Chinanews.com Qinghai Tea Card July 6th. Title: Qinghai Tea Card: One out of every seven locals is a boss
Author Qi Zengbei
"In the past few years, there were few parking spaces and inconvenient food and lodging. The only advantage may be that it is free. When I came this time, I found that there have been great changes. There are many parking spaces. The tourist service center has also added a food city. Very convenient and very clean.” said Li Fei, who came to the Chaka Salt Lake scenic spot again on the 5th.
Chaka Salt Lake is located in Chaka Town, Ulan County, Haixi Mongolian-Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Qinghai Province.
The lake is about 3100 meters above sea level and has a total area of 105 square kilometers. Due to the reflection of the brine on the crystalline salt layer on the lake surface, the reflection of the brine forms a mirror effect. The reflection of the water and the sky is beautiful. It is called the "mirror of the sky".
The picture shows tourists traveling in the Chaka Salt Lake Scenic Area.
Photo by Qi Zengbei
"In recent years, the popularity of the Chaka Salt Lake Scenic Area has continued to increase, and the number of tourists has continued to show a blowout increase." Liu Xinsheng, general manager of Ulan County Tourism Development Co., Ltd., said that the number of tourists has skyrocketed, but the infrastructure of the scenic area is not complete and the parking lot capacity is insufficient. , Food, lodging, travel, shopping, entertainment and other business formats are weak, which seriously affects the experience of tourists, and the healthy and sustainable development of scenic spots is also facing very big challenges.
Until May 1 this year, the tea card tourist service center with a total investment of 320 million yuan was put into operation.
"The entire service center integrates scenic ticket sales, tourist reception, publicity and promotion, tourism consultation and complaints, tour guide services, distribution transfers, catering and shopping and other functions." Liu Xinsheng said that the operation of the service center has enriched the tourism industry of tea card scenic spots. , Increasing the tourism carrying capacity.
"Today, we have also built the largest surface parking lot in the Northwest, with 5,200 parking spaces and 4,000 temporary parking spaces." Liu Xinsheng said that since the May Day this year, the Chaka Tourist Service Center has received a total of 565,700 tourists. There were 119,000 people (times) and self-driving vehicles, and there were no traffic jams or stranded tourists.
“I have only seen the scenery here before, and I thought about whether I would be disappointed before I came here, but it went smoothly all the way. The scenery and food are all worthwhile. I must come to Qinghai once in my life.” said Zou Hui, a tourist from Jiangxi. After I go back, I will definitely recommend my friends to visit Qinghai.
It is not only tourists who feel the changes in the scenic spot, but also the surrounding herdsmen and young entrepreneurs from all over the world.
"I used to work far away from home in Xining, and I had to rent a house by myself. After a month, I didn't have a lot of savings. Now I can make money at my doorstep, and I also have full board and lodging. It only takes a few minutes to go home. I am really happy." Chen Zhiyun, who works as a security guard at the service center, said.
The picture shows Nuer Zhao and other actors performing a large-scale live-action drama "Genghis Khan, a Genghis Khan".
Photo by Qi Zengbei
"Starting from last year, we will perform resident here from March to October every year. The income is stable than before, and we can get more than 5,000 yuan every month." The actor who performed the large-scale real-life drama "Genghis Khan" in the scenic spot Er Zhao is a guy from Xinjiang, and he is very satisfied with his stable income.
Minhe guy Ma Xuan is very optimistic about the development of the scenic spot, and the Food City opened 4 shops at once.
"Because of the epidemic, many tourists will choose to travel domestically. In the northwest, Chaka Salt Lake is relatively well-known. Although it has just opened, the business is not bad."
According to statistics from the Tourism Bureau of Ulan County, there were only more than 54,000 visitors to the Chaka Salt Lake in 2012, which increased sharply to 3.5 million in 2019.
During the "May 1st" period this year, the Chaka Salt Lake Scenic Area received more than 78,000 tourists. On May 3, the number of tourists in a single day was as high as more than 25,000.
Today, there is one boss in every seven Chaka people, and more than 80% of them are engaged in tourism-related industries.
At the same time, the operation of environmentally friendly sightseeing vehicles in the scenic area has reduced the exhaust emissions of fuel-based vehicles and man-made environmental pollution, completely solved the previous phenomenon of vehicles parking and littering along the roads in the scenic area, and protected the salt lake and surrounding wetlands and grasslands to the greatest extent. And other natural ecological environment.
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