The former "poor village" is now a "rich village", and Junying Village in Xiamen has undergone a transformation.
Junying Village, Lianhua Town, Tongan District, Xiamen City, Fujian Province, has clean streets in the middle of the village, dotted with red-tiled residential buildings, lush mountains and tea gardens surround the village, and clear Jiulong Creek flows through the village... A beautiful new rural picture with "blue sky, clear water, green mountains and abundant materials" comes into view.
Recently, the reporter followed the research team on the construction model of ecological clean small watersheds in Xiamen City organized by the Soil and Water Conservation Society of Fujian Province. Starting from Tong 'an Urban area of Xiamen City, he drove along the rugged mountainous road for about an hour to Junying Village in the mountains in the northwest. In a mountain village with a permanent population of 323 households and 1069 people, who would have imagined that in the 1980s, in order to get rid of poverty and develop the tea industry, villagers cut down all the trees on the mountain, resulting in ecological environment damage and serious soil erosion. At that time, the per capita annual income of villagers was only more than 200 yuan."Sweet potatoes were used as food and grass, and children were used as backpacks", which was in sharp contrast to the level of construction of special economic zones.
In April 1986 and July 1997, Comrade Xi Jinping went to the mountains twice during his work in Fujian. He went deep into Junying Village and Baijiaoci Village for research and guidance and proposed the development idea of "wearing hats on the mountains and developing at the mountains." This points out the direction for ecological construction and poverty alleviation and prosperity in remote coastal mountain villages.
Over the past 30 years, Junying Village has firmly grasped the development opportunity of rural ecological revitalization and adhered to ecological priority and green development. The two village committees and villagers have worked together to build the formerly famous "remote and poor mountain village" into the famous "rich and beautiful new countryside".", has successively won the title of Fujian Ecological Village, National" One Village, One Product "Tea Demonstration Village, Beautiful Rural Civilization Construction Demonstration Village, China's Most Beautiful Leisure Village, National Civilized Village, Fujian Province's Top 20 Tourism Characteristic Villages, Fujian Province Gold Medal Tourism Village, The second batch of typical demonstration villages such as national key rural tourism villages.
On the bank of the Jiulong Creek Small Watershed, many tourists who come here for leisure and vacation are enjoying the scenery of Jiulong Creek as clear as spring water and taking photos.
Zhang Yiping, assistant secretary of Junying Village, Lianhua Town, Xiamen City Agriculture and Rural Affairs Bureau, told reporters that the former Junying Village not only had a harsh ecological environment, but the village's sanitary environment also troubled the lives of villagers. Dry toilets built with adobe stink and mosquitoes fly everywhere in summer; chickens and ducks raised by villagers run all over the village, with feces everywhere; domestic sewage is directly discharged into Jiulong Creek, and the stream becomes black all year round. Ditch.
In order to completely change this environmental situation, Xiamen City, districts and towns have invested more than 70 million yuan to promote the restoration of the ecological environment of Junying Village, the appearance of the village, domestic sewage and the management of the Jiulong River Small Watershed. More than 4000 acres of afforestation; more than 6500 acres of ecological tea gardens were renovated and constructed; taking advantage of the geographical conditions of mountains to develop a variety of characteristic ecological agriculture, reduce the use of chemical fertilizers, and protect soil and water sources from pollution; comprehensively manage the Jiulong Creek Small Watershed 983 meters, clean up the river bed sediment, plant a large number of trees and flowers on both sides of the river bank, build cobblestone trails, etc.; lay a sewage pipe network and build a domestic sewage wetland treatment plant that processes more than 75 tons per day. In order to protect the green mountains, green waters and the village environment, the two village committees have established a long-term mechanism for autonomous management to incorporate the concept of ecological protection into village rules and regulations; implement a red and black list incentive system to regularly publicize the environmental health conditions of villagers; On the basis of protecting existing public welfare forests, carry out afforestation work; increase garbage classification publicity and improve garbage classification treatment facilities; advocate villagers to practice green lifestyles, jointly protect the ecological environment, and maintain the appearance of the village.
Through a series of comprehensive environmental improvements, the quality of the ecological environment has been improved and improved, attracting many young people who have gone out to return to the village to start businesses. Four large-scale tea production enterprises, nearly 70 B & Bs, as well as farmhouses, local specialties and other industries have been established. The income of villagers has increased significantly. The per capita annual income has increased from 25,000 yuan in 2018 to 45,000 yuan in 2023. The village financial income will reach 864,700 yuan in 2023. It has become a well-known "Fumei Village" and a rural tourism and leisure destination.
Zhang Yiping introduced that due to the green development of Junying Village, the country's first agricultural carbon sink service station will be established in Junying Village in 2022. The carbon sink area of the tea garden developed by Junying Village that year was 5715 acres, increasing carbon sink income by 14854 yuan. Currently, the existing ecological public welfare forests are also continuing to promote the development of carbon trading products. In 2023, Junying Village's carbon sink income will reach 180,500 yuan.
According to reports, in 2016, the alpine teaching point of the Xiamen Municipal Party Committee Party School and the alpine teaching point of the Tong 'an District Party School were unveiled and established in Junying Village and Baijiaoci Village, creating a "party school is established in the mountains, professors are invited to the doorstep, and students go deep into the fields." After the arrival of the students from the Gaoshan Party School, they further stimulated the economic vitality of Junying Village. So far, the Gaoshan Party School has held nearly 800 training courses (times), trained more than 40,000 party members and cadres, and attracted more than 1 million party members and cadres from inside and outside the province to come for inspection and study. In 2021, Junying Village will be selected as one of the country's "Top 100 Excellent Red Tourism Routes for the Centenary of the Founding of the Party".
From relying on the mountains to eating the mountains to sitting on the mountains, to sharing the prosperity of the ecology, Junying Village uses its story to interpret the true meaning of "people live up to the green mountains, and the green mountains will surely live up to people."
