A must-see attraction in Bikou Ancient Town.

The must-see attractions of Bikou Ancient Town: Bikou Power Station and Bikou Old Street.

Bikou Power Station 1

Built in1970s. Under such difficult conditions at that time, from the start of construction in 1969 to the completion in 1977, it took ten years for one generation and 20,000 people to work hard to build the first earth-rock dam hydropower station with an installed capacity of 300,000 kilowatts, which became a monument in the history of hydropower stations in China.

2. Bikou Old Street

There are front street, middle street and back street. The covered bridge on the old street is one of the most distinctive buildings in the town. With the help of covered corridors and wooden guardrails, you can enjoy the scenery and people coming and going on both sides of the bridge.

The Development History of Bikou Ancient Town

As early as the early years of the Republic of China, the prosperity of ancient towns reached its peak. At that time, merchants gathered in the ancient town, which was an important trade hub of Shaanxi, Gansu and Sichuan. There are more than 100 ships coming and going on Bailong River every day. The population of the ancient town once reached more than 10,000 people, and there were salt bureaus, customs offices and telegraph offices in the town. At that time, annual tax revenue accounted for more than half of the province's tax revenue.

The original inhabitants of the ancient town came from Sichuan, Shaanxi, Huguang and other places. The materials they live on are wood and medicinal materials deep in the mountains. Wooden boats carry these materials along the Bailong River into the Jialing River waterway to Sichuan and Chongqing. Bikou has gradually become a distribution center for goods in and out of Gansu, Qinghai, Sichuan, Southwest provinces and Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces. Immediately, Bikou developed into an important ancient port terminal, and Bikou became a veritable waterway "Silk Road" from Bailong River and Jialing River to Sichuan and Chongqing.

The above contents refer to Baidu Encyclopedia-Bikou Ancient Town.