Source: Xinhua News Agency
Lhasa, 25 May (Xinhua) -- With the arrival of the tourist season, more and more tourists are entering Tibet to feel Tibet's unique natural and cultural landscapes. The Deqing Baizhen family of the "Old Aunt Qingbari WineRy" in Karu Village, Nimu County, has been very busy lately. "Although the winery is simply furnished, visitors can taste authentic barley wine here." She said.
Seizing the opportunity of tourism development, in addition to running a winery, the clever Deqing Baizhen also rented two extra houses in the family to the tourism company, and his daughter Tsering Zhuoga also found a job in the tourism company. Deqing Baizhen calculated an account for the reporter of the Economic Information Daily: the monthly rent of the rental house is 2,000 yuan, and the daughter's monthly salary is 2,800 yuan, and these two items alone can earn nearly 60,000 yuan a year.
"The days are much better now than before, and I feel that the taste of barley wine has become fragrant." Deqing Baizhen said with a smile.
In recent years, under the premise of ecological protection, Tibet has vigorously promoted tourism culture and plateau biology, green industry, clean energy, modern services, high-tech digital, and border trade logistics as "seven major industries". During the "13th Five-Year Plan" period, Tibet's industrial construction entered the fast lane, and the added value of the seven major industries exceeded 190 billion yuan, and the development benefits gradually appeared.
For many mainland tourists, Tibet is an eternal "poetry and far away" in their hearts. Nimu County, which has a deep historical heritage, is surrounded by mountains and rivers, and the buildings rich in Tibetan ethnic characteristics are dotted among the green mountains and trees, like a picture scroll, plus it is located next to the 318 National Highway, only more than 80 kilometers away from Lhasa City, with convenient transportation, and has become a place where many tourists "punch in". In recent years, Nimu County has relied on the superior resources such as collectors' homestays and the production of intangible cultural heritage products to vigorously develop global tourism, and guide households to invest in tourism industry projects in the form of land and labor services, thereby driving employment and increasing income.
With the development of the tourism industry, the masses who "eat tourism meals" have received real benefits. "In the past, our family made a living by farming and grazing cattle, and coupled with the poor health of our daughter, she was identified as a poor household with a record of lika." Deqing Baizhen said that nowadays, relying on tourism, life is really a big change.
Su Chu, a publicity specialist in Karu Village, said that in recent years, the village has vigorously developed tourism, coupled with the organization of villagers to contract nearby construction projects, etc., in 2020, the village's collective economic income reached 1.02 million yuan, and the villagers' per capita disposable income exceeded 16,000 yuan.
According to statistics, during the "Thirteenth Five-Year Plan" period, Tibet received a total of 157.6326 million domestic and foreign tourists and completed tourism income of 212.596 billion yuan, which was 2.3 times and 2.4 times that of the "Twelfth Five-Year Plan" period, respectively, and drove 75,000 poor people to achieve poverty alleviation.
The digital industry is also one of the industries with the rapid development momentum in Tibet in recent years. By the end of 2020, the Tibet Informatization Index increased from 63.3 in 2015 to 75.8; there were more than 300 software and information technology service enterprises in Tibet, and the scale of the digital economy exceeded 33 billion yuan, becoming an important engine for promoting the high-quality development of the region's economy.
Located in the High-tech Zone of Lhasa City, Tibet Ningsuan Technology Group Co., Ltd. is currently the largest cloud computing data center in Tibet. Jiang Ning, the company's president, said that because of the low temperature in Tibet, this can make their data running costs lower than in mainland provinces and most countries in the world.
The company moved to Tibet in 2015 and has a data center covering an area of 645,000 square meters, with a total investment of 11.8 billion yuan, and can accommodate 70,000 cabinets. According to the plan, the entire third phase of the project invested 2.8 billion yuan, 3 billion yuan and 6 billion yuan respectively, and the first phase and phase one of the projects have completed construction and put into trial operation.
The rapid development of Ningsuan Company is inseparable from the "combination fist" played by Tibet to promote the development of the digital economy. In order to ensure the subsequent construction and development of enterprises, Tibet has allocated 200 million yuan from local government bonds, and has also given enterprises all-round support in terms of electricity prices and infrastructure.
Photovoltaic panels shine in the sun, thousands of yaks or dairy cows continue to appear on large-scale farms, tropical fruits and fashionable flowers are produced from plateau greenhouses, and express deliveries can be received at the foot of Mount Everest, more and more farmers have become "professional farmers", and college students have achieved employment at their doorstep... With the development of the "seven major industries", the industrial development of various parts of Tibet is constantly showing surprising new scenes. (End)