"The completion and opening of the Yellow River Bridge has greatly improved the traffic conditions on both sides of the Yellow River in Maqu County, relieved the traffic pressure of the Maqu Yellow River Bridge, which was built in 1979, facilitated the convenient travel of the people in the past, and comprehensively enhanced the commercial and trade circulation with surrounding counties and cities." The Yellow River Bridge, which started construction in November 2016 and was completed and opened to traffic in January 2020, has a total length of 1011.25 meters and a total of 26 spans, of which the 3 spans of the main river are 90-meter spans, making it the first extra-large bridge in the Gansu section of the upper reaches of the Yellow River.
Nowadays, the concept of "if you want to get rich, you must first build roads" is still outdated, and the reasonable coverage of the highway network will make Maqu rely on its unique geographical advantages to quickly attract tourists from Sichuan, Qinghai and other directions to enter Maqu, and then improve the development of Maqu tourism resources and the layout of other related industries.
At the same time, make full use of the existing idle highway facilities, actively explore the "service area +" model, create a number of distinctive and prominent theme service areas, realize the deep integration of service areas and characteristic agricultural and animal husbandry products, tourism, logistics, culture, commerce and other industries, and give full play to the leading, supporting and guaranteeing role of transportation in economic and social development.
In recent years, with the change of tourist demand, the way of tourism development has also undergone a huge change, which has also made the status of "transportation" in the tourism element have changed significantly.
With the advent of the era of self-driving, highways have become an important basic guarantee for consumption upgrading and personalized travel, and many scenic highways can also become the resorts that self-driving tourists yearn for.
Hequ Racecourse, which is 13 kilometers away from the county seat, is the closest wetland grassland to the city. With the grassland and lake of the Zheerqin wetland as the main natural landscape, it is equipped with supporting ancillary facilities such as Shenju Square, Plateau Equestrian Activity Base, Starry Sky Tent Hotel, RV Tent Camp, etc. There are natural geographical landscapes such as wetlands, rivers, grasslands, woodlands and other natural geographical landscapes in the scenic area, as well as cultural landscapes such as pagodas and Tibetan villages, and the tourism resources are very rich.
In autumn, the water and sky of the river meandering racecourse are colorful, the blue waves are rippling, and the grassland is bright and secluded, and the sky is endless.
The road leading to Hequ Racecourse was constructed in 2019, and the design broke the previous three-level highway with concrete hard shoulders, and the whole line was restored by planting grass on the dirt shoulders.
Liu Shan, reporter of China Gansu Network in the northwest corner