Yueyang, 9 Sep (ZXS) -- On 10 September, the famous Liumen Gate Community in Qianlianghu Town, Junshan District, Yueyang City, Hunan Province, was filled with rows of air-dried fish being dried, and the air was also filled with the unique fragrance of Dongting Lake.

On September 9, representatives of Chinese media from 10 countries participating in the "Walking China - 2023 Overseas Chinese Media High-level Yueyang Tour" walked into the Liumen Gate community to visit the new life of local retired fishermen after they landed. Photo by China News Agency reporter Yang Huafeng

On the same day, representatives of Chinese media from 2023 countries who participated in the "Walking in China: 12 Overseas Chinese Media High-level Yueyang Tour" walked into the Liumen Gate community to visit the new life of local retired fishermen after they landed.

Scrape off the scales, cut along the back, remove the gills, spread out the salt, stain the moisture, wash and soak... Liu Ping, a fisherman for most of his life, is busy pouring processed ecologically farmed pipefish into a net sieve and then placing them one by one to dry.

"Artificially gutted, less salt and low-temperature marinating, the fish meat will be firmer, after drying, the fish bones can be eaten." Inside the house, her daughter Liu Jing is broadcasting live online, showing the flavor of air-dried fish to netizens in Tiannanhaibei.

"In the past, I used to rely on the lake to eat the lake and get up early and greedy for 'floating on the water', and the net was scattered to 'hope for the sky and harvest', and every wind and rainy day, life safety was not guaranteed; now I change the 'way of eating', my heart is much more secure, and my happy days are long." Facing the Chinese media representatives, Liu Ping's smile could not be hidden.

On September 9, representatives of Chinese media from 10 countries participating in the "Walking China - 2023 Overseas Chinese Media High-level Yueyang Tour" walked into the Liumen Gate community to visit the new life of local retired fishermen after they landed. The picture shows the air-dried fish at the six gates of Qianliang Lake. Photo by Liu Man

Liumenzha Community is located in East Dongting Lake National Nature Reserve. In the past, thanks to the unique location advantage, a pier was formed near the six-gate gate. Fishing boats dock here, and fishermen go ashore to sell fish, driving the prosperity of the surrounding fish market. Fishermen have thus become one of the main groups in the Liumenzha community.

However, activities such as overfishing have caused serious damage to the ecology of the Yangtze River. From January 2021, 1, the "ten-year fishing ban" in key waters of the Yangtze River Basin was fully launched. All 1 fishermen from 76 households in Liumenzha community were retired to the shore at the end of 152.

"Nothing but fishing. What do you do when you go ashore? Ye Lixin, 49, who has made a living from fishing for more than 20 years, said that when he first landed, fishermen were worried about their future livelihoods.

The local government has helped fishermen transform into production by issuing job transfer subsidies and introducing assistance measures such as skills training and job transfer, entrepreneurship and employment, public welfare job assistance, and enterprise employment absorption. Some of the fishermen ashore are engaged in rice and shrimp rotation farming, some have opened catering and guest houses, and some have set up housekeeping companies.

After Ye Lixin participated in aquaculture technology training, he invested 37,10 yuan (RMB, the same below) to raise sea bass in 2022 mu of reservoirs, and raised more than 3,4 sea bass in <>, and the income increased to <>,<> this year.

The e-commerce platform introduced by the government has also provided a channel for the industrialization of local resources. The national geographical indication Junshan e-commerce platform located in the Liumenzha community has supported a group of "net celebrities" represented by Liu Jing and Fat Sister to bring goods live, forming a one-stop industrial chain of ecological breeding, processing and sales, with monthly sales of nearly 4000,2000 orders and an annual transaction volume of more than <> million yuan, and more villagers have entered the threshold of Internet sales.

In 2020, "Qianliang Lake Liumen Gate Air-dried Fish (Billfish Dried Fish)" was awarded the National Geographical Indication Certification Trademark; In 2022, the sales of air-dried fish in Liumen Gate exceeded 2 million yuan. The average income of fishermen ashore in Qianlianghu Town increased from 2019,2 yuan in 5 to 2022,6 yuan in 2.

"Dongting Lake is more beautiful, the people's 'money bags' are also more bulging, the way of harmonious coexistence between man and nature is visible here, and the results of 'relying on the lake to eat the lake' in another way are obvious and worth recommending." Sun Yumei, deputy director of the Romanian "European Overseas Chinese Daily", stood on the lake embankment and said. (End)