(70 years of the peaceful liberation of Tibet) Walking on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau: "Symphony" for rural revitalization played on the "Tianlu"
China News Agency, Lhasa, August 4th, title: Walking on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau: "Symphony" for rural revitalization played on "Tianlu"
China News Agency reporter Liu Zhongjun and Wang Peng
“There are now 14 homestays in our village that have posted room information on the Internet, and several rooms have been booked for National Day holidays.” In the midsummer season, the sunshine in Ganzi Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture of Sichuan is hot and the village is in Shuiqiao Village, Kangding City. Chen Xudong, the first secretary of the village, is very proud of the current situation.
On the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, most Tibetans live in deep mountains and valleys. In recent years, with the development of poverty alleviation, many Tibetan villages have been given new vitality.
Recently, reporters from China News Service re-traveled the "Tian Road" through Ganzi, Sichuan, Qamdo, Tibet and other places, and finally arrived in Lhasa. They were also "listening" to the "Symphony" of rural revitalization along the way.
Go west along the 318 National Highway and cross the Zheduo Mountain Pass at an altitude of more than 4,000 meters to reach Shuiqiao Village.
Standing in the village and looking back, the distant mountains are towering, and the waves are rolling.
The small village is surrounded by streams, dotted with yaks, and Tibetan-style houses are staggered.
Shuiqiao Village, which was lifted out of poverty in 2018, is now the "net celebrity" check-in location on National Highway 318.
"In the past, villagers could not have enough food and clothes." Chen Xudong said that Shuiqiao Village was relatively scarce in resources, without matsutake or cordyceps. In the past, villagers mainly grew highland barley and corn for a living, with a meager income.
"In the fight against poverty, considering that the village is close to the national highway, we tried to build a homestay inn." Chen Xudong said that now Shuiqiao Village combines poverty alleviation with rural tourism and beautiful rural construction, transforms the village’s infrastructure, and establishes a visitor center. At the same time, it encourages and helps villagers to transform Tibetan houses into inns.
During the National Day holiday in 2020, the village's income from homestay tourism and local product sales reached more than 2 million yuan (RMB, the same below).
77-year-old Ze Yangren is really the first poor household in Shuiqiao Village to get rid of poverty.
In 2018, he transformed the house into a 4-room inn, and also provided special Tibetan meals.
"As soon as the tourist season comes, my house is full, and this item earns 10,000 to 20,000 yuan each year." Zeyang Renzhen said.
In Xianshui Town, Daofu County, Ganzi Prefecture, rural revitalization "played" in another way-Kham Plateau Botanical Garden.
This botanical garden on the banks of the Xianshui River has a green area of more than 200 acres. It is the highest-altitude botanical garden in Sichuan Province.
"The Western Sichuan Plateau is a typical ecologically fragile area. We transplanted 32 kinds of seedlings, including yew, spruce, five-leaf maple, larch, and Kangding magnolia, with more than 80,000 plants and more than 1,400 seeds of various flowers and plants. Into the greenhouse flower shed of the Botanical Garden, all kinds of flowers are competing for beauty. He Xingming, the person in charge of the Botanical Garden, told reporters that this area focuses on the conservation, introduction, cultivation, and domestication of native plants in Ganzi Prefecture. It is a collection of scientific research, cultural experience, and leisure tourism. As a whole plateau plant research base.
According to the staff of Daofu County Forestry Bureau, since the establishment of the Botanical Garden, by providing 50 to 70 jobs for a long time, the local people have actually increased their income by more than 5 million yuan.
Under the sun, Wengmu, a villager in Xianshui Town, was looking after flowers and plants in the Botanical Garden.
She said: "It turns out that my family is a poor household with a registered card. After Murakami provided me with this position, not only did my income increase, but I also had free time to pick up the dolls every day."
He Xingming said that in the future, the Botanical Garden will continue to introduce more than 1,000 species of plants and combine existing resources to accelerate the establishment of a research base for the Khampa Plateau Botanical Garden. "
Across the Jinsha River, in Zituo Town, Luolong County, Changdu, Tibet, the Luolong County Poverty Alleviation (Quanluo) Featured Industrial Park, which is crossed by National Highway 349, is the new "engine" for local rural revitalization.
There are now 18 enterprises settled in the park, with an investment of 220 million yuan.
Luolong County is the throat of the Ancient Tea-Horse Road. It is known as the granary in eastern Tibet because of its abundance of highland barley. The "Luolong Zanba" is even more famous.
Today, Luozong Specialty Product Development Company sells tsampa biscuits, highland barley cakes, highland barley noodles to Lhasa, Tianjin, Chongqing, Sichuan, Fujian, etc. land.
Walking into the production workshop, the tsampa biscuits fresh out of the oven on the conveyor belt are scented.
"We now provide 300,000 bags of tsampa biscuits for Tibet Airlines every year." Zeren Dunzhu, general manager of the company, introduced that the company signed purchase contracts with more than 1,000 barley farmers at a price higher than the market price, achieving an average household income increase of 1,200. Yuan.
"You are not here. During the high season for highland barley purchases, it is very lively. Farmers who drive cars to sell highland barley form a long line every day." Zeren Dunzhu said that in addition to high-priced purchases, the company also provides jobs for poor households. .
The company has 45 employees, 38 of whom are poor households, with an average monthly income of about 2,600 yuan.
According to statistics, Luolong County has so far developed 56 professional cooperatives of various types, which have played an important role in increasing the income of farmers and herdsmen and revitalizing the countryside.
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