In the past four years, from "awakening" the countryside, to "activating" the countryside, to "empowering" the countryside, Nanping City's Yanping District has taken the opportunity of being selected as a rural comprehensive reform pilot area by the Ministry of Finance to actively promote The reform of the joint-stock system for collective resource assets and the value-added protection and development of ancient villages have blazed a unique path for rural revitalization.
Awakening the cultural context of the mountain village
Amidst the chirping of cicadas in early autumn, driving into Linggen Village, Jukou Township, the unique B&B "Tucuoqing" is very eye-catching.
?This is the first station entering Jukou, and the nostalgia experience begins here. According to Hu Yugui, secretary of the Jukou Township Party Committee, it turns out that Tucuoqing was originally the old home of three local villagers, including Chen Xinming. They moved to the city to work one after another, leaving the old home almost abandoned. Until 2018, Yanping District was selected as a pilot area for comprehensive rural reform by the Ministry of Finance, and Jukou Township became the core pilot area, bringing the ancient houses to life.
Jukou Township is a national-level ecological township, a national forest health and wellness construction pilot township, and an old revolutionary area township. It is rich in ancient residential resources. There are 4 national-level traditional villages and 7 provincial-level traditional villages in the territory. There are more than 600 completely preserved ancient houses in the village. The Tucuo groups are built layer by layer along the mountain tops, with various styles, including Northern Fujian style and Huizhou style.
? The house is the most precious resource in the village and the key to savoring the taste of Jukou! Hu Yugui said that the township took advantage of the comprehensive reform and used the Jufu Company as a platform to carry out ancient village protection and ancient village protection by mobilizing cadres from the two committees, village collectives, rural sages, and farmers, and introducing art units and company platforms. House repair work.
By organizing a professional team and attracting and training local construction craftsmen and traditional craftsmen, we repaired and maintained the ancient houses one by one. Lu Chencai, head of Jukou Township, said that more than 100 ancient houses have been renovated and their original features have been preserved as much as possible.
In particular, Linggen Village integrated the reward and subsidy funds from superior departments and the villagers’ self-raised funds to repair all the old houses in the village. The government set up the stage and the villagers sang the opera. Through the protection and restoration of buildings, the organization of B&Bs, and the exploration of the culture of filial piety and integrity, the villagers' desire to protect their hometown was fully activated and mobilized. ?Said Chen Shiqing, Secretary of the Party Branch of Linggen Village and Director of the Village Committee.
Art lights up the countryside
In November 2018, with the help of the local government, Mr. Ruan Yisan, known as the "Father of China's Ancient Town Protection", established a joint venture in Jiulong Village, Jukou Township The first work camp in our province. That year, the first China Yanping Rural Art Season was held here. Artists from all over the world left more than 60 works of art, and Jukou was awakened by art for the first time.
Since then, two art seasons have been held one after another. Jukou Township has identified the subdivided industry category of art tourism to realize the effective aggregation of cultural assets, natural assets, idle assets and human capital in Jukou Township, and develop A new path for turning resources into assets and assets into capital.
In 2020, the China Yanping Rural Art Season opened in Guyuan Village. Wang Ting, the current party branch secretary and village committee director of Guyuan Village, is a college student born in the 1990s who returned to her hometown. In the past, the villagers’ income mainly came from tobacco leaves and camellia oil. After the comprehensive reform was carried out, idle assets such as auditoriums and schools were liquidated. In May this year, the village also registered the trademark of Guyuan Hong rice wine, and three local companies became The large-scale winery sells about 10,000 kilograms of rice wine every year, and the income is considerable. ?
?The practice of Jukou Township has proved that according to the characteristics of different villages, local materials are collected, the artist’s resources are organically combined with the natural conditions of the village, and the value recognition of consumers is won through the creative and transformed use of space, forming a own differentiated competitive advantage. ?Relevant leaders of Yanping District said that using art to light up the countryside is to make art the strongest driving force for rural revitalization.
Integration of multiple business formats
Art lights up the countryside and ignites the investment enthusiasm of private capital. Capital, talents, technology, etc. in the city begin to gather in Jukou.
All eight villages in the township have been renovated with inns and B&Bs. The idle farmhouses, auditoriums, school buildings and warehouses have been set up with traditional handicraft workshops such as tea kilns, bamboo weaving and paper-cutting, or transformed into bars, cafes, B&Bs, etc.
Around the beginning of autumn, in a mountain valley in Linggen Village, several villagers were planting rice seedlings in newly reclaimed fields. Not far away, gardens, vegetable gardens, lakes, etc. were scattered in an orderly manner, which was very similar to the nearby countryside. The scenery constitutes a picture of harmonious development of landscape, humanities and culture.
This is the colorful garden construction area of ??the first phase of our project. Construction will start in October 2020 and is expected to be fully completed by the end of the year. Wu Benquan, the head of Fujian Tianyuan Mengxiang Agricultural Development Co., Ltd., who came here to invest and start a business, said that the planned Lanfeng Jingu Forest Ecological Health Garden covers a total area of ??about 5,000 acres and is divided into "Colorful Garden", "Pastoral Garden" and "Cloud" The implementation of the third phase of Shangcaiyuan will create a full-chain ecological industry of mountains, water, forests, fields, and lakes, and deeply integrate the three industries through the combination of industry, academia, and research.