Chinese President Xi Jinping has stressed the significance of construction, maintenance and operation of rural roads in the country's battle against poverty, demanding that efforts should be made to build good roads in rural areas and maintain them to ensure a better quality of life for farmers and accelerate agricultural modernization.
With a total length of 365 kilometers, Highway 1 in Liyang County is an earlier registered highway in the country. It runs between the countryside and the mountains. The unique highway signs, yellow, blue and orange, will lead tourists to poetry and distant places.
This homestay is also one of the 150 homestays along Highway 1. The No. 1 road was repaired, and the landscape of Xiangyang was strung together. The tourism industry has also developed. This homestay is the best witness to the development of tourism.
Song Jiao, owner of a homestay in Liyang
The country roads have facilitated the villagers to "go out" and let more tourists "walk in". In the bus stop of Sansheng Primary School in Xiaotun Village, Tianmuhu Town, Liyang City, a villager Huang Zhenghong is waiting for the bus. He walked 5 minutes from her home to the bus stop, and then takes a bus ride to get the homestay where she works as an employee.
Huang Zhenghong, a villager
In the Tangma Village of Bieqiao Town, Liyang City, many vegetables have been planted in this area. These vegetables can be ordered by tourists in the city so that they can eat the vegetables of the season every season.
Xie Rongxiang, a villager
Highway 1 has also connected 312 natural villages, 62 beautiful villages and characteristic rural village pilot villages in Liyang City, attracting more industrial and commercial capital to invest in agriculture and tourism projects, and promoting the deep integration of the agricultural tourism industry. Up to now, the No. 1 highway has helped 100,000 farmers to increase their incomes amid the government’s effortst to revitalize the countryside.
(Source:ourjiangsu.com)
