Changlu town passes on the Yimeng Spirit through three chains of work

Changlu town of Mengyin county in Linyi, East China's Shandong province, has woven the Yimeng Spirit into daily governance through three connected chains of work — education that reaches the heart, governance that serves residents, and services that bring warmth to their doors.

The spirit, forged in the revolutionary years in the Yimeng Mountains, is carried here through a music-based ideology course, "Echoes of the Mountains and Rivers", which blends melody with storytelling on cadre conduct and public-service values, alongside speech contests and red story sessions that draw on local material — three generations of one family in military service, acts of courage, and exemplars of filial devotion. Research study sessions at village history and family tradition museums embed the spirit into school openings, military training and civic-credit programs.

On governance, the town practices what it calls the "pace-measuring method": grid workers, auxiliary police and legal advisers walk their beats and front-load dispute screening. A three-step mediation model — emotion, reason, then law — and a rapid-response mechanism requiring contact within two hours, handling within 24 hours and a follow-up visit within three days have pushed 99.6 percent of disputes to settlement at the town and village level. Difficult cases are taken on directly by leading officials.

On services, the town's "Filial and Honest Changlu" brand organizes festival visits, free clinics, haircuts and photographs for the elderly and children. A roaming volunteer fair brings health checks, legal aid, anti-fraud publicity and errand services to village markets. The town has raised more than 600,000 yuan ($85,000) in charitable funds to fund elder-care and child-support projects, runs free health checks, and has built six guardian stations at school gates and a care base for left-behind children.

At midday at the town's happiness home for the elderly, residents share a free luncheon — the most tangible of the town's projects for turning the spirit into visible results.

Editor：韩蒙蒙