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Zhejiang Jiande: Talents help realize the "rural dream"

Li Xiaole Yu Xinxing

As the first ray of sunshine in the morning shines through the window, retired teacher Zhu Donggen gets up early. After breakfast, he went to the village's fossil museum to carefully clean the dust, clean the ground and start the day's work.

Zhu Donggen, 66 years old, is a volunteer in the Village Fossil Museum in Xinqiao Village, Lijia Town, Jiande City, Zhejiang Province. He is responsible for opening, cleaning and closing the museum every day, and occasionally acts as an interpreter. "I was very busy at home when I retired. I heard that the Village Fossil Museum was recruiting volunteers, which happened to be next to my home. I was the first one to sign up in the village. I live a full life with fossils every day," Zhu Donggen said.

In 1974, a canine tooth fossil unearthed from the Wuguidong site in Xinqiao Village pushed forward the history of Zhejiang Province for more than 40000 years and made it famous. Since then, geological experts have found rich geological heritage resources in the field survey of Lijia Town. The only proven conglomerate stone forest in Zhejiang Province, the rare pyritized ammonite fossils in China, and the fossils of multi phyla marine biological communities... In order to make good use of these precious geological heritage resources, Lijia Town has gradually explored a green development path of "geology+cultural tourism".

With the support of special village construction subsidies and related policy projects, Lijia Town invited local talents to design and build fossil museums, repair dilapidated village roads, and build small museum groups such as rural fossil museums, stone science popularization museums, and archaeological studios. The countryside has taken on a new look. Today, Lijia Town has been honored as the "Hometown of Chrysanthemum Stone in China", "National Geological and Cultural Town", and the Rural Fossil Museum has been included in the list of Zhejiang Rural Museum.

In order to better realize the development and utilization of tourism resources, Lijia Town has also introduced the "rural dreamer" operation team to research and develop special research, learning and tourism products through the whole village operation. It is reported that Lijia Town has developed more than 20 high-quality research courses and launched 4 high-quality research travel routes. Students can explore the mysteries of ancient life in the process of clearing and repairing fossils, experience the characteristic activities such as simulated excavation of fossils, collection and production of plant and insect specimens.

"Since April, research teams have come to Xinqiao Village, and students are very interested in mysterious paleontological fossils," Zhu Donggen said. Watching more and more students and tourists come to Xinqiao Village to study and visit, Zhu Donggen smiles and squints: "Before, the village was old and shabby, and nobody paid attention to it, but now it is much more lively."

In recent years, each village in Jiande City has planned and developed according to its own unique resources. It is reported that 16 villages and towns (streets) now have their own "rural dreamer" instructors. At the initial stage of the project construction, they intervened in advance and made suggestions, leading the development of rural industries with professional ideas.

"Talents are the first resource. Through a series of policies and practices, we have explored new ways for mountain counties and cities to attract talents to return to their hometown to start businesses and build dreams, so that rural areas can have a" promising ", farmers can have a" sweet spot ", and rural areas can have a" promising "." The relevant person in charge of Jiande Municipal Government said.