During the Spring Festival, the villagers of Huashan Village next to the Longtangou Scenic Area are performing a theatrical performance. Photo courtesy of the interviewee.
Just after the Spring Festival holiday, Wang Shiping, secretary of the party branch of Yuanziling Village, Huiche Town, Xixia County, Henan Province, carried the prize and "awarded" the advanced households in the household appearance evaluation in January. "In the past, the environment in our village was dirty, but now children and the elderly can dance and play chess in the village park, and the villagers who come back from the Spring Festival praise the village for its cleanliness and beauty. Speaking of the village's environmental management work, Wang Shiping showed a proud expression.
The changes in Yuanziling Village are inseparable from Xixia County's efforts to improve the rural living environment as an important task of rural revitalization. In recent years, Xixia County has continuously improved the improvement effect of rural human settlements, and more and more villages with beautiful environments and happy villagers have emerged. The beautiful and livable village not only dazzles the returning villagers, but also attracts many tourists.
The garbage heap is gone.
This Spring Festival, Qiao Xiaohong, who lives in the Baimiao Group of Qianying Village, Wuliqiao Town, found that there were changes in the village. "Now the village is clean and bright, and the painted cultural walls can be seen everywhere, so I am happy and comfortable when I look at it, and I want to go out for a walk as soon as I finish eating. After lunch, taking advantage of the good sun, Qiao Xiaohong led her son to wander around the village. When she returned home this holiday, she found that the garbage heap in the village was gone, and her mother also taught her grandson about garbage classification.
Speaking of changes, Wang Guofeng, a cleaner in Yuanziling Village, also feels the same way. "In the past, Chinese New Year was not as easy as it was this year. Wang Guofeng checked whether the villagers' garbage classification was accurate, and said, "Now everyone has developed the habit of (garbage classification), and no matter how much garbage there is, it can be sorted and disposed of according to the regulations." ”
In Wang Guofeng's view, garbage classification is a meticulous job. The villagers first carry out the preliminary classification of garbage at home, and when he comes to collect it, after the secondary classification, the garbage will be put into the garbage station in the village according to the four categories of perishable, can be **, toxic and harmful, and other non-**. Wang Guofeng introduced that in the past, there was a lot of garbage in the village during holidays, and the villagers sometimes did not divide it carefully, so his workload would increase a lot compared with usual. "The village has mobilized everyone to implement garbage classification through the implementation of the system of appraisal, points and other rewards and punishments, and now the villagers have done a good job in garbage classification, and my workload is much less. Wang Guofeng said with a smile.
After collecting the garbage, the reporter followed Wang Guofeng to the garbage ** station at the entrance of Yuanziling Village. He expertly dumps food waste into the compost bin and disposes the rest of the waste accurately into the sorting bin. "Now the garbage collected is basically divided more accurately, and I only need to sort it into the trash can. Wang Guofeng pointed to the trash can in the ** station and said. The reporter saw that in the garbage site, the garbage cans such as perishable garbage, garbage, hazardous garbage, and other non-hazardous garbage were lined up in turn, and the types of garbage that could be put on the buckets were also vividly marked with stick figures. "Now the garbage is sorted, and the little dolls know how to divide it. Wang Guofeng said with a smile.
After the villagers sort the garbage at home, the village cleaners collect it for secondary sorting. This is the "two quarters" garbage classification method implemented in Xixia County to achieve source reduction and improve comprehensive utilization. It is understood that after the promotion of the "second quarter" method, the source reduction of rural garbage can be achieved by about 60%.
The classified garbage cans at the door of the village not only "eliminated" the garbage heaps in the village, but also promoted the resource utilization of domestic waste in Xixia County. Kitchen waste is composted and returned to the field, paper shells, glass and other garbage are reused, and the remaining part of the waste is incinerated for power generation. It is understood that Xixia has built an incineration power generation project with a daily processing capacity of 1,000 tons of domestic waste, and has generated a total of 3200 million kWh.
The sewer ditch has been cleared.
Early in the morning, Zhou Yanchang, a villager of the Youfang Group in Huangshi Village, Wuliqiao Town, began to get busy. He carefully cleaned the inside and outside of his yard, even the cement road in front of the door. "In the past, the ditch in the village smelled stinky, but now the river is clear and the environment is beautiful, so we don't clean up the yard at home. Zhou Yan often said.
As soon as he said that there was a "way out" for the domestic sewage at home, Zhou Yanchang opened the conversation. "In the past, there was no water for washing vegetables and dishes at home, so it had to be poured on the street in front of my house. It is very dirty in the summer, and it is easy to fall after freezing in the winter, and the eldest grandson is reluctant to come back. Zhou Yan often pointed to the newly installed sewage pipe at home and said that in the future, the domestic sewage at home will flow through the pipe, and the door of the house will be clean and the mood will be comfortable.
Coming out of Zhou Yanchang's house, walking on the wide, tidy and clearly marked village road, Zhang Qingyun, secretary of the party branch of Huangshi Village, introduced that under this asphalt road, there are sewage pipes buried in the village, and the domestic sewage of the villagers' homes flows directly into the sewage treatment station in the village through the sewage pipe network.
At the head of Huangshi Village, a "small garden" enclosed by a fence is an artificial wetland for the treatment of domestic sewage in the village. "Don't look at the small wetland, all the sewage in our Huangshi Village depends on it! As Zhang Qingyun pointed out the direction, the reporter saw that a stream of clear water was slowly being discharged from the pipe.
Originally, after the sewage from the village was fed into the wetland through the pipe network, it could be discharged into the water that met the agricultural irrigation standards after precipitation and the artificial wetland adsorbed ammonia, nitrogen, phosphorus and other substances in the water. "The wetland ecosystem not only treats the village's sewage, but also turns waste into treasure and saves irrigation water, killing two birds with one stone. Zhang Qingyun said.
In addition to the ecological wetland model of Huangshi Village, Xixia County has also explored rural domestic sewage treatment models such as courtyard decentralized treatment, village centralized treatment, and inclusion in Jizhen sewage treatment plant based on the characteristics of mountainous counties. At present, the townships and towns have chosen the pollution control mode according to local conditions, and the county has built 15 township sewage treatment plants and laid 198 kilometers of sewage pipe network. According to statistics, Xixia County has renovated more than 500 pits and pondsThe domestic sewage of 20,000 rural households is directly connected to the township sewage pipe network or small ecological wetlands.
The living environment has changed for the better.
Yang Zuwei, a villager from the Linggen Group of Sangping Village, Sangping Town, had a busy Spring Festival this year. He and his wife not only have to prepare reunion dinners for their children back home, but also work at the family's farmhouse. "The family is lively during the Chinese New Year, and the business is also booming! Yang Zuwei sat on the stone bench in his yard and happily calculated the income of this period for the reporter.
The environment in the village is good, and the tourists live comfortably and have fun. In Yang Zuwei's view, this year's good business is inseparable from the beautiful scenery in the village. Walking on the country roads of Sangping Village, flower pots made of old clay pots are neatly arranged, arches decorated with artemisia grass can be seen everywhere, swings made of old tires, and stone tables and stone benches made of local materials that are convenient for villagers and tourists to rest. "The ecological landscape corridor we are walking on now has large and small objects made by the masses themselves, and some have been donated by people in other villages, and the villagers are actively participating in environmental cleaning. Yang Zuwei said with emotion.
The good environment has brought tangible benefits to the villagers. "Business is booming, and last summer several groups of customers came to the yard every day to pick. Just after the Spring Festival holiday, Zhai Qingfeng, a villager in Qianying Village, Wuliqiao Town, had already sorted out the shelves in the courtyard. "If you come in the summer, the shelves will be full of grapes! Zhai Qingfeng said. It turned out that he used his family's small vegetable garden to grow grapes, and many tourists came to his yard to pick them last summer.
In the past, there were a lot of sundries in the yard, which was dirty and messy, but now everyone is working to see who cleans up the yard more cleanly, not only planting vegetables, but also planting a lot of flowers and plants, and the living environment is becoming more and more beautiful. Zhai Qingfeng said, "The vines start to sprout from the beginning of April, and they can be fixed, branched, forked, and panicked until July." Speaking of the grape planting in the yard that brought good income to his family, Zhai Qingfeng smiled.
The general environment in the village has improved, and more and more villagers have participated in the action of dressing up the village. The villagers not only cleaned the front and back of the house, but also decorated their small courtyards with their hearts. Some made beautiful potted plants, some arranged waterwheel micro-landscapes in the yard, and some decorated chicken coops with discarded beams. The clean and tidy and unique rural scenery has also broadened the channels for villagers to increase their income. According to reports, 85 percent of the administrative villages in Xixia County have carried out the work of "six chaos and six cleanups," and the appearance of the villages has been significantly improved. Last year, Xixia County received a total of 10.61 million tourists (times) and achieved a comprehensive income of 58900 million yuan, an increase of 18 percent year-on-year7% and 152%。