Daily News (correspondent Gu Zhongbing reporter Chen Jiayi) Pingyuanchi Village is located in the northernmost tip of Rugao, formed by the merger of three natural villages of Lotus Pond, Bamboo Garden and Taipingjing, with a total of 957 farming households. 6 years ago, it was still a humble small village with a "thin foundation, weak economy and remote location", and with the help of in-depth implementation of the rural revitalization strategy and the construction of beautiful villages, it has now become a star village and a happy village with an annual collective economic income of more than 2 million yuan and a per capita income of more than 30,000 yuan for farmers.
Start from "nothing" and win the hearts and minds of the people
In 2014, Liu Weijian took office as the general secretary of the party branch of Pingyuanchi Village, and immediately ushered in the "big test" of how to govern and where to start. "At that time, Pingyuanchi Village did not have a hard road, no complete farmland irrigation facilities, no collective income, no activity place, and the people did not want to come back when they went out!" Referring to Pingyuanchi Village, which did not have any advantages in the past, Liu Weijian was deeply impressed, and the most expressed by the masses at that time was helplessness and disappointment.
Find the people's hopes and hold the hearts of the people. The new team of Pingyuanchi Village started with the village road that the people generally resented strongly, started the rural road construction project, fought for financial support upwards, encouraged people who can make more contributions outside, persuaded the villagers to give up small profits and take into account the overall situation, and invested a total of 80 million yuan in the past 6 years, implemented 43 kilometers of hard roads, including more than 10 kilometers of high-grade asphalt roads, and cement roads have realized the formation of groups and households.
In order to further enhance the people's confidence in development, the teams of the two village committees hit the iron while it was hot, forming a working mechanism for people's livelihood projects, major matters in the village, and asking the people for advice. Grasping the "eyeballs" of the people, Pingyuanchi Village spent two years to complete the improvement of the village environment, dredged 5 rivers with 5200 meters, filled in 584 open pits, rectified and closed 53 scattered livestock breeding households, completely eliminated the phenomenon of east-west littering, garbage littering, and sewage discharge, fully realized the prohibition of straw burning and comprehensive utilization, greatly improved the appearance of the entire village, and won the praise of villagers for improving the quality of living and living.
Proceeding from "having", we should strengthen the industry and revitalize the economy
In 2015, Pingyuanchi Village had the honor of winning the provincial beautiful countryside construction project. At that time, in the minds of the two committees of Pingyuanchi Village, the beautiful countryside was still just a concept, and there was no clear direction and breakthrough focus. As a result, Liu Weijian led the members of the team to learn from advanced areas, and the lotus lotus industry in Hongze Lake in Huai'an and Baiyangdian in Xiong'an New District triggered his inspiration: "Rural beauty is not only to pay attention to beauty in appearance, but also to beauty in connotation, and the focus is to grasp the project." ”
Pingyuanchi Village, which also has a lotus root planting foundation and a deep lotus root culture, decided to start from the planting of lotus root, explore the development path of "lotus root planting + cultural tourism", introduce nearly 200 varieties of lotus flowers and water lilies, build a lotus pond moon color scenic area covering an area of more than 280 mu, and integrate more than 900 mu of idle ponds to form a "Thousand Mu Lotus Pond Cultural Garden" that integrates breeding and breeding and ornamentation. On August 18, 2017, the first "Pingyuanchi Rural Lotus Festival" was opened, attracting more than 50,000 tourists on the same day.
PingyuanChi Village has successively built a large number of high-quality agricultural tourism parks such as picking gardens, mushroom gardens, water bamboo gardens, agricultural expo gardens, peony gardens, etc., building a chain ecological industrial chain of scenery, flowers, lotus roots, lotus seeds, lotus leaf tea, and providing one-stop tourism experience services of "appreciating" the beauty of the four seasons, "buying" green food, and "staying" with characteristic homestays, with a total of more than 1 million tourists.
The vigorous development of the tourism industry has brought popularity, revitalized the village collective economy, and also drummed up the "money bags" of the people. In 2020, Pingyuanchi Village achieved a village collective economic income of 2.399 million yuan. More than 99.9% of the cultivated land in the village is used for the circulation and development of tourism projects, which increases the land rental income of more than 4 million yuan to the villagers every year; the tourism project also sends the posts to the "doorstep" of the people, absorbs more than 2,000 laborers to find local employment, and increases the wage income of more than 4 million yuan to the villagers.
From the "excellent" landing point, the cohesion has strong staying power
Grasping the opportunity, enlarging the characteristics, and making precise breakthroughs, Pingyuanchi Village has continuously "strengthened the muscles and bones", successfully achieved the upper echelon, and has won the honors of more than 30 countries, provinces and cities such as China's beautiful leisure villages, national civilized villages, national rural governance demonstration villages, national rural tourism key villages, national aaa-level tourist scenic spots, China's beautiful rural hundred best examples, the first farmers' harvest festival "100 characteristic villages", The most beautiful villages in Jiangsu Province, and the characteristic pastoral villages in Jiangsu Province.
Today's results are tomorrow's starting point. The teams of the two committees of Pingyuanchi Village are soberly aware that if they want to maintain their advantages in development, they must have strong staying power. Industry is the foundation of a rich and strong village. The village put forward the development idea of "'one region, one characteristic, one industry and one brand', and strengthened the 'lotus pond moonlight' industry", based on the development of rural tourism, deeply excavating the characteristic folk customs and culture, taking the lotus root characteristic industry as the main body, expanding to the breeding industry of fruits and vegetables, flower bonsai, aquatic products, etc., constantly supplementing the chain and extending the chain, turning "fame" into "wealth" and "scenery" into "prospects".
The key to starting a business is people. Pingyuanchi Village enriched the teams of the two committees through the open selection of 8 high-quality talents, including college students and veterans, optimized the age structure, knowledge structure and professional structure of the teams, and enhanced the vitality of the teams. The broad masses of party members and cadres have implemented the work method of "rectifying and reforming small problems and not staying up all night" to give the masses a good example and set an example, and to be the "main backbone" of the masses of the people.
In order to take care of the living habits of the villagers, Pingyuanchi Village also equipped more than 130 relocated households with a "small vegetable garden" with one point of land for each household on the south side of the resettlement house, and also added facilities such as pension, fitness, and leisure in the community to help the relocated people find the combination point of "peasant life" and "citizen life" and gain the understanding and support of the people.
(Source: Nantong Municipal People's Government website)