Chinanews.com, Chongqing, August 5th, title: [You look good with a smile] Minority villages in the Wuling Mountains: roads are closer and poverty is getting away
Author Luo Yonghao
The annual average temperature of 12.8°C makes the Houping Miao and Tujia Township in Wulong District, Chongqing City, one of the best resorts for summer refuge in Chongqing in August. Luo Kaifa, a villager who returned to his hometown to start a barbecue stall, was busy until early morning on the 5th. He told reporters that in the past month there have been more and more tourists in the village to take refuge in the summer and enjoy the coolness, and the barbecue stall business is "full every day."
Houping Township is located deep in the Wuling Mountains and has well-preserved buildings of ethnic minorities. The mountains in the territory are surrounded by clouds, and the climate is pleasant. However, due to poor traffic conditions and information blockage in the early years, no one cares about it. At the end of 2014, Houping Township identified 379 poverty-stricken households, with a total of 1512 people, and a poverty incidence rate of 21.9%. In 2017, it was recognized as one of the 18 deep-poor towns at the municipal level in Chongqing.
"The first time I came to my husband's house, I vomited." Huang Jiangping, who was married to Houping Township, accompanied her husband back to Houping Township from Hangzhou in 2018. The hills are high and steep and the ravines are vertical and horizontal. One," I finally got home after more than two hours of turbulence. "Remote" and "poverty" made her "escape" Houping Township twice.
With the start of the in-depth poverty alleviation battle, Houping Township opened up two major external links connecting Jianghou Road and Tonghou Road, and built 90 kilometers of Sihao rural roads, realizing "Village to village passenger transportation, households to households". With the great improvement of traffic conditions in Houping Township, which has boosted popularity, economy, and industry, the villagers finally set foot on the road to wealth.
Tianchi Miao Village in Houping Township develops the "three changes" reform of Tianchi Miao Village boutique homestays. Forty-four villagers used the ten-year management rights of the fields, soil, forests, and houses in the village to discount more than RMB 5 million, and jointly operated with village collectives, agricultural collectives and district Karst Huilong Rural Tourism Company, adopting the "fixed dividend + income dividend" model to build homestays Holiday accommodation area, Miao medicine and Miao medicine experience area, characteristic food processing area, ethnic culture experience area, and rural mountain recreation area, etc., so as to realize "resources become assets, capital becomes equity, farmers become shareholders", and the collective economy of the village is strengthened and expanded Farmers’ income channels.
According to Liang Tianfu, deputy secretary of the Party Committee of Houping Township, Wulong District, Chongqing City, Tianchi Miao Village realized a fixed dividend of 522,500 yuan in 2019, and an average of 11,800 yuan for poor households. From January to June this year, a total of 15,000 tourists were received. The operating income of catering in Zhai Nei reached 5.3 million yuan, which drove the income of catering and agricultural products sales along Houping and Canghou Road to more than 8 million yuan. Up to now, only 1 household with 4 people in Houping Township has not been lifted out of poverty, and the incidence of poverty has dropped to 0.05%.
In October 2019, the Chongqing Wulong District Cultural and Tourism Commission held a training class in Tianchi Miao Village. Luo Kaifa and his wife, who have been working in the Zhejiang factory for a long time, also participated. In a month, the couple learned barbecue skills and decided to stay at home to do barbecue business. In less than two months at the end of last year, the room income of Tianchi Miao Village reached 180,000 yuan, and the villagers all tasted the sweetness of tourism. The Luo Development Barbecue Restaurant is also booming, and the family has been lifted out of poverty.
Huang Jiangping, who "escaped" twice from Houping Township, raised more than 90 barrel bees with her husband last year and earned 60,000 yuan. Today, she no longer insists on returning to the city, and has increased her feeding of 270 barrels of bees. The output value will be doubled on the basis of last year. With a college degree, she was also hired as a local village cadre, responsible for handling various reports and other tasks. (Finish)