From "a peach blossom" to "a peach blossom", this spring, Wuxi Yangshan is warm and hot.
On the track, thousands of runners came to the "Taoyuan" running village and galloped through the romantic peach blossom forest; in the art village, dozens of famous artists gathered at the "Taoyuan Chunhui" calligraphy and painting exhibition, and 60,000 people came to Taoyuan Village to play in two days on the weekend......
Under the 30,000 acres of peach forest, the scorching small peach blossoms have "appearance" and "new quality". Experience tourism in sports, give birth to economy in humanities, develop new quality productivity in talents, and the beauty of the countryside is being transmitted in a different "open way".
Running economy
The heart of the "peach" runs through the countryside
"The trees are full of delicate and red, and the ten thousand branches are scorching in spring. The Tang Dynasty poet Wu Rong described the blooming beauty of peach blossoms. In March, the beautiful scenery reappears. The spring breeze rises from the feet, and 5,000 runners from all over the country rush to Yangshan and gallop romantically in the peach town.
The "Yangshan Half Marathon", which has been successfully held for six sessions, is constantly "out of the circle" and continues to "increase fans". "Harvest beauty, but also harvest health. Yu Jiakai won the men's half-marathon championship with a time of 1 hour 08 minutes and 27 seconds. He is from Shandong University of Science and Technology, and this year is the first time he has come to Yangshan to compete. Heroic marathon enthusiasts, couple runners hand in hand, and disabled runners who work hard...... Players with different identities and all over the world galloped with the same excitement.
What remains unchanged is the scale of participation, and what is high is the enthusiasm for registration. The first Yangshan Half Marathon was rated as a bronze medal event by the Chinese Athletics Association, the second was rated as a silver medal event, the third was rated as a special event, and the fourth was included in the rural half marathon event registered by the Chinese Athletics Association by Jiangsu Province. The number of registrations for the half-marathon race exceeded 3,000 and the number of registrations for the mini-marathon exceeded 2,000.
All the way to "flowers" all the way to poetry, running out of the new and wonderful humanities. The race route sits in the core scenic area of Yangshan Ecological Leisure Tourism Resort, starting from the Peach Culture Square, connecting important scenic spots such as Wisteria Garden, Peach Blossom Island, and Peach Picking Garden, passing through 5 villages with different characteristics along the line, allowing athletes to wander in the sea of flowers and enjoy the vitality and joy.
The rainbow trail is full of scenery, step by step scenery, not only thousands of runners are driving full horsepower, but also rural tourism all the way. Yin Wenlu, the owner of the B&B is located in the Shannantou scenic spot where the competition passes, said: "The news of this year's event has not yet been released, and the guests have already booked almost all the rooms in March and April. The former temple house of Taoyuan Village, the homestay "Lao Zhou's Family" has also ushered in a continuous stream of tourists. To help development, attract tourists, and ignite the "new vitality" of the tourism economy. The surrounding beautiful countryside, historical and cultural attractions, farmhouses, and homestays are dotted around, and the beautiful and picturesque scenery of Yangshan evokes people's nostalgic memories and becomes a new path to explore the integrated development of "agriculture, culture, tourism and sports".
Flower Sea Economy
It starts with peach blossoms, and it doesn't stop with peach blossoms
At the end of March, at the "Spring Flower Sea" national characteristic tourism resources combing and display activities, flower characteristic tourism resources from all over the country gathered in Yangshan, and the connotation and extension of "flowers" are constantly digging and expanding.
"I came to Yangshan just to see enough peach blossoms and eat enough peaches. It's been five years, and I still haven't seen enough and eaten enough. Musician Yang Hong released the original song "There is Always a Peach Blossom Blooming for You", she said that this song expresses the voice of Yangshan people: Our hearts are open to you, and our story starts here.
The small peach blossom revitalizes the culture, and the "flower economy" is heating up. The Peach Blossom Festival in Yangshan Town has gone through 27 years, and from March to April this year, Yangshan held the 28th China Wuxi Yangshan Peach Blossom Festival series of activities. In addition to the "Spring Leap" of Yangshan Half Marathon, there are also "Spring Flowers" of "Spring Flowers" of "Spring Flowers", as well as "Spring Paintings" including the "Taoyuan Chunhui" calligraphy and painting exhibition.
"Flower Appreciation +" makes the "flower economy" start from peach blossoms, but not stop at peach blossoms. "Through the 'Taoyuan Chunhui' calligraphy and painting exhibition and the display of the art museum, we use culture to empower rural revitalization. Zhang Gu, secretary of the general party branch of Taoyuan Village, Yangshan Town, said. Combined with the village conditions, Taoyuan Village proposed to rely on Yangshan peach to develop agricultural leisure tourism. Shannantou Culture and Art Village also ushered in the official opening of the village, which was originally a hollow village, and after ten years of construction, now there are 17 kinds of cultural and creative formats settled in. It is reported that during this year's Peach Blossom Festival, there were more than 1 million tourists, and the consumption of tourism commodities, farmhouses and homestays was nearly 300 million yuan. "Beautiful appearance" incarnates "economic value", and Yangshan has become a poetry and distance in people's minds.
Talent economy
Taoyuan's "righteousness" seeks new quality
The peach and plum do not speak, the next is its own, and the integration of production, education and research can be called the Yangshan version of the "Taoyuan Three Knots". Talent development empowers the cultivation of new quality productivity, a series of major projects have taken root, and more and more talents have joined the vast countryside.
In recent years, Yangshan has taken up the responsibility of the construction of "science, education, cultural and tourism area", positioned with the image of "Jiangnan Peach Blossom Spring, Hemei New Yangshan", and made every effort to take the "trilogy" road of comprehensive rural reform, beautiful rural construction and pastoral complex model, and made full use of the article of "rural tourism, pastoral life, health and leisure, parent-child vacation", and developed the simple peach planting agriculture into a diversified industry integrating agriculture, culture, tourism and nursing, realizing the unity of industrial upgrading, village upgrading and people's prosperity, and is moving towards a national tourist resort.
With the introduction of academician intellectual resources, Ding Han, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, was hired as the first mayor of "Wuxi Academician Town", and a number of academician innovation platform projects, academician industry projects, and academician "unveiling the leader" project were successfully signed. Industry-university-research cooperation can effectively solve agricultural technical problems, so that high-end talents and scientific and technological innovation can empower and guide the development of primary, secondary and tertiary industries.
The annual output value of 38,000 mu of peaches in the whole area reached 900 million yuan, the per capita income of farmers jumped from 19,000 yuan to 63,000 yuan, and the total value of the peach cultural tourism industry chain exceeded 2 billion yuan...... In Yangshan, economic development has "quantity" and "quality".
From "a peach" to "a peach tree", and then to "a peach source", the "whole chain" of the single-chain economy has been upgraded, and Yangshan has made great strides towards diversified industries. "Yangshan Peach" was successfully listed on the list of agricultural brand boutique cultivation in Jiangsu Province in 2023. Last year, Yangshan joined hands with SF Express and Sunan Shuofang Airport to open up 6 peach special planes, 6 high-speed railways, 256 transportation trunk lines, and 282 city lines, and the world's farthest reaches Singapore, the United Arab Emirates and other places.
Constantly launching new formats to unlock a "new posture" for the development of new quality productivity in Yangshan's tourism industry. On March 28, Yangshan held the theme activity of "Blooming Flowers and Industry to New" New Quality Productivity Empowering the High-quality Development of the Resort, and the participating experts and scholars conducted in-depth discussions on topics such as the development and utilization of national flower tourism resources and the promotion of new quality productivity in the tourism industry. In the future, emerging formats such as low-altitude flight, metaverse, and health and leisure will bloom here.
Relying on the construction of the National Modern Agricultural Industrial Park, Yangshan continues to promote the peach improvement plan, and builds a standardized production system and a professional management system. Gao Jia, mayor of Yangshan Town People's Government, told reporters: "We have hired 11 university professors as chief technical experts, established Yangshan Peach Industry Research Institute and professor workstation, focusing on the research of variety breeding, planting management, pest control and pest control system, and promoted the development of the peach industry to higher standards and higher quality in an all-round, full-chain and whole-process manner." ”
Xu Tongliang, Secretary of the Party Working Committee and Director of the Management Office of Yangshan Ecological Leisure Tourism Resort, and Secretary of the Party Committee of Yangshan Town, said that this year, Yangshan will focus on upgrading the energy level and focusing on major projects "gathering energy". Make good use of the "think tank resources" such as scientific research institutes and academicians, and go all out to promote the rapid landing, construction, early production, and early results of the project. Adhere to the introduction and cultivation of talents, accelerate the planning and construction of the second phase of the academician town, talent apartments, blue-collar apartments and other functional supporting facilities, and simultaneously rely on platform carriers such as the "double recruitment and double introduction" workstation of the Harbin Institute of Technology Wuxi Alumni Association to draw a comprehensive talent development map of Yangshan, and create a new situation of deep integration of schools, local enterprises, and production and talent cities.
Xinhua newspaper all-media reporter Zhang Aiqing Zhang Ziyang
Special correspondent Yu Xianfeng