Looking at "Zhejiang" with "Ten Million Projects": Creating a Good Face and Doing Footprints in Quzhou, Zhejiang, Drawing the Concept of Rural Co prosperity | Countryside | Footprints in Quzhou, Zhejiang

The "Thousand Village Demonstration and Ten Thousand Village Renovation" project is a successful practice of the concept of "green mountains and clear waters are invaluable assets" in rural Zhejiang. Over the past decade, Zhejiang Province has made long-term contributions and solidly promoted the "Ten Million Project", creating thousands of beautiful villages and driving the overall living environment of rural areas in Zhejiang to lead the country.

In the current land of Zhijiang, the "Ten Million Project" continues to move deeper and enters a new stage of "Thousand Villages for the Future and Ten Thousand Villages for Common Prosperity". A beautiful ecological and prosperous "Fuchun Mountain Dwelling Map" is slowly unfolding.

At the entrance of Yudong Village

Yudong Village, Gouxi Township, Quzhou City, Zhejiang Province is a well-known Chinese farmer painting village both domestically and internationally. It is a key historical and cultural traditional village in Zhejiang Province, and is known as the "Number One Farmer Painting Village in China" due to its unique style of farmer paintings. Nowadays, in Yudong Village, where there are only over 800 people, more than 300 people have joined the team of farmer painters, and many of their artworks have won numerous awards in the National Farmers Painting Competition.

"Our farmer paintings aim to be the best in the country. We 'invite in' renowned art masters to establish a personal research workstation in Yudong Village, and universities such as the China Academy of Fine Arts have also set up research bases here. We also encourage farmers to 'go abroad' and promote their paintings abroad." Yudong Village Party Branch Secretary Yu Xiaoqin introduced to reporters with great interest.

In Yudong Village, the most well-known one is undoubtedly the China Rural Art Museum, where hundreds of "famous paintings" are exhibited by peasant painters. Yu Xiaoqin told me

Tourists from Xiayu Village are boating

In Xiayu Village, Quzhou, the ecological landscape of "green mountains and clear waters" is vividly visible.

Since 2008, Xiayu Village has collected and stored multiple idle old houses in the village collective, and has renovated each old house into an art space that combines tradition and modernity, focusing on creating a "popular check-in spot". At the same time as spatial transformation, the village also attracted more than 10 artists to settle in through invitations. Artists have brought new life and value to old houses, preserving and inheriting the historical memory and cultural traces of Xiayu Village.

The secretary of the village party branch, Ye Zhiting, introduced to the reporter, "Integrating the resources of the countryside, finding a suitable path for the development of industries in our village, and promoting the development of industries can achieve that everyone has something to do and every household has an income."

Villager Ye Xiaoping runs a tourist restaurant in Xiayu Village. Our store has been operating since 2015, and there are many returning customers for steamed pork, Kaihua clear water fish, and preserved pig feet. After the tourists have finished eating, they will buy some to take back. Making money at our doorstep has given him an increasing sense of belonging and gain. With the increase of tourists in Xiayu Village, business is getting better year by year.

As one of the first pilot villages for future rural areas in Zhejiang Province, Xiayu Village firmly adheres to the concept of "green mountains and clear waters are as valuable as gold and silver", and has embarked on a path of common prosperity of "creating a source of art, controlling water and creating scenery, and promoting the revitalization of Xiayu".

Future Rural Panorama of Xikou Town

In the future rural areas of Xikou Town, Quzhou, the development concept of "three commons, three places, and three people" is taking root and sprouting here.

Architectural designer Gao Chengkai has opened his own studio in Xikou Town, where he works and lives. Nowadays, Xikou Town has formed a "Youth Maker Alliance": homestay operators, rural anchors, skilled craftsmen... Their arrival directly grafts modern industries onto the countryside, where more and more elements gather and are accommodated by the countryside as part of their own productivity.

"The biggest difference between the construction of future rural areas and small towns lies in the concept. The construction of future rural areas is centered on people, while the main concept of Xikou's future rural areas is co creation, co construction, and sharing. Our town's cadres work, live, and start businesses together with the people and young makers," She Luxing, Secretary of the Xikou Town Party Committee, told reporters.

The future rural areas will also focus on the goal positioning of "reform integration, tourism distribution, and entrepreneurship and entrepreneurship gathering", forming industry alliances, maker alliances, and governance alliances, and building a happy life circle of "5-minute struggle communes, 15 minute beautiful towns, and 30 minute Longnan one town and three townships", creating a harmonious future rural area that integrates excellent livability, active connections, livability and business, entrepreneurship and innovation, co construction and sharing, and smart governance.

A group of future rural areas with homesickness to send, dreams to inherit, and a promising future are accelerating into reality, and a new picture of common prosperity with beautiful scenery, prosperous industry, and prosperous people is slowly being painted.