Friends who are familiar with the Sichuan-Tibet route know that Zheduo Mountain is the first step into Tibet. Walking down the Zheduo Mountain for more than ten kilometers, you will arrive at the first gate after entering the Tibetan area. Waze Township, and our stop for this trip was Shuiqiao Village in Waze Township. Shuiqiao Village is located at the foot of Zheduo Mountain, about 45 kilometers away from Kangding City. This village built along National Highway 318 has now become the gateway to Waze Township. However, five years ago, it belonged to Waze Township. One of the 6 poor villages.
The average altitude of Shuiqiao Village is 3,700 meters. The village has 90 households and a population of 386. As a semi-agricultural and semi-pastoral village, farming and grazing are the main businesses of the local villagers. Although various crops such as barley, potatoes, and peas can be grown on the plateau, the yields are not high and can only meet the villagers' rations at most. In 2016, the per capita net income of farmers and herdsmen in Shuiqiao Village was only about 2,800 yuan. .
The change in the destiny of this village began with the counterpart aid construction of Dujiangyan. Shuiqiao Village is one of the three villages that Dujiangyan City focuses on building with counterpart assistance to Kangding City. In 2017, Dujiangyan invested more than 15 million yuan to improve the village's infrastructure. With the help of Dujiangyan, the village kindergarten, village Roads, entrance roads, wooden plank roads, street lights, garbage trucks, ecological toilets, bridge renovations, power renovations, etc. were completed and delivered on schedule.
On the other hand, in order to live a good life, the villagers of Shuiqiao Village also have a strong desire for development. In Tibetan areas, the best way to get rich is to develop tourism. Moreover, Shuiqiao Village has the advantage of being the first village in Tibet and having National Highway 318 passing through it. In order to enhance its ability to receive tourists, Shuiqiao Village decided to build a B&B.
Through the efforts of the Dujiangyan Aid to Tibet Team, the Waze Township Government, the Kangding Credit Union and the "Two Committees" of Shuiqiao Village, 55 households in the village received a loan of 3.26 million yuan to renovate their own houses and develop Residential tourist reception, opened for business during the National Day in 2017. Only during the Mid-Autumn Festival and National Day Golden Week, the village received more than 2,500 tourists, and the tourism revenue was about 200,000 yuan. According to incomplete statistics, Shuiqiao Village currently has 272 guest rooms (64 standard rooms) and 553 beds.
Although the income of villagers has increased, the development of Shuiqiao Village has not stopped. Instead, we continue to focus on the development and construction of visitor centers, youth hostels and village tourism accommodation resources. At present, the main construction and interior decoration of the visitor center and youth hostel have been completed. At the same time, Shuiqiao Village also introduces powerful enterprises to settle in the visitor center to coordinate the village's tourism and accommodation resources, or conduct unified management, unified operation, and unified marketing to provide tourists with various services such as consultation, guidance, parking, accommodation, and catering. .
Five years ago, the impoverished village at the foot of Zheduo Mountain became the first gateway village on the Tibetan Plateau. Shuiqiao Village is no longer what it used to be. I believe that as more and more tourists come here If we stay here, the life of the villagers in Shuiqiao Village will definitely get better and better.