Zengcheng/KLOC-a provincial civilized city with more than 0/800 years, tells the story of Zengcheng's vicissitudes. More than 20 years of reform and opening up have awakened Zengcheng's economic development. The three-year creative road records the struggle of Zengcheng people from yearning for civilization and calling for civilization to moving towards civilization. Three years is just a drop in the ocean in the long history, but in this short time, the great changes in Zengcheng are amazing, amazing: flowers and trees are lush on both sides of the street, the waters of Zengjiang River are rippling, all roads are unimpeded, and the square park is lush. During the day, the city is orderly and prosperous; At night, the lights are in full bloom. Zengcheng, a thousand-year-old city with Guangzhou in the west, Dongguan in the south and Huizhou in the east, is being presented to the world with a new look of "landscape city" with green mountains, clear water, blue sky and green land. Establish the goal of Zengcheng and seek new development. Speaking of Zengcheng, she has been full of vitality since the reform and opening up. However, while paying attention to economic development, some urban development problems have become increasingly prominent: urban environmental streets are not like streets, cities are not cities, there are no decent parks and squares, and citizens have no place to walk and relax; Uncivilized behaviors such as indiscriminate construction, littering and spitting, and disorderly stopping and misplacing have been repeatedly banned; In urban architecture, the "kissing building" where buildings are next to buildings and buildings are crowded can be seen everywhere. At that time Zengcheng was still a big market in the eyes of outsiders. How to change this situation as soon as possible has become an important issue for the municipal party committee and government. In 200 1 year, Zengcheng municipal party Committee and municipal government was anxious for the people's urgent needs and hoped for the people's expectations, and clearly proposed to build Zengcheng into a provincial civilized city within three years. At the mobilization meeting of creating a civilized city held in March, 20001,Tang Jinhua, secretary of the municipal party Committee, pointed out that Zengcheng must have a good soft and hard environment in order to seek a higher level of development, and creating a civilized city is an important symbol of a good environment. Since then, the activity of creating a civilized city with economic prosperity, clean political style, good fashion, leading science and education, developed culture, scientific planning, high-quality construction, beautiful environment, advanced management and integration of urban and rural areas has begun. The Millennium ancient city broke the silence with its unprecedented spirit and boldly blew the horn of building a provincial civilized city. Zengcheng has made remarkable achievements in establishing a provincial civilized city. Today, Zengcheng has a beautiful environment, convenient life and developed transportation, and the quality of life of citizens has been further improved. At the same time, today's Zengcheng economic construction has also made great progress. In 2003, Zengcheng was ranked 2nd 1 and 2nd1in Guangdong Province in the evaluation of the 3rd National Top 100 Counties (Cities) with Basic Competitiveness of County Economy organized by the National Center for Evaluation of Basic Competitiveness of County Economy. According to preliminary statistics, the city's GDP in 2003 was 208.6 1 billion yuan, an increase of 14.62% over the previous year. Total fiscal revenue1940 million yuan, up by 29.95%, and local fiscal revenue was 856 million yuan, up by 34.7 1%. The industrial development was obviously accelerated, with a total industrial output value of 40.284 billion yuan, an increase of 16.4%. Behind these great changes is the confidence and strength of the whole city to create a civilized city with one heart and one mind, and it is the result of scientific decision-making and effective management. Attach great importance to organizational leadership. Strong leadership is the key to creating a civilized city. Zengcheng Municipal Party Committee and Municipal Government deeply understand the importance and urgency of creating a provincial civilized city. From the very beginning, they set up a leading group and its office to create a civilized city, with the secretary of the municipal party Committee as the leader, the relevant leaders of the five groups of the city as the deputy heads, and the leaders of relevant departments and towns (streets) as members. More than 20 backbones were transferred from the municipal government departments to the municipal preparation office to be responsible for daily organization and coordination. The municipal finance will include the daily and special funds for the establishment of the office in the budget arrangement. Due to the great attention of the city leaders, the task list of Zengcheng's creation of a provincial civilized city in 2003 was formulated by our city, which decomposed the tasks, and all functional departments were solidly implemented, ensuring the smooth progress of the creation work. At the same time, municipal leaders often care about and guide the creation work, deal with and solve the problems existing in the creation work at the grass-roots level from time to time, and also hold regular work reports and on-site inspection meetings, which have driven the work of grassroots leaders with their exemplary behavior. Departmental leaders, proceeding from the reality of distribution work, conscientiously implemented the task of creating the municipal party committee and municipal government with the attitude of being masters, and the whole city formed a vivid situation in which Qixin Shanghai joined hands to create a civilized city. People-oriented, focusing on the fundamental interests of the masses, putting the interests of the masses in the first place, and starting from the most strongly reflected problems of the masses are a focus of creating a civilized city. To create a provincial-level civilized city, our city insists on proceeding from the interests and requirements of the masses, taking the satisfaction of the masses as the fundamental standard to measure the work, and taking the dissatisfaction of the masses as the focus of creation and rectification. In the process of urban transformation, we should start with the "hot spots" and "difficulties" that citizens are generally concerned about, and start with the things that citizens are most concerned about, and vigorously rectify the problems that citizens have strongly reflected, such as environment, public security and transportation, so as to truly make it clean, green and bright for the people. Zengcheng, after rectification, is full of smiles and looks brand-new: the streets are clean and tidy. Since 2000, more than 30 large-scale clean-up operations have been organized in the urban areas of our city, cleaning up 176 sanitary dead corners in key areas and cleaning up 2240 tons of residual mud and garbage. Urban area 1 18 roads have been cleaned 16 hours, and the garbage collection system has been fully implemented. The household rate has reached 98%. Pollution has decreased. In the past three years, our city * * * raised more than RMB10.2 billion for pollution control of bleaching and dyeing enterprises, closed 47 bleaching and dyeing plants according to law, built a sewage treatment plant with a daily processing capacity of 50,000 tons, and closed 94 cement plants in the city according to law. More than 300 cement enterprises in the city have completed the task of dust control in an all-round way, and the dust removal rate is over 90%. Seven electroplating plants were closed, and electroplating enterprises were restricted from discharging up to standard. The vigorous rectification of urban pollution sources has washed away the once cloudy sky and the blackened river water. The city has turned green. Focusing on the goal of building a "landscape city", our city pays special attention to the planning of urban green space system, and has carried out the structural classification layout of urban landscape greening, ecological greening, public greening, supporting greening and linear greening, forming a multi-level urban greening system in which forest parks such as Jiaoshiling Park and Baihua Forest surround the city, and urban parks such as Zengcheng Park, Donghu Park and Fenghuangshan Park echo urban road greening and Little Square greening. The building has been lit up. In 2003, the anti-theft nets of buildings on both sides of 36 main roads in the central city were rectified and dismantled in three batches? Buildings that used to be like pigeon cages broke free from shackles. The road is bright. Zengcheng after nightfall has a unique style, and the street lamps on both sides of the street have their own characteristics and are beautiful. In the past three years, the city has comprehensively transformed 14 main streets in terms of night lighting, green lighting and sidewalk bricklaying, forming the urban characteristics of "lights all the way, trees all the way and scenery all the way". Relying on the strength of the people, giving full play to the main role of the masses and relying on the joint efforts of citizens is one of the successful experiences in creating a civilized city. In the process of creation, urban construction is a huge systematic project, involving all aspects of interests and contradictions. Without the understanding, support and participation of the masses, it is impossible to achieve success. Therefore, since the start of the work of creating a civilized city, our city has carried out the activities of publicity month and publicity week for civilized cities, set up large public service billboards on the main sections of the city, distributed 40,000 proposals, leaflets10,000 and 4,000 posters, and opened columns in news media such as Zengcheng Daily, Zengcheng TV Station, Zengcheng Radio Station and Zengcheng Window website, which made the activities of creating a civilized city well-known and deeply rooted in people's hearts. The masses actively participated in the creation as masters-since the opening of the hotline for creating a civilized city, 386 opinions and suggestions have been put forward by 180 citizens by telephone within two months; In the activity of "I Contribute to Greening Li Xiang", cadres and workers in the city actively participated in building a beautiful home. Licheng District alone donated more than RMB10 million, and more than 30 green communities have been built in the urban area. In the process of dismantling the anti-theft net of houses on both sides of urban streets, citizens actively cooperated with the demolition work, and no one petitioned. With the participation of citizens, many long-standing problems in urban construction have been solved, and citizens have benefited from it, received education and improved their civilized quality. Scientific decision-making, exploring new methods of urban management, innovating working methods, establishing and perfecting the fund-raising mechanism and managing the city scientifically are important means to create a civilized city. Transforming the city requires a lot of capital investment, which is a big problem for Zengcheng, which has limited financial resources. Starting from the local reality, the municipal party committee and the municipal government apply the laws of market economy, adopt a new investment and financing mechanism of "government planning, policy promotion and market operation", carry out industrial operation according to the mode of "who invests, who builds, who operates and who benefits", mobilize social forces and private funds to participate in urban construction, and widely mobilize social funds to participate in municipal construction such as greening, lighting and beautification, and the construction of large-scale slogans and public service billboards. The construction of Gualou Square is a successful example. Gualu Square is a private investment promotion project with the practice of "changing shopping malls into squares and prospering shopping malls". It was built by a private enterprise with a bid of 52 million yuan, covering an area of more than 45,000 square meters, integrating viewing, entertainment and shopping, attracting many well-known supermarket chains and specialty stores such as China Resources, McDonald's and Watsons, and becoming the most prosperous entertainment and business center in the city. The successful construction of Gualou Square has greatly promoted and mobilized the enthusiasm of people from all walks of life and effectively promoted the process of urban transformation. In the past three years, Zengcheng invested as much as 2.3 billion yuan in municipal construction, but because of making good use of the laws of market economy, the government only used 200 million yuan to start capital to vigorously develop civilized city infrastructure projects. The use of market means to build urban infrastructure has been continuously practiced in a series of projects such as Zengcheng Square. The pursuit of civilization is endless. No matter the operators, managers, participants and enjoyment of the city, they will feel the pleasure brought by civilization to the city and people in every subtle change of creating a civilized city. The pursuit of civilization is a cumulative process. Every review is like a catalyst, pushing the process, mode and connotation of civilization to a more idealistic direction. Creating a civilized city has only a starting point and no end. Zengcheng will go faster and faster and further on the road of pursuing civilization.