Let's discuss and handle the affairs in the village (visiting the front line of millions of projects). Beautiful scenery | Villagers | Things

Strolling through Xiaogucheng Village in Jingshan Town, Yuhang District, Hangzhou City, Zhejiang Province, the fields are filled with rice waves and tea gardens are lush with greenery. Rainbow slides, camping campsites... Everywhere leisure scenes blend with rural scenery.

This small village is not only a national demonstration village for democracy and rule of law, but also has dozens of honors such as National Key Village for Rural Tourism and National Civilized Village. Lin Guorong, Secretary of the Party Committee of Xiaogucheng Village, revealed the secret: "Let's discuss and handle the affairs in the village!"

By the pond at the entrance of the village, a large camphor tree is lush and lush. Looking closer, the wooden signboard "Meeting under the Camphor Tree" on the tree trunk has witnessed the changes of the countryside over the years.

"Without the 'Ten Million Project', there would be no Xiaogucheng Village today." Lin Guorong admitted that over the past 20 years, villagers have explored the 'Four Discussions and Six Steps' democratic deliberation method in practice, based on' what to discuss', 'who will discuss',' how to discuss', and 'the effectiveness of discussions', with' proposing, discussing, deciding, doing, supervising, and evaluating 'as key steps to promote rural development into the fast lane.

"Co construction" to make the village more beautiful.

The high walls of every household were once a barrier for the development of Xiaogucheng Village towards the village scenic area. The high wall tightly wraps around the farmyard and also blocks the landscape view of the entire countryside.

Building a wall is easy but demolishing it is difficult. How to solve the problem? In 2018, in order to promote the construction of beautiful rural areas, the village party committee piloted the lowering of walls in the Qiansan village group, and village cadres and village representatives held discussions under the camphor tree——

"How to ensure safety by lowering the fence?" "It cost a lot of money to build the fence back then, but what is the renovation plan now?"

"Install monitoring equipment and strengthen security patrols for everyone." "We need to consider the long-term, calculate the big picture, and improve the appearance of the village, which will bring benefits in all aspects."

With your words and mine, presenting facts and reasoning, the villagers gradually loosened their emotional knots and accepted the wall renovation plan.

Nowadays, the walls of every household in Xiaogucheng Village have been lowered to 1.2 meters, integrating public landscapes with beautiful courtyards. Many people have also set up shared vegetable gardens and shared courtyards.

"The wall has fallen, the 'heart wall' has opened, the neighborhood relationship has become closer, and the sense of happiness has become stronger!" said villager Shi Xueqin.

Over the years, the village party committee has carried out more than 70 democratic consultations and joint actions related to the improvement of village appearance and development, showcasing the ancient village with a new face.

"Co governance" makes industries more prosperous.

The rural environment has become more beautiful and there are more tourists. The small ancient city village has encountered the "growing troubles": during holidays, vehicles can block several miles, affecting the sightseeing experience and reputation.

Under the old camphor tree, it became lively again. The village party committee invited Xiaogucheng Tourism Development Co., Ltd. and village representatives to jointly govern and discuss.

"I can share my free parking space at home," "organize village volunteers to guide on-site," "expand the existing parking lot..." Practical and effective ideas have become the golden key to solving the problem, and the parking problem is easily solved.

Similarly, the "Tiaoxi Campsite" industry has also been discussed. In recent years, from planning to operation, from starting to thriving, patches of wilderness wetlands have become popular camping check-in spots.

Lin Guorong said that the villagers have worked together to build a 110 meter rainbow slide, expand the circular greenway to connect the beautiful scenery of the village, develop the camping industry, and have professional developers carry out camp construction. In 2022, the collective income of Xiaogucheng Village exceeded 10 million yuan for the first time, and the per capita disposable income of farmers was 52760 yuan.

"Sharing" to make development more balanced.

How to break through the spatial limitations of the rapidly developing industry?

In 2021, Xiaogucheng Village, together with surrounding Panbanqiao Village, Qiushi Village, Caoqiao Village, and Qiaotou Community, jointly established the "Xiaogucheng Rural New Community", opening a new chapter of shared development and common prosperity.

With new ideas, what should we do specifically? "Meeting under the camphor tree", discussing what to do.

Cadres from four villages and one community gathered together to propose suggestions and discuss plans, and to implement the beautiful vision of shared development in detail: led by party building, establish a joint party organization for common prosperity; Integrating tourism, investment promotion, etc., establish an alliance group company called "Gucheng Holdings"; Integrating advantageous resources and optimizing industrial layout

"Breaking down the barriers between villages, we have achieved many things we wanted to do but did not achieve before," said Tang Wenming, a professional manager of Xiaogucheng Village.

At present, Jingshan Town has established three basic units of "rural new communities" centered around Xiaogu City, Jingshan, and Qianxi, driving the comprehensive promotion of common prosperity throughout the town. In the first five months of this year, the collective operating income of 13 villages in the town reached 23.81 million yuan, close to the income of the entire year last year.

With the deepening of the "Ten Million Project" and the increasing improvement of grassroots consultative democracy, "everyone discusses and handles village affairs" has fully stimulated the enthusiasm and creativity of farmers. The old camphor tree in Xiaogucheng Village is sure to be even more lush and leafy.