On February 6, Beihu District Rural Revitalization Agricultural Tourism Festival (Strawberry Festival) opened in Wushan Village, Huatang Town.

The strawberries from Wushan Village of Huatang Town

Huatang Town has a long history of strawberry cultivation, with an annual production value of nearly 100 million yuan. It has won the gold medal in China Strawberry Culture Tourism Festival for many years. Taking this opportunity, Beihu District, taking strawberries as the media, has vigorously developed green ecological leisure agriculture, focused on creating characteristic agricultural brands, promoted the integrated development of the three industries, and helped the organic connection between the achievements of poverty alleviation and rural revitalization.

At the end of the lunar new year, there were many agricultural and sideline products and new year products, such as fried set of flowers, fried oil Bazi, and fried glutinous rice cake. While enjoying the first sweet strawberry, tourists can buy authentic "local flavor". "Today, I ate a lot of strawberries here, bought some for my family, and bought some new year's products that I was about to buy. I like such activities very much." Ms. Liu said.

The festival also focused on eight villages along the Xihe River in Beihu District to show the achievements of new rural construction. "We just want to use this festival to promote the development of rural revitalization along the Xihe River." Huang Bin, Secretary of the Party Group and director of the Bureau of Culture, Tourism, Broadcasting and Sports of Beihu District, said.

In recent years, Beihu District has deeply implemented the Rural Revitalization Strategy, vigorously promoted the deep integration of agricultural tourism industry and cultural tourism industry, successfully introduced a number of high-quality projects such as Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao Greater Bay Area (Chenzhou) agricultural industrial cluster and Yangtian Lake scenic spot, built a number of high-quality platforms such as China supply and marketing Chenzhou agricultural and sideline products logistics park, and meticulously built a number of characteristic agriculture and high-quality agriculture, such as live pigs, vegetables, strawberries, edible fungi, Camellia oleifera, etc. In the next five years, Beihu District will take the lead in realizing the organic connection between poverty alleviation and rural revitalization, focus on strengthening agriculture and enriching farmers in rural areas, deeply tap rural tourism resources, create characteristic products, and strive to create a tourism brand.

Agricultural and sideline products attract tourists to stop and taste.