The newly-built villager activity square has complete fitness equipment, chairs, gazebo and other facilities; Beside a wide road, acanthopanax is full of branches, and two rows of new civilian houses are particularly eye-catching... This is what the reporter saw in Huai'an Village, Cangshan West Town, Yangbi Yi Autonomous County, Dali Bai Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan Province a few days ago.

On May 21, 2021, an earthquake of magnitude 6.4 occurred in Yangbi County, causing damage to 16686 households. Among them, 719 houses in Huai'an Village, three or four kilometers away from Yangbi County, were damaged and the disaster was serious.

Huai'an Village, a corner of Huai'an Tun New Village. Photographed by Cheng Hao, a reporter of People's Daily Online

Over the past three years, with the support of Yangbi County Party Committee and Government, Huai'an Village has combined post disaster reconstruction with improving development capacity, focusing on improving infrastructure and public service facilities. Today's Huai'an Village, as far as you can see, is a new picture of a livable, employable and beautiful village with "clean village, beautiful scenery and harmonious people".

"At that time, the house of our civil structure was seriously cracked, and adults could sidle in where the cracks were large." In the new house with two and a half floors, Yang He, a 42 year old villager, recalled the scene after the earthquake.

Not only Yang Heyi's family, "after testing by the authority, 34 houses in the village were seriously damaged and needed to be rebuilt," said Wang Jiao, secretary of the General Party Branch of Huai'an Village and director of the village committee.

A corner of Huai'an Village. Photographed by Duan Hongyun

How to rebuild? "In combination with the 'Cadre Planning Hometown Action' and 'Ten Thousand Talents Revitalizing Ten Thousand Villages', we developed a' One Family One Plan 'for the reconstruction households, rationally divided the spatial layout of' food, housing and livestock ', and worked hard to solve the problems of high land idle rate and disordered courtyards, led by the help cadres, village teams, township and village cadres, and party members of the whole village." Wang Jiao said. Take Yang and Yi's family for example. Her former house is near the current villagers' activity square. For the unified planning of the village, she moved to the current place with the consent of her family members.

In view of the problems such as potholes on the roads in the village before, garbage piled up in disorder, and inconvenient fecal discharge, Huai'an Village insisted on taking the preliminary planning as the guide, seizing the project construction, striving for more than 20 million yuan, implementing road hardening, beautification of residential buildings, laying of sewage pipe networks and other projects, and building a villagers' meeting center, village clinic, village day care center, and villagers' activity square, Achieved upgrading of medical, health, elderly care and other facilities in the village.

During the Spring Festival in 2022, Yang Heyi moved into a new house with an area of 360 square meters. There are five shops on the first floor of her house, one of which has its own canteen, and the remaining four can be rented. Later, with the completion of the village square, "after dinner, we will go to the square to jump, which can release the fatigue of the day," she said.

Yang Heyi is peeling walnuts. Photographed by Cheng Hao, a reporter of People's Daily Online

Yangbi is the "hometown of walnuts in China". In addition to opening a canteen, Yang He and Yipingri Gang peel walnuts from a nearby walnut processing factory. "Peeling at home does not affect business," she said. Peeling a kilogram of walnut can earn 3 yuan.

The new village has been built, and farmers in the eight villages of ten miles like to join in the excitement. Take the day care center in the village for example. Every noon and afternoon meal, the staff are busy cooking for the elderly, many of whom are from other villages.

This day care center is a new project after the disaster and will be put into use in September 2023. In order to improve the utilization rate of the day care center and let the elderly enjoy a happy old age, Huai'an Village signed a 10-year operation cooperation agreement with an elderly care service company in Dali, which is responsible for the operation of the day care center.

"At present, the center mainly provides dining services for the elderly, with more than ten people dining every day when there are many people," said the relevant person in charge of the center. The reporter saw that the dining price was marked on the wall of the restaurant: 8 yuan for fast food over 60 years old, and free for those over 80 years old.

The popularity of the village is growing. Last August, Yangbi County held the first "Green and Beautiful Countryside Healthy Yangbi" Walnut Festival ("Village BA") basketball contest in Huai'an Village, attracting 28 teams to participate. "There are too many people, three circles inside and three circles outside. My shop's business is several times better than usual." Yang Heyi said with a smile.

Last August, Huai'an Village held the first village BA in the county. The picture shows the competition scene. Photographed by Li Rong

This year, the second "Village BA" in the county will also be held in Huai'an Village. The village is busy rebuilding and expanding the basketball court. "According to the experience of the last session, the auditorium of the basketball court is too small now. We have to hurry to make changes to ensure that this year's game can be completed," said Wang Jiao.

With the growing popularity of the village, Huai'an Village plans to develop rural tourism in the mode of "parent-child paradise+green health care" to broaden the income of farmers.

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