Ministry of Civil Affairs: Advance steadily, and do not arbitrarily expand the scope of clean-up.
The reporter learned that six ministries and commissions, including the Ministry of Civil Affairs, the Ministry of Public Security, the Ministry of Natural Resources, the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development, the Ministry of Transport and the State Administration of Market Supervision, issued the Notice on Further Cleaning up and Rectifying Non-standard Geographical Names (Minfa [20 18] 146).
The Ministry of Civil Affairs said that place names are basic social information and an important carrier of national and ethnic culture. Since the second national geographical names census began in July, 20 14, various localities have cleared up a large number of irregular geographical names according to the requirements of the leading group for geographical names census in the State Council, but some areas still have irregular geographical names such as "big, foreign, strange and heavy", which cut off the context of geographical names, damaged national culture and hindered people's production and life activities.
With the renovation work being carried out in full swing all over the country, some "lists of irregular place names that need to be cleaned up and rectified" have caused heated discussion. In view of this, on June 2 1, the Ministry of Civil Affairs issued a document in official website, asking all localities to steadily promote the work of cleaning up and rectifying irregular place names. The article points out that in some places, when promoting the work of cleaning up and rectifying irregular place names, there are some situations such as inaccurate grasp of policy standards and inadequate organization and implementation. Therefore, it is necessary to organize the implementation in strict accordance with relevant laws, regulations, principles and standards, so as to prevent the expansion of the scope of rectification at will.
Nanjing's rectification work is divided into five steps, and there is no charge for later replacement.
The relevant person in charge of the Nanjing Civil Affairs Bureau introduced, "On April 16 this year, Jiangsu Province also issued a notice requesting all localities to set up a leadership (coordination) team to clean up and rectify irregular place names, and set up a working group, especially an expert team, to form a clean-up list and formulate a naming and renaming plan. At the same time, all localities shall not charge fees for the change of relevant license information due to the rectification of irregular place names. For example, the name of the community or street has changed, and the ID card and real estate registration certificate have also changed, and the expenses are uniformly borne by the local government. "
How to clean up and rectify Nanjing? On April 30th, nine departments of Nanjing jointly studied and formulated a plan, which opened the curtain of cleaning up and rectifying irregular place names. To sum up, it is basically divided into five steps: thorough investigation, statistical summary, demonstration and identification, social publicity and cleaning up. The relevant person in charge said that the city has held a special meeting to clean up and rectify irregular place names. First of all, according to the principle of "who is in charge, who is responsible", all districts conducted a thorough investigation and classified statistics. For example, the public security department is responsible for the investigation and statistics of house numbers and addresses, and coordinates the use of standard place names for road traffic signs in the city; Housing and urban-rural construction departments and real estate departments are responsible for urging commercial housing development enterprises to standardize the use of names; The Ministry of Culture and Tourism is responsible for correcting the irregular geographical names and signs in the field of leisure and cultural facilities. ...
Xue Guang, an expert on geographical names, said, "After a thorough investigation and statistical summary, the Geographical Names Office of the Civil Affairs Bureau (the Office of the Geographical Names Committee) will organize experts from geographical names associations and other units to conduct argumentation and appraisal, and then publicize them to the public, and finally carry out clean-up and rectification work." According to the plan, all the work will be completed in mid-September.
Expert: names that are exaggerated and worship foreign things should be cleaned up.
As early as 2004, Xue Guang published a paper in the magazine Administrative Division and Place Names, and talked about the irregular place names that he thought needed to be cleaned up and rectified.
"For example, some developers, real estate projects are always named after continents, called Europe City, Nordic Impression, Maple Love in North America, New Asian Garden, etc. ; There are also some buildings or businesses named after national names, foreign capitals, famous foreign cities and famous scenic spots, such as Athens Garden, Norwegian Forest, Fontainebleau, California Garden, Oriental Paris, Venice Water City, La Defense, Masland, Osborne, Oriental Cambridge, Oriental Hawaii, Sena Lishe and so on. There are also names that ordinary people simply don't understand, such as Tuohe House. These place names are definitely not standardized. " Xue Guang said.
For some seemingly exaggerated place names that actually have historical background, Xue Guang believes that they should not be cleaned up and rectified. "For example, Nanjing's Central Road, Wang Fu Garden, Imperial Garden and Imperial Road Street. There is a history to follow. " Xue Guang said, "But some of them are far-fetched, such as 19 12 plot and 1865 creative industrial park, which are said to be related to history, but they are not very clear and have not been declared to the place name department."
It is worth mentioning that there is another kind of name that people are used to, but it is not standardized, such as the east trunk road (Longpan Road), the west trunk road (Huju Road), Weiqi Road and Jingshi Road in Nanjing. These names were only engineering names at the beginning. However, this kind of road sign can be standardized, but the habits of ordinary people are hard to change, and perhaps they can only let nature take its course.
The reporter learned that Nanjing has a wide range of irregular place names, including residential areas, large buildings, roads and streets, as well as house numbers, stations, ports, parks, real estate advertisements, outdoor signboards and so on. As long as it is not standardized, it is within the scope of rectification. Nanjing Morning News/Love Nanjing Reporter Jing Huazheng