Walking into Wubu Village, Sunbo Town, Feicheng City, Tai'an, Shandong Province, the sound of ink painting from the Daizong tradition in the intangible cultural heritage workshop can be heard one after another. The villagers in the pancake factory are busy and orderly. In front of the unique "Huo Gate" at the entrance of the village, there is an endless stream of students studying.
The Fifth Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China adopted the "Decision of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China on Several Major Issues on Persistently Promoting Comprehensive and Strict Governance of the Party", which placed "enhancing the Party spirit of Communists" at the top of seven strategic tasks and major measures.
"Whether the party spirit is strong or not depends on what the cadres have done and whether the footprints are deep or not," said Zhao Tongjun, secretary of the Wubu Village Party Branch and director of the village committee.
Wubu Village is a stone village surrounded by mountains on three sides. It was once "so poor that only stones were left", and the collective income of the village was meager. In recent years, Wubu Village has continued to implement party spirit education for the village's two committees and party members, promoting the transformation of grassroots party organizations from "loose and soft" to "hard and strong", and using hard work to support the happiness of villagers.
Every Monday and Saturday at 8 a.m., the "morning school time" at the Wubu Village Party and Mass Service Center starts on time. Village cadres and all party members gathered together to learn the party's innovative theories, policies that benefit farmers, and grassroots governance knowledge. Zhao Tongjun took the lead in learning and also took the lead in exposing shortcomings: "Everyone pointed out problems and gaps among each other, and sorted out rectification measures one by one. This is to turn normalized party spirit learning into the ideological foundation for practical work for the people."
The leisure time in the afternoon is the prime time for village cadres to visit and conduct surveys. 44 party members in the village went deep into the fields and farmers' homes, sat around with the villagers, talked about daily life, listened to their voices, and asked for their demands. The notebook he carries with him is filled with the villagers’ urgent needs, worries, opinions and suggestions.
"In the past, cadres rarely came to the door, and I always felt there was a distance. It is different now. If you have any difficulties or ideas, you can tell them at any time, and the cadres will keep them in mind and help solve them!" Villager Li Mingjun mentioned the change in the style of the village cadres and praised them repeatedly.
Li Mingjun also mentioned that all major and minor matters in the village are open and transparent. Meetings are held to discuss and the entire process is publicized. The cadres do practical things and do not fool around.
The standardized, institutionalized, and transparent governance model fundamentally solves the problems of loose performance of duties, randomness of officials, and unclear rights and responsibilities, so that village cadres and officials have rules, a bottom line for performing duties, and confidence in taking on responsibilities. The village collective has successively taken on the three "hard bones" of digging wells, building roads, and lighting.
"Our team in Stone Village is also very tough!" Li Mingjun said.
After making up for the shortcomings in people's livelihood, strengthening the collective economy and driving the people to increase their income have become the key directions of the "hard team". To this end, the two village committees took the initiative to go out to learn advanced practices and determine the path to develop rural tourism.
They went out many times to attract investment, communicated door-to-door, and worked with the villagers to calculate income accounts and discuss development prospects... Under the leadership of the village's two committees, the village successfully transferred more than 180 villagers' houses. It relied on the resources of the ancient village to develop rural tourism, driving 83 villagers to find jobs nearby, and the village collective annual income increased by more than 500,000 yuan.
"Only by continuing to do a good job in party spirit education and integrating strict work styles throughout the entire process of grassroots governance and industrial development can the party organization have cohesion and rural development have stamina." Li Xigang, member of the Standing Committee of the Feicheng City Party Committee and Minister of the Organization Department, said that he will continue to deepen the party spirit of the party members, transform the organizational advantages of the party organization into the development advantages of rural revitalization, and let the masses share the results of development. (Source of this article: Economic Daily Reporter: Wang Jinhu)
