Huaining County, located in the southwest of Anhui Province, is a national ecological civilization construction demonstration area and a national garden county. It has a long history, profound cultural heritage, outstanding people, and many handsome people. It has abundant natural resources, including Duxiu Mountain Scenic Area, Peacock Southeast Flying Scenic Area, Guanyin Cave Reservoir and other cultural and tourism industry resources, with beautiful scenery and pleasant climate, and is an ecologically livable and beautiful county.
The Spring Festival is approaching, the reporter walked into Huaining County to explore how the cultural and tourism industry here can help the revitalization and development of the countryside, and feel the "new atmosphere" of the countryside.
In recent years, Huaining County has adhered to the development concept of "lucid waters and lush mountains are invaluable assets", vigorously promoted the development of all-for-one tourism, and achieved it with the cultural tourism industry as the guide, the construction of beautiful villages as the starting point, and the rural revitalization as the goal.
The integrated development of primary, secondary and tertiary industries has allowed farmers to increase their incomes and become rich, so that tourists can return to their homes with satisfaction, and the social and economic benefits will be harvested.
Duxiu Mountain Scenic Area, Huangdun Town, Huaining County, is the core area of all-for-one tourism development in Huaining County, and an important carrier for the implementation of the rural revitalization strategy. Duxiu Mountain Scenic Area is one of the important carriers and key projects for the implementation of rural revitalization strategy in Huaining County, with the theme of "Red Mountain and Blue Ocean, One Branch", to create a comprehensive industrial park integrating planting, processing, sales, sightseeing, leisure and culture, which is rural revitalization.
A model of integrated development of primary, secondary and tertiary industries. Over the years, the county has carried out a series of cultural tourism activities with blueberries as the theme, and has successfully held six sessions of the China Huaining Blueberry Cultural Tourism Festival.
With the theme of May Fourth culture, the scenic spot has created a number of cultural and tourism products integrating natural scenery, cultural landscape, leisure and entertainment, which has attracted many tourists to visit. At the same time, the scenic spot actively explores the integration mode of cultural tourism industry and rural development, drives the surrounding villages to build beautiful villages, allows villagers to share tourism dividends, and realizes rural revitalization.
On February 1, the reporter walked into the blacksmith house in Huangdun Town, Jitangling and other beautiful villages, and saw the old-fashioned brick houses, exuding a strong rural atmosphere, but they were full of new vitality. These houses have been renovated by the façade, and the layout of the front and back of the house is reasonable, which contrasts with the Duxiu Mountain Scenic Area and becomes the "scenery in the scene" in the Duxiu Mountain Scenic Area. Here, visitors can not only enjoy the scenery, but also experience traditional handicrafts and feel the culture of the countryside.
In the blacksmith house and Jitangling, the reporter communicated with the farmers Aunt Liu and Uncle Sun, and they all expressed satisfaction and gratitude to Huaining County's cultural and tourism industry for empowering rural revitalization and development. Aunt Liu told reporters: "The former Huangdun Town was very difficult, also known as Huangnidun, people outside were reluctant to come in, and people inside wanted to go out." Nowadays, the development of Huangdun Town has changed too much, and whoever mentions Huangdun knows 'Huaining Blueberry' and Duxiu Mountain Park. People on the outside want to come in, people inside don't want to go out, and doing anything at the door is better than doing it alone outside before, and still taking care of the family and children. ”
Uncle Sun said: "The children are all married, and they used to work outside to mingle for a long time, but now according to the policy, they return to their hometowns to contract land to plant blueberries, and when the fruits are ripe, they help us sell them, and set up a blue township chain, which relieves us of worries." I still work in the Duxiu Mountain Scenic Area in my spare time, and I have a very comfortable life. During the visit, the reporter learned that the beautiful rural construction project being planned and constructed in the Duxiu Mountain Scenic Area aims to integrate the rural resources around the scenic spot, use traditional rural architecture, create a beautiful village with local characteristics, increase the stickiness of tourists, retain nostalgia, remember the story, and let tourists enjoy the rural scenery while also feeling the rural culture. According to the person in charge of the scenic spot, in order to attract and retain tourists, a series of characteristic and creative normalized activities are carefully planned, such as Huaining Blueberry Township International Marathon, Kite Festival, etc., and at the same time, combined with seasonal festivals, the Qixi Songkran Festival, parent-child camping activities, Duxiu Mountain Starry Sky Camping Month, New Era Youth Trailwalking Activities, etc., so that tourists can enjoy the natural scenery at the same time, but also feel the strong cultural atmosphere and rural charm.
The reporter came to the rural revitalization demonstration area - e-commerce town, which is the gathering place of the blueberry industry. Blueberry is the main industry of Huaining County, and it is also one of the special agricultural products of Huaining County. Here, everywhere.
Fruitful results of deep integration of primary, secondary and tertiary industries. Blueberry wine, fruit pulp, dried fruits, etc., which are diversified derivatives of the blueberry industry, are known as typical cases in the rural revitalization strategy.
It is understood that the Duxiu Mountain Scenic Area is based on the planting of characteristic agricultural products such as blueberries, rice, grain and oil, with the finishing of secondary characteristic agricultural products as the core, and the supporting service industries such as pastoral leisure and tourism in the tertiary industry to achieve agricultural industrialization, scale and branding. At the same time, combined with IP cultural and creative product processing and traditional handicraft industry, it excavates and inherits local cultural characteristics to enhance cultural self-confidence and innovation. Attract many tourists to come to experience, and realize the organic combination of "blueberry +", "rice field +" industry and tourism industry. Up to now, a total of 23 business forms have been completed, 84,253 local villagers have been helped, various agricultural products such as flowers, trees and building materials have been sold, and farmers' land rental income has been increased by more than 50 yuan per year; Adopt the model of "leading enterprises + cooperatives + farmers" to greatly increase the dividend income of farmers' shares; Leasing idle houses for farmers has realized an increase in the value of farmers' assets of nearly one million yuan.
In recent years, the Huaining County Party Committee and County**, Huangdun Town, Huaining County, the Bureau of Culture, Tourism and Sports, the Publicity Department and other units have actively participated in the project coordination work to provide policy support and related support for its development. For example, the normalization of the introduction of the free tour scenic spot policy, which is not only conducive to the healthy development of scenic spots, but also greatly stimulates the local tourism consumption market.
During the Spring Festival in 2024, the Duxiu Mountain Scenic Area is carefully planning the beginning of the event, and in order to enrich the content of Anqing citizens' peripheral tours, the first Dream Starry Sky Light Festival will be launched. "The development of the scenic spot is inseparable from the guidance and support of the rural revitalization strategy, and the scenic spot will continue to play a leading role in the cultural and tourism industry, enrich the people and benefit the people through tourism, promote the economic and social development of the surrounding villages, and let more tourists enter the Duxiu Mountain Scenic Area and feel the charm of cultural tourism. The person in charge of the scenic spot said that the integration of agriculture tourism will help the implementation of rural revitalization, so that the surrounding people can eat "eco-tourism rice" and share the fruits of rural revitalization.