Chinanews.com Handan, July 7 (translated by reporter Wang Tian) The illegal buildings that continued for decades have been demolished on their own. The narrow and winding streets were reorganized into wide and straight streets, and the sewer pipes covered every household in 139 villages. Households, all domestic garbage within 353 square kilometers is regularly cleaned... In the new district of Jinan, Handan City, Hebei Province, the rural landscape is undergoing dramatic changes.
Ji'nan New District is the third strategic development new district approved by the Hebei Provincial Government after Caofeidian New District and Bohai New District. It has jurisdiction over 9 towns (streets) and 139 villages. It covers an area of 353 square kilometers and has a population of more than 310,000.
As it is located in the Heilonggang River Basin, the land is seriously desertified, and the farmers' income is not high. Over the years, local villages have formed the phenomenon of garbage being discarded randomly, sewage being discharged on the spot, and the wind being built indiscriminately. In order to change the bad habits of the countryside and show the style of the new district, in October 2019, the Party Working Committee of the Southern Hebei New District decided to launch an illegal occupation of land and illegal buildings in the new district against the river reservoir, the road environment, and the rural residential environment. Environmental remediation activities with the main content of zero clearing and global greening improvement.
In Sijie Village, Gaoyu Town, villagers placed the abandoned water tanks at the entrance of the village, replacing the expensive archway. Photo by Wang Tianyi
"The government is doing a good deed"
After more than 8 months, Wang Fuhe still remembers the scene when the village was demolished in October last year.
Wang Fuhe is a villager in Xiyucao Village, Gaoyu Town, Southern Hebei District. A few years ago, he built a small gas station in the village. In October last year, township cadres came to his house and announced to him the decision to demolish illegal construction in the new district. At first, Wang Fuhe didn't care, and there were many illegal constructions in the village. Every time he said that demolishing, but who really demolished it?
But in the next few days, the big horns in the village also started broadcasting, over and over again the importance of environmental improvement. Wang Fuhe was somewhat shaken, and he felt that the "horn" was justified. While hesitating, Wang Fuhe discovered that the village cadres in the neighboring villages and some "hard-working" businessmen began to demolish their illegal construction.
"They all demolished, what other reason do I have to not demolish?" Wang Fuhe said, the villagers love to compare, what is the comparison? Compared to a fair. Once, your house occupied more than one eave, and my house would need to repair one more door. Nowadays, every family is demolishing, not only the illegal construction, but also the "knots" that the villagers have formed for many years.
In Guanzhuang Village, Lintan Town, South Hebei New District, villagers made waste tires into bonsai and placed them on a renovated street. Photo by Wang Tianyi
This "fairness" made Wang Fuhe willing to dismantle the oil station himself. Demolition and demolition, he found that the villagers acted spontaneously, ranging from the entire two-storey building to the toilets and chicken sheds built by the road. Many decades of illegal construction were cleaned up. .
The streets that were once staggered became broad and flat. "I can pass the fire truck, this is a life-saving channel!" Wang Fuhe, who has been operating a gas station for many years, feels very deeply about this. When he heard that the village had to install sewage pipes and refurbish the streets for each household, Wang Fuhe felt that the government was doing a good thing for his hometown. He donated 30,000 yuan without hesitation.
According to statistics, since October last year, the Ji'nan New District has demolished 660,000 square meters of illegally built buildings, cleaned up 1.24 million cubic meters of garbage, broken roads broken through, and "life channels" cleared up.
Summer is approaching, the sun is burning like noon. Zhang Miaoxi, secretary of the party branch and village director of Sijie Village in Gaoyu Town, directed the excavator to dig trenches. He wanted to lay sewage pipes to every household in the village before the flood season.
Villager Song Baoling held a surveying ruler and made meticulous measurements. "Looking at the village becoming more and more tidy, I feel comfortable, work for my own family, and have the energy to do it without money." Song Baoling said that he was doing surveying and mapping on the construction site. This time, he took a few days off to support the village. Hometown construction.
Zhang Miaoxi said that most of the remediation in the village was spontaneously completed by the villagers. He has lived in the village for decades. He has never seen the villagers participate so actively in the affairs of the village without regard to conditions and at any cost. Because of the participation of the villagers, the cost of the renovation project was nearly a million, and they completed it with less than a third of the price.
In October 2019, after the environmental improvement began, the villagers spontaneously acted to improve their hometown. Photo courtesy of Nancheng Township Government
"The garbage can't be cleaned up, what other cadres are you?"
"The garbage can't be cleaned up, what other cadres are you?" Yang Wanchun, secretary of the Party Working Committee and director of the management committee of the Ji'nan New District, said at an environmental mobilization meeting. In the Handan City's "Road Environment Improvement" work rankings, Ji'nan New District once ranked first in the bottom.
"There is no one willing to invest in a place with cross-flowing sewage, unauthorized construction, and messy construction, and it is even less likely that the Ji'nan New District will become a "regional economic growth pole." Yang Wanchun said that after discussing and studying the management committee, he decided to adopt this The field environment remediation, while thoroughly improving the local rural landscape, put the district, township, and village cadres on a platform to compete, not only training the cadre team, but also promoting the exchange and integration of the cadres.
Before the start of the event, the New District Management Committee arranged TV stations to conduct unannounced visits to villages in 9 towns (streets) in the whole district, recorded all the scenes of private construction, sewage cross-flow, and garbage-enclosed villages, and produced the "Southern Ji'nan New Area Ecology". The feature film "The State of the Environment" was broadcast at the mobilization meeting. Subsequently, the new district took each township (street) as a unit, a total of 9 branch headquarters were established in the whole district, and the members of the leadership of each new district served as the commander of a branch headquarters. All the direct departments of the district went down to the frontline of the township and were organized into 9 sub-headquarters to cooperate with the township cadres.
In order to ensure that the demolition violations are supported by evidence, the new district will organize the relevant laws and regulations and the clear policy standards of the relevant central, provincial, and municipal documents, and assemble and distribute them to the cadres, so that they have a basis for their actions and support. The Party Working Committee and Management Committee of the New District insist on holding a dispatch meeting every day to timely direct, check and correct deviations.
During the activity, the new district also conducts a monthly observation and appraisal, granting mobile red flags to the townships with outstanding rectification effects, and mobile yellow flags to the relatively poor townships. Exit." Yang Wanchun said.
Encouraged by the policy, the party members and cadres in the southern Ji'nan New Area all sank to the front line, sharing hardships with the villagers and building a hometown together. After a long time, the cadres were familiar with the situation of each villager, and the villagers were willing to take out their heart and tell the cadres.
"Every time I walked on the street of the village, many people greeted them warmly when they saw it, and some people even took them to dinner at home. Many enterprises and people sent gloves, mineral water and drinks to the demolition site. “Li Lixin, secretary of the Party Committee of Guanglu Town, said that this was a sense of accomplishment that he did not experience in the office. He also understood more deeply the meaning of the phrase “the people’s longing for a better life is our goal for struggle”.
In Xiqiang Village, Nancheng Township, after the villagers demolished the illegal construction on their own, the streets being renovated became wider and wider. Photo by Wang Tianyi
"People are united, Taishan moves"
The sun sets, and the afterglow of the setting sun stretches the figure. In Qiang Village, Nancheng Township, the villagers who had dinner came to the village committee one after another. While enjoying the cold, you talked about how to build the road for tomorrow and how to build the fitness square. Today, it has become a habit for villagers to participate in the affairs of the village and discuss and build together.
"It has never been seen before." Guan Zhiguo, secretary of the party branch of Guanzhuang Village in Lintan Township, said that in order to widen and straighten a road, some villagers voluntarily gave up part of the homestead, and some villagers launched their own trolleys. , A car filled the potholes, everyone you brick one brick one tile, a country dirt road that has been messy for decades, and within a month, a wide asphalt road was built.
In Guanzhuang Village, rows of tire bonsai are particularly eye-catching on both sides of the straight street. Guan Zhiguo said that this was invented by the villagers themselves. They piled up three waste tires, painted them on the outside, filled them with flowers and filled them with soil. They not only used the waste and beautified the hometown, but also reminded the passing vehicles to protect the villagers’ houses. Get.
Walking in the Jinan New District, you will occasionally see village standard village scenes made of water tanks or pans. "If you have the money to build a village entrance, you might as well build more roads and buy two more fitness equipment." Tao Qiang, secretary of the party committee of Lintan Town, said that the villagers had the final say on how to do the village and how to spend the money. With the participation of the villagers, the demolished old house bricks were paved into the square, and the old floor slabs were cut out and built into sinks, which saved the cost and put them into other tasks of village rectification.
What makes the participation of villagers so high? Villager Chen Xiaohui dragged the reporter to his home and pointed to the triple-glazed window on the window sill, saying that this kind of window used to protect the cold in the northeast used to be the "standard" in the local villagers' home. "The northeast is used to protect against cold, but we are for Anti-soil". It turned out that many roads next to the village were in disrepair, and the vehicles passing by frequently brought a lot of dust. Over the years, the villagers dared not open the windows and the hospitals could not stay.
"Now look at it again." Chen Xiaohui opened the window as he spoke, and the Gesang flower under the shade of the window was blooming. Chen Xiaohui touched the window with his hand. There was only a light layer of dust on his fingertips. "You said that the government has done the project to the hearts of the people. Can the people not support it?"
"People are united, Taishan moves." Yang Wanchun said that with the participation of the masses, the Ji'nan New District used only a small amount of input, and within a short period of time, allowed 139 villages in the jurisdiction to achieve full coverage of sewage pipelines and designated household garbage. The goal. At the same time, the new district is also planting 718,827 trees in the environmental improvement, and the green area is 8,764 mu, which is the sum of the previous years. It has changed the history of local roads with little greening.
The clean urban area has also begun to attract more companies' attention. In the first half of this year, 11 new projects were signed in Ji'nan New District, with a total investment of 15.74 billion yuan. (Finish)