Reporter Xie Wei, correspondent Xiao Xiao, Wu Jiangzai, Peng Mingqiang
Dasha Town, Kaiping City, Jiangmen City, Guangdong Province, is located in the southwest of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, 56 kilometers away from the urban area, which is not only the most remote mountainous area of Kaiping City, the old revolutionary base area, and the reservoir resettlement area, but also a key water source protection area and ecological development area. The total area of the town is 22062 square kilometers, of which 250,000 acres, forest area 2170,000 acres, ecological forest area of 1120,000 acres. It has 14 village committees and 1 community neighborhood committee, 148 natural villages, and a total population of 330,000 people (including more than 7,600 migrants from the reservoir). In recent years, Dasha Town has vigorously implemented the comprehensive improvement of the rural living environment, actively practiced the concept of "lucid waters and lush mountains are invaluable assets", and embarked on a new path of industrial ecology and ecological industrialization through continuous transformation and continuous efforts.
Thick ecological background to hand over the green answer sheet
Dasha Town, Kaiping City, is located at the eastern foot of Tianlu Mountain, the first peak of "Wuyi", with Peacock Lake National Wetland Park, and has successively won the titles of "National Forest Village", "Lingnan Ecological Climate Symbol Urban Natural Oxygen Bar", "Guangdong Forest Town", "Guangdong Top Ten Tea Towns", "Guangdong Beautiful Rural Characteristic Village" and other titles, sitting on superior ecological resources, Dasha Town has enhanced the development of "gold content" with ecological "green content", and adhered to the concept of green ecological sustainable development, and the ecological "advantage" has been transformed into economic "power".
In order to fully excavate and utilize the ecological resources of Dasha Town, Dasha Town has accelerated the cultivation and construction of the "Dasha Excellent Product" administrative district brand, integrated the town's tea, water, vegetables, fruits, rice, flowers and other ecological product resources, and created a number of high-quality products with distinctive regional characteristics and outstanding cultural characteristics of Dasha, effectively enhancing the value of Dasha ecological products with brand building, and leading the promotion of the transformation of the best value of lucid waters and lush mountains into the reality of high returns. The Party Committee of the "Dasha Excellent Products" industrial cluster has deeply implemented the "Double Training and Double Belt" project, established the Party Branch of the Tea Association and the Party Branch of the Fruit Association, built the Tianlu Xianyuan Party Building Demonstration Park, strengthened the vanguard and exemplary role of Party members, and trained 12 Party members into tea and emperor citrus planting leaders in Gangping Village, Dasha Town, and 20 leaders to become Party members, 41 Party members of the Party branch of Gangping Village. The average monthly income of the villagers in Gangping Village exceeds 3,000 yuan, which can reach 6,000 to 7,000 yuan during the busy season of tea picking and tea making. The Party Committee of the "Dasha Excellent Products" Industrial Cluster won the two new party building demonstration sites of Jiangmen's "Overseas Chinese Capital Pioneer".
In addition, among the 14 villages under the jurisdiction of Dasha Town, 6 villages have carried out large-scale tea planting, driving more than 3,000 tea-related employees, planting more than 12,000 acres of tea trees in the town, and successfully launching a number of tea brands such as "Dashali", "Tianlu Xianyuan", "Dashahong" and "Gangping Tea", which has promoted the high-quality development of the town's "green" economy. In the Dasha River Reservoir, party members and cadres continue to explore and develop the "water economy" based on the good natural water source and wetland ecology of the water source protection area, and the "annual fish king" is worth 330,000 yuan, and the ecological green butterfly swims to get rich. As of 2023, "Dasha Youpin" has completed sales of nearly 10 million yuan, increased the number of product categories to 23, developed production bases (first-class merchants) from the initial 3 to 15, successfully held the 2023 Fishing Festival of "Fighting for Millions of Fish in the Greater Bay Area", and actively participated in activities such as the "Three Products and One Standard" New Year Goods Festival and the High-quality Development Forum of the Geographical Indication Industry in Guangdong Province to help the revitalization of Dasha Village.
Polishing the ecological business card and releasing green dividends
The most unforgettable thing about Dasha Town is the style of Shuiguo Mountain Village. The land of Dasha, the mountains and rivers are hidden in the villages, the villages are connected with the mountains and rivers, the ten thousand plum blossoms in the Lankeng are in full bloom, the dark fragrance floats, and the fragrance of the pastoral rice under the blue sky makes people unconsciously linger in the scenery of nature.
Lixiong Village, Dasha Town, is located next to the Peacock Lake National Wetland Park, with beautiful natural scenery and good ecological environment. In recent years, Lixiong Village has actively practiced the development concept of "lucid waters and lush mountains are invaluable assets", continuously gathered the strength of cadres and masses, optimized the living environment, and improved supporting facilities, laying a solid foundation for promoting the integrated development of agriculture, culture and tourism, and achieving rapid growth in collective operating income. Through the establishment of the governance model of "Party Organization + Village Cadres + Township Sage Council", the "Digital Village" point system is promoted and applied, and the "Rural Revitalization Let's Talk" activity is held on a regular basis to continuously mobilize the strength of cadres and masses to promote the steady progress of rural revitalization and rural governance.
In terms of optimizing the living environment, Lixiong Village has further promoted the construction of "four good rural roads", and the natural village has realized "five links and five haves". Among them, the hard-bottomed roadway in Lianxin Village, Datangmian Village and other villages has a hard-bottomed area of 1,500 square meters, and street lighting is installed on the main roads and village surfaces in the village to realize the "hardening" and "lighting" of the roads in the village. Combined with the improvement of the living environment, Lixiong Village continues to make efforts in the construction of beautiful villages and the development of rural tourism, and makes every effort to promote the integrated development of agriculture and tourism. Taking advantage of the superior ecological environment adjacent to the Peacock Lake National Wetland Park and the historical and cultural precipitation of immigrants, Lixiong Village has introduced the first-class operation team of Tianlu Mountain Tourism Development in Kaiping City to carry out village-based, systematic and multi-dimensional planning and operation of rural resources. The unique ecological environment and the beautiful countryside with perfect facilities have become a vivid footnote to the "ecological home of mountains and rivers", and also become the "golden key" for the development of rural tourism in Lixiong Village. The villagers of Lixiong Village, who took a ride on the "free ride" of rural tourism, have also changed their lives.
During the Spring Festival this year, the Yuehu Camping Base located in the Datangmian area will be officially opened, with a total investment of more than 3 million yuan and a construction time of nearly two years. Chen Hongfen, a villager, said: "I hope that Lixiong Village can be built better and better, attract more investment, improve the development level of tourism, and let farmers share the dividends." "Focusing on the goal of achieving a collective operating income of more than 500,000 yuan in 2025, Lixiong Village will continue to explore the deep integration of "agriculture, culture and tourism", so that good mountains, good water and good air can drive the masses to increase their income and get rich. Liang Yucheng, secretary of the Party branch of Lixiong Village, said: "Lixiong Village will take the opportunity of being successfully selected as the first batch of typical villages of the 'Millions and Thousands of Projects' in Guangdong Province to vigorously develop characteristic industries, realize the intensive management of farmers through the transfer of land and other resources, and increase farmers' income." We will build a high-quality rural tourism route that integrates tea tourism, cultural tourism and agricultural tourism, create an eco-tourism brand of 'watching mountains and rivers, tasting tea and flowers', and build a livable, workable and beautiful village. ”
Attract talents to return to their hometowns and add green power
The most touching thing in Dasha Town is that more and more people are returning to their hometowns to start businesses and relieve their homesickness. With the industrialized business model of "party organization + enterprise cooperative + farmer", Dasha Town strives to integrate the construction of ecological environment with green industry, introduces many support policies, and truly creates a number of emerging characteristic brands of Dasha, so that young people can find nostalgia and belonging.
Step on the sea of flowers in spring and enjoy lotus in summer, and smell the fragrance of rice and egrets in autumn. This is the poetry of Datangmian Village all year round. With the implementation of the national rural revitalization strategy and the "High-quality Development Project of 100 Counties, Thousands of Towns and Thousands of Villages" in Guangdong Province, Datangmian Village has transformed from a former reservoir migrant village into a rural ecological community integrating sightseeing, green agriculture, nature education, ecological conservation, cultural creativity and characteristic industries. Tourists are coming, and so are development opportunities. In 2020, he and his wife chose to return to their hometown to develop and use their own house and their own craftsmanship to do private food business. Also having the same idea as Xie Fuqiang is Xiong Xueyan. Since marrying in 2009, she has been working with her husband in other places. Seeing that Datangmian Village is getting better and better as an eco-tourism village, with more and more tourists, Xiong Xueyan also chose to return to the village for development in 2020. "When I go back to the village, I can earn money and take care of the elderly and children at home. She said.
With the support of the Party Committee of Dasha Town, Datangmian Village built a villager market and established a villager market joint-stock cooperative. "The market is operated in the form of villagers' shares, turning villagers' funds into shares, and making villagers shareholders, which solves the drawbacks of decentralized operation in the past. Xie Jingpeng, mayor of Dasha Town, said that in the first phase, two-thirds of the villagers invested in the shares, raising a total of more than 250,000 yuan in operating funds, which were used to plan and sell high-quality local agricultural products in Dasha, surrounding Chinese herbal medicines, Datang noodle herbal tea, seasonal food, etc. Xiong Xueyan became the person in charge of the villagers' market joint-stock cooperative, responsible for the operation of the villagers' market. "The villagers' market will have dividends in 2020, with dividends of more than 1,000 yuan per share that year, 1,500 yuan in 2021, and 1,700 yuan in 2022. The villagers have earned back the shares after 3 years of investment. She said. At present, the annual turnover of the villager market has exceeded 460,000 yuan, and the collective income of the villager group in 2022 is 1750,000 yuan, driving the village's farmhouses, homestays, native product retail and other formats to increase their income by more than 1 million yuan. In recent years, Datangmian Village has successfully held activities such as the Flower Field Meeting, the Sunflower Flower Sea Summer Garden Party, the Rice Field Poetry and Book Collection, and the "Romantic Flower Sea" Gesang Flower Festival, and its popularity has continued to increase. Villagers use idle houses to operate private restaurants, sugar water shops, canteens, homestays, etc., and the young people who have returned to their hometowns have also introduced coffee, barbecue and other forms of business into the village, and the business in the village is booming.
In the view of Wu Weipeng, Secretary of the Party Committee of Dasha Town, behind the changes in Datangmian Village, it is the grassroots party organizations that have played a leading role. In recent years, Dasha Town has actively promoted the extension of party organizations to the level of villagers' groups, established party organizations in villagers' groups with mature conditions, and strengthened the party's leadership over grassroots work. The first party branch of the villagers' group in Dasha Town was established in Datangmian Village, which currently has 12 party members and 1 probationary party member. "By organizing the young people, Datangmian Village can have today's development, and it can be said that party members have played an important role. Wu Weipeng said.
Improving infrastructure for a greener life
The most satisfying thing about Dasha Town is the continuous improvement of basic service facilities. In recent years, Dasha Town has continuously improved its rural life service facilities, supplemented its shortcomings, improved its living environment, and allowed villagers to live a comfortable and happy life. The improvement of a series of basic service facilities has made Dasha Town more modern in addition to the quaint, and introduced the city's "humanized" life mode and high-quality facilities and skills, which has greatly improved the happiness index of residents' lives.
By striving for the financial support of superiors and mobilizing social capital and township capital donations, more than 30 million yuan was raised to promote the construction of "Qiaocha Town" and create a provincial model of beautiful polder town. It is mainly used to upgrade and transform the main roads around the town and the interface along the line, including the renovation of the façade of the old buildings in the town, the road from white to black (with lines), sidewalk pavement, concrete pavement restoration, etc., including road traffic, drainage, electrical, greening and other projects, and now the projects have been completed. At the same time, we have done a good job in the "road chief system", organized four large-scale maintenance of all township and village roads in the town, and rated good grades in the quarterly assessment of the Municipal Transportation Bureau and local highway stations. Vigorously optimize the rural infrastructure, complete the high-quality restoration project of Shuipi in Tou Village, Xiwan Village Committee, the diversion of the flood control road and the concrete laying project on the top of the dam of the Sanchatang Reservoir, and the rehabilitation project of the Liangtian Shuipi and Qiling Shuipi Canals of the Jiashui Village Committee, speed up the construction and restoration of water conservancy projects, and alleviate the problem of water shortage for spring plowing for the three village committees of Baisha, Datang and Dasha. Solidly promote the "toilet revolution" project, build 8 simple public toilets, renovate 5 toilets, and establish a town and village toilet reform ledger in accordance with the requirements of one file per household and one book per village. Completed the environmental remediation project of 6 reservoir resettlement villages, and achieved a double 100 rural domestic sewage treatment rate and rural black and odorous water remediation rate in Lixiong Village, and completed the task of comprehensive improvement of the rural environment ahead of schedule.
Lucid waters and lush mountains weave a splendid picture, and a new chapter of ecological empowerment spectrum. Dasha Town continues to practice the concept of "two mountains", firmly adheres to the "two bottom lines" of development and ecology, adheres to the sustainable development path of ecological priority and green development, continuously gathers strong momentum for high-quality economic development, and accelerates the integration of primary, secondary and tertiary industries, releasing a steady stream of ecological vitality in order to build a model area for green development, allowing the masses to share the "ecological dividend", and embarking on a path of coordinated development of ecology and economy.