Over the past 20 years, the "Ten Million Project" has not only changed the appearance of Zhejiang's rural areas, but also explored a new path for comprehensively promoting rural revitalization. Benchmarking the experience of the "Ten Million Project", how should Peizhai Village learn and do?
In this regard, Pei Chunliang, Secretary of the Party Branch and Director of the Village Committee of Peizhai Village, Zhangcun Township, Huixian City, gave his own solution - "Learning and Using the Experience of the "Ten Million Project" and Striving to Create a Livable, Workable and Beautiful "Peizhai Model".
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Demonstration of 1,000 villages, renovation of 10,000 villages". Over the past 20 years, the "Ten Million Project" has not only changed the appearance of Zhejiang's rural areas, but also explored a new path for comprehensively promoting rural revitalization. The members of the two committees of Peizhai Village have been to Zhejiang and other rural areas for investigation and study many times, and the villages and towns they have visited are thriving, each with its own characteristics, beautiful environment, rich farmers, and prosperous industries, giving people a new rural experience and bringing a lot of development inspiration and emotion. It can be said that the "Ten Million Project" is a good experience and method that benefits thousands of peasant masses and requires us to deeply understand and practice.
On December 12, 2023, the province's work promotion meeting for learning and using the experience of the "Ten Million Project" to build livable, workable and beautiful villages was held in Zhengzhou.
Peizhai Village is located in the hilly area of Taihang Mountain, with thin soil and thick stones, drought and little rainfall, and was once a provincial-level poor village in Henan Province. In 2005, I returned to the village to lead the villagers to work hard and work together to build a new village, build water conservancy, develop efficient agriculture, sweet potato industry, garment industry, photovoltaic industry and rural red cultural and ecological tourism, so that the villagers can start a business and get rich at their doorstep, and realize the dream of "everyone has a job, every family has money to earn, and every household is a shareholder". Our village has developed from a "provincial-level poor village" with a per capita annual income of less than 1,000 yuan more than a decade ago to a wealthy and civilized village with a per capita annual income of more than 20,000 yuan. Today's Peizhai Village has become a "National Civilized Village", "National Rural Tourism Model Village" and "China's Beautiful Leisure Village" with diversified industries, beautiful environment and ecological livability.
Although we have changed dramatically over the years compared with our own past, we still have a big gap and a long way to go compared to the new expectations and new requirements of the villagers for a better life. Benchmarking the experience of the "Ten Million Project", how should we learn and do it in Peizhai Village?It has become a thinking question for the team of the "two committees" of the village, and it is also a question that must be answered. Learning from the experience of the "Ten Million Project" gives us three inspirations:
Enlightenment 1: Learning Zhejiang, listening to the party, following the party, the right direction is more important than anything else. The experience of the "Ten Million Project" enlightens us that only by learning and understanding the party's policies, accurately studying and judging the national situation, connecting the antenna at the top and the ground at the bottom, looking for a way suitable for the development of the village, and seeking development without distractions, can the villagers live a good life. The countryside is full of treasures, depending on whether the village cadres have good eyes;The countryside is full of gold, and it depends on whether the "leader" cares about it. What does it depend on to sustainably increase peasant incomes?In my opinion, one depends on policy, and the other depends on philosophy. From provincial-level poverty-stricken villages to "well-off demonstration villages", we are not simply tinkering, but jumping out of the "three rural" to see the "three rural", out of Peizhai to see Peizhai, and seize the opportunity for development. Every time the "agriculture-related" policy is introduced in the province and the province, including every time I return to my hometown from an important meeting, the village "two committees" must set up a special class to find policies and opportunities for new ideas, new strategies and new measures put forward by the province and city. For example, in 2005, we proposed to "solidly promote the construction of a new socialist countryside", and we bulldozed barren mountains to build new villagesIn 2009, we proposed to "vigorously promote new urbanization", and we integrated 11 of the 24 administrative villages in the township to build the Peizhai communityIn 2017, the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China proposed to "implement the rural revitalization strategy", and we introduced garment enterprises to enable women in the whole community to achieve doorstep employment. Peizhai Food Industrial Park, which covers an area of 2,000 acres under construction, is the opportunity for us to seize the opportunity of the "National Land Consolidation Pilot" and strive for 197 of the country, and Peizhai Village is one of them. With the help of the whole township, we not only did not occupy cultivated land, but increased 1,260 acres of fertile land by optimizing the layout of the village, integrating the abandoned industrial and mining land of the surrounding villages, the idle homesteads of hollow villages, and the replacement of reclamation and mining land.
Projects including cross-border e-commerce, garment processing, photovoltaic power generation, pumped storage, and food industrial parks are all implemented according to local conditions. Over the years, every step we have taken has been stepping on the drum beat of national policies, seeking momentum, taking advantage of the trend, and taking advantage of the situation, so that Peizhai is what it is today.
Enlightenment 2: Learn Zhejiang, draw a blueprint, set a plan, and anchor the goal for a long time. Zhejiang regards the "Ten Million Project" as the "Bull's Nose Project" to promote the comprehensive revitalization of the countryside and build a beautiful garden in Zhejiang, and issues an action plan every five years to promote the successful completion of various construction tasks with the spirit of nailing, and successfully realize the gorgeous turn from quantitative change to qualitative change. In practice, we have also deeply realized that in rural work, we are not afraid of being slow or broken, and as long as we do it, we will change. The village party branch is the "backbone" and "leader" of the masses, and it must take one step, look at two steps, and plan three or four steps ahead.
In order to prevent the work in the village from blowing a gust of wind and shouting, since 2006, Peizhai Village has continued to formulate and implement the "five-year development plan at the village level", insisting on doing one thing after another, year after year, and giving accounts to the villagers at the end of each year to ensure that they want to do one thing, do one thing, and do one thing. The first three "Five-Year Plans" have been completed as scheduled, and 30 tangible and tangible facts have enabled Peizhai Village to realize the dream of "everyone has a job, every family has money to earn, and every household is a shareholder".
At present, the fourth "Five-Year Plan" being implemented is all tailored around "rural revitalization", focusing on the industrial layout and industrial chain distribution, and has carried out a clear and clear long-term plan. The long-term plan for the next period is: based on the Peizhai community, in the new township section of Taihang Mountain, to promote the formation of a green and diversified industrial layout dominated by new building materials in the east, supported by smart agriculture, food, clothing and photovoltaic industries in the middle, and relying on landscape tourism and pumped storage power generation in the west, leading and driving 150,000 people on and off the mountain to take the road of modern common prosperity.
Enlightenment 3: Learn from Zhejiang, grasp the industry, go to the project, and consolidate the material foundation of rural revitalization. Zhejiang's experience enlightens us that if we want to develop rural areas, we must grasp characteristic industries and advantageous projects, and without industrial drive, we cannot let the people live a good life. Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, we have adhered to the development idea of "combining large industries with small industries, combining traditional industries with characteristic industries", and focused on "three articles".
Do a good job in the "sweet potato revolution", which is a "people's livelihood article". We are rich in sweet potatoes in the Taihang Mountains, and the smooth saying of "dried sweet potatoes, sweet potato buns, and can't live without sweet potatoes" has been passed down to this day. But in the past, due to inconvenient transportation and poor information, I was very worried when I saw that the sweet potatoes that the villagers had planted for a year were rotten in the cellar, and the handmade sweet potato vermicelli could not be sold. I've been thinking about how I can sell my hometown specialties to itIn October 2016, the 10th Provincial Party Congress was held, proposing to "accelerate the development of cross-border e-commerce", we quickly launched the cross-border e-commerce project in Peizhai Village, the main product is the original traditional handmade sweet potato vermicelli, and planned to hold the "first sweet potato vermicelli cultural festival in Taihang, China". Unexpectedly, a cultural event sold more than 100,000 catties of vermicelli, and the villagers were unexpected. The "Sweet Potato Vermicelli Cultural Festival" has been held for four consecutive years, which has strengthened our determination to implement the "Sweet Potato Revolution". From the "company + farmer" model, the large-scale development of sweet potato deep processing industry;To register the trademark of "Peizhai Village" specialty, so that sweet potatoes and other specialties become high-end goods;and then to cross-border poverty alleviation e-commerce to achieve the goal of "buying the world and selling the world".
In 2017, it was registered and established in September Day Food, which is committed to the development of sweet potato vermicelli deep processing project - hot and sour noodles. "September Day" independent brand and processed hot and sour noodles are sold in major cities across the country, and the products cover more than 100 categories such as hot pot noodles, snail noodles, and mixed noodles.
Peizhai Industrial Park is a whole industry chain park, at present, the enterprise service center building and 8 standardized factory buildings have been completed and put into use, and the basic supporting facilities have been gradually improved. It has settled in 8 food companies, including Henan Jiutian, Jiangweiju, Henan Zhongliang, Henan Hehong Biotechnology, Maizhiyangu, and Zuokou Boy. Before the Spring Festival, the production line of Sanquan Foods in Peizhai Industrial Park will be fully operational.
We integrate the concept of "common prosperity" into all aspects of industrial development. For example, the development of the sweet potato industry, through the "leading enterprises + bases + farmers", "cooperatives + bases + farmers", "leading enterprises + party branches + cooperatives + farmers" and other models, the implementation of order agriculture, secondary dividends and other close interest connection methods, the formation of land rent, local work, assets and funds share dividends and other diversified income mechanisms for farmers, to achieve the farmers of the whole industry chain value-added sharing. Taking sweet potato hot and sour noodles as an example, the daily production capacity is now 240,000 boxes and 1.44 million barrels of hot and sour noodles, which not only requires a large number of ingredients, but also stimulates the development of packaging and printing, cold chain logistics, e-commerce retail and other industries. In the next step, we will increase investment promotion and accelerate the progress of project construction, promote the cluster development of Henan sweet potato industry, call out the brand of "Taihang selenium potato, hometown taste", and leverage the big industry with small sweet potatoes.
Do a good job in the "ecological article" of "lucid waters and lush mountains". Our hometown, South Taihang Mountain, has high altitude, large drop, good geological conditions and good ecological environment, and the Chunjiang Group, in which the villagers are shareholders, fully excavates this unique geographical advantage and insists on working hard and making a fuss in the "hydropower station + cultural tourism research".
The development and construction of Henan Baoquan Tourist Scenic Area has driven more than 600 families in Xishenzhuang, Dongshenzhuang, Zhouzhuang and other villages around the scenic spot to carry out tourism services, engaged in farmhouse catering, folk souvenir development, and local specialty sales, driving more than 2,000 people in mountainous areas to directly employ more than 2,000 people and more than 10,000 people indirectly. The nearest village to the scenic spot benefits the most, the hotels, restaurants, supermarkets on both sides of the road are one by one, and there are many roadside stalls selling fishing nets, water guns, and sun hats, known as "fishing net street". At present, there are more than 350 households engaged in tourism services in Qizhenzhuang Village, accounting for more than half of the total number of households in the village, and it has been rated as "Rural Tourism Characteristic Village of Henan Province" and "Municipal Civilized Village" of Huixian City.
Peizhai Village has also built a rooftop photovoltaic project for the whole village, which can generate more than 3.5 million kWh of green electricity every year, with an average annual income of 1,200 yuan for villagers and an increase of 200,000 yuan for the village collective. The Jiufengshan Pumped Storage Power Station project being implemented can boost the local GDP of more than 10 billion yuan, provide about 5,000 jobs of various types, increase local fiscal revenue by more than 300 million yuan per year, and realize the comprehensive benefits of "building a power station, improving the environment, driving the economy of one party, and benefiting the people".
Do a good job of "let love come home" as a "nostalgia article". A person is not rich if he is rich, and a village is not rich if he is rich, and only by bringing the surrounding villages to be rich can he be considered truly rich. In 2010, relying on Peizhai New Village, Zhangcun Township drove 11 surrounding administrative villages to build Peizhai Community. In the past, a small mountain village with only about 600 people has suddenly grown into a large community of more than 10,000 people, and employment has become a top priority. Peizhai has a remote geographical location, and it is difficult to develop the industry. In order to allow the villagers to return to their hometowns for employment, find employment nearby, accompany their families, and protect their family relations, they have thought of a lot of ways and made a lot of difficulties. We filled the ditch at the west end of the village, built a wall more than ten meters high with stones, leveled it into construction land on the side of the road, built a steel-framed glass factory and supporting infrastructure, introduced garment enterprises, and built a garment industrial park that can employ 2,000 people. At present, the industries of Peizhai community include: commercial street, garment industrial park, food industrial park, photovoltaic power generation, red tourism, cross-border e-commerce platform, high-efficiency facility agriculture, joint-stock enterprises, villagers are suitable for work, agriculture is suitable for agriculture, and business is suitable for business.
With Peizhai Commercial Street as the central axis, the villagers have lived a happy life of "being a farmer in the east of the road, a worker in the west of the road, a businessman in the commercial street, the master when entering the Chunjiang Group, a reader in the study hall, and a city person living in the community". In recent years, the rate of Peizhai villagers going out to work has been zero, and it has truly realized "earning money and taking care of the family". Today's Peizhai Village has developed from a "provincial-level poor village" with a per capita annual income of less than 1,000 yuan more than ten years ago to a wealthy and civilized village with a per capita annual income of more than 20,000 yuan, and has become a "national civilized village", "national rural tourism model village" and "China's beautiful leisure village" with diversified industries, beautiful environment and ecological livability.
Enlightenment 4: Learn Zhejiang, external beauty, internal beauty, and strive to make the villagers "in a good mood". The beauty of Zhejiang's countryside lies in the harmonious coexistence of man and nature, the harmonious relationship between the party and the masses, and the happy smiling faces of farmers. Learning from the experience of the "Ten Million Project", we deeply realize that only by adhering to the coordinated development of "external beauty" and "internal beauty" and resonating at the same frequency can we make the villagers "in a good mood" and have a higher happiness index.
In order to improve the living environment, I personally donated 30 million yuan to implement the "housing project", and built a fully functional Peizhai New Village, where villagers live in a two-story western-style building of 200 square meters without spending a penny, running water, natural gas, heating, broadband, cable TV, kindergarten, primary school, study hall, gymnasium, family style hall, health center, without leaving the village to see a doctor, fitness, and school. The village has bank outlets, supermarkets, restaurants, and electrical hypermarkets. The convenience service center in the village is open 24 hours a day.
In Peizhai New Village, there is not a single telephone pole in sight, and there are no horizontal and vertical lines, and the pipe network is all underground. Including sewage treatment plants, garbage sorting bins, flush toilets for every household, and 8 public flushing toilets throughout the village, the living environment is clean and tidy from the inside out. The village has also built a lawn leisure square of 16,000 square meters, more than 7,000 square meters of Tianxinchi Park, 10,000 square meters of village square, the whole village area of 1,506 acres, the greening rate of 61%, now Peizhai Village has flowers in spring, shade in summer, fruits in autumn, and green in winter.
We vigorously carry out greening, beautification and purification activities, implement grid management of human settlements, 8 party members lead 20 people to divide the labor, and the environment in the village is as clean as new. 158 solar street lamps were installed in the village, and cameras were installed in back streets and alleys to achieve full monitoring coverage. Set up an emergency rescue team of 36 people, reserve 100,000 yuan of emergency rescue materials, carry out regular training and drills, and hold up a safety umbrella for the villagers.
We let the masses widely participate in rural governance, implement the concept of "love and morality law" integrated village governance, explore the basic practices of "ten" rural governance, implement village rules and conventions, break stereotypes and bad habits, and let the whole village participate, discuss and do everyone's affairs, so that the masses have something to say, someone to listen to their complaints, and someone to take care of their worries, so that small things do not go out of the village, and urgent matters do not stay overnight, so as to realize the seamless connection of rural governance.
The "Village Rules and People's Covenant" was formulated, a red and white council hall that could accommodate 400 people at the same time was built, and a red and white council was established, and the standard was set, and each table could not exceed 200 yuan. Party members take the lead in setting an example, and promote the overall improvement of rural customs and civilization with the clean and healthy atmosphere of the party.
The village has also built a family style hall and a moral model cultural wall, and the "role models around you" are selected and commended every two years, so that the villagers can learn from them and be benchmarks. For more than 10 years, there has not been a single mediation household, not a single petitioning household, not a single public security case, and the "civil mediators" in the village have also been laid off.
Integrating the library resources of the whole village, relying on the expansion of Xishutang, the Peizhai branch of the Huixian Municipal Library was established, so that the rural people, especially the children in the mountains, can read and learn at their doorstep and feel the fragrance of books. It is open to the public free of charge every Saturday and there is no charge for reading. Young volunteers from the village serve as librarians and provide borrowing services for everyone. Children from Peizhai community and surrounding towns, including Xinxiang City and Weihui City, all went to Peizhai Village to read and study. In another ten or twenty years, look at the next generation of Pei Zhai, we will be more confident and confident!
We set up a big sign of "the Communist Party is good" at the entrance of the village, built a party building exhibition hall and a Taihang Chuxin Museum in the village, built a Chuxin Cultural Square, set up a statue of a heroic model, set up a red cultural stone and a propaganda column of "idioms and golden sentences", and led the rural civilization with red culture.
Through years of unremitting efforts, Peizhai Village has gradually formed a comprehensive practical teaching platform integrating party spirit education, patriotism education and local sentiment education, and has been rated as "National Party Member Education and Training Demonstration Base On-site Teaching Point", "Henan Province Patriotism Education Demonstration Base", "Henan Province Socialist Core Values Construction Demonstration Site" and "Xinxiang City Red Education and Training Base", and receives 90,000 research teams from all over the country every year.
The key to the success or failure of the cause lies in the people, and the key lies in the work. As the secretary of the rural party branch, I want to fully learn and make use of the experience of the "Ten Million Project", based on the actual situation of Peizhai Village, take the creation of the "five-star" branch as the starting point, carry out the "sweet potato revolution" to the end, take the modern industrial concept and project as the king of thinking, and take the attitude of "seeing you in things", see the truth in the word "dry", and continue to drive the 150,000 fathers and villagers in the mountains and mountains of Taihang Mountain in my hometown to take the road of common prosperity in the new era.
The first is to "see you in things" in refining skills. Whether the branch is strong or not depends on the "leader";Whether the masses are rich or not lies in the cadres. We must be like the majority of party members and cadres in rural Zhejiang, put our thoughts and energy on grasping implementation and promoting development, be good at learning and thinking, be good at planning, practice more "a few brushes", learn to focus on rural revitalization with "eighteen kinds of **", innovate work methods, solve development problems, and do good things and do practical things well.
The second is to "see you in things" in serving the people. The "Ten Million Project" can be deeply rooted in the hearts of the people in Zhejiang and achieve great success, thanks to their unswerving adherence to the development concept of "people first". We must always strengthen the belief that "being good to the people means being loyal to the party", always keep in mind "who I am, who I am for, and who I rely on", keep pace with the times, share the fate with the people, always want to be together with the villagers, work together, and be supervised by the masses, see the feelings of the masses, and be judged by the masses no matter what we do.
The third is to "see you in things" in the continuous struggle. The experience of "10 million project" stems from 20 years of relay struggle, we must learn this perseverance of the spirit of "nailing", inherit and relay the spirit of "having the final say, deciding to do, no matter how big the difficulty is", benchmarking Zhejiang experience, doing one thing after another, doing it year after year, uniting and leading the party members and the masses to "listen to the party, follow the party, start a business together, and get rich together", and strive to create a livable, workable and beautiful "Peizhai model".
Can you reassure the party and satisfy the villagers, see you in the matter!
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