Revitalizing Rural China: The Journey of the Ten Thousand Village Demonstration and Renovation Project

2023-06-29 10:30:00

【Editor’s note】The “Thousand Village Demonstration and Ten Thousand Village Renovation” project is a major decision that General Secretary Xi Jinping personally planned, deployed, and promoted during his work in Zhejiang. Over the past 20 years, the “Ten Thousand Project” has created thousands of beautiful villages and benefited the masses of farmers.

In the report of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized that “the most arduous and arduous task of building a socialist modern country in an all-round way is still in the countryside”, and clearly called for “comprehensively promoting rural revitalization” and “building a beautiful village that is suitable for living and working.”

CCTV’s “Hot Interpretation” column specially planned a series of interpretation articles “From ‘Ten Million Projects’ to ‘Harmonious Villages'”, closely following the rural revitalization strategy of “prosperous industries, livable ecology, civilized rural customs, effective governance, and affluent life”. Requirements, fully demonstrate the vivid practice of China’s multi-measures in the new era to build a livable, business-friendly and beautiful countryside.

hot reading“Small toilet” contains “big people’s livelihood”.

“Renovation of toilets in rural areas is something I have always been concerned about. I am also a person from the countryside, and I know that it is really inconvenient to go to the toilets in rural areas.” Renovation of toilets in rural areas is related to the health of the masses and the people’s livelihood of civilized life ” Small things” have always been the “big things” in the mind of General Secretary Xi Jinping.

Back in time to the beginning of this century. In Zhejiang at that time, the gap between urban and rural areas was gradually widening, and the problems of rural living environment became increasingly prominent. Many villages still had toilets that people could not go to, smell, or squat down, which greatly affected the daily life of rural people. .

In June 2003, under the auspices of Xi Jinping, then Secretary of the Zhejiang Provincial Party Committee, Zhejiang launched the “Ten Thousand Project”, which selected about 10,000 administrative villages from the whole province for comprehensive renovation, and built about 1,000 of them as central villages. Moderately prosperous model village. Starting from solving the problem of dirty and chaotic environment that the masses strongly complained about, we will take changing toilets as one of the entry points for environmental improvement, and reshape the provincial rural living environment from point to point.

After 20 years of hard work, the change of toilets in rural Zhejiang has become a vivid epitome of China’s “toilet revolution”.

At the beginning of the implementation of the “Ten Million Project”, Zhejiang promoted the improvement of rural toilets at the rate of 2,000 villages and 500,000 households per year; since 2018, Zhejiang has renovated and upgraded 50,000 rural public toilets in the province; in 2020, Zhejiang will start rural toilets Great improvement of public toilet services – the rural public toilets in Zhejiang are gradually moving towards convenience, intelligence, humanization, specialization, and standardization… At present, there are 67,000 rural public toilets in Zhejiang, with an average of 3 in each administrative village. Complete coverage of harmless sanitary toilets in rural areas.

Left: On July 15, 2019, General Secretary Xi Jinping inspected the home of Zhang Guoli, a villager in Ma’anshan Village, Henan Street, Karaqin Banner, Chifeng City, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. Right: On August 21, 2019, General Secretary Xi Jinping inspected the home of Li Yingchuan, a villager in Fumin New Village, Huanghuatan Ecological Immigration Area, Gulang County, Gansu Province.

Using the “point” of the toilet to bring the “surface” of rural revitalization is related to the health of farmers, the fundamental well-being of farmers, and the construction of a beautiful China. General Secretary Xi Jinping has devoted a lot of effort to this. He is thinking about it, and wants to bring a “toilet revolution” in the countryside so that the villagers can use hygienic toilets.

In July 2015, General Secretary Xi Jinping called for the “toilet revolution” to be extended to vast rural areas. In January 2017, in the courtyard of Xu Haicheng, a villager in Desheng Village, Zhangbei County, Hebei Province, he put forward a clear request for the planning of the village: “The problem of changing toilets must also be scientifically designed.” A few months later, “Rural Habitat The Three-Year Action Plan for Environmental Improvement was passed at the first meeting of the 19th Central Leading Group for Comprehensively Deepening Reform. At this meeting chaired by General Secretary Xi Jinping, the “toilet revolution” rose to the national level.

In recent years, the general secretary has often asked about the reconstruction of local rural toilets during his domestic inspections and surveys, asking in detail whether the villagers use water toilets or dry toilets, and will also learn about the relevant situation in detail when inspecting the appearance of the village.

During a survey in Luliang Mountain, Shanxi Province, he came to the house of Zhang Guiming, a villager in Songjiagou New Village, who had just moved to a new home. He was really happy that the living conditions of Zhang Guiming’s family had improved and that flush toilets had been used.

At the National Sanitation and Health Conference, he fully affirmed the significance and achievements of the “toilet revolution”, proposed to continue to carry out urban and rural environmental sanitation and tidy actions, and once again emphasized the need for a “toilet revolution” in rural areas.

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The rural “toilet revolution” is by no means a one-time success. The situation in rural areas of our country varies greatly. To improve toilets, it is necessary to find out the bottom line and implement scientific policies by division and classification. We should do our best and do what we can. General Secretary Xi Jinping paid close attention to the key points: “The climate and ecological environment of the country vary greatly, as do the economic and living standards. How can we use one method to improve toilets? Some places are superficial and superficial, causing serious problems in a large number of toilets, so I have made many decisions. Criticism.”

Among the instructions made by the general secretary, there were two shortly after each other. One warning: “Formalism and bureaucracy are the biggest hazards to poverty alleviation and rural revitalization, so don’t let them revive.” One exhortation: “Seek good things, not fast ones, and resolutely oppose wasting people’s money and putting on formalities.”

General Secretary Xi Jinping grasped it carefully and firmly.

In 2018, the Central Office and the State Office issued the “Three-Year Action Plan for the Improvement of Rural Human Settlement Environment”, which clearly made the rural “toilet revolution” the focus of improving the rural living environment.

In 2019, eight departments jointly issued guidance on promoting the special action of “toilet revolution” in rural areas to guide the improvement of toilets in rural areas.

In 2021, the “Five-Year Action Plan for Improvement and Improvement of the Rural Human Settlement Environment (2021-2025)” was announced, proposing to solidly promote the “toilet revolution” in rural areas.

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Always remember, there will be reverberations. In recent years, the achievements of toilet improvement in rural areas are obvious to all.

In Zhengding, Hebei, the “Lianmaoquan” seized by General Secretary Xi Jinping has long been a history. In 2022, the county will renovate and upgrade 48,000 rural toilets, realizing all the changes that should be made.

In Shenshan Village, Jinggangshan, Jiangxi Province, where the “toilet revolution” has been completed, the sanitary conditions of every family in the village have improved, and the appearance of the village has become cleaner and tidy.

In Guangdong Village, Yanbian, Jilin, flushing toilets have become “standard equipment” for every household. Villagers lamented that “the toilet has changed, and life is very different.”

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In China today, the penetration rate of sanitary toilets in rural areas exceeds 73%. But there is still a long way to go to let the light of the “toilet revolution” shine on every village and every household. As the general secretary emphasized, this work should be promoted as a specific task of the rural revitalization strategy, and efforts should be made to make up for this short board that affects the quality of life of the masses.

Supervisor system丨Luo Hongbing Wei Quhu

Producer丨Wang Jingdong

Chief Editor丨Li Xuan

Planning丨Liu Zhen

Editor丨Cai Chunlin

Visual丨Zhang Zixi

Proofreading丨Li Shanshan Wang Zhuojie Song Chunyan Liang Yaqin Lou Hao

Produced丨China Central Radio and Television CCTV

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