Xiaolan Township Party Secretary Li Hanzhao introduced experience at the television conference on creating civilized townships in Guangdong Province on May, 31st. Recent years witnessed the fruitful achievements Xiaolan scored in optimizing comprehensive environment and strengthening innovation. For example, it injected 100 million yuan to transform the 6.8-km ditch around the older section of the town into a water corridor with restored old architectures along the banks and 40 distinctive bridges of various sizes on the river. It also set up 330 cultural venues that are open to the public for free.