Rural TourismDingxi City’s ‘Qihe Farm’ Project Attracts Enterprise Site Visits
March 28th – 30th, the 'Qihe Farm' project attracted enterprises to conduct project site selection investigations in rural tourism villages in Weiren County and Lin Tao County, Dingxi City.
The investigation team successively explored 15 rural villages including Zhande Village, Shouyang Village, Xiaikou Village, Weihe Source Village, Houjia Temple Village, Bainianpo Village, Yuanqudi Village, Qiichuan Bay Village and Nanping Village, Luolin Village, Majia Jiao Village, Chaliujia Village, Hexide Wan Village in Lin Tao County. Through on-site experience, listening to introductions, discussions and exchanges, drone aerial photography, and detailed understanding of rural tourism, rural human history, ecological landscapes, village appearance, village appearance and characteristic industries. The investigation team believes that Dingxi has abundant tourism resources, pleasant climate, convenient transportation and is a good place for summer escape and vacation tourism. The development potential of the scenic area is huge. Next, they will invite experts to conduct a comprehensive assessment of rural tourism resources and project selection work.
In recent years, Dingxi City has seized the opportunity of the national implementation of the rural revitalization strategy, highlighting the 'Four Qualities' (land grabbing, old-fashioned, angry, energetic) and adhering to the 'Five Pillars' (with agricultural culture as the soul, with pastoral scenery as the rhyme, with village dwellings as the form, with ecological agriculture as the base, with natural dispersion as the melody) value orientation, vigorously promoting the construction of rural tourism demonstration villages. In 2019, the whole city competed to establish 7 provincial rural tourism demonstration villages and built 10 new rural tourism demonstration villages, making a positive contribution to the implementation of the 'Culture, Tourism, Living, and City' strategic.
'Qihe Farm' project is based on the development of ecological agriculture, with the guidance of ecological travel-style elderly care, vacation-style tourism, rural life experience, green and healthy organic fruit and vegetable planting. Combining 'Agriculture + Pastoral + B&B + Gardening + Tourism + Internet + E-commerce' integrated development mode, implementing 'Company + Cooperative + Farmer' close cooperation, creating shared information channels and cooperation and development platform for hundreds of enterprises and Qihe thousands of households. Through rural tourism, it promotes ecological agriculture, creating an effective way to revitalize rural economies, increase farmers' income and achieve poverty alleviation and prosperity. This inspection will undoubtedly promote the beautiful countryside construction of Dingxi City, help transform and upgrade the culture and tourism industry, and bring new opportunities to regional economic development.