China News Service, Yichang, May 9 (Yang Yijun) "After viewing cherry blossoms in February, and picking cherries in April, our business is getting better and better." On May 9, in Yiling District, Yichang City, Hubei Province, in Wenwen Xu Yongzhen, a villager who runs a farmhouse in Xiandong Village, said cheerfully that after the renovation of Xiaonan Road, more people came. The farmhouse business was booming in the past weekend.

Rural roads are strung with green waters and green mountains.

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  Xiaonan Road starts from Songhu Road, Dingjiaba, Xiaoxi Ta Dingjiaba, Yiling District, Yichang City, and ends at Wenxiandong Village at Nanjinguan Village and connects to National Highway 348.

This 7.5-kilometer rural road connects many mountain villages with beautiful scenery along the way. It is a model road for the integrated economic development of agriculture and tourism built by Yiling, and it is also a local "high-value" Internet celebrity road.

Rural roads connect tea gardens in series, providing transportation support for the integrated development of tea tourism.

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  "Wenxiandong Village is an old cherry-picking place in Yichang. The construction of the Sihao Rural Road not only facilitates the production and life of the villagers, but also empowers us to develop the tourism industry." Liao Guiling, secretary of the Party branch of Wenxiandong Village, said that the whole village has opened Having owned 20 farmhouses, the villagers have embarked on the "fast track" of getting rich by operating farmhouses.

  Located at the mouth of the Xiling Gorge of the Three Gorges of the Yangtze River, Yiling is the location of the Three Gorges Project and the most important ecological barrier area of ​​the Three Gorges.

80% of Yiling is rural, the output of citrus is in the forefront of the province, and the comprehensive strength of the tea industry ranks first in the province.

The "Four Good Rural Roads" are all over the villages and groups, connecting urban and rural areas.

Photo by Li Chongqing

  In recent years, Yiling has vigorously promoted the construction of "Four Good Rural Roads", forming a rural road transportation network with urban areas as the center, townships as nodes, and organized villages as outlets, covering villages and groups and connecting urban and rural areas. , agricultural resources and other important nodes are connected in series, allowing farmers to share the dividends of transportation development.

  In Taipingxi Town, Three Gorges Dam District, a number of industrial roads, such as Luojing Line and Longhuang Road, link tea gardens to help the rapid development of the tea industry.

Thanks to the convenient and smooth traffic conditions, the town has sold nearly 300 tons of dry tea since the park opened this year, and achieved sales income of more than 50 million yuan.

  Up to now, Yiling has built and renovated 486.153 kilometers of rural roads, and the total mileage of rural roads has reached 4,734 kilometers, which has injected a steady stream of vitality into rural revitalization.

During the "May Day" holiday this year, Yiling received a total of 988,000 tourists and achieved a comprehensive tourism income of about 830 million yuan.

  According to reports, during the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, Yiling will make every effort to create a "rural road +" characteristic brand, realize the integrated development of rural road construction and characteristic towns, beautiful villages, pastoral complexes, agricultural industrial parks and other carriers, so as to provide rural roads with a better future. The revitalization provides strong transportation support.

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