"That vast bamboo sea is by the West Lake." Anji is a place with clean soil, water, air, and sound - known as the "Four Clean" land. It's also a beautiful vessel with picturesque mountains, waters, villages, and people.
At the 13th Party Congress of Anji County, Party Secretary Dan Jinyan proposed the strategic goal of building a "Prosperous, Beautiful, and Happy Anji," marking the start of the "Five-Year Campaign for a Happy Anji."
In the next five years, Anji will navigate towards a destination of people-oriented livelihoods, prosperity, and happiness through the construction of "Three Anji’s" and will take steady steps to further integrate into Hangzhou.
[Interpretation One: Prosperous Anji]
At the recently concluded "Two Sessions" of Anji County, a set of figures in the "Anji Government Work Report" was inspiring: In 2011, Anji achieved a regional GDP of 22.2 billion yuan, with total fiscal revenue and local fiscal revenue reaching 2.91 billion yuan and 1.67 billion yuan respectively, maintaining growth rates that ranked among the top in the province for four consecutive years and first in Huzhou.
In the next five years, Anji aims to double its regional GDP to exceed 45 billion yuan, with total fiscal revenue breaking through 8 billion yuan, striving to enter the forefront of the province in comprehensive strength.
The realization of a "prosperous" Anji has filled the masses with confidence. In 2011, the per capita disposable income of urban residents and the per capita net income of farmers in Anji reached 27,750 yuan and 14,152 yuan respectively, growing at an average annual rate of 11.2% and 12.1% over the past five years. The increase in per capita net income of farmers has been above the provincial average for four consecutive years.
Renowned for its "Beautiful Countryside of China," Anji is an important node county in the Hangzhou Metropolitan Economic Circle, receiving resource radiation from the Greater Hangzhou Metropolitan Area.
In recent years, due to Anji's excellent industrial platforms and comprehensive service policies, many Hangzhou-based enterprises have relocated to Anji. Following the establishment of well-known agricultural leading enterprises such as "Zuname Food" and national-level companies like "Blue Peacock" and "Yongning'er," last year, Hangzhou Zhongce Rubber invested 3 billion yuan to settle in Anji.
Zhu Yuelin, a businessman from Xiaoshan, is a typical case. In 2004, Zhu took on several steel structure factory construction projects in Anji and gradually came into contact with the local government departments and the Anji Economic Development Zone.
"The people of Anji are honest, hardworking, simple, and welcoming, with customs similar to Hangzhou, which made me think about setting up a factory here."
In 2007, Zhu purchased 140 mu of land in Tangpu District of the Anji Economic Development Zone and established Zhejiang Guoxing Industry Co., Ltd., becoming one of the earliest Hangzhou investors in Anji.
Through introductions by Hangzhou businessmen like Zhu Yuelin, more and more Hangzhou enterprises have settled in Anji. According to incomplete statistics, as of now, 140 Hangzhou investment projects have landed in Anji, with a total investment nearing 15 billion yuan.
As a premium agricultural product supply area for Hangzhou, Anji white tea is already well-known. Anji's ecological bamboo shoots, mountain fruits and vegetables, and aquatic products are indispensable green foods on the dining tables of Hangzhou citizens, loved by all.
In the future, Anji will actively adjust its industrial structure, increase the added value of the tertiary industry and high-tech industries, vigorously promote economic transformation and upgrading, and basically form a modern industrial system to create a prosperous Anji.
[Interpretation Two: Beautiful Anji]
"Beautiful Countryside of China," this term familiar to Hangzhou citizens, is frequently mentioned.
Since 2008, Anji has carried out the "Beautiful Countryside of China" construction action. Currently, out of the 187 administrative villages in the county, 168 have been built into beautiful villages, achieving a creation coverage rate of 89.8%. The National Standardization Management Committee has granted Anji the title of "National Demonstration County for Beautiful Countryside Standards."
From being the first ecological county in the country to winning the first county-level "Chinese Human Settlement Environment Award," the "Beautiful Countryside of China" model of Anji has become a brand and main carrier for new rural construction in Zhejiang Province, and it has gained nationwide attention.
In the future, Anji will aim for the "UN Habitat Award" and build a world-renowned human settlement brand.
On July 15, 2011, the China·Anji Ecological Museum was unveiled in the ten-thousand-mu white tea garden in Xilong Township, Anji. Based on Anji's regional cultural characteristics, it incorporates representative cultural heritage and natural ecological landscapes within its exhibition scope, consisting of "one central museum, 12 specialized museums, and multiple exhibition halls," forming a novel museum without walls.
Anji is the largest county-wide scenic area in the country and also an ecological museum without walls.
The beauty of Anji can be described by four "unseen": standing on the ground, you cannot see yellow earth, with a forest coverage rate of 72% and vegetation coverage rate of 75%, green is the symbol of Anji; leaving the county town, you cannot see the countryside, with well-connected roads and villa clusters, making it impossible to distinguish between urban and rural areas; in the industrial park, you cannot see chimneys or wastewater, as production methods have changed and industrial by-products are comprehensively utilized; entering the countryside, you cannot see farmers, as urban infrastructure covers the countryside, public services enhance living standards, and it becomes difficult to differentiate between "citizens" and "farmers."
Wang Anmin is a native Hangzhou resident living in the Dao Huaxiang residential area in northern Hangzhou. Approaching retirement, Wang Anmin and his wife planned ahead: find a suburb with fresh air and convenient living conditions as a retirement location.
Coming to Anji, the couple found what they were looking for, "The air is particularly good, and when we arrived here, it felt like our minds became clearer." Wang Anmin was deeply moved by Anji's beauty and bought two apartments, one for his parents on the third floor, covering more than 90 square meters, and another for himself and his wife on the fifth floor with an additional attic.
Industry insiders believe that there is little difference in housing quality between Anji and Hangzhou. On the contrary, its natural ecological environment is generally superior to most current developments in Hangzhou. Additionally, well-known property management institutions from Hangzhou have entered Anji, providing complete property management facilities such as intercom systems and visual systems.
According to incomplete statistics, nearly 2,000 households from Hangzhou now own houses in Anji.
In the next five years, under the leadership of a large scenic area, Anji will organically unify, mutually promote, and develop in linkage the "elegant bamboo city, charming towns, and beautiful countryside," making the elegant bamboo city the leading engine of the large scenic area, constructing charming towns as important carriers for coordinating urban and rural development, and allowing beautiful countryside to become the main nodes for rural operation.
[Interpretation Three: Happy Anji]
In Anji, every step feels like a scene, every glance a painting. Entering Anji, people see the rapid economic development and increasing wealth and happiness of the people guided by the three major strategies of establishing the county on ecology, strengthening the county through industry, and prospering the county through openness, through the construction of "Beautiful Countryside of China."
Creating a happy Anji, Anji has its own goals: the basic formation of an integrated urban-rural pattern, with coordinated development levels ranking among the top nationwide.
In Anji, happiness is like the delicate fragrance of white tea, faintly permeating the air, refreshing the soul.
Chu Maoqing, born in 1963, is an ordinary farmer from Changtan Village, Zhangcun Town. Over a few years, Chu Maoqing has changed jobs four times, condensing the gradual process of Anji farmers transitioning from beauty to happiness.
Before 2005, Chu Maoqing was a "Mr. Chu" who loved root carving art, owning a root carving art gallery of hundreds of square meters at home and teaching "root carving" skills to children in primary and secondary schools in Anji.
With urban development, "Mr. Chu" became "Boss Chu," opening a restaurant in the county town of Anji, which gained some fame due to good management, earning one to two thousand yuan daily.
In 2008, Anji began the creation of a beautiful countryside, significantly improving the village appearance. With improved environment, "Boss Chu" closed his restaurant and returned home to raise "baby fish," becoming a "fish boss."
Nowadays, with more and more urban tourists coming to Anji for leisure tourism, Chu Maoqing opened Shuangyu Farmhouse in his hometown, becoming a local feature, with an annual family income reaching over 300,000 yuan.
Chu Maoqing said, "One person getting rich does not count as richness; everyone getting rich is called richness, and every household getting rich is called a happy life." He has already taken action, planning to lead his fellow villagers to open a chain of Anji agritainment restaurants.
When happiness knocks, the people of Anji firmly grasp it.
For just 30 yuan, can you go directly from Anji to Xiaoshan Airport? In 2010, Anji launched the "Airport Express," providing direct transportation between Anji and Xiaoshan Airport;
In only 28 minutes, can you drive from Hangzhou to Anji? The Hangchang Expressway scheduled to open within the year will reduce the original journey time of over an hour to just 28 minutes;
By 2015, can you travel by high-speed rail between Hangzhou and Anji? The officially approved plan for the Shanghang Railway includes a station in Anji, erasing the regret of Anji having no railway in a few years.
Meanwhile, in recent years, Anji, fully integrating into the Hangzhou Metropolitan Economic Circle, has reaped countless happiness: financial integration, with foreign banks settling in Anji, injecting 1 billion yuan directly into the bamboo hometown; educational integration, through "sending out" and "bringing in" and related support, allowing Anji schools and students to share Hangzhou's quality resources; labor insurance integration, enabling residents of both places to swipe medical insurance cards in each other's locations...
In the next five years, Anji will focus on increasing the income of urban and rural residents, invest more in developing social undertakings and perfecting the public service system, and implement innovative social management and harmonious stability measures, ensuring that all the people of the county receive quality education, earn more through work, receive good medical care, enjoy proper elder care, and live in suitable housing.
This first ecological county in the nation nestled in the embrace of the Hangzhou Metropolitan Economic Circle; this industrial strong county that has actively connected with Shanghai and integrated with Hangzhou for seven years, creating a "zero-distance" relationship between Hangzhou and Anji; this "Hangzhou New District" affectionately referred to by Hangzhou citizens, with her hidden beautiful villages amidst lush bamboo groves and warm, genuine folk customs, lets those who yearn for peace and harmony look forward to it enthusiastically.
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