(Xiaokang China) Xiaokang Road in "Dongjiang Yuantou County": Planting a "money tree" in the Greater Bay Area
China News Service, Xunwu, Jiangxi, July 18th. Title: Xiaokang Road in "Dongjiang Yuantou County": Planting a "Money Tree" in the Greater Bay Area
China News Agency reporter Li Yunhan
"We are here in the county of the source of the Dongjiang River. The development of industry must be combined with ecological and environmental protection. Now we have both green water and green mountains and golden mountains and silver mountains." Wang Feng, deputy secretary of the Party Committee of Sanbiao Township, Xunwu County, Ganzhou City, Jiangxi Province, said on the 17th. A reporter from China News Agency said.
Located at the junction of the three provinces of Jiangxi, Fujian and Guangdong in Xunwu County in the southeast of Jiangxi Province, it can be described as "across the three provinces with one foot", and it has a unique geographical advantage in connecting with the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area.
Xunwu, surrounded by mountains, was once a national key county for poverty alleviation and development, but now this small county "raised by the boudoirs" at the source of the Dongjiang River is showing a new look on the road to rural revitalization.
“It turns out that when we grow navel oranges here, 500 yuan of the cost of 1,000 yuan (RMB, the same below) will be spent on pesticides, which causes serious water pollution.” According to Wang Feng, the navel orange industry in Sanbiao Township, Xunwu County After encountering a disease and insect pest in 2012, the army was almost "annihilated". In 2015, the plant began to replant olecranon, which has grown from 150 acres at the beginning to more than 10,000 acres today.
What many people don’t know is that the Dongjiang River originates from Jiejibo Mountain in Sanbiao Township, Xunwu County. The total amount of water resources flowing into Dongjiang River from Xunwu every year is 1.83 billion cubic meters, which is the largest river basin in Jiangxi Province and the largest inflow. The districts and counties of the source of the Dongjiang River are also an important source of drinking water for the Pearl River Delta and Hong Kong compatriots.
“It’s almost unnecessary to use pesticides to grow olecranon. It turned out that blue algae will appear in the water here, but now it can reach the first-class water quality.” Wang Feng said that Xunwu County will also protect the industry while developing its industry. The source of the Dongjiang River.
"I used to work odd jobs for others to make a living, earning about 30,000 yuan per year. Now I grow hawk-billed peaches by myself. I earned 300,000 yuan last year. I need to hire other people to help me pick the fruits when I am busy. This is really my'money cow'. "Huang Shengcong, a fruit farmer in Xunwu County, seems to be inexperienced, but he smiles when he talks about his own industry.
A reporter from China News Service used his mobile phone to search on mainstream Chinese e-commerce platforms and found that the average price of products with keywords such as "Xunwu eagle mouth peach" was more than 8 yuan per catty. Some good eagle mouth peaches are in a certain life. On the fresh e-commerce platform, they can be sold on a per-unit basis, with an average price of 5 yuan per unit.
“The main customers of eagle mouth peaches are mainly from Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Shenzhen, especially Guangdong and Shenzhen.” Huang Shengjie, secretary of the Fruit Industry Party Branch in Sanbiao Township, Xunwu County, said that the eagle mouth peach industry has 870 households, including 200. The remaining households returned to their hometowns for planting, and the planting area reached more than 10,000 mu.
In 2021, the total output is expected to be more than 8 million catties, with a total output value of more than 30 million yuan.
"Xunwu is the only county in Jiangxi that borders the three provinces of Jiangxi, Fujian and Guangdong. It is connected by mountains and rivers of Guangdong and Fujian, and has close humanities and similar customs." Li Wenfeng, party secretary of the New Tourism Bureau of Xunwu County, said that with the improvement of infrastructure, Xunwu has become a frontier for connecting Fujian and Guangdong, and a bridgehead for undertaking the industrial transfer of the Pearl River Delta and the Economic Zone on the west side of the Taiwan Straits.
Xunwu County not only allows the fruit to "go out", but also uses the cultural and tourism industry to "bring in" tourists.
The mountains surrounding Xunwu used to be one of the factors restricting the development of this small county, but now the green water and green mountains are Xunwu's precious resources.
Xunwu County ranks among the top in China with a forest coverage rate of up to 81.5%. The entire territory is beautiful and full of greenery.
"The majority of tourists from Guangdong come here to visit. Recently, it has been slightly affected by the local epidemic in Guangdong." Pan Huiting, a staff member of the Huakai Ecological Scenic Spot in Xunwu County, said that due to geographical factors and the unique ecological environment of Xunwu County, the scenic spot has attracted a lot of attention. A large number of tourists from Guangdong.
In recent years, Xunwu County has focused on building Xunwu River water tourism boutique routes.
Scenic spots such as Qinglongyan Tourist Resort, Huakaile Ecological Scenic Spot, Shikongzhai Tourist Scenic Spot have been officially put into operation.
In addition, there are a number of scenic spots under construction, which will have hot springs in winter and rafting in summer, and you can enjoy the scenery on the water all year round.
Since last year, the route has received nearly 30,000 tourists from the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area.
The "Survey Report on Poverty Alleviation and Alleviation in Xunwu County" published in 2017 once wrote: "Poverty and backwardness are still the basic characteristics of Xunwu, with a large amount of infrastructure debts, a single industrial structure, weak financial resources at the county level, and poor rural poverty. Broad and deep poverty."
In the past four years, "poverty" has long been the past tense of Xunwu. Now when we look at Xunwu, the industry is booming, the popularity is booming, the pockets are bulging, and the life is beautiful.
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