Dazhu, Sichuan: One industry brings wealth to the people, and the integration of agriculture and tourism promotes rural revitalization

Small steps, light music, slow life - this is the life state that many people yearn for. The Huanxiping Tourist Resort in Miaoba Town, Dazhu County, Sichuan Province, has become a new "Internet celebrity check-in place" in the adjacent areas of Sichuan and Chongqing due to such an advertising slogan. With the increase in tourists, Huanxiping Resort directly radiates and drives the development of vertical industries such as catering, accommodation, commerce, and logistics in surrounding villages and towns, realizing the beautiful vision of "one industry bringing wealth to the people".

Entrance to Huanxiping Tourist Resort

Integrated development of agriculture and tourism

Village enterprises win the "road to wealth"

In addition In line with the natural beauty "in season", the scenic area also has large-scale recreational facilities such as a Ferris wheel, cliff swings, jungle shuttle, step by step, and carousel, and has created single-family tree houses, B&Bs, and container hotels. During the construction period, the scenic spot directly helped more than 50 poor households in three surrounding villages find employment, benefiting more than 100 poor people. After the project is fully completed, it is expected to receive 500,000-1 million tourists every year and provide more than 1,000 jobs. It will explore a "multi-win" management model of tourism development, company benefits, and farmers out of poverty, and achieve a win-win situation for village enterprises. .

Organic blueberry picking garden in Wumu Town, Dazhu County

A few years ago, Li Lianjun, who was running a business abroad, was attracted by a fruit called blueberry while watching TV. Through research, he found that blueberries have great market potential. After an on-the-spot investigation, he decided to plant blueberries in his hometown of Wumu Village, Wumu Town, and thus began his journey back to his hometown to start a business. Today, General Secretary Li Lianjun has transferred 800 acres of land to develop the blueberry industry, with an annual output of 200,000 kilograms. Last year, the output value reached more than 8 million yuan, creating more than 100 jobs for surrounding people and helping people increase their monthly income by more than 1,500 yuan.

"The Blueberry Industrial Park has been built and we have upgraded it. We are currently striving to create a 3A-level scenic spot and vigorously develop supporting industries such as catering, B&B, and local product sales around the scenic spot." Mayor of Wumu Town Yin Huan introduced that in recent years, Wumu Town has focused on "agriculture" and made great efforts in "tourism", creating the "Dazhu County Baidao Lake" integrating picking leisure, sightseeing agriculture, recycling agriculture, and ecological health care. "Blueberry Garden" has embarked on a path of deep integration of agricultural industry and tourism industry, mutual promotion and promotion of rural revitalization.

Zhaifeng Peach Blossom Spring in Miaoba Town, Dazhu County

Zhaifeng Peach Blossom Spring in Miaoba Town is known as the "China Rural Tourism Model Village". In recent days, the peach blossoms here have been in full bloom, attracting countless tourists. In March every year, the "Peach Blossom Festival" is held here. It has been held for 13 times so far. It receives an average of more than 500,000 tourists every year. The annual comprehensive tourism income exceeds 10 million yuan. The per capita income of farmers in the park has increased by 2,000 yuan, and nearly 100 poor households have been helped out of poverty. The Dazhu Qinwang Peach Blossom Spring has become a bright business card for rural tourism in eastern Sichuan.

Qinwang peach, crisp plum, rapeseed... In the vast countryside of Dazhu County, various characteristic planting industries are blooming with flowers, and the agricultural tourism industry in various places is competing to develop, making the countryside more beautiful and the villagers more prosperous; fields In the countryside, on the mountains, in the park... the spring in Dazhu County is full of vitality. One industry after another to enrich the people is in the ascendant, and the Communist Party of China weaves beautiful pictures full of hope.

A corner of the characteristic aquaculture base

Radiation drive of the park

Continuously expanding the "locomotive" effect

Garlic paste, braised, stir-fried, Five-spice... crayfish, as the well-deserved leading role on dining tables all over the country, has conquered the taste buds of countless people. The "refined variety" of crayfish cultivated in Dazhu County is a favorite among diners.

In Guangzi Village, Wumu Town, there is a park with a planned construction area of ??15,000 acres, called Dazhu County Aquatic Modern Agriculture Park. This "Big Mac" park is the only high-quality crayfish breeding ground in Sichuan and the first in the west. It is composed of "one center, one park and one base".

"One Heart" refers to the crayfish breeding center; "One Park" refers to Baidao Lake Aquatic Science and Technology Park; "One Base" refers to the rice and fishery comprehensive planting and breeding demonstration base. At present, a "national-level aquatic healthy breeding demonstration farm" has been built.

"We introduce high-quality species of shrimp from Taihu, Chaohu, and Dongting Lake, and then select and breed them with local crayfish in Dazhu." Zhang Kelei, technical director of the Crayfish Breeding Center, said that the center independently developed The "five-control" artificial induction technology of "light control, water temperature control, water quality control, water level control, and feeding control" has also established a dedicated scientific research team and adopted an institute-enterprise cooperation model to strive to improve the park's modern agricultural science and technology. At present, the park has driven farmers to develop 20,000 acres of comprehensive rice and shrimp farming, with an annual output of 3,000 tons of crayfish and 10,000 tons of ecologically high-quality rice, with an average income of 4,000 yuan per mu.

Dazhu County Crayfish Breeding Center

The modern agricultural park is the "locomotive", a park that drives the development of the county's characteristic aquaculture industry - in 2020, Dazhu County's aquaculture The area is 30,300 acres, the aquatic product output is 20,100 tons, the fishery output value is 470 million yuan, and the per capita fishery income of farmers is 470 yuan; there are currently 10 aquatic product bases in towns and villages, and 50 aquatic product bases with a scale of more than 100 acres and an annual income of more than 1 million yuan.

In recent years, Dazhu County has relied on leading enterprises and various specialized organizations to vigorously promote models such as "cooperative base farmers", "leading enterprise cooperative farmers" and "large park small owners", and promote contract orders and protective price purchases , profit insurance and other practices to protect farmers' interests and allow farmers to obtain secondary benefits. Up to now, there are 23 key leading enterprises in agricultural industrialization operations at the municipal level and above in the county, achieving sales revenue of 2.23 billion yuan, driving an average annual income increase of farmers by 1,800 yuan; 77 farmer professional cooperatives have been developed, with the total number of registered ones reaching 519, driving The average annual income of rural households increased by 1,200 yuan.

A corner of the modern agricultural park in Yuehua Town, Dazhu County

It is planned that by the end of 2021, Dazhu County will establish two core demonstration areas of land of plenty in Wumu Town and Shihe Town, with a scale of more than 10,000 acres . Taking comprehensive rice and shrimp breeding and high-quality rice cultivation as the leading industries, it will be radiated and promoted to Yuehua Town, Shiqiaopu Town, Yangjia Town and Chaoyang Township, and an advanced demonstration zone in Dazhu County, a land of fish and rice, will be established with a scale of more than 50,000 acres. At the same time, the land of fish and rice will be integrated with agriculture and tourism to create a leisure sightseeing area focusing on leisure fishing, specialty picking, and cultural festivals. It is expected to drive more than a thousand people to find jobs nearby and increase the average annual household income by more than 8,000 yuan.