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Xiangshan Awarded the "Hometown of Chinese Rural Gentry Culture"

It was learned from Xiangshan a few days ago that the county was awarded the title of "Hometown of Chinese Rural Gentry Culture" by the Chinese Ethics Society, becoming the first county-level administrative region in the city and the second in the province to receive this honor.

In recent years, the United Front Work Department of the Xiangshan County Party Committee has actively promoted the construction of the virtuous culture, and coordinated with relevant units to integrate the outstanding deeds of the virtuous villagers from the past to the present, refine the spiritual quality, and integrate with the mainstream spirit of the new era. the first paper cutting hall in Zhejiang Province was founded in Dongchen Township to spread the virtuous culture. At the same time, the use of various townships, streets and village-level township cultural corridors and other exhibition venues contributes to build a systematic cultural position of the township.

In order to promote the mutual promotion of rural culture and economic construction, Xiangshan has launched a "township loan" with a credit of 200 million yuan to encourage talents living elsewhere to return to their hometowns to start businesses, seize the modern agricultural development trend, and expand the tunnel of turning the "green water and green mountains to the golden mountains and silver mountains". According to statistics, since 2018, new gentry of Xiangshan has directly invested or led more than 70 rural industry projects, and 55 new rural tourism business projects, with a cumulative investment of over 500 million yuan; participated in the promotion of the county’s "Red Beauty" citrus planting. The planting area of this fruit has tripled in three years, and the average net income per mu exceeds 70,000 yuan.

Xiangshan also integrates the "Villager Counsellor" into the "Villagers Discussing", exploring a new path for the village's virtuous culture to cultivate the local customs and civilization and help the construction of beautiful villages. More than 150 Xinxiang sages throughout the county served as "country consultants", and more than 430 Xinxiang sages participated in the "Peace Group", and more than 3490 disputes were resolved.

In addition, the county encouraged new gentries to participate in village planning and construction, rural environmental improvement, infrastructure renovation and other projects, with a cumulative donation of 320 million yuan, and the construction of 328 rural public service facilities such as rural roads and cultural auditoriums

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