The development of Jiqiao Town

Since the reform and opening up, the economy and society of Jiqiao Town have developed in a healthy, rapid, sustained and coordinated manner. In 2007, the regional GDP of Jiqiao Town was 330 million yuan, a year-on-year increase of 15.8%, and the industrial added value of Jiqiao Town was 85.47 million yuan, a year-on-year increase of 28.8%. The fixed asset investment of the whole society was 150 million yuan, a year-on-year increase of 23.8%. The per capita net income of farmers in Jiqiao Town reached 4,726 yuan, a year-on-year increase of 10%.

After the eastward expansion of Huaian Industrial Park, Jiqiao Town accelerated infrastructure construction and made every effort to promote industrial development. The overall planned area of ??the market town industrial concentration area is about 1,000 acres, and 600 acres have been started. There are 11 enterprises in the concentration area, 2 listed industrial enterprises, and a total investment of 5.568 million yuan in infrastructure in the concentration area, including 3.15 million yuan in roads. A total of 162.1 million yuan has been invested in fixed assets, and a total of 20,550 square meters of new standardized factories have been built. In addition, the Huaian District Fine Chemical Industry Concentration Zone is also located in Jiqiao Town, where 21 chemical companies have settled. The chemical industry zone is fully equipped with electricity, water conservancy and other facilities, and the annual water supply can reach 10,000 tons; the sewage pipe network and rainwater pipe network are all laid in place, which can realize the diversion of rainwater and sewage and clean sewage; the zone has a daily processing capacity of 20,000 tons tons of sewage treatment plant and straw power plant will also provide comprehensive central heating in the area after the laying of heating pipelines is completed. In order to better serve the industrial concentration area and fine chemical industry zone, Jiqiao Town has established a special service team with dedicated personnel to assist. When encountering difficult conflicts, the town's main leaders will personally come to the scene to work and solve problems. After the project is completed, a dedicated person will be responsible for assisting with relevant procedures so that the company can complete the project and put it into production as soon as possible and achieve production and results.

As a semi-industrial and semi-agricultural town, the adjustment of the agricultural industry structure has made Jiqiao Town’s 48,000 acres of cultivated land more vibrant. Jiqiao Town focuses on the development of efficient agriculture and characteristic diversified operations, and the scale of production continues to expand. , the 11.5-kilometer-long Huaihe River into the sea provides unique and convenient conditions for the development of livestock, poultry, and aquaculture. Under the new situation of the construction of a new socialist countryside, traditional agriculture has developed steadily, and rural areas such as ecological breeding parks, dairy farms, and rex rabbit farms have Professional cooperative organizations are booming. In response to the new characteristics of the recruitment work, Jiqiao Town created a "four-movement" mechanism to carry out recruitment work in accordance with the law, stimulating the enthusiasm of the majority of young people to join the army. In 2008, more than 1,280 young people of the right age actively signed up for the job in Jiqiao Town. Among them, 164 young migrant workers returned to their hometowns to take the initial examination. There was a moving scene of fathers sending their sons and brothers sending their brothers to take the physical examination.

Propaganda, education and agitation. Jiqiao Town makes full use of cable TV and banners, slogans and other carriers to widely publicize laws and regulations such as the Military Service Law, the National Defense Law and the "Jiangsu Province Military Recruitment Regulations". At the same time, pre-conscription notices were issued at the town and village levels to inform young people and their parents of the recruitment time, requirements, military service obligations and responsibilities, and to enhance the awareness of the general public and young people to perform military service in accordance with the law. During the May Day and National Day holidays, the majority of young people returning home should be educated to establish national defense awareness and awareness of danger. Due to the insistence on regular ideological education, the patriotism, the desire to serve the country, and the ambition to defend the country have been inspired by the majority of young people of the appropriate age in Jiqiao Town. 70 young applicants from Jiqiao Town enthusiastically went to the district station for physical examination to apply. Driven by party members and cadres. In the practice of recruitment work, the town has formed a political consciousness. As long as party members and cadres take the lead, the masses will follow, and the recruitment work will be done well. When the recruitment process began in 2008, 42 party members and 51 village cadres from Jiqiao Town took the lead in registering for their relatives and children at the town's People's Armed Forces Department. The exemplary actions of cadres and party members inspired the masses' enthusiasm for sending their children to join the army. Li Zhinian, the head of Changliu Village in Jiqiao Town, has a son who works in other places and earns a monthly salary of more than 1,000 yuan. When he received a call from his father, he decided to go home for the initial examination without saying a word. He told the town's armed forces minister: "As long as I pass the physical examination and political examination, I will join the army without hesitation."

Set an example to promote motivation. As soon as the recruitment process began, Jiqiao Town compiled the main situations, brief deeds and growth processes of active servicemen and some veterans who returned to their hometowns to start businesses, and distributed it to each young recruit, educating and encouraging them with the examples around them. Inspire their enthusiasm to join the army.

Ren Wenmeng, a recent high school student from Dawan Village, who joined the army in 2004, and Hongpi Niu Yuzhi, who joined the army in 2005, were successfully admitted to the military academy the following year. In their recent letter to the town’s Minister of Military Affairs, they said emotionally: “I thought that by working in other places, I could learn skills and earn money. But after I joined the army, I truly realized that the army is a big school. A melting pot, here, not only can we learn many things that cannot be learned elsewhere, but we can also enjoy the comradeship and brotherly love that cannot be bought with money. This is the inexhaustible wealth in our lives. "They said in the letter. The minister also asked the minister to convey a message to young friends who were recruited from Jiqiao Town in 2008: "As long as you join the army, you will never regret it in your life." After the letter was made public, it caused a great sensation in the town. Implement policy promotion. First, implement the payment of preferential subsidies. The district includes the preferential treatment for conscripts in the annual financial budget, and the funds are earmarked for special purposes. Jiqiao Town ensures that there is no pressure, no delay, and no debt. At the same time, active military personnel who have made meritorious service and received awards in the team will be rewarded in different grades. Before the annual "August 1st" Army Day, the town's Ministry of Human Resources and Civil Affairs hold a symposium for parents of active servicemen in the town to inform the town's economic and social development, inspiring parents of active servicemen to become rich and well-off and build a harmonious family. , the enthusiasm of a safe family. The Women's Federation of Jiqiao Town, Huai'an District, together with the Ministry of People's Armed Forces and the Civil Affairs Department, took the lead in actively organizing "soldier mothers" in the town to participate in the construction of a new socialist countryside, and achieved positive results. The Women's Federation of Jiqiao Town and the Ministry of People's Armed Forces have focused on promoting the Party's rural policies among the families of active military personnel, helping militia cadres and families of active military personnel to take the lead in mastering the knowledge of getting rich. A leader in getting rich was selected; a 16-member publicity team was organized to go deep into the fields to publicize the "agriculture, rural areas and farmers" policy to the masses, publicize scientific planting and breeding methods, and publicize the advantages of rural resources; there were 13 militia battalions and 1 militia in the town The company coordinates the town's agricultural technology department and, relying on the "Militia Home", regularly holds rural practical technology training courses. At the same time, a group of "soldier mothers" with new concepts and education were organized to devote themselves to economic construction and focus on developing vegetables, fish farming, chicken farming and other projects. During the construction of the first batch of five key villages, 39 "soldier mothers" became the backbone of leading local farmers to rely on science to get rich.