The forest and sea are reckless, the scenery is all four seasons, surrounded by mountains and rivers, and the scenery is pleasant. Liuzhen Town, located in the "C" position of Quanjiao County, is a beautiful thousand-year-old town, and a "Avenue of Love" that interprets countless love stories has attracted countless tourists from other parts of the Yangtze River Delta. In recent years, relying on the landscape of "Ten Miles of Changshan - Avenue of Love", the party committee and government of Liuzhen Town have vigorously developed rural tourism, continuously improved infrastructure, and formed an integrated development model of agriculture and tourism based on agricultural production, with rural tourism and health care services as the core, and the sales of characteristic agricultural products as the extension.
Avenue of Love Attracts Tourists from All Directions to Spend "Qixi" Together
On August 19th, three days before the traditional "Qixi" Festival, the first Qixi Cultural Tourism Festival in Liuzhen Town, Quanjiao County was grandly opened in Chaigang Village, Liuzhen Town, folk cultural performances and romantic "Qixi" atmosphere met unexpectedly, attracting thousands of tourists from Nanjing and Hefei.
In addition to watching various cultural performances, tourists can also experience parent-child picking, take photos and check in on Love Avenue, buy special agricultural products, and participate in a variety of fun games, such as love pot edge, clever guessing lantern riddles, needle begging, cupid's arrow, the cultural atmosphere is very strong.
"Walking on the Avenue of Love, enjoying the refreshing and cool breeze of early autumn, feeling comfortable, and feeling fully relaxed physically and mentally." Ms. Qin, a tourist from Nanjing, said that strolling through the ten-mile-long cedar forest with her family or loved ones is like smearing honey on life.
"With the theme of 'Romantic Qixi for Love', this year's Qixi Cultural Tourism Festival aims to promote the integration of culture and tourism and help rural revitalization and high-quality development." Lin Xiang, publicity member of Liuzhen Town, told reporters that the local supporting facilities have built the Love Avenue Tourist Trail and surrounding parking lots, sales points, micro-landscapes, etc., forming a number of landmark achievements of the six towns section of Jiaoling Scenic Road.
Lin Xiang said that the 100-acre lotus flowers next to Love Avenue are in full bloom, which blends with the landscape and becomes a good place for tourists to enjoy the flowers. Tourists can taste rural food, stroll along the Avenue of Love, feel the vow of love, pick lotus canopies, taste lotus seeds, and enjoy the beauty of lotus flowers.
According to reports, in recent years, Liuzhen Town has further activated the cultural tourism resources of landscape and forest land, explored the high-quality development path of tourism in the new era, eco-tourism and Shanshui village economy have flourished, more and more villagers have embarked on the road to prosperity through rural cultural tourism related industries, and the rural cultural tourism industry has gradually become a new "engine" for rural revitalization in Liuzhen Town.
The thousand-year-old town promotes the rapid development of agricultural and tourism integration
"Liuzhen Town is a thousand-year-old town with rich history and cultural heritage. In ancient times, it was an important commercial and trade town for transportation and was also the hometown of Yangzhou Hua Qionghua. Ren Quan, the mayor of Liuzhen Town, told reporters that folk activities such as "Old Han Cart", "Hand Lion Dance" and "Stilt Walking" have been included in the list of intangible cultural heritage, showing the long history and profound cultural heritage of Liuzhen.
The town of Six Towns also has many historical places of interest. Jianghuai Famous Three Pagoda Temple was built in the Sui Dynasty and has always been a tourist attraction for tourists; Shenshan Temple was built in the Tang Dynasty and has accumulated a strong cultural heritage; Wei Yingwu, a great poet of the Tang Dynasty, wrote a poem "Sending the Taoist Priest in the Jiaoshan Mountain" depicting the distant and ethereal spirit of the sacred mountain, attracting countless tourists to come; Later Zhou Emperor Chai Rong once garrisoned troops in Shenshan, leaving behind the ancient site Chai Wang Jing, witnessing that unforgettable history.
Liuzhen Town also has vast natural scenery. The 30,000-mu National Forest Park is full of sacred mountains and seas, with a forest coverage rate of 94%; The beautiful waters, strange stones, and illusionary caves of the sacred mountain make countless tourists linger; Mulongshan Ecotourism Scenic Area is a tourist "net red" place, and the landscape along the route with the theme of "Shanshan only comes because of you" has become a place for taking photos.
He is full of confidence in the development of the six towns and towns. He said that Liuzhen Town adheres to the concept of planning and promoting the integrated development of agriculture, culture and tourism with the concept of the whole region, continues to build a love avenue, relies on the "leisurely" reception center, excavates and drives the needs of parent-child culture and tourism, and actively carries out agricultural picking open experience activities.
With the development idea of "prosperous town, strong town with characteristics, and rich town in tourism", and the construction of the rural revitalization demonstration belt of the Jianghuai Watershed Scenic Road as the starting point, Liuzhen Town carefully planned two articles of modern agriculture and cultural tourism to transform the beautiful appearance of the countryside into economic output value and promote the highly integrated development of agriculture and tourism.
Beautiful countryside makes the ecology livable and picturesque
Walking through the paths of the Metasequoia forest by the autumn sun reveals the lush peaks, lush trees and grass. From time to time, young people take photos in front of the "Ten Mile Long Cedar" to enjoy this picturesque rural beauty.
Zhouwa New Village is now renewed, with a beautiful ecological environment, complete functional facilities, greatly improved rural style, a significant improvement in the sense of gain and happiness of the masses, and a civilized and harmonious rural style, and was rated as the first beautiful village of Anhui Province in 2021, a beautiful courtyard demonstration village in Quanjiao County in 2022, and a civilized village and town in Chuzhou City in 2023, presenting a harmonious picture of livability and work.
Under the impetus of the rural revitalization strategy, the party committee and government of Liuzhen Town actively promoted the construction of Fan Liu Group in Dongwang Village, the construction of human settlement environment points in Dazhang Taoyuan New Village, and the improvement of the style along the Jiaoling Scenic Road, forming a rural beauty of "one household, one scene, one village and one painting". Today, Liuzhen Town has vast fields, quiet country paths, refreshing lakes and a variety of plants, making it feel like you are in a beautiful picture.
In terms of social governance, Liuzhen Town learned from the successful experience of Zhejiang, practiced the "Fengqiao Experience" in the new era, and built the six towns of Ping'an, and the town police station was successfully established as the first batch of Fengqiao-style public security police stations in the province. The town implements the "1+5+N" working mechanism, attaches great importance to the initial visit of the first letter and the resolution of backlog cases, and improves the ability to deal with complex situations and resolve conflicts and disputes. The implementation of this mechanism not only improves the efficiency of the government, but also maintains social harmony and stability, making the ecology more livable.
In terms of ecological civilization construction, the Liuzhen Town Government deeply practices the concept of "green water and green mountains are golden mountains and silver mountains", actively grasps the rectification of various environmental protection inspectors' feedback problems, implements special rectification of scattered polluting enterprises, and fights a protracted battle for the consolidation and improvement of the ecological environment. The implementation of these measures has protected the ecological environment of the countryside and has given strong support to the strategy of rural revitalization.
Leisurely picking garden Shen Guo/Photo
Mulongshan Dendrobium Shen Guo/Photo
Industrial revitalization is the "engine" of rural revitalization
To revitalize the countryside, industry needs to go first. Liuzhen Town has taken advantage of the important location of the Jianghuai Watershed Scenic Road to create characteristic industries, and pecans, potatoes, lotus seeds and other characteristic agricultural products have reached a scale. Green products such as Huaxi Lake turtle, large mandarin fish, Mulongshan dendrobium, and leisurely fruits and vegetables have long "brushed the screen" of the north and south of the river, and Dendrobium Town shows its unique charm.
"My grapes of 50 yuan a pound are in short supply online. The cultural tourism activities held in the town have greatly increased the sales of our grapes, and we are worthy beneficiaries of the opening of the scenic path. Feng Xiaolei, a college student who returned to his hometown to start a business, said that the scale of his picking garden in the Mulongshan demonstration area has expanded year by year, and now has 150 acres of greenhouses and 120 acres of hanging vine watermelons.
The superior business environment has become fertile ground for investors. Cheng Qikang and Wang Xueqin, a "doctoral couple" engaged in food cold chain and storage research, accidentally discovered that fruit-flavored wild lotus seeds have a broad market, so they decisively resigned from Shanghai's million-dollar annual salary occupation and came to Liuzhen to contract more than 200 mu of farmland, specializing in planting lotus root.
"Our lotus seeds are sweet and rich in the many vitamins your body needs." Cheng Qikang said that the policy support given by the six town governments has given them more confidence and plans to expand the planting area by another 200 mu next year.
For them, this eco-town contains unlimited energy.
"Liuzhen Town has rich natural resources and strong cultural heritage, under the correct leadership of Quanjiao County Party Committee and County Government, Liuzhen regards modern agriculture and rural tourism as the direction of industrial development, and at present, agricultural tourism, cultural tourism and health care projects have been settled, and the industrial development of Liuzhen can be expected in the future." For the development of the six towns, Zhou Jun, secretary of the town party committee, is full of confidence. He said that as an important pole of Quanjiao County, the project of "Hemei Rural Demonstration Village" in the province is advancing rapidly, and the two villages are actively striving for innovation.
Thousands of miles of fertile fields, weaving splendid picture scrolls; The fields are rich and show the beautiful scenery. With the determination to fight a decisive battle at the beginning and sprint at the beginning, Liuzhen Town is gathering the majestic strength of unity and entering the new era with a forging attitude.
Dawan News Reporter Ye Sujian Correspondent Luo Shengling, Lin Xiang, Ma Xu Photo report
Edited by Zhang Siping