"On a special day, there are bright smiles, and we come together with a full ...... of loveOn the evening of February 5th, Li Zu Village, located in Houzhai Street, Yiwu City, Zhejiang Province, was very lively, and a wonderful "Village Evening" performed by villagers and makers on the same stage was held in the Gongfu Square in the village. The program on stage was wonderful, and the audience was fascinated. As far as the eye can see, the elegant courtyards with white walls and tiles are decorated with various New Year's elements, and the clean and tidy village roads are full of lights, tourists linger to enjoy the New Year's customs, welcome the New Year, and the streets are full of trendy shops and young faces.
Looking at this lively scene, it is hard to imagine that 20 years ago, this place was once called the "Buffalo Point Village" with no hope, and "dirty, messy, poor, poor" is a label that cannot be shaken off. Now, thanks to the "Ten Million Project", Lizu Village has become a "green, rich and beautiful" village, and has become a common prosperity demonstration village and a well-known "international cultural maker village". "Maker" has become the new label of Li Zucun.
What the villagers of Lizu Village are most about is that on the morning of September 20, 2023, the ** general secretary came to the village. The general secretary was very happy to see the young maker faces at the "Gongfu Market", cordially inquired about the sales of hand-woven bamboo baskets of returning college students, observed the works of students in tie-dye shops with great interest, and chatted with entrepreneurial young people who opened coffee shops about the coffee ...... they had drunkRecalling the scene at that time, Fang Tianning, a "post-95" college student who returned to his hometown to start a business, still couldn't hide his excitement: "I told the general secretary that after the implementation of the 'Ten Million Project', the environment and atmosphere in the village were very good, attracting many college students who came to start a business. I mobilized more than 30 villagers to weave bamboo baskets together, and each person could increase their income by about 2,000 yuan per month. After hearing this, the general secretary said with satisfaction that we are the epitome of growing up under the 'Ten Million Project'. ”
Rural revitalization provides a place for young people to show their talents, and it is hoped that more young people will play an active role in rural revitalization. * The general secretary's eloquent words made people's hearts surging and encouraging.
Talent is the key to rural revitalization. Young people who dare to think and do, have knowledge and dreams are the backbone of rural revitalization. When it comes to attracting young people to return to their hometowns to start businesses in recent years, Fang Haolong, secretary of the party branch of Lizu Village, believes that this is a practical need and an inevitable trend. "In 2020, after the transformation of the beautiful countryside, the environment in the village has improved, and more and more tourists come to visit on weekends. But then I found that there were very few repeat customers, and it was difficult to attract tourists for a long time based on the beauty of the environment alone. How to make tourists want to come, and what kind of industry do we want to develop? He has been thinking, "At that time, Li Zu Village relied on a relatively stable number of tourists, and more than a dozen makers had settled in. Makers are talents, and the new business format they bring is the industry, and it is necessary to attract and retain them through various methods, so that these young people can become our new villagers, which is the golden key to activating and revitalizing development. ”
In order to make young people willing to come and stay, Houzhai Street and Li Zu Village have made great efforts. A series of investment promotion measures such as "three-year rent free" have been introduced, incubation, training and other maker growth plans have been formulated, professional managers have been recruited from the society, and professional teams have been standardized through professional teams; The neighborhood discipline inspection committee and the village supervision liaison station focus on the needs of makers, and help them solve problems in development space, the implementation of preferential enterprise policies, and labor disputes through regular visits and face-to-face exchanges. With the efforts of all parties, seeing that the village is getting better, the makers naturally stayed, and creative ideas for the development of the village emerged one after another, and slowly the village became more and more lively and vibrant. Fan Jinshan, deputy secretary of the Houzhai Street Discipline Inspection Work Committee, was deeply touched. As one young maker said, "Young people have the vigor and vitality of young people." We are confident that we will be able to stay and do well in the countryside, and we hope to attract more and more young people to join the countryside. ”
Plant the plane tree, and there will be a phoenix. Seeing that the entrepreneurial atmosphere in the village is getting better and better, more young people have started to return to the village to start a business. In this small village with a permanent population of just over 700 people, there are more than 200 young makers like Fang Tianning, about half of whom are college students and 80% are Xinxiang people from outside the village. There are a variety of makers, including Tsinghua makers who pursue their dreams in the countryside, "Nong Xiaoqing" who return to their hometowns to start their own businesses, and foreign friends who come to visit; There are various forms of entrepreneurship, such as "Vitality Garden Farm", "Desert Dyeing Workshop", "Pumpkin House Sugar Water Shop" ......Through the multi-format layout of maker space, rural research, intangible cultural heritage projects, etc., Lizu Village continues to attract domestic and foreign makers to settle in, further driving the development of rural economy. Today, 62 different types of business have been cultivated and incubated in Lizu Village, providing more than 100 jobs for local villagers, driving the per capita monthly income of villagers to increase by 2,500 yuan, and the annual per capita income of the villagers has also increased from less than 5,000 yuan 20 years ago to 60,000 yuan now.
The entry of young makers has also brought about a change in the way of rural governance. One of the outstanding feelings in Lizu Village is that the makers and the villagers get along very well. The villagers have formed a consensus that they must clean the front and back of the house and show a civilized village style, so that there will be a steady stream of guests. The makers regard "Li Zu Wen" as the best business environment, and drive the villagers to get rich together from the bottom of their hearts, and many people simply live in the village. At the same time, the makers actively participated in the grassroots governance team of the society, turned into rural safety volunteers, and became a new force to help the future rural construction of Lizu Village.
"Ten Million Project" shows the thousands of meteorological conditions of rural revitalization. "When the general secretary left the village at the end of the inspection, he encouraged everyone to make persistent efforts and deepen the 'Ten Million Project' in the village square. The general secretary has put forward many requirements for what we will do in the future. Fang Haolong feels deeply responsible and full of confidence and enthusiasm, "We will further stimulate the power of young people, attract young talents to 'Yan Return', drive the villagers to common prosperity, and always walk in the forefront of rural revitalization." ”
The "Village Evening", which blended blessings and hopes, has come to an end, but Lizu Village is still brightly lit and lively. The popular small villages, the wider and wider revitalization road, and the happy smiling faces convey the new atmosphere of the comprehensive revitalization of the countryside in the new era, and people are looking forward to a more vigorous Year of the Dragon.
This article was published in the 04th issue of China Discipline Inspection and Supervision magazine in 2024, author: Huang Jingwen and Wang Changying).