China News Service, Hangzhou, June 26 (Wang Yifei and Qian Chenfei) "There is nothing you want in the countryside now, and life is convenient." Jiang Lijuan, secretary of the Party branch of Xiajiang Village, Chun'an County, Hangzhou City, said that from the past, she used to burn charcoal earth kilns on the mountains. , Raising pigs to make a living, and now relying on clear waters and green mountains to "realize", the huge changes in the village have given her more confidence to realize her dreams.

　　"Post-80s" Jiang Lijuan is the first person in the village to return to her hometown to start a business. In 2016, she gave up her job in the city and returned to her hometown.

In the village, she first opened a homestay, and later held a number of positions in the village. In 2020, she took over the "handover baton" of the village secretary.

　　"In the past, people were reluctant to go back to the countryside because of the obvious gap between urban and rural areas. In the past two years, I have become more and more aware that the countryside is a place where everything is lacking and can also live happily." Jiang Lijuan said.

　　She introduced that in recent years, driven by new industries such as rural tourism, the village's per capita disposable income last year reached 46,959 yuan, 10% higher than the average level of Hangzhou.

Xiajiang Village has also actively developed special application scenarios such as "Two Mountains Bank" and "Care for the Elderly", which has greatly changed the villagers' clothing, food, housing and transportation.

　　Taking medical treatment as an example, the village is more than 3 hours' drive from the main urban area of ​​Hangzhou, and it is not easy to go to a large hospital to see a doctor.

But now every Tuesday, the 5G remote consultation system will allow experts from Zhejiang's top three hospitals to conduct "face-to-face" consultations for villagers, and villagers can enjoy high-quality medical resources at their doorsteps.

Hangzhou Xiajiang Village.

Photo by Qian Chenfei

　　Narrowing the gap between urban and rural areas is the key to China's steady advancement of common prosperity.

Zhejiang is exploring high-quality development and building a demonstration area for common prosperity. Since last year, in addition to improving rural residents’ income by implementing the actions of strengthening agriculture through technology and machinery, and promoting the integration of rural culture and tourism, the province has also accelerated the extension of urban public services to rural areas. .

　　The 15th Party Congress of Zhejiang Province closed a few days ago.

The report of the provincial party congress proposed that in the next five years, it is necessary to build a high ground for comprehensive social progress.

Among them, the income gap between urban and rural residents will be narrowed to within 1.9, the urbanization rate will reach 76%, and the "15-minute public service circle" will be basically completed.

　　The province will also focus on promoting high-level urban-rural integration as one of the main tasks in the next five years, and proposes to improve the system and mechanism of urban-rural integrated development, accelerate the realization of urban-rural infrastructure integration, equalization of public services, equalization of residents' income, and industrial development. fusion.

　　Yu Jianxing, President of Zhejiang Gongshang University and Dean of the Institute of Social Governance of Zhejiang University, believes that the governance system for common prosperity needs to fully consider complex historical, intergenerational and class issues, as well as urban-rural, regional, group differences and cultural traditions, and explore ways to eliminate institutional inequality and The path of unequal opportunity allows people to have equitable rights to wealth and quality public services.

This is also an important feature of Zhejiang’s current exploration.

(Finish)