At 6am, the first bus route 1404 departed from Xinpuyan Station in Shuangpu Town, facing the morning sun, passing through Sangyuanyuan and Hangjiang Village, heading towards Shuangpu Station on Metro Line 6, and finally arriving at Zhuantang.

In the past, people used to take the bus together to the city to sell vegetables and see the world. Now, urbanites take the bus to the village to enjoy the scenery, study, and visit the market. "In the sericulture park adjacent to the No. 1404 Sangyuandi Station, villager Wu watched the tourists taking photos and checking in, looking forward to the arrival of a large number of summer study groups.

The handshake between the city and the countryside, write a vivid chapter here.

In the past 20 years, from revitalizing dormant resources in rural areas to the entry of collectively operated land into the market; From extending urban infrastructure to rural areas, covering public services to rural areas, to exploring new scenes of a better life... Xihu District has made good use of the "golden key" of urban-rural integration and built a new picture of urban-rural integrated development.

'South Township, North City' Striving for Common Prosperity

Here are the best camping sites under the starry sky and in tea gardens, party venues facing the tea mountains with an open and grand atmosphere, spaces for night conversations around the stove and enjoying the aroma of roasted sheep, as well as imaginative cultural and creative surroundings

This is Shangchengdai Village in Zhuantang Street. Twenty years ago, it was still a remote Longwu tea village.

The quality of tea in Longwu Tea Village has always been good, but due to traffic congestion, poor information flow, and low popularity, most of the tea can only be sold to middlemen, and the villagers' income is only enough for their basic needs, "said Chen Wei, Secretary of the Party General Branch of Shangchengdai Village." The construction of 'beautiful countryside' and the comprehensive renovation of 'one village, one product' have given the village's' tea tourism 'economy' golden wings to soar

Expanding and renovating roads, renovating the facades of old buildings... During the construction of the "Beautiful Countryside", the environment and facilities of Shangchengdai Village have been revitalized, attracting a group of tourists to come and play.

With the increasing number of tourists, we have noticed that urbanites love the history, scenery, and tea of tea villages, so we have begun to develop tea culture industries such as' tea health preservation ',' tea leisure ', and' tea cultural creativity '. Chen Wei said that the village has introduced a large number of excellent homestays and boutique tea houses, and the tourist group is gradually becoming younger. Tourist consumption is showing a trend of diversification and personalization, and the development of homestays in Shangchengdai has also ushered in a' spring '.

The new decoration model and business philosophy have brought a huge dividend to the economic development of the tea village. Shangchengdai Village takes advantage of the situation, collects high-quality housing internally, introduces high-quality capital and experienced tourism investors externally, and jointly explores the tourism potential of the village. At the same time, the village invites industry experts to regularly provide safety production, marketing, and service training for operators and service personnel of homestays and tea houses, effectively enhancing the professional ability and quality of cultural and tourism workers.

In just a few years, the village has operated nearly 30 boutique tea houses, more than 30 characteristic homestays, as well as tea bars, coffee bars, party halls, internet famous noodle shops, handicraft rooms, camping bases, and so on. In 2018, Shangchengdai Village, as the core area of Longwu Tea Town, was rated as a national AAAA level scenic spot. In 2022, Shangchengdai Village was selected as one of the first batch of Gongfu Villages in Hangzhou. The total number of tourists received throughout the year exceeded 300000, driving tourism revenue of nearly 30 million yuan and per capita annual income exceeding 58000 yuan.

How to continue the love story of tea fragrance? The answer given by Shangchengdai is "tea+tourism". The answer for Tongwu Village in Zhuantang Street is "tea+culture".

Tongwu Village is the birthplace of tea merchants in the "Wandan Tea Town". After generations of tea people's inheritance and innovation, there have been hundreds of tea shops of different sizes in the village. Fan Shenghua, who grew up in Tongwu Village since childhood, has been influenced by it for more than 40 years, from trying out the first pot of tea to now. He has also become an inheritor of the intangible cultural heritage of West Lake Longjing production techniques.

According to Fan Shenghua's recollection, in 2020, General Secretary Xi Jinping, during his inspection of a stall in Longjing, West Lake, told him that "some technology cannot replace things made with two slaps" and encouraged him to pass on traditional crafts.

For intangible cultural heritage techniques, "youthfulness" is the lifeline for continuing inheritance. For many years, Fan Shenghua has recruited disciples and participated in the Tea King Competition held in Longwu Tea Town with his disciples; He also shares and imparts exclusive experience and insights without reservation through teaching at vocational schools and training tea farmers, promoting the continuous inheritance of West Lake Longjing picking and production techniques.

The tourism industry brings the fragrance of tea out of tea villages, and tea culture spreads tea to the world. With the efforts of tea villages and tea artisans in Longwu Tea Town, it has become a gathering place for various tea events such as the West Lake Longjing Tea Festival, China International Tea Expo, and China Tea Olympics. The West Lake Longjing brand has truly moved towards youthfulness and internationalization.

The southern part of West Lake continues to write about the love of tea town, while the northern part of West Lake is deepening the reform of rural property rights system, focusing on the development of 10% reserved land, and turning "inch of land" into "inch of gold".

There is a reserved land in Wuxing Community, Sandun Town. Due to its small size, villagers have different opinions on how to transform and utilize it, which has not generated effective benefits for a long time.

Focusing on the difficult and painful issues of "renting a good house" for new citizens and young people, Xihu District is exploring the transformation of village level reserved land into affordable rental housing, which not only increases housing supply but also brings income to the village. So the reserved land of Wuxing Community transformed into Xiyue Apartment: Nordic style, light luxury style, minimalist style, with diverse decoration styles; A gym, billiard room, laundry room, and all kinds of entertainment facilities are available.

In 2022, Xiyue Apartment generated over 20 million yuan in revenue, and the villagers truly benefited from the retained land project.

'Rich Life' and 'Rich Brain'

Wang Shu, a villager from Hualian Village in Sandun Town, recalled the "Our Village (Spring) Evening" held in early 2020 and still vividly remembered it: dozens of villagers wrote, directed, and performed their own programs, each with their own "unique skills"; Audiences from our village and neighboring villages rushed in from all directions, enclosing the stage set up in the village cultural hall with three floors inside and three floors outside. Previously, we could only watch the Spring Festival Gala on TV, but now with the rural Spring Festival Gala right at our doorstep, we feel particularly excited as viewers

Since 2015, Xihu District has vigorously promoted the construction of rural cultural auditoriums, and in a few years, 32 rural cultural auditoriums have been built, covering nearly 60000 rural residents. The cultural hall not only serves as a stage for villagers to showcase themselves, but also focuses on lifelong education, making great efforts to promote the spiritual prosperity of rural residents and enhance their ability to create wealth. West Lake Vocational High School has entered multiple cultural halls, opened intangible cultural heritage classrooms, and provided tea art training for villagers; Hualian Village Cultural Hall held a science popularization lecture with the theme of "Elderly Smartphones" to improve the elderly's ability to use smart devices

At the same time, in the fields of healthcare and education that villagers are most concerned about, the "running speed" of urban and rural areas in West Lake has also approached.

In 2014, Xihu District launched a family doctor contract service. Until today, Ding Jiping, as a contracted doctor at the Sandun Town Community Health Service Center, spends one day every week visiting disabled elderly people in surrounding villages to provide them with medical services and establish resident health records. In 2019, Ding Jiping was named the "Most Beautiful Contracted Doctor in Hangzhou" and led a team to manage over 30000 residents, of which 80% were rural residents.

Entering the infant and toddler growth station in Deze Community, Sandun Town, the bean green walls wrapped in anti-collision strips, soft tables and chairs... Every detail exudes warmth and harmony. Most of the people in the vicinity are from New Hangzhou, and there is still a great need for such a place to take care of children, "said Chen Feng, the secretary of Deze Community. Nowadays, the post station receives an average of more than 200 infants and young children under the age of 3 every week, and can provide parenting skills guidance, parent-child game companionship, children's health education, scientific parenting public welfare courses and other services.

At present, Xihu District has signed 327000 family doctor contracts, with a key population contract service coverage rate of 92.1%, and established 920000 resident health records; 12 new infant and toddler growth stations have been added, with a completion rate of 145.2%. There are 3.9 childcare facilities for infants and young children under the age of 3 per thousand people, and the proportion of demonstration type infant and young child growth stations in towns and streets is 100%.

Lighting up a happy life in rural communities

On the basis of forming a "15 minute elderly care service circle" in the urban area, in order to further narrow the gap between rural and urban elderly care, in recent years, Xihu District has focused on solving the problem of rural elderly care.

The TV is playing opera, and the air conditioning is blowing cold air outside. In the home-based elderly care service center in Sangyuandi Village, Shuangpu Town, more than ten elderly people are enjoying lunch. Elderly people over 60 years old in the village receive 10 yuan per meal, while those over 90 years old receive free meals. Forty to fifty elderly people are provided with meals every day, "said Zheng Xiangqiang, a member of the Sangyuandi Village Committee. The elderly care center has two floors and is equipped with functional rooms such as a senior canteen, psychological counseling room, legal aid room, rehabilitation training room, laundry room, etc., to meet the various living needs of the elderly.

It is worth mentioning that in order to facilitate the care of elderly people with limited mobility, the nursing center not only installed automatic stairs for going up and down, but also set up a care room with four nursing beds.

In order to better transition from traditional "material elderly care" to higher-level "cultural elderly care", the elderly care center is also equipped with calligraphy and painting rooms, art studios, chess rooms, book preview rooms, and internet rooms, striving to meet the spiritual and cultural needs of the elderly.

At the same time, in the rural canteen of Dongjiangzui Village, Shuangpu Town, elderly people were queuing up with "same style" food boxes to pick up their meals. Starting from June 2020, the township canteen will be open to all elderly people over 80 years old and elderly people with limited mobility who are facing difficulties in receiving subsistence allowances or disability benefits in the village, who can enjoy free meals at the canteen. As of the end of December 2022, a total of 100771 meals were served and 2274 meals were delivered.

Nowadays, there are 31 home-based elderly care service centers and 32 elderly canteens in 32 administrative villages in Xihu District, with full coverage of home-based elderly care services.

In addition to the home-based elderly care service center, strolling through the mulberry garden village, there is a complete set of basic infrastructure for people's livelihood, such as the silkworm museum, people's square, health hut, unmanned supermarket, shared vegetable garden, and smart running track.

How to promote rural community construction to a new level as infrastructure construction continues to improve?

Tongwu Village in Zhuantang Street has established a new governance model of co construction, co governance, and shared benefits, paving the way for grassroots social governance in rural areas.

The villagers have a united heart and great strength. With their participation, no matter how big the conflicts and disputes occur, they can be resolved internally. "Jin Yingna, Secretary of the Party Committee of Tongwu Village, said that in order to stimulate the villagers' sense of autonomy, Tongwu Village has collected and listened to public opinion from multiple sources, formulated the" Villager Autonomy Charter "and" Village Rules and Regulations "in accordance with the law, and created fast-paced works for villagers to learn, remember, and use. In the cultural hall, villagers can participate in discussions, and village affairs are fully exposed to the sunshine.

At the same time, Tongwu Village has hired legal advisors to provide free legal consultation services to villagers, bringing the rule of law into the hands of the masses; Using the cultural hall as a carrier, hold folk festivals and other folk activities with Tongwu characteristics; Actively exploring digital governance, we have built an online "Tongfu Cloud" platform to create a village sharing system that is "interconnected, mutually supportive, and interactive". Villagers have truly become the main body of joint construction and sharing.

Nowadays, in Xihu District, "city" and "township" are seamlessly integrated, and the modernization level of rural communities continues to improve. Strolling through the land of West Lake, the city and the countryside are like lotus flowers blooming together, each with its own fragrance.