Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, 13 Aug (Xinhua) -- Rural construction actions will make the countryside more beautiful and livable
Xinhua News Agency reporters Hu Lu, Yang Jing and Zhou Nan
Autumn has just passed, and the morning after the rain is a little cool. After breakfast, Yang Jiankun began his daily routine - cleaning the toilet at home, carrying water, mopping the floor, wiping the water tank...
The 42-year-old Yang Jiankun's family in Liushu Village, Caopu Street, Anning City, Yunnan Province, was the first to sign up for a toilet improvement project after the local government proposed a "toilet revolution" last year.
"It used to be a simple dry toilet, and in the summer there were many mosquitoes, and the sewage flowed in the rain, and there was always a smell at home." He said. Under the guidance of technicians, his family has built a sanitary toilet with floor tiles and flushing squat pits. It cost more than 4,000 yuan to change the toilet, and the village subsidized 2,400 yuan. "It's mainly clean and hygienic, and there's no smell." Yang Jiankun said.
Small toilet, big people's livelihood. The toilet revolution is one of the important measures of rural construction action, and it has been continuously promoted in various places in recent years.
In recent years, China has accelerated the construction of village infrastructure and the improvement of public services, and achieved remarkable results, but the gap between urban and rural areas is still obvious. The 14th Five-Year Plan and the outline of long-term goals for 2035 put forward the implementation of rural construction actions. Rural construction is placed in an important position in socialist modernization.
Qi Fei, chief engineer of the Planning and Design Research Institute of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, said: "The most important reason for the implementation of rural construction actions is to speed up the completion of the shortcomings of rural areas in infrastructure, public services, human settlements and other aspects for a long time, so as to change the appearance of the countryside, improve the living environment of farmers, and lay the foundation for the economic development of rural areas and even the whole country." ”
Rural construction actions are being actively promoted throughout the country. In the three-volt day, watching the gushing water flowing into the rice fields, the green and oily rice is full of vitality, and Lu Hongdan, a large grain grower in Changbei Village, Changle Town, Miluo Town, Hunan Province, is beautiful in his heart.
He pointed to the cement channel next to the rice field and told reporters that in the past, he was limited by the "last kilometer" problem, and some water could not be diverted into the field. This year, the local helped to repair the channel, and there was no need to worry about this problem anymore. "Even if it's a little more dry, I don't panic in my heart." Lu Hongdan said.
Changle Town is located on the banks of the Miluo River and is a major local grain producing town. Chen Jing, general secretary of the party branch of Changbei Village, introduced that the water source conditions in the village are relatively good, but there is a section of irrigation canal that has not been hardened, coupled with the long-term lack of maintenance, and the leakage is serious, resulting in the irrigation water of the surrounding fertile fields cannot be guaranteed. In March this year, with the support of the Miluo municipal government, the village won 20,000 yuan of funds, and the villagers invested in labor and hardened the canal to solve the irrigation problem of this fertile land.
Since the beginning of this year, Miluo City has vigorously implemented rural construction actions, especially with the construction of farmland water conservancy projects as the starting point, a total of 26 farmland irrigation projects have been built, and after the completion of the project, it can effectively solve the irrigation problem of more than 40,000 mu of farmland, effectively promote the development of efficient agriculture, and help rural revitalization.
The reporter learned from the State Forestry and Grassland Administration that by 2025, China's rural natural ecology will be fully protected, the degree of rural greening and beautification will be significantly improved, the green coverage rate of villages will be stable at more than 32%, and 20,000 national forest villages and a large number of local forest villages will be built.
"It is conceivable that in the future, our countryside will be more beautiful and livable, and more and more talents and funds will flow to rural development." Yang Zhongqi, counselor of the State Council and chief expert of the Chinese Academy of Forestry, said.