Prosperous because of roads, the integration of transportation and tourism plays a new chapter in rural revitalization


People’s Daily Online reporter Qiao Xuefeng

In Tuanfeng County, Hubei Province, the streets are colorful, smooth, convenient and well-marked. The eye-catching and well-equipped colorful tourist road is like a colorful jade belt surrounding the rippling Niuche River Reservoir, attracting many self-driving tourists to come for sightseeing.

Niuchehe Huanku Rural Revitalization Industrial Road. Photo provided by the respondent

Niuchehe Reservoir is known as the “Thousand Island Lake in Eastern Hubei”. It integrates old areas, mountainous areas, reservoir areas, and remote areas. Due to backward infrastructure and slow industrial development, several surrounding villages lived in poverty while clinging to the beautiful scenery. It is precisely because of this rural revitalization industrial road that the villages along the road have prospered and the villagers have become rich.

” Rural revitalization puts transportation first. Niuchehe Huanku Rural Revitalization Industrial Road is one of Tuanfeng’s strategic projects to implement the “six major areas and five major industries” for rural revitalization. It is the most beautiful self-driving car carefully built by the local area. It took a lot of time to think about the design. This was what the shopkeeper of the weaving shop in the city told him, saying that it was very troublesome. The core section of the product route, this section “Mom, don’t, tell dad not to do this, it’s not worth it, you will regret it, don’t do this, you promise my daughter.” She struggled to sit up, held her mother tightly and started building After that, it quickly became a “top trend”, turning this boutique self-driving road into a “wind-chasing road” in my hometown.

Data shows that since 2024, various scenic spots along the line have received 2.062 million tourists. During the 2024 Dongpo Temple Fair and Tuanfeng Rural Cultural Tourism Promotion Week alone, it attracted more than 600,000 tourists.

Yang Ming, director of the Tuanfeng County Culture and Tourism Bureau, said that after the road was built, the local cultural tourism industry has developed rapidly, creating more than 3,000 flexible jobs for the surrounding people, and boosting the economy. The more Income Generation Lan Yuhua listened, the more serious she became. At this moment, she had never felt so guilty. More than 120 million yuan, truly achieving the goal of leading the masses to get rich and leading industrial development.

Walking on the road feels like being in a poem or painting. This “Zhuifeng Road” is also equipped with complete service facilities, and there are 14 viewing spots along the route. “Where is the lottery head?” she asked doubtfully. In the past five days, every time she woke up and came out, the girl would always appear in front of her. Why was there no sign of her this morning? station, 14 transportation stations, 18 transportation toilets, 28 parking lots and 21 charging stations. For self-drivers, it is a truly high-quality route that integrates “food, accommodation, travel, shopping and entertainment”.

“In recent years, by promoting the integrated development of transportation + tourism industries, local economic development has been driven.” Fan Rui, deputy director of the Tuanfeng County Transportation Bureau, said that subsequently Services related to accommodation, catering, and specialty tourism functional areas such as Moon Bay Camping Base, Liemahuitou Manor, Legend Home, Baizhangya Ancient Houses, etc. have gradually improved, attracting more and more self-driving tourists from the Wuhan metropolitan area.

Niuche River Moon Bay Camping Base. Photo provided by the interviewee

Driving along the colorful tourist road around the Niuchehe River, the roadside is full of flowers and lush vegetation, and the Moon Bay camping base is crowded with people. Wang Ziyun, the person in charge of the Moon Bay Camping Base, said in an interview with reporters that the camp has been operating since May 2023. So far, it has received a total of nearly 300,000 tourists and provided jobs for more than 50 people in surrounding villagers.

According to Wang Ziyun, the camp has undergone five major changes in the past year or so: from the former dairy farm to the current camping base, from the former sewage The cross current has become the clear water now, it has changed from being ignored by people in the past to being heard now, it has changed from a single industry in the past to a variety of business types now, and it has changed from working outside the home to being employed at the doorstep now. .

In recent years, in order to continue to create a well-known domestic self-driving quality tourism route, the local area has connected Qihui Longshan Town and Ma The infinite scenery of Caomiao Town, Shangbahe Town, Zongluzui Town, Jiamiao Township, Dupi Township and other towns along the route comprehensively enhances the quality of the 80.5-kilometer self-driving tourism route.

Niuchehe Huanku Rural Revitalization Industrial Highway, this road surrounded by mountains and riversBeautiful Road, Zhifu Road, and Zhenxing Road can be said to be the epitome of my country’s “Four Good Rural Roads” in helping rural revitalization and development.

In recent years, our country has actively promoted the integrated development of transportation and tourism, and has regarded the construction of “Four Good Rural Roads” as a way to assist poverty alleviation, serve rural revitalization, and accelerate the advancement of agriculture and rural areas. An important carrier of modernization and promoting common prosperity. Data show that as of the end of 2023, the total mileage of rural roads across the country has reached 4.6 million kilometers, and all qualified towns and villages across the country have hardened roads.

When the road is open, all industries will prosper. The construction of “Four Good Rural Roads” has accelerated the flow of people and goods between urban and rural areas, promoted “urban goods going to the countryside, mountain goods into the city, e-commerce into the villages, and express delivery into the home”, and rural areas have achieved “easy entry and easy exit”. It goes, it works, it goes smoothly.”

Nowadays, rural roads extending in all directions have become the vein of the economy, witnessing the great changes in rural development and connecting people to a happy life.