Intersection News In the face of rain again, Li Shusen, a villager in Xifeng Village, Gangyang Town, Hailing District, Taizhou City, Jiangsu Province, finally did not have to worry about the water in the laneway in front of his home. Not long ago, the renovation of the sewage pipe network in the village helped several of their families to transform the laneways that they had to pass through, and completely solved the old problem of accumulating water on rainy days. "In the past, when it rained, this was a small pond, and we could only wade through the water when we went out, so we didn't have to worry about it." Li Shusen looked at the clean and tidy laneway and said happily.
Also feeling comfortable is villager Feng Guozhang. Before, Old Feng had raised more than a dozen chickens idle, and the chicken shed was built outside the courtyard, and the smell was unpleasant and affected the village living environment. With the continuous advancement of the environmental improvement of Xifeng Village, watching every household strive to create the "most beautiful courtyard", Lao Feng's concept has also quietly changed. Last year, he resolutely disposed of the chickens, demolished the chicken shed, and carefully took care of the courtyard and outside the courtyard, and the inside and outside of the courtyard were renewed. In the annual selection, the Feng family was selected by the villagers as the "most beautiful family outside the courtyard", the whole village held a commendation meeting, standing on the podium holding a bright red honorary certificate, Old Feng said with emotion: "It is much more meaningful than raising a few chickens!" ”
Walking into Xifeng Village, the roads are clean, the river is clear, and the scattered cottages and fields of wheat seedlings are full of quiet and beautiful unique to the countryside. There are all kinds of cars parked in the parking lot of the village in an orderly manner, and from time to time there are villagers who ride bicycles or walk, go to the factory of the village to work in pairs, and several elderly people in the green garden gossip while exercising... Everything is telling the steaming happy life of the villagers. But just a few years ago, the village once wore the hat of an "economically weak village" and lived a tight life.
Xifeng Village is located in the western part of the main city of Taizhou, and was formed in 2001 by the merger of fengnan, xifeng and fengqiao villages. Today's Xifeng, north of the Qiyang Expressway Taizhou West Exit, only 1 km away from the Taizhou Freight Station of the Ningqi Railway, and only 10 km to Yangtai Airport, with obvious location advantages. But in the past, the transportation here was inconvenient, the resource base was thin, and the villagers once laughed at themselves that "boats are difficult to travel, roads are difficult to walk, and fields are difficult to plant." The superposition of multiple factors has led to a weak economic foundation in Xifeng Village. In 2016, the village's collective operating income was only 378,000 yuan, and it was designated as an economically weak village in Hailing District.
The village collective economy cannot be improved, and it is naturally impossible to improve the happiness of the villagers. "Ever since I went to work in the village, I've been calculating an account in my heart." Peng Guangming, general secretary of the party branch of Xifeng Village, said that on the one hand, the expenses necessary for the normal operation of the village, and the other is the collective income that urgently needs to be increased. Peng Guangming led the members of the leading bodies of the two village committees to go through many "brainstormings" and unanimously decided that they must concentrate on rapidly improving the village collective economy.
The idea has become wider. After three years of hard work, by 2019, the collective operating income of Xifeng Village is close to 800,000 yuan, and the per capita total income of farmers is 27,000 yuan. In the past three years, the village's collective income and per capita gross income have doubled, and successfully removed the hat of a weak village. In the office of the village committee, Peng Guangming took out his work notes and counted the increased income account to the reporter of the Xinhua Daily and the intersection -- revitalizing the idle land resources such as rivers, polders, and broken plots of land, and issuing contracts and leasing them in a unified way, increasing the annual income by more than 100,000 yuan; "changing cages for birds" for factories within the village area, re-bidding rents out of the idle areas, and achieving an annual income increase of hundreds of thousands of yuan; about 95 percent of the cultivated land in the whole village was transferred out, and the village collective increased its income by tens of thousands of yuan per year. Just like this, the account of the collective economic development of Xifeng Village is "well calculated". In 2020, the annual sustainable income of the village collective exceeded 1 million yuan.
Take off the weak hat and live a good life. The village collective has increased its income steadily, and it has more confidence to do practical things for the people. In the past few years, Xifeng Village has built a green garden of more than 8 acres, built 12 parking lots and 14 public toilets successively; newly repaired and expanded 1 main road, 5 branch roads, and 97 rural roads have all been hardened; ecological barges have been built on both sides of the river to achieve the green scenery of the water clear bank; in order to let the villagers have a better medical environment, Xifeng Village has invested more than 60,000 yuan to upgrade the village clinic... "After living in these years, I did not expect that our Xifeng Village has now become a 'happy village'! For the butterfly changes in Xifeng Village, the villagers could not hide their joy and pride.
At 11:30 p.m., villager Zhang Min arrived home from work, and the parts factory where he worked was only a few minutes away from home to ride, and there was plenty of time for lunch break after lunch. He and his wife both work in the village enterprise, and the couple's monthly salary income is stable and more than 10,000 yuan, and they can also take care of the family. "My mother also works at another business in the village, my father also has a job, and the family is getting by." Zhang Min said with a smile. In addition to the salary income, Zhang Min's family also has more than four acres of land to circulate, and the rent is fixed every year. Children attend nearby primary schools, and three generations of the family live a stable and prosperous life. "There are more than 50 enterprises in this village alone, and the employment of villagers is not a problem." Peng Guangming introduced that in Xifeng Village, most of the villagers like Zhang Min stay in the village for employment and life, an ordinary family of five, work plus land rent, a year income can exceed 200,000 yuan, "truly livable and suitable for work."
The collective economy is thick, the infrastructure is perfect, and the residents' life is happy, which is the latest label of Xifeng Village. "Beautiful countryside is not only the beauty of the environment, but more importantly, the beauty of the people's lives." Peng Guangming told the Xinhua Daily Intersection reporter that the small goal of village-level development this year has been initially clear, and will continue to work hard to revitalize idle factories to increase income and taxes, create key agricultural projects to increase rich farmers' income, implement full coverage of sewage pipe network construction, and the village environment has bright spots and characteristics, "for the villagers' happiness to 'add weight'!" ”
Xinhua Daily, intersection reporter Lu Jiale, correspondent Zhao Lu, Huang Shaojun
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