In recent years, the appearance of many villages in Beijing has undergone tremendous changes. According to information from a special press conference on agriculture and rural areas held on the 26th as part of the series on the high-quality completion of the capital’s “14th Five-Year Plan,” since the implementation of the plan, Beijing has been advancing the “Hundreds and Thousands Project” with higher standards and greater efforts. As of now, the beautiful village construction tasks in over 2,900 villages across the city have been basically completed.
Beijing has adhered to planning first, with township territorial space planning and village planning achieving “comprehensive coverage where needed.” In terms of demonstration leadership, two batches of the “Hundreds and Thousands Project” involving 42 demonstration villages and 22 demonstration zones have yielded practical results, adding 600,000 square meters of green and beautified space, introducing over 200 new entities such as rural innovators, and forming a series of tangible outcomes including Xincun Village in Changping District and Tangdazhuang Village in Tongzhou District.
Meanwhile, Beijing has maintained “substantial financial investment,” with the municipal government allocating 1.8 billion yuan annually in guiding funds for beautiful village construction, providing strong support and guarantees for the improvement of rural living environments. Beijing has also focused on dual enhancement of both environment and industry. Cumulatively, 7 strong agricultural industry towns and 91 national “One Village, One Product” demonstration villages have been established.
It is reported that Beijing has combined demolition of illegal structures with environmental improvement, making the removal of encroachments on streets and unauthorized constructions within villages a primary task, thereby clearing obstacles for the enhancement of rural living environments. Simultaneously, infrastructure construction has been integrated with long-term maintenance, comprehensively establishing a “five-haves” long-term maintenance mechanism for living environments that includes systems, standards, teams, funding, and supervision.
Beijing has also linked the improvement of living environments with increasing farmers’ incomes, actively promoting labor-based relief programs, helping approximately 50,000 farmers achieve stable incomes through local employment. Problem orientation has been combined with assessment and evaluation, comprehensively evaluating the improvement effects across districts to promote implementation, rectification, and enhancement through assessment. Furthermore, strengthening party building leadership has been integrated with maintaining farmers as the main participants, widely mobilizing farmers to carry out activities such as village cleaning days and major clean-ups, forming a favorable situation of joint construction, joint governance, and shared benefits.
As of now, the beautiful village construction tasks in over 2,900 villages across the city have been basically completed, achieving numerous results. In terms of rural toilets, the annual coverage rate of sanitary household toilets in rural areas has consistently remained above 99%, with rural public toilets basically meeting third-level standards or higher, emphasizing both construction and management. Regarding rural domestic sewage, sewage treatment has been advanced according to local conditions, with rural sewage treatment rates reaching over 90% and rural black and odorous water bodies basically eliminated. In rural waste management, administrative villages have achieved full coverage of domestic waste treatment, with rural domestic waste treatment rates reaching over 99%.
Additionally, in terms of village appearance, Beijing has cumulatively newly built and repaired over 67 million square meters of rural neighborhood roads, constructed 1,545 kilometers of beautiful village demonstration roads, established 100 capital forest villages, and achieved full coverage of village lighting. In rural ecological and environmental protection, 96% of rural residents have achieved clean heating, with recycling rates for waste agricultural film and pesticide packaging reaching 93% and 88% respectively, and comprehensive utilization rates of crop straw reaching over 99%.
