[Poverty Alleviation Story] "Folk Forbidden City" Peitian, Fujian: Villagers turn into tour guides and college students return home for development
[Explanation] The ancient village of Peitian, located in Xuanhe Township, Liancheng County, Western Fujian Province, has a history of more than 800 years. There are more than 30 tall halls with "nine halls and eighteen wells" and 21 ancestral halls in the village. "Hakka Manor" and "Folk Forbidden City".
In recent years, in the protection, development, and utilization of ancient villages, the local area has been adhering to the concept of culturally rejuvenating villages, digging deep into profound cultural resources, and integrating cultural and tourism to promote rural revitalization.
On October 28, a reporter from China News Agency walked into Peitian to interview on the spot.
[Explanation] The ancient village of Peitian is a complex of ancient Hakka dwellings during the Ming and Qing Dynasties that are relatively well preserved in China.
Wandering among them, the construction craftsmanship is exquisite and the Hakka style is strong.
Most of the ancient dwellings sit west to east, surrounded by mountains and water, with gray walls and tiles, and they are scattered.
Wu Kaimei is a local tour guide. When she met her, she was taking a group tour in the ancient street.
In 2013, Wu Kaimei returned to his hometown of Peitian from the field, and became a tour guide, introducing the history and culture of his hometown to Chinese and foreign tourists.
[Concurrent] Local tour guide Wu Kaimei
Because our children are still young, we return to work in our hometown. We can take care of our children, take care of our home, and promote our beautiful hometown.
I was very nervous when taking guests for the first time, and I gradually got used to it later, because we can learn a lot from the communication with guests, and we can learn from them all kinds of things that we don’t usually touch. , This job is still very good.
[Explanation] Like Wu Kaimei, in Peitian Village, the development of tourism has driven the development of the rural economy, and has also attracted more and more college students to return to their hometowns to start businesses.
Born in 1992, Wu Jianxin graduated from Shanxi University of Finance and Economics. Two years ago, in order to take care of his sick and bedridden mother, he quit his job and returned to his hometown. He started to run e-commerce and help villagers sell native products. The business is getting better and better. .
[Concurrent] Wu Jianxin, a local college student who returned home to start a business
We mainly sell some special agricultural products, like some local seasonal fruits, and some of our own special products, like dried sweet potatoes in the city. The economy of our hometown is getting better and better. With the development of tourism, various service industries All things are rising steadily. I feel that under this trend, college students are slowly returning to their hometown to develop their economy.
[Explanation] In a passion fruit orchard in Peitian Village, Wu Wanfang is busy trimming the branches and leaves and maintaining the branches and seedlings. Here, he is planting 10 mu of passion fruit.
Wu Wanfang is a poverty-stricken household in the local filed and registered card. In the past, he wanted to develop plantation but lacked capital and technology.
Over the past two years, the local government has provided free passion fruit seedlings, technical training, and job opportunities to poor households, which has greatly stimulated the enthusiasm of poor households in planting and helped them escape poverty.
[Concurrent] Wu Wanfang, a local passion fruit grower
(20) When I came back in 15 years, my father was in poor health and the child happened to be studying again, so he became very poor.
They helped me to do this to help me upgrade the industry, to support me in this technology and other things, they taught us, we can learn, only then can we grow, and the output can increase.
I planted about ten mu, and now about ten mu, the net profit per mu is about 1,000 yuan, and ten mu is more than 10,000 yuan, which means we have increased our income by more than 10,000 yuan.
[Explanation] Opening homestays, operating farmhouses, processing local products, developing ecological planting and breeding, and developing cultural tourism products, relying on the development of tourism, Peitian, an ancient Hakka village, has achieved poverty alleviation and prosperity in the rural tourism industry chain and a culturally prosperous village.
Reporting by reporter Wu Shengwei from Longyan, Fujian
Editor in charge: [Wang Kai]