Zhejiang's courtesy 丨 Lotus: seven years insisted on "small cigarette butt" leveraging the "big civilization"

Zhejiang News Client reporter Yu Biyin

On the 9th of each month, it is the day of the "Xiaohe" volunteer service team of Liandu District, Lishui City. "Pick up trash, organize bicycles on the street, and promote safety knowledge to everyone. We volunteers have to do more on the street!" Tang Wei, the founder of the Volunteer Service Team of "Little He", wore a red vest, and left the garbage bag with his left hand. With the right hand holding a garbage pliers, walking on the road with other volunteers, while looking down carefully, "reconnaissance" that may occur in the possibilities, and introduced to reporters, "The source of our team created is actually a small cigarette butt."

Behind a small cigarette head, what kind of story is hidden?

On May 31, 2015, in the 28th World Tobacco Day, Liandu District shouted to create a slogan of "a city that cannot pick up a cigarette butt", which set off a "tobacco head revolution" in the entire district to improve urban and rural areas. surroundings. Many party members and cadres have spontaneously become volunteers, picking up cigarette butts and garbage on the street. In October of that year, 16 people such as Tang Weihong established the initial "Little Lotus" volunteer service team.

Seven years have passed. Now, the subtle changes brought about by the seemingly insignificant action of picking cigarette butts have shown amazing energy in the urban and rural areas of Liandu.

The "Xiaohe" volunteer service team has grown from the original 16 people to the current 153 teams of more than 25,000 people. , Public welfare blood donation, helping to help ... The red figures of the volunteers are active in all corners of the city, and they are also infected with everyone in the city.

"In the past six years, I have been a volunteer, watching the environment of Lishui getting better and better, everyone's quality is getting higher and higher, and I am really happy!" Said Chen Aiping, the captain of the grandparents team of the "Xiaohe" volunteer service team.

The details are small, from point and face, and continue to work hard. In the process of building a "cigarette -free city city", Liandu District always attaches great importance to gathered the strength and wisdom of the masses, and has ideological resonance, emotional resonance, and action. Continuously share positive energy, continuously condense wisdom and strength, and use the good atmosphere of "cadres voluntarily leading, spontaneous participation of citizens, and public conscious actions", so that "tobacco -free cities" create vibrant and connotative connotations.

A cigarette butt has made a golden business card in the city. At present, all primary and secondary schools in the region have created a "tobacco -free campus". 233 units and 89 communities promise "no tobacco heads". The main road of the urban area has basically created a "smoke -free head street".

In 2020, Liandu District helped Lishui City's eighth place in the national civilized city re -evaluation; in 2021, Lishui City won the seventh place in the country and the first place in Zhejiang Province in the national sanitary city selection. "In the next step, Liandu District will focus on the two prongs of German governance and the rule of law, and continue to grow 'Xiaohe" volunteer service team, innovate activity carrier, attract more citizens to join in the creation operation of the city of cigarette butt According to the relevant person in charge of the District Civilization Office, at the same time, Liandu District will also combine regulations such as the Lishui City Civilization Behavior Regulations and regulations to increase the punishment of uncivilized behaviors such as smoking and throwing smoke head garbage in public places.

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