"Beautiful West Lake, shabby Hangzhou" was the impression Nixon left when he visited Hangzhou in the 1970s. Due to the dislocation of urban development direction, the landscape function of Hangzhou West Lake has shrunk. In the early 1980s, when Li Dexin became the secretary of the Hangzhou Municipal Party Committee, more than 80 hectares of the 280 hectares of land around the Lake Highway in Hangzhou were occupied by factories, enterprises, troops, institutions, nursing homes and other units and residents. These buildings are messy and shabby, with different styles. The first park was originally the Dahua Hotel Branch and the dormitory of the Provincial Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine. The sixth park to the Children's Palace Square was used by residents of the provincial courts, the United Front Work Department and municipal authorities. The old building of Wang Hu Building was also used by units and shops.
1983 The decision-makers in Hangzhou reached a consensus and decided to "tear down the wall". At that time, Li Dexin, then secretary of the Municipal Party Committee, and Zhong Boxi, then mayor, called on various occasions to tear down the old and return the landscape to the people and the lake to the people. 1984, the Hangzhou municipal government set up a "leading group for the relocation of green land around the lake", and began to demolish the housing reform and build green land around the lake on a large scale.
It is extremely difficult to return the lake to the people. At that time, there were many families and units with backgrounds around the West Lake. Having lived here for so many years, I have grown roots. Pulling out this tangled "obstacle tree" is to break ground on the head of "Tai Sui".
However, Li Dexin's attitude at that time was extremely tough, and some people begged and ignored him.
He believes that there is "backstage" and confidence-this project won the hearts of the people from the beginning, for the citizens and tourists, for future generations, and for the will of the public.
General Secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee Hu Yaobang at that time was also one of the initiators of this good thing. He gave a long instruction to this end, denouncing illegal buildings and criticizing the relevant responsible persons at that time.
After renovation, Hangzhou West Lake No.1 Garden has been along the lake to the lakeside line of the West Bridge of Jinghu Pavilion, with green grass and flowers and trees.
In 2008, a local media in Hangzhou listed the renovation of the West Lake as a landmark event of 1983 when taking stock of the "30 years of reform and opening up", and thought that that year was the "Year of the West Lake".
After many comprehensive renovations, in April 2003, all the green spaces and landscapes along the West Lake were opened to citizens and tourists free of charge. Hangzhou West Lake has realized "returning the lake to the people".
August 2008, China-Singapore. Com reported that Jiangnan Club, a top club near the West Lake, blocked tourists from visiting the road in the name of the club, and transformed the hall of sages, which was originally a place to introduce and display Hangzhou celebrity culture and commemorate the sages, into a private club where tourists were not allowed to enter.
This incident also attracted the attention of Li Dexin, 80-year-old former secretary of the Hangzhou Municipal Committee of the Communist Party of China. At that time, Li Dexin with white hair and a reporter from Zhongxin.com made an unannounced visit to Jiangnan Club, a top club near the West Lake.
At that time, Li Dexin angrily condemned this behavior as a feudal separatist regime, which ran counter to the people's desire to get close to the West Lake and the efforts of previous Hangzhou municipal committees and governments to return the lake to the people, and must be resolutely curbed and corrected.
Li Dexin also followed the example of writer Jin Yong. Many years ago, Hangzhou built a house for him in Hangzhou Botanical Garden near the West Lake. After the completion, Jin Yong thought it inappropriate to build a private house near the West Lake and decided to give it to the Hangzhou Municipal Government for free. Now it has become the seat of the West Lake Cultural Research Association and is open to the outside world.
Later, with the attention of the Hangzhou Municipal Government, the Jiangnan Club near the West Lake was opened to the outside world.
"Because the West Lake is the people's West Lake." Li Dexin told Zhongxin. com reporter. Com at that time.