Jiangsu plans to build 3,000 livable, industrial and beautiful villages by the end of 2025, and planning experts provide advice

Intersection News “In the face of problems such as the aging of the rural population, simplification of industries, land abandonment, and environmental pollution, scientific planning needs to be used to lead rural spatial governance.” Guo Jie, a professor at the School of Land Management of Nanjing Agricultural University, bluntly said that planning has great impact on rural areas importance. On the afternoon of April 19, at the “High-level Village Planning Empowering Rural Revitalization” seminar guided by the Jiangsu Provincial Department of Natural Resources and hosted by the Jiangsu Provincial Planning and Design Group, relevant heads of the competent departments, planners, experts and scholars gathered together to discuss Sparks of Wisdom, exploring how to activate rural development and empower rural revitalization with higher standards, higher levels, and more scientific village planning.

Village planning is the last link in the five-level and three-category system of land and spatial planning, and is an important guarantee for achieving comprehensive rural revitalization. According to statistics, there are currently 21,000 planned development villages (natural villages) in the province, 11,000 administrative villages with planned development villages, and more than 9,000 administrative villages have started planning preparation, of which more than 5,600 administrative villages have completed planning approval .

“The main purpose of village planning is to provide service guarantee for villagers, village collectives and various departments, similar to the role of stewards and consultants.” Zhu Fengwu, director of the Spatial Planning Bureau of the Provincial Department of Natural Resources, suggested that to prepare and implement village planning at a high level, it is necessary to accurately grasp the village Planning positioning. At present, the connotation of village planning work is richer, including spatial planning content, development planning content, and project planning content. However, we cannot think that village planning is omnipotent and can conquer the world, let alone simply regard village planning as a panacea for promoting rural revitalization. Planning must accurately identify the needs of rural construction, and all departments should strengthen coordination and cooperation to form policy synergies to prevent the situation of hot planning preparation, low construction demand, villages without solutions, and departments without ideas. In addition, it is necessary to promote the preparation of rural planning according to local conditions, fully listen to the opinions of villagers, village committees and market entities, and “open the door to planning” to make it practical, effective and easy to use, so that farmers can understand, remember and supervise.

Huang Mei, director of the Detailed Planning Division of the Spatial Planning Bureau of the Ministry of Natural Resources, said bluntly that looking across the country, there are three main problems in the current village planning process: planning organizations excessively pursue high coverage, which increases the burden on grassroots; village planning is divorced from reality and superficial. ; The planning results are ineffective and difficult to implement. Some are copied mechanically and are not adapted to the local environment, some are the same as thousands of villages and lack characteristics, and some are greedy for big things and seek foreign ideas, and it is difficult to implement them.

“The countryside is the birthplace of traditional Chinese culture and the root and soul of the Chinese nation. Compared with cities, rural areas have poorer self-repair capabilities and their internal spatial structures are more fragile. When planning villages, we must focus on grasping the natural attributes of rural space. and cultural attributes.” Huang Mei reminded that Jiangsu, as a developed region, must be wary of the homogenization of urban and rural rural forms, resulting in the loss of rural features.

“The preparation of high-quality village planning requires changes in bottom-line thinking, engineering thinking, social thinking and artistic thinking.” Huang Mei said that previous planning focused more on rural residential areas, infrastructure and other construction content, but now the planning should look at the entire region. All elements; previous plans were mostly about construction projects, such as Four Good Rural Roads, rural dilapidated house renovation projects, etc. The current plan should focus more on the systematic improvement of the overall human settlement environment; previous plans focused on key points, such as education, Basic public service facilities such as medical care and elderly care shall be considered on a point-by-point basis. Current planning should be more integrated with population development trends, coordinate the needs of villagers, and build community living circles in rural areas in a networked and systematic manner; previous plans focused on the design of individual parts such as farmhouses and landscape roads. It is necessary to carry out planning and design work with the vision and perspective of global spatial design to achieve the integration and beauty of rural settlements, industrial space and land landscape.

According to Zhao Lei, a fourth-level researcher in the Spatial Planning Bureau of the Provincial Department of Natural Resources, the special emphasis on improving the level of village design is the biggest difference between this round of village planning and the past. All localities should give full play to the extremely important role of good village design in shaping and promoting livable, industrial and beautiful villages. He introduced that in the next step, Jiangsu will further improve the rural planning system, strengthen village design and policy integration, and promote rural planning preparation with high-level preparation, full coverage management, and high quality. Jiangsu will also continue to review the results of village planning preparation, forcing localities to prepare high-quality plans.

How can village planning be more practical and effective? In recent years, the Jiangsu Provincial Planning and Design Group has fully participated in the “Co-painting Su Township” planners going to the countryside activity, and has built a total of 39 workstations. Hundreds of planners have gone to the front lines of villages to carry out activities such as technical consultation, scientific and technological assistance to agriculture, and cultural development of agriculture. “Accompanying the entire process” of rural planning and construction.

Lu Hai, Secretary of the Party Branch and Deputy General Manager of the Urban and Rural Affairs Institute of the Group, has gone to rural areas many times to carry out planning. He believes that village planning is a platform for coordinating all parties, guiding the direction of rural development, and the basis for project construction. Based on practical examples, he said that they prepared village plans for five villages including Lanzhi Village, Sancang Town, Dongtai City. Since the planning scope is the core area of ​​Dongtai National Modern Agricultural Industrial Park, they closely focused on the development requirements of the park and through the logistics channels, Agricultural tourism lines, industrial service facilities and industrial digital platform construction are all in place to ensure the industrial development of the park in an all-round way. Today, a number of industrial projects such as the Dongtai Himalayan Wild Luxury Tent Camping Ground and the Smart Glass Greenhouse have been established here, providing industrial impetus for the development of the park and villages while also creating more jobs for local villagers.

By the end of 2025, Jiangsu plans to build 3,000 beautiful villages that are livable, workable and beautiful. Li Xuan, deputy director of the Rural Development Division of the Provincial Department of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, said that among the “ten things” that are needed to build a livable, industrial and beautiful countryside, the first “thing” is that the village has a plan. Jiangsu requires all localities to strengthen overall planning and connection, take counties as the basic unit, establish a planning concept of a game of chess for the whole region, and integrate urban and rural planning and construction. At the same time, it is necessary to connect various rural plans and incorporate plans such as the construction of characteristic pastoral villages, the construction of harmonious villages, and the protection of traditional villages into them, so as to truly realize “the integration of multiple plans into one.” In addition, our province requires all localities to carry out centralized and contiguous improvement and improvement across towns, streets, districts, counties and even districts and cities according to local conditions, and integrate the design, group development and differentiated layout of villages in the region.

Suzhou City has divided the city into 26 areas in accordance with the idea of ​​”spatial stitching, resource integration, and development aggregation” to promote rural revitalization from small-scale flowering and individual operations to multi-village groups, town-village linkage, and full-scale demonstration. change. Li Xuan believes that this approach of breaking the planning situation that separates urban and rural areas and coordinating the planning and construction of county towns and villages is worth learning from.

Zhao Yong, director of the overall planning department of the Nanjing Municipal Planning and Natural Resources Bureau, said that Nanjing has completed the design of 75 villages based on the construction of livable, industrial and beautiful villages. Nanjing is comprehensively evaluating existing village designs, integrating effective results into village planning, and establishing a rural characteristic space system composed of historical and cultural towns, historical and cultural villages, traditional villages, important ancient towns, important ancient villages, general ancient towns, general ancient villages, etc. Maintain the historical context, original texture, and traditional functions of the countryside and retain the memory of nostalgia. In his view, it is necessary to coordinate and handle the relationship between the village’s short-term needs and long-term planning, as well as the relationship between the village’s stock and increase. It is necessary to delineate village residential area reserve areas and rural industry reserve areas to enhance the ability of village planning to coordinate and serve spatial resources for rural development.

Xinhua Daily·Intersection reporter Bai Xue