Desert steppe
From Xinhua Shenyang January 6 (reporter Wu Jiangmin)
In the winter season, walking into the "desert grassland" Changwu County, Liaoning Province, the snow, hits the camphor pine, tabula pine stand upright, forming a tenacious barrier. Located on the southern edge of Horqin Sandy Land, this small town once covered an area of 5.242 million mu of desertification. In recent years, through the selection of fine tree species and the exploration of ecological sand control models, the local government has gradually explored a new road of green into sand retreat, green wealth and prosperity.
In August 2018, Zhangwu County, in line with the principle of controlling sand and controlling the source first, launched the construction project of the Changwu Grassland ecological restoration Demonstration Area, and accelerated the integrated development of industries while doing a good job in ecological restoration construction. It has embarked on a high-quality development path featuring overall coordination of resource utilization and ecological governance, joint promotion of economic development and environmental protection, and two-way transformation of "clear water and green mountains" and "gold Mountain and silver mountain".
In the past five years, the demonstration zone has coordinated the construction of key projects such as wind erosion control, afforestation, grass seeding and fencing in accordance with the technical route of "natural restoration as the main and manual intervention as the auxiliary". Up to now, a total of 79 wind erosion spots in the demonstration zone have been controlled, 76,000 mu of afforestation has been completed, 81,600 mu of grass has been replanted, and 260 kilometers of fencing has been closed.
If the "sand damage" is reduced, the farmers must also become rich. In recent years, Zhangwu County has continuously explored the "sand" to obtain output value, helping farmers get rich, and a large number of agricultural characteristics industries have blossomed everywhere. Vigorously develop sandy agriculture, gradually change the production mode and growth mode, improve the planting structure, and focus on the development of agricultural garden economy, sightseeing agriculture, and efficient agriculture of 3,500 mu. Vigorously develop the economic forest fruit, focus on the development of golden begonia, Yueyang red apple and other fruit tree industry, the construction of 10 boutique orchards, with rural tourism, sightseeing picking to achieve organic combination.
Vigorously develop characteristic planting, and implement characteristic industrial projects such as protein mulberry, calendula, rapeseed and sea buckthorn to plant 2,100 mu. Vigorously develop the economy under the forest, focusing on the development of winter rye, evening primrose, cat's tail, oats, asparagus, matrine, atractylodes and other forest farmers, forest animals, forest medicine planting projects of about 3700 mu. At present, these projects have all produced economic benefits, and the average benefit per mu can reach about 1500 yuan.
In Changwu County Zhanggutai town, the local has become the country's largest camphor pine seedling breeding base, the annual output value of the seedling industry of nearly 100 million yuan. The people have lived a beautiful life of blue sky and white clouds, green water and green mountains, and have embarked on a new road of desertification control featuring ecological beauty, green industry and prosperity for the people.
In the past, every family raised pigs and cows, households raised chickens and ducks, where the smoke curled around, the sound of chickens and dogs was heard, which was the portrayal of animal husbandry in Changwu County. In recent years, Changwu County has gradually changed the mode of one family, taking the road of scale and industrialization, transforming the traditional livestock and poultry breeding into the benefit of increasing farmers' income.
At present, Changwu County has built eight standardized mutton sheep farms, with an annual output of 2,000 sheep, and maximize benefits through leasing, outsourcing, collective management and other forms. In addition, Changwu County has also increased the development of forest breeding, raising five black chickens, black Luhua chickens, black chickens 3,000, raising lion head geese, Northeast white geese 15,000.
In order to further improve the production mode of animal husbandry, Zhangwu County also increased the sealing of mountains and banning grazing, fully implemented fencing, and reduced the damage to grasslands and grasslands, so as to promote more scientific herbivorous livestock breeding, more rational utilization of forage resources, and more in-depth work on grass and livestock breeding.
On January 1 this year, accompanied by festive fireworks, the third Julong Lake Ice and Snow Tourism Culture Festival in Zhangwu County kicked off in Julong Lake Scenic Area. This cultural festival has been held for two consecutive times, and has become a "hot business card" for Zhangwu to attract tourists from Fuxin and Shenyang and other surrounding cities.
In recent years, along with the development and upgrading of Changwu's ecological construction, Changwu County has accelerated the development of all-region tourism, vigorously cultivated tourism formats such as leisure, sightseeing, science popularization, red, and research, and developed a series of sand culture creative products, showing a new trend of all-season, all-dimensional, urban-rural integration, and "multi-point flowering" all-region tourism.
At present, Changwu County has focused on the development of a number of key leisure tourism and rural tourism projects such as Mantanghong Homestay, "Baishawan" rafting, Dade RV camp, and farmhouse. Vigorously develop the sightseeing and picking tourism model, Deliger Homestay, Fujia Street grassland station has begun to take shape, and to create a "special Mongolian food", "Shaquan fish banquet", "sweet gourd restaurant" and other themes of the special food. The "desert grassland" cultural tourism pattern with the integration of "mountains, rivers, forests, fields, lakes, grasses and sand" has basically taken shape, and has driven the surrounding masses to find employment in the scenic spot and achieve income increase and prosperity.
As the main front for the annihilation war on Horqin Sandy Land in Liaoning Province, Changwu County has drawn up an action plan for the annihilation war on Horqin Sandy Land in Changwu County (2023-2030), coordinated the systematic management of mountains, rivers, forests, fields, lakes, grass and sand, vigorously promoted the "4+2+2" ecological governance system, and made every effort to build an ecological grassland with "one axis, three towns and six districts".
Zhang Zheyuan, deputy director of the Management Committee of Changwu Grassland Ecological Restoration Demonstration Zone in Fuxin City, said that in the future, Changwu County will vigorously develop the green economy, expand the characteristic planting industry, improve the economic forest and fruit industry, develop herbivorous animal husbandry, develop the whole area tourism, constantly enrich and expand the "grassland +" new business form, transform ecological resources into industrial advantages, and achieve "green into gold". We will continue to build a new pattern of green development in which green and rich people work together and prosper together, and create a "Zhangwu model" of integrated development of "grasslands on the desert".
