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Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture in Sichuan was once one of the "three districts and three states" deep poverty areas in China. Nine years ago, the reporter photographed Atulier Village, a village located on an 800-meter cliff in Zhaojue County, deep in Daliangshan Mountain, also known as "Cliff Village". For more than nine years, the reporter recorded the changes there with a lens. Today (February 12th), "Going to the Grassroots in the Spring Festival", I will visit Cliff Village again with the reporters from the General Station.
On the way to Cliff Village along Panshan Highway, I heard that Cliff Village is building a "Valley of the Sky" cultural tourism project, which makes everyone on our reporting team full of expectations. Many people remember Cliff Village, but in those days, it was necessary to climb cliffs when entering and leaving the village. At first, it was a rattan ladder road made of branches and vines, and later, steel pipes were reinforced into a steel ladder road, and the unique geographical features also became the advantage of developing alpine tourism here.
At the first stop after entering Zhaojue, we decided to go to the ski resort to find a guide for this trip-Rabo, who is already a ski instructor. Rabo, born in 1994, is a native of Cliff Village. Nine years ago, it was Rabo who led us to climb the rattan ladder and entered Cliff Village for the first time. In 2016, after the story of Cliff Village was reported by us, tourism began to be developed here, and Labo signed a contract with a cultural tourism enterprise. Now, in addition to being a ski instructor, he also undertakes the functions of training villagers’ safety services and explaining reception.
In 2020, according to the national ex situ poverty alleviation and relocation policy, 282 households and 1,219 people in Cliff Village moved off the cliff one after another and lived in the buildings in the county. Living at the foot of the mountain, the industry is on the mountain.In order to help more people "stay stable, find jobs and gradually get rich", Cliff Village develops the village collective economy according to the industrial development plan of "combination of long and short, interaction of planting and breeding, and integration of agriculture, culture and tourism". Villagers rely on land transfer, planting olives, navel oranges and raising sheep to increase their income. Today, the annual per capita disposable income of Cliff Village is more than 19,600 yuan, and the collective shares in tourism are nearly 10 million yuan. On the eve of the Spring Festival, local villagers were organized to return to Cliff Village, ready to give priority to recruiting local villagers to work in the "Sky Valley" cultural tourism project.
Now, the first phase of "Sky Valley" has been put into trial operation, steel ladder climbing has become a cultural tourism experience project, and the old school site that has been discontinued has been transformed into a tourist reception center, boutique homestay and hot spring, which makes the villagers very excited.
Pacha Youge is now the Party Secretary of Guri Town, where Cliff Village is located. In 2016, when we first came to Cliff Village, Pacha Youge was the first secretary in the village. In recent years, the road of Cliff Village is changing, the industry is changing, and people are also changing, but everyone’s vision for tourism development has never changed. Taking advantage of the reunion back to the village, Pacha said a few words to the villagers.
Pacha Youge told us that Liangshan Wenlv Group plans to invest 330 million yuan in the "Valley of the Sky" cultural tourism project, which will be followed by cableway sightseeing, hiking and cave exploration. This Spring Festival holiday, the first phase of the project has received more than 3,500 tourists. At present, Cliff Village has been successfully selected as the first batch of rural tourism key villages in China, and the villagers have more expectations for the future.