During the past "May Day" holiday, scenic spots such as the cowboy town of Xihe Valley in Huangtan Township and the farming aesthetic manor in Yuanqi Valley were full of tourists and popular. Tourists enjoy local specialties, enjoy the leisurely idyllic scenery, feel the charm of local culture, and linger. Laughter echoed in the valley from time to time.
The beautiful Huangtan Mountain is beautiful, the clear West River meanders and flows, and the villages are embedded on both sides of the West River, and the original natural environment and pastoral life make this place like a paradise. However, with the continuous advancement of urbanization, many rural people have migrated to cities, resulting in a large amount of land and farmhouses in rural areas being idle. The quiet West River Valley is still cool, but it once lost its ethereal and popularity.
How to make these "sleeping" resources "live" again and let the countryside flourish? With the help of the east wind of the global housing reform, the party committee and government of Huangtan Township make full use of the advantages of local natural and cultural resources, starting from retaining the memory of nostalgia and highlighting the local characteristics, determine the development idea of "rural tourism" integrating tourism and vacation, farming culture and nostalgia memory, and actively explore the model of "cooperatives + farmers + professional business entities" through investment promotion, and further expand the new path of integrated development of agriculture and tourism, so that more villagers can enjoy the dividends brought by the development of rural tourism.
Subsequently, a number of rural tourism complexes such as the West River Valley Cowboy Town and the Yuanqi Valley Farming Aesthetics Manor came into being.
Located in Zhujia Group, Nanxi Village, Huangtan Township, Xihe Valley Cowboy Town is a comprehensive base with the theme of western cowboy style, covering an overall area of about 500 acres. At present, the scenic spot has opened up 17 kilometers of mountain cross-country professional tracks and kayaks, paddle boards and other projects, built an equestrian club based on British equestrian teaching, and reasonably set up water theme parks, mountain cross-country, self-service barbecue, farmhouses, picking gardens, tea gardens, fishing, homestays, entertainment outdoor camping and other areas, integrating outdoor sports, local experience, modern agriculture, fruit picking, parent-child entertainment, and pastoral sightseeing.
Yuanqi Valley Farming Aesthetics Manor is located in Qijia Village, Huangtan Township, by exploring a fresh way of "green life", advocating a more environmentally friendly, healthier and sustainable living state, realizing the organic combination of traditional village protection, agricultural leisure and tourism industry development, and making people feel the beauty of agriculture, ecology and life. At present, Jiangxi Yuanqi Valley Agricultural Development Co., Ltd. has invested more than 800 yuan to establish a farming culture manor covering an area of more than 600 acres through land transfer, solving the employment of more than 60 local villagers at the doorstep, and paying more than 100 yuan in labor wages annually. In addition, the company has also developed more than 500 acres of porcelain tea culture alpine tea gardens in West Lake, Yaoli and other places, injecting vitality into promoting the development of rural tourism and promoting the villagers' income and prosperity.