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Recently, the provincial internal journal "Jiangxi Ecological Civilization" published "Zhixi Valley Transforms into "Gold and Silver Valley" - Longnan City Writes a New Chapter of Beautiful Countryside and Realizing the Value of Ecological Products", introducing the experience and practices of Longnan Lintang Township as an innovative exploration to make Zhixi Valley realize a gorgeous transformation
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"Zhixi Valley Transforms into "Gold and Silver Valley" - Longnan City Writes a New Chapter of Beautiful Countryside to Realize the Value of Ecological Products
Zhixi Valley Scenic Area is located in Dongkeng Village, Lintang Township, Longnan City, Jiangxi Province, which is a traditional Hakka ancient village with a long history of more than 500 years. Relying on the village's well-preserved traditional cultural heritage advantages such as papermaking, bamboo weaving, oil extraction, etc., which have been passed down from generation to generation, it is planned to build a beautiful rural demonstration site integrating pastoral scenery, leisure and vacation, research, team building activities, and parent-child paradise. The demonstration site has a total planning area of 1.48 square kilometers and a core area of 0.8 square kilometers, and has invested nearly 40 million yuan to attract 10 million yuan of social capital.
▲ The cooking smoke is intentional, and there is poetry in the Zhixi Valley in the countryside.
Colorful Lintang, poetry and painting Zhixi. Since 2021, Lintang Township, Longnan City, has conscientiously implemented Xi Jinping Thought on Ecological Civilization, upheld the concept that lucid waters and lush mountains are invaluable assets, and took the initiative to innovate and explore a new path for the transformation of the "Two Mountains Theory". The township made full use of the green mountains and green water resources of Zhixi Valley and took three major measures to transform Zhixi Valley into a "gold and silver valley". Up to now, Zhixi Valley Scenic Area has been recognized as a 3A-level rural tourism spot in Jiangxi Province, helping Lintang Township to win the title of the first batch of "unique scenery" tourist towns in Jiangxi Province; In December 2023, Lintang Township was awarded the 14th "Jiangxi Charming Township". As one of the visiting points of the 32nd World Hakka Conference hosted by Longnan, Zhixi Valley has been well received by tourists at home and abroad.
▲ "Zhixi Valley" with a strong rural atmosphere.
Precise governance, focusing on the "six elements", to create a model of rural construction in harmony and beauty
Lintang Township strengthens the development concept of "overall promotion", comprehensively considers various elements of agricultural and rural development, and comprehensively uses market concepts, market means and market mechanisms to promote the implementation of rural construction in Hemei.
The first is to adhere to the leadership of party building and play a leading role in demonstration. Innovate and conspire to build and share the "Linli Governance", the "Linli Gang" to meet the needs of the masses, the one-stop convenient service "Linli Office", the clean and beautiful countryside "Linli Beauty", and the rural tourism development "Linli Tour" Five party member volunteer service teams, adhere to the integration of party building work into all fields and the whole process of Zhixi Valley work, and continue to sing the "Linju" party building brand.
The second is to explore local characteristic resources based on local culture. Dig deep into the traditional festivals, folk tales and handicraft skills of Zhixi Valley in Dongkeng Village, inherit the intangible cultural heritage culture such as papermaking and bamboo weaving, and build a papermaking museum, bamboo weaving workshop, intangible cultural heritage store and other carriers through in-depth processing and innovative design, so as to promote the large-scale and standardized production of "Linjiang Immersion Vegetables", and successfully transform and embed cultural resources into the rural industrial chain and value chain.
▲The bamboo weaving workshop in Zhixi Valley. Photo by Wang Jianchun
The third is to give full play to the window effect and form a trend of aggregation and promotion. Guide each village to concentrate its own capital projects and high-quality agricultural products in Zhixi Valley to form a high-quality resource agglomeration effect. Strengthen exchanges and cooperation with pious towns, jointly hold activities, share tourist resources, and form a good situation of complementary advantages and mutual integration.
▲ Organic tea garden in the pious town.
The fourth is to cultivate the civilization of rural customs and build a happy life scene. The construction of Zhixi Pavilion Book House, Nature School, Red Station, Family Style and Family Training Corridor and other theme scenes, the establishment of points supermarket, red passbook, civilized savings card and other systems, to create a "new era of civilization practice station without walls", to further promote the coordinated development of material civilization and spiritual civilization.
Fifth, strengthen the cultivation of talents and continue to empower rural revitalization. Improve the talent pool of rural chefs, establish a "chef alliance", and develop a digital ordering platform WeChat mini-program to realize the whole process of customer ordering, alliance dispatch, chef order taking, etc. Pay attention to the excavation and training of local talents, establish an information ledger, and cultivate and introduce "professional managers" from college students who have returned to their hometowns to start businesses and rural sages who are doing business abroad, so as to inject development vitality into rural revitalization.
Sixth, improve the village environment and create an ecological livable paradise. Implement transformation and upgrading projects for small nodes in areas with high public attention, strong willingness to transform, and obvious remediation effects, integrate into nature through "micro design", improve appearance through "micro landscape", and control costs through "micro transformation", and create "Internet celebrity check-in points" from the details, so that homes are like gardens and villages become parks.
Keep integrity and innovation, adhere to the "four modernizations" orientation, and explore the development path of "four integrations and one total".
Lintang Township adheres to the orientation of resource sharing, industrial branding, governance modernization, and development coordination.
The first is to realize the integration of scenic villages with "resource sharing". Adhere to the principle of moderate development, combine the construction of scenic spots with the development of villages, and retain the original features of villages to the greatest extent. Build platforms such as "shared restaurants" and "common wealth markets" to share tourist resources, platform resources, and information resources with villagers, so as to provide convenience for villagers to find employment and sell agricultural products nearby.
▲Zhixi Valley held a New Year's goods gathering.
The second is to promote the integration of production and village with "industrial branding". Establish market thinking and Internet thinking, amplify the public brand effect of Zhixi Valley through the two-wheel drive of "external introduction and internal training", continuously optimize the production end, do the finishing end, and expand the sales end, and create 7 characteristic industrial brands such as "Zhixi Excellent Products" and "Xia Guanzi".
The third is to promote the integration of the three governance with "governance modernization". Establish a digital integrated intelligent village management platform, and select capable forces from retired teachers and veteran party members to form a "Sangyu mediation room" to mediate all kinds of conflicts and disputes.
▲Lintang Township set up a Sangyu mediation room.
Fourth, we should accelerate the integration of urban and rural areas through "coordinated development". Establish and improve the two-way flow mechanism of urban and rural elements, improve rural infrastructure, optimize rural public services, and attract urban capital to invest and start businesses. Vigorously develop rural tourism, deep processing of agricultural products, and characteristic agriculture, and promote the integrated development of primary, secondary and tertiary industries.
▲Zhixi Valley held a beer lobster music carnival.
Fifth, relying on the "five common wealth" to unlock the "password" for increasing income. Establish the concept of shared development, revitalize rural resource endowment, and accelerate the transformation of resource value. Build "Gongfu B&B", create "Gongfu Pastoral", innovate "Gongfu Workshop", operate "Gongfu Restaurant", and hold "Gongfu Activities".
▲Zhixi Valley held a "common wealth activity".
Comprehensive policies, the implementation of mountain and water management, the construction of "green mountains and clear water" ecological villages
The first is to carry out river basin governance. Implement the 2023 construction and quality improvement project of the Zhixi Valley section of the Taipingshan Ecological Clean Watershed. The total investment of the project is about 2.6 million yuan. The small watershed covers an area of 29.97 square kilometers, mainly treating the mild loss area dominated by hydraulic erosion, including 539.14 hectares of closed treatment, 21.18 hectares of replanting, 4 sedimentation ponds, 630 meters of drainage and irrigation ditches, 350 meters of ecological ditches, 75 plant science cards, 1000 meters of dredging, 1300 meters of ecological revetment, 275 square meters of aquatic plant replanting, 1 overflow weir, 350 meters of ecological trails, 2490 square meters of riverbank greening, and 1 ecological restoration of gate ponds.
▲ Happy River and Lake Creation Demonstration Site - Zhixi Valley, Lintang Township.
The second is to create happy rivers and lakes. Implement the river chief system, adhere to the construction of ecological civilization as the main line, combine ecological protection measures with the construction of tourism projects, promote the integration of mountain control, water control, green control and landscape management, and restore the water system with the construction of happy rivers and lakes and the treatment of small and medium-sized rivers; Implement enclosure, management and protection + engineering measures to do a good job in soil and water conservation, and carry out water quality management through the construction of artificial wetlands and ecological pond treatment systems. At the same time, through the implementation of water conservancy projects, planting aquatic plants and terrestrial plants, optimizing plant allocation, creating water-friendly recreation and mountain water play projects, and enriching the outdoor experience content.
▲Tourists trace the river in Zhixi Valley. Photo by He Dandan
The third is to build a provincial-level water ecological civilization village. Focusing on the construction of water ecological civilization in Zhixi Valley, the water system and water garbage were cleaned up in manual ways, and a village-level sewage treatment station with a daily treatment capacity of 100 tons/day was built, and 100% of the sanitary toilets in the village were renovated. There are drainage ditches of different sizes in the village, the drainage system is unblocked, and 500 meters of Φ75-160 sewage pipes are buried to discharge sewage to the sewage treatment station; In terms of flood control safety, drinking water safety, ecological security, and innovative management, comprehensive construction has been carried out and the standards have been met.
Integrate resources, aggregate functions, and expand new paths to realize the value of ecological products
The first is the development of "tourism + homestay". Zhixi Valley has opened 12 characteristic homestays such as "Flying Bird Collection" and "Tea Yuqi", forming a gathering area of rural homestays in Zhixi Valley.
▲Zhixi Valley "Flying Bird Collection" B&B.
The second is to expand the "tourism + agriculture". Relying on the top ten gold medal tourism routes of the national tea tourism in Taiping Mountain, the villagers have been guided to build a number of tea, mandarin, kiwifruit and other agricultural products picking bases, and develop rape flower sightseeing and tea picking, so as to attract tourists from all over the world to enjoy the beautiful scenery, taste the food and find homesickness.
▲The research group experiences tea picking.
The third is to revitalize idle housing resources. 21 idle houses and 11 idle homesteads were circulated, and "nesting and attracting phoenixes" attracted social capital to settle in. Fourth, it has unleashed the potential of tourism consumption. The government takes the lead in building a platform, and various business formats cooperate with each other, and regularly hold holiday activities in Zhixi Valley to achieve "weekly activities, monthly themes". In 2023, 36 themed activities will be held, driving the sales of agricultural and sideline products of 75,200 yuan.
The business entities of Zhixi Valley will earn 64,800 yuan annually through team building activities, the old noodle restaurant and memory grocery store will attract 35,000 tourists every year, the intangible cultural heritage workshop will attract 108,000 tourists in 2023, with an operating income of 231,000 yuan, and the boutique homestay will attract about 3,680 tourists in 2023, driving 62 people to work. The village collective can increase its income by 37,500 yuan by leasing canopies and stalls, obtain asset income of 22,000 yuan through land transfer, and obtain operating income of 24,000 yuan from the sale of agricultural and sideline products. In 2023, a total of 60.5 acres of land will be transferred in Zhixi Valley, and the output of vegetables will be 255,200 catties. At present, 2 shared restaurants have been built, including "Xia Guanzi" and "Old Noodle Restaurant", and there are 3 "shared chefs" who have long-term cooperation. It solves the employment of local villagers, realizes the increase of villagers' income, and the business is popular and profitable. Truly transform lucid waters and lush mountains into gold and silver mountains for the masses to increase their income and get rich.
▲Zhixi Valley held a variety of team building activities.
There are original ecological trees on the roadside, pond side, ditch side and courtyard, and the restoration rate of forest and grass vegetation is more than 90%. Green mountains are neighbors, accompanied by green water, gurgling water, shallow bottom of fish, beautiful bamboo forest, tea fragrance, asphalt road connects the village and the distance, the houses are scattered, the roads are clean and tidy, and the picture of beautiful and livable countryside is spread out little by little...... After the implementation of the river chief system and soil and water conservation, the Zhixi Valley in Dongkeng Village, Lintang Township has become beautiful, and nostalgia can be seen everywhere, presenting the scene of "small bridges and flowing water".
▲The parent-child activities in Zhixi Valley have attracted many families.
By strengthening village planning, farmhouse construction management and shaping the rural landscape, the "new Hakka style" has helped the village look new. Combined with the creation of civilized towns and villages, improve and improve the long-term mechanism of village management and protection, Zhixi Valley is more livable, suitable for business and tourism, attracting original villagers, new villagers, and returnees to participate in the operation, forming an industrial chain with characteristic cultural and creative characteristics, public welfare research, etc., and driving local farmers to work flexibly in the vicinity. Rural management is improving day by day, rural customs and civilization have become a common practice, and the improvement of the quality of human settlements has allowed villagers to develop a new atmosphere of caring for the environment and advocating culture and courtesy.
Create a model of rural construction in harmony and beauty, explore the development path of "four integrations and one total", expand the value of ecological products, and realize a new path for Zhixi Valley, the future can be expected!
Source: Municipal Development and Reform Commission Lintang Township Editor: Zeng Yu First Instance First School: Zhou Haoyan Second Instance Second School: Tang Xialing
Three trials and three proofreadings: Ye Weixian, Ling Hong
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