The Village of Gardens
2 min readThe river gurgling under the bridge with trees and flowers booming along the banks.old ladies take a walk in the sun and several housewives are knitting and chatting while sitting on the stone stools.This is a scene of the Village of Gardens.At present，there are more than 70 percent of the villages in Zhenhai boasting gardens or green land of leisure like this，four of which are honored as the Village of Gardens in Ningbo.
Several years ago，many villages in Zhenhai were not clean and lacked cultural and entertainment facilities.In order to improve the conditions of the villagers’living environment and enrich their everyday life，the trial of ecological villages of gardens is being built from the first half of 2，000 with the assistance of special reward funds for those up to the standard of health and sanitation.More and more villagers won’t litter any longer since then and they plant trees and grass surrounding their houses all by themselves They even build parks and lawns along the river with fancy garbage cans located Advanced facilities for body building are equipped correspondingly.Experts on greening from the district Agriculture Bureau are also invited for the guidance，resulting in the ever increasing rate of green belts in the villages.To date，there are more than 10 village gardens of considerable scale totally in the district with greening field of more than 30 hectares.
The parks and green belts are good for villagers’happiness.After a day of hardworking or at the farmers’spare time，many villagers are used to sitting here chatting or keeping fit with the facilities.The village level garden has been built in Bright Village，the model village of new type construction in Ningbo.And New Village Square with 5 million investment funds is under construction with all the passion and enthusiasm of the workers.
