with the help of relevant departments at higher levels, Xintu Village actively strives for project funds, and finally obtained 750,000 yuan of minority development funds to complete the construction of 771 meters of 50CM*50CM integrated flood control and irrigation ditch in Shangzhai and Xiazhai of Xintu Village; THE REPAIR OF THE 2475-METER 30CM*30CM IRRIGATION DITCH OF KONGZHU AND LEIJIAYUAN HAS NOW BEEN COMPLETED AND PUT INTO USE. The boom in water conservancy construction has brought vitality and vitality to the agricultural industry of Xintucun and embarked on a path of green development.
Xintu Village is located in the west of Zhongping Town, which was formed by the merger of the original Xintu, Baixiang and Gaozhuang. It is adjacent to Zhongping Village in the east, Baisha Township in the south, Chadian Village in the west, and Longshui Township in Kaiyang County in the north, with 13 villager groups, 30 natural villages, more than 1,100 households and 4,658 people, more than 4,000 acres of cultivated land and more than 10,000 acres of forest land. Provincial Highway 305 runs through it and is one of the main grain and oil producing areas in Zhongping Town.
As a planting-based village, Xintu Village mainly grows rice, corn, rape, flue-cured tobacco, pepper and other crops, with fertile land and a high level of agricultural product planting. Relying on the perfect farmland and water conservancy infrastructure, Xintu Village has adjusted its industrial structure, developed characteristic breeding, and planted more than 100 acres of potatoes, more than 50 acres of high-quality vegetables, more than 50 acres of watermelons, more than 500 acres of peppers, and 731.77 acres of medicinal ginkgo. The village slaughters more than 5,000 pigs every year, more than 300 cattle, more than 50 breeding rabbits for meat, more than 20 market brokers, and has been engaged in pig and other business activities in Guangxi, Guiyang, Kaili and other places for a long time.
While vigorously developing characteristic industries, Xintucun actively strives for project funds from the higher authorities and accelerates infrastructure construction. Coordinate the east-west cooperation fund of 200,000 yuan, a new 110-square-meter village-level clinic, the main project has been completed, is expected to be put into use by the end of the year, will greatly solve the surrounding people must go to the town health center or county-level hospital for medical treatment.
Rural revitalization should not only shape but also cast the soul. In 2020, Xintu Village will promote rural governance through group co-governance, keep the foundation of local culture, and play the hymn of rural culture and civilization. Rural party members, outgoing cadres, council members, joint household heads, retired soldiers, young people who have returned to their hometowns to start businesses, leaders of getting rich, villager representatives and other groups were mobilized to negotiate and formulate the village rules and regulations of Xintu Village and the management regulations of the party member point system. Through a sound system, the vitality of the masses to participate in grassroots governance should be fully stimulated. At the same time, the excavation and promotion of family virtues will be regarded as an important measure to help the construction of rural civilization, and through the development of the new era of civilization practice activities to find "the most beautiful family", "good in-laws", "good daughters-in-law" and "good neighbors", establish models and publicize advanced, further promote party building to lead the "1+3" grassroots governance system to play an effective role, and use the power of example to promote the formation of a good atmosphere of civilization and new style in the whole society.
Prosperous because of the water, walk towards the green. Through the implementation of a series of rural water supply projects, Xintu Village has vigorously developed characteristic agricultural industries, explored and innovated grassroots social governance practices, and a beautiful picture of rural revitalization is slowly unfolding......
Source: Weng'an County Rong Media Center
Reporter: Shang Qin
Editor: Zhang Haixia (trainee)
First trial: Ran Tingting
Second trial: Li Yongchun
Final review: Gu Qiao