China News Service, Guilin, April 25th. Title: Looking at China along the highway: Entering Dashanzhai at high speed, opening up Hongyao Zhifu Road

　　Author: Liu Wenwen Zhang Xu

　　"Entering Dashanzhai at high speed, the party's road is really broad!" said Zhou Enping, director of the People's Congress Work Committee of Longsheng County, Guilin, Guangxi.

　　Recently, the report team of “Looking at China along the High Speed-Red Journey” came to the Baimian Yao Village in Longsheng, Guilin, Guangxi, and started from the Red Army Rock to tell the story of the Hong Yao nationality's wealth.

　　Dressed in red and dancing, the villagers are enthusiastic and singing folk songs in unison. This is a common sight in Baimian Yao Village in Zhoujia Village, Sishui Township, Longsheng Autonomous County.

　　"Baimian Yaozhai" is located on the tourist route from Longsheng County to the hot spring, 26 kilometers away from the county seat and 3 kilometers away from the hot spring. It is an ethnic village with a long history, represented by the Hong Yao nationality.

It is hard to imagine that many years ago, this place was a poor and backward place.

　　There is a saying that there are no mountains but no yao, no forests no seedlings, no mountains no dongs, no waters no strong.

As the land where the five ethnic groups of Yao, Miao, Dong, Zhuang, and Han thrived, Longsheng is surrounded by mountains, surrounded by five rivers, with pleasant scenery, but very inconvenient transportation, which greatly hinders economic development.

　　"At that time, there were very few bowls and quilts. Sometimes the family wanted to receive guests, but there was no quilt." Long Guoying, a local villager who was a representative of the National People's Congress, recalled, "Before there was no running water, we could only carry water to drink. The village only has a well below the mountain. Everyone has to line up to pick water. If you don’t want to line up, just pick it up at midnight."

Long Guoying is being interviewed by China News Service reporter Zhang Xu

　　If you want to get rich, you need to build roads first, and the planning and construction of roads are quickly launched in the area.

On October 28, 2013, the construction of the Guisan Expressway was officially started and finally opened to traffic on October 26, 2017, becoming a golden passage for Hunan, Guizhou, and Guizhou.

　　Sure enough, the road was repaired and the economic development obviously kept up.

Baimian Yaozhai is on the tourist hotline from Longsheng to Hot Springs. Originally, there are not many tourists to Baimian Yaozhai. Since the completion of the Guisan Expressway, tourists have increased significantly, and more and more people have entered here.

The villagers started catering and homestays, and the mangosteen and passion fruit they planted also found new markets, and rural tourism was in full swing.

　　In addition to rural resources, the red resources of Baimian Yaozhai have also become the focus of tourism development.

It turned out that under the Baimian Yao Village, there was a piece of Red Army Rock, originally named Long Tongue Rock and Bright Rock.

In 1934, when the Red Army passed the Longsheng Long March, the slogan "The Red Army Absolutely Protects the People" written under this boulder is still legible. Therefore, this dragon tongue rock is also known as the "Red Army Rock" and it has also become a dragon. A famous attraction in Shenghong Tourism.

As a red cultural base, Baimian Yaozhai lived a life of "singing folk songs and engaging in tourism" through cooperation with travel agencies.

　　Rural characteristics, beautiful landscape, Hongyao style, red mark...

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Taking advantage of the east wind brought by the highway construction, Baimian Yaozhai finally became "red" and "fired". Many people in the village opened farmhouses and ate tourist meals.

It is understood that by the end of 2020, 511 impoverished people from 121 households in Zhoujia Village, where Baimian Yaozhai is located, have all been lifted out of poverty, and the per capita net income of the village has reached 9,000 yuan.

　　Long Guoying recalled the days of the year and still had a lot of sighs, "The county used to have a meeting at 4 o'clock in the afternoon, and I had to go out early in the morning to get it. Now it only costs 9 yuan and it takes only two hours by car to get there. The roads are convenient. , Tourism has also developed, and every household’s income has increased."

　　Mountain songs sounded in the ears again, and the people of the Hongyao nationality put on their favorite red clothes and danced.

Entering Dashanzhai at high speed, the Hongyao people's road to get rich is getting wider and wider.

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