"The new house number of my house is No. 1, Lane 2, Zaoxiang 2nd Road, and the relatives and friends who visited the door during the Chinese New Year this year are looking for it, and there is no need to ask people several times. Cui Shouwen, a villager in Cui Lingdong Village, Daotian Town, Shouguang City, Weifang, said. Before the Spring Festival, a new house number was hung in front of every house in this village.
It turns out that the direction of the village is used to say the east end of the village and the west end of the village, which is very vague. Now through naming, there are 7 north-south main roads in the village, from east to west, from Zaoxiang 1st Road to Zaoxiang 7th Road, which is very easy to identify. Cui Jianjun, secretary of the party branch of Cui Lingdong Village, said. The four main east-west roads in the village also have names.
After the main road of Cui Ling East Village was named, every house hung a new house sign.
For a long time, there has been a problem of "there are roads without names" on rural roads, which brings inconvenience to farmers' production and life, and for this reason, the Ministry of Civil Affairs of the People's Republic of China will launch the "Famous Rural Action" across the country in 2023. In the second half of last year, Shouguang City organized and carried out a pilot project on the naming of main roads within the village in the whole area of Daotian Town and three villages in Luocheng Street.
It is understood that the rice field town is mainly named according to the geographical characteristics, historical evolution, customs, humanistic allusions, characteristic products, folklore, typical landscape, development achievements and other factors of each village. At the same time, organize party members and mass representatives in the village, old village cadres, old teachers, etc. to carry out discussions. For the basically determined road names, they were also publicized in the open column of village affairs and WeChat groups, and the opinions of villagers were widely heard. In the end, a civilized, concise, and practical naming scheme was come up with for each road in each village.
In the process of naming village roads, the Shouguang Civil Affairs Bureau specially formulated the implementation plan for the naming of roads within each village, and organized experts to conduct many demonstrations and audits to ensure that the naming of village roads complies with relevant laws and regulations, and avoids problems such as "big, foreign, strange and heavy".
By the end of 2023, all 108 administrative villages in Daotian Town have completed the naming of village main roads, and 521 village roads have been named. On January 30, 2024, the people of Shouguang City** issued a special notice to officially announce the newly named 521 roads in the village in Daotian Town, as well as the newly named 30 roads in Luocheng Street.
On January 30, the people of Shouguang City issued a notice announcing the newly named village road names in Daotian Town and Luocheng Street.
Tian Jiyuan, deputy director of the Shouguang Civil Affairs Bureau, said that this year, the city will comprehensively roll out the naming of rural roads in 857 villages, including the main streets and alleys in the villages, the township roads connecting villages and villages, and the main roads in the town streets. For the named roads, signs will be made one after another, and the standardized locations will be selected for installation, and make full use of the Internet, big data and other modern technical means to mark the newly named roads on electronic maps, and update the navigation and positioning information in a timely manner.
Cuilingdong Village named the village road with "jujube incense", which is inseparable from the old jujube trees in the village. This village is dominated by the surname Cui, according to the genealogy of the Cui family, during the Hongwu period of the Ming Dynasty, the ancestors of the surname Cui moved here from other places. The original settlement was a high-lying Tuling, so it was named Cuijialing, also called Lingshang. At that time, there was a big jujube tree on Tuling, and for hundreds of years, there has been a saying in the village that "there is an old jujube tree first, and then there is a village on Lingshang". "Shouguang County Chronicles" also has a record of old jujube trees, which are the unique nostalgic memories of the villagers of Cuilingdong Village.
After the naming of the road in Cuilingdong Village, it greatly facilitated the production and life of the villagers.
Guo Xiaolin, a member of the National Geographical Names Standardization Committee and a researcher at the Institute of Culture of the Shandong Academy of Social Sciences, believes that geographical names are not only the identification of geographical location, but also carry a rich historical culture and the spirit of the times. By carrying out the "Famous Rural Action", it can not only empower the revitalization of rural industries, make express delivery "into the village" faster, agricultural products "into the city" smoother, travel navigation more accurate, conducive to the promotion of rural tourism, but also protect and inherit rural culture and history, and retain more nostalgic memories.
Zhang Zilong, director of the Division of Geographical Names of the Department of Civil Affairs of Shandong Province, said that Shouguang is the famous "hometown of Chinese vegetables", and the rice field town is based on the needs of the masses, and the rural roads are named to achieve full coverage, which is an effective measure to help rural revitalization, and will also help the vegetable industry to upgrade, optimize the business environment, and facilitate the production and life of the masses.
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