All corners of the country come in a throng and beautiful mountain. In the early spring, the Dabie Mountain National Scenic Spot, like a silver snake in the mountains, is a colorful scenery. It is a beautiful scenery in the mountains, attracting tourists from all over the world.
Dabie Mountain National Scenic Road runs through Anhui and Hubei provinces, connecting the southern and northern foothills of Dabie Mountain. During this period, red tourism and green natural scenery are integrated, with beautiful scenery. At present, the “1 + n” scenic corridor system of Dabie Mountain built with this scenic corridor as the link connects three districts and four counties of Lu’an City, Anhui Province, and connects the key scenic spots and characteristic tourism resources of the whole city, forming a unique “golden view light” of Dabie Mountain.
In recent years, taking advantage of the construction of the “1 + n” scenic corridor in Dabie Mountain, Lu’an City has actively built a “slow travel cycle network”, continuously improved the construction of tourism infrastructure along the line, and made great efforts to improve the travel experience of tourists. The former watershed has changed into a scenic line, with beautiful scenery raised in the boudoir one after another. Out of the mountains, villages are connected with roads, and mountains are scenery, weaving a picture of people and roads A beautiful picture of the harmonious dependence of road and scenery.
string beads to create a “golden belt” for Dabie Mountain Tourism
Entering from Liji, Nanxi Town, Jinzhai County, driving on the national scenic road of Dabie Mountain, the winding road echoes with the scattered folk houses and quiet and simple pastoral scenery from afar, just like a ribbon falling between green mountains and green waters.
The Dabie Mountain National scenic road connects 4 highways, such as Shanghai Rong and Ji Guang, and connects 32 key tourist attractions, just like a “golden belt” that connects the most precious gold tourism resources in the mountain area. Wang te, deputy department level cadre of Lu’an culture and Tourism Bureau, introduced that the scenic road not only creates a comfortable tourism road environment for tourists, but also provides a broad space for tourism development along the line.
In Tiantangzhai, a national 5A scenic spot in Jinzhai County, the proportion of self driving travel has increased year by year in recent years. Zhang Wenbin, deputy manager of the marketing department of the scenic spot, is deeply impressed by the development bonus brought by the Dabie Mountain National Scenic path.
Zhang Wenbin introduced that the connection of the Jinzhai section of the scenic road makes it more convenient for tourists from the Yangtze River Delta, Northern Anhui and Henan to enter the scenic spot. After getting off the highway, tourists can go directly to the scenic spot along the scenic corridor, nearly an hour faster than before, and the proportion of self driving tour in the scenic spot has increased by nearly 20%.
“Unobstructed transportation not only saves tourists’ travel time, but also drives the development of surrounding scenic spots and stimulates the development vitality of one side’s tourism industry.” Zhang Wenbin said.
Tiantangzhai scenic spot spans Anhui and Hubei provinces and climbs up along the climbing trail to 1603 meters above sea level. The five golden characters of “the junction of Anhui and Hubei” are particularly eye-catching. Mr. Sun’s family from Hefei are excited to take a group photo with the boundary Monument and enjoy the wonderful experience of “stepping on two provinces with one foot and looking at the river and Huai River with two eyes”.
Talking about the biggest feeling of this trip, Mr. Sun admitted that the driving distance is shorter than before. It took four and a half hours to travel to Tiantangzhai for the first time five years ago. Now it takes three hours. You can go to other places in the saved time.
In Jinzhai, like Tiantangzhai, there are many scenic spots that rely on the construction of Dabie Mountain National Scenic path to usher in new opportunities for development.
Starting from Tiantangzhai scenic spot, you can drive 20 minutes to Yanzihe Grand Canyon Scenic spot. At the entrance of the scenic spot, more than ten three storey Hui style small buildings are scattered and orderly arranged. “This house is a farmhouse opened by local villagers.” Xu Yingsheng, general manager of the scenic spot, said that the scenic path has brought passenger flow to the scenic spot and led the surrounding villagers to get rid of poverty and become rich. At present, more than 60 villagers nearby are engaged in tourism related industries, and their economic income has increased significantly.
“In the past, by planting bamboo shoots and Gastrodia elata, the income per mu was less than 500 yuan. Now our husband and wife can earn 100000 yuan a year by operating farmhouse entertainment.” The old emperor, who runs farmhouse near the scenic spot, said.
Wang te said that the national scenic path of Dabie Mountain has both “beauty” and “connotation”, which connects the mountains, rivers and cultural history of Lu’an, opens a new era of “fast forward and slow travel” of Dabie Mountain tourism, communicates with the last kilometer of the scenic spot, and realizes the coordinated development of global tourism and regional economy.
traffic and tourism integration is both a highway and a landscape
In recent years, under the integrated development path of “tourism + transportation”, Lu’an has continuously promoted the construction of “1 + n” scenic corridor system relying on its unique ecological natural resources and geographical advantages. China Hongling highway, Shanhu tourism Avenue, Jiuli landscape gallery and other “traffic and tourism integration” projects have taken root in Dabie Mountains. “String beads, connect and form a face”. The context of a “global tourism network” connecting three districts and four counties of Lu’an is gradually clear, the industrial benefits are becoming increasingly prominent, and the brand image is becoming more and more full.
From the exit of “banzhuyuan Tiantangzhai” of Shanghai Shaanxi Expressway, driving on the national scenic road of Dabie Mountain, “the military flag of the 32nd division of the 11th army, the first armed force of the Red Army in Anhui”, came into view. Not far away, the red town is shaded by green mountains and green waters, and the tourist post station is full of people. Free tea, tourist route consultation and red history explanation… This multifunctional tourist post station integrating catering, leisure, sightseeing and tourism consultation has become the “first punch in point” for self driving tourists.
“In order to minimize the ecological problems brought by the development and improve the tourists’ sense of tourism experience, the tourist post stations along the scenic road are mostly built along the mountain side, just like ‘golden ears’ extending one by one.” Wang te said that in the next step, Lu’an City will accelerate the construction of tourism post stations along the line, further improve the infrastructure construction of post stations, and make “golden ears” an important starting point to drive the development of local economy.
If the tourist post station is an exquisite ornament in the journey, then the roads integrating “road” and “scenery” are the soul of the Dabie Mountain National Scenic Road.
Entering Jinzhai, an old revolutionary base, China’s Hongling highway, which belongs to the “1 + n” scenic corridor series of Dabie Mountains, winds and circles. As a self driving route comparable to the “Blue Ridge highway” in the United States, the highway consists of three parts: 500 mile “Xianfeng road ancient” self driving line, red journey theme line and Martin highway cross-country line.
“This road is so beautiful that it is integrated with nature. When I go back, I will tell my friends to come here for sightseeing.” Ms. Wang, a tourist from Hefei, said.
View the scenery along the road. The road is the scenery. The road connects famous red cultural attractions such as Red Army square, tangjiahui red town and Dawan, as well as natural ecological scenic spots such as Tiantangzhai, Yanzihe Grand Canyon and Mazongling, and attracts a large number of tourists every year.
According to the relevant person in charge of Jinzhai County Bureau of culture, tourism and sports, each section of Hongling highway has a distinct theme, which meets the self driving needs of different motorists and is very attractive to tourists who are keen on self driving (RV, motorcycle and SUV). In 2021, Jinzhai County received 122028 million tourists, generating a comprehensive income of about 4.708 billion yuan.
global development of rural tourism with heat
“Develop for the people and benefit the people.” With the continuous construction of Dabie Mountain National Scenic path and the vigorous development of tourism industry, rural tourism also makes the money bags of mountain people swell up.
Before the construction of Jinzhai section of Dabie Mountain National Scenic Road, Tiantangzhai town was a relatively remote Township in Jinzhai County, and Bawan village was hidden deep in the mountains of Tiantangzhai Town, with a rugged mountain road of nearly 2 hours from the nearest highway crossing.
In recent years, based on its own resource endowment and relying on its traffic location advantages, Bawan village has actively developed new forms of rural tourism, vigorously promoted the development and sales of tourism agricultural products, and opened the development mode of “integration of agriculture and tourism”.
For the “butterfly change” in Bawan village, the owner of the B & B, Zhang Jun, saw it and was happy in his heart. In 2015, Zhang Jun, who first came to Bawan village, fell in love with it at a glance. With deep attachment to Bawan landscape and obsession with Hui style architecture, Zhang Jun renovated the “Bawan hall old house” with a history of 500 years and opened a home stay “Bawan hall”.
“I just wanted to keep the old buildings and protect them. I didn’t think that business was getting better and better!” Zhang Junxin said that the Dabie Mountain National Scenic Road has injected vitality and vigor into Bawan village and brought sufficient passenger flow to the home stay.
“The whole line of Jinzhai section of Dabie Mountain National Scenic Road opens a new situation for the tourism development of Tiantangzhai town.” According to Huang Fei, member of the Party committee of Tiantangzhai town and Minister of the people’s armed forces, it takes only 40 minutes for Tiantangzhai town to get to the nearest highway crossing, which greatly shortens the distance from the surrounding cities, and the number of tourists to the town is also increasing year by year.
Bawan village is an epitome of the rapid development of rural tourism in Dabie Mountain. In Dawan village, Huashi Township, local villagers also feel the “great changes in mountain villages” brought by tourism.
Walking into the Xinjie home stay in Dawan village, Wang Yujie, the owner of farmhouse, is preparing various farmhouse dishes in the kitchen to entertain guests who come by car.
“Without the national scenic path of Dabie Mountain, there would be no farmhouse for me.” Wang Yujie made no secret of his praise for this road.
As a once famous poor household in the village, in 2017, Wang Yujie, who saw business opportunities from the scenic path, resolutely transformed his three-story building and opened a farmhouse integrating catering, accommodation and sales of special agricultural products. “Dawan village has red mountains in spring, red leaves in autumn and snow in winter. More and more people come to the village year by year. I can earn more than 200000 yuan a year by operating farmhouse entertainment, which was unthinkable before.” Wang Yujie could not hide his joy.
In Taiyang Township, Huoshan County, relying on the dividends brought by the construction of Dabie Mountain National Scenic Road, local rural tourism has developed rapidly. At present, more than 3000 people in the township are engaged in tourism related industries, and the per capita income of the township has increased by 5000 yuan.
Nowadays, in the Dabie Mountains, more and more farmers like Wang Yujie eat “tourism rice”. These generations of people who depend on farming for a living have stepped out of the fields, relying on the support of government policies and business minds, and embarked on the road to prosperity.
Li Dong, chairman of the National People’s Congress of Huashi Township, said that the Dabie Mountain National Scenic Road has become a natural scenic line, an ecological line to enrich the people and a cultural and historical line. It has become a beautiful economic corridor in mountainous areas and helped local people get rid of poverty and become rich.
“The construction of Dabie Mountain National Scenic Road should be carried out for a long time.” Wang te said that Lu’an will further improve the “1 + n” scenic corridor system of Dabie Mountain, comprehensively optimize the tourism spatial structure based on rapid transportation, accelerate the pace of global tourism construction, optimize and improve the “fast forward and slow travel” product system, and let tourists enjoy the beauty of Lu’an.
