Bao 'an gully, where Zaoyuan Village is located, is a rocky mountainous area with deep ravines, barren land and serious soil erosion. The poor ecological environment is one of the important reasons why this village is not rich. Since the 1990s, Zaoyuan Village has devoted itself to soil and water conservation and ecological environment management according to the actual needs and long-term interests and the landscape pattern of "village in the forest". Drought-resistant tree species mainly including Platycladus orientalis, Acer truncatum and Robinia pseudoacacia were planted on barren hills, and tree species mainly including honeysuckle and almond were planted on wasteland, and a total of 5,000 mu of barren hills were planted, returning farmland to forests. Even the western slope, which used to collapse, has now become a dense locust forest, and farmers no longer have to worry about landslides. In recent years, Zaoyuan Village has made remarkable achievements in ecological environment construction, played a leading role in other villages, and made its own contribution to soil and water conservation and ecological environment management in the upper reaches of Taohe River.
On this basis, the village also actively organized professional greening teams and built a 14 km green belt around the village, which made the overall greening area of the village reach 7000 mu, accounting for more than 40% of the total village area.
Improve infrastructure to facilitate the people.
Take a trip to Zaoyuan Village, and you will see that hardened roads extend in all directions, flowers and trees can be seen everywhere, infrastructure is readily available, and the living standards of villagers have been greatly improved. In order to improve the living environment and facilitate farmers' lives, the village has paid close attention to infrastructure construction for many years, hardened 3 kilometers of Tongcun Highway, built a happy convenience bridge with a width of 6 meters and a length of 40 meters to connect the east and west banks, and built a new village primary school teaching building and kindergarten. In 2004, Zaoyuan Village invested 6.5438+0.38 million yuan to relocate Chajiuyan Village, a natural village 654.38+0.5 kilometers away from the main village. 76 villagers in Chajiuyan Village moved out of the dilapidated caves where their ancestors lived and moved into the spacious and bright second floor. Ma is one of the relocated households, and the area of the second floor where he now lives is 160 square meters. He said: "moving into such a good home has really fulfilled the dreams of our generations."
In 2005, Zaoyuan Village implemented the household access project, hardened 5.7 kilometers of greenway, installed more than 80 street lamps, and assigned special personnel to carry out management and protection, thus realizing the unity of greening, hardening and street lamp lighting.
Rich peasants in Daxing agricultural industry
In order to realize economic development and farmers' prosperity, since the end of 1990s, the village has been building vegetable greenhouses and green seedling bases, raising chickens and pigs, actively developing agricultural industrial projects, and taking the road of agricultural prosperity. In the meantime, the village invested 6.5438+0.5 million yuan to build 88 greenhouses, achieving an annual income of 550,000 yuan, increasing the per capita annual income of the village by 600 yuan; Built a fishing ground of 3,000 square meters; Invest 6.5438+0.2 million yuan to build a breeding community with a scale of 30,000 chickens, with an annual income of 800,000 yuan, and the average annual income of chicken farmers is tens of thousands of yuan; Shanxi Zaoyuan Agricultural Products Development Co., Ltd. was established and registered with "Yutian" brand trademark; It was recognized as the production base of pollution-free agricultural products by the Provincial Department of Agriculture, and four products were certified as pollution-free agricultural products. Moreover, at present, according to the circular economy model of "grain is fed to pigs and chickens-pig and chicken manure enters biogas digesters-biogas residue is fertile land", a suburban Zaoyuan Agricultural Products Development Co., Ltd. with a planned total investment of 28 million yuan and an area of about10.8 million square meters is under intense construction.
It is understood that there are 1 10,000 pig farms, chicken farms, biogas digesters and vegetable greenhouses planned in the park. After completion, the per capita annual income of villagers can reach at least 6000 yuan. It is no exaggeration to say that in Zaoyuan Village, apart from the elderly, the sick and the disabled, except those who build dams, plant trees, grow vegetables, raise chickens and raise fish, every family has an industry, everyone has a job, and the villagers are busy getting rich. Villager Wang Jihua, a family of six, now has a per capita annual net income twice that of the whole village. Only the three solar greenhouses contracted by her family have an annual net income of more than 20 thousand yuan.
Strengthen cultural construction and improve mental outlook.
In recent years, Zaoyuan Village has actively explored the long-term mechanism of rural cultural construction and constantly explored new ways of rural cultural construction. For example, by installing closed-circuit television and telephone, villagers have broadened their horizons, increased their knowledge, broadened the ways to get rich and find jobs, and stimulated their enthusiasm for construction. Today's Zaoyuan village has a positive wind, pure folk customs, family unity and harmonious neighborhood, and does not smell mahjong when entering the village. What is even more rare is that over the years, there has not been a collective contradiction between cadres in the village, and there has not been an incident in which villagers went to the village to petition.
From 198 to 2004, Zaoyuan Village did not sing temple fairs in 16. Now, not only do they sing operas every year, but the newly established yangko team, gongs and drums team, big-headed doll team and stilts team will also go door-to-door and make a scene during the Chinese New Year holidays. Among more than 600 people in the village, there are more than 100 people who have participated in yangko team and gongs and drums team. In 2005, Zaoyuan Village invested about 200,000 yuan to build a central cultural square covering an area of 2,000 square meters, equipped with more than 20 pieces of fitness equipment, and built a fitness and entertainment platform for villagers. In addition, the village has also established organizations such as spiritual civilization, environmental sanitation, family planning, recreation and sports, and public security prevention, and actively carried out activities such as "three virtues" education, "civilized villagers" and "five good families" to improve the cultural quality of villagers and improve their mental outlook. Ten-star civilized households in the village have reached more than 95%. In 2006, Zaoyuan Village won the title of "Top 100 Villages with Harmonious Civilization in Sanjin".