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Chinese towns learn from Netherlands village in rural revitalization
By:Zheng Qian  |  From:english.eastday.com  |  2019-11-20 17:23

As China is strenuously promoting rural revitalization, towns in the Yangtze River Delta Region are learning from foreign villages’ advanced experience. A summit themed on Chinese countryside construction was held in the Jinshan district of Shanghai on November 18, at which several Yangtze River Delta towns shared ideas with the head of Giethoorn, a serene village of the Netherlands.

Entitled “professional training to serve rural revitalization”, Gaby, the Netherlands village head, gave a speech to explain what her village has done in deeply integrating the hotel service industry, gastronomy, agriculture and sustainable tourism.

“The village is the future, and education is the cornerstone of rural development. Only by bringing specialized training and education to the countryside, and establishing a close relationship between industries based on people-oriented services, can rural local resources be maximized to create sustainable development value,” said Gaby.

Therefore, three institutions -- Peach College, Mushroom College and Giethoorn College -- were unveiled at the summit, which are expected to build a broader agricultural innovation platform, attract young talents to return to the countryside and cultivate rural cadres who understand agriculture, love the countryside, and love farmers.

As for the question of how Giethoorn retained talents in the countryside, Toine, the president of the University of HAS Den Bosch, said that in the Netherlands most young people are also not willing to choose agriculture as their career. Therefore more promotion of “mission” and “dream” need to be made to share stories with the young people, and good career development paths need to be provided so as to attract them to countryside industries.

Gaby introduced that cooperation in training and creativity will be launched in the near future between the Chinese side and the Netherlands. “We can explore local culture together, lead the villagers’ own cognition, preserve the cultural essence and launch everyone to experience the culture and spread it,” said Gaby.

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