East China's Jiangsu province is making every effort to promote the creation of characteristic rural areas, deepen the implementation of rural construction actions, accelerate the modernization of agriculture and rural areas, and make beautiful villages a happy home that is livable and suitable for work.
Wuyang Village in Daduo Town of Xinghua city has recently opened to traffic a six meter wide and 3.5 kilometer long road, and street lights are also being installed, which will illuminate the roads for more migrant villagers to return home.
"The road leading to the village used to be very dark with no streetlights for several Kilometers. Cars and electric vehicles crowded together, especially when commuting at night or when it was windy and rainy at night, it was difficult to walk. Now the road has been widened and the streetlights have been lit making it more convenient and also safer to travel back and forth," said a villager.
In Xinghua, following the example of provincial-level characteristic rural areas, more and more rural areas are starting to improve their infrastructure and upgrade their living environment.
Daduo Town has relied on the cultural resource of Zheng Banqiao to upgrade the infrastructure and research projects of the Banqiao Cultural Park, allowing rural cultural resources to nourish people's hearts and promote tourism development.
"We have created more cultural connotations by telling the story of Zheng Banqiao and his deeds, which can nourish the people's culture and spiritpromote rural civilization and continuously attract more tourists. We have gradually developed some initial forms of tourism," said Zhu Chun, Secretary of the Party Committee of Daduo Town, Xinghua City.
Tian'an Village, Xinji Town, Yizheng City is seizing the construction period to carry out the construction of homestays and agritainment. Relying on characteristic industries such as lotus roots and forest fruits, Tian'an Village has made lotus pond sightseeing and leisure picking a key focus of traditional agricultural transformation and development, extending the agricultural industry chain and increasing the added value of agricultural characteristic industries.
"We have equipped three industry integration facilities in the project area, including farmhouses and agritainment, in order to retain tourists After the industrial adjustment, we will build some factories to improve our current deficiencies in deep processing.We predict that the efficiency can be increased by about 30% to 40% and the income of villagers and village collectives will increase by about 600 thousand yuan," said Cheng Zhaoyun, Secretary of the Party General Branch of Tian'an Village, Xinji Town, Yizheng City.
Jiangsu has built 593 "characteristic pastoral villages", covering 76 counties or county-level city in the province. The average annual growth of village collective income and villagers' income has reached about 34% and 22%, and the satisfaction rate of farmers has exceeded 95%.
