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He Lijuan, party secretary of Gubeikou town in Beijing's suburban Miyun county since 2010, always sets the improvement in villagers' lives as her first priority at work. "The government will be meaningless without the 10,000 people's support. These residents in the town are the driving force of our daily work," she said.
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He Lijuan [Photo provided to chinadaily.com.cn] |
Develop Gubeikou into an international cultural tourism village
Located in the northeast of Miyun, Gubeikou town lies upstream of Miyun Reservoir. As the focus of Miyun's tourism development, Gubeikou is famous for the Simatai Great Wall, the ancient villages, and frontier culture.
Some parts of the village developed folk tourism depending on the natural scenery in 2010, before He became party secretary. The result was not satisfactory. The lack of leading enterprises wasted all the villagers' efforts. Another reason was the fact that the farmers were fully occupied with traditional agriculture. This situation of a single industry had impeded the farmers' income for a long time.
After comprehensive research, He proposed the idea of developing an international cultural tourism village, which focused Gubeikou's tourism on cultural and ecological tourism. The recent years have witnessed the village's rapid economic growth as well as the improvement in social development.
Chen Xiuling is a 67-year-old villager who operates a folk guest house with her husband. The guest house has five rooms, which bring in 1,000 yuan ($163) per day for the family. She remembered how He explained the advantages of folk tourism in detail to them in person and how she saw it from the villagers' point of view.
