Taizhou Xinghua City is a famous agricultural city in China, with a land area of 2,393 square kilometers, an area of 1.91 million mu of arable land and 826,000 mu of fisheries; of the 1.56 million registered population, the agricultural population has 1.24 million. Xinghua people have long realized that to achieve common prosperity, rural revitalization is the only way. In a recent interview, the reporter learned that Xinghua City has made clever moves in rural revitalization in recent years, and all the people have taken solid steps on the road of common prosperity. Since last year, the city has accelerated the pace of agricultural and rural modernization, doing everything possible to increase farmers' incomes, improve the quality of agricultural supply, and improve the level of urban-rural integration. In the first rural revitalization performance appraisal of the province in 2020, Xinghua ranked first in the comprehensive ranking of the province and county.
Capable people take the lead in achieving common prosperity in small villages
In the golden autumn, the climate is comfortable, the sea of flowers blooms on the fields of Xinghua Qianduo Town, the small bridge is quiet and peaceful, and the homestay business in Dongluo Village is very hot.
"The rooms were booked many days in advance, and now all 16 rooms are full." Luo Zhongkun, the owner of Wuyuan Homestay in Dongluo Village, told reporters that there has been an endless stream of people who have recently come to the autumn tour, and he hired seven or eight fellow villagers in the village to come and help, and the business is still too busy. The villagers can not only not miss the farm, but also earn some "pocket money", and their enthusiasm for work is very high.
In recent years, the development of Xinghua rural tourism has attracted more and more "capable people" to return to their hometowns to start businesses. It is precisely because he saw the potential for development that Luo Zhongkun ended his career of doing business and wandering outside the village ten years ago, returned to the village to open supermarkets and homestays, and led many villagers to devote themselves to related industries.
Luo Jinhong, a villager in Dongluo Village, has also been busy lately. In 2019, he returned to his hometown to start a breeding of leeches, and has now led 40 or 50 villagers to breed leeches, in addition to taking care of his own expanding farm, he also acts as a technician to answer questions for farmers in neighboring eight townships. Luo Jinhong picked up a bucket of leeches to introduce to reporters, leeches are called leeches by the locals in Xinghua, it looks like a "madman", but it has a very high medicinal value, the market in the past two years is particularly good, and now the price per kilogram has risen from 80 yuan to 110 yuan. "Last year earned two or three hundred thousand yuan, this year's market is better than last year, it is estimated that the income will definitely exceed this amount." Luo Jinhong said confidently.
Luo Jinhong, who found a way to get rich, did not hide it, but told his fellow villagers about the technology and sales channels, leading everyone to get rich together. "After graduating from middle school, I went out to run around, and now I am starting a business at the doorstep of my home, which can not only take care of the elderly and children, but also lead everyone to get rich together, and I feel a sense of accomplishment." Luo Jinhong was full of energy.
The able people in the village led some villagers to get rich first, and Luo Baotian, the general secretary of the village party branch, always remembered the lives of the old, weak, sick and disabled villagers in the village. Born in 1962, Luo Baotian started to set up a factory in the 1980s and 1990s, and is a rich expert of the older generation in the village. In order not to let the poor households fall on the road to prosperity, he transferred 40 acres of farmland located on the north side of the village and founded the Dongluo Sericulture Cooperative, which served as the chairman of the cooperative. Luo Baotian planted mulberry trees for nine families with disabilities, built a condom room, and personally led the village cadres and their families to help the villagers pick mulberry leaves during the busiest period of the silkworm "going up the mountain". At present, more than a dozen families in need in the village have become rich because of their income from silkworm farming.
Give back to the hometown, enterprises throw money into the "soil"
On the morning of November 8, 2020, the "Xingda Comprehensive Building" of Dainan Central Primary School donated 20 million yuan by Jiangsu Xingda Steel Cord Co., Ltd. held a simple groundbreaking ceremony under the early winter sun. The project covers an area of 1475 square meters, with a construction area of 6300 square meters, and will become an important carrier for school teaching after completion, so that children in towns and villages can receive the best education at their doorstep.
Under the leadership of Chairman Liu Jinlan, Xingda Company located in Danan, Xinghua, has become a leader in the global rubber skeleton materials industry after 30 years of hard work. Liu Jinlan believes that Xingda Company started next to Dainan Huguo Temple and grew up on the banks of maoshan River, and the company's development is inseparable from the local party committee and government leaders, and even more inseparable from the care and support of all sectors of society and hometown fathers and elders. Therefore, in recent years, Xingda Company has continuously returned to its hometown, benefited the society, paid attention to education, and invested real money and silver to support the people in their hometown to achieve common prosperity. The reporter learned that Xingda Company has donated tens of millions of yuan to the primary and secondary schools in the town in the past few years, and donated more than 19 million yuan as the Xinghua City Education System Scholarship and Education Fund, which fully demonstrates the social responsibility and responsibility of international large enterprises.
In Xinghua, there are many enterprises like Xingda Company that invest in the countryside and help villagers get rich after becoming bigger and stronger. In 2017, Vanke came to Xinghua and cooperated with the local government to form a model of "industrial and commercial capital + local government + village collective" to build a characteristic pastoral village, which effectively promoted the development of the cultural tourism industry in the cooperative villages and drove the surrounding villagers to get rich together.
Top-level planning allows the masses to share the fruits of development
Whether it is the rich and capable people taking the lead or the generous donations of enterprise representatives, on the road of common prosperity, you can see the local party committees, government plans, busy figures everywhere. Dongluo Village led the villagers to raise silkworms to get rich, Xinghua City timely allocated support funds, sent technicians to follow up and guide; enterprises donated funds to fund education, invested in villages, Xinghua related functional departments quickly landed preferential tax policies, and gave relevant enterprises material and spiritual rewards. The reporter learned in the interview that in recent years, Xinghua has adhered to the top priority of the "three rural areas" work, systematically promoted the "five major revitalizations" of rural industry, ecology, culture, talents and organizations, and achieved remarkable results in the high-quality development of agriculture and rural areas.
The tilt of fiscal funds has become a strong support for rural revitalization. According to the relevant person in charge of the Xinghua Municipal Finance Bureau, in order to help the construction of Xinghua agricultural brand, Xinghua Municipal Finance invests 10 million yuan of special funds for the promotion of agricultural product brands every year, and at present Xinghua has more than 500 varieties of fresh agricultural products and processed agricultural products, and has obtained 1132 national "three products" certification, ranking first in Jiangsu; in order to improve the rural living environment, in the past 3 years, the municipal and town financial arrangements have awarded supplementary funds and special construction funds of 640 million yuan, and the penetration rate of rural sanitary household toilets has reached 99.07%. The centralized collection and transportation rate of domestic garbage has reached more than 95%.
Xinghua has also launched a number of substantive measures to promote common prosperity. The city has taken the implementation of the "Rich People and Strong Villages Help and Promotion Action" as the starting point, improved the dynamic monitoring and support mechanism to prevent returning to poverty, and improved the self-development ability of rural low-income people and economically weak villages. Xinghua has built an interest linkage mechanism, increased the cultivation of new agricultural business entities such as family farms and farmers' cooperatives, and established and improved the interest linkage mechanism with small farmers. In addition, Xinghua has also given full play to the leading and exemplary role of local talents, and built a three-way link between the interests of party organizations, cooperatives and farmers, so as to protect the interests of farmers to the greatest extent and promote the prosperity of the villages.
"In the next 5 years, Xinghua will adhere to the priority development of agriculture and rural areas, strive for high-quality and efficient agriculture, livable and workable in rural areas, and rich and prosperous farmers, comprehensively promote rural revitalization, take the lead in basically realizing the modernization of agriculture and rural areas, and promote the transformation of large agricultural cities into strong agricultural cities." At the 13th Congress of the Communist Party of China in Xinghua city in July this year, Fang Jie, secretary of the Xinghua Municipal Party Committee, said so.
Jiangsu Economic Daily reporter Geng Wenbo correspondent Shi Daozhi