The April flowers are blooming, and the willow branches are pulling out green shoots. Kangwa Village, Hanzhuang Town, a well-known "stone village" in Tangyin County, is full of spring, and groups of tourists wander in the meantime, recording the beautiful spring scenery with their mobile phones.
Kangwa Village is located in the northwest of Tangyin County, and the reason why it is called "Stone Village" is because the village is a hilly area, and the surface of the ground is full of white stone blocks below 1 meter. Don't look at the refreshing and idyllic scene of the village today, in the past, it was full of rocks and dilapidated villages, and the old people in the village said: "In the past, the village was so poor that there were only stones." ”
"In the past, the village relied on planting traditional crops for a living, and the per capita income was only a few thousand yuan a year, and almost all the young people went out to work. According to Mao Jun, secretary of the party branch of Kangwa Village, the people who stayed in the village could only make money by farming, and the exodus of young people also made Kangwa Village a "hollow village".
In the face of such a predicament, starting in 2021, Kangwa Village has explored a new path of ecologically led rural revitalization, giving full play to the natural historical and cultural advantages of "Stone Village", taking the development of tourism as the top priority of rural revitalization, and collecting some old objects such as stone mills, stone stones, stone troughs, stone plaques, and stone thresholds with exquisite quality, so as to create a rural imprint museum with nostalgia and nostalgia and party building as the main line, and drive the economic development of the whole village with tourism.
Since then, Kangwa Village has carried out tourism development in combination with the characteristics of tourism resources and cultural connotation, based on the "stone culture", excavated historical relics, stories and legends and planted 1,000 acres of rape flower fields, etc., enriched and enriched tourism resources, and made full use of and effectively protected stone dwellings, developed pastoral scenery and rural tourism with local flavor, and started from research tourism, ancient residence protection, village beautification, etc., and strived to create an upgraded version of the leisure village of "environmental remediation, facilities and pastoral scenery", and made enough "traditional villages" article, injecting new vitality and impetus into rural tourism.
"The biggest feature of our village is that the environment has not been destroyed and the nature is simple. Mao Jun said, "Green water and green water is a mountain of gold and silver, this sentence we have experienced very true, the environment in the village is good, not only the people in the city are willing to come, even the young people in the village are willing to come back to start a business, you can make money at the door of your home, isn't this just guarding a mountain of gold?"
Speaking of the road of tourism revitalization in the village, the villagers sighed: "Finally, I don't have to rely on the sky for food, and the 'stone village' has finally become rich." The gorgeous turn of Kangwa Village has attracted many tourists to come to "check in". During the Qingming Festival in 2024, more than 20,000 tourists will be sightseeing, and the holiday turnover of villagers selling snacks and toys will reach more than 10,000 yuan. "Stone Village" took advantage of the shareholder wind of tourism to puff up the villagers' money bags, and constantly released the soft power of tourism, so that the industry prospered and the villagers became rich.
In the next step, Kangwa Village will explore the idea of "bringing tourism with culture, promoting agriculture with tourism, and combining agriculture, culture and tourism", continuously promote the deep integration of traditional agriculture, rural tourism and folk culture, and explore a new path for rural revitalization. "We will continue to improve the construction of tourism infrastructure, promote the deep integration of characteristic agricultural industries and rural leisure tourism, cultivate rural tourism, ecological tourism, sightseeing tourism and other integrated agriculture, culture and tourism industries, and continue to build a solid industrial foundation for rural revitalization. The relevant person in charge of Hanzhuang Town said. (Correspondent: Chen Zhen)