Chao News Reporter Ye Shilei Shen Jingjing Correspondent Li Zeming Zhang**.
Approaching the Spring Festival, the cultural auditorium of Ganggang Village, Hongxingqiao Town, Changxing County is warm. Chinese knots, red lanterns, the New Year's atmosphere in the hall is "full", 750 villagers with the elderly, children in their arms, talking and laughing from all directions, soon to sit full.
The award-winning villagers present their certificates. Sharing Alliance, Changxing, photo by Wang Xuchao.
This is the annual meeting of heads of households in Port Village. In 2015, Ganggang Village was the first in the province to hold a meeting of heads of households to evaluate the working mechanism of village-level organizations, and now it is in its ninth year.
The head of household meeting, as the name suggests, is a meeting attended by the head of the whole village. Changxing County comprehensively promotes the "household head conference" system, and allows villagers to participate in rural governance through the village secretary's report on achievements and the people's evaluation of cadres. In 2022, as a typical case, this mechanism will be included in the supervision and application of rural small and micro power of "innovation in one place and shared by the whole province".
How can the Heads of Household Assembly promote grassroots governance? How to open the hearts of the people? At the end of the year and the beginning of the year, the reporter walked into a meeting of household heads in Changxing to feel the two-way interaction between the villagers and the village-level organizations.
Local characteristics run through the conference.
Dressed in a straight suit and wearing a red scarf, Pei Changliang, secretary of the general party branch of the port village, looked particularly energetic. "In 2023, we will introduce projects such as rice and vegetable rotation through global land consolidation, and the village's collective operating income will reach 25630,000 yuan, absorbing 300 surplus labor force in the surrounding area, and 1.56 million yuan of labor wages alone ......With the well-made PPT, Pei Changliang reported the annual work vividly and humorously, which attracted bursts of laughter from the villagers in the audience.
Whether the village cadres do a good job or not depends on the villagers' vote. In order to please the winner, the satisfaction evaluation of the port village is also unique. The on-site display board posted the work reports of all the village cadres, and a glass box was placed under each name, and a pile of red-shelled peanuts was stacked next to it for the villagers to vote. 64-year-old Pei Qichang is one of the 41 recipients of assistance in Ganggang Village, working in the broccoli planting base in the village, and will increase his income by 360,000 yuan. He happily threw peanuts into the glass boxes of the village cadres.
On February 2, at the meeting of the heads of households in Litang Village, the villagers voted with peanuts. Photo courtesy of the Organization Department of the Changxing County Party Committee.
In addition to the peanut voting, local characteristics run through every aspect of the householders' meeting. The host of the conference was a college student in the village, who watched the children grow up so promisingly, and the grandmothers and aunts in the audience praised while taking pictures.
Are you nervous about singing the village song on stage? Next time, it will be more lively with some dancing! "'Ten Star Civilized Household', congratulations! I took a lot of awards, do you want to send them? At the end of the meeting, the villagers still gathered together, and the air was filled with a lively and festive atmosphere.
Walking through the bustling crowd, Pei Changliang chatted with reporters about the origin of the householders' meeting. "It's a story of the poor thinking about change. Named after the steamship dock in the village, Ganggang Village was once one of the 18 impoverished villages in Changxing County. In 2015, Sun Genfa, then secretary of the village party branch, went door-to-door and found that one of the root causes of the village's slow development was the masses' distrust of village cadres.
What to do? After repeated discussions, Lao Sun made a decision and decided to hold a meeting of the heads of households of the whole village, and put all the major matters related to the development of the village on the table for discussion. The first meeting of heads of households was held as scheduled, Sun Genfa came to power to make an annual work report, and some villagers raised questions about the village-level finances.
The purpose of the meeting is to face the supervision and evaluation of the villagers, and if you have any doubts, then check! Lao Sun made up his mind. Therefore, Ganggang Village started by sorting out the old accounts, invited the villagers' representatives who had a certain financial foundation into the "account room", conducted a comprehensive inspection of the village's finances, and made the results of the audit and the rectification plan all public to the villagers.
To everyone's surprise, the disclosure of the problem did not cause the expected uproar, but several villagers suggested a plan for rectification. Pei Changliang said that in this way, the head of household meeting has become a fixed activity in the port village every year.
The open and honest attitude of the two village committees has been unanimously recognized by the villagers, and everyone's participation in village-level affairs has become higher and higher, and various undertakings in the village have also been smooth. In recent years, the port village has made remarkable achievements in the centralized land consolidation of the whole area, the expansion of the village collective economy, and the promotion of industrial development, and has also been rated as a national rural governance demonstration village and a 3A-level scenic village in Zhejiang Province.
Aerial view of the port village. Photo by Xu Xu of Huzhou.
The open and fair meeting mechanism and the details of the conference affairs full of human touch touched the hearts of the masses. According to statistics, at present, the head of household conference has covered 233 villages in Changxing County, with a total of more than 140,000 heads of household attending the meeting, with an average attendance rate of 927%, has become a unique "annual meeting" of each village.
It is necessary to have a "new solution" to form a strong development synergy.
To achieve good governance in rural areas, it is necessary not only to strengthen the construction of grassroots party organizations, but also to fully activate the endogenous power of grassroots people to participate in the management of village affairs. But it is not easy to solve this "both want and want".
Changxing County has many towns and streets, and the proportion of administrative villages is 7518%。This means that it is particularly important to modernize the rural governance system and governance capacity. Tang Huiming, deputy director of the Organization Department of the Changxing County Party Committee and executive deputy secretary of the Working Committee of the organs directly under the county party committee, said.
According to the regulations, the "top leader" of the village party organization must report to all the heads of households at the meeting of the heads of households on the results of the current year's work and the work plan for the new year, which involves the collective economic development of the villagers, the management and use of the village's "three capitals", and the promotion of people's livelihood projects. "It is not only necessary to explain clearly how much work has been done for the village, but also to explain the income and expenditure of the village. ”
At the scene, the work and responsibility reports of the village cadres must be signed and publicized on the wall, and they will be supervised and questioned by the villagers. The members of the four sets of county teams and the "top leaders" of county-level units should also participate, go to the village to observe, and listen to the opinions and suggestions of party members, villager representatives, and township talents on the development plan of the village face-to-face. In addition, the conference also set up advanced typical selection and commendation links such as "the most beautiful villagers" to further enrich and improve the content of villagers' autonomy.
On the one hand, starting from the top-level design, the village cadres are forced to improve their work style, take the initiative to start a business, and avoid 'capriciousness' in the use of powerOn the other hand, starting from the grassroots level, we should stimulate the enthusiasm and initiative of the villagers to participate in the decision-making and management of village affairs, and gather the joint force of governance. In Tang Huiming's view, the head of household conference promoted the transformation of the rural governance model from "top-down" to "top-down interaction", and gave a new solution to the problem of "both wanting".
Baixi Residential Area, Taihu Street, is a typical urban village in Changxing, with more than half of the foreign population. When it comes to Baixi, it is always followed by keywords such as "miscellaneous personnel" and "old and dilapidated". In 2019, in the first year of his tenure, Zhu Hongliang, secretary of the general party branch, encountered an emergency situation in which the rental housing circuit fire and the fire truck were blocked at the entrance of the village because of illegal parking of road vehicles.
Thankfully, this fire didn't make a person, but it was enough to wake us all up. At the meeting of the heads of households held not long after, Zhu Hongliang made a military order, "Whether it is messy personnel or vehicles parked indiscriminately, it must be changed!" It must be changed! ”
It's better to shout loudly than to do it. Baixi invested more than 3 million yuan to start the construction project of a smart platform for social governance, and cooperated with local public security, fire protection, urban management and other departments to build an intelligent big data platform integrating intelligent door locks, monitoring and other resources.
After installing the "smart brain", Baixi's work in personnel management, vehicle parking, and garbage classification has been significantly improved. In order to fully stimulate the enthusiasm of the whole people to participate, Baixi also included the relevant code of conduct in the residents' integrity file, and invited the "most beautiful residents" with the top integrity index to the stage at the head of household meeting every year to receive the award.
The village cadres will do what they say, and we must also work hard to cooperate. "Many residents have taken the initiative to give up their own land to widen roads and build parking spaces. When the environment is better, the rent of rental housing will follow, and the income of residents will be higher. In 2023, the total collective economic income of Baixi residential area will exceed 6.2 million yuan, and equity dividends will also be distributed at the head of household meeting.
The 2023 Baixi Residential Area Heads of Household Meeting posted the village collective economic dividend list at the site. Photo by Zhu Lingyan.
Year after year, there are new breakthroughs every year. Zhu Hongliang lamented that the continuous and closed-loop characteristics of the household head conference have laid the foundation for the solution of the old and difficult problems at the grassroots level, and also made the village-level organizations and the hearts of the villagers closer together.
This kind of two-way rush is not unique. Driven by village cadres and party members, 85 farmers took the initiative to demolish more than 5,000 square meters of illegal buildings such as fences and auxiliary houses, and successfully created a beautiful rural boutique village;
In 2018, the party organization of the village actively absorbed the suggestions of the villagers, and passed the resolution of "what the market needs to follow up" at the head ......of household (villagers) meeting, and successfully built the county's marble processing agglomeration project, and the village collective economy increased by 5.25 million yuan per year
The two-way interaction of the head of household assembly has formed a strong development synergy. In 2023, the average collective economic income of Changxing Village will be 40680,000 yuan, of which 210 is operating income40,000 yuan; The per capita disposable income of rural residents is 490,000 yuan.
The villagers have a stronger sense of belonging, and the affairs of the village are family affairs.
The duration of a meeting of heads of households is about one hour, but the preparations for the meeting have already begun.
In August last year, Zhou Hongfeng, secretary of the general party branch of Xiaopu Village, led the village cadres to start a "warm-up" for the householders' meeting. "We organized a large-scale visit to the people's feelings, fully collected the people's sentiments and opinions, and classified and analyzed the opinions and suggestions put forward by the masses. ”
During the visit, many villagers mentioned the keyword "pocket park". In 2023, in order to meet the needs of the villagers for a livable life, Xiaopu Village will renovate and upgrade an idle land in Xinwuli Natural Village, renovate the flower garden, lay plastic floors, and add children's amusement facilities.
The pilot project of the Xinwuli pocket park was well received, and villagers from other natural villages came to ask if they could promote it. Therefore, at the meeting of the heads of households in Xiaopu Village held on January 20, Zhou Hongfeng announced on the spot that the construction of pocket parks would be included in the 2024 people's livelihood projects, and made a promise to the villagers, "We will continue to build 3 new pocket parks this year, and strive to achieve full coverage of natural villages within 3 years, so that the pocket parks will be filled with the happy life of every villager!" ”
According to statistics, before the launch of the 2023 Annual Household Head Conference, Changxing relied on the "Three Visits and Three Questions", that is, petitioning the people, visiting the shortcomings, visiting the problems, asking the ordinary people, the difficult groups, and the capable people in the township, collecting a total of 2,449 opinions and suggestions, absorbing and adopting 1,753, laying a good foundation for the smooth convening of the follow-up conference.
In 2021, the Xinchuan Village Heads of Household Conference commended outstanding villager representatives (data**) Photo by Xu Xu of the Sharing Alliance, Huzhou.
Drawing on these distinctive characteristics of the Heads of Households, Xiaopu Village has also made bold innovations and launched an enlarged meeting of villagers' representatives, in which each villager group elects 10 heads of households to participate in the meeting.
It is equivalent to normalizing the annual head of household meeting. Zhou Hongfeng said that the enlarged meeting of villager representatives can allow the majority of household heads to understand the "three major and one major" matters at the village level in advance, which is conducive to the promotion of relevant decision-making and work, and also further expands the scope of grassroots democracy, which is conducive to promoting harmony and stability.
The sweetness of this innovation has been experienced by Xiaopu Village. In July last year, Xiaopu Village assisted the town in promoting the land acquisition work of Langshan Industrial Park, involving a total of 173 farmers, with a land acquisition area of 256 mu and a compensation amount of more than 15 million yuan.
The town has set up a plan to pay the compensation in installments over five years. But whether the people bought it or not, Zhou Hongfeng didn't know the bottom of his heart at first.
Unexpectedly, after the village cadres came to explain, the villagers expressed their understanding and accepted the phased plan as soon as possible. Before the village cadres came to the door, many villagers had already had a preliminary understanding of the relevant matters through the enlarged meeting of the villagers' representatives. "I believe in the village cadres, and I also believe in the development of the village, I am not afraid to take the money later! The words of the villagers made Zhou Hongfeng extremely moved.
This was unthinkable before. He believes that mechanisms such as the general meeting of the head of household and the expanded meeting of villager representatives have made more and more villagers regard the affairs of the village as "family affairs" and "their own affairs", and their sense of belonging and ownership is getting stronger and stronger. "When the heart is united, no matter how difficult things are, they are easy to do! ”
Today, the head of household assembly has been upgraded to 2Version 0, in terms of personnel, changed the previous restriction of only local villagers to participate, and included new residents in the participants; In terms of frequency, it is not limited to only once a year, encouraging innovation and integrating resources, and some villages even organize villager representatives to inspect the progress of their village's key work every quarter or every six months.
After nine years, through time and space, the Heads of Household Conference has been iteratively upgraded, exploring more ways of good governance at the grassroots level, and becoming a vivid practice of promoting whole-process people's democracy.
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