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Xihu District Held the Opening Ceremony of Lingshan Romantic Town

2019-10-08

On the morning of September 30, Xihu District held the Opening Ceremony of Lingshan Romantic Town. Secretary Zhang Genming of District Committee declared the opening of the town. Gao Guofei (Vice Secretary of District Committee and District Mayor) made a speech. Leaders including Shi Yingli (Director of NPC Standing Committee of Xihu District), Ye Weiping (CPPCC Chairman of Xihu District) and Ye Ze (Vice Secretary of District Committee) as well as related department leaders of the province and city were present.

Gao Guofei pointed out that it had extraordinary significance to welcome the opening of Lingshan Romantic Town and share the important achievements of beautiful village construction of Xihu District before the arrival of the 70th Anniversary of the Founding of the People’s Republic of China. In the past, green turtle ponds, illegal buildings and sewage were everywhere in Lingshan, showing a dirty disorderly and bad village. Its situation was incompatible with the poetic name “Lingshan”, irrelevant to tourist attractions, and against the masses’ yearning for a beautiful life.

Gao Guofei pointed out that the production, living and ecological environment of Lingshan has been improved comprehensively, and it presents a new look of beautiful countryside with clean appearance, rural civilization, farmer income growth and industry development. In recent years, the district committee and district government have vigorously implemented “Beautiful Xihu Action”, taken a series of measures including region-wide land improvement, landscape village transformation, ecological environment restoration and systemized water conservancy, to reconstruct the land of Lingshan. In Lingshan battle of “Beautiful Xihu Action”, we removed over 200 thousand square meters of illegal buildings, renovated more than 2,300 facades and courtyards, newly built and improved over 60 kilometers of roads, and changed various pipelines above the ground into pipelines under the ground. Meanwhile, scientific water control of “One Network for Two Lakes” has been implemented, more than 2,000 Mu of green turtle ponds removed, Dredging Engineering for North Branch of Fuchun River and Diversion Project for South Canal Along the Mountain completed successfully, and Tongjianhu Flood Control, Drainage and Flood Storage Project advanced comprehensively. Hence, Lingshan has acquired a completely new outlook. Based on this, multiple tourism resources including fields, tea gardens, intangible cultural heritages and karst caves have been integrated, to accelerate tourism infrastructure construction. In this way, the prelude of industry development in Lingshan has been played, and magnificent change of Lingshan realized.

Gao Guofei emphasized that Lingshan will be full of imagination and more beautiful in the future. The opening of the town shall be treated as the new start. We must further excavate humanistic folk and intangible cultural heritages via the unique environmental resources and regional advantages of Lingshan, accelerate the construction of important projects like TTOPA and Tongjianhu Flood Control, Drainage and Flood Storage Project, turn Lingshan Romantic Town into a tourist town integrating landscape leisure, cultural experience, rural leisure, science popularization, and artistic creation, and truly realize the concept that good environment is equal to golden hill.

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