This article is translated and transcribed from the original in Chinese: Xinhua News Agency reporter Liu Liangheng, Wan Zhiyun Dec 10th, 2018
Nestled between mountains to the east and west, Dayao Town, Liuyang City, Hunan Province has wide avenues, crowded shopping areas,and rows of residential homes. In addition it has orderly factories.
Da Yao Town is known as the “source of fireworks”. In the past 40 years, Dayao Town has been continually developing.
Workers loading fireworks tubes.
In this photo workers are moving paper tubes at Liuyang Dayao Huahua Export Fireworks Factory (photo taken on December 4).
Dayao Fireworks have been used at the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Cross-sea Bridge Opening Ceremony, the Hainan Sanya Spring Festival Evening Session, the opening and closing ceremonies of the London Olympics, and the Hong Kong Disneyland fireworks show… These years, the Dayao fireworks stunning the world.
As early as the Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China, Dayao fireworks and firecrackers not only sold well in the domestic market, but also sold overseas through the “explosive village” located in Hankou. After the founding of New China, the Dayao fireworks industry entered a stage of “collective” development.
“At that time, the production capacity could not keep up, and the efficiency was low. In 1972, Japanese merchants came to Dayao, and they had to order 500 boxes of fireworks at one time. The town did not have so much inventory, and had to work overtime to add some production.” Nanchuan community residents of Dayao Town Chen Huaiqi recalled.
At the beginning of reform and opening up, self-employment gradually opened up, and many local families began to use fireworks and firecrackers as sideline businesses. Chen Huaiqi said that many people in Dayao earned money by “small workshops”, but there have also been many security incidents and they have paid a heavy price.
“In the late 1990s, in order to standardize production and management, the government advocated collective Shangshan partnership investment to build factories, independent production and sales, so there was a sudden rise in the enterprises of Dayao Township, and the Dayao fireworks industry ushered in the development and revitalization.” Liuyang Dayao Qiu Shunming said that Huahua Export Fireworks Factory.
In the new century, Dayao is benchmarking the “four types and two types” (intensive, mechanized, specialized, information-based, safe, and environmentally friendly), vigorously reforming the traditional fireworks industry, and eliminating them through buyouts, mergers, and restructurings. Outdated production capacity.
At present, there are more than 600 fireworks and fireworks related enterprises in Dayao Town. In 2017, the total industrial output value reached 10.5 billion yuan, and the number of direct employment reached 67,000.
Furong Community, Nanshan Village, Dayao Town, Liuyang (photo taken on December 4). Xinhua News Agency reporter Wan Zhiyun photo
In 1992, there was only one small stone street in Taiyao that was less than 200 meters long and 3 meters wide.
Since 1992, Dayao has begun to operate in a market and promote the construction of small towns.
“This is the first time that Hunan’s townships and towns have transferred state-owned land. The courage is relatively large and the difficulty of the work is not small.” Zhao Zhoufei, a member of the party committee and deputy mayor of Dayao Town, said that at the time, one family worked, and the masses had doubts, but they still had many doubts. The construction of small towns is in line with the people’s hearts, and everyone finally supported the work in the town.
Less than a year later, a Yaofa Street with a length of about 1,000 meters and nearly 500 pavements was built. It has developed a development model of “making money by land and building a town with wealth”, which has opened up the construction and development of Dayao Town. screen.
In recent years, according to the development idea of “radiating the border of Hunan and Fujian, blending into Changsha, Zhuzhou and Xiangtan, and docking the four corners”, Dayao has built a modern and comprehensive urban function with complete features and rural features according to the overall principle of “a picture of urban and rural areas”. Garden city.”
In the past three years, Dayao Town has successively pulled 8 urban trunk roads, and the network skeleton of “seven horizontal and five vertical and inner net outer ring” has basically formed. The urban scale has been expanded from 6 square kilometers in 2012 to 12 square kilometers.
On December 4th, residents in the Da Yao Town Government Service Center handled the household registration business. Xinhua News Agency reporter Wan Zhiyun photo
As one of the three towns approved by Hunan Province for the reform of the administrative system of economically developed towns in the country, Dayao has undertaken a large number of “financial rights”, “land rights” and “rights” devolved by the higher party committees and governments.
The first collectively-operated construction land in Hunan was completed in Da Yao. In December 2016, Nanyang Village of Dayao Town entrusted Liuyang Real Estate Trading Center to publicly sell the entire primary school idle land in Pingtang Village.
“The state collects the land appreciation income adjustment fund at 20% of the total transaction price. The residual income is distributed by the collectives and farmers of Nanyang Village by 80%: 20%. The village collectives and individuals can enjoy the land value-added income.” The mayor Zhong Mei said.
“It’s much more convenient now, and hundreds of things can be handled in one stop.” In the government service center of Dayao Town, the villager Tao Qiwen, who is in the process of household registration transfer, said.
At the end of 2017, with the goal of “standardization, informationization, and convenience for the people”, Dayao began to push forward the “maximum run once” reform. The town government service center undertook 211 approval and public service issues, and implemented “one window” government service. .
“55 businesses have achieved village-level acceptance and 4 projects can be completed at the village level. We also implement ‘comprehensive acceptance, centralized examination and approval’, comprehensively push the administrative affairs to handle the first-question implementation system and time-limited system, many need to go to Liuyang City before The business handled can now be done in towns and villages, avoiding the masses running back and forth,” said Zhang Nanli, director of the Da Yao Town Government Service Center.
Two years ago, Dayao also took the lead in launching a pilot reform of the comprehensive administrative law enforcement of the towns with relatively concentrated punishment rights in Hunan Province, and established the first township administrative law enforcement bureau in Hunan to concentrate on the exercise of 635 administrative departments decentralized in 11 departments.
Changsha, Feb 11th,when the colorful fireworks burst into the sky and Instantly lit up Singapore’s night sky. On the evening of February 10th, the annual Singapore “Spring to the Riverside” had came to a successful conclusion. To commemorate the 200th anniversary of Singapore’s port opening, “Spring to the Riverside 2019” showed the largest fireworks display in 33 years.
The fireworks show in Singapore was held by Tanghua fireworks team in Dayao Town, Liuyang City. There were 50% more fireworks than last year., which made the audience much happy & great cheerful. Liuyang fireworks blossomed beautifully that evening and it was on the front page of Singapore’s< Lianhe Zaobao> on February 11th.
“In the second half of the fireworks show, we intend to integrate various cultural elements of the East & the West, thus demonstrating Singapore’s remarkable achievements in the blending of multi-cultures.” As a member of Liuyang fireworks, the Technical Director of Tanghua fireworks -Wei Chengyan introduced that we have performed well in Beijing APEC Conference, China Central Television Spring Festival Gala, Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge Opening and other major celebrations. The products are blooming all over the world and spreading Chinese traditional culture to the whole world.
Over the past 1400 years, Liuyang has developed its fireworks industry through the pioneering efforts of generations of the fireworks people. At present, Liuyang has become the world fireworks center, leading the world’s fireworks trend. Liuyang fireworks team is constantly making frequent appearances around the world and bringing a visual “feast” to the global audience.
Liuyang fireworks are found from the Win-win Square in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Michelangelo Square in Florence, Italy to the World Fireworks Championship in Russia, the Third Asian Disabled People’s Games and the First International Fireworks Competition in Niagara Winter Lantern Festival, Canada.
According to statistics, Liuyang fireworks display more than 600 domestic & overseas performances in 2018, covering more than 40 countries and regions. At the same time, in the resplendent world, it has also become the messenger of spreading Chinese traditional culture and has blossomed brilliantly along the “one belt and one road”.
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