Text / figure Yang Cheng Evening News reporter Zhou Cong correspondent Zeng Xuan
Qingxi flows, melon sheds everywhere, flowers and fruits smell. This is the first feeling of walking in gualing village, Xintang Town, Zengcheng district. Gualing village was on the list of the second batch of national rural governance demonstration villages and towns. In addition, at the beginning of this year, gualing village was also rated as the second batch of cultural and tourism characteristic villages in Guangdong Province. What makes gualing village in Xintang Town a demonstration village? Follow the reporter to have a look!
“Three governance in one” to build a modern governance system
Gualing village is located in the northeast of Xintang Town, Zengcheng district. It is a famous hometown of overseas Chinese in Guangdong Province. It has a history of more than 500 years and has a residential group of water buildings in the Qing Dynasty. The total area of the jurisdiction is 928.8 mu, 4 cooperatives, more than 330 households and 793 registered residence population. In 2020, the village’s collective economic income will be 2 million yuan, and the per capita annual income will reach 36078 yuan.
In recent years, the village has made great efforts to optimize the rural living environment, and relying on its unique location and landscape resources, it plans to build a Lingnan boutique village with Lingnan’s strong hometown characteristics and rural culture and leisure industry characteristics.
The village has the well-known blockhouse Ningyuan tower, as well as the Qing Dynasty ancestral temple, ancient folk houses and gatehouse. Walking in the roadway, you can enjoy the ancient houses and old trees while walking. The winding path is quiet and long, which makes you feel like going back to the old years. Since the promotion of characteristic tourism, many tourists come here for leisure and vacation every holiday, which also increases the income of villagers. Gualing village cooperates with ancestral hall culture, blockhouse culture, Chinese traditional village and other cultural cards to further improve the cultural taste of gualing ecotourism and cultural tourism, so as to promote the further promotion of Rural Revitalization.
The relevant person in charge of Xintang Town told reporters that in recent years, gualing village has insisted on promoting the construction of rural grass-roots organization system under the guidance of Party construction. Implement the three-level secretaries to focus on Rural Revitalization, the Secretary of the district Party committee to be the “front-line commander in chief”, and timely study and solve the major problems of “agriculture, rural areas and farmers”; The secretaries of township party committees play a key role and concentrate on the implementation of key work and tasks; Based on the actual situation of the village, the Secretary of the village Party organization actively carried out work and promoted the implementation of various measures.
At the same time, gualing village also constructs a modern governance system of “three in one” of autonomy, rule of virtue and rule of law under the leadership of the party. In combination with the actual situation of the village, the village rules and regulations were formulated, and the two village committees strictly implemented the “four discussions and two publicity” system. The villagers had higher enthusiasm for participation, and a village affairs supervision committee was established. Since the completion of the conference hall, all important matters related to village affairs and finance in gualing village have been submitted to the villagers’ representative meeting for discussion and voting after research and discussion by the village Party branch. The advantages of grass-roots democracy under the leadership of the party have been effectively brought into play in gualing village. Gualing village also piloted the point system management, based on Villagers’ points, gave birth to the driving force of democratic autonomy, improved the level of democratic management, and built a rural governance pattern jointly built and shared by the whole people.
Transforming beauty into productivity based on Characteristics
Every ancient village is a legend, which carries extremely rich historical memory and humanistic ecology. Gualing village is a 500 year old residential community built on water in the Qing Dynasty. According to the general requirements of “prosperous industry, livable ecology, civilized rural style, effective governance and rich life”, gualing village focuses on “five beauties”, focuses on key points, complements weaknesses, strengths and weaknesses, and strengthens the foundation, creates a beautiful home, creates a beautiful agricultural and creative garden in ancient Germany, and purifies Yayao River and village ponds, Build gualing Zhihui garden and riverside ecological park corridor, so that the villagers of gualing village can obtain greater resources on the characteristic tourism platform.
Today, gualing village is embarking on a unique road of Rural Revitalization. Ancient blockhouse culture, bicycle greenway, tree lined, rural complex construction and beautiful ecological environment are driving one villager after another to a new life.
Gualing village introduces the ecological cultural tourism project through land circulation and centralized development. Gualing village is divided into four main functional areas: high-quality Resort Hotel and farmhouse health and vacation courtyard, theme creative entrepreneurship settlement suitable for living and industry, high-quality home stay series, original village block and leisure experience agricultural park, so as to build a leisure tourism based functional area integrating leisure sightseeing, cultural experience, popular science education A comprehensive pastoral complex project of “Pro nature paradise” integrating characteristic food and parent-child entertainment functions.
At the same time, based on the hometown of silk seedling rice planting, a 100 mu silk seedling rice planting base has been established, and a Guangdong brand Shenzhen Agricultural Products Group Co.Ltd(000061) exhibition point has been established in gualing post station to promote the development of gualing village in the direction of “modern agriculture and beautiful countryside”.
According to the relevant person in charge of Xintang Town, next, gualing village will continue to aim at “industrial prosperity, ecological livability, rural civilization, effective governance and rich life”, promote ecological livability and realize rich life through industrial prosperity.
(Yangcheng Evening News)
