Xinbin Dafangzi village: farm music makes the farm family happy.

"when it comes to the changes that farm music has brought to us, it's a real world!" Looking at the crowded farmyard outside the window, Zhao Xiuya, a villager of Dafangzi Village, with excitement on her face, constantly sighed to the reporter.

Zhao Xiuya, a villager of Dafangzi Village

Dafangzi Village is located in Xinbin Manchu Autonomous County, Fushun City, Liaoning Province, adjacent to the 4A scenic spot Monkey Stone National Forest Park. There are 115 families in the village, with less than 1.2 mu of cultivated land per capita. "the land is thin and the people are poor" has become a stubborn disease that cannot be solved for a long time. In recent years, depending on the development of local tourism, the whole village of Dafangzi Village has made great efforts to catch up. Nearly 1/5 of the families have set up farm music, with an annual income of more than NT $100,000 to as little as NT $70,000 to NT $80,000. Dafangzi Village has also transformed from a typical poor mountain village into a demonstration village for the development of rural tourism.

"in the past, our village mainly focused on farming, and the income of the family was only two or three thousand a year." Talking about the hard days in the past, Zhao Xiuya sighed, "but now I can make a net income of more than NT $100,000 a year, which is dozens of times that of the past."

Zhao Xiuya's farm music started in 2007, with the increase in the number of tourists to nearby scenic spots, people continue to respond to the village unable to solve the problem of food and accommodation. The shrewd Zhao Xiuya had an idea: why not set up a stove to cook for everyone? Just do it, "Fat Sister Nongjiale" is in full swing. As Pangjie Nongjiale's ingredients are mostly local wild vegetables, livestock and poultry, delicious and authentic, business is getting better and better, "Pangjie Nongjiale" has become a local business card. Other villagers saw that Pangjie did a good job and gradually joined in, reaching a maximum of 34 families.

The outside of Pangjie's farmhouse

In order to prevent malicious low-price competition, the villagers spontaneously formed the "Dafangzi Village Nongjiale Industry Association" in 2008. Internally, the association unifies pricing and management, and plays the role of supervision and restraint; externally, the association can directly dock with the tourism bureau or the government to strive for support and coordinate contradictions.

At present, Dafangzi Village has formed a family business model of "the man farming the land and the hostess operating the farm", receiving 150000 tourists and comprehensive tourism income of 60 million yuan. In 2014, Dafangzi Village was awarded the "Rural Women's Tourism demonstration site". In 2015, 10 households in the village were awarded "China Rural Tourism Gold Nongjiale" by the National Tourism Administration, and Dafangzi Village has also become a famous rural tourism brand product inside and outside the province.

The medal of the rural women's tourism demonstration site was hung high.

Jiang Yanmei, director of the Xinbin County Tourism Bureau, said: "the development of Dafangzi Village has shown us a path that can be replicated. in the past few years, we have defined the development goal of 'promoting agriculture by tourism, helping farmers by tourism, and visiting rich farmers'. It is promoting the upgrading and transformation of Dafangzi village from a single type of farm music to comprehensive experiential products." It is understood that last year, the local government integrated 10 million yuan of funds from various departments to carry out a comprehensive upgrading of Dafangzi village: widening rural roads, strengthening river embankments, unifying the style of green brick houses, building walls with Manchu characteristics and courtyard gates.

Now, walking in Dafangzi village, I can only see that among the mountains, two rows of Manchu farmhouses are built along the street, an artificial stream is gracefully left in front of each house, and laughter continues to float out from the farmyard in the wooden fence.

"next, I am going to expand the housing and strive for more passenger flow." Zhao Xiuya told the reporter with confidence. (SciDev.Net reporter Liang Bingqing)