The current Shajiabang Scenic Area is also called Shajiabang Reed. From 1989 to 1998, it was operated by our former party village, with a total of 10 years. At that time, I was the party branch secretary of this village. Our village is located in the north bank of Yangcheng Lake, east of Shajiabang Town, where there are large areas of low-lying land, such as Chentouwei, Denggaowei, Maxinwei, Sanjiawei and Nijiawei. There are reeds everywhere and schistosomiasis has been prevalent for ten years and nine years. Our village belongs to Deng Gaowei. In fact, the climbing perimeter is not high, only a small piece of land is particularly high. There are seven or eight families living there, each with a bamboo garden, and reeds are nearby, which is very hidden. There is a big village nearby with more than 100 families. There is a teahouse in the village, which can get a lot of information from the outside world, so the New Fourth Army and later armed forces often moved here. 1958, when this small village was demolished, a mimeograph used by the New Fourth Army was removed. In the south of this Denggao Wai, there is a grass swing surface of about 500 mu, and there is a wasteland in the south of the grass swing surface called Nancaodang, so the Denggao Wai in the north of the grass swing surface is also called Beicaodang. Our former Dang Village is a well-known economically weak village in the whole town, and it is the help object of the Municipal Cooperation Office. The total area of the village is 3,000 mu, including fertile land 1.480 mu and wasteland 1.500 mu which can really grow rice and wheat. Denggaowei has about 3,000 mu of wasteland, and 1.500 mu of wasteland is adjacent to Xiabang Village. In order to make use of these wasteland, we have thought of many ways. First, the low-lying land around Denggao was enclosed, and two electromechanical irrigation and drainage stations were built to open up wasteland to grow grain. Each production team has more than 40 acres of wasteland, which has increased the grain output, but the cost has increased. At that time, the people said: "The output is quite high, and the pockets are firmly attached." That is to say, although the output has increased, the income has decreased. Later, I heard that Shang Hu had retreated to the lake, and we began to retreat to raise fish. The village set up a sideline group and started a farm. The benefits have improved, but the speed of getting rich is too slow, which is still not ideal. No, Tongji University in Shanghai built a swimming pool near Lake Kuncheng and a memorial hall in the town, which attracted many tourists. They all asked to visit the reed swamp and the Spring Tea House. So we decided to use this wasteland to develop reeds. At that time, several nearby villages also wanted to develop, such as Caobang Village, Beiqiao Village, Ludang Village and Gongbang Village. They all have their own advantages. The advantage of my village is that there is an original reed of about 60 mu, but the disadvantage of my village is the inconvenient land transportation. At that time, the mayor Mao Yuansheng came to our village and said, "It's a bit like a reed here, not bad!" In this way, I decided to build a reed. We wrote a big wooden sign of "Shajiabang Reed" in time and nailed it at the entrance of the reed. Other villages saw that the mayor had decided, so they gave up the game. Later, calligrapher Yan Gongda wrote an inscription, which had a greater influence.
? The development of Shajiabang reed is mainly divided into two stages, namely two stages.
? The first step is the primary stage, the exploration stage, from 1989 to 1992. Because the village is poor and has no funds, it is worried that the expenses will be difficult to recover, and try to do more with less money. We mobilized party member cadres to take the lead, and the secretary of the Youth League branch and the director of women went into battle together. It can be said that we worked hard because of poverty, used local materials and replaced foreign countries with local materials, and achieved good results. Small bridge, made of bamboo, built bamboo lattice bridge; Pavilion, made of straw sticks, built grass pavilion; Cold drink department, lounge, bamboo frame grass ceiling, reed mud fence, cement countertop brick stool; Artificial reed maze; The supply of reed root tea, specializing in local products. The road was replaced by wooden boats, and seven wooden boats and a fire boat were added to take the tourists from the town to the reeds and then send them out by boat. In order to add to the atmosphere, two tweeters were installed and the Peking Opera Shajiabang was broadcast all day. The announcer of the city radio station was invited to introduce the basic situation of the reeds, and the effect was very good. In the tourist season, the flow of people doubled, and it was too busy for a while. In recent years, the number of tourists has exceeded 654.38+million every year, and the net income after deducting labor is also 70,000 to 80,000 yuan. At that time, the salary of a small factory in the village was only 30 thousand a year, and the income of reed was really good.
? The second step is to gradually improve the formal operation stage, from 1993 to 1998. Three years later, after careful summary, we agreed that the situation was excellent, but there were many problems. The good situation is as follows: 1, the direction of developing reeds is right, and everyone has formed * * * knowledge; 2, the benefits are also very good, smaller than entrepreneurship; 3. Created employment opportunities for the masses. There are still three problems: 1, safety factors must be paid attention to, because most of the ships carrying tourists are wooden structures, which must be updated to ensure safety; 2, the traffic is inconvenient, and roads must be opened; 3. Supporting facilities should be kept up to solve the accommodation problems of tourists. In the next few years, we have done the following five tasks:
First, a highway has been opened, allowing tourists to drive straight to the reeds. After the budget, the highway is about 3 kilometers, but there are 3 bridges, 50,000 cubic meters of earthwork, and the unit cost of pavement construction is about 2 million yuan. At that time, the financial resources available in the village were only 200,000, and the funding gap was quite large. The following measures were taken: First, a bank loan of 400,000 yuan. Private fund-raising 10% interest, raising 400,000 yuan; The second is request, that is, asking for help. At that time, our village was a poverty alleviation unit run by the municipal cooperation office. They called five or six units, including the Transportation Bureau, the Civil Affairs Bureau and the Cooperation Office, to support the construction of the old district, and decided to support 350,000 yuan on the spot; The third is to help, and the five neighboring villages fully assisted and dispatched labor to complete the earthwork task of 25,000 square meters; The fourth is to mobilize the villagers to complete the earthwork task of the remaining 25,000 cubic meters. All villagers in this village, as long as they are registered as hukou, 16 to 60 years old have tasks. The cadres took the lead in getting up early and in the dark, and as a result, they moved the neighboring villages. Many relatives and friends came to help, and at most, more than 1000 laborers were dispatched one day. Lushuidang Highway with gravel pavement was finally officially opened to traffic before 1 July, 19931.On that day, seven Shanghai buses went straight to Lushuidang.
? Second, a lot of reeds were planted, which expanded the area of reeds. It turns out that a considerable part of reeds are cattail grass, and the area is not large, so a batch of reed seeds were introduced from the Yangtze River to expand the reed area from 60 mu to 200 mu.
? Third, introduce foreign capital and build a new "Aqingsao Hotel". Suzhou First People's Hospital has a tertiary industry. They chose the reed swamp as a treasure and built a well-equipped four-story hotel here. Our village invested 320 thousand to build a water tower. From then on, tourists have food, shelter, play and nightlife.
Fourth, a number of facilities have been improved accordingly, forming a one-stop service of eating, playing and living. There are mainly spring tea houses, exhibition rooms, monuments, swimming pools and parking lots.
? 5. The former Dang Village was officially renamed Hongshi Village. The change of village name is also quite complicated, and it needs to be declared step by step. Finally, it was officially released on 1992 with the approval of the provincial government.
From 1995 to 1998, the management situation of reed swamp is getting better year by year, with the flow of people exceeding 654.38+million, the operating income nearly one million yuan and the fixed assets reaching five million yuan. By 1999, we successfully handed over Shajiabang reed to the town government for management, and turned a new page.
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