Create a civilized city in Zengcheng

Zengcheng creates a provincial-level civilized city. The city’s history of more than 1,800 years tells the story of Zengcheng’s vicissitudes. More than 20 years of reform and opening up have awakened Zengcheng's economic development. The three-year journey of creation records the struggle of the people of Zengcheng from longing for civilization, calling for civilization, to moving towards civilization. Three years is just a drop in the ocean in the long history, but in this short period of time, the great changes in Zengcheng are amazing and astonishing: the streets are lined with lush flowers and trees, the Zengjiang River is rippling with blue waves, all roads are unobstructed, the squares and parks are Green grass. During the day, the city is in order and bustling; at night, the lights are on and the city is full of brilliance. Zengcheng, this thousand-year-old city that borders Guangzhou to the west, Dongguan to the south, and Huizhou to the east, is showing the world a new look as a "landscape city" with green mountains, clear water, blue sky, and green spaces. Establish goals and seek new development in Zengcheng Speaking of Zengcheng, she has been full of vitality since the reform and opening up. However, while focusing on economic development, some urban development problems have become increasingly prominent: urban environmental streets are not like streets, cities are not cities, there are no decent parks and squares, and citizens have nowhere to go for walks and leisure; disorderly construction and littering Uncivilized behaviors such as vomiting and parking indiscriminately were repeatedly prohibited; "kissing buildings" with buildings on top of each other and crowded with buildings could be seen everywhere in urban buildings. At that time, Zengcheng was still a big market in the eyes of outsiders. How to change this situation as soon as possible has become an important issue for the municipal party committee and municipal government. In 2001, the Zengcheng City Party Committee and City Government were concerned about the concerns and expectations of the people, and clearly stated that Zengcheng would be built into a provincial-level civilized city within three years. At the mobilization meeting to create a civilized city held in March 2001, Municipal Party Committee Secretary Tang Jinhua pointed out that if Zengcheng seeks a higher level of development, it must have an excellent soft and hard environment, and creating a civilized city is an important symbol of an excellent environment. Since then, we have focused on key points, done practical things, and created distinctive activities to create a civilized city with the content of economic prosperity, political integrity, good customs, leading science and education, developed culture, scientific planning, high-quality construction, beautiful environment, advanced management, and integration of urban and rural areas. kicked off. The thousand-year-old city broke the silence with its unprecedented spirit and boldly sounded the clarion call to build a provincial-level civilized city. Zengcheng has made remarkable achievements in establishing a provincial-level civilized city. Today, Zengcheng has a beautiful environment, convenient life, and developed transportation, and the quality of life of citizens has been further improved. At the same time, today's economic construction in Zengcheng has also made great progress. In 2003, Zengcheng ranked 21st and 1st in Guangdong Province in the third evaluation of the top 100 counties (cities) with basic competitiveness of county economy organized by the National County Economic Basic Competitiveness Evaluation Center. Preliminary statistics show that the city's GDP in 2003 was 20.861 billion yuan, an increase of 14.62% over the previous year; total fiscal revenue was 1.94 billion yuan, an increase of 29.95%; local fiscal revenue was 856 million yuan. An increase of 34.71%; industrial development accelerated significantly, with a total industrial output value of 40.284 billion yuan throughout the year, an increase of 16.4%. Behind these great changes are the confidence and strength of the whole city to work together to create a civilized city, and are the result of scientific decision-making and effective management. Attaching great importance to the organization and leadership of strong and powerful leaders in carrying out their work is the key to creating a civilized city. The Zengcheng City Party Committee and City Government have a deep understanding of the importance and urgency of creating a provincial-level civilized city. From the beginning, they have specially established a team with the secretary of the municipal party committee as the team leader, relevant leaders of the city’s five groups as deputy team leaders, and various relevant departments. The Leading Group for Creating a Civilized City and its office, with town (street) leaders as members, have transferred more than 20 key personnel from municipal agencies and departments to enrich the Municipal Creation Office to be responsible for daily organization and coordination work. The municipal finance has allocated daily funds for the Creation Office. and special funds are included in the budget arrangement, so that the creation work is guaranteed in terms of organization, personnel and funds. Due to the high attention paid by the city leaders, the "List of Tasks for Creating a Provincial Civilized City in Zengcheng City in 2003" formulated by our city breaks down the tasks, and all functional departments can implement them in a down-to-earth manner, ensuring the smooth progress of the creation work.

At the same time, city leaders often care about and guide the construction work, and go to the grassroots from time to time to personally solve the problems existing in the construction work. They also hold regular work report meetings and inspection on-site meetings to influence and drive with their own exemplary behavior. work of grassroots leaders. Department leaders proceed from the actual work assigned and implement the tasks of the municipal party committee and municipal government with a master's attitude. The whole city has formed a vivid situation of concerted efforts to create a civilized city. Putting the people first and focusing on the fundamental interests of the masses. Putting the interests of the masses first and starting from the issues that the masses have the strongest response to is a focus in creating a civilized city. To create a provincial-level civilized city, our city insists on starting from the interests and demands of the masses, taking the satisfaction of the masses as the fundamental criterion for measuring work, and taking the issues that the majority of the masses are dissatisfied as the focus of creation and rectification. In urban reconstruction and construction, we should start from the "hot spots" and "difficult" issues that citizens are generally concerned about, start from the things that citizens are most concerned about, and vigorously rectify the environment, public security, transportation and other issues that citizens have strongly expressed, so as to truly return the cleanliness to the people. , return green to the people, return light to the people. After renovation, Zengcheng smiles and changes its appearance: The streets are now tidy. Since 2000, our city has organized more than 30 environmental cleaning campaigns in urban areas, cleaning up 176 sanitary dead corners in key areas, cleaning up 2,240 tons of residual mud and garbage, implementing 16-hour cleaning of 118 large and small roads in the city, and fully implementing a door-to-door garbage collection system. , the household registration rate reached 98%. Pollution is reduced. In the past three years, our city's government has raised more than 120 million yuan in funds for the rectification of sewage emissions from bleaching and dyeing enterprises. It has closed 47 bleaching and dyeing plants in accordance with the law, built a sewage treatment plant with a daily processing capacity of 50,000 tons, and the city has closed 94 cement plants in accordance with the law. Home, more than 300 dust points of cement enterprises in the city have fully completed the control tasks, and the dust removal rate has reached more than 90%. Seven electroplating factories have been closed, and electroplating companies have implemented restrictions on emissions that meet standards. Vigorous control of urban pollution sources has cleaned up the once hazy sky and blackened river water. The city turned green. Focusing on the goal of building a "landscape city", our city has done a good job in planning the city's green space system, and has carried out a structural classification layout of urban landscape greening, ecological greening, public greening, supporting greening, linear greening, etc., forming a Forest parks such as Jiaoshiling Park and Baihualin surround the city, and urban parks such as Zengcheng Park, East Lake Park, and Phoenix Mountain Park echo the multi-level urban greening system of urban road greening and small square greening. The city's "green lung" is constantly exerting its influence. effect. The burden on the building has been reduced. In 2003, our city renovated and demolished 3 batches of anti-theft nets on the buildings on both sides of the 36 main roads in the central city. The buildings that were once like pigeon cages were freed from the shackles. The road is bright. After nightfall, Zengcheng City has a different style. The street lights on both sides of the streets are unique and beautiful. In the past three years, our city has carried out comprehensive renovations on 14 main streets in the city, including night lighting, green space lighting, and sidewalk brick paving, forming the urban characteristics of "one light along the way, one tree along the way, and one scene along the way". Relying on the power of the people and giving full play to the main role of the masses. Giving full play to the main role of the people in creating a civilized city, relying on citizens and pooling their efforts is one of the successful experiences in creating a civilized city. During the creation process, urban construction is a huge systematic project involving all aspects of interests and various contradictions. Without the understanding, support and participation of the masses, success is impossible. Therefore, since the beginning of the work of creating a civilized city, our city has carried out Civilized City Publicity Month and Publicity Week activities, set up large public service billboards in major sections of the city, and printed and distributed 40,000 creation proposals and 100,000 promotional leaflets. , 4,000 promotional posters, and columns in Zengcheng Daily, Zengcheng TV, Zengcheng Radio, Zengcheng Window website and other news media, making the activists who create a civilized city well-known and deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.

The broad masses of people actively participated in the creation of the civilized city as masters - in the two months since the "hotline" for creating a civilized city was opened, 180 citizens have put forward 386 opinions and suggestions over the phone; in "I contribute to the greening of Lixiang" During the event, the city's cadres and workers enthusiastically participated in building a beautiful home. Licheng area alone received more than 1 million yuan in donations, and the donations have built more than 30 green communities in the urban area; in the process of dismantling the anti-theft nets on houses on both sides of the urban streets, Citizens actively cooperated with the demolition work, and not a single household petitioned. With the participation of citizens, many long-standing problems in urban construction have been solved, and citizens have benefited from it, received education, and improved their civilized quality. Decision-making science, exploring new methods of urban management, innovating working methods, establishing and improving fund-raising mechanisms, and scientifically operating the city are important means to create a civilized city. Transforming the city requires a large amount of capital investment, which is a big problem for Zengcheng with limited financial resources. The municipal party committee and municipal government proceed from local realities, apply the laws of market economy, adopt a new investment and financing mechanism of "government planning, policy promotion, and market operation", and carry out industrialization in accordance with the model of "who invests, who builds, who operates, and who benefits". In operation, social forces and private funds are mobilized to participate in urban construction. In terms of municipal construction such as greening, lighting, and beautification, social funds are also widely mobilized to participate. Large-scale slogans, public service billboards, etc. are openly tendered to enterprises and funded by enterprises. They are both publicity and publicity. It not only improves the image of the city, but also achieves the "win-win" effect of promoting the image of the company. The construction of Gualv Square is a successful example. Gualv Plaza adopts the approach of "replacing shopping malls with plazas, and making squares prosperous with shopping malls" to absorb private capital. It was built by a private enterprise that won the bid. The enterprise spent 52 million yuan to build an area of ??more than 45,000 square meters, integrating viewing and entertainment. It is a plaza integrating shopping, shopping, and attracts many well-known supermarket chains and specialty stores such as China Resources, McDonald's, Watsons, etc., making it the most prosperous entertainment and commercial center in the city. The successful construction of the Green Plaza has greatly promoted and mobilized the enthusiasm of people from all walks of life, and effectively promoted the process of urban transformation. In three years, Zengcheng’s investment in municipal construction reached 2.3 billion yuan. Due to its good use of the laws of market economy, The government only used 200 million yuan of start-up capital to vigorously develop infrastructure projects for civilized cities. The use of market means to build urban infrastructure has been continuously practiced in a series of projects such as the construction of Zengcheng Plaza. The pursuit of civilization has no end. Whether they are city operators, managers, participants or enjoyers, they will feel the joy that civilization brings to the city and people in every subtle change in the creation of a civilized city. The pursuit of civilization is a cumulative process. Every review is like a catalyst, which promotes the process, way and connotation of civilization to develop in a more ideal direction. Creating a civilized city has only a starting point and no end. Zengcheng will go faster and further in the pursuit of civilization.