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Maoming promotes rural vitalization to enhance prosperity for farmers

(guangdong.chinadaily.com.cn/maoming)
Updated: 2024-02-28
 

Maoming city promotes rural vitalization with the core goal of enhancing the prosperity of farmers and rural areas and improving the well-being of the rural population.

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Maoming litchi is rich in varieties. [Photo/WeChat account: maofabu]

Maoming has taken the litchi industry as its flagship, establishing the first big data center for the litchi industry in Guangdong province. This center covers over 300,000 households in 18 key fruit towns, utilizing big data to monitor litchi growth and pest situations, providing production technical guidance, and addressing the challenge of litchi preservation. Additionally, it has developed deep processing of litchi, thereby increasing income for litchi farmers.

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Villagers warmly welcome rural libraries and community book bars. [Photo/WeChat account: maofabu]

Simultaneously, Maoming is promoting rural cultural and spiritual civilization construction, organizing ideological propaganda activities in rural areas, conducting new-era civilized practice activities, and implementing campaigns to change outdated customs, achieving significant results.

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Beautiful countryside that is ecologically livable and pleasant to visit. [Photo/WeChat account: maofabu]

Maoming is improving the rural living environment and pushing the standard rate of beautiful and livable villages to 72.43 percent, with a 66 percent rate of rural domestic wastewater treatment. The harmless sanitary toilets in rural areas across the city have been popularized, with a 100 percent coverage rate for the collection, transportation, and disposal of rural household waste and rural sanitation coverage.

In the future, Maoming will advance the construction of modern new rural areas, accelerating the promotion of coordinated development between urban and rural areas.