In recent years, relying on high-quality ecological resources, Shuitian Town, Wudang District, has actively practiced the transformation of the "two mountains" theory into the value of eco-tourism, followed the development idea of "promoting tourism with agriculture, revitalizing agriculture with tourism, and integrating agriculture and tourism", explored "three paths", promoted the integration of agriculture, sports and tourism, and empowered the high-quality development of rural revitalization.
Luozhuang Village, Shuitian Town (Photo by Li Yanqiu, District Photographers Association)
Explore the rural tourism model based on the resources of "landscape and pastoral", and develop rural "leisure and vacation tourism".
Shuitian Town unswervingly promotes the strategy of "agricultural tourism and living town", comprehensively stimulates the competitive advantage of "living beauty town", strengthens the scientific management of 16,000 acres of garden land, does a good job of "landscape articles", pays close attention to the integration of agriculture and tourism, promotes the high-quality development of leisure agriculture and rural tourism, and makes green mountains produce gold and green water flows silver. In 2023, 6 new barbecue camping bases will be added, 3 homestays will be upgraded and renovated, and 9 farmhouses with 3-star or above will be cultivated, with a maximum of 1,600 tourists per day, and a monthly income of 300,000 yuan for a single entity.
Barbecue camping base in paddy field town (photo by Li Yanqiu of the District Photographers Association)
Promote the "flower appreciation" economy with "flowers and leaves" as the medium, and develop "fancy sightseeing tours" in rural areas.
Flower viewing tours have become one of the most popular tourist routes in Guiyang in spring. Relying on high-quality mountain water resources, Shuitian Town truly allows tourists to "see plum blossoms in spring, camp in summer, ginkgo biloba in autumn and snow in winter". Since 2023, more than 5,000 acres of plum flowers and 30-year-old ginkgo trees in Shangba Village, Shuitian Town, have successfully "gone out of the circle", providing more new scenes for the general public to experience beautiful life and poetic life. According to statistics, these new agricultural tourism "check-in points" in Shangba Village have attracted more than 100,000 people to visit, driving farmers to increase their income and become rich, and have embarked on a "fancy" tourism development path.
Guiyang Gui'an Panlongshan Station Fitness Run Around the City (Photo by Li Yanqiu, District Photographers Association)
Create inter-embedded cultural and sports activities with ethnic festivals and sports events as the carrier, and develop "folk tourism + sports events" fitness tours.
Shuitian Town actively promotes the in-depth integration and development of sports, tourism, fitness, events and other formats. Since 2023, it has expanded its popularity and reputation by holding cultural and sports activities such as the Beautiful Rural Basketball Match, the Fitness Run around the City at Panlongshan Station in Guiyang, and the Buyi Aunt's Festival, attracting more tourists, gathering "popularity", adding "wealth", and igniting "fireworks" for rural tourism, enriching the rural tourism industry and boosting the quality and efficiency of the agricultural tourism industry.
In the next step, Shuitian Town will give full play to the natural resource endowment and location advantages, accelerate the integrated development of agriculture and tourism, integrate the allocation of agricultural tourism elements, actively explore and cultivate the "new quality productivity" of agricultural tourism, and open up a beautiful "money scene" for rural revitalization with high quality.
Source: Paddy Field Town