Jiangsu 26 historical and cultural towns

On March 7, the open day of the Jiangsu delegation lasted three hours. After listening to the representatives of the deliberation, hundreds of Chinese and foreign journalists can not wait to focus on the topic of the development of Jiangsu, "named" representatives to answer questions.

How to protect traditional villages in the face of rapid economic development and urbanization? Zhou Lan, director of the Department of Housing and Construction of Jiangsu Province, on behalf of the first two data to show the importance of Jiangsu on the protection of history and culture - Jiangsu's existing national historical and cultural cities 12, national historical and cultural towns 26. "These two figures, are the most in the country." Zhou Lan representative said.

"'Nostalgia' is a very hot word." Representative Zhou Lan admitted that under the rapid advancement of urbanization, Jiangsu is still deficient in the protection of traditional villages. Therefore, over the years, we have stepped up our efforts, first, to promote the full coverage of the protection plan of historical and cultural villages; second, to categorize and improve the habitat of traditional villages, and classify all villages into five types: ancient village protection type, humanistic characteristics, natural ecological type, modern community type, remediation and improvement, and to implement measures according to the village, so that the habitat of a large number of traditional villages has been improved, and to cultivate a large number of traditional characteristics of a distinctive Beautiful villages. As a next step, we will increase the naming and protection of traditional villages, hoping that by 2020, about 1,000 traditional villages will be protected. Finally, to explore protection through legislation, Jiangsu traditional village protection methods have been included in this year's legislative planning, may be introduced within the year.