China News Service, Tianjin, August 15th: Tianjin: Revitalize idle homesteads to make "sleeping old houses" generate gold
Author Yang Ziyang
During the summer vacation, the old house of Zhou Xuejun, a villager in Xidafota Village, Guanzhuang Town, Jizhou District, Tianjin, was always lively. Eat fruits and breathe the fresh air with high negative oxygen ions in the mountains.
When it's time for dinner, you can also taste mountain delicacies in the chicly decorated room.
For more than a month, Zhou Xuejun's old house has received nearly 1,000 tourists, and the income from accommodation alone has reached nearly 20,000 yuan.
Everyone in the village is envious: the old house that has been idle for many years has begun to make money!
"My house was empty and no one lived in it before. It had been idle for many years, and weeds growing in the yard were more than a person's height. Later, the village committee informed me that the idle house could be rented out through the platform of Tianjin Agricultural Exchange. When we go out to make a homestay, a company specializing in tourism will pay for the decoration. Our villagers can receive a stable rent every year, and at the same time, those who participate in the homestay service work also have salary income." Zhou Xuejun told reporters that after the old house was renovated into a homestay, he again He was hired to work in a homestay, with a salary of 60,000 to 70,000 yuan a year.
"The old house has been empty for many years, and I didn't expect to be able to 'make money'." In April this year, Tianjin Yundu Tourism Development Co., Ltd. transferred the right to use the rural homestead from Zhou Xuejun at an annual rent of 20,000 yuan.
This is the first attempt at the pilot reform of the homestead in Xidafota Village, Guanzhuang Town, and it is also the first rural idle homestead to be revitalized through the online platform led by the village collective.
Photo by Yang Ziyang of the courtyard of an idle homestead of a villager in West Dafota Village
In April this year, in order to implement the "Guiding Opinions of Tianjin Municipality on Accelerating the Promotion of Idle Homesteads and Idle Residences in Rural Areas", Tianjin Rural Property Exchange explored the adoption of unified leasing, entrustment by farmers, and shareholding by farmers under the leadership of village collective economic organizations. Cooperation and other methods are used to centrally integrate the village's idle homestead and idle residential resources.
And establish a unified database of idle homesteads and idle houses in the city, innovatively adopt the "one book, one chain" model, the Agricultural Exchange will issue a unified transaction certificate, and the transaction information will be independently assigned on the blockchain to protect the legitimate rights and interests of both parties.
Guanzhuang Town is the gateway to Jizhou District, Tianjin, and is the location of Panshan, a national five-A-level scenic spot, adjacent to Pinggu District, Beijing.
In combination with local resource endowments, Guanzhuang Town introduces business entities to develop innovative "homestay +" and "tourism +" products for the villagers' idle homesteads and houses, guide precise positioning, and implement differentiated operations.
Let the villagers turn idle houses and courtyards into rural boutique B&Bs under the premise of "not leaving the soil, not leaving the hometown, and not leaving the industry", and upgrade the villagers who are willing to transform into tourism service operations and who currently have surplus labor and surplus labor time to tourism servant.
Around the "Xiyundu" B&B in West Dafo Pagoda Village, picking butter peaches, grapes, Mopan persimmons, red fruits, etc. has gradually formed, playing in Chilean style gardens, leisure fishing, and in winter, there are special experience projects such as Panshan International Ski Resort.
The four seasons of the year are full of tourists, and the reform of the rural homestead system has made "sleeping" assets "live" and has become an important starting point for the revitalization of rural industries.
Photo courtesy of Guanzhuang Town Rong Media Center
"There are 282 villagers in our village. Through the trading platform of Tianjin Agricultural Exchange, the village collective has signed contracts with 9 villagers to transfer their idle homesteads, and another 30 villagers have initially reached the intention of transfer." Guanzhuang Lv Minghao, the village party secretary of Dafota Village in the town, told reporters that under the supervision and guidance of the town government, the village collective joint-stock cooperative and social capital jointly established this tourism development company, which is specially responsible for operating services and ensuring the market-oriented operation of homestays.
Lv Minghao said: "The village collective takes 10% of the shares of the operating company as the main body of the ownership of the homestead, and receives dividends every year. Villagers can get rental income from renting out the homestead, and at the same time, they can also enjoy the dividends of the village collective with other villagers. In addition, we Combining the branding of agricultural products with the development of homestays, extending the industrial chain, making the village rich, making the villagers’ pockets swell, and making the living environment beautiful.” (End)