In recent years, the United Front Work Department of Changshan County Party Committee has given full play to the resource advantages of Xinxiang Xians, taking Xinxiang Xians as an important driving force for the rural revitalization of ethnic villages, taking the initiative to build a bridge between Xinxiang Xians and ethnic villages to seek common development, and providing assistance to ethnic villages in the form of “hematopoietic” and “blood-activating”, thus forming a circular development model in which Xinxiang Xians and ethnic villages seek common development with characteristics, build beautiful countryside together and share happy fruits. In particular, by giving full play to the leading role of Saide Health Group, an enterprise of Xinxiang Xian, it actively feeds back the development of the surrounding ethnic villages, and starts the Changshan model of the revitalization and development of “Xiangxian+”ethnic villages by means of industry-linked villages, project-led villages and intellectual assistance. In the past two years, the average collective economic income of three ethnic villages has increased by 350,000 yuan, including 200,000 yuan in operational income, and 2,670 yuan in per capita disposable income of villagers, with an average annual growth rate of over 10%, both of which are higher than the average level of rural areas in the county.
The first is to innovate the “three mechanisms”, and the development vitality of ethnic villages is constantly stimulated.
Establish village-enterprise cooperation mechanism to increase collective income. Promote the three ethnic villages of Quanmushan, Gaogeng and Guanzhuang to sign the Strategic Cooperation Agreement on Economic Development of Ethnic Villages and Villagers’ Wealth with Saide Health Group, giving priority to ensuring the economic development of ethnic villages, giving priority to transferring the land of ethnic villages and giving priority to driving the employment of villagers in ethnic villages. At the same time, it is agreed that three ethnic villages will use financial support funds and self-raised funds to purchase the property rights of the rooms in Side Health Town, and get a certain fixed income every year as the collective economic income of the villages, so as to ensure that each village has a stable operational income every year.
Establish employment service mechanism to promote the employment of villagers. Gradually establishing and perfecting the employment service mechanism broadens the way for the village collective to increase income and the villagers’ employment income. In order to take care of the employment of villagers in ethnic villages, Side Health Group gives priority to recruiting more than 20 migrant workers from the surrounding three ethnic villages, and the age is relaxed to 65, with an average annual income of more than 30,000 yuan per employee. In order to ensure that employees in ethnic villages can quickly take up their posts and master their skills, the company provides free skills training for employees in ethnic villages every year.
Establish agricultural product sales mechanism to increase production and income. In Quanmushan Village, Zhaoxian Town, a pilot project was carried out, and the agricultural product planting base was established in the form of land transfer contract, and the ethnic village was turned into a “big farm” in Saide’s healthy town around agricultural sightseeing, farm experience, fruit and vegetable picking and Chinese herbal medicine planting. According to statistics, in the past two years, “Side Health Group” has purchased huyou citrus, camellia oil, earth eggs, dried bamboo shoots, local pork, seasonal vegetables, etc. locally, totaling more than 2.6 million yuan, effectively alleviating the problem of unsalable agricultural products and promoting the increase of agricultural products’ production and income.
The second is to integrate “three kinds of resources”, and the characteristic advantages of ethnic villages are constantly emerging.
Integrate policy resources and make efforts to fill the shortcomings. Incorporate the revitalization of ethnic villages into the county’s strategic development plan, integrate the special funds for the development of ethnic minorities from the central government, provinces and cities, ensure that all ethnic village projects included in the assistance give priority to matching funds, and make good use of ethnic preferential policies. In recent years, Changshan County has won more than 5 million yuan from the central and provincial national development funds, religious charity funds and other funds to arrange the construction of ethnic village projects. At the same time, Saide Health Group arranges certain funds to support the implementation of ethnic village projects every year according to the development projects of surrounding ethnic villages, cooperates with the construction of “Quzhou Courtesy Poetry Painting Belt” and the national AAAA-level tourist scenic spots in Saide Health Town, actively plans the construction of beautiful countryside in five ethnic villages on both sides of Changshan River (including the adjacent She villages in North 1 and North 2 of Kecheng District), and builds a landscape belt of “one river and five villages on both sides” in beautiful countryside, forming an ecological and healthy environment. At present, the accumulated investment has exceeded 1 million yuan.
Integrate characteristic resources and focus on developing tourism. Dig deep into the scarce cultural and natural resources such as the She ethnic characteristic culture in Gaogeng Village, Zhaoxian Town, and the scenic spot of Ruoxi Spring Water, and attract the township sages to invest 1.7 million yuan to build the Anti-Japanese War Memorial Hall and Painting and Calligraphy Institute in Gaogeng Village as the United front field education base and patriotism education base. With the help of the advantages of Saide Group, we will carry out tourism cooperation in ethnic villages and carry out “Five Ones” activities, that is, watching a She performance, tasting a She food, wearing a She costume, enjoying a She scenery and experiencing a She culture. Through the attraction of characteristic culture, ethnic villages will become a must-visit place for guests in Saide’s healthy town.
Integrate United front resources and focus on overall planning. Plan the development plan of ethnic villages as a whole, clarify the development goals, organize United front groups such as democratic parties and non-public enterprises to help ethnic villages in pairs, further condense the resources of United front, enlarge the superposition effect of assistance, form a joint assistance atmosphere, and ensure the maximum assistance effect. Sai Health Group actively plans a characteristic development path for five minority villages on both sides of Changshan River. The first phase of the project will take two years to build Quanmu Village into a leisure and holiday beautiful countryside of “Waterfront Leisure+High-end Garden Homestay”; Build Gaogeng Village into a rural tourism demonstration village with “Shexiang customs” folk culture+red education, research and travel; Guanzhuang Village will be built into a leisure agriculture demonstration village with exquisite planting and ecological experience. The second phase of the project will also be based on the planning concept of “one village, one product” to build the first and second She villages in the north.
The third is to realize the “three transformations”, and the pace of revitalization of ethnic villages is accelerating.
Seek common development and increase income faster and faster. Make full use of the advantages of land, labor and other resources, revitalize the barren hills and wasteland resources, and encourage Xinxiang sages to return and develop the secondary and tertiary industries nearby by introducing industrial and commercial capital. Sai Health Group realized the rent of land transfer, the salary of labor input, the share capital of joint-stock cooperation, and the self-employment to earn cash in ethnic villages by means of land transfer, preferential recruitment of workers, purchase of the right to use apartments, and purchase of agricultural special products. The channels for village collectives and villagers to increase their income became wider and wider, and the “money bags” became more and more abundant. In the past two years, more than 80 villagers from neighboring ethnic villages have been employed, with an average annual salary of more than 40,000 yuan per person, and the average collective economic income of three ethnic villages has increased by more than 350,000 yuan.
Building villages together will make the living environment more and more beautiful. In recent years, nearly 10 million yuan has been invested by integrating the funds of the county people’s clan, agriculture, civil affairs and Hangzhou Buddhist Association, etc., for hardening village roads, cleaning sewage ponds, yard renovation, etc. in ethnic villages, and making every effort to create a happy home suitable for living and working. Saide Health Group actively assisted the surrounding ethnic villages in excavating, sorting out and inheriting the ethnic characteristic culture, set up an ethnic customs experience zone in Saide Health Town, continuously enriched the content of Ruoxi Ethnic Characteristic Pavilion, and helped to build and repair a number of village landscape nodes such as ancient houses and bridges. The village environment of ethnic villages became more and more beautiful, and its charm became more and more abundant.
Sharing the fruits, cultural life is getting better and better. Dig deep into the traditional characteristic culture of She nationality, constantly improve the living environment of villagers and enrich amateur cultural life. Help Gaogeng Village fully tap the history and culture of the local She nationality, set up the She nationality culture exhibition hall, raise more than 1.5 million yuan from the township sages, build a new minority culture stage and Ruoxi Academy, and successfully hold the first “March 3rd” She nationality customs tourism culture festival, which has become a unique minority cultural tourism activity in Changshan County, attracting more than 10,000 tourists.