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What kind of beauty of the city does "fallen leaves without sweeping" retain?

　　"Autumn comes with a lot of rain in the mountains and no one sweeps the fallen leaves." The ancient poetry depicts the bleak taste of autumn.

Unmanned sweeping of fallen leaves is gradually becoming a conscious and active choice of many cities.

　　On November 10, Shanghai announced the list of urban deciduous landscape roads in 2020. The “deciduous leaves do not sweep” mode will be started in 13 districts and 41 roads, and Shanghai residents can choose to enjoy the beautiful scenery of deciduous leaves on different roads.

　　In addition to Shanghai, in Beijing, in Xi'an, in Changchun, and in Qingdao, there is also the practice of "not sweeping the fallen leaves" to let the autumn scenery stay.

　　Why doesn't "fallen leaves sweeping"?

What are the changes in our aesthetics and urban management?

Six years ago, why did you decide to launch "Falling Leaves Without Sweeping"?

　　In 2014, Shanghai piloted six roads to "leave leaves without sweeping".

What made Shanghai make this decision?

Chen Bo, deputy director of the Shanghai City Appearance and Environmental Quality Monitoring Center, said that

six roads were initially selected for the trial of "leaves not sweeping". He felt that the "leaves not sweeping" landscape road should be a part of Shanghai to build an ecological city and a city of humanity. A livelihood measure.

　　First, implement "leaves without sweeping" and not destroy the natural scenery formed by fallen leaves. The roads are covered with various "carpets", making them a splendid background for street photography or interesting playmates for walking, allowing citizens and tourists Feeling that autumn is no longer cold and cold, showing the vitality and temperature of the city.

　　Second, citizens and tourists can experience higher-quality deciduous scenery and achieve harmony between man and nature. This is the best commentary on the construction of a cultural city.

　　Thirdly, the

implementation of "fallen leaves without sweeping" is also the implementation of the important concept of "people's cities, people's cities for the people"

, so that everyone can participate in urban governance in an orderly manner, and everyone can enjoy a quality life. Can really feel the temperature of the city, in fact, this also fully demonstrates the concept of people first and people city.

"Falling leaves do not sweep" is much harder than "falling leaves sweeping"

　　"Falling leaves do not sweep", in fact, does not mean "don't care".

In Chen Bo's view, "falling leaves must not be swept" is much more difficult than "falling leaves must be swept."

Chen Bo: When the

six roads were selected for the pilot project, some citizens were skeptical. They felt that "leaves are not sweeping" may affect road traffic, or that there may be some scattered garbage in it that may further affect the cleanliness of the road.

　　Later, by continuously improving the level of refined cleaning, improving the operation mode, and optimizing the operation process, now on the "leaves not sweeping" section, the basic implementation of "one way and one strategy" and "one way and one gear" are basically implemented, that is, according to different road grades Different from commercial formats, including different tree species, different operation modes will be used for cleaning.

Chen Bo: It

should be said that through the continuous advancement of our road fine cleaning work in recent years, we feel that this work is actually getting more and more practical.

For front-line sanitation operators, it should feel more and more proficient, and they are becoming more and more adaptable to our requirement for refined cleaning.

What kind of landscape road can be "selected"?

　　From the launch of six pilot routes in 2014 to the launch of 41 deciduous landscape roads in 2020, what kind of landscape roads can be "selected"?

Chen Bo said that

there are three considerations when choosing a road that "fallen leaves do not sweep", that is, the

age of the tree species, the commercial format, and the actual conditions of the road.

　　First, comprehensive consideration should be given to regional characteristics, the effects of deciduous landscapes, including commercial formats.

For some roads with poor commercial formats, they generally do not choose to carry out "leaves without sweeping".

　　Second, the tree species on each road, including the amount of fallen leaves, and the age of the trees are not the same, so the road section selected by each district, including its "leaves without sweeping" start to end time is completely different.

　　Third, it is greatly affected by weather and temperature.

When the temperature is low, the time of "falling leaves without sweeping" the road may be relatively earlier.

Chen Bo:

Shanghai is a city of humanities and a city full of rivers and rivers. We hope these sceneries can be representative.

But not every road is suitable for carrying out "leaves without sweeping", because it also considers the traffic conditions, including some road sections may have some construction for a period of time, etc. It is definitely not suitable for carrying out "leaves without sweeping".

　　After 6 years of formal implementation, the number of road sections with "fallen leaves without sweeping" has basically stabilized at about 40. There may not be much change in the number in the future, but there will be better improvements in quality.

To allow citizens to have some internet celebrity check-in locations, to be able to truly feel the temperature of the city and enjoy the autumn, the number of about 40 can basically meet the demand.

Behind "fallen leaves do not sweep" is an important manifestation of "beautiful city"

　　At present, many cities, including Xi'an, Qingdao, etc., have joined the ranks of "Falling leaves do not sweep" or "Falling leaves sweeping slowly".

Fallen leaves changed from rubbish to urban decoration. What is the change behind this?

Xi Yanli

, a

professor at the Department of Urban and Planning, Renmin University of

China, said that the current stage of urban development in China has actually been a stage of comprehensive improvement of management levels, management concepts and management methods.

In the past, safety was the primary consideration in our city management, so the most important purpose of cleaning up all the fallen leaves was to ensure that no fire occurred.

Now on the basis of safety, we have a new concept and method, that is, people-centered city construction and management, so beauty has become a very important theme for Chinese cities, or China as a whole.

In this process of change, we have considered the needs of human nature and the needs of the people on the premise of constructing urban order.

Falling leaves are a gift from nature to mankind. Such an ecological environment in a city is actually a very important manifestation of a beautiful city.

Not all Chinese cities can promote "fallen leaves without sweeping"

　　So, are all cities suitable for promoting the "fallen leaves without sweeping" model?

Xi Yanli gave her opinion.

　　Xi Yanli said that Shanghai has always been a model of Chinese urban governance or refined urban management, so it has a certain leading role,

but not all Chinese cities have reached such a level and requirements.

　　First of all, in the "fallen leaves without sweeping" mode, the cleaning methods of Shanghai's sanitation workers have changed, from the past mechanized cleaning to manual cleaning.

　　In addition, we should also pay attention to the improvement of the overall quality of Shanghai citizens.

"Don't sweep the fallen leaves" or "sweep the fallen leaves slowly" is more about asking people not to litter or throw cigarette butts.

　　Third, the government also needs to make more scientific choices in the governance process. It has both "prescribed actions" and "optional actions". So in fact, the promotion of this measure has a prerequisite.