The bathroom of Li Haimei, a villager in Yadianhe Village, Xindian Town, Qingzhen City, Guizhou Province, after renovation (photo taken on July 20). Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Xiang Dingjie
Guiyang, 27 Jul (Xinhua) -- Hearing his name, Li Haimei, who was cooking in the kitchen, answered. Before he could stop his work, the visitor had already walked quickly to the front.
"Let's take a look at your home's remodeled toilet!" Village branch secretary Fan Houjin indicated his intentions. Looking at many living people, Li Haimei was not nervous, but skillfully pointed in the direction: "Over there!" ”
She pushed open the door and saw that the bathroom of about 10 square meters was clean and bright, with floor tiles, tiles, water heaters and showers. "I love to sweat in the summer, and it's easy to take a shower." Li Haimei said with a smile that in the past, the dry toilet was next to the pigsty, and there were many smelly mosquitoes.
Li Haimei's family lives in Yadianhe Village, Xindian Town, Qingzhen City, Guizhou Province, located on the shore of Dongfeng Lake in the Wujiang River system. In the past, when rural tourism had not yet emerged, it was a poor place. Li Haimei and her husband have been working outside the home for many years, and now she has decided to stay and open a farm.
Fan Houjin said that the Yadian River Village, which is surrounded by mountains and rivers, has beautiful scenery, and it only takes a few minutes to take a boat from the popular scenic spot Huawu Village, and there are many tourists on weekends, and the masses have increased their income from orchard picking and homestay inns.
"The appearance of the village is too important!" Luo Ji, head of the Qingzhen Municipal Agricultural Park Office, said that in order to change the situation of sewage flowing and dirty and smelly toilets, in 2018, the city took the lead in demonstrating and promoting the toilet revolution in Yadianhe Village and other places to create livable villages.
Since 2018, Qingzhen has invested a total of 37.368 million yuan to implement the construction (renovation) of 15,309 rural sanitary household toilets and 135 village-level sanitary public toilets. At present, the coverage rate of sanitary household toilets in the city has reached more than 90%, which has greatly improved the toilet conditions of the masses.
"Every year we will set the indicators, this year there are townships reflected, even if there are only 200 households, it is a bit difficult, because basically all of them have changed." Luo Ji said that in the process of changing toilets, they are fully based on the degree of voluntariness of the masses and their own conditions, and there is no mandatory repair, as long as the manure treatment is in place and the installation specifications can basically be accepted.
When they came to the Double Lion Group in Marijuana Nest Village, farmer Zhang Renxiang was sitting with his relatives and friends eating fruit in the courtyard dam, while the septic tank was installed in the corner next door, but he could not smell anything peculiar.
"Although the toilet looks simple, it also has to do a good job of slope, floor drain, and waterproofing, all of which are details." Zhang Renxiang, who usually works odd jobs at construction sites, said that he changed the toilet by himself this year, and the part he invested in was not calculated, and it may have cost four or five thousand yuan.
According to local policies, the total amount of funds for toilet improvement awards is 2,000 yuan. The town has purchased 800 yuan of septic tanks, and 1200 yuan will supply farmers. "Someone came to me the other day to change the toilet at his house." Zhang Renxiang said that now every household has high enthusiasm, and flushing toilets have become standard.
Among the advanced counties of the 2020 National Village Cleaning Action announced this year, Qingzhen City is on the list and is one of only three counties in Guizhou. Luo Ji said that during the "Fourteenth Five-Year Plan" period, the local government will continue to take the toilet revolution as an important task for rural revitalization, give play to the role of peasants as the main body, adapt to local conditions, scientific guidance, and truly do a good job and do practical things.
A map of a village-level public toilet in Xindian Town, Qingzhen City, Guizhou Province, is posted on the outer wall of a system for the harmless reduction and resource utilization of manure (taken on July 20). Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Xiang Dingjie
Source: Xinhua Net