Pingtan Shanglou Village Pilots Cross-Strait Community Integration Construction: Let "Across the Strait One Family" Go One Step

Fujian Daily APP-New Fujian reported on December 9 (Fujian Daily full media reporter Lin Xia correspondent Ou Liping) Shanglou Village, once an ordinary village in Lancheng and rural areas of Pingtan, is now piloting the construction of community integration on both sides of the strait, and the popularity continues to gather .

The eye-catching Shanglou Village logo at the entrance of the village. Photo by Zhang Zhehao

Recently, the reporter walked into Shanglou Village. A large exquisite wall painting came into view. Lifelike peonies, lilies, amaryllis and other flowers clashed on the walls, making the village Lively. Shanglou Village also has a characteristic "reconstruction of old things", choosing common local stones, shells, loofah vines, banyan tree whiskers and other items, turning them into treasures, adding a lot of new ideas to the culture and environment of the village.

The above changes originated in December 2016. Shanglou Village became the first cross-strait integrated community pilot village in Pingtan. The director of Zhongshun Community, Wenshan District, Taipei, Taiwan, Ningyi Zeng was hired as the executive director of the village. She brought management experience in Taiwanese communities . Since then, the village has become beautiful and the villagers are happy. How does

do it? Zeng Ningyi united with village officials to promote the establishment of a team of volunteers in Shanglou Village, allowing everyone to participate in the construction of the village and share the results of development. In the beginning, they often told the stories of community volunteers with villagers. Over time, many villagers have a sense of public welfare. Then they formed a volunteer team, which now has 108 members.

Pingtan Shanglou Village pilots the integration of the two sides of the strait community, and volunteer teams are active everywhere. Looking forward to the emergence of the

volunteer team, the village's value and confidence have been better activated. Shanglou Village continues to deepen community management and service innovation. Based on the Taiwanese model, through innovative creativity, the village’s logo, green belt, and leisure and entertainment venues are designed and transformed, giving Shanglou Village new connotations. Not only that, but also actively carried out voluntary services with the help of volunteer teams, organized activities such as "Send Warmth to Nine Nine", "Meal with the Elderly", and "Free Medical Examination for the Elderly". Insured households and destitute households promote the spirit of voluntary service.

Shanglou Village also often organizes volunteers to "go out" to learn and exchange, and "bring in" good experience and talents to deepen the development of cross-strait social integration. In the past two years, four batches of outstanding volunteer representatives totaling more than 70 people have been sent to Taiwan to learn in-depth experience in community governance mechanisms, grassroots culture, industrial development, and the operation of community and volunteer organizations. At the same time, six groups of Taiwanese community volunteers and entrepreneurial youths came to Shanglou Village to participate in experiential exchanges. Activities such as community visits and highlights creation were held in Shanglou Village, which enhanced the friendship between grassroots people on both sides of the strait. The village style has been built up, and the people have a greater vision for the development of the industry. In April of this year, a Taiwanese cultural and creative team moved into Shanglou Village to transform the century-old old house in the village. While preserving the original flavor of the building, it was planned into a community base, art gallery, cultural and creative product sales, guest house model house and cultural relics museum. Wait for multiple spaces, called "Loutaihui".

The "Loutaihui" rebuilt from the old house Source: Pingtan Times

This is the result of the joint construction and sharing of communities on both sides of the strait. It not only preserves the original characteristics of the stone house village, but also gives it new spaces and functions. In June of this year, on the opening day of the "Loutaihui", many young people from both sides of the strait gathered here. Huang Yushan from Taiwan composed a poem for the "Loutaihui", expressing the joy of meeting upstairs, "Pingtan River is always turbulent. , Which represents sustainable development here."

The "Loutai Meeting" is a vivid epitome of the co-construction, sharing, and integration of the grassroots across the strait in Shanglou Village. In September of this year, Pingtan launched the “Seven Tough Battles for 120 Days”. Shanglou Village took this opportunity to improve the environmental hardware, renovate the living environment, make up for the shortcomings of people’s livelihood, and create a better environment for cross-strait grassroots exchanges. The future of beauty.

This year, Shanglou Village has completed the construction of 450 standard three-cell septic tanks, established a domestic waste transfer and treatment mechanism, implemented the toilet revolution in depth, invested more than 800,000 yuan in implementing village greening and environmental beautification projects, and building a "triangular" green belt Wait. At the same time, Shanglou Village is also focusing on optimizing the configuration of the village’s residential infrastructure, self-raising more than 2 million yuan to complete the smooth flow of water, electricity, roads, and traffic in the village, building village-level farmhouses, grid monitoring centers, etc., integrating the characteristics of Fujian and Taiwan Elements planning entertainment and leisure venues, cultural exchange venues. In addition, the village finance also provides financial subsidies to students who are admitted to the undergraduate course, and subsidizes more than 400,000 yuan per year to pay the entire villagers’ full coverage of the new rural cooperative insurance. The village also raises funds to build village-level health clinics and expand community volunteers. Service team, set up a security patrol team,Ensure the public security environment of the community.

Not long ago, Shanglou Village was awarded the "Provincial Civilized Village". This is the first village in Pingtan to receive this honor. Today, the most subtle beauty of the village has been respected, and the friendship between the two sides of the strait "blooms everywhere." "Now the village is getting more and more lively. These Taiwanese friends are very good. We are all good sisters and good brothers." Talking about the changes in the village, villager Han Zhuying said.