Chinanews.com, Quzhou, December 2 (Zhang Bin, Dong Yixin) In her free time recently, Lou Meixian always likes to go downstairs to the shared vegetable garden that she just claimed from the community.
This vegetable garden of less than 10 square meters was obtained by her participation in community waste sorting and other voluntary activities to meet the standards and draw lots.
She is sixty years old and sighs that eating the vegetables she grows can also exercise her body, "I am very satisfied."
Lou Meixian is a resident of Xikou Future Community, Longyou County, Quzhou City, Zhejiang Province.
The community was originally a living area for family members of the mining area. Taking advantage of the opportunity of building a future community in Zhejiang, the old appearance was changed to a new one. The 45 shared vegetable plots are the result of the transformation.
Of course, this is not the only change.
Many residents here have found that the atmosphere of life has become active due to the arrival of some "strangers".
This future community in the center of the market town is also making its neighboring mountainous townships new roads.
Residents pick vegetables in the shared vegetable garden.
Photo by Zhang Bin
How will the community become a "happy hometown" in the future?
What is the future community?
The happy homeland of farmers' good life, the ideal paradise for citizens' leisure and entertainment, the hopeful land of popular entrepreneurship and innovation, and the display window towards common prosperity can all seem to find explanations in Xikou.
Walking in this future community, you can see old buildings that have been renovated and retain a sense of time, as well as modern new facilities.
At night, solar street lights and illuminated landscapes flicker on time, which is completely different from the once "dilapidated community without street lights" among residents.
Part of the predecessor of Xikou Future Community-Huangnishan Community was built in 1959 as a living area for pyrite families.
As the times change, the mining industry is gradually declining, the average age of residents continues to rise, and the community gradually becomes silent.
In 2019, the local area launched the Xikou future community pilot program, according to the requirements of “small space and large investment, small carrier, large industry, small pilot and large transformation”, shouted the slogan “Xikou Commune, Happy Hometown”, and took the lead in Zhejiang with the help of policy funds. The construction of future communities in rural areas.
Construction is not a traditional major demolition and construction, but a transformation project that promotes the sharing of public resources by the whole people.
For example, part of the government's office space is given up to provide space for gathering returning homemakers; the government canteen is opened to the entire community and the entire society, providing tourists with meals, home care catering, and township working meals.
Liang Xueying, a 66-year-old community resident, told a reporter from Chinanews.com that because her family is not around, her daily meals are a big problem.
Since the community has a shared canteen, she often eats in the canteen with her old sisters.
"Convenient, hygienic, and nutritious. The cadres in the town also eat here, which shows that the cafeteria is not fooling people."
“In order to allow residents to realize the'freedom of growing vegetables' at their homes, we have also created a shared vegetable garden, developed the open space into 45 small vegetable plots, and identified residents’ enthusiasm for participating in community activities by means of points. Eligible residents have the responsibility to take good care of vegetable plots, implement dynamic adjustments and unqualified exit mechanisms." The staff said that this move also hopes to stimulate the enthusiasm of residents to participate in grassroots governance.
The reconstructed community art space.
Photo by Zhang Bin
"Maker Alliance" activates the future community
As the transformation progresses, Xikou continues to attract the "key elements" of development-Xinxiang talents and creators to join.
Xikou Town’s Deputy Secretary of the Party Committee and Mayor Wo Haitao said that with local residents, returnees and creators as the core group, Xikou has used shared canteens, shared auditoriums, smart sports fields, etc., sharing, homesickness, and nostalgia. Six scenes, including rural areas, rural areas, education, and entrepreneurship, have been basically completed. After the completion of the second phase of the renovation project, the community will have more complete functions.
In the cultural and creative space "Lianchuang Commune" created for the joint ventures of young makers and new business groups, Zhang Yun, a returning makers engaged in the tourism industry, and Xinxiang Xian Yang Di, who engaged in the cultural and creative industry, are planning a weekend tour Activity.
In 2017, Zhang Yun returned to his hometown to set up a business, established more than 100 acres of high-quality agricultural tourism base in his hometown, and launched a series of rural tourism projects.
She calls herself a "land farmer" and hopes to use the advantages of her hometown "Dazhuhai in West Zhejiang" to integrate mountains and fields to increase the income of the villagers.
Yang Di opened a cafe in the Xikou Old Street area of Xikou Future Community and helped the village collectively run a cultural tourism company called "Xiyouji".
Not long ago, he planned an immersive live-action script killing of Xikou Old Street, which is full of rural fireworks, and mobilized villagers to participate in it, and gained the recognition of his native Xinxiang from the native villagers.
"Xikou provides us with a platform for joint office, so that we can get together, share resources, and collide with new inspiration." Zhang Yun said.
"We have a slogan: working with the government, starting a business with mentors, and living with residents, and now gradually attracting more and more creators." Wo Haitao said that a special party building alliance was established in the local area, under which the Youth League, " The "Internet celebrity" alliance and the maker alliance allow young people who return to Xikou to develop together, promote and grow with each other.
Makers have also activated the development of future communities.
Take Jiang Peng, the "maker" returning home as an example. He "packages" and sells special agricultural products such as Longyou dried bamboo shoots, tea, zongzi, and tempeh, as well as bamboo woven products with local characteristics, and develops the nostalgic brand "a box of hometown". Well-known locally.
The data shows that Xikou has gathered 39 makers or institutions that have returned to their hometowns to share information, technology, capital, talents and other innovative and entrepreneurial elements, and use industrial development to form a hard-core force for rural future communities to lead rural revitalization.
The exterior view of the shared homestay that is about to be completed.
Photo by Zhang Bin
Future communities will drive mountainous areas towards common prosperity
At present, the second phase of the renovation project of Xikou Future Community has been completed, and preparations for operation are in progress.
Wo Haitao said that the shared homestay built in the second phase of the renovation project will integrate residential services, official receptions and dormitories. It can provide tourists with an industrial and mining cultural-style accommodation experience and enhance the attractiveness of the community.
At the same time, the first phase of the Xinxi Community Construction Project is also under construction, which is another component of the future community of Xikou.
The community has complete supporting facilities, including childcare centers, happiness schools, community clinics, gyms, etc. After completion, 210 different types of houses will be provided-this will provide a new space for farmers to gather in the "one town and three townships" in the south of Longyou.
The "one town" and "three townships" refer to the three townships of Miaoxia, Dajie and Muchen in Xikou Town and its surrounding areas.
The local area is exploring the "group development" model of "one town with three townships", with Xikou Town as the center, to promote the accumulation of talents, capital, technology and other resources, to promote the high-quality development of mountainous areas and to move towards common prosperity.
In this process, the future community of Xikou, where the town government is located, is obviously an important engine.
Share the interior view of the homestay.
Photo by Gao Chengkai
At present, the "one town and three townships" are being integrated in many aspects such as organization, economy, grassroots governance, and people's livelihood services.
For example, the establishment of a regular joint meeting mechanism of "one town and three townships" party committees; launching the bamboo industry brand in the Longnan area, changing the "single fight alone" production and operation model, and annual sales of bamboo shoots and bamboo shoots of nearly 200 million yuan; integrating forces to achieve a team of law enforcement ; People’s livelihood matters have no administrative boundaries, no territorial authority, etc. to be handled nearby.
Zhu Jiandong, secretary of the Longyou County Party Committee of the Communist Party of China, previously stated that Xikou Town is the economic and cultural center of the southern part of the county. The exploration of the new model of "one town with three townships" in the mountainous area is more significant and has a great responsibility.
The local area will use greater determination, greater intensity, and more practical measures to allow more projects, capital, technology, and talents to take root and bear fruit in Xikou and Longnan.
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