China News Service, Dalian, June 16 (Reporter Yang Yi) Right now, it is the cherry ripening season in Dalian at the southernmost tip of the Liaodong Peninsula. In many rural tourist attractions in Dalian, relying on the advantage of farmhouses, various local rural attractions have launched "Tourist The "picking" activity allows tourists to experience the fun of picking firsthand, attracting many local and surrounding citizens to participate.
The picture shows the key village of rural tourism in China-Xiaonan Village.
Photo by Yang Yi
As a new way of eco-tourism, rural picking tours are gradually emerging.
In order to adapt to the new development trend of picking and tourism, more and more orchards are trying every means to grasp the quality, push new products, and make supporting facilities.
How to change from a simple picking of fruits and vegetables to a picking experience tourism that integrates travel elements such as eating, drinking, playing, fun, shopping, etc., to create a well-known picking tourism brand?
The reporter conducted a field visit.
Standing in the cherry orchard in Xiaonan Village, Shuishiying Street, Lushunkou District, red and yellow cherries are all over the branches, and flocks of ducks and geese can be seen in the park close by, and the district government building two or three miles away can be seen in the distance.
During the Dragon Boat Festival, citizen Ms. Liu took her daughter to experience cherry picking and taste special farmhouse meals.
She wanted to experience cherry picking but didn't want to go too far, which made her choose Xiaonancun.
"It took only 40 or 50 minutes to drive from the city, and it was an unexpected harvest to be able to pick cherries and watch the intangible cultural heritage display in the colorful Nanshan Scenic Area." Ms. Liu said, looking at the photos of the circle of friends, she also took action. .
The cherries hang on the branches, and the picking is just right.
During the Dragon Boat Festival, in the cherry orchard of Xiaonan Village, many local citizens took their children to experience the fun of picking in the countryside with their friends.
During the Dragon Boat Festival, the flow of picking passengers gradually picked up.
The reporter noticed that most of the citizens who come to experience the tour are in person. In order to encourage citizens to visit here, Xiaonan Village has introduced a series of preferential policies, which are well received by tourists.
"After picking, what else can I play?" This is not only the demand of tourists, but also the key to the long-term vitality of the picking tour.
The picture shows tourists playing in Xiaonan Village.
Photo by Yang Yi
Under the overall planning of the "global tourism" concept, this year Xiaonan Village has newly set up special snack street, intangible cultural heritage square, red tourism and other projects on the basis of the original colorful Nanshan and cherry picking, making it a good place for residents to relax in the suburbs. .
According to reports, Xiaonan Village covers an area of 6.37 square kilometers and has a forest coverage rate of 82%. It has unique cultural advantages, resource advantages, environmental advantages, transportation advantages and industrial advantages.
Xiaonan Village is the site of the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895 and the Russo-Japanese War, and has a lot of war relics.
Xiaonan Village is the "National Agricultural Science Demonstration Base" and "China's Most Beautiful Villages". Scenic spots such as Colorful Nanshan Leisure Agriculture Park, Space Expo Park, and Butterfly Garden are uniquely attractive.
In recent years, Xiaonan Village has proposed the establishment of five beautiful rural tourism product systems: "red cultural tourism products, high-tech agricultural science products, youth research products, cultural tourism products of the East Passage, and the most beautiful nostalgia folklore products".
Xiaonan Village has newly built a rural park, an intangible cultural heritage square, and a red tourist village history museum, which are well received by the society.
Relying on the brand image of Lushun Big Cherry, Xiaonan Village used a loan of 2.6 million yuan assisted by Agricultural Bank Lushun branch to develop the most beautiful homestays with nostalgia characteristics, expand the big cherry picking farmhouse, and build intangible cultural heritage squares, red tourist village history museum and other projects.
After the renovation and expansion, the number of tourists visiting Xiaonan Village has increased more than before, and the income has increased significantly.
ABC’s Lushunkou District Sub-branch Vice President Wang Xiangdong stated that in accordance with the regulatory agencies and the head office and branch’s requirements for financial services for rural revitalization, the ABC’s Lushunkou Sub-branch Pratt & Whitney team carried out whole-village credit support in Xiaonan Village. The premise is to obtain first-hand information In the next stage, the Xiaonan Village collective joint-stock tourism (cooperative) enterprise-"Dalian Qicai Nanshan Scenic Area" has launched a facility property mortgage loan, and the credit scale currently used has reached 2.6 million yuan.
Xie Linhai, secretary of the Party branch of Xiaonan Village, said: “Because of the loan, the financial pressure in the village has been greatly eased. After reconstruction and expansion, the tourist population in the village has increased from 100,000 to more than 300,000, and the income has been significantly doubled.”
Farmers have found another way, the government has actively guided, and financial institutions have helped them.
Nowadays, the cross-border combination of characteristic homestays, cherry picking, and light and shadow show in the peony town have become Lushun’s new business cards, effectively driving the "village economy, night economy" and employment of villagers in Lushun.
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