Yukou Township, Qi County, Jinzhong City, Shanxi Province

Yukou Township

Yukou township is located in the southeast of Qi County, with a total area of 132.44 square kilometers, 14 administrative villages, 9823 permanent residents (in 2017), and 15200 mu of cultivated land. Yukou township is located at the intersection of hills and mountainous areas. The forest coverage rate of the hilly area is more than 50%. Zihong reservoir and jiugou scenic area are located in the territory. National Highway 208 passes through the territory, so the traffic is very convenient.

Apple is the pillar industry of yukou Township, with an orchard area of 12000 Mu and an annual output of 20 million jin. The main varieties are red Fuji, golden delicious and Australian green apple. Yukou is known as "Huaguo Mountain". Jurisdiction: Lu Village, yukou village, AOPO village, Tianju village, Zhongliang village, Niuju village, duanjiayao village, beituanbai village, Wangjialing village, zuojiatan village, xiawangzhuang village, Xiaao village, yanjiazhuang village, Nanping Village, sixizhuang village, houjiazhuang village, Shengmao village, Shangzhuang village, dujiazhuang village, etc.

[forest reform brings new vitality]

Yukou township is a hilly and mountainous area with 62865.49 mu of forest land and 46207 roadside trees. In addition to 3.5% of the woodland in the township was left to the collective, the rest of the woodland was transferred to households, with the household rate of 96.44%; all the trees on the four sides were granted the right to households, with the certificate issuing rate of 100%. at the beginning of the forest reform, yukou Township found out that there were four situations in the minds of cadres and masses through village to household investigation: first, in villages with more trees, village cadres were afraid of affecting the collective income and were unwilling to share; second, in villages with more barren mountains, the masses could not see the interests and the enthusiasm of forest reform was not high; third, in villages with more people and less land, after the average sharing, each household got less forest land and the masses felt that it did not matter whether they were divided or not Fourthly, the boundaries of villages in mountainous areas are not clear, there are many contradictions and disputes among village groups, and rural cadres are reluctant to divide up for fear of causing trouble. to solve these problems, the Party committee of yukou Township and the forestry department work together to give full play to the role of organization and leadership, policy guidance and coordination services, adhere to the two principles of "democracy and thoroughness", and strengthen the five measures of "organization, publicity, guidance, procedures and supervision". According to the requirements of the county Party committee and the county government of Qixian County, the mode of "average mountain to household" is mainly adopted to vigorously promote the forestry reform . In practice has the final say that we should respect the wishes of the masses and regard the masses as the main body of forest reform. What we should do is to decide how much forest land is divided and how much it should be divided into the extent of the forest. yukou township has implemented the central forest reform policy to every hill, every tree, and every farmer's heart. It has truly realized the return of power to the people, the return of mountains to the people, and the return of benefits to the people. It has greatly mobilized the enthusiasm of the masses for afforestation and forest protection. Since the forest reform, the township has vigorously developed 2086 mu of Australian apple, walnut and other economic forests, planting more than 150000 trees. The masses have invested more, planted more trees, and have a strong sense of forest protection. With the delimitation of public welfare forest in Qixian County and the introduction of compensation mechanism for public welfare forest, farmers in yukou township will get more than 300000 yuan of compensation funds, and the enthusiasm of the masses to love forest and protect green is further rising.