2nd Community Canteen Opened in Liangcheng Xincun Sub-district

2nd Community Canteen Opened in Liangcheng Xincun Sub-district

By Zhang Yanli

It is open for nearly 15 hours a day, providing breakfast, lunch and dinner. Besides, the elderly over 60 enjoy a 10% discount if they meet certain conditions. In April 2021, the second community canteen opened for business in Liangcheng Xincun Sub-district. Over the past few months, the community canteen has been most popular with residents around.

The Canteen Opened near the Neighborhood

Before 10:30 a.m., residents come to Liangcheng Community Canteen located at No. 709 North Chezhan Road. The canteen also provides takeout, as well as 20 lunch dishes for residents.

Mrs. Qiu, 72 years old, living in Wenyuan Community opposite the community canteen, usually lives alone. She is still fit, so she cooks three meals a day by herself. But she gets older and older, and it’s inconvenient for her to cook. “Sometimes I want to eat some dishes, but I can’t eat too much. So if I cook all the dishes that I want, I can't finish them. It's very troublesome! "

When she saw the community canteen opposite the community, grandma Qiu came in to inquire. She found that the dishes here were rich, and the prices were reasonable, so she almost consumed there every day.

"I buy onion with eggs and leek with mung bean sprout, and bring them home today at a total price of RMB6.50", Grandma Qiu told that the community canteen greatly solved her dining problem.

It is learnt that the community canteen in Liangcheng Xincun Sub-district offers all kinds of meat dishes, meat with vegetable dishes and vegetarian dishes every day, as well as ordering service. Ai Jianbing, an official of the community canteen, said that the ordering service was popular with many residents. Especially on weekends, many elderly people go to the community canteen with their children to order dinners.

Responding to Demands and "Doing Practical Things"

At present, the community canteen provides breakfast at 05:30, lunch at 10:30 and dinner at 16:00 for residents. “From 05:30 to 20:00, we sell about 300 breakfasts and 200 lunches and dinners every day on average", Ai Jianbing said.

It is obvious that the community canteen is welcomed by residents, behind which lies the positive response of the sub-district to the needs of residents. Mi Mengshu, a staff member of Liangcheng Xincun Sub-district Service Office, introduced that through many visits and research, it was found that the residents’ high demand for building a community canteen. “There are many residential quarters on North Station Road, and the elderly account for a large proportion. It is a very urgent problem to solve the dining demand. "

Liangcheng Xincun Sub-district has always regarded meeting the needs of residents under its jurisdiction as the first priority. Especially since the Party history learning was carried out this year, the sub-district has transformed the learning results into the work motivation and tangible results, to actively carry out the activity of "We should do practical things for the masses".

In order to realize residents’ expectation of constructing community canteens, the sub-district continuously revitalizes, integrates and coordinates community resources. By introducing professional third-party operation units and giving some subsidies, the sub-district chose No. 709 North Chezhan Road to build the second community canteen within its jurisdiction.

In the learning of the Party history, Liangcheng Xincun Sub-district draws spiritual strength and wisdom nutrients from the Party's history, continuously promotes the deepening and implementation of the Party history’s learning, guides the Party members and cadres to strengthen their ideals and beliefs, build their original missions, and transform the results of the Party history’s learning into the work motivation and effectiveness.