Improving the rural living environment is like sailing against the current; one must keep moving forward or fall behind. The demonstration area fully mobilizes the masses, solidifies primary responsibilities, focuses on rectifying problems, and implements long-term mechanisms to continuously create highlights in rural living environment improvement, continuously improving the sense of gain, happiness, and security of the broad masses of the people, and making the rural living environment truly beautiful.
Focusing on key activities to comprehensively improve remediation effectiveness
Incorporating the living environment into village regulations and covenants, improving the "points system" and "list system," leveraging the exemplary role of beautiful courtyards and star-rated civilized households to promote a new wave of competition and excellence in rural living environment improvement…Various villages (communities) in the demonstration area have launched activities such as the "points system," "village cleaning day," and "courtyard competition" to promote improvements in the living environment, allowing the masses to jointly build and share a living environment with blue skies, clean land, and beautiful water. The 17th of each month is Xinmin Village's fixed "village cleaning day." From early morning, the entire village starts its "beautification" work for the village environment. Not only do they thoroughly clean visible areas, but they also comprehensively manage dilapidated sheds, garbage rooms, old toilets, and firewood sheds, fundamentally changing the "dirty, messy, and chaotic" appearance of the village environment. "The activity has strong participation, points can be exchanged for various prizes, and there are also spiritual rewards, so every household consciously participates." Xu Hua, a villager in Xinhua Village, said that the village's environment is now more beautiful, and the previous problems of random stacking, illegal construction on hillsides, and abandoned farming sheds have disappeared.
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Focusing on Party Building Leadership to comprehensively enhance the connotation of the living environment
The demonstration area adheres to Party building leadership in rural revitalization. Taking the creation of Nantong City's advanced village with effective governance for rural revitalization as an opportunity, it has built new village-level legal and cultural bases, completed a batch of livelihood projects such as rural road snow-bright projects, water environment governance, and toilet renovations, significantly improving the hardware of the living environment. Deeply excavating local resources, cooperating with the transportation group to optimize town-village tourism routes, exploring the cultivation of new industries and formats such as rural tourism and leisure agriculture, increasing the frequency of agricultural product sales promotion conferences, expanding sales channels for agricultural products, and promoting the brand of surplus agricultural products. Focusing on efforts to govern "dirt" and long-term management, Gong'an Village launched a special month-long environmental improvement activity in May-June this year, organizing Party members, grid members, volunteers, and cleaners to comprehensively clean main and secondary roads, front and back yards, ditches and rivers, etc., extending from the "immediate" to the "behind," not only thoroughly cleaning visible areas, but also comprehensively managing dilapidated sheds, garbage rooms, old toilets, and firewood sheds, striving to fundamentally change the "dirty, messy, and chaotic" appearance of the village environment.
Focusing on a people's livelihood orientation to comprehensively improve the quality of livable environments
The renewed appearance of the living environment in Xinmin Village, Gong'an Village, and other places is a microcosm of the demonstration area's promotion of rural living environment improvement. Since this year, the demonstration area has been steadily advancing various tasks, quickly setting off a new wave of rural living environment improvement. A total of 5253 cases of agricultural production waste and 664 cases of construction waste have been rectified; the main construction of 500 toilet renovation tasks has been completed; the comprehensive utilization rate of straw has reached 95%, the recycling rate of pesticide packaging waste has reached 80%, the recycling rate of waste agricultural film has reached over 90%, and the harmless disposal rate has reached 100%, all meeting the city-level assessment requirements; the action of resource utilization of livestock and poultry manure has been carried out solidly, with a utilization rate of 100%, exceeding the city-level assessment requirement of 96%; a total of 45 waste recycling points have been cleared and shut down, and 24 have been standardized; rural civilization has been vigorously promoted, with a total of 31 garbage classification knowledge publicity pavilions, 739 public display boards for the living environment, 41 environmental sanitation propaganda walls, and 2120 star-rated civilized households selected and publicized…One after another, new appearances and landscapes of beautiful villages are being carefully created.
Promoting the transformation of village environments from "external beauty" to "internal beauty" and from "temporary beauty" to "sustainable beauty," injecting new vitality into rural revitalization. Next, the demonstration area will focus on key tasks such as village garbage cleanup, implementation of the "hundred thousand project," and pollution prevention and control efforts to comprehensively improve remediation effectiveness; focusing on the people's livelihood orientation of improving the image of towns and villages, supporting basic functions, and providing public services to comprehensively improve the quality of livable environments; focusing on Party building leadership, paying attention to characteristic shaping and activity development to comprehensively enhance the connotation of the living environment, and building beautiful villages that are livable and suitable for business.
