In recent days, the yunnan ligang municipality has published a management scheme for the collection of maintenance fees in ligang city, extending the maintenance fee for the city to 50 yuan/man for 365 days, effective 1 august, with news coming up on social platforms. A number of visitors posted that they had not previously paid maintenance fees. There are also netizens who are planning to travel to lijiang to tell nandu journalists that the local travel agency's exclusive one-day trip costs include 50 yuan for maintenance of the city。
On 17 july, the li gangu city protection authority issued an information note stating that li gangu city maintenance fees had been collected since 2001 and that at this stage, it was necessary to check for the maintenance of the old city to be replenished to heilongung park, while other regions were not. On 18 january, the staff of ligang city maintenance and fee counselling centre responded to nandu journalists who stated that it would be necessary to pay maintenance fees voluntarily if the diaspora entered the city, “if you do not pay us, we cannot. Tourists are required to pay their travel agents.”
Ligang city maintenance fee announcement。
The new regulations make it clear that lijiang city maintenance fees are valid for one year
The lijiang municipal network has previously published the li ganggou city maintenance fee management scheme (hereinafter referred to as " the scheme " ), in which it is mentioned that lijianggou city maintenance fees are administrative services charged to persons who travel to li ganggou city and engage in other activities specifically for the protection of ri ganggou city of the world's cultural heritage, in accordance with the regulations for the protection of ligang city in yunnan province and approved by the yunnan people's government for development and reform and finance department。
The scheme, which will be in force as of 1 august this year, makes it clear that those who entered li gangu city and did not pay maintenance fees as required are ordered to do so by the old city protection authority, which will collect 50 yuan per person, which will be extended to 365 days。
On 18 july, li gangu city protection authority staff told the nandu journalist that li gangu city maintenance fees had been collected until recently, “this is an administrative utility charge from yunnan, which was approved by the provincial development and reform commission, the provincial finance department, and where the criteria and method of collection were determined”
The staff member indicated that, following the implementation of the scheme, the maintenance fee of $50 had been extended to one year and that visitors could enter the city indefinitely within a year without having to repeat their contributions. In addition, contributions can be generated by electronic means and visitors can check their contribution records through their id number. With the exception of the lifting of the number of access restrictions, the other methods and measures of collection have not changed。
Netizens share maintenance bills。
On the same day, staff of the city administration of the goo city of ligang said to nandu journalists that “the old city and the old town are to some extent part of the infrastructure that needs to be repaired and public facilities such as roads in the old city need to be maintained, cleaned and fenced”
The maintenance fee was raised from $80 to $50
Nandu journalists were informed by the lijiang city people's government network that the maintenance fee for lijiangu city had been levied since 2001, with the approval of the provincial price authority and the provincial finance department, on 19 june 2000. The collection of maintenance fees provides a strong financial guarantee for the protection, management and construction of li gangu city。
In the context of the preparation of the scheme, it is mentioned that the current collection method implemented in lijiangugu city, published in lijiang city people's government gazette no. 8 of 28 may 2007, has been in force since 1 july 2007, and that some of its contents are not in line with the spirit of the documents of the superior and the realities of the collection and verification of the guvi fee, which require further revision and refinement。
According to a query by nandu journalists, the amount of $80 per person per maintenance fee under the ligang city maintenance fee scheme, which was in force since 1 july 2007, does not provide for the validity of a single payment. According to li gangu city maintenance fee online payment platform, " information on reorganization of maintenance fees in li gangu city " (2017) document no. 19 shows that li gangu city maintenance costs have been adjusted to $50 per person。
The approach, which is to be implemented, makes it clear that the scope of application of the ancient city maintenance fee is the centre of the reijiang city, which is included in the unesco world heritage list, and the pesha's residential complex, and the riverine residential complex。
The response says the scrambling requires active payment for maintenance. Fees
The news of the maintenance fee levied by li gangu city has generated widespread debate on social platforms。
Nandu journalists noted that a number of netizens have posted that “maintenance fees are collected mostly by travellers from the regiment, who are largely not charged”. There are also visitors who share their experience of travelling in lijiang city on social platforms, and most of them are able to travel without paying maintenance fees。
An internet friend who was planning to travel to lijiang told nandu that he had previously consulted local travel agencies for a one-day trip at a cost of $50 for maintenance of lijiang goo city。
Local travel agents provide a breakdown of daily travel costs。
A visitor (alias) from beijing indicated to nandu journalists that she had travelled to li gangugu city in 2021 and had not been with the regiment and had been informed of the need to pay maintenance fees at the time of registration of the hotel. “the town of ligang is free of walls, and it is indeed accessible to the diaspora if they do not buy tickets. But we didn't pay the maintenance fee, so we didn't buy tickets to the mountain.”
Nandu journalists noticed that on 17 july, the official account number of li gangu city, accredited as the world cultural heritage protection authority, was published on social platforms, stating that 1 august was the date of the new publication of the administration of maintenance fees for li gangu city, lijiang city, and that it currently did not involve adjustments in the current way and measures to collect maintenance fees for li gangu city。
At the same time, the official account in the comment area responded to a question from the netizens that li gangu city maintenance fees have been collected since 2001 and that at this stage, important elements of li gangu city - - black dragon park, which is required to verify the maintenance costs of the old city, while other regions are not。
On 18 july, the staff of li gangugu maintenance and fee counselling centre responded to nandu journalists who stated that it would be necessary to pay maintenance fees on the part of the diaspora to enter the city “if you do not pay us”. It indicated that tourists travelling with them would have to pay maintenance fees to travel agents。
Script: nandu journalist, lin si-yeon, intern, yang ying-ting
