Chehe Community, Yuelong Street, Ninghai County is located in the center of the county, with an area of about 1.5 square kilometers. There are more than 5,300 permanent residents, totaling more than 16,500 people. In recent years, with the economic development, more than 8,000 migrant workers have flooded into the community, including more than 100 ethnic minority compatriots from 12 ethnic groups including Hui, Manchu, Buyi and Zhuang, who also live, study and work here. In order to further strengthen the consciousness of the Chinese national community, in recent years, the community has been built in three aspects and promoted the creation of national unity and progress in an orderly manner. This year, it was identified as the fourth batch of provincial-level key cultivation units for national unity and progress.
The first is to build a volunteer service team. The community closely follows the working goal of “one family of the Chinese nation, working together to build the Chinese dream” and actively promotes the work of national unity and progress. The community has cultivated a “Pomegranate Red” volunteer service team composed of compatriots of all ethnic groups, and has absorbed 78 backbone volunteers. Every Monday and Wednesday, it provides voluntary services such as caring haircuts, health massage and free laundry for residents of all ethnic groups. Volunteers also actively participate in community democratic consultations to help residents solve practical problems.
The second is to create a characteristic studio. The community invited Ma Shanhong, a teacher of the Hui nationality, to settle in the community center, and newly built a “dream of Zheng” studio, which provided free public guzheng teaching for poor students of all ethnic groups, learned to sing national unity songs, and infiltrated national unity education in the long-term teaching process. A total of 120 class hours of public welfare courses were held throughout the year, serving more than 600 people of all ethnic groups. The community also hired Jin Yinghua, the most beautiful doctor in the county, as a community health consultant, to provide free consultation services for community residents, which not only played an important exemplary role, but also formed a good atmosphere in the community in which everyone attached importance to national unity and strived to be a model of national unity.
The third is to build and optimize the service base. The community center has successively set up functional rooms such as the national book corner, the national exhibition hall, and the national unity literature screening room. Through multimedia and vivid picture dissemination, it has publicized colorful national cultures, enhanced mutual understanding among all ethnic groups, and established profound friendship. A total of 96 activities on the theme of national unity were held throughout the year, serving more than 11,000 people of all ethnic groups. This year, Chehe Community launched a special activity of “Art Lights up the Community, Work Together to Build a Better World” in Chenyuan Community, and opened many booths such as calligraphy and painting exhibition, national handicraft exhibition and handmade production on the spot, especially inviting Buyi compatriots to show their national characteristic crafts such as soles and embroidered belts, which attracted more than 200 residents to stop and watch. The community also organized more than 20 children of all ethnic groups to write patriotic feelings with calligraphy teachers and play the game of “Lianliankan” hand in hand, which reflected the elegance of young people of all ethnic groups and the intimate feelings of unity among all ethnic groups, and fully demonstrated the remarkable results of ethnic unity education in Chehe community.