Since the "13th Five-Year Plan", the number of forest tourists in my country has reached 6 billion
People's Daily Online, Beijing, October 15
(Reporter Yu Lu) On the morning of the 15th, the National Forestry and Grass Administration held a regular press conference in the fourth quarter to introduce the development of forest tourism during the "13th Five-Year Plan" and the relevant situation of helping poverty alleviation.
Zhang Jianmin, director of the Ecotourism Management Office of the National Forestry and Grass Administration, said at the meeting that my country’s forest tourism industry has maintained a good momentum of rapid development since the "13th Five-Year Plan". The number of forest tourism tourists across the country has reached 6 billion, with an average annual number of tourists. Reached 1.5 billion passengers, with an average annual growth rate of 15%.
The rapid growth of the forest tourism industry
At the beginning of the "13th Five-Year Plan", with the issuance of the "Notice on Vigorously Promoting the Development of Forest Experience and Forest Health", my country's forest tourism gradually got rid of the traditional mode of forest tourism based on sightseeing tourism, and various regions actively explored the development of forest tourism. New format.
New products such as forest experience, forest health, forest recuperation, nature education, mountain sports, ice and snow tourism, and forest marathon have blossomed, and the effective supply capacity of forest tourism has been significantly improved.
Zhang Jianmin said that from 2016 to 2019, the scale of the forest tourism industry has grown rapidly.
In 2019, the number of national forest tourism tourists reached 1.8 billion, accounting for nearly 30% of the domestic annual tourist population, creating a comprehensive social output value of 1.75 trillion yuan. Forest tourism has become an important pillar industry of my country's forestry and grass industry and a green with great growth potential. industry.
Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, forest tourism has played an increasingly important role in practicing the theory of "two mountains", consolidating the achievements of forestry reform and development, boosting rural revitalization, and promoting beautiful China.
In this regard, Zhang Jianmin mentioned that the Rural Revitalization Strategic Plan (2018-2022) issued by the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the State Council in 2018 requires the construction of a number of national forest trails in poor areas.
The National Forestry and Grass Administration, based on my country's national and forest conditions, promotes the development of national forest trails by relying on large forest areas and mountainous areas. A total of 12 national forest trails have been announced in 3 batches, with a total length of 22,000 kilometers.
"Since 2015, through five years of hard work, the China Forest Tourism Festival has become an important platform for displaying and communicating the development of forest tourism, as well as an important platform for practicing the effects of the'two mountains' theory." Zhang Jianmin added, With the increasing growth of tourism, forest tourism is becoming an important starting point for localities to promote high-quality development, and a good momentum of joint attention and joint efforts of the whole society to promote the development of forest tourism is taking shape.
Develop forest tourism and open up new channels for increasing income in impoverished areas
"The potential for poverty alleviation lies in the mountains, and the hope of increasing income lies in the forest." 60% of my country's poor population, 14 concentrated contiguous areas, and 592 national poverty alleviation and development key counties are located in mountainous forests and sandy areas, nearly 50% of the country Grade forest parks are distributed in poor areas.
"The good natural ecological environment in poverty-stricken areas provides good resource conditions for the public to experience nature, and also laid a good resource foundation for the development of forest tourism." Talking about the advantages of forest tourism in poverty alleviation, Zhang Jianmin said, forest tourism It has the characteristics of low employment threshold, diverse participation methods, and easy-to-master basic skills. The main bottleneck for most rural poor households in seeking income increase is lack of professional skills and weak anti-risk ability. The development of forest tourism has opened up the use of forests in poor areas to a large extent. Waiting for natural resources to start businesses and employment in the vicinity to achieve income increase channels.
"In recent years, the National Forestry and Grass Administration has taken it as an important task to guide the role of forest tourism in poverty alleviation. On the one hand, it has organized the national forest tourism promotion and precision poverty alleviation survey, and has jointly carried out forest tourism poverty alleviation research and organized tourism Poverty alleviation training. On the other hand, a number of national forest tourism demonstration cities and counties located in poverty-stricken areas, new forest tourism brands and characteristic forest tourism routes have been launched. Special research on the effectiveness, potential evaluation and development strategies of forest tourism in poverty alleviation has been carried out. The results and experience of forest tourism poverty alleviation were systematically summarized. On the other hand, an expert team was sent to conduct in-depth investigation and research and technical guidance on forest tourism development in 4 designated poverty alleviation counties in Guizhou and Guangxi, and launched a batch of national A typical case of forest tourism for poverty alleviation." Zhang Jianmin said.
Helping rural revitalization with forest tourism as a starting point
In December 2016, the "Thirteenth Five-Year Plan for Poverty Alleviation" issued by the State Council was released, and the "Forest Tourism Poverty Alleviation Project" was included as an important part of tourism poverty alleviation.
Since then, the development of forest tourism has become one of the “three consolidations” in the “four precisions and three consolidations” of forestry poverty alleviation.
The reporter learned that, according to the survey results in 2016, the number of registered poor people in the country relying on forest tourism to increase income is about 350,000 households and 1.1 million, with an average annual household income increase of 3,500 yuan.
As of the end of 2018, the number of registered poverty-stricken people in the country that have achieved income increase through forest tourism has risen to 465,000 households and 1.475 million. The number of beneficiaries accounted for 9% of the poor, and the average annual household income reached 5,500 yuan. Forest tourism has helped to fight poverty. Significantly.
"Overall, forest tourism has played a very important and irreplaceable role in poverty alleviation through forests and grass during the 13th Five-Year Plan period." Zhang Jianmin said that in the new development period, as the forest tourism industry continues to grow and improve Increase efficiency, the driving ability of forest tourism is bound to be further enhanced. It is not only an effective way for the forestry and grass sector to deeply implement the "two mountains" theory and implement the concept of landscape, forest, field, lake and grass system management, but also to help consolidate the results of poverty alleviation in the forestry and grass sector. And to play a greater and more important role in the revitalization of the countryside.