Source: Qiushi Network
When it comes to Zhijin County in Guizhou Province, it is impossible not to mention the "eight bowls of water" of weaving gold that everyone talks about. This is the most famous specialty food in Zhijin County, which has a "taste" in history.
Today's weaving gold, her development and changes are amazing, worth savoring. High-rise buildings rise from the ground, one industry after another has distinctive characteristics, and one village after another is connected to all directions... From the dirty and chaotic in the past to the successful creation of "national health county towns" and "provincial civilized cities", from traditional planting such as corn and rice to the soap horn industry to do better and stronger, from state-level poverty-stricken counties to high-quality to win the battle against poverty, and to achieve a comprehensive well-off situation synchronously with the whole country and the province, the happiness, sense of gain and security of the broad masses of the people are written on the face and flow in the heart.
"National Health County" - weaving gold
Recently, the research team of Qiushi Magazine walked into zhijin to taste the "taste" of the people living a happy life of comprehensive well-off in this land.
Industrial butterfly change: small soap horn becomes large industry
The small soap horn became a big industry, and the legend of the rich people was interpreted in the weaving gold.
Immature soap horn
Walking into the Longtan community of Maochang Town, Zhijin County, rows of soap horn trees stretching along the mountain, and the soap horns with full branches swaying with the wind, when mature, these soap horns will bring a considerable income to the local villagers.
Zhijin County has a long history of planting soap horn trees. In the past, the wild soap horn trees on the mountain, the gold weavers only used to wash their hair, and most of the soap horns were not cared for. Today, soap horns grown in the fields have become the "cash cows" of the villagers.
Walking into the Soap Corner Industrial Park in Cat Farm Town, workers are skillfully packaging products on the assembly line, a fiery scene.
Woven gold soap horn rice
Guizhou Meizitang Food Sales Co., Ltd. is a soap corner processing enterprise in the soap corner industrial park of Cat Farm Town. Entering the production workshop, some workers are skillfully peeling off the skin of saponaria seeds (also known as saponaria extract), and some are sorting saponaria rice... The yellow-orange-orange soap horn rice is crystal clear and attractive in color.
"Soap corner rice is soaked in water and expanded, and after heating, the gum is translucent, and the taste is fragrant and sticky, which is a common ingredient in Cantonese sugar water." Xie Wei, president of the Zhijin County Soap Corner Industry Chamber of Commerce and head of Guizhou Meizitang Food Sales Co., Ltd., introduced that soap horn rice is rich in collagen and dietary fiber, which is popular with people. Good quality soap corner rice can sell for more than 200 yuan a catty, and the products are exported to Singapore, Thailand and other Southeast Asian countries.
The soap horn industry is a labor-intensive industry. In addition to the income from the sale of soap horn, soap horn processing enterprises also need a lot of manpower to peel and process soap horn seeds. Today, in the town of Cat Farm, scenes of women sitting around peeling soap horn seeds can be seen everywhere, and villager Zhong Tiantian is one of them.
The masses are peeling the seeds of soap horn
"Peeling soap horn seeds is like peeling melon seeds, up to seventy years old, down to ten years old, you can peel it." Zhong Tiantian said that peeling soap horn seeds is flexible and convenient, not limited by time, and on average, peeling soap horn seeds can increase income by nearly 2,000 yuan per month.
In September 2019, "Weaving Gold Soap Horn Essence" was selected as a national "Geographical Indication Agricultural Product". Up to now, the planting area of weaving gold soap horn has reached 520,000 mu, becoming the largest soap horn planting base in the country, from planting to processing and sales, with an annual output value of more than 400 million yuan. The planting of soap horn trees not only greened the barren slopes, but also brought wealth to the local people.
Today, the county has formed three major agricultural industries, mainly soap horn, vegetables, and edible mushrooms (bamboo shooters). In addition, it has also built the top three modern and efficient agricultural whole industry chain park, the racecourse Damo wisdom agricultural park, the cat farm soap corner processing park, and the "poverty alleviation water" project of the Yungui Plateau in Zhongzhai, which has initially formed a pattern of integrated development of the first, second, and third industries, and has embarked on a new road of rural characteristic industrial development in which no one has me, people have me, and people have excellent me.
Cultural and tourism integration: shantytowns become new landmarks
A corner of pingyuan ancient town at night
At nightfall, the lanterns are on, the Zhijin Ancient City Pedestrian Street and the new neighborhood are bustling, people are tasting various special foods, and the smell of fireworks is strong;
On the shore of Baozhen Lake, the Weaving Golden Pavilion stands majestically and the neon flashes, becoming a good place for citizens to relax and recreation;
Pingyuan Ancient Town, full of tourists, smart and beautiful cultural scenery makes people indulge in it, lingering...
With a long history of weaving gold, ancient buildings and outstanding people, it contains colorful national customs. In the late Qing Dynasty, Ding Baozhen, the minister of mining affairs Chen Zhanxi, and the geologist Ding Daoheng were all born on this land. In 1991, it was listed as the "Zhijin Ancient City" of Guizhou Provincial Historical and Cultural City, and the Ming and Qing Dynasties architecture, Lingxiu Landscape and Ancient Bridge Ancient Street layout are interspersed, the cultural landscape is integrated with each other, and the landscape and scenery are interesting.
Relying on the thick history and culture, a Pingyuan ancient town in Zhijin County, where the old and the new are blended, the ancient and the modern are intertwined, and the Jingcheng is interdependent, came into being.
Smoke and rain terraces, mountain pavilions and water pavilions, carved gallery pavilions, lotus pond weeping willows, temples and Taoist temples, stone arch bridges... On the basis of restoring the original historical appearance of ancient Pingyuan Prefecture, Pinggu Ancient Town injects cultural elements and the design concept of modern architectural innovation, and in accordance with the idea of "experiencing history with the ancient city as the root and building an industry in the shape of the county", Pinggu Ancient Town has created a Jingcheng integrated tourism demonstration area integrating "eating, living, traveling, traveling, shopping, entertainment" and "business, health, learning, leisure, love and strangeness".
Aerial view of pingyuan ancient town
"Originally, this was a shantytown, and after unified planning and ecological environment management, Pingyuan Ancient Town has become a good place for citizens and tourists to relax and entertain." The person in charge of the project investor in Pingyuan Ancient Town, Zhijin County, said.
Riding on the east wind of tourism development, Zhijin is strictly in accordance with the deployment requirements of the Guizhou Provincial Party Committee and the Provincial Government to adhere to the deployment requirements of "four wheels turning together" of new industrialization, new urbanization, agricultural modernization and tourism industrialization, actively explore the effective connection path of "global tourism + rural revitalization", accelerate the pace of cultural and tourism integration, and promote the high-quality development of zhijin tourism.
The taste of happiness: from bitter to sweet
"The changes in weaving gold are obvious to all, from the architectural planning of the city to the appearance of the city." Yang Guoqiang, who lives in Zhijin County, is full of emotions when he talks about the changes in his life.
In 2018, in order to let the children have a better reading environment, Yang Guoqiang's family of four moved from the remote countryside of Zhijin County to the county seat.
"I thought it would be very uncomfortable, but I didn't think that with the help of the government, I found a job as a security guard in the county town, with a monthly salary of 3200 yuan, and my wife entered a cleaning company, and the monthly salary was about 3,000 yuan." Yang Guoqiang said that children have good schools, and family income is stable and guaranteed, which should be happiness!
At night, Baozhen Lake Park has become a good place for citizens to relax
Since the "13th Five-Year Plan", Zhijin County has always put the protection and improvement of people's livelihood in the first place, and continued to do a good job in people's livelihood.
Comprehensively consolidate the foundation for education guarantees. The county has built or expanded 74 preschool education schools and 6 high schools, implemented 161 "comprehensive thinning" schools, built 8 supporting schools for poverty alleviation and resettlement sites, and Zhijin No. 1 Middle School and No. 2 Middle School were rated as "Provincial Demonstration Ordinary High Schools".
Fully implement medical security policies. The number of hospitals above the second level (traditional Chinese medicine hospital) in the county has increased to 5, the number of practicing (assistant) physicians has increased from 986 to 1792, the number of thousands of doctors and nurses has increased from 0.86 and 1.24 in 2015 to 2.09 and 3.45 respectively.
Comprehensively improve the level of social security. 43,300 new jobs were created in cities and towns; 13 rural homes for the elderly were upgraded and upgraded, 25 new rural happiness homes were built, 13 day care centers for the elderly were built, and 312 children's homes were built; 56 village digital cultural service projects were implemented, 578 village rural bookstores were supplemented, and 11 cultural service centers for poverty alleviation and resettlement sites were built.
Zhijin County Qimo Interchange Interchange
Today's weaving gold, the road is wider, the city is green, the scenery is beautiful, and the people are happy. Yang Hua, deputy director of the Standing Committee of the Bijie Municipal People's Congress and secretary of the Zhijin County CPC Committee, said with deep feeling: "The landing of one practical thing after another of people's livelihood has made the people's lives sweeter and sweeter, the sense of happiness and security is getting higher and higher, and the golden signboard of happiness weaving gold is getting brighter and brighter!" ”
The research team deeply felt that the "taste" of weaving gold is the taste of a well-off and happy life in an all-round way!
(Written by: Li Kun, Lu Yi, Gao Tianding, Review: Li Yanling)