Is Liangshan really poor?

Liangshan in southern Sichuan is notoriously poor and backward, but the evaluation of why Daliangshan is poor is polarized. Some people say that the local folk customs are simple, and the reason why they are poor is mainly because of inconvenient transportation. It is also said that the local people are unwilling to make progress and struggle at all, so they have become so poor. There may be many reasons, but two things are absolute in Daliangshan. First, the local environment is blocked and the traffic is poor. The other is that poverty and backwardness in Daliangshan are real. Although poverty alleviation has been carried out for many years, the results are still very limited.

The so-called Great Liangshan Mountain is a huge mountain range in the west of China, and its main scope is Liangshan Prefecture in Sichuan. Speaking of Liangshan Prefecture, many people may not know it, but the famous Xichang is here, the capital of Liangshan Prefecture. The whole Liangshan Prefecture covers an area of over 60,000 square kilometers, but its population is only over 4 million. Since ancient times, it has been a strategic location of the Southern Silk Road, mainly inhabited by Han and Yi people.

environmental conditions

To say that Liangshan is poor, on the one hand, it is because the traffic conditions in many local places are too poor. Liangshan, located on the edge of Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau, is a branch of the Great Snow Mountain. The local areas are all plateau mountains. Except for a few mountain basins and valleys, it is rare to find flat land in Liangshan Prefecture, and it is impossible for everyone to live on a few plains. Therefore, Liangshan still has a considerable population, staying in mountainous areas with inconvenient transportation.

The most famous village in Liangshan is Cliff Village, and many local places are in the mountains. It is not only remote, but also very dangerous. Going in and out requires climbing cliffs and the like, as if isolated from the world, and traffic jams are extremely unfavorable to economic development. Originally, Daliangshan was rich in mineral resources, especially non-ferrous metals and rare earths. However, due to inconvenient transportation, rich minerals can not be effectively developed and transported, but they are still poor and rich.