How is Yaxi’s economy?

Yaxi Town is located in the eastern part of Gaochun County, at the junction of Jiangsu and Anhui. The town covers an area of ??150 square kilometers, has a population of 63,000, and has 22 administrative villages under its jurisdiction. The territory has rolling hills, green mountains and beautiful waters, and enjoys the reputation of "Jinling Natural Oxygen Bar". In 2010, it won the title of the first "International Slow City" in the country. Over the years, Yaxi Town has followed the Gaochun County Party Committee and County Government's "ecological county establishment" strategic deployment, adhered to the establishment of an ecological town, and coordinated the promotion of ecological protection, economic development, improvement of people's livelihood, urban agriculture and new rural construction, and has always strived not to compete with speed, but to compete with others. The stamina is not compared to the total amount, but to the environment; not to the appearance, but to the people's hearts. Against the background of homogeneous competition in various places, we have embarked on a scientific development path that is in line with our own characteristics.

1. Adhering to the concept of ecological town establishment and achieving "three simultaneous" development

Since the "Eleventh Five-Year Plan", especially in recent years, Yaxi Town has firmly established the principle of "development as the first priority, With the concept of "people's livelihood first, ecology first", we vigorously implement the development strategy of giving priority to environment, priority to characteristics and priority to enriching people, and become an "International Slow City", a national ecological town, a provincial pilot town with characteristic demonstration small towns, and a municipal key new town. , showing the image of a happy village with accelerated economic development, superior ecological environment, low-carbon and efficient production, and harmonious and healthy life.

——Industrial development and ecological construction are simultaneously improved. Compared with developed areas, Yaxi Town has unique natural resource advantages in ecological construction, although its location and transportation are not advantageous and its industrial base is relatively weak. In this regard, the town insists on not sacrificing the environment for temporary development, resolutely abandons the old path of "pollution first and treatment later", actively explores a new path of "promoting development through the environment", and resolves industrial disadvantages by amplifying ecological advantages, so that Industry and ecology have changed from "mutual contradiction" to "positive interaction". Focus on the development of ecological leisure tourism, efficient modern agriculture, and low-carbon circular economy, and build a modern industrial system with local characteristics. Actively drawing on the development experience of the slow city movement abroad, we took the lead in launching the construction of ecological slow cities in the country, invested heavily in building a 48-kilometer-long ecological journey covering 50 square kilometers, and successfully held the "Golden Flower Tourism Festival" for three consecutive years. , making Eco Tour a comprehensive resort base well-known in Nanjing and the whole province, and a national agricultural tourism demonstration site.

——Economic growth is advancing simultaneously with enriching and benefiting the people. Highlighting the priority orientation of enriching the people in economic growth and embodying the purpose of benefiting the people in accelerating development is an important development principle that Yaxi Town has always adhered to. In recent years, the town has correctly handled the relationship between economic development and people's livelihood construction. While promoting the main economic indicators to maintain an average annual growth rate of more than 20%, it has continuously strengthened social construction focusing on enriching and benefiting the people, so that the people can truly enjoy economic development. The results have achieved the simultaneous advancement of strengthening towns and villages and improving people's livelihood. Through various channels such as developing industries, supporting entrepreneurship, promoting employment, and organizing cooperation, we strive to build a diversified and long-term income growth mechanism. The town creates more than 2,800 new jobs every year, transfers more than 3,200 rural laborers, and the per capita net income of farmers It has maintained a double-digit growth rate, and more than 92% of households have achieved a comprehensive moderately prosperous income level. The town has been rated as a provincial health town, a strong sports town, a full employment town in Nanjing, an advanced town in rural pension insurance, and an advanced collective in rural practical projects.

——Urban agriculture and beautiful countryside develop simultaneously. Yaxi Town insists on closely integrating the development of urban agriculture with the construction of beautiful countryside, the development of ecological tours, and the cultivation of leisure tourism, fully demonstrating the gardening of market towns, forested suburbs, road shading, and rural areas. The whole-area ecological characteristics of forest fruiting. On the one hand, they vigorously develop urban agriculture and expand the production, ecological and life functions of agriculture in the direction of scale, branding and intensification. The proportion of high-efficiency facility agriculture in the town reaches 57%.

On the other hand, we will accelerate the construction of beautiful villages, allocate 20 million yuan every year for comprehensive environmental improvement in towns and villages, and vigorously implement the "six improvement" projects focusing on basic supporting facilities, greening and beautification, and water body improvement in market towns. The "Six Cleans and Six Constructions" project focusing on cleaning up garbage, cleaning up straw, cleaning up river ponds, etc. has been comprehensively launched in rural areas, forming a sewage treatment network, garbage treatment network, green tree-lined network, and environmental sanitation and cleaning network integrated in towns and villages. All villages have reached the "five-no's" standards such as no random piles and no stinking ditches. More than 100% of the villages have achieved the "five-have" goals of having sanitation supporting facilities and professional sanitation teams. All villages have formed a local It has "five green" characteristics such as green roads, green banks, green villages, and green courtyards, and has created 1 national ecological village, 2 provincial ecological villages, and 91 municipal new green villages.

2. Make enough articles on ecological resources and strive to promote green rise

A good ecological environment is the most distinctive development feature of Yaxi Town and the most valuable advantageous resource. Yaxi people insist on taking ecological protection and development as the starting point, fully tap the potential of ecological development, and use their own unique practices to vividly interpret the profound connotation of scientific development.

(1) Implement the ecological town strategy and carefully shape the ecological journey. If the ecology of Yaxi was "protected" in the past due to transportation and location reasons, then since the establishment of the "ecological town" strategy, Yaxi has actively chosen a path of coordinated development of economic society and ecological civilization. Since 2006, they have invested a total of 320 million yuan in high-standard planning, development and construction of ecological tours. First, in accordance with the idea of ??"ecological positioning and overall planning", from the aspects of project planning, product system, service facilities, basic engineering, ecological protection, etc., professional detailed regulations for tourism facilities, sightseeing agriculture, road transportation, etc. and greening along the routes were compiled and formed. , water system landscape, village layout and other constructive detailed regulations, building a relatively complete ecological slow city construction planning system.

The second is to follow the idea of ??"global development and group layout" to carefully lay out the International Slow City theme park display, beautiful rural ecological sightseeing and vacation, Colorful Qiaoli agricultural entertainment experience, Jingshan Bamboo Sea cultural leisure and health care and other four main functional areas, so that the ecological tour fully displays the beautiful features of hilly natural scenery, facility agricultural landscape, and rural scenery. The third is to follow the idea of ??"stringing dots to form a line, stringing beads to form a chain" to carry out characteristic transformation of the surrounding village environment, ecological improvement of the natural scenic spots along the line, implementation of refined supporting facilities for regional sightseeing, and complete the Yaodang and Lanxi The layout of villages such as , Qiaoli and other villages has been optimized and new projects have been launched in Dashan's "Huipai Village". A number of ecological highlight projects such as the red maple base, tea cultural garden and picking orchard have been built, and a number of ecological highlight projects such as Wangyu Island, Haifeng Tower and Peach Blossom Fan Square have been built. Leisure and vacation spots enrich the ecological connotation and enhance the quality of Slow City at a higher level.

(2) Give full play to the advantages of ecological resources and vigorously develop advantageous industries. Yaxi Town firmly grasps the influence of International Slow City, focuses on resource packaging and integration, and forms green, ecological and people-enriching industrial characteristics. Guided by urban modern agriculture, comprehensive agricultural development has been strengthened to build 10,000 acres of tea gardens, 10,000 acres of bamboo gardens, 10,000 acres of orchards, 10,000 acres of flower seedlings, 10,000 acres of organic food and other characteristic production bases, forming a "one village, one product, several villages" characteristic production base. "Yipin" characteristic industry. At present, the town's high-efficiency facility agriculture scale reaches 63,000 acres, and there are 10 high-efficiency agricultural specialty villages with collective economic income exceeding 1 million yuan. High-efficiency facility agriculture accounts for 56% of the village's collective economic income. Based on regional characteristics, we will focus on developing rural tourism and business services. We have carefully created a number of high-quality tourism routes such as golden flower sea tours, farming experience tours, outdoor sports tours, bamboo sea exploration tours, and low-carbon health tours. We have successively built a number of characteristic rural tourist attractions such as Qiaoli Tea Culture and Yaodang Vineyards. It has led to explosive growth in the town's tourism revenue. In 2008, it received 45,000 tourists and tourism revenue of 3.88 million yuan. In 2010, the number soared to 320,000 tourists and 28 million yuan respectively. Adhering to an iron-handed approach to pollution control, more than 10 quarries, sand quarries and plastic factories have been shut down, and relevant companies have been urged to complete the upgrading and renovation of sewage equipment. As an important border trade town, Yaxi Market Town has built a trade city focusing on building materials and specialty agricultural products based on its own resource characteristics and location characteristics, and combined it with the tourism and catering industries to realize trade, real estate, tourism, catering and other related services. The common development of the industry.

(3) Plan practical measures to enrich the people through ecology and actively expand income-increasing channels. The concept of "no work, no wealth" has been deeply ingrained in many people's minds. Good ecology and beautiful environment have once become synonymous with poverty and backwardness.

However, the people of Yaxi have taken a different approach and developed a beautiful "combination punch" to enrich the ecology and the people. The first is to vigorously cultivate ecological agricultural product brands. It has successively obtained 12 pollution-free production certification bases and 6 organic certified agricultural products. After Xuchi rice, Xufeng tea, Ziyuan grapes and other agricultural products obtained organic status, the market price increased by a minimum of 2 times and a maximum of 10 times. The wages of local tea pickers also increased to 320 yuan per kilogram of fresh leaves. Efficient agriculture absorbs 10,800 rural laborers all year round and contributes 30% to farmers' income. The second is to actively support the development of ecological tour "farmhouses". The first batch of 6 farmhouse restaurants were opened in Dashan Natural Village. On the first day of this year's Tomb Sweeping Day holiday, more than 1,800 private cars came in. Business was booming, with the turnover on that day exceeding 60,000 yuan. The villagers expressed this emotion: I didn’t expect there to be so many tourists, and I didn’t expect the business to be so good. The third is to actively develop ecologically efficient algae cultivation. "Crabs in Gaochun, grass in Yaxi". This is a slogan on a highway billboard. With the development of the crab industry in Gaochun County, the demand for crabgrass has increased significantly. Yaxi Town began to use the polder area to promote the planting of A. japonicus. After several years of development, the current area has reached more than 8,000 acres, and the average net benefit per mu can reach more than 5,000 yuan, which is comparable to the average benefit per mu of crab farming. It has become another An industry with obvious enrichment effect.

(4) Build ecological and livable towns and create beautiful villages in the south of the Yangtze River. Yaxi Town takes town and village construction as the starting point, improves urban infrastructure facilities from both hardware and software aspects, develops social welfare undertakings, and becomes a model of the most livable and beautiful new countryside. The first is to scientifically divide functional areas. Based on the terrain characteristics of high in the northwest and low in the southeast, they proposed three major functional areas: the hilly area in the northwest mainly develops ecological industries, the central area is the market town area and large agriculture, and the southeast mainly develops industry and trade economy. This functional plan maximizes the compatibility between land characteristics and functional needs, and becomes the basic plan for Yaxi urban construction planning, land use planning and other plans. The second is to improve basic supporting facilities. In recent years, despite their limited financial resources, they have actively cooperated with the construction of trunk roads such as Provincial Highway 239, Provincial Highway 246, Laoya Road, etc., and at the same time raised funds to build more than 70 kilometers of rural roads. The dike reinforcement project and the construction of supporting facilities for the Chundong channel were completed, and the Yaxi section of the Xuhe River project was renovated, which improved the town's flood control and drought relief capabilities. The "Green Nanjing" construction project task was completed, covering an area of ??15,000 acres, and the town's forest coverage rate reached 30.2%. Focusing on solving the two biggest problems that plague the rural environment, garbage collection and domestic sewage treatment, we have improved the garbage treatment system of group collection, village concentration, town transfer, and county treatment. Each village has built an ecological sewage treatment facility to achieve It prevents sewage from entering the factory and rainwater from entering the pond. What is most praised by the people is that 150 million yuan was invested to complete the regional networked water supply renovation project. By the end of June this year, the entire town will have clean tap water. The third is to develop rural social undertakings. The town cultural building and the town generation service center were built to high standards, and a number of village-level clinics, farmhouses and cultural activity rooms were built. The participation rate of the new rural cooperative medical insurance reached 100%, and the participation rate of the new rural social pension insurance was close to 100%. , rural subsistence allowances and five guarantees objects are fully guaranteed.

3. Learn and promote Yaxi’s experience and promote scientific rural development

Yaxi Town always adheres to the people-oriented approach, vigorously promotes ecologically sustainable development, and strives to build a green countryside, a wealthy countryside, and a prosperous countryside. , happy countryside, and dynamic countryside, setting a banner for scientific development for the vast rural areas of our city.

(1) The practice of Yaxi shows that there is no contradiction between protecting the ecology and developing the economy. Today’s green waters and lush mountains are tomorrow’s gold and silver mountains. Only by prioritizing ecology as a basic strategy can we promote sustainable development. , Build a new green countryside. The ecological journey of Yaxi Town has become China's first international slow city, turning the barren mountains of the past into today's green treasure house, and also showing people a unique ecological development path. Today, the concept of protecting rural ecological features and preventing random development has been deeply rooted in the hearts of Yaxi people. This coincides with the important condition of the "Eight Pacts" of the International Slow City to "protect and maintain a pure natural environment." In the past, Yaxi Town also went through the old path of traditional development in pursuit of rapid local economic growth. However, under the guidance of the Scientific Outlook on Development, Yaxi people promptly adjusted their development ideas and resolutely shut down polluting enterprises.

Resolutely abandon the "parabolic" development path of quick short-term results and long-term debt repayment at the expense of environmental pollution, and embark on the "accelerated linear" development path of slow initial speed but steady improvement in the later period based on ecological protection. development path and get out of the vicious circle of "economic development - ecological destruction - environmental governance - economic regression". Although the rationale for such a choice is simple and obvious, in an environment that focuses on using data indicators to judge political performance, facing the pressure of rapid development of brother towns, being able to maintain the bottom line of ecological development requires sufficient determination; being able to accumulate the maximum financial resources , Adhering to the ecological construction route requires extraordinary courage; being able to persevere and create high-quality green development requires great perseverance. This is the magic weapon for Yaxi people to create the first and only “International Slow City” in China.

(2) The practice of Yaxi shows that planning is the blueprint for scientific development. Without scientific planning, there will be no scientific development. Only by taking planning guidance as the key to development can we promote coordinated development and build a prosperous new city. rural area. Yaxi Town can achieve comprehensive, coordinated and sustainable development thanks to its long-term persistence in the development path, and this persistence is based on the guidance of high-grade and high-quality scientific planning. The green mountains and green waters of Yaxi Town are full of ups and downs and have a unique charm. In order to protect the original natural features and landscape features, and maximize the advantages of the sector, they highlighted functional fragmentation when formulating the overall development plan to ensure the coordination between man and nature, economy and landforms, and the pastoral villages are well-proportioned. The mountains, rivers, fields and forests are integrated into one. Yaxi's new round of ecological journey development plan is to seize the development opportunities brought by the "International Slow City" and plan to develop an area of ??about 50 square kilometers in the hilly and mountainous areas in the northwest of Yaxi into an eco-tourism demonstration area and characteristic economy. Industrial belt. The town and village construction planning implements classified guidance, seizes the development opportunities of key new towns, carries out frame expansion and functional zoning of Yaxi Market Town, carries out new renovation of street facades and improvement of infrastructure in phases, and accelerates the concentrated residence of farmers. District and professional market construction, the introduction of advanced business forms, and the development of Yaxi Market Town into an important border trade town with complete functions, beautiful environment, prosperous commerce, and ecological livability. Especially in terms of village improvement, we do not engage in large-scale demolition and construction. We not only focus on maintaining the original village style and ancient Huizhou architectural style, but also promote modernization such as safe water supply, sewage treatment, and garbage disposal, and we have embarked on an unusual new rural construction the way.

(3) Yaxi’s practice shows that the advantages and disadvantages of a region’s development are relative. Past disadvantages can be transformed into current advantages by adapting to local conditions and taking advantage of the situation. Only by taking regional characteristic industries as a breakthrough direction can we Promote characteristic development and build a prosperous new countryside. "A ruler is short, an inch is long." To achieve breakthroughs in the economic development of towns and villages, we must recognize the strengths and weaknesses of our own development, adhere to a path suitable for local resource endowments, adapt measures to local conditions, maximize strengths and avoid weaknesses, and strive to cultivate projects with industrial advantages, resource advantages, and demand advantages. There is no doubt that the biggest disadvantage of Yaxi Town for a long time is its remote location and traffic congestion. Its biggest advantage is the pristine green water and green mountains. How to transform advantages into productivity and competitiveness is an urgent issue facing Yaxi people that needs to be solved. They have raised the development of characteristic economy to a strategic and overall level, put the factors of productivity on a broader stage for optimal allocation, and creatively reorganized people, finances, materials, information, and resources through continuous excavation, reference, innovation, and fission. The combination is unique and distinctive, which highlights the comparative advantages of the development of Yaxi Town and can significantly enhance market competitiveness. Ten years ago, Qiaoli Village was unknown. It was a small mountain village with a collective annual fixed income of only 8,000 yuan. It was considered a "backwater" in the eyes of others. In recent years, the village has turned disadvantages into advantages, relying on ecological journey, vigorously developing organic agricultural products, and focusing on the development of organic tea. The price of tea has increased from 500-600 yuan per catty in the past to more than 5,000 yuan currently. The village's collective income has been rising steadily. Last year The disposable income reached 5.7 million yuan, and the village's comprehensive strength ranked 23rd among the top 100 villages in the city. There are many such examples, and Qiaoli Village is just a microcosm of the success of the characteristic economic strategy.

(4) The practice in Yaxi shows that happiness is hidden in the hearts of the people, and the people have the most say in whether they are happy or unhappy. Only by taking people's livelihood and happiness as the core goal can we promote harmonious development and build a happy new countryside. The core of the scientific outlook on development is people-oriented. The primary criterion for judging whether the development direction and path selection is correct is whether it can meet the interests and needs of the people.

As an economically underdeveloped town, the people of Yaxi, especially the town and village cadres, are particularly eager to achieve leapfrog economic growth in a short period of time and get rid of the label of being a promoted town as soon as possible. But people in Yaxi have a strong balance in their hearts. They put economic development and ecological protection at two ends, and they are more inclined to ecological protection; they put economic benefits and people's livelihood improvement at two ends, and they are more inclined to people's livelihood improvement; they put short-term explosive growth and long-term sustainability. Development has both ends, leaning more towards sustainable development. In the process of development, we do not blindly pursue speed or one-sided pursuit of GDP. Instead, we take enriching and benefiting the people as the starting point and goal of our work, and strive to improve people's happiness. Although the financial resources at the town level are limited, the Yaxi Town Party Committee and Government have never hesitated to invest tens of millions in practical projects for the private sector. The people of Yaxi lamented that in recent years, the roads have become clearer, the water has become clearer, the environment has become more beautiful, and cultural life has become richer. Especially, people in the town have access to safe drinking water, and some villages have implemented rainwater and sewage diversion and installed complete water supply systems. Drainage facilities were unimaginable in the past. Although the per capita net income index of farmers in the town is not very high, the happiness of the people of Yaxi is not only written on their faces, but also buried in their hearts. “I enjoy my current well-off life,” a villager said in a simple but emotional way, vividly showing the harmony and well-being of Yaxi people.

(5) The practice in Yaxi shows that strengthening the construction of leadership teams is the fundamental guarantee for promoting the scientific development of towns and villages, and innovating rural grassroots party building work is an inevitable requirement for strengthening the foundation. Only by taking reform and innovation as an unremitting Only by pursuing can we promote endogenous development and build a dynamic new countryside. The Party Committee and Government of Yaxi Town carry forward the traditional folk customs of simplicity and pragmatism in their work, forming a work style of seeking truth, being pragmatic, and being entrepreneurial. We pay attention to actual results in our work, constantly innovate service mechanisms, improve service efficiency, and do not show off or seek fame. In selecting and employing people, we adhere to the "four-fold" orientation of emphasizing hard work, emphasizing performance, emphasizing character, and emphasizing recognition. The town leadership attaches great importance to the interests and demands of the people. Town cadres spend no less than half of each month going to the grassroots, enterprises, and farmers to help resolve conflicts and solve difficulties. Adhere to the democratic management system, institutionalize the permanent system of party congresses, and invite party representatives to participate in democratic recommendations, democratic evaluation and other aspects of the cadre selection and appointment process. Make every effort to strengthen village-level capacity building, take the promotion of a new round of "Strengthening the Foundation Project" as the starting point, and expand the channels for selecting rural cadres through public recommendation and direct election, so that talents go to the grassroots and cadres are selected from the grassroots. Currently, the town has 3 The village party secretary concurrently serves as a substantive cadre at the town level, and some village cadres who have made outstanding achievements in the "Strengthening Foundation" project are included in the establishment of town-affiliated public institutions and enjoy economic benefits based on the standards for personnel in town public institutions. Choose a leader to lead a wealthy village. The disposable income of all administrative villages in Yaxi Town exceeded 500,000 yuan in 2008, completing the target task of the provincial party committee and the provincial government to eliminate villages with collective economic income of 500,000 yuan four years ahead of schedule. It is precisely because of a series of institutional innovations and scientific management that we have the beautiful Yaxi with green mountains, green water, humanities and harmony, and the happy Yaxi with economic prosperity, ecological civilization, beautiful culture, harmony and health. .