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People's Daily Online, Qingdao, June 7, 20 10 After the curtain of the 15th Qingdao Beizhai Cherry Blossom Festival was opened, Beizhai became a good place for people to meet for an outing. Cherry is red, tourists laugh and people are happy! By June 6th, the 15th Qingdao Beizhai Cherry Festival had more than 520,000 tourists, sold more than 3.8 million Jin of cherries and earned nearly 35 million yuan.

According to reports, Beizhai Street in Laoshan District, Qingdao is a natural oxygen bar with beautiful natural ecological environment and simple folk customs in the suburbs of Qingdao. The air here is fresh, the climate is pleasant, the scenery is beautiful, the trees are shaded, and there are fruits everywhere. It is the "Hometown of Cherry in China", the first batch of national agricultural tourism demonstration sites and a famous tourist town in Shandong Province. It is a famous "hometown of small fruits" and "pollution-free agricultural products in Qingdao"

Red cherries make people rich. "Beizhai is known as the hometown of cherries in China. In the past, it was only used as an agricultural product, and the price per catty was only twenty or thirty cents. Nowadays, the annual Cherry Festival attracts tourists from all directions to pick and taste cherries. The added value of cherries has greatly increased, and the price has increased by more than 30 times. With cherry as the medium, Laoshan District has developed tourism by holding festivals, realizing the organic integration of modern agriculture and tourism. From the previous agricultural products' boudoir rearing and obscurity' to the current' small cherry hand in hand tourism', Laoshan District has pushed the integration of the primary industry and the tertiary industry to a higher level. " Liu Zhifeng, deputy director of the Propaganda Department of Laoshan District Committee, said.

Cherry has been planted in Beizhai for more than 100 years, but before 1995, cherry, a delicate petty-bourgeois fruit, sold for less than two yuan a catty. It takes a lot of time to pick cherries manually and then transport them to the city for sale, which is not worth the loss for farmers. According to Wang Dedong, a villager in Beizhai, the first cherry party, which started at 1995, sold well in the second cherry party. Wang Dongdong said that in cherry orchard, where his home is less than an acre, he can earn 5,500 yuan during the cherry blossom festival during the peak hours. The festival will allow the cherries in Beizhai to be completely digested by tourists during the Cherry Festival, without manual picking.

Become a year-round experience tour of "homesickness and agricultural rhyme". Protecting the back garden of Qingdao, Beizhai will fully expand the industry of 1.5, and lengthen the one-month festival into a year-round experience tour of "homesickness and agricultural rhyme". Liu Qiang, secretary of the Party Working Committee of Beizhai Street, said: "The development idea of Beizhai is to promote eco-tourism through efficient agriculture and expand the article of 1.5."

The "100 Million" project in Beizhai is also carried out around this idea: Dalao cherry orchard, etc. 10 boutique demonstration garden, 100 mu selenium-enriched apple orchard, 1000 mu refers to another more expensive and petty fruit-blueberry, which is the historical tradition of Beizhai: cherry planting.

This year, tourists can take part in the leisure sightseeing agricultural industrial belt between Hualou and Beijiushui, focusing on six communities: Beitou, Dalao, Dongwuyixiang, Xiwwuyixiang, Liangquan and Jiabi. Liu Qiang said that Beitou community focuses on creating a farm paradise that reflects farming culture and farm production and life scenes; The old community focuses on the development of fine cherry orchard; Liangquan community explores the use of idle buildings in old villages and vigorously develops folk leisure and holiday industry; The communities in Dongwuyi Lane and Xiwuyi Lane use abundant land resources to develop flower planting and tourism. Gaby community focused on blueberry cultivation and built a unique Laoshan blueberry garden. Each characteristic park is connected into a tourism industry belt, which is perfectly connected with Hualou and Beijiushui. The agricultural park and two scenic spots have jointly constructed a big framework of tourism in Beizhai.

"When the infrastructure of Beizhai keeps up, it is not afraid that tourists will not come to play. Visitors will be happy to leave as soon as they arrive at the North House. " Wang Dongdong said.

The service of Beizhai is the highest-visiting the park and tasting cherries, and the road is better. Beizhai Street has increased infrastructure construction, further improved the park environment, and renovated some roads in cherry orchard to make it convenient for citizens to visit the park. At the same time, Beizhai Street recommended 10 boutique cherry blossom gardens for the general public and tourists to choose from. In terms of road traffic, Beizhai Street has set up temporary parking lots in seven communities: Beijian, Zhougezhuang, Xiage, Qiyu, Huayang, Lanjiazhuang and Liu Hui, which has solved the problem of parking difficulties for citizens. There are free shuttle buses in Zhougezhuang, Xiage and Liu Hui communities, and visitors can take buses to the cherry blossom park they want to go to. In the road section with large traffic volume and many citizens, Beizhai Street coordinates the traffic police department of Laoshan District to arrange police force to ensure smooth roads.

The specialty food is more abundant. In order to welcome tourists, Beizhai Street invited national food experts to select 24 star-rated peasant banquets and 30 special dishes to provide thoughtful catering services for tourists. Sophora japonica, grasshoppers, Laoshan ginseng, grass carp, potatoes, etc ... all kinds of special foods, so that citizens and friends can feast their eyes. At the same time, there are agricultural special products such as Laoshan tea, blueberries, wild vegetables and eggs produced by Korea, Blueberry Biotechnology Company and Wanzhen Game Company, which citizens can buy.

The activities are getting more and more interesting. This year, Beizhai Cherry Blossom Festival has added many special activities, including six interesting cultural activities (Beizhai Cherry Blossom-Heroic Breakthrough (Romantic Covenant)), Cherry Blossom in Sakura Garden, Flag Race for Mountain Climbing, Cherry Blossom in Sakura Garden, Treasure Hunting Music, Cherry Blossom in Sakura Garden-Catch Chicken, Farmhouse, Love and Photo Contest on the Peninsula) and 65433. Citizens can also participate in the Beizhai Cherry Blossom Festival by collecting newspaper flowers and have the opportunity to win tickets for the World Expo. (Song, Li, Zhang Haitao)