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Visit the hometown of overseas Chinese leader Zeng Yongsen: the former "deserted village" has become a "feng village" into a Chinese rural tourism business card

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Visit the hometown of overseas Chinese leader Zeng Yongsen: the former "deserted village" has become a "feng village" into a Chinese rural tourism business card

Guangxi Beiliu citizen An town Feng village style. Photo by Huang Yanmei

Yulin, April 1 (Zhongxin Net) -- Visiting Zeng Yongsen's hometown: The former "deserted village" has become a "rich village" into a Chinese rural tourism business card

Written by Chen Qiuxia

In front of the majestic city tower, Zhao Tuo, the king of South Vietnam, wore armor and held the hilt of his sword, rode on a horse, and led thousands of troops to gallop... Enter Guangxi Tongshiling International Tourism Resort, and the spectacular statue group comes into view.

On April 1, the 2023 overseas Chinese media "Bagui Overseas Chinese Hometown Trip" interview group walked into the hometown of Zeng Yongsen, permanent honorary chairman of the World Chinese Federation and former chairman of the upper house of the Malaysian parliament - Feng Village, Anzhen, a citizen of Beiliu in Yulin, Guangxi.

Visit the hometown of overseas Chinese leader Zeng Yongsen: the former "deserted village" has become a "feng village" into a Chinese rural tourism business card

Guangxi Beiliu citizen An town Feng village style. Photo by Huang Yanmei

In Fengcun Village next to Tongshiling Scenic Area, small pale yellow buildings are eye-catching, and the gray tile walls, green courtyards, small rural parks, libraries, basketball courts, and copper drum cultural sculptures with Lingnan characteristics are dazzling.

"My aunts and uncles live in Malaysia and Singapore, and when they come back to their hometowns, they see the scenic spots and beautiful villages we have built, and they say, 'My hometown has changed so much.'" Yang Jinghua, the relevant person in charge of Tongshiling Scenic Area, said.

Tongshiling is a Han dynasty copper metallurgical and cast copper drum site, famous for the symbiosis of karst landforms and Danxia landforms. The Tongshiling tourism project, invested and built by Qiaojian Long Haisheng, has completed an investment of 800 million yuan (RMB, the same below) and has been rated as a national AAAA-level tourist attraction in China.

In recent years, Fengcun has made full use of its resource advantages at the foot of Tongshi Ridge to develop rural tourism and become a "national key village of rural tourism", attracting tourists from home and abroad.

Visit the hometown of overseas Chinese leader Zeng Yongsen: the former "deserted village" has become a "feng village" into a Chinese rural tourism business card

Representatives of overseas Chinese media visited the Tongshiling Scenic Area in Beiliu, Guangxi. Photo by Chen Qiuxia

Yang Jinghua introduced that Tongshiling Scenic Area receives more than 450,000 tourists every year, providing employment opportunities and free stalls for local people, and broadening the channels for villagers to increase income.

Zeng Guangnan, secretary of the Fengcun Party General Branch, said that there are 4,116 people in 1,034 households in Fengcun, and at present, there are 38 overseas Chinese living in Fengcun, and more than 120 returned overseas Chinese and their families. Many years ago, Fengcun was a humble "deserted village", due to the lack of industry, most of the villagers worked in agriculture, and young people relied on migrant work to support their families.

Today, Fengcun has guided the village collective and villagers to transfer 12,000 mu of mountain forests and land to promote the construction of Tongshiling scenic spot, and the village collective and villagers receive an annual income of 600,000 yuan, and many villagers are employed in the scenic spot, with a monthly per capita income of more than 3,000 yuan. Fengcun also revitalized 2.5 mu of idle land, built standardized workshops, and introduced luggage enterprises. "When the factory is built, villagers will be able to find employment on their doorstep." Zeng Guangnan said.

"The families of returned overseas Chinese and their families have played a role in rural revitalization." Zeng Guangnan said that Fengcun has set up a village-level overseas Chinese federation organization to mobilize returned overseas Chinese, their families, and rural enterprises to actively participate in rural revitalization construction, and drive villagers to develop high-quality rice, passion fruit and other characteristic industries.

Visit the hometown of overseas Chinese leader Zeng Yongsen: the former "deserted village" has become a "feng village" into a Chinese rural tourism business card

A group of statues in Tongshiling International Tourism Resort in Guangxi. Photo by Huang Yanmei

"The rural landscape of Guangxi has been completely renewed, and it has undergone tremendous changes." 15 years later, he visited Guangxi again for an interview, and Yan Fango, deputy editor-in-chief of the African "Overseas Chinese Weekly", said with deep feelings. He said that Fengcun is a successful exploration in Guangxi to give full play to the strength of overseas Chinese to promote rural revitalization, and he will certainly give more publicity.

In recent years, Yulin City has extensively mobilized overseas Chinese, overseas Chinese businessmen and overseas Chinese leaders to participate in rural revitalization construction, continued to promote the construction of a number of overseas Chinese villages such as Guquan Village in Liuwang Town, Rong County and Pengyuan Village in Rendong Town, Yuzhou District, and built a famous cultural tourism village and rural revitalization demonstration point in overseas Chinese township. The construction of the most beautiful overseas Chinese village is closely combined with the improvement of the living environment and the revitalization and development of the countryside, and the overseas Chinese village is full of vitality and vitality. (End)

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