Starting from Bikou Town, Wenxian County, Longnan City, Gansu Province, on the bank of the Bailong River, drive about 3 kilometers along National Highway 212, and take about 20 minutes to Majiashan Village by Panshan Road. In front of you, the cascading terraces are planted with tea trees, and the rolling hills seem to be covered with a layer of green satin. Suddenly, the fog came, and the farmhouse courtyard and the green tea garden gradually disappeared into the clouds.
This is a tea garden filmed in Majiashan Village, Bikou Town, Wenxian County, Longnan City. (Photo by Li Dong)
In this fairyland-like beautiful village of "Longshang Jiangnan", 45-year-old villager Liu Jinping is busy transforming his family's three-story house into a homestay, looking forward to welcoming tourists during this year's tourist season. In the past ten years, he went to Xinjiang to work after picking his spring tea, which was his constant life trajectory.
However, when the highway reached the mountain village, the tea plantations were crowded with tourists, the fried spring tea was sold out at the doorstep, and the first batch of farmhouses and homestays in the village were doing a hot business, Liu Jinping came up with the idea of not going out to eat "tourist meals".
Slope reliefs, landscape fences, visitor centers, tea garden sightseeing stone roads...... In 2023, the local government will continue to invest in the Majiashan Camellia Tourism Integration Project, so that Liu Jinping's "kick in the door" will no longer hesitate. On the eighteenth day of the first lunar month of this year, he lit 100 fireworks in front of the door, and the renovation of the homestay officially started.
This is a homestay that Liu Jinping's family is being renovated in Majiashan Village, Bikou Town, Wenxian County, Longnan City. Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Lang Bingbing
"The construction drawings are designed by a professional company, and the grade is enough, so that the guests still want to live. Liu Jinping said with a smile that the family raised 200,000 yuan by themselves, and the government subsidized 100,000 yuan.
Wenxian is the earliest place in Gansu Province to come in spring, and the first batch of rape flowers will quietly bloom during the Spring Festival. A few days ago, the reporter walked into Yuleiping Village, Yulei Township, which is surrounded by mountains and rivers and scattered flower fields, and saw the golden flowers and the turquoise river water. Not far away, a high-end B&B in the style of a garden house has begun to take shape, imagining that one day standing in front of its floor-to-ceiling windows, perhaps the ultimate romance of "Spring River Flower and Moon Night" will be concretized at that moment.
Tourists take a boat to enjoy the flowers on the river near Yuleiping Village, Yulei Township, Wenxian County, Longnan City. (Photo by Li Dong)
"The infinite scenery of Yulei Township will build a cluster of homestays in the future. Zhang Xuejun, the person in charge of the development of Yulei Township Scenic Area, introduced that it is a general trend to shift from scenic sightseeing tourism to rural experiential tourism close to nature. Therefore, since 2021, they have invested a total of 40 million yuan to continuously improve the construction of tourism infrastructure, and build a mountain eco-tourism industry chain with rape fields as viewing points and trekking + homestay health care as the main body.
Watch the nostalgia, happiness can be expected. Walking into Zhujiagou Village, Kang County, Longnan City, a traditional Chinese ancient village, surrounded by forests, mountains and wild birds singing and fragrant flowers, winding paths leading to secluded places, stone mills, stone mills and other old farming objects are within reach, as if frozen time. In 2016, Zhu Yanjie and his wife returned to Zhujiagou to establish the first ancient village homestay - Wufu Linmen. After 5 years of hard work, in 2021, Wufu Linmen B&B was rated as a national first-class B&B. Today, the annual tourist reception is nearly 80,000 people, and the tourism income exceeds 2 million yuan.
"Zhujiagou does not have too much commercial atmosphere, and the rural style of retreating to the mountains and forests can arouse the nostalgia of tourists and relieve anxiety. Zhu Yanjie said that most of the guests are introduced by repeat customers or friends, and they like to spend time in the chirping of birds and cicadas in Zhujiagou, and forget their troubles by eating wild dishes, reading and chatting.
This is the Wufu Linmen B&B in Zhujiagou Village, Anmen Town, Kangxian County, Longnan City. Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Chen Bin
Gansu has beautiful and diverse natural landscapes such as vast grasslands, vast Gobi Deserts and white glaciers, of which more than 70% of tourism resources are concentrated in rural areas. It is the most beautiful April day now, from "Longshang Jiangnan" to Gannan grassland, from Longdong Loess Plateau to Qianli Hexi Corridor, countless tourism practitioners are also actively "spring ploughing and ploughing", looking forward to a new look, carrying the guests' "poetry and distance".
He Xiaozu, director of the Gansu Provincial Department of Culture and Tourism, introduced that in recent years, Gansu has continued to polish the rural tourism brand of "Longshang Township", created 21 rural tourism demonstration counties, 200 rural tourism revitalization rural model villages, and cultivated 530 rural tourism cooperatives and more than 1,100 rural tourism homestays. Big data monitoring shows that in 2023, Gansu rural tourism will receive 153 million tourists, and the rural tourism income will be 48.193 billion yuan, an increase of 19.84% and 41.74% respectively compared with 2019. (Reporter Lang Bingbing, Xu Haofu)