China News Service, Qingyuan, May 9th (Sun Qiuxia and Yue Ruixuan) In recent years, Qingyuan has become the number of demonstration towns of Guangdong country houses, driven by the "Guangdong-American Countryside" cultural tourism revitalization project and the construction of a diversified tourism product system in the Greater Bay Area. In the cities with the most, more than 890 homestays are booming, making the villagers' "money bags" bulge.
Qingxin District of Qingyuan City has unique advantages in developing the country homestay industry. With the in-depth implementation of the Guangqing integrated development strategy, the "Qingxinrenjia" brand homestay has become an economic growth point for the development of the characteristic tourism industry.
Walking into Zhixing Hot Mineral Spring B&B in Qingxin District, Qingyuan City, I saw the ancient blue brick buildings with Lingnan characteristics in the late Qing Dynasty arranged in an orderly manner.
Zhu Zhifeng, the head of Zhixing Wen Mineral Spring B&B, introduced in a recent interview that the B&B currently has an average annual occupancy rate of over 70%, provides about 20 jobs for nearby villagers, and helps villagers increase sales revenue by more than 300,000 yuan per year.
Yingde Yuzui Village with a history of more than 800 years, the ancient city walls, ancient wharfs, ancient streets and ancient shops and the flowers all over the mountains and plains set off each other, each step is a scene, "China's top ten boutique B&Bs" Bixiang Cultural Tourism Yuzui B&B is located in this.
The picture is taken by Yue Ruixuan of Qingyuan B&B
"Under the background of rural revitalization, we have followed the principle of 'repairing the old as old' since 2019, using local materials and colors, and retaining the layout of ancient buildings to create characteristic homestays." Bixiang Cultural Tourism Yuzui Homestay is responsible for According to Yin Ranping, the Yuzui B&B project directly covers 114 registered poor households with 220 people. During the construction process, local villagers are preferentially hired to help solve the problem of employment at the villagers' doorstep.
In order to promote the transformation of "beautiful countryside" into "beautiful economy", the tax department of Qingyuan used a series of typical cases, an in-depth research, a policy guideline, a package of service measures, a linkage mechanism and a "six one" work. Mechanism to serve the development of the whole industry chain of country houses.
"The repeated epidemics have brought difficulties to our development. The tax department has brought a compilation of applicable policies, which has added impetus for us to further promote the integrated development of agriculture and tourism, and stimulate the sales of nearby agricultural special products." Zhu Zhifeng said.
As an important production base of "vegetable baskets" in the Greater Bay Area, Qingyuan City has high-quality organic agricultural products such as Qingyuan chicken, Yingde black tea, silk seedling rice, Lianzhou cabbage and bamboo shoots, which are deeply loved by consumers.
The Dajiao Hefei Farm has hundreds of acres of agricultural parks. The farm has green food, fruits and vegetables to pick in all seasons. The "one-stop farm-to-table model" makes this homestay one of the original ecological homestays favored by tourists in the Pearl River Delta.
"Last year, we enjoyed a total of about 1.6 million tax rebates, which gave us the confidence to deepen the homestay business and diversify the layout." said He Jie Lun, the financial director of Qingyuan Eden Garden Ecological Agriculture Development Co., Ltd. (Dajiao Hechang).
Entering Dawei Village, one of the top ten most beautiful tourist villages in Qingyuan, there are lush tea trees in the experimental field. This is a selenium-enriched tea research project of Yingde Hongda Agricultural Development Co., Ltd.
As the main enterprise of the fruit and vegetable tea provincial modern agricultural industrial park in Lianzhang Village, Yingde City, the company has successively developed projects such as tea planting, picking and manufacturing experience, and homestay leisure.
"In recent years, selenium-enriched agricultural products have been favored by consumers. The company has organically combined the selenium-enriched industry with the Yingde tea industry to create a new product of Yingde black tea." said Wu Jifa, legal person of Yingde Hongda Agricultural Development Co., Ltd. The development of tea research projects is inseparable from the support of preferential tax policies. Since 2021, the company has enjoyed tax incentives of nearly 300,000 yuan."
It is worth mentioning that Qingyuan, the "city of hot springs in China", has discovered 26 hot spring resources, ranking first in the province.
In Tangtang Town, Fogang County, which is well-known for its hot springs, the number of hot spring homestays has increased from 6 to 65 in the past two years, an increase of nearly ten times, and the number of homestay employees has exceeded 300.
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