China News Service, Xuzhou, August 6, title: Songzhuang Village, an old revolutionary base in Peixian County, Jiangsu leads the "Three Township Project" with red culture
Author Zhu Zhigeng Sun Hui
Songzhuang Village, Datun Street, Peixian County, Jiangsu Province, by the Weishan Lake, is a well-known village in the old revolutionary base, rich in red cultural resources and green ecological resources.
In recent years, the village has been committed to making use of resource advantages, developing higher-quality ecological industries, and vigorously promoting the “returning of capable people, rejuvenating the countryside with capital, and going to the countryside with talents”, and strived to create a building that awakens red memories and preserves red blood. A red education base for spreading red culture.
Baiguoyuan picking garden.
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Songzhuang Village has a legendary revolutionary history, where armed struggles have been successfully carried out in Weiying Town, Xia Town Rebellion, and Peixian Prison Rescue.
In 1941, the Peixian secret communication line of the Huxi Prefectural Committee of the Communist Party of China was established with Songzhuang as the center.
Songzhuang people directly participated in the cover on this secret communication line, and safely escorted more than a thousand party cadres across the lake to Yan'an.
The eye-catching village entrance sign of Songzhuang Village.
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In recent years, Songzhuang Village has focused on the development of green organic rice, rice and shrimp polyculture, fruit picking, and leisure tourism based on the red culture of Huxi’s secret transportation lines, the former site of the Peixian County Committee of the Communist Party of China, the first anti-Japanese armed forces, and the unique natural scenery. .
Songzhuang Village integrates red resources and green ecological elements into the local industry, develops red tourism, and embarks on the road of rural revitalization of the "Three Township Project" in which "wasteland becomes pastoral and rural areas become scenic spots".
A corner of Songzhuang Village Head Park.
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In May 2021, the Vitas Golden Apple Picking Garden of Songzhuang's "Talents to the Countryside" project expanded the circle of friends and became a new place for people to go outing.
At present, the village has developed more than 600 acres of green fruit, more than 1,000 acres of high-efficiency planting demonstration gardens, and planted more than 200 acres of other economic forests, with a green coverage rate of more than 45%, achieving ecological revitalization, industry prosperity, and prosperity for the people.
In July 2021, Songzhuang was named the "Pastoral Village with Characteristics of Jiangsu Province".
In March 2018, Songzhuang Agricultural Machinery Cooperative was awarded the title of National "Demonstration Cooperative".
The old site of the Peixian County Party Committee was renovated.
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"Since the development of the red industry, the people in the village have indeed become rich." At the beginning of August, Songzhuang Village Party Branch Secretary Liu Zhaoran said that the "red restaurant" in the village has driven the villagers’ sales channels for agricultural products, creating brands for local specialty products and forming a market. Increase the income of the villagers.
It is understood that in 2020, the collective economic income of Songzhuang Village will reach 810,000 yuan.
Bai Fengchun, a local university student who went out, was attracted by the village branch and used the farming technology he learned abroad to contract and transfer more than 300 acres of land to develop an organic mixed crop of rice and lobster. The products are exported to large and medium cities such as Shanghai and Nanjing.
"The yield of crayfish per mu is about 350 jin, plus rice planting income, the average annual net income per mu exceeds 5500 yuan." Bai Fengchun said.
Nearby people often bring their families to the old site of the county party committee to "check in" after a meal.
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"Bai Fengchun is the'capable person' brought back by the Three Township Project in our village. Driven by his project of the'capable person's return to the hometown', the whole village has transferred more than 1,900 acres of land. Villagers can also work in the land to increase the number of villagers. Labor income has opened up a new model." Liu Zhaoran is very satisfied with Bai Fengchun, who has returned to his hometown to promote rural revitalization.
The integration of cultural and tourism is the planned development model of Songzhuang Village in 2019.
With the support of relevant departments of the Peixian County Party Committee, a red culture seminar was set up in the village. The members are mostly descendants of martyrs and retired cadres.
They raised 5.6 million yuan to carry out the construction of the "Capital Rejuvenation" project, and successively built a number of red educational attractions, such as the Red Cultural Square and the Underground Party Organization Exhibition Hall for Revolutionary Activities.
In addition, Songzhuang Village has invested more than 800,000 yuan to build a red cultural wall and a red cultural corridor, which blends red stories with pastoral customs and creates a "red and green" experiential rural tourism boutique route, making Songzhuang Village more attractive.
Since the beginning of this year, Songzhuang has received more than 10,000 visits from enterprises and institutions, schools, travel agencies and other organizations.
During the summer vacation, some left-behind children listened to the story of Songzhuang's revolution.
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"Although Songzhuang Village is relatively weak in terms of industrial development, village collective economy, infrastructure construction, etc., Songzhuang Village, as an old revolutionary area, integrates red culture into rural revitalization, and has developed a "red culture + revolutionary education + ecological tourism". Develop new roads." Liu Zhaoran said that in the next step, Songzhuang Village will rely on regional advantages to build a red theme tourist route that integrates visiting, learning, and tourism functions, with revolutionary traditional experience, red spirit inheritance, and green leisure and sightseeing. Let Songzhuang become a place that people in the city yearn for, and people in the countryside are nostalgic for it.
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