How to repair the Huashan Cableway? Huashan Cableway: To repair or not to repair?

On January 10th, Weinan City, which officially took over Huashan, held a press conference in Xi'an for the first time, revising the overall plan of Huashan Scenic Area, and will strive to build the West Coast Road within 5 years, comprehensively Xianyu, Wengyu, Sangong Mountain, Sanfeng Mountain and other scenic spots were developed to solve the problem of mountain expansion. The Huashan Cableway was completed in 1996. The cableway flies from the foot of the mountain along the trail that was used to "outwit Huashan" to reach the North Peak.

The main peak scenic area of ??Huashan Mountain has only 0.4 square kilometers of flat land, and its maximum annual environmental capacity is about 1 million people. It is understood that in 2007, the Huashan Mountain Scenic Area received a total of 1.53 million domestic and foreign tourists, a year-on-year increase of 16S , Tourism has become a pillar industry for the sustainable development of the local economy in Weinan City. Previously, the person in charge of Huashan Tourism Development Corporation said that Huashan Mountain will face more tourists in the future, and the company will build the main peak cableway as soon as possible and expand the Xifeng Scenic Area.

On January 10, the Tianzishan Cableway, Zhangjiajie’s first “air corridor”, suspended operations for 15 days due to equipment upgrades. In December 2007, the newly renovated Yungu Cableway in Huangshan Scenic Area was put into operation. Huangshan Scenic Area originally had three cableways: Yungu, Yuping, and Taiping. It is said that the reconstructed Yungu Cableway will significantly reduce the waiting time for tourists to climb the mountain. .

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Huashan Mountain is known for its "strange dangers". "Huashan Mountain has been the only road since ancient times", but the cableway makes it a history. The construction of multiple cableways will greatly change the overall appearance of Huashan Mountain.

A few years ago, there were two cableways planned to be built in Huashan Mountain. One was the cableway from Wengyu on the west side of Huashan Mountain to Xifeng. People used to call it the "West Cable Cableway" and "Xifeng Cableway". Ropeway" or "Djinn Ropeway". The other is the "Middle Cable Road", which is planned to be built on the "Huashan Mountain Road since ancient times" in Huashan Valley. In 2002, the Ministry of Construction urgently called for the suspension of the "Middle Cable Road": the investigation team of the Ministry of Construction determined that the construction of Huashan's "Middle Cable Road" seriously violated the relevant provisions of the State Council's "Interim Regulations on the Management of Scenic Areas" for the protection and construction of scenic spots, and the construction procedures were not yet complete. , especially the illegal construction of a cableway project that does not exist in the overall plan of the scenic spot without the approval of the Ministry of Construction, which has caused great damage to the resources and environment of the scenic spot. Its nature is egregious. It is recommended that the Shaanxi Provincial Government be ordered to immediately and unconditionally stop Huashan " The construction of the "Middle Cable Road" was suspended.

Many people analyze whether rebuilding the cableway is good or bad for Huashan. They believe that the rationality of building cableways in scenic spots, especially mountainous scenic spots, is that, It has a positive effect on improving reception levels, accelerating tourist turnover, and improving economic benefits; the disadvantage is that the ropeway will cause irreparable damage to highly valuable heritage.

It sounds like, It seems that as long as the "benefits outweigh the disadvantages", it is reasonable to build or even rebuild the cableway. However, the author believes that the two are not comparable at all: building a cableway is not a necessary condition for the development of tourism, and tourists may not dislike walking to climb mountains; the cableway is good for the scenery. The harm of scenic spots resources is indeed very obvious: it destroys the terrain, destroys vegetation and ecology, damages the aesthetics of the landscape, and intensifies the concentration of people on the top of the mountain. The top of the mountain becomes a source of pollution and endangers the entire mountain. It may even fundamentally change the appearance and nature of the heritage, which is incompatible with the world's natural and cultural heritage. Protection goes against the grain. It doesn’t take much thinking to decide whether a department or company’s immediate economic benefits are more important than its unique genetic value.

Some scenic spots violate the plan and start construction on their own without following the prescribed procedures. Construction activities still occur from time to time. For example... Shaanxi Huashan Tourism Company violated the plan and built a passenger ropeway in the scenic spot without authorization.

——Qiu Baoxing, Vice Minister of the Ministry of Construction

< p> The cableway construction has been proven by many experts for many years and will not cause problems to the resources and safety of Huashan Mountain. However, the main peak area of ??Huashan Mountain has a small environmental capacity and the granite mountain is short of water. It is very difficult to divert tourists, which has caused great damage to resources and safety. The pressure will only increase with the development of tourism. The purpose of building the new ropeway is to alleviate this pressure. ——Cheng Jianshe, Office Director of Shaanxi Tourism Group Company.

< p> If the cableway is built again, Huashan Mountain will definitely miss out on the world heritage. The Juling Cableway built by the Xianyu Scenic Area will go directly to the west peak of Huashan Mountain. This will not only destroy the main scenic spot of Huashan Mountain, but also destroy the iconic landscape of Huashan Mountain. The beautiful scenery of the "Xifeng Cliff" will never return, and a primitive forest on the Xifeng - Huashan pine, a rare tree that has grown for thousands of years, will be destroyed by man.

——Zheng Xiwu, director of Huashan Administration Bureau and current director of Huashan Scenic Area Management Committee

Editor-in-chief Peng Liang