China News Agency, Jiangxi Wuning, August 22nd: The first village of Lingai in Jiangxi: From "selling hills" to "selling ecology"
China News Agency reporter Wu Pengquan
"It's full almost every day now, and I plan to increase the number of houses." Lu Xianfeng, who eats "tourist meals" at the door of his house, has been very busy recently.
Lu Xianfeng's home is located in Changshui Village, Luoping Town, Wuning County, Jiujiang City, Jiangxi Province, under the Wuling Rock in the Jiuling Mountains.
Changshui Village is a 4A-level scenic spot in China and a beautiful leisure village in China. There are 17 yew trees in the village, known as "giant pandas of the plant world".
However, decades ago, this small mountain village surrounded by mountains was a different story.
Like many villages in China's forest areas, the villagers of Changshui Village used to "rely on the mountains with money and the forests for food".
"In the past, everyone thought about going up the mountain to cut trees. It can be said that there are targets to cut down, but there are no targets to cut down secretly. The big trees on the mountain are almost cut down." Shi Huaibing, a 50-year-old villager in Changshui Village, said that because he couldn't For a long time, many villagers left their hometowns and went out to make a living.
In 2004, a major change in China's land use system, the collective forest tenure system reform (referred to as "forest reform"), was carried out in Changshui Village.
All 124,000 mu of mountain forests have been contracted to households, and more than 400 villagers have obtained forest tenure certificates. Changshui Village has become the first village for forest reform in Jiangxi Province.
"After the forest reform, the villagers 'take good care of their own mountains and look after their own forests', and at the same time their enthusiasm for forest cultivation has increased significantly." Zhao Gang, Secretary of the Party Committee of Luoping Town, Wuning County, said in an interview with a reporter from China News Agency that in 2017, Changshui Village began to implement The "Forest Chief System" has formed a forest resource protection and management mechanism led by the government, linked by departments, and participated by the whole people. In the past five years, villagers have spontaneously planted more than 1,000 mu of forest in the mountains.
From "sit and eat the mountains and the sky" with peace of mind, to "raising the mountains and protecting the mountains" at the top of the heart, the forest reform of dividing the mountains to the households and the forests to the people has made Changshui Village realize "mountain rights, trees fix roots, and people peace of mind".
After years of hard work, the mountains in the village are green and the water is clear.
Listening to the gurgling water and looking at the beautiful peaks and mountains around, the new identity of "forest ranger" made Shi Huaibing, who was once a member of the "mountain cutting" team, feel a heavy burden on his shoulders.
"I patrol the mountains for about 4 hours a day. In addition to checking the pests and diseases of the trees, I also need to do a good job in forest fire prevention."
Changshui Village, which was once troubled by "guarding the green hills and eating poverty", now relies on superior forest ecological resources to develop new formats such as under-forest economy, eco-tourism, and forest health care according to local conditions, and has gone out of a way from "selling hills" to "selling ecology". "The "Xinglin Fumin" road.
The transformation of Changshui Village has attracted Lu Xianfeng, who is engaged in tourism abroad, to return to his hometown to start a business. He has built a health resort in the village that integrates accommodation, catering, health care, and leisure and entertainment.
Looking at tourists coming in droves, and on the winding and tidy village roads, there are many B&Bs, farmhouses, and specialty shops. Lu Xianfeng firmly believes that rural areas with a good ecological environment have great potential.
Changshui Village has also built a Changshui Ecological Circulation Industrial Park covering an area of more than 1,000 mu, adhering to the integration of industrial development and ecological protection, the integration of agricultural industry and rural tourism, the integration of collective development and people's enrichment, covering ecological orchards, honey gardens, and recycling industrial parks. , Juncao Garden and other four major industries.
Statistics show that in 2021, the annual tourist number of Changshui Scenic Spot will be 500,000, the tourism income will be nearly 100 million yuan (RMB, the same below), the annual income of the village collective economy will reach 940,000 yuan, and the per capita annual income will reach 30,000 yuan.
While talking, Lu Xianfeng, who had picked up the ecological "golden rice bowl", picked up another call to book a room.
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