“The Practice of Huashu” in the Construction of Beautiful Village
Challenges and Objectives
Huashu Village is located in Xigang Street, Qixia District, Nanjing City, Jiangsu Province. Because there are many birch trees planted in the village, it is named "Bistle Villa". The total area is about 9 square kilometers, with more than 7,700 mu of mountain forests and more than 200 mu of water, and the green coverage rate of the village has reached more than 80%. Among them, the arable land area is 2,800 mu, the mountain forest area is 7,700 mu, the main peak of the highest mountain range is 281 meters above sea level, and the village has 11 natural villages. The geographical scope is mainly farmland, paddy fields, wetlands, and hilly areas in low mountains. The climate belongs to the subtropical monsoon climate, and the monsoon climate is obvious in four distinct seasons. It is located in the western suburbs of Nanjing, with 1,140 households in the village and a total population of 2,850.
Since 2012, Huashu Village has found the direction under the concept of "green water and green mountains are golden mountains and silver mountains". Green development is the road of revitalization that the Huashu people dream of. After ten years of development, Huashu's practice has achieved extraordinary results and is constantly making new progress.
Collaboration Partners and Roles
The Huashu Rural Plan explores a new model between institutionalization and the private sector: a model led by the government, the establishment of platforms, the participation of private capital, and the operation of local residents and non-governmental organizations. Among them, the government is an organizer rather than a mere rescuer. The government organizes a professional team to plan and design, and is responsible for the construction and investment of infrastructure and a small number of public facilities. The rest is handed over to social and private capital, using the means of the market economy. Except for about 9 abandoned and dilapidated old houses, which are used as public facilities, the original residents will basically not be affected. Their houses can be self-occupied, self-renovation, self-management, or leased to others for transformation and operation in the future.
In order to improve the quality of architectural design, Donglian Group invited several domestic university teachers and architects to carry out research design of the renovation of old buildings. The transformation of the village shop and village exhibition hall is designed by Professor Zhou Ling's studio of Nanjing University; the folk art exhibition hall is designed by Professor Fu Xiao's studio of Nanjing University; and the handicraft exhibition hall and tea room are designed by Professor Ding Wowo of Nanjing University and his team. In addition, the villager activity center was designed by Professor Wang Fangji of Tongji University; the village bookstore invited Zhuang Shen, an architect of Shanghai Archime Star Design Office, to design. Zhang Kui, Design Director of the Architectural Design Institute of Lian Design Group. Zhu Shengxuan, the design director of Donglian, is responsible for planning, planning and landscape design. At present, rural shops and bookstores are undergoing architectural renovation and indoor construction, and operators have been implemented to settle in.
Huashu Village has transformed a pond into a multi-functional Huashu International Fishing Center and cooperated with Jiangsu Provincial Sports Association, Jiangsu Fishing Association, Nanjing Fishing Association, Nanjing Qixia District Sports Federation and other organizations to hold fishing competitions.
The construction of "Green Bank" was planned and realized by Cai Yun, Secretary of the General Party Branch of Huashu Village, Qixia District, Nanjing City, and 1,000 mu of seedlings were planted on leased land in Huashu Village.
Since 2012, Huashu Village has set up a professional cooperative of Huashu Agricultural Products by the village committee. In cooperation with the Grain Crop Research Institute of Jiangsu Academy of Agricultural Sciences, it has introduced expert think tanks, provided scientific and technological support, planted "South japonica 46" rice, and took a solid step in the revitalization of rural industry.
In order to strengthen the brand of Farmer's Bookstore, Huashu Village cooperates with the Phoenix Book City Branch of Jiangsu Phoenix Xinhua Bookstore Group Co., Ltd.
Revitalisation Activities
For the economy, Huashu Village develops "farm house" tourism. It uses ponds to develop professional fishing and leisure sports centralized venues, and cooperates with all parties to carry out municipal provincial fishing competitions. Relying on fishing tourism, it develops special fish fresh food, and attracts diners to go. It has set up the Huashu Village agricultural cooperative to promote special agricultural products "Huashu Rice".
For the environment, it develops agriculture according to local conditions, and develops the agricultural industry of agriculture, fishery and forestry respectively in flat land, ponds and hills to ensure the local ecological balance to the greatest extent. In addition, the unified standard of "huashu rice" focuses on farming, which ensures that the whole process of crop production is organic to the maximum extent and conforms to the fertilizer use standards.
Regarding village governance, in response to the problem of the large area of Huashu Village and the difficulty of managing the three guarantees in front of the door, each grid of Huashu Village has set up a supervision team, composed of party members, village group leaders, villagers volunteers, etc., etc., to integrate it into the "eight no's" and "six good" living environment improvement assessment system. It promotes the formation of a normalized management and control system in which every household participates in community governance.
Revitalisation Outcome
In the past ten years, the collective annual income of the village has rapidly grown from 200,000 yuan to nearly 10 million yuan, becoming a well-known "China's beautiful leisure village", "national leisure agriculture and rural tourism demonstration site", "national forest countryside" and "national demonstration farm bookstore”.
Mu Haiting and Su Tongxiang of the School of Landscape Architecture of Nanjing Forestry University published a paper on the data of the productive landscape of Huashu Village in Garden. It was found that the production landscape of Nanjing Huashu was in a good stage of landscape development. The carrying capacity of the village was superior, while the socio-economic and industrial structure were relatively weak. In recent years, under the guidance of the government, the living environment of local villagers has been greatly improved, but it has never been able to drive the local economic vitality and the consumption level of tourists.
New settlers have arrived in the village, and are living harmoniously with indigenous villagers.