Walking into the "Railway Town"

The Yi River under the scorching sun is beautiful and quiet, moistening the nearby Xinnan Village with the coolness of light green. This is the "New South Waterfront Railway Town" in Luanchuan County, Henan Province. On the village square on the shore, a green leather train seems to be about to whistle and leave, and it is combined with the simple and tidy houses around it to form an intoxicating picture of a "railway town".

Xinnan Village is an ordinary small mountain village in Luanchuan County. There are no trains here, but this "railway town" was built in the winter of 20 19. There are many railway elements in Railway Town: stop signs, parked trains, flashing traffic lights, mountain roads paved with sleepers and gravel ... These have nothing to do with train operation, but are related to the event that more than a thousand villagers in Xinnan Village get rid of poverty and become rich.

Xinnan Village is a designated aid village of China Railway Zhengzhou Bureau Group Co., Ltd., and "Railway Town" is a poverty alleviation project tailored for Xinnan Village. Around this project, in addition to creating a railway landscape, the farmhouse hotel has also been transformed. The village has built a "train car cafe", an exhibition hall for agricultural and sideline products and a tourist reception center to attract people to spend their holidays here. Characteristic rural tourism has greatly changed the face of Xinnan Village.

I met the villager He in Xinnan Village. 20 14, why did you marry in Xinnan Village from a foreign land? Her husband Nie Shihao lost his parents when he was very young, and his family was poor. Both husband and wife are self-motivated people, determined to change the status quo by their own hands. However, from running a chicken farm to going out to work, several years have passed, and the plight of the family has not changed, and it has also carried a lot of foreign debts. He Lishuang, who used to be joking, became silent.

He's plight is the epitome of many poor families in this county. Luanchuan County is located in the hinterland of Funiu Mountain, with high mountains and deep ditches, inconvenient transportation, backward development and weak agricultural foundation. It is a national key county for poverty alleviation and development. If villagers want to get rid of poverty and become rich, they need to develop industrial projects according to local conditions and solve the employment problem of villagers. Xinnan Village has a quiet environment. In recent years, many famous scenic spots are crowded with tourists, while city people prefer to come to secluded villages. After some research and discussion, the bold idea of building a "railway town" in the ravine broke ground.

On the day when the train used to decorate the "railway town" was transported to the mountains, the whole Xinnan Village was boiling and the villagers in Shiliba Village were also excited. Nie Shihao's grandfather is over seventy years old. He has never seen a train in his life. Since the train arrived, he has been walking around happily in the train compartment every day.

He, who worked in the county town, returned to the village and saw that the village had built roads and dams and improved the living environment. Many neighbors have transformed their houses into magnificent farmhouse hotels, and she immediately decided to transform her house. "People have solved their worries on the railway, and we can't fall behind!" He said to Li Shuang.

At the beginning of 20 19, he took out the money earned by the husband and wife working together, plus the help of the railway. According to the unified planning of the village, he turned over a two-story building on his homestead and decorated three rooms. From July to September of that year, he earned more than 20,000 yuan. Her husband, Nie Shihao, also quit his outside job at the end of last year and returned to concentrate on running a farmhouse hotel with her. The family got together and the elderly grandfather was taken care of.

Today, 89 farmhouse hotels have been built in Xinnan Village. It also integrated village collective industries such as water parks, train cafes and flavor restaurants, and established a tourism development company to manage and operate all farm hotels in a unified manner. This summer alone, the comprehensive tourism income of Xinnan Village exceeded one million yuan.

Listening to the villagers' laughter and watching many tourists enjoy a pleasant time in the "railway town", I know that among the mountains, excellent poverty alleviation teams are quietly sweating and creating more hope for this land.

People's Daily (20201October 9 165438+20 edition)