The construction of Yangshan Island Container Town has added new colors to the development of the sea. Photo by Shao Zexian
On December 23, in the Lianyun District Lianyun District scenic spot in Lianyungang City, Jiangsu Province, tourists shuttled between the newly unveiled sand sculpture groups to take a group photo, and in the newly upgraded tourist service center, the "net red" sections such as the Island Memories Intangible Cultural Heritage, Lianyun Tour Ceremony, and Shiguang Post Office also welcomed a large number of tourists to punch in. The creation of the seaside style town has made the winter tour of the island fishing village heat up day by day, driving the realization of the transformation of private houses into homestays, products into gifts, and resources into assets, which perfectly helps the transformation of good scenery into a beautiful economy and a better life.
In recent years, based on the "Belt and Road" land-sea intersection hub, Lianyun District has taken the theme of highlighting the characteristics of the seashore, and through the protection of bedrock shoreline resources, the improvement of overall planning, the upgrading of modern infrastructure, etc., high-grade forging characteristic towns, multi-level enrichment of urban connotations, and strive to build the only coastal characteristic urban area in the province. Nowadays, the rising hard-core town is scattered with stars and lifts the beautiful Pearl of Jiangsu Coastal.
The construction of the seaweed industrial park has formed an industrialization pattern of research, education, breeding and processing. Photo by Wang Jianmin
The "Duojin Town" pilot industry is booming
Greeting the first rays of dawn in the morning, Zhou Wei, senior engineer of the College of Marine Life and Fisheries of Jiangsu Ocean University, took a breeding boat and ran to the marine ranch he had in mind. Since his appointment in the Forestry and Sea Bureau of Lianyun District and the streets of Gaogong Island, he has gone to sea for many times to investigate, focusing on the comprehensive development of aquaculture in warm drainage sea areas, and promoting industry-university-research cooperation with Jiangsu Nuclear Power. Members of the "Science and Technology Town Mayors' Group" like Zhou Wei have become the backbone and leader of the township and street officials.
Thanks to professional and pragmatic guidance, the development positioning of Gaogong Island 'Nori Town' has become clearer. Accelerate the upgrading of pillar industries such as marine aquaculture and seaweed processing, implement the upgrading and transformation of national first-class fishing ports, and promote the development of projects such as Yangshan Island and The second phase of the Seaweed Industrial Park, and the construction of "the first town of seaweed in the country" has gradually entered a better situation. At present, the street offshore seaweed breeding area of more than 80,000 mu, with more than 40 seaweed processing enterprises, more than 80 seaweed production lines, the annual output value of more than 800 million yuan.
On the other side of the cross-sea bridge, Banqiao Street, which faces across the sea, relies on the geographical advantages of adjacent to the Shanghai Logistics Park, Xuwei New Area and Economic Development Zone, and lays out the direction of the logistics town. "Supporting the development plan of Huale Alloy Leading Enterprises, the villagers raised more than 7 million yuan and built a new logistics yard of 30,000 square meters, which not only met the needs of enterprise goods circulation and storage, but also brought a stable income of 1.3 million yuan per year to the village." Yang Tao, secretary of the party branch of Zhangxing Village in the subdistrict, said. Relying on the targeted force of the win-win model of village enterprises, Zhangxing Village has become the city's "top ten villages" with an annual collective income of more than 10 million. The long-term goal of building an industrial neighborhood center is leading the town to a new level.
Tourists linger in the Republican style scene of Lianyun Ancient Town. Photo by He Kangpeng
"Tone Town" echoes the cultural excitement
Stone walls, stone houses, stone roads, stone streets, and every stone material in Lianyun Ancient Town tells the historical context. "The starting point of the land bridge, the old kiln port, the mountain and sea stone city, the Mixture of Chinese and Western", as a positioning, Lianyun Street carried out restorative construction, and successively built ten characteristic exhibition halls such as the Longhai Railway History Museum, the Old Street History and Culture Museum, the Folk Craft Hall, and the Journey to the West Cultural Center, and more than 100 "time-honored brands" and non-heritage museums that have been settled successively have made the "tone" here full. This year, under the guidance of special activities such as the "Long March Suite Song" tour and the "Legend of Tianhai" light and shadow show, Lianyungang Old Street Historical and Cultural Block has also ranked among the provincial "night culture and tourism consumption agglomeration areas".
Protection is a priority, repairing the old as old. With Lianyun Ancient Town as the leader, Lianyun District seizes the advantages of the free trade zone and the opportunities of the "Belt and Road", relying on the historical buildings left over from the establishment of the port, on the basis of continuing the external pattern, repairing the building façade, strengthening indoor development, creating a folk activity brand, giving it a high position and new functions to carry forward the culture of mountains and seas and the Silk Road, and a coastal cultural town carrying the memory of Lianyun is about to come out.
The "eight-room" homestay is a pastoral complex with healthy and leisure characteristics. Photo by He Kangpeng
The "Forest Town" glows with ecological beauty
"With the opening of water and the construction of roads, tea planting and homestay business have a new beginning." Villager Xia Shaomin said. A series of "practical things for the people" to make up for the shortcomings of people's livelihood, Jiangsu's highest village Dazhuyuan Village has access to municipal tap water, and the "four good" rural road Da mast Jian Road has become a new link to the outside world in 4 alpine villages such as Xiazhuang, which have laid a solid foundation for the rapid development of characteristic towns.
It is understood that the western foothills of Sucheng Mountain in the Yuntai Mountains still retain the place names of "Tao'an" and "Wuling". Extended from Tao Yuanming's former residence, based on alpine ecology, the local revitalization of village housing resources, the integration of Yunwu tea garden, the establishment of Yuntai Mountain anti-Japanese stone carving patriotism education base, Maple Bay Adventure Park, Catalpa Flower Festival and other new carriers of streetscape integration, so that ecological tourism, ancient village slow travel, sports experience, health and leisure have become the key words of development, and the prototype of the "Xanadu" forest wellness town has begun to appear.
At present, Lianyun District is actively planning the creation of the National Rural Industrial Integration Development Demonstration Park and the 5A-level Scenic Spot of Haishang Mountain, coordinating and accelerating the pace of construction of the Tangwang Lake National Water Conservancy Scenic Area, the traditional village of Dazhu Garden, and the characteristic pastoral countryside of Liuyunling, and at the same time docking with the Institute of Leisure Agriculture of the Provincial Academy of Agricultural Sciences, improving the formulation of forest health planning, optimizing the tour route, and constantly creating a new situation in the construction of mountains, seas and cities, and creating the most Jiangsu characteristics of the coastal "paradise". (Yi Min)
Source: People's Daily - Jiangsu Channel