A Village and A Community of Zhenhai Won National Honors
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- Category: Ningbo District
- Published: Tuesday, 27 December 2011 20:01
At the commending meeting of national cultural civilization held in Beijing recently, Guangming Village and Houdajie Community of Zhenhai, Ningbo won the title of National Culturally-Leading (Wenming) Village and National Culturally-Leading (Wenming) Unit respectively.
Guangming Village, with an area of 3.2 km2, has 40 enterprises, 18 of which have an annual sales volume of 5 million and 2 of 200 million Yuan. Last year, the per capital income for rural residents was 15,280 Yuan, being the highest in Ningbo. For the past few years, the village has been advocating the fine tradition of respecting the old and loving the young, neighborhood harmony and mutual help. In 2007, the village started a program to set up examples for the villagers and promote a new code of conduct, winning the village such honors as Zhejiang Wenming Village.
Houdajie, the largest and most populated community in Zhenhai, occupies an area of 0.41 square meters, with 13,000 residents. In recent years, the community has been putting people first and taking a strategic method to build a modern and first-class community. And it has been awarded as Zhejiang Provincial Wenming Community and National Youth Wenming Community. The community has 20 groups of literary and arts workers who give performances for the community regularly. Among them, a drum team, reputed to be the best drum team in Ningbo, has won the Shanhua Award, the highest award, in the 2001 China Drum Performance Competition
