Today is the annual Mid-Autumn Festival. Many people return to their hometowns from the city to spend the festival with their parents. The author is no exception. I bought some specialties and brought them home. My hometown is not too far from the city where I work, so I drive back home in three or four hours. However, when I arrived at the county seat, it was obvious that there were more vehicles, and it seemed that there were indeed a lot of people returning home.
I didn't go home for most of the year, and I missed my hometown. I thought I would meet many acquaintances when I returned home. I also thought that my childhood friends would return home for the holidays like me. But when I got home, I found that my hometown was not as noisy as it used to be.
In the entire village, except for occasional son-in-laws who come to give gifts, many people's doors are closed, the front of the house is covered with weeds, and the courtyard is also covered with various weeds. It seems that they haven't returned home for a long time.
Although our village is small, there are more than two hundred households. However, according to the author's statistics, many of them are empty houses, and there are only dozens of households left in one village. Other houses are either Half collapsed, or overgrown with weeds.
I heard from my mother that many people in our village have bought houses and settled in the city, and the elderly also followed to bring their children in the city. There are not too many people staying in their hometowns. Normally, the village is relatively deserted and there is no smell of fireworks in the past.
In fact, there are many "hollow villages" like this in our country, and they have become a common phenomenon in recent years. According to statistics, there are more than 700,000 administrative villages in my country. As of the end of 2018, more than 3,000 acres of homesteads have been abandoned, and more than 70 million houses have been abandoned . At the same time, every year 290 million people in our country go to cities to work, and the loss of the rural labor force is relatively high, and many villages have become hollow villages.
In fact, in response to the phenomenon of rural houses being idle, the state has long proposed to revitalize abandoned homesteads and private houses, make rational use of them, and encourage homesteads to enter the market to attract capital to the countryside. Of course, the state also supports farmers to take the initiative to withdraw their idle homesteads for a fee, and various localities have also given withdrawal criteria.
At the same time, in recent years, the state has also emphasized "one household, one house", and no one’s homestead can exceed the local standard.To ensure the legal rights and interests of all villagers.
In this year's No. 1 document, it is pointed out that all regions should complete rural planning reforms as soon as possible this year, and carry out village planning for villages in need to better build new rural areas.
Although many people live in cities, they are still unwilling to withdraw their homesteads. As a result, rural planning is more chaotic. In order to better develop rural areas, some areas have implemented a policy of merging villages and towns.
Combining villages and towns is to merge scattered villages into a collective apartment. Just like a small town in a town, the planning is orderly, which can greatly improve the living quality of the villagers, and it is also convenient for rural residents. Management can also greatly save land. The large tracts of land vacated can not only be used for re-cultivation, but also for construction land to support capital to go to the countryside or villagers to use land for entrepreneurship, and to better develop the rural economy.
So, what are the advantages of combining villages and towns?
1. Reduce the members of the village committee team
There are more than 700,000 administrative villages in my country. Each village does not seem to be too large, but there are many members of the village "two committees", including the village secretary, village director, and village accountant. , Village team leaders, etc., and now the wages of village cadres have increased, which means that the cost of village committee wages has increased.
If the scattered villages are merged together, then only one member of the two committees of the village is needed, which greatly reduces wage expenses, and at the same time optimizes the team of the village committee and reduces unnecessary expenses.
2. Improve the infrastructure
In the past, the rural infrastructure has not been perfect, even the roads are difficult to harden, let alone water conservancy facilities, schools, hospitals, nursing homes, etc., even Getting courier is a difficult task.
However, after combining villages and towns, the villages will be concentrated in residence and the infrastructure will become more sound. In addition to the basic water grid, natural gas pipelines, underground waterways, etc. will also be sound, so that residents can enjoy a better quality of life.
Of course, merging villages and towns is not without its drawbacks. For example, grain cannot be “upstairs”, farmers’ farm tools are also difficult to install, farming is more difficult, and farmers’ living burdens increase.Many people still yearn for the rural life of the past.
For this reason, the state has clearly given two principles:
1. Farmers cannot be forced to go upstairs
Some areas have adopted a “one size fits all” policy when they merged villages and towns. The farmers' complaints. For example, Shandong has been on hot search because of this, and the central government has also made it clear that farmers cannot be forced to go upstairs and follow their wishes.
2. Reasonable planning
Not all villages are adapted to the strategy of merging villages and towns. The central government also clearly stated that it is necessary to retain the characteristic rural style, not to demolish and build, and to increase the control of homesteads. This means that it is not possible to merge villages and towns for villages with historical features or local folk customs, but should be reasonably reserved.
This time I return to my hometown, the author believes that it is imperative to "combine villages and towns" in my hometown. Our village does not have any characteristic industries and no distinctive cultural atmosphere. Only by taking the road of "merging villages and towns" can we let The higher the quality of life of the villagers can attract more people to return to their hometowns.
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