Walking into Zhangdao Village, Beijingzi Town, Donggang City, Liaoning Province, walking on the ten-li Stack Bridge, looking at the blue sea and blue sky, looking up at the beautiful scenery of the island, the song of seagulls in the sky, and the sound of the waves at the foot, how comfortable...

 

No one would have thought that the picturesque "beautiful countryside of China" on and off the island today used to be the "old Daman village" in Beijingzi Town because of the poor sea, poor people and sharp ethnic conflicts. And all this change, to start from a person, he is the North Jing town village ZhangZhongyou Party branch secretary.

 

 

Swertia island village ten miles trestle bridge.

 

"The island has a host family"

 

Zhangdao Village is located in the southwest of Beijingzi Town, Donggang City, Dandong. It is the first island starting from the eastern end of China's ten thousand miles coastline. The people of Zhangdao have lived on the sea for generations. In the 1990s, large areas of the shallow sea of Roe Island were controlled by foreign "sea bullies", and the people of Roe Island did not dare to cross the Lei Chi half step.

 

Due to the depletion of offshore fishing resources, more than 100 fishing boats can only meet the food and clothing of less than 700 people in the village. The only 6 thousand acres of clam subtidal flats encountered red tide, the village collective debt of 28 million yuan, "relying on the day to eat" in trouble.

 

At the village election meeting, everyone looked at each other, shook their heads and sighed. Looking at the villagers' sad looks, Zhang Zhongyou, only 33 years old, could not sit still and volunteered to run for the director of the village committee, he said to everyone: "I came to the Roe Island when the family, I will try my best to return to the shallow sea around the Roe Island, change the poor and backward face of the Roe Island, and lead everyone to the good days." The villagers were poor and afraid, so they chose Zhang Zhongyou as the head of the village committee.

 

With his unremitting efforts, the Liaoning Provincial government ordered the municipal governments of Dandong and Donggang to allocate 70,000 mu of the right to use the shallow sea to Zhangdao Village.

 

Strive for 70,000 acres of shallow sea, Zhang Zhongyou and strive for the Roe Island village tourism shipping qualification, the villagers saw Zhang Zhongyou is a dare to take on the courage to serve the people's good cadres. In 2006, he was elected secretary of the village Party branch with a full vote.

 

The village contracted out 40,000 mu of beaches and shallow seas, with a net annual rental income of 6 million yuan. For the remaining 30,000 mu, Zhang Zhong sought relations with relatives and friends, raised funds from many parties, bought and borrowed, and re-established a collectively owned shellfish farm on the Yibei beach. Zhang Zhongyou should rely on the growth of the collective economy to gather people's hearts and strengthen the villagers' socialist ideals and beliefs.

 

 

Roe island village shellfish farm.

 

Cultivate the sea and build islands for development

 

Zhangdao village has unique natural resources and cultural resources for the development of tourism, but roads, electricity, fresh water and other infrastructure, are not adapted to the development of tourism, tourists often come with enthusiasm and go away.

 

The road is inconvenient, Zhang Zhongyou presided over the cultivation, led the villagers on the island to cut mountains and stones, paved with stone slabs and stones to form a two-kilometer long road around the island; Insufficient power, he fought for the investment of the power sector, and laid a submarine cable for the deer island; The shortage of fresh water resources, he won the state investment of 3 million yuan, the village investment of 1.5 million yuan, built 15.8 kilometers of water pipeline; Zhangdao village is surrounded by the sea, the coast is often affected by waves, he held many party members' meetings, villagers' meetings, organized villagers to work together, built a wave embankment, built 23,000 square meters of coastal square...

 

 

Party branch secretary Zhang Zhongyou (fourth from left) leads villagers to clean up silt at Marina Square after the spring tide.

 

"Both the villagers and the collective should be rich." In March 2016, the new "two committees" team of the village was not independent, repeatedly explored the breakthrough of industrial transformation, after multiple arguments and inspections, combined with the local beautiful island landscape, Zhangdao Village adjusted its development ideas, describing the tourism industry as the leader, the fishing industry and aquaculture industry as the two wings, the development of green industry, strengthen the collective economy, and lead the fishermen to increase income and get rich blueprint.

 

"It's not easy for a tree to grow on an island! In order to preserve the trees on the island, the road was not moved. Over the years, we have made a lot of efforts to plant flowers and trees on the island, and the greening rate of the island has reached 70 percent." Looking at the mountains green, ZhangZhongyou, Party secretary of the village of Zhangdao, is very proud.

 

The Party branch of Zhangdao Village takes the "three meeting and one lesson" system as the carrier, and constantly strengthens the publicity of the concept of "green water and green mountains are Jinshan and silver mountains", which brings out the best in green mountains and clear seas and simple folk customs, and also attracts more and more tourists to experience the unique charm of the island.

 

 

A scene in the village of Roe Island.

 

The "two committees" of Zhangdao Village actively strive for support funds, constantly improve the island's public service facilities, renovate health centers, schools, build landscape roads, island roads, sea trekking roads, vigorously implement the island's greening, beautification, lighting projects, encourage villagers to build B&Bs, open hotels, and gradually form a set of sea viewing, fishing, sea bathing, seafood and other as one of the tourism system. The village also took out 50% of the collective economic income to buy passenger boats, rebuild and expand the dock, the passenger transport company has 11 ships of all sizes, 3 special docks, annual transport tourists 200,000 people, to solve the problem of insufficient shipping capacity caused by the increase in tourists.

 

Zhangdao Village was successfully promoted to the national AAAA level tourist attraction, achieving a comprehensive tourism income of more than 40 million yuan.

 

Party building leads to gathering people's hearts

 

With the help of tourism industry, the road of rural revitalization of Zhangdao Village is getting wider and wider.

 

"It used to be a couple of bungalows, but it was renovated and built into a two-story house four years ago. The capacity has been increased from 30 people to 70 people, and the facilities are the same as those of hotels in the city, which are all indoor standard rooms with bathrooms." Every morning at 5 o 'clock, Yu Jiale hotel owner GuiQin started a busy day. She and her husband have run this small hotel for more than 20 years.

 

"You look at the living environment of our village, hardening roads to households, garbage sorting, and building a fitness walk around the island, I heard that the village will also be on the viewing elevator next year... This is the well-off life in our mind!" Said Guiqin happily.

 

Zhangdao village has always adhered to the leadership of the party building, the village opened a "red waiting hall" at the pier, focusing on the young village cadres and party members arranged in key positions such as passenger transport, sanitation, security, and asked the party members who operated the hotel to hang a unified "Party member service household" sign, and also established a mutual supervision mechanism for self-employed households, through regular mutual evaluation, change punishment into awards and other ways. Standardize the operation order of the tourism market in the island. Improve the village rules and regulations, not disorderly planting vegetables, damage the green, and constantly optimize the ecological environment on the island.

 

 

Zhangzhongyou, secretary of the Party branch of Zhangdao Village (right one), listed for party members.

 

"I met a good secretary when I got old. I really want to live a few more years to enjoy my old life." Said Zhang Hongyu, a 94-year-old resident of the village. On weekdays, who has a difficult family, Zhang Zhongyou and village cadres always do everything possible to help solve. The elderly and the sick in the village, they often squeeze out time to visit, ten years such as a day, carefully take care of the life of the old people.

 

"Now, the village's collective assets exceed 220 million yuan, the village's collective economic annual income exceeds 14 million yuan, and the village's per capita gross income exceeds 70,000 yuan." Zhang Zhongyou said.

 

The village collective rich, back to feed the villagers have confidence. The village continues to improve welfare benefits, for the villagers to pay cooperative medical care, elderly accident injury and other insurance, each year to issue environmental governance and transportation subsidies of 1,500 yuan, scholarships for college students, for the elderly over 60 years of age to issue 100 yuan per month living expenses, villagers annual per capita welfare of more than 6,000 yuan.

 

When it comes to the future development of Roe Island, Zhang Zhongyou said: "When you entered the island, didn't you see eleven characters engraved on the cliff 'China Roe Island - the first island of thousands of miles of sea territory'?" But for now this is only the first island in a geographical sense. Our goal is that in the near future, the annual comprehensive income of the village will reach 100 million yuan, the per capita annual income of villagers will reach 100,000 yuan, the collective annual income of the village will exceed 20 million yuan, and the island will become the richest and the most beautiful island in China." (Author's unit: Organization Department of Donggang Municipal Committee, Liaoning Province)