How is the economy of Huaihua Passage in Hunan? Is it relatively poor?

The Huaihua Channel area in Hunan has some challenges in economic development, but it is not a poor area. The county is the earliest ethnic minority autonomous county established in Hunan Province. It is also an old revolutionary base county, a key county for national poverty alleviation and development work, a deeply impoverished county in Hunan Province, a strong tourism county in Hunan Province, and a key county in Hunan Province's characteristic county economy (cultural tourism).

In the process of poverty alleviation, Channel focuses on stimulating the endogenous motivation of poor households, actively explores the "tourism +" model, pilots and promotes "village-enterprise integration", and finds a way to overcome poverty with "beauty" road. Relying on the three major resources of "folklore, ecology, and red", the county vigorously implements "tourism +" poverty alleviation and introduces a series of support policies to support registered poor households in developing farm hotels, tourist shops, farm inns, etc. At the same time, the government also provides incentives and subsidies, store rent reductions and exemptions, and subsidies ranging from 40,000 to 200,000 yuan to help poor households develop the tourism industry.

Taken together, although there are some challenges in the economic development of the Huaihua Channel in Hunan, it is not a poor area. The county is actively exploring its own development path and has achieved certain results.