Video: First Point of View·Journalist’s Notes丨The prosperous city on the left and the beautiful countryside on the right - Zhejiang’s practice of coordinating urban and rural development
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Twenty years ago, it was also early spring - on the morning of March 23, 2004, a minibus drove out from the Zhejiang Provincial Party Committee compound and headed towards Jiaxing, starting an important investigation.
Within 4 days, Xi Jinping, then Secretary of the Zhejiang Provincial Party Committee, visited six counties (cities, districts) in Jiaxing to inspect urban and rural planning, infrastructure, labor and employment, social security, ecological construction, culture, education and health, and discussed how to We will break down the urban-rural dual system and other issues, hold discussions with cadres and the masses, and listen extensively to opinions and suggestions.
This survey is extremely meaningful and has far-reaching impact.
"Urban-rural duality" is a global development problem. Looking at China at that time, urban-rural relations have reached a new intersection, and some regions need to take the lead in setting an example and exploring the overall planning of urban-rural relations.
At the symposium, Comrade Xi Jinping gave a systematic explanation of urban-rural integration and proposed that Zhejiang is fully qualified to be at the forefront of the country in coordinating urban-rural development and promoting urban-rural integration.
The seasonal spring equinox awakens all things; the spring breeze of the times steers the ship.
Twenty years of sun and moon have passed. Comrade Xi Jinping’s special survey on urban-rural coordination is of great significance, making Zhejiang Province’s urban-rural integration move faster and more confidently.
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Looking at overall planning of urban and rural development——
How to solve an inequality affecting more than 30 million farmers
As Zhejiang enters the 21st century, there is an inequality that needs to be solved urgently - the regional GDP has grown at an average annual rate of more than 13% for many years, but from 1997 to 2003, the income ratio of urban and rural residents expanded from 2:1 to 2.43:1.
How to break the binary structure? It means that urban and rural development should be taken as a whole, scientifically planned and coordinated to promote a development pattern in which cities lead rural areas, rural areas promote cities, and urban and rural areas interact.
As soon as Comrade Xi Jinping arrived in Zhejiang to work in 2002, he took investigation and research to understand Zhejiang's provincial and agricultural conditions as the starting point of his work. Everywhere he went, he would go to rural areas to hold discussions with grassroots cadres and farmers, and soon became familiar with the "agriculture, rural areas and farmers" situation in Zhejiang.
What are the realistic foundations and breakthroughs for Zhejiang’s coordinated urban and rural development? How to allow more than 30 million farmers in the province to share the fruits of development? Walk all the way, see all the way, listen all the way, and think all the way.
Thoughts are of the same origin and advance with the times.
In July 2003, the Provincial Party Committee proposed the "Eight-Eighth Strategy" to elevate "coordinated urban and rural development" to an unprecedented strategic level.
The "small and exquisite" Jiaxing is taking the lead under the guidance of Comrade Xi Jinping.
During the National Two Sessions in March 2003, Comrade Xi Jinping pointed out that Jiaxing City has a relatively high level of urban-rural coordination and regional development, relatively fast economic development, and relatively strong comprehensive strength. It is fully qualified to make explorations in coordinating urban and rural development and promoting urban-rural integration.
More than a month later, the Fifth Party Congress of Jiaxing City will regard "urban-rural integration" as one of the "five major strategies" for economic and social development in the coming period.
After nearly a year of exploration and practice, Jiaxing has achieved outstanding results. In 2003, Jiaxing's per capita GDP exceeded US$3,000, ranking 37th in the comprehensive competitiveness rankings of Chinese cities. The five counties (cities) under its jurisdiction were all among the top 50 of the top 100 counties in the country. The income ratio of urban and rural residents was 2.11:1. , the per capita net income of rural residents was 12.82 percentage points higher than that of the province in the same period...
In early 2004, Jiaxing issued the "Jiaxing Urban and Rural Integrated Development Plan" in the form of "Document No. 1", proposing urban and rural spatial layout, urban and rural infrastructure construction, urban and rural industrial development, urban and rural labor employment and social security, and urban and rural social development. , "six integrations" of urban and rural ecological environment and protection.
In March 2004, after visiting all counties in Zhejiang and getting a clear understanding of the province's situation, Comrade Xi Jinping decided to launch a special survey in Jiaxing to coordinate urban and rural development. The four-day survey yielded rich results. On the day the survey ended, a province-wide symposium was held to coordinate urban and rural development and promote urban-rural integration.
Less than a month after this survey, Comrade Xi Jinping published a commentary article in the "Zhijiang News" column - "Coordinate urban and rural development from an overall perspective." In the same year, under the chairmanship of Comrade Xi Jinping, Zhejiang took the lead in the country in promulgating the “Zhejiang Province Outline for Coordinating Urban and Rural Development and Promoting Urban-rural Integration”, which kicked off the coordinated development of urban and rural areas.
One job after another, a blueprint is drawn to the end. From the "Thousands of Villages Demonstration, Tens of Thousands of Villages Renovation" to the "Thousands of Villages Leading, Tens of Thousands of Villages Revitalization, Global Wealth, and Urban and Rural Harmony" new picture of the "Ten Million Project", from taking the new urbanization path to improving the equalization of public services... Over the years , under the "two-wheel drive" between urban and rural areas, Zhejiang's urban-rural integration pattern continues to deepen, continuously promotes the extension of urban infrastructure to rural areas, public services to rural areas, and the flow of resource elements to rural areas, resulting in profound changes in urban-rural relations. The difference is getting smaller and smaller, and the practice of coordinated urban and rural development has been transformed into a real sense of gain for the people, and a path of balanced development has been developed in which new urbanization and beautiful rural construction mutually promote each other.
Entering a new era, coordinating urban and rural development has been given a new mission. In 2023, when General Secretary Xi Jinping inspected Zhejiang, he emphasized that Zhejiang should set an example in promoting common prosperity. We should take narrowing the gap between urban and rural areas, regional gaps, and income gaps as the main direction, and further improve the system and mechanism for integrated urban and rural development.
Today's Zhejiang is not only a prosperous and dynamic land, but also one of the provinces with the most balanced urban and rural development in my country. In 2023, the per capita disposable income of rural residents in Zhejiang will reach 40,311 yuan, ranking first among all provinces and autonomous regions in the country for 39 consecutive years. Even more rare is that the income growth rate of farmers in the province is 2.1 percentage points higher than that of urban residents, and the difference in per capita income between urban and rural residents has further narrowed to 1.86.
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Looking at the integration of urban and rural spatial layout from a "game of chess"——
How to draw a blueprint covering urban and rural areas
Right now, it’s the good time of spring. Amidst the pink flowers and green willows, Wu Miaoying, the owner of the "Meet Shexiang" B&B in Siqian Town, Taishun, was busy receiving groups of guests who came from the county town to spend the weekend with a cheerful smile.
Speaking of her current peaceful life down the mountain, she repeatedly lamented that "the days are getting better and better." Behind the good times is the “small county, big city” planning blueprint that Taishun, a mountainous county, has insisted on drawing to completion for more than 20 years.
In 2003, Taishun implemented the "township relocation" project in three townships, including Fengmen, Huangqiao, and Zhuli. The villagers in these townships were relocated to Siqian Town in an organized and phased manner. It was the first to be implemented in the province. A new model for poverty alleviation by relocating entire villages to other places - "One town with three townships"; after that, the "non-regional ecological migration" project, the "ecological great relocation" project, and the "shared wealth relocation" project were continued to be implemented for more than 20 years. For a long time, a total of 384 natural villages have been relocated, and more than 30,000 households and more than 110,000 people have been resettled. One-third of the county population is concentrated in the county seat, and one-third has settled in the central town. The "market town" pattern has basically taken shape, and the urban and rural landscape in mountainous areas has gradually changed.
Wu Miaoying took advantage of the "ecological relocation" and embarked on the road to wealth: she opened a B&B at home, earning an income of 200,000 to 300,000 yuan a year, and could also take care of the elderly and children at home. Siqian Town, where she is located, also uses the "B&B+" model to integrate She culture, red culture, leisure picking and other cultural tourism and agricultural tourism, vigorously develop farmhouses, and create a B&B cluster village. Up to now, the town has developed more than 20 rural guesthouses such as "Mountain Renjia" and "Shexiang Xiaoyuan", and has successfully created the first batch of cultural tourism industry clusters in Zhejiang Province.
In Jiaxing, the latest version of the land and space master plan will be submitted for approval this year, based on the city's urban and rural areas, to build a "pastoral, group-style, integrated" spatial structure.
The whole city is playing a game of chess, and Jiaxing made the move as early as 20 years ago. In January 2004, the "Jiaxing City Urban-rural Integrated Development Plan" was issued, making Jiaxing the first prefecture-level city in the country to formulate and issue an urban-rural integrated development plan.
Planning is the leader and direction. After arriving in Jiaxing, the first thing Comrade Xi Jinping investigated was the plan.
"Planning science is the greatest benefit, planning errors are the greatest waste, and planning frustration is the biggest taboo." On March 23, 2004, in the face of the multimedia demonstration and overall integration of urban and rural spatial layout and urban and rural transportation layout in Jiaxing City Comrade Xi Jinping watched the planning board with interest.
Wang Hongtao, member of the Standing Committee of the Jiaxing Municipal Party Committee and executive deputy mayor at the time, recalled, "I suddenly felt a little more confident." At that time, he and several leaders in charge were drafting six special plans for land use, urban system, and industrial development.
If the "Jiaxing City Urban-rural Integrated Development Plan" is a blueprint covering the city's urban and rural areas, then the special plan is the specific "construction drawing" of the construction. The goal is to include the vast rural areas into the scope of urban planning and extend urban infrastructure to In rural areas, social service facilities should be provided in rural areas and urban and rural layout should be planned in a unified manner.
In the past, urban and rural areas each carried out their own plans, with emphasis on cities and neglect of rural areas.
The villagers have suffered enough from uncoordinated planning - just a few years after the house was renovated, there was a notice that it would be demolished because of road construction; the city expanded, and the suburban natural villages were integrated into the city, and the people had to move again...
Xueshigang Village, Tongyuan Town, Haiyan County. Photo by reporter Wang Zhijie
Shortly after the six special plans were released, Chen Yuliang was elected as the Party branch secretary of Xueshui Gang Village in Haiyan County. He took these "construction drawings" from the city and excitedly studied the development path of Xueshui Port.
According to the spatial layout plan, Xueshui Port is an agricultural area with flat terrain and numerous fertile fields. But at that time, many people in the village were mining and excavating rocks, and houses built in the east and west also divided the farmland.
Chen Yuliang and village cadres worked from house to house, and finally shut down all mines such as Geshan and 32 "low-dispersion" enterprises.
This is just the first step. Later, Xueshui Port seized the opportunity of the province's "Ten Million Project" to gradually promote village greening and beautification, centralized garbage storage, and the creation of beautiful courtyards. It also developed efficient modern agriculture. In 2023, the village collective Annual income reaches more than 4 million yuan.
Spread out the plans, Xueshui Port is just a small dot on it. In 2006, the “one blueprint model” of county (city) domain master planning was rolled out across the province. In 2007, Zhejiang fully implemented “one map, covering all urban and rural areas”.
Just like Xueshui Port, more than 10,000 administrative villages in the province have undergone changes at a deeper level and in a wider scope in recent years. What is even more rare is that Zhejiang still retains strong local characteristics in rural planning and design, allowing both urban and rural areas to bloom, each with its own beauty.
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Looking at the integration of urban and rural infrastructure construction from the perspective of transportation interconnection——
Urban and rural changes witnessed by a 101 bus line
Jiaxing bus No. 101 passes through Sanxing Village. Photo by reporter Wang Zhijie
The peach blossoms are blooming again in Sanxing Village, Fengqiao Town, Nanhu District. Urban and rural bus No. 101 carries groups of passengers rushing to this flower event.
In the afternoon of March 2004, when peach blossoms first bloomed, a special group of passengers also boarded this bus to feel the pulse of coordinated urban and rural development. They are Comrade Xi Jinping and his party who visited Jiaxing for investigation this time.
Comrade Xi Jinping did not just listen to the report during the investigation. He wanted to take the bus to experience it for himself and feel for himself whether the "village-to-village bus" really facilitates farmers' travel, whether it really facilitates farmers to go to the city to do things, and what effect it can have on the interaction between urban and rural residents. Such effect.
Comrade Xi Jinping said in the car that buses are available in rural areas, with cheap tickets and convenient rides, which will make it easier for farmers to go to the city to do business, make it easier for farmers to shop, seek medical treatment, and sell agricultural products, and will also enhance exchanges between urban and rural areas.
Listening to the passengers chatting and laughing, the bus driver Shen Shuigen couldn't help but nod.
It turns out that urban and rural buses in Jiaxing are clearly divided. Urban buses stop at fixed times and at fixed stops with uniform fares, while suburban routes are contracted and operated by private parties such as Shen Shuigen.
In 2003, Jiaxing took the lead in promoting the integrated reform of urban and rural passenger transportation in the province, and Route 101 became the first line to complete the reform. Shen Shuigen and his minibus have since been managed uniformly in accordance with urban public transportation standards and are a public-private joint venture.
After getting off the bus, Comrade Xi Jinping felt that the understanding was not deep enough. He walked among nearby villagers and asked everyone if it was inconvenient to enter the city now. The villagers talked to each other and praised the urban and rural buses one after another. They said that the roads lead to the entrance of the village and you can get into the city by taking the bus.
To promote urban-rural integration, Comrade Xi Jinping pays great attention to rural transportation construction, because it is closely related to the daily life of rural residents. Only when the roads are smoother, people's exchanges are more convenient, and the "physical conditions" for integration are in place, can the "chemical reaction" of urban-rural integration be realized.
Entrustment, into the ears and into the heart.
Over the past 20 years, Jiaxing has successively realized the urban and rural passenger transportation by public transportation, the public transportation "every village", the nationalization of urban and rural public transportation, and the integration of municipal public transportation. At present, the density of rural roads in Jiaxing ranks first in the province, basically connecting every village to every household, and all towns (streets) in the city can access expressways in 15 minutes.
Over the years, Shen Shuigen watched the familiar scenes inside and outside the car change year by year.
In the past, villagers took buses into the city to sell fruits, see doctors, and study. Now, more and more city dwellers come to the village by bus to pick peaches and enjoy the scenery, and even children come to study.
Transportation interconnection is just a microcosm of the integration of urban and rural infrastructure construction in Zhejiang Province.
In 2003, Zhejiang launched the "Drinking Water Project for Tens of Millions of Farmers"; in 2006, it launched the construction of new rural electrification; in 2021, it focused on improving the completeness of urban and rural infrastructure...
Today, on the land of Zhijiang, postal stations, telephones, broadband, etc. are all connected to every village, water network pipes and rural electricity are connected to every household, radio and television are available to every village, and urban and rural infrastructure are integrated. The level is getting higher and higher.
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Looking at the integration of urban and rural industrial development from the perspective of increasing farmers’ income——
A snail crawls out the road to wealth
At the Shen Fuliang Snail Breeding Base, white jade snails are eating. Pictures provided by Yuxin Town, Nanhu District
In China, more than 70% of fresh snails originate from the Shen Fuliang Snail Breeding Base in Yuxin Town, Nanhu District, and "climb" onto the tables of high-end hotels and Western food chain stores.
"I am not alone. There are hundreds of snail farmers behind me. Only by working together can we become rich together." Shen Fuliang often says this.
This is what he has said and done for 20 years.
Often when inspection groups from other places ask him why, Shen Fuliang will tell them a story.
"It's so strange. Why did the provincial party committee secretary come to see the snails?" In the early spring of 2004, circles of fellow villagers gathered around Shen Fuliang's base. Everyone asked him what the provincial party committee secretary said when he came to investigate.
"Secretary Xi is very concerned about our snail industry! Secretary Xi and I made a promise: make the snail industry bigger and stronger and drive more farmers to increase their income!" Shen Fuliang said excitedly.
Shen Fuliang started raising white jade snails in 1999. He had a bright mind. While others were still running the market, he spent more than 5,000 yuan to buy a computer and start online sales.
In four years, Shen Fuliang became the famous "Snail King", occupying more than half of the national market.
As the market becomes bigger, the "Snail King" becomes confused: With only a few resources and a big market, how can we go further?
More and more people are raising snails, and in order to grab orders, they have begun to engage in price wars.
Instead of everyone losing money and making money, it is better to make money together. Shen Fuliang signed purchase agreements with more than 100 farmers in more than 10 villages to purchase their snails at a protective price not lower than the market price.
At this moment, Comrade Xi Jinping came to Qianfu Company to conduct research on the snail industry. He asked Shen Fuliang with concern about the growth cycle of snails, what they eat, how many farmers the company has attracted, product positioning and market prospects...
The questions were asked carefully, and Shen Fuliang also answered seriously.
After bidding farewell to the research team, Shen Fuliang also met with several large farmers to discuss how to do better in the future. He secretly made up his mind: first, to drive more farmers to increase their income and become rich, and second, to carry out fine processing of snails to increase the added value of products.
In 2005, news spread like wildfire: Ruian established a rural cooperative organization. After learning about this innovative initiative at the grassroots level, Comrade Xi Jinping conducted in-depth research and provided strong guidance.
During his work in Zhejiang, Comrade Xi Jinping not only respected the initiative of the masses, but was also good at drawing nutrients from the rich practices of the masses.
In 2006, Zhejiang explored the establishment of a new rural cooperation system consisting of farmers’ professional cooperation, supply and marketing cooperation, and credit cooperation.
Establish a professional farmer cooperative to allow farmers to take shares and share greater dividends! Shen Fuliang was deeply inspired. Referring to the operation model of the New Rural Cooperative Medical System, he worked out a set of operating standards and adopted a model that combined market floating prices and protective prices to provide farmers with production materials, purchase snails, and solve farmers' supply and marketing worries. Later, he also launched the " The "technical backbone + members + farmers" entrepreneurial support mechanism.
Zhejiang, Shanghai, Jiangsu, Shandong, Anhui... Today, more than 500 farmers in seven provinces and one city across the country are following Shen Fuliang in raising snails, and the average household income has increased by 100,000 to 300,000 yuan per year.
More and more "Shen Fuliang" appear in the fields of Zhejiang. In recent years, the ways for farmers in Zhejiang to increase their income and become rich have become more diverse: farmers' professional cooperatives, federations of rural cooperative economic organizations, agricultural economic development zones... From scattered "small farmers" to group-style "big farmers", farmers' " The money bag is getting bigger and bigger.
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Looking at the integration of urban and rural labor, employment and social security from the perspective of medical treatment and medication——
The warmth behind a medical insurance reimbursement window
99.79%. This is the latest released basic medical insurance participation rate for the registered population in Wanmin Village, Xincheng Town, Xiuzhou District in 2024.
Seeing this number, Xu Zhirong, a staff member of the Natural Resources Institute of Xincheng Town and a rural instructor of Wanmin Village, was relieved. After personal experience, he can better understand how the medical insurance system supports the sick villagers.
Honghe Town Health Center. Pictures provided by Honghe Town
Xu Zhirong lives in Taishiqiao Village, Honghe Town. On the morning of March 26, 2004, he took advantage of his shift and rushed to the rural cooperative medical insurance reimbursement window of the town health center to handle medical expense reimbursement for his family members.
On the same day, Comrade Xi Jinping came to the Honghe Town Health Center for investigation. On the one hand, he was to inspect the health situation in the village, and on the other hand, he was to see how farmers were seeking medical treatment.
After going around in a circle, Comrade Xi Jinping asked farmers in detail whether it was convenient and expensive to seek medical treatment.
Xu Zhirong did not recognize the identity of the person, but he excitedly took over the conversation. His mother-in-law had a tumor operation in Hangzhou at the beginning of the year, and the medical expenses cost more than 20,000 yuan.
More than 20,000 yuan! It is almost equal to the annual income of a family.
You only paid 20 yuan, but you were reimbursed more than 8,000 yuan! Xu Zhirong said "satisfied" three times in a row.
He hurried home excitedly and handed the money to his mother-in-law. After watching the news, Xu Zhirong realized that the "leader who was particularly concerned about the lives of ordinary people" he was chatting with was actually the provincial party committee secretary.
After recovering from this serious illness, Xu Zhirong's mother-in-law lived in good health until she was over 80 years old.
Whether medical treatment is convenient, expensive or not, as well as whether he is satisfied with the reimbursement amount or not. These issues that Comrade Xi Jinping cared about during his investigation have always lingered in the mind of Shen Qin, then deputy director of the Jiaxing Municipal Health Bureau.
At that time, the new rural cooperative medical system was only one year old, so villagers’ willingness to participate was not high, and the government was also anxious.
How to knock on the hearts of villagers? Someone came up with an idea - let the people who enjoy the benefits "come out and speak out" and let the leaders "go into battle and shout out."
In 2004, the leaders in charge of medical insurance in each county (city, district) in Jiaxing were given a "task" - to deliver reimbursements exceeding 10,000 yuan to villagers' homes.
Don't tell me, this method really works. The villagers saw the government's support and the benefits of the policy.
Xu Zhirong is also very busy. As the joint village cadre of Liangsan Village at the time, he went door-to-door to help collect funds for cooperative medical care and told everyone about his experience of reimbursing his mother-in-law.
The earnest words made the people see the government’s good intentions. Someone took the initiative to find Xu Zhirong and said sincerely: "We must participate in medical insurance just like paying school fees for our children."
Over the past 20 years, Jiaxing's governments at all levels have continuously increased subsidies. The city's fund scale has expanded from 10,000 yuan to 3 billion yuan, and the insurance participation rate has remained above 99.5% for many years.
If 20 years ago, the urban and rural social security system in Zhejiang Province was still a "small ship", then today, the "small ship" has developed into a "super giant ship" with wider coverage, higher level, and more peace of mind for the people.
Every Tuesday, Wang An, deputy chief physician of the Rehabilitation Department of Longyou County People's Hospital, goes to the Sunshine Community Health Service Station of Longzhou Street Community Health Service Center for consultation. “It’s so convenient to see a doctor now. There are not only clinics in the village, but also health centers in the town. Experts from major hospitals in provinces, cities and counties often go to the countryside for free clinics.” Villagers at the scene lamented.
In 2009, Longyou became one of the first batch of pilot counties for medical reform in the province, launching a comprehensive reform of the medical and health system; in 2015, it established assistance and cooperation with provincial tertiary hospitals to promote the "double sinking" of high-quality medical resources. In recent years, combined with the characteristics of mountainous counties, Longyou has built a "five-level linkage between provinces, cities, counties and villages" medical security system, comprehensively coordinating medical insurance, medicine, hospitals, doctors, etc., improving grassroots medical service capabilities, and making it easier for the people to see a doctor nearby and receive good care. sick.
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Looking at the integration of urban and rural social development from the perspective of reading difficulties——
A bright "cultural light" lit by a library
Xiuzhou District Library, Jiaxing City. Photo by reporter Wang Zhijie
In Jiaxing at night, there is always a lamp that shines brightly all night long, waiting for people who read at night. This lamp comes from libraries of all sizes and is dotted in busy streets, towns and villages.
Today’s Jiaxing Library is a national “Internet celebrity”. 4 million people visit the library a year, 5,000 reader activities are held, and an average of 30,000 people own a library...
How do you achieve such high popularity? According to curator Shen Hongmei, this is inseparable from the survey 20 years ago.
The reporter clearly remembered that during the tight schedule at that time, the research team spent nearly half an hour at the Jiaxing Library. What they were most concerned about was how to promote the integrated development of urban and rural spiritual civilization.
Comrade Xi Jinping has said on many occasions: "For many years, we have been troubled by the low level of economic development. Now that the economy has developed and the problem of food and clothing has gradually been solved, the spiritual and cultural needs of the people will show explosive growth. A lot of troubles will arise. To solve these problems, we mainly rely on culture."
"Can the high-quality resources of the municipal library be transported to towns and villages?" After this survey, Cui Quansen, then director of Jiaxing Municipal Library, started a research project - integrating urban and rural library resources, with urban libraries Cooperate with towns and villages to provide people, money and technology!
In 2005, the Provincial Party Committee made accelerating the construction of a cultural province and enhancing the soft power that constitutes Zhejiang's comprehensive competitiveness a key task. Comrade Xi Jinping personally presided over this research project.
In July of the same year, the Provincial Party Committee made the "Decision on Accelerating the Construction of a Cultural Province" to comprehensively implement the civilized quality project, cultural quality project, cultural research project, cultural protection project, cultural industry promotion project, cultural position project, cultural communication project, cultural “Eight Projects” of cultural construction such as talent projects.
Jiaxing has also introduced implementation policies at the municipal level to link resources from all parties to solve the problem of farmers having difficulty studying and borrowing books. At the end of 2007, the district, town and city libraries each invested 100,000 yuan, and Jiaxing's first township branch library, Yuxin Branch, opened.
Nowadays, not only libraries are blooming in urban and rural areas of Zhejiang, but the construction of "15-minute quality cultural life circle" has made the geographical distribution of public cultural venues and public cultural spaces in various places more balanced and reasonable, allowing urban and rural residents to walk out of their homes and reach a place within 15 minutes on foot. Public cultural venues and public welfare public cultural spaces can be reached.
When the spring breeze of urban-rural integration blows, more and more public services are equated between urban and rural areas in Zhejiang.
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Looking at the integration of urban and rural ecological environment and protection from the perspective of water management in water towns——
A long-lasting "battle for the defense of clear water"
Xiangfudang is the first launch area of the Yangtze River Delta Ecological Green Integrated Development Demonstration Zone. Photo by reporter Wang Zhijie
On an early spring evening, with a gentle breeze, Zhu Liming, a 48-year-old villager from Donghui Village, Xitang Town, Jiashan County, had dinner and went for a walk in the ecological park beside Xiangfudang. In more than 3,400 acres of water, "underwater forests" have begun to grow, with clear water, green shores, and fish and birds.
Who would have thought that 20 years ago, Donghui Village, which is adjacent to Xiangfudang, was faced with the embarrassment of "no water available in a water town".
The finger was pointed at the pigs. Around 2000, Zhu Liming and more than a dozen other villagers in Donghui Village began raising pigs. It made people's pockets rich, but the pig manure discharged over the years also made people miserable. The river water turned black and smelly, and the fish and shrimp disappeared.
This was also a common problem in many places at that time. At the beginning of the new century, with the rapid economic growth, water shortage and pollution problems have become a major obstacle in the journey of modernization.
It’s time to pay more attention to the water environment! At the turn of May and June 2003, Comrade Xi Jinping led a team to spend three days climbing seawalls and embankments, checking rivers, lakes and streams, and planning for water projects in five cities including Jiaxing.
Less than a year later, in this special survey in Jiaxing, water environment management was also one of the survey contents. The reporter deeply felt that Comrade Xi Jinping attached great importance to the urban and rural ecological environment.
After tasting the astringent fruit caused by pollution, people feel more urgent and determined to restore the clear and sweet taste of the clear water.
Focusing on building an ecological province, Comrade Xi Jinping has led the province to intensively and persistently carry out a series of major ecological protection and environmental improvement actions, and has implemented the "Ten Thousands of Miles of Clear Water Rivers" project, the "Ten Thousands of Miles of Green Channels" project, and the "Ecological Homes and Enriching People Plan" project, etc. project.
Later, Comrade Xi Jinping also used Jiashan as a contact point for in-depth study and practice of the Scientific Outlook on Development. He visited Jiashan 4 times for investigation and inspection, and gave instructions on Jiashan's work 12 times.
In November 2019, Jiashan, together with Qingpu in Shanghai and Wujiang in Jiangsu, was included in the Yangtze River Delta Ecological Green Integrated Development Demonstration Zone. Xiangfudang, who is located in the pilot launch area of the Yangtze River Delta Ecological Green Integrated Development Demonstration Zone, and Jiashan have shouldered the new mission entrusted by the times.
Since then, Jiashan has invested a total of 198 million yuan in water ecological restoration projects, landscape improvement projects and other construction projects in the messy Xiangfudang water system.
The lake is still the same lake. Now the water quality has reached Class II water standard, and the surrounding biodiversity has increased by 30%.
Baquan Village, Heshan Town, Tongxiang City. Photo by reporter Wang Zhijie
The boundaries between cities and villages have also become blurred. On the bank of Hudang, next to the village, a Xiangfudang Science and Technology Green Valley covering an area of 120 square kilometers is rising. A number of high-end scientific research institutes in the Yangtze River Delta have settled here one after another, with more than 500 scientific researchers stationed here permanently, and a large number of cutting-edge high-end projects have sprouted and grown here.
Start with ecology, but not stop at ecology. Zhejiang has persistently promoted the construction of an ecological province and built the first ecological province in the country. The urban and rural landscape has made a historic leap.
From 2004 to 2024, spring goes and spring comes back. Taking the province as a unit, Zhejiang has taken the lead in solving the problem of the dual structure of urban and rural regional development, and continues to draw a vivid picture of balanced urban and rural development. The city and the countryside are like lotuses with two flowers blooming, each with its own fragrance.
Standing on this solid foundation, the overall planning of urban and rural development has been given more and fuller expectations. In May 2021, the Party Central Committee and the State Council issued the "Opinions on Supporting Zhejiang's High-Quality Development and Building a Common Prosperity Demonstration Zone", giving Zhejiang the important task of providing a provincial example for the country to promote common prosperity.
It’s the first time to visit Guanshan, the road is ahead. On the land of Zhijiang, the lives of urban and rural people will continue to spark brighter sparks under this baton.
Wherever the spring breeze passes, there will be a good harvest.
(Chao News reporter Zhou Yongnan Shen Yeting Wang Yuhong Li Rong Gu Yuting China Blue News reporter Jiang Zhouyi Zhao Zhuo Rao Sibei Wang Wenbing Jiaxing Tai Lishui Tai Longquan Tai Longyou Tai)