CCTV News (News Network): Sichuan Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture was once one of the deeply impoverished areas of the "three districts and three prefectures" in the country. Nine years ago, the reporter photographed an Atulier Village, also known as the "cliff village" in Zhaojue County, deep in Daliang Mountain. For more than 9 years, the reporter has recorded the changes there with his camera. "Going to the Grassroots of the New Year" followed the reporter from the Central Station to visit the cliff village again.
On the way to the cliff village along the winding mountain road, I heard that cliff village is building a cultural and tourism project of "Sky Valley", which makes everyone in our reporting team look forward to it. Many people remember that cliff villages were the cliffs and cliffs that had to climb in and out of the village. At first, it was a vine stairway made of branches and rattans, and later it was reinforced by steel pipes to form steel stairways. The unique geographical landscape has also become an advantage for the development of alpine tourism here.
After entering Zhaojue, we decided to go to the ski resort to find the guide for this trip—Rabau, who is already a ski instructor. Born in 1994, Labo is a native of the cliff village. Nine years ago, it was Rabo who took us to climb the ivy ladder and entered the cliff village for the first time. In 2016, after we reported the story of Cliff Village, tourism began to be developed here, and Rabo signed a contract with a cultural and tourism enterprise. Now, in addition to being a ski instructor, he also undertakes the functions of training villagers for safety services and explaining and receiving.
In 2020, in accordance with the national poverty alleviation relocation policy, 282 households and 1,219 people in the cliffs moved down from the cliffs and moved into the buildings in the county town. Living at the foot of the mountain, industry on the mountain. In order to help more people "stabilize, have employment, and gradually get rich", Qiya Village develops the village collective economy in accordance with the industrial development plan of "combining long-term and short-term, interacting with farming and culture and tourism". Villagers rely on land transfer to increase their income by planting olives, navel oranges and raising sheep. Today, the annual per capita disposable income of Xuanya Village has reached more than 19,600 yuan, and the collective investment in the tourism industry has reached nearly 10 million yuan. On the eve of the Spring Festival, the local people organized to return to the cliff village and prepared to give priority to recruiting local villagers to work in the "Sky Valley" cultural and tourism project.
Now, the first phase of "Sky Valley" has been put into trial operation, and steel ladder climbing has become a cultural and tourism experience project. The discontinued school site has been transformed into a tourist reception center, boutique homestay and hot springs, which has excited the villagers.
Pach Youge is now the Party Secretary of Guli Town, where the cliff village is located. In 2016, when we first came to the cliff village, Pacha Youge was the first secretary of the village. In recent years, the roads in cliff villages have been changing, industries have been changing, and people have also changed, but everyone’s longing for tourism development has not changed. Taking advantage of the reunion when he returned to the village, Pacha Youge said a few words to the villagers.
Pach Youge tells us that the "Sky Valley" cultural and tourism project that is being built is being accelerated. Liangshan Cultural and Tourism Group plans to invest 330 million yuan, and will subsequently create cable cargo sightseeing, hiking, cave exploration, etc. During this Spring Festival holiday, the first phase of the project has received more than 3,500 tourists. At present, the cliff village has been successfully selected as one of the first batch of rural tourism key villages in the country, and the villagers have more longing for the future.
