The draft mentioned that Guanling achieved poverty alleviation due to the connection of scattered beads, namely fossils, heavenly books and the Grand Canyon. This belongs to the category of all-region tourism, and the county party committee secretary explained it very logically. This is the situation.
But what I want to tell you more is the woman setting up a stall in Wuli Village.
The road growing out of the cracks in the stones
I was really poor before.
In Guanling, there are more stones than soil. After sowing the corn, what is harvested is not even enough to feed the mice. The people in the village had no choice but to run outside. Whether it is Zhejiang or Guangdong, as long as there is a way to survive, we will go there.
I have seen people who have returned from work. Their fingers are deformed, their waists are bent, and they have not saved much money. However, their children no longer recognize their parents.
In those days, you couldn't use the word "poverty incidence" to describe it.
It was pain in the bones.
Smoke under the world's tallest bridge
In 2025, the Huajiang Gorge Bridge will be opened.
Many media have stated that this is an extremely super project that is "the best in the world in both horizontal and vertical considerations." However, you know, what really touched my heart was not how high the bridge was.
It’s those small stalls that suddenly pop up under the bridge.
Hu Tianqin, from Wuli Village, has been working in Zhejiang for nearly 20 years. In March this year, she set up a stall next to the observation deck in Kelizhai. Selling Huajiang cut powder, the daily turnover can reach more than 2,000.
More than two thousand dollars.
In the city, it was nothing, but for her, this was the first time in her life that she could get income at her doorstep.
The word flow is too cold
I don’t want to use “flow” to describe these things.
It seems that those people are just a point in the data flood.
You have to go and see the scene. Smoke rises from the depths of the canyon, just flying over the steel cables of the bridge. The Huajiang River flows beneath it, and vehicles roar past above. On the mountainside, there is a fifty-year-old woman who is busy mixing chili pepper for tourists.
She no longer has to think about whether or not she will go home for the New Year.
Because she is at home.
A bowl of powder, what changed?
"The highest turnover is more than 2,000 a day."
When she said this, I guessed that she was thinking in her heart - the child's tuition is enough, the old man's medicine money is also available this month, and she can save some to renovate the house.
As for the person named Qiu Xingqin, she comes from Huajiang Town and owns a shop that serves beef hotpot. She once ran a restaurant outside and suffered a loss. After that, he returned to the local area and opened it again, reaching a business scale of more than 20 tables every day.
The same goes for opening a restaurant.
I lost money before, but I make money now.
What's the difference? Right on that bridge.
The people on the bridge are looking at the scenery, and the people under the bridge are being seen.
Fifteen rooms and one woman
One more thing.
Tao Yingyan, 41 years old, works as a cleaner in Ice and Snow Town.
I used to work in Zhejiang. At that time, the rent was high and it was difficult to get money. So I left my children at home alone, and there was no one to take care of the elderly at home. I know the details of those days - you are sweating outside, and the people at home are shedding tears.
What now? She works in the ice and snow town and earns more than 2,000 yuan a month.
not much.
But I can go home after get off work.
Can see children doing homework. Can serve a bowl of hot rice to the elderly.
This makes me want to cry more than the announcement of people being lifted out of poverty.
the people behind the numbers
Official data shows that in the past three years, Guanling has helped 2,532 households and 10,360 people escape poverty through tourism.
2532 households.
In every household, there is a Hu Tianqin, a Qiu Xingqin, and a Tao Yingyan.
They are not the so-called "poverty alleviation models", they are simply very ordinary rural women. They are not very good at talking, and they do not understand global tourism. However, they know that they can make money at home now and there is no need to leave.
What grows out of the cracks in those rocks are not just fruit trees and dragon fruit.
It's a way to survive.
It's popularity.
It's home.
String the pearls together
The secretary of the county party committee said that Guanling's tourism resources are like pearls that need to be strung together.
The Huajiang Gorge Bridge is one.
The Fossil Group National Geological Park is a gem.
The Red Cliff Heavenly Book is one.
The Shangjia ancient banyan tree is an ancient one.
There are also those Buyi and Miao villages hidden in the ravines.
They used to be loose. Tourists come, take one look and then leave. No food, no room, no room left.
What now?
The idle farmhouses in Shibanjing Village have been transformed into bed and breakfasts. There are 15 families who rent their houses to the company, which will conduct unified operations. These families can get "guaranteed income plus 12% dividends" without investing a single cent.
The average household income increased by 5,000 yuan.
Five thousand yuan is enough for a rural old man to spend a whole year.
I'm also afraid of being "right"
As I write this, I feel a little scared.
I am afraid that this article will be written like a summary of poverty alleviation.
Do you know that kind of article? Its data is detailed, its logic is strict, and every sentence is correct. However, after reading it, I couldn't remember anything.
I don't want to write it that way.
I want you to remember the hand that mixed the chili powder.
Remember the B&B owner who stood in his yard and could see the tallest bridge in the world when he looked up.
Thinking of those who returned to their hometowns, I walked on the newly built sightseeing road at the entrance of the village, my steps lighter than before.
last mile
The county party secretary also said that now we need to open up the "last mile" of tourist facilities.
I believe this.
Because I saw that a flight base is being built in Guanling. In the future, tourists can take a helicopter to see the bridge.
I saw that they were building a 22-kilometer sightseeing road and a parking lot that could park thousands of cars.
These investments are not for tourists to see.
It's for those who can't come back.
Come back, the road is repaired.
Come back, there is work to do.
Come back, you can make money at home.
Poetry and distance
In the past, we talked about "poetry and distance".
It seems like all the good things are elsewhere.
A place like Guanling is just passing by.
But it's different now.
Guanling himself has become a distant place for others.
Tourists come from Chongqing, Guangzhou, Wuhan and other places. I came here specifically to see the bridge, the fossils, and stay in the renovated farmhouses. They took photos by the lotus pond in Shibanjing Village, picked loquats in the loquat garden in Le'an Village, and screamed on the ski slopes of the Ice and Snow Town.
The people of Guanling are standing in these scenery.
No more running out.
This is poverty alleviation.
It’s not how much money you give them.
It's you who let them, so they don't have to leave anymore.
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