The sound of the accordion is lingering and the streets are warm with fireworks. It is located in Liuxing Street, Jiefang Road Street, Yining City, Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. People of all ethnic groups live and have fun together here. They use their real happy life to vividly interpret the profound connotation of forging the consciousness of the Chinese nation's community and write a moving chapter of harmonious coexistence and common prosperity and development of all ethnic groups.
Liuxing Street is named after the block is divided into six fan-shaped areas, shaped like a six-pointed star. Liuxing Street Community, founded in 1934, is home to 13 ethnic groups including Han, Kazakh, Hui, Uyghur, and Russian, and currently has more than 3,600 residents. Over the long years, people of all ethnic groups have interacted, exchanged and blended, naturally forming a pattern of multi-ethnic embedded development.
Laizina Abdulapal, a Tatar pastry shop practitioner in Liuxing Street Community, Jiefang Road Street, Yining City, Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region: When you turn left when you go out, there is a Russian restaurant and a Russian bakery. Then our family makes Tatar ethnic pastries, and there is a Xibe restaurant behind it. Then we have a strong sense of the traditions, eating methods, and food of each ethnic group.
In addition to delicious food, the unique accordion culture is also an essential local experience. In the Alexander Accordion Collection on Six Star Street, fine accordions attract visitors. All of these collections come from Alexander Sergeevich Zazulin, a native of Six Star Street. In Alexander's view, the music he loves is an indispensable carrier for mutual communication between him and fellow nationalities.
Alexander Sergeevich Zazulin, community accordion collector at Liuxing Street, Jiefang Road Street, Yining City, Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region: We have a band, a band composed of 13 ethnic groups, where we play and sing together, including Mongolians, Tatars, Kazakhs, and Xibes. My friends teach me what I don’t understand, and I teach what they don’t understand. That’s how it is.
The band members include retired teachers, police officers, craftsmen, and civil servants. Brothers of different nationalities come together because of their common interests. Today, the accordion band performs voluntarily every day at the Liuxing Street Folk Culture Exhibition Hall. While tourists feel the unique charm of national art, the beauty of unity and harmony of local residents is also vividly visible to their eyes.
Tourist Zhou Yi: When you come to this place and see this real example of multi-ethnic unity, you will know what the real description in the Chinese textbook is like. It is multi-ethnic. People of various ethnic groups can interact, communicate and blend, and then live together in harmony.
The diversified living soil has given birth to a unique neighborhood culture, and the harmonious atmosphere of ethnic unity has also injected strong impetus into the people to increase their income and become rich. Many residents set up stalls during the tourist season and eat "tourist meals" at their doorsteps.
Abdusuli Kurban, a resident of Liuxing Street Community, Jiefang Road Street, Yining City, Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region: I was in front of the door. I, a doll, hired someone to set up a stall. What were I selling? We sell big ribs, ice cream, yogurt pimples and other things. It is very simple to sell, but the income is very good. Our income this year is also 130,000 yuan.
Since 2019, with the help of counterpart support from Nanjing City, Jiangsu Province, Liuxing Street has fully launched a protection, renewal and improvement project, with a cumulative investment of nearly 500 million yuan and attracting 320 million yuan of private capital. The appearance of the street has undergone tremendous changes, and the quality of tourism has been significantly improved. For local residents, the development achievements over the years have also given them a deeper understanding of national unity.
Didar Kunanyi, Deputy Director of Jiefang Road Street, Yining City, Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region and Secretary of the Party Branch of Liuxing Street Community: The most important word should be harmony, harmonious harmony, and beautiful harmony, and this is the foundation. Only when the people of Liuxing Street live in harmony can our work in all aspects be improved to a higher level. Through this small block, our Liuxing Street allows people across the country and the world to feel that our ethnic groups in Xinjiang are very united, and our unity is not just on paper, it is real. They can feel that our ethnic groups are united and harmonious coexistence as a big family locally.
