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In early winter, golden corn sunning all over the courtyard, Huishan Village, Caoshi City, Guoyang County, Bozhou City, Anhui Province attracts many tourists to take pictures …
Huishan Village is rich in red resources. During the Anti-Japanese War, the 11th Brigade of the Fourth Division of the New Fourth Army was active here. The Huishan Martyrs Cemetery, founded in 1945, is an educational base for patriotism in Anhui Province. However, Huishan Village, which is geographically remote, is a poor village. When the specific poverty alleviation file was established in 2014, the poverty incidence rate reached 11.7% and the collective debt of the village was more than 700,000 yuan.
Relying on the development of red cultural tourism resources and green industry, Huishan Village has embarked on a path of change. The collective economic income reached 1.011 billion yuan last year, and the per capita income of the villagers reached 15,876 yuan. The incidence of poverty dropped to zero, and the days passed.
Transformation of mountain quarries into tourism development
“To increase income and get rich, it takes more time to develop tourism than mining,” said Hou Chuanwu, 69-year-old former party secretary of Huishan Village, with deep feeling.
According to Hou Chuanwu, Huishan Village was originally called “Huishan Village”; Named after the stone mountain that was used to make lime materials next to the village, it was renamed “Huishan” when the Martyrs’ Cemetery was completed in 1945. Excavation of mountains and quarrying were once the main livelihood of the villagers. “More than 400 villager households, more than 100 households are mining in the mountains, and the remaining 300 households are transported on donkeys,” recalled Hou Chuanwu.
At its peak, Huishan Village only had more than 30 stone crushers and there was not enough electricity. For this reason, Hou Chuanwu also went to the county to request the installation of transformers. After that, he removed several cement cutters from the field.
“Digging mountains and extracting rocks, the pockets of the villagers are temporarily bulging, but the mountain of ash has almost disappeared, turning into a huge hole.” Hou Chuanwu said that lime resources are unsustainable and the old path of extensive development is unworkable; per capita land is more than 1 mu, traditional agricultural production Huishan village, which has experienced weak income growth and encountered obstacles in development, has become a provincial-level poor village.
How to get rid of poverty? “Huishan Village’s biggest advantage is the red resources. We must find ways to develop and use them.” The cadres and the masses reached a consensus. Since 2017, with the support of the county, Huishan Village has started the construction of a beautiful village and successively invested more than 80 million yuan to transform the infrastructure. “Three cultural squares were built, nearly a thousand street lamps were installed, and 48 kilometers of roads were hardened …” said Liu Zhifeng, deputy secretary of the Huishan Village Party Committee. Many scenic spots have also been repaired and protected.
The stone steps leading to the Huishan Martyrs Cemetery were renovated and the pine trees on both sides were kept tall. As you climb the steps, you are faced with a gray three-pavilion door with 6 inscriptions embedded in it. “The cemetery was destroyed shortly after its construction in 1945, and a relatively simple iron gate was later built. We referenced the leftover drawings and restored the gate to its original shape,” said Zhang Chenghong, a designer involved in the transformation of Huishan Village. Additionally, Huishan Chungyeol Elementary School has also been renovated.
Seeing that the atmosphere in the town was getting better, more and more tourists came to visit it. Hou Chuanwu took the lead in renovating the house and founded a “book house” that integrates accommodation, reading and communication of calligraphy and painting. Hou Chuanwu said that every weekend there are tourists staying home and “income exceeding 30,000 yuan last year.”
Agriculture and tourism mix boosts villagers’ income
Walking along Zhenxing Street in the village, I saw that both sides of the street were filled with renovated pens. Upon entering the B&B “Red Memory”, the owner, Hou Hu, is busy clearing up the tables and chairs; the tourists have just walked and are about to return. The wife rushes to make noodles, while the daughter-in-law is in the back kitchen …
“My family home used to be a supermarket,” Hou Hu said, the supermarket business is not lukewarm, and daily sales are only two to three hundred yuan. After being transformed into a homestay, “room prices range from 120 to 180 yuan per night, and they are often full during the holidays.” During this year’s National Day holiday, Hou Hu’s 4 rooms were in short supply, earning more than 5,000 yuan. “Last year, for a guest house, the family earned more than 40,000 yuan.”
Hou Hu was one of the first demonstration homes in the village to renovate houses and operate farms. Wang Lei, Secretary of the Caoshi Town Party Committee, presented that at the beginning of the renovation, the planning and design of the architectural style was required to maintain the local cultural characteristics, restore the traditional cultural identity as much as possible and combine the topography and architectural functions, and fully consider the elements of rural rural life. , “Build the village more like a village.”
In June 2017, the lotus pond “Lotus Pond Moonlight” was completed. “The first day it opened, it was a good start and many people from the city came to see it,” said Hou Chuanwu.
As you enter the Huishan Village Tourist Service Center, there are cultural and creative products such as “Red Huishan” cups, sable umbrellas and agricultural hats, as well as special agricultural products such as pear paste and rapeseed oil.
In order to further standardize and improve tourism development, Huishan Village and Lexing Urban Construction Group Co., Ltd. jointly established Huishan Tourism Co., Ltd. last year to jointly develop Huishan tourism. The village integrates fixed assets such as collective village-owned land and slopes and waste ditches. Initially, it is estimated that 10 million yuan will be invested, and the profits will be distributed according to the 4: 6 ratio of the village enterprise. After the establishment of the company, a new tourist service center was built and nearly 500 acres of land transferred to develop fruit trees such as golden pears, soft-seeded pomegranates, and yellow peaches.
To gain popularity, it is necessary to enrich the tourism industry. “The Huishan Auditorium, which was built late last year, has become an important place for all units in the county to conduct training. Some units outside of the county have also fallen in love with this place. They hope to come here to organize activities. and make reservations. ” Wang Lei said: “Red research, tourism and tourism. New tourism projects such as agricultural experience and agricultural experience are emerging in Huishan Village.”
More young people return to their places of origin to develop
Business is getting better and better. Hou Hu opened three more private rooms behind the courtyard, and called his daughter and son-in-law from other places. “A family is a life!” Hou Hu smiled.
Now your daughter-in-law is your good helper. When he saw Hou Hu’s son-in-law, Zhang Fei, he had just come out of the kitchen. “After I graduated from technical school, I worked in Hefei, earning four to five thousand yuan a month.” Zhang Fei said that when his father-in-law asked the young couple to come back to help three years ago, he was not very happy. He didn’t expect his income to have doubled now.
In Huishan Village, more and more people are returning to their places of origin to establish poverty alleviation workshops, grow fruits and vegetables, and establish e-commerce to sell agricultural products. Even people from neighboring towns come here to open teahouses and restaurants, making the street shops of Huishan Village very popular. Feng Kun, a villager from Huangtang Village, Caoshi City, came to Huishan Village to rent a house to open a tea house. “Every weekend, there are so many tourists. I also organize a theater performance!”
In September this year, Niu Xuefeng, a young man working in the environmental protection industry elsewhere, returned to his hometown and served as party secretary in Huishan village. After taking office, he paid visits and basically understood what the masses wanted and what they expected. “What everyone is looking forward to most is how to retain tourists, so that the guesthouse has a stable source of customers and continues to increase revenue.”
Retaining tourists and local talent has become a key task for the members of the village branch committee. They are actively building an enterprise employment platform, inviting e-commerce experts to deliver e-commerce knowledge training to new farmers, and improving the return of migrant workers and college students. Entrepreneurship capacity.
Niu Xuefeng said that Huishan Village will increase land circulation, actively develop modern tourism agriculture, and build a leisure and tourism service village with historical memory and regional characteristics, so that people can “see the mountains, see the water and remember nostalgia “.
Our reporter Zhu Sixiong and Han Junjie
