China News Service, Lanzhou, April 28 (Zhang Wenbo) Strolling through the hawthorn flower forest, admiring rare birds and animals, and tasting farm food... In late April, in Tongwei County, Dingxi City, Gansu Province, in the hilly and gully area of ​​the Loess Plateau, there is a 10,000-mu hawthorn garden. The flowers bloom like white snow, dotted with the loess plateau, and there is a "different kind of spring".

  The "Hawthorn Town" in Changjiahe Town, Tongwei County, deep in the mountains and at the bottom of the gully, was originally arid and water-deficient, leaving the impression of "backwardness" to the outside world.

Today, local officials have built hawthorn gardens and various vegetable and fruit picking bases. Combined with Tongwei's reputation as "the hometown of Chinese painting and calligraphy", and the leisure conditions of natural hot springs, calligraphy and painting, red, hot springs, ancient castles, terraced fields, the Great Wall, The "seven business cards" of traditional ancient villages continue to enrich the supply of characteristic culture and tourism products, and promote the upgrading of cultural and tourism consumption.

  In 2022, Tongwei County's "May Day" Rehabilitation Week and the 4th Changjiahe Hawthorn Town Rural Cultural Tourism Activities were launched recently.

Changjiahe "Hawthorn Town" is an agricultural sightseeing area integrating agricultural demonstration, ecological education, industrial training, rural tourism, and intensive processing of agricultural products.

  It is reported that the scenic spot is based on circular agriculture, creative agriculture, agricultural experience, etc., and is committed to building a "characteristic industry + sightseeing tourism" industrial demonstration park integrating agricultural planting, livestock and poultry breeding, leisure and vacation, and local cultural display.

  Chang Haizeng, chairman of Changjiahe Fuxingde Cooperative, said that Hawthorn Town is committed to creating a rural and idyllic landscape for local modern and efficient sightseeing and leisure living.

Today, it has become the first choice for local ecological sightseeing tours, rural experience tours, leisure vacation tours, and health and wellness tours.

  In recent years, Gansu has accelerated the construction of a strong tourism province, and Dingxi has built a unique tourism belt along the Silk Road and a wellness and leisure tourism destination on the Maritime Silk Road.

Based on this, Tongwei County has built the “One Belt, One Road” tourism destination for calligraphy and painting, hot springs, leisure, health and wellness, the national “calligraphy and painting +” farming culture and leisure tourism base, the best viewing spot for rime and ice and snow tourism in western China, and the best scenic spot for wind power sketching and photography in western China. It is a good gathering place, the best destination for summer tourism in western China, and a provincial-level all-for-one tourism demonstration county.

  Chang Haizeng said that with the advent of the era of national tourism and leisure, they will make full use of the cultural tourism festival platform to develop characteristic tourism products and build a hawthorn town with "flowers in spring, green in summer, fruits in autumn and scenery in winter". ”, an uninterrupted rural tourism brand throughout the year.

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