High Quality Development Research Tour | From "Hollow Village" to "Star Village" - A Beautiful "Butterfly Transformation" of a Northeast Village Villager | Village | Beauty
Harbin, September 2 (Xinhua) - From "Hollow Village" to "Star Village" - A Beautiful "Butterfly Transformation" of a Northeast Village
Xinhua News Agency reporters Xiong Yanhao, Liu Heyao, Liu Yujia
Starting from the urban area of Mudanjiang City, Heilongjiang Province, drive more than 10 kilometers west along the Mudanhai Intercity Leisure and Sightseeing Belt, and you will see a picturesque and idyllic village. This is Zhongxing Village, Hainan Korean Ethnic Township, Xi'an District, Mudanjiang City.
Enthusiastic villagers dress in ethnic costumes and sing and dance to the melodious music. Groups of tourists sometimes take pleasure boats to blow the breeze, and sometimes feel the natural atmosphere in the vast rice fields... Currently, the popularity of tourism in Heilongjiang is not decreasing, and Zhongxing Village receives guests from all directions every day.
Entering Zhongxing Village, the first thing you see is a tall building in the shape of a Korean drum. From above, you can overlook the scenery of the village. Zhongxing Village is a Korean ethnic village, with most of the villagers being Korean. In recent years, guided by the rural revitalization strategy, this village has deeply integrated Korean culture with rural folk customs, and embarked on a new path of combining agriculture and tourism, promoting tourism through agriculture, and strengthening agriculture through tourism.
Zhongxing Village, Hainan Korean Ethnic Township, Xi'an District, Mudanjiang City. Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Liu Heyao
Ge Ruifa, the first secretary of Zhongxing Village, introduced that Zhongxing Village has accelerated the implementation of three measures: environmental improvement, tourism promotion, and industrial prosperity, promoting village enterprise cooperation, project integration, integrated management, and market-oriented operation. The village plans to build automobile campsites, folk customs parks, homestay health and wellness industrial parks, and green rice parks, with an average annual reception of more than 1.5 million tourists, becoming a well-known "micro vacation" new landmark in the local area.
Walking in Zhongxing Village, Korean style restaurants and themed homestays can be seen everywhere, and tourists wearing Korean clothing occasionally take photos as souvenirs. In the parent-child interactive entertainment area of the village, many parents take their children to experience various entertainment projects, with endless laughter and joy in their ears. "The village is very close to the city and has convenient transportation. I often bring my family here to play and experience the rural scenery," said Zhang Yinghan, a resident of Mudanjiang.
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Today, Zhongxing Village is full of guests and popularity, but in the past it was a "hollow village", with 90% of the villagers working outside for a long time. In 2014, Han Chunshan, a villager who had been developing in other places for many years, invested 20 million yuan to build his hometown, becoming the "pioneer" of the tourism industry in Zhongxing Village and the "first person" to return home for entrepreneurship. Under his leadership, more than 40 villagers returned to their hometowns to start their own businesses.
Villager Kim Myung soo is a returning entrepreneur from South Korea. He runs a soup restaurant in the village and the business is very prosperous. "Many tourists have been praising my family's soup and meals, and now their income is much higher than working abroad," said Jin Mingzhu. Next, he plans to expand the scale of the restaurant to meet the needs of more tourists.
Ge Ruifa introduced that the village encourages villagers to use idle houses to build homestays and open restaurants, and through the development of tourism, it effectively promotes employment opportunities at the doorstep of the village and surrounding villages. At present, Zhongxing Village has achieved an annual per capita net income of 35000 yuan.
At the same time, Zhongxing Village actively explores "Four Seasons Tourism" and "Global Tourism", building experiential ice and snow projects such as ski resorts and ice and snow Happy Valley, so that the tourism industry does not close all year round. After continuous efforts, Zhongxing Village has been awarded honors such as National Key Village for Rural Tourism, National Demonstration Village for "One Village, One Product", National Demonstration Village for Rural Governance, Chinese Ethnic Minority Characteristic Village, and National Forest Village. The former "hollow village" has achieved a beautiful transformation.
"Now the village has become more beautiful, with more and more tourists, and the villagers' wallets are also getting fuller. Living here feels particularly happy," said Sui Yinglan, a villager from Zhongxing Village.