The world is fragrant in April, and the peach and willow are in good season. In the past few days, the "Apricot Forest Covenant" cultural tourism festival in Chenhu Town has attracted waves of tourists, and flower appreciation has become a new craze for the people, which has heated up the "flower appreciation economy" and played the "spring song" of rural revitalization.
Walking into Sunying Village, Chenhu Town, a beautiful picture of the countryside with beautiful villages and good rural style spreads out. Tourists from all over the world walk in the apricot forest, take pictures, taste food, and feel the beauty of the apricot blossoms and the good scenery of spring.
"I heard about the Apricot Blossom Festival here, so we came here to see the flowers today, we took a lot of photos, and also took some Douyin videos, and sent them out for friends to see. Tourist Zhang Fengmei said.
In order to better welcome the arrival of the 2024 Apricot Blossom Festival and the rural tourism season, Chenhu Town has upgraded and renovated the apricot orchard in a timely manner, and built a rural tourism development layout integrating scenery, play and food, so as to bring the best play experience to tourists.
"The apricot blossoms here are very beautiful, with very good facilities, which makes people very comfortable!" said Cao Xiaoxue, a tourist, and there are delicious apricot blossom wine and apricot blossom cakes.
According to Gao Xueliang, mayor of Chenhu Town, this year, Chenhu Town has made full use of local characteristic resources, continuously improved infrastructure construction, attracted tourists from all over the world to come for sightseeing, and finally achieved the purpose of promoting the development of the tertiary economy, and also added a force to the development of the county's tourism economy.
The blooming of apricot blossoms not only beautifies the rural environment, enhances the popularity and reputation of the countryside, but also brings economic benefits to the local area, achieving a win-win situation between ecology and economy. Chenhu Town will continue to use flowers as a medium, actively explore the diversified value of the countryside, create a "flower appreciation economy" that integrates ornamentation, ecological leisure, picking experience and farming culture, and transform the "large flow" of flower appreciation into a "big prospect" to help rural revitalization, and inject vigorous vitality into rural revitalization.
In Goatbao Village, Dongle Town, Shandan County, thousands of acres of apricot trees grow gratifyingly, pink and tender apricot blossoms are adorned with branches, overlooking from the air, scattered, just like a pastoral oil painting in spring, attracting many tourists to come to play.
"I heard from a friend that the apricot blossoms here are particularly beautiful, and I came to play with my friends today, and I was very shocked to see the flowers in the garden, and I was very happy to see such a beautiful scenery. Zhang Juan, a tourist who kept taking pictures with her mobile phone, sighed.
This year, we mainly planted peach trees, apple trees, and manguan fruits. Every spring, when the fruit trees bloom, they attract a large number of tourists to enjoy the flowers, and in the fall, when the trees are ripe, they can also pick their own. Xun Weilu, the person in charge of Shandan County Goatbaotan Agriculture, Forestry and Animal Husbandry Development Co., Ltd., said that the fruit trees alone brought more than 100,000 yuan of income to his family.
Dongle Town Village is located in the semi-arid Gobi region, affected by natural conditions, the output of forest fruits with high sugar content, large grains and full grains, the development of characteristic forest fruit industry has a unique advantage. In recent years, Dongle Town has taken the transformation of the traditional agricultural structure and the improvement of farmers' income as the breakthrough point, relying on the advantages of the characteristic forest and fruit industry, and gradually embarked on a new path of green rise and ecological enrichment. Liu Yanbo, deputy mayor of Dongle Town, said, "In view of the town's forest and fruit industry, in the next step, we will be based on resource advantages, seize the opportunity of provincial rural construction demonstration and creation, vigorously develop rural tourism products integrating pastoral tourism, leisure and health care, folk vacation, research and education, and do a good job in agriculture from one to two, one after another, and integrate articles to promote rural revitalization." (Wu Yuli)