Beautiful village Beautiful economy
——Liuyang promotes rural revitalization by building beautiful and livable villages
Hunan Daily All-Media Reporter Wang Wenlong Wang Qian

(Published in the 02nd edition of "Hunan Daily" May 29, 2022)
In early summer, in Yonghe Village, Yong'an Town, Liuyang City, in the village collective vegetable greenhouse, there are rows of tomatoes lush branches and leaves and fruits in bunches. The first batch of tomatoes will be available in a few days.
Two years ago, Yonghe Village adopted the "village collective + cooperative + company + university" model, introducing 1.3 million yuan of funds to build a village collective vegetable greenhouse. Now more than 200 acres of vegetable planting, with an average annual profit of 1 million yuan, driving more than 40 villagers to find employment and increase their income.
This is a microcosm of Liuyang City promoting rural revitalization through the construction of beautiful and livable villages. With the goal of beautiful ecology, beautiful villages, beautiful industries, beautiful life and beautiful fashion, the city has promoted the construction of beautiful and livable villages with natural villages (house farms) as the main body, and achieved significant results.
Party building leads the construction of beautiful and livable villages
Houses are like green trees; pastoral fields and flowers bloom all over the paths... Last year, by restoring the century-old ferry on the banks of the Liuyang River, the beautiful houseyard of the old wharf of the old wharf of Shichong Village, Shichong Town, Liuyang City was built. The newly built 3-kilometer riverside leisure trails, cultural squares, water-friendly platforms, etc. have given villagers more places to go to leisure and entertainment. 64-year-old villager Zhao Yinghua leads dancers in the Cultural Square almost every day. She said: "The environment is getting better and better, and we are getting happier and happier."

(May 27, a beautiful house in Xichong Town, Liuyang City. Photo by Li Jian, a reporter from Hunan Daily All-Media)
Liuyang City insists on taking party building as the guide to rural revitalization and promotes the construction of beautiful and livable villages.
Jiashi Town Jinshan House Farm in Zaitan Village also achieved a magnificent transformation last year. In the evening, villagers stroll on the road in the house and feel the unique tranquility beauty of the countryside. The village explores the implementation of the construction model of beautiful and livable villages of "branch overall, party members pioneers, and masses' main force" to achieve good results. "The investment in building a house yard is nearly 3 million yuan, of which more than 800,000 yuan was raised by party members and masses, and more than 500 people invested in labor and labor. The enthusiasm of the people to build a house yard is high." Jiang Honghui, secretary of the Party Branch of Saita Village and director of the village committee, introduced.
Walk into Lutang Village, Yong'an Town, the houses in the Wanli House are staggered and the rural roads are clean and tidy. Students who come to participate in study and study activities can be seen from time to time in the China Old Seed Expo Park, the China Old Seed Museum and other places. Not far away, in the "Meet Childhood" scenic area, thousands of acres of chestnut forests sway in the wind, and the scenic area has all the projects and amusement facilities such as oxidation trails, pastoral plank roads, barbecue carnivals, parent-child parks, RV bases and other projects and amusement facilities.

(A beautiful and livable village in Songshan, Meitianhu Village, Gugang Town, with large areas of rapeseed flowers in full bloom, and together with scattered houses and country roads, forming a beautiful rural picture, attracting tourists to come one after another.)
In accordance with the principle of "party building leadership, village-level leadership, villagers' participation, and co-construction and sharing", Lutang Village fully plays the role of the party organization as a fighting fortress and the role of party members as pioneers and models, and explores a new path of rural revitalization of "town sages stay, capable people invite in, villagers move, and villages come alive" and "spontaneous organization, independent design, self-financing, self-construction, and conscious management".
Liuyang City formulates operational measures for promoting the construction of beautiful and livable villages across the region. Last year, the special fiscal support of 96.8 million yuan was used for the construction of beautiful and livable villages, and 275 new beautiful and livable villages were built that year. The city plans to build more than 1,200 beautiful and livable villages by 2025 to achieve full coverage.
Industrial support makes beautiful villages "real"
Beautiful Laodao River, in the "original dyeing workshop" of Zhuoran Village, Beisheng Town, Liuyang City, the loom "rattles, rattles" sound, shuttles shuttles shuttles shuttles on the old-fashioned loom.

(Zhangfang Town takes the construction of beautiful and livable villages and the integrated development of industrial integration as its dual engines, and fully drives the creation of demonstration towns for rural revitalization. The villagers of Tianxi Village in the town have developed rural tourism through crowdfunding and created a three-A-level Xixi scenic spot.)
"The weaving and dyeing culture in our village has a history of more than 300 years. At present, the dyeing workshop has applied to become a labor education practice base for primary and secondary school students in Changsha City, which can provide students with popular science explanations, weaving and dyeing labor practice experience, parent-child weaving and dyeing experience, professional skills teaching, etc."Wang Xinqiao, secretary of the Party Branch of Zhuoran Village, introduced that last year, the study and experience course was held, attracting nearly 20,000 tourists.
industry support makes the inner world of beautiful and livable villages "realized". Beisheng Town implements the "cultural town" strategy, promotes the integration of culture and tourism, and develops rural tourism. Zhuoran Village's "Vacation Country" has become a dazzling business card. This year, the "Vacation Country" plans to develop a 40-acre weaving and dyeing material planting base, and goes from dyeing and weaving The road to the development of the complete industrial chain from cloth, dyeing, designing and producing cultural and creative works to the sales of finished products.
Last year, Xiaohe Township has accelerated the construction of scenic spot facilities and cultural integration, and achieved the beading of scenic spots into chains and connecting them into pieces. The Tianxin area of the township combines the construction of beautiful and livable villages with farmers' studios and rural tourism, and the cultural and tourism industry is becoming more and more popular.
"In the past, there were only 5 hotels in the village, but now it has developed to dozens of them. "Zhang Xilan, secretary of the Party Branch and director of the village committee of Tianxin Village, Xiaohe Township, introduced that last year, as many as 300,000 tourists went to Xiaohe Township to experience, driving the rapid development of catering, homestay and other industries, and promoting local income growth of more than 20 million yuan.
Li Bin, director of the Rural Affairs Office of Liuyang Municipal Party Committee, secretary of the Party Group and director of the Municipal Agriculture and Rural Affairs Bureau (Rural Revitalization Bureau), introduced that Liuyang City has launched the "Ten Hundred and Ten Million" project, that is, in five years, it has created ten boutique routes, hundreds of demonstration villages, thousands of happy houses, and beautiful courtyards, creating a "Liuyang model" of beautiful and livable villages, so that beautiful villages and "beautiful economy" can fly together.
[Editor: Feng Hao]