Hefei - Ascending the stone steps from a tea garden on terraces, Fang Dongyu, 68, is busy picking fresh leaves with other villagers as the spring tea harvest season began.
"We can win more than 10,000 yuan per month ($ 1,572) during the harvest season, which was beyond the imagination," said Shexian County wugongling village, the province of Anhui of East China.
Located at an altitude of more than 800 meters, the mountain wugongling was once a poor people due to the harsh conditions of agriculture and remote location.
In the 1960s, to get rid of poverty and hunger, the villagers here spent 13 years creating a tea garden on terraces in arid. Mountains by hand with more than 700 million pieces of stones.
"men and women, old and young, all thrown at work. From the dawn until late at night, we were tirelessly working with the ambition to improve our lives," said Fang, who started helping To build the tea garden at the age of 13 and witnessed the Garden G tea cultivate quickly from the foot of the hill to the top.
Covering an area of more than 66.7 hectares, the tea garden planted with not only tea, but also corn and other grains, and greatly relieved the starvation and poverty at that time.
Statistics showed that Wugongling's total grain production reached 8.66 million kg in 1978, which was 4.6 times higher than in 1968. The production of tea and net income per capita duplicated respectively during the same period. .
decades have passed and the generation of previous difficulties has grown, but the spirit of struggle has been inherited and shows a stronger vitality at present.
With the promotion of ecological sowing, organic tea has been taken to the tea garden. A more profitable white tea base of more than 40 hectares has also been developed, attracting young people to return home to start their own businesses.
growing with the inspiring story of the tea garden, Lyu Peng, 32, I decided to return to the village in 2017. She helped expand the family tea processing workshop to a factory with two production lines.
"Our tea is of high quality but lacked channels of advertising and marketing, I want to use my previous e-commerce experience to sell a good tea here throughout the country," said Lyu.
e-commerce and short video platforms, such as Douyin, allows this young man to pursue his dream in this remote place. EN 2021, sales revenues from the tea factory reached more than 500,000 yuan.
There are seven tea factories in the village, and the villagers obtained more than 8 million yuan when selling freshly collected tea leaves in 2021.
In addition to the development of the industry of the Tea, the unique natural scenario and history have attracted many tourists to this village once Isolated.
"Many people drive here to appreciate the tea garden and the sea of the clouds.. The room is always full during the holidays, and many are regular visitors. Local specialties, such as bamboo shoots Dry and ham are also popular among tourists, "said Hu Fengyu, owner of a local family house.
To develop even more tourism, the town has built roads, observation covers and a tourist center. In 2021, Wugongling received almost 50,000 visitors and obtained more than 1 million yuan from tourism despite Covid-19.
We will develop even more the people by combining tourism with agriculture, we will protect our cultural heritage and we will take the Spirit. Of the fight, "said Fang Jincai, secretary of the Wugongling Village party.
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