CCTV news: All kinds of spring flowers dress up beautiful China at the same time, but also let the peasants' pockets bulge. All localities have vigorously developed the "flower economy" with flowers as the medium, consolidated the results of poverty alleviation, and increased peasants' incomes.
Walking into the 10,000 acres of rapeseed flower fields in Datong Town, Jialing District, Nanchong, Sichuan, the golden rape flowers sway with the wind, which is very spectacular. While the large areas of canola flowers attract tourists, they also attract another special air visitor - bees that travel back and forth between the flowers. Li Wuguo is a bee farmer in Datong Town, and his family lifted himself out of poverty in 2018. Spring is the golden season for beekeeping, and these days are the busiest time of the year for their family.
Li Wuguo, a bee farmer in Datong Town, Jialing District, Nanchong City, Sichuan Province: Datong (town) has grown a lot of rapeseed in recent years, and every year in March and April we can sell honey to collect 30,000 or 40,000 yuan.
Jialing District was once a poverty-stricken county, and in 2018 it achieved poverty alleviation. The local government has consolidated the results of poverty alleviation through the development of ecological agriculture such as beekeeping and mulberry tea. At present, there are 45,000 rural households engaged in ecological industry in the region, accounting for about half of the total number of farmers in the region.
At the right time for spring flower viewing, in nanjing Lishui Three-leaf Menghua Garden 100 acres of garden, with tulips, magnolias, hyacinths and so on, attracting wave after wave of tourists to come.
While attracting tourists to enjoy the flowers, Lishui will also combine flower appreciation with local cultural consumption, modern agriculture, rural folk experience, etc., forming a "flower economy" industrial chain.
Nanjing Lishui District and Fengzhen staff Yang Shengling: During the flower viewing period, there are about 300,000 tourists every year, and the rich passenger flow can drive 20,000 farmers in the surrounding areas by driving the sales of local characteristic agricultural products, homestays, farmhouses and other forms, and the per capita (annual) income increased by 3,000 yuan.
According to statistics, at present, China's rural leisure tourism receives more than 3 billion tourists a year, directly driving the number of employment to attract more than 12 million, and driving more than 8 million beneficiary farmers. Relying on the beautiful ecological environment of the countryside, all localities have developed ecological industries, expanded industrial chains, consolidated the results of poverty alleviation, and increased farmers' incomes.
Source: CCTV