China News Service, Ningbo, July 16 (Reporter Shao Yanfei) Ningbo, Zhejiang is an important port city on the southeast coast of China and the economic center of the southern wing of the Yangtze River Delta.
Over the past 40 years of reform and opening up, Ningbo has continuously improved the level of balanced development and common prosperity.
In the context of Zhejiang's high-quality development and construction of a common prosperity demonstration zone, Ningbo has, as always, raised the bar, strived for the first place, and established the goal of "high-quality development and construction of a common prosperity first city".
Why does common prosperity come first, and what does Ningbo rely on?
Recently, reporters from Chinanews.com visited Hengkantou Village, Fenghua Tengtou Village, and Ninghai Gejia Village in Yuyao, Ningbo. From these three villages, red leads the green development, the village makes the city more yearning, and the art revitalizes the unique development path of the village. Ningbo's prosperity is unique and wonderful.
The way of "crossing the hurdles" in the old revolutionary base villages
"A small change in one year, a big change in three years." In the eyes of Huang Xudong, a villager in Hengkantou Village, Yuyao, his hometown has been changing for the better, and the people's lives have become more and more prosperous.
In 2019, he decided to return to his hometown for development and share the opportunities for rural development.
Hengkantou Village is known as the "Red Village in East Zhejiang". It was once the command center of the East Zhejiang Anti-Japanese Base, one of the 19 anti-Japanese base areas in the country.
Since 2003, the village has adhered to red leadership and green development, and comprehensively promoted the construction of beautiful villages and the revitalization and development of the old revolutionary base.
In 2020, the collective income of the village will reach 10.2 million yuan, and the per capita income of the villagers will reach 40,228 yuan.
In fact, "Until 2003, Hengkantou Village was still very poor. The collective debt of the village was more than 400,000 yuan, and the per capita income of the villagers was less than 2,700 yuan." Huang Kewei, Party Secretary of Hengkantou Village, said that leading the villagers out of poverty and becoming rich is Hengkantou. The first hurdle across the village.
Relying on ecological advantages, from planting cherries to successively introducing various characteristic small fruits such as blueberries, mulberries, red kiwi, bayberry, "Red Beauty" citrus, Hengkantou Village Butterfly has become a veritable "Huaguohongxiang".
On the road of revitalization and development of the old revolutionary area, how to make the industry truly form a virtuous circle and completely "broken the roots of poverty" has become the second hurdle for Hengkantou Village to cross.
Hengkantou Village aimed at the red resource advantage of the former site of the East Zhejiang Anti-Japanese Base Area, developed a red tourism industry, comprehensively repaired the former site of the East Zhejiang Anti-Japanese Base Area, built new tourist supporting facilities, and created a national 4A-level tourist attraction. The old look of the "Red Village" has been changed to a new one.
At the same time, several local administrative villages centered on Hengkantou Village are working together for a win-win situation, actively creating a demonstration area for the integration of red tourism development, relying on the red resource clusters, the “featured small fruits” brand and the “ideal village companion village” project to promote The integration and development of red culture and green industry.
"Old Brand and Strong Village" interprets "The countryside makes the city more yearning"
What is the longing village?
The country’s first village-level ecological and environmental protection committee, the country’s first batch of villages selling tickets, the country’s first village-level 5A scenic spot, the country’s first village to establish a PM2.5 observatory... Tengtou Village is not ordinary.
“Struggling to get rich, alliances to bring wealth, and empowerment to promote wealth. The'trinity' model of common prosperity is the'shared wealth code' of Tengtou Village." Fu Pingping, secretary of the Party Committee of Tengtou Village, said, "To get rich, the'ecological development of the village' is very important. Importantly, we transform environmental protection into conscious awareness and conscious behavior."
Photo by Fan Jianwei, Tengtou Village, Fenghua, Ningbo, Zhejiang
In the 1960s and 1970s, Tengtou Village started a large-scale land improvement, land scale management, and village house reconstruction movement, realizing "the village has become an ecological garden".
In 1993, when all parts of the country racked their brains to attract investment, Tengtou Village established the country’s earliest village-level environmental protection committee. Enterprises interested in entering the village must undergo strict environmental protection reviews. In the spring of 1998, Tengtou began to develop eco-tourism. Industry, "Let people pay to see the beauty of Tengtou".
In the 21st century, Tengtou Village began to build a characteristic industrial economic industrial park, attracting more than 60 enterprises to settle down.
Since then, green industries accounted for 80% of the village's total economic output.
Scenery of Tengtou Village Photo by Shen Fengping
At the end of 2019, Tengtou Village cancelled the tickets for scenic spots that generated annual revenue of 30 million yuan, developed ecological leisure tourism, and further nominated, gathered popularity, and received wealth.
In 2020, the village will achieve a social product value of 12.29 billion yuan and a per capita income of 69,000 yuan, which is 423 times and 40 times that of 1991.
Fu Dandan, a villager in Tengtou Village, witnessed the leap of his hometown from subsistence to well-off to a high level of well-off.
"When I was a child, living conditions were not good. The most common thing on the dinner table throughout the year was bamboo shoots, and I rarely saw meat." What Fu Dandan didn't expect is that there are few teachers, old people, and doctors in Tengtou Village today. Taoyuan.
Everything is as the slogan of Tengtou Village when participating in the 2010 Shanghai World Expo: "The countryside makes the city more yearning."
Art revitalizes the countryside towards "spiritual prosperity"
In the process of promoting common prosperity, "spiritual prosperity" is indispensable, and the path of "art revitalizing the countryside" of Gejia Village in Ninghai is a vivid portrayal.
Photo by You Caibin, Gejia Village, Ninghai, Ningbo, Zhejiang
How to realize the village butterfly change through art?
In April 2019, Cong Zhiqiang, an associate professor at the School of Art, Renmin University of China, led a team to Gejia Village and launched a new "artist-in-village" experiment in the village. It collided, interacted, and integrated art with rural farmers, and explored how art can revitalize the countryside. New path.
"Co-creation design drives common prosperity." Cong Zhiqiang said, co-creation design is to guide villagers to use the village materials and local space to deeply participate in art design, and use art as the starting point to innovate and start businesses, so that the people will become the active main body in the prosperity and revitalization of the countryside. .
Since then, he led a team to participate in art design in the village, changing "sending art" to "planting art", hoping to stimulate the villagers' endogenous motivation and cultivate a local team.
Tourists buy crocheted works made by villagers in Gejia Village. Photo by Xu Mingyi
In the ears and eyes, the villagers went from "bystander" to "participant" to "creator". Yuan Xiaoxian was one of the first villagers in Gejia Village to embark on the road of art.
Under the guidance of the artist-in-residence, Yuan Xiaoxian, who opened the breakfast shop, changed his business and founded the Fan Xiaoxian Handicraft Museum. Fabric dolls designed and produced by her are hung in the studio.
"I opened a tailor shop 30 years ago, and now I have become a'designer' and continue to dream of when I was young," she said.
The spark of art aroused the enthusiasm of the villagers to create, and built a literary landscape all over the village.
Today, Gejiacun has created more than 40 art sharing spaces and more than 300 cultural and creative products.
This model also implanted characteristic industrial projects in Gejia Village, realized the transformation of village resources, expanded the channels for industrial development, and led the village collectives and villagers to increase their income.
Photo by Shao Yanfei, Jishi Inn of Gejiacun, Fanxiaoxian Art Museum
The colorful practices of the above three villages to promote common prosperity are a vivid epitome of Ningbo's construction of a pioneer city for common prosperity.
As an important pole of the "Tale of Two Cities" in Zhejiang, Ningbo has a solid "family foundation". Last year's GDP reached 1,240.9 billion yuan, and general public budget revenue reached 151.1 billion yuan, ranking 12th and 11th among cities in the country.
Ningbo is also one of the cities with the highest income of urban and rural residents and the smallest income gap.
Last year, the per capita disposable income of all residents reached 59,952 yuan, of which the difference in per capita disposable income of urban and rural residents was only 1.74, which was better than that of the whole country and Zhejiang.
On the way to common prosperity, Ningbo has a unique scenery.
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