The Xiasi Village in Baihe Town, Song County, is home to a group of magnificent ancient ginkgo trees. In recent years, taking advantage of its popularity as a social media hotspot, the village has developed tourism by holding ginkgo festivals, opening homestays and selling mountain products, attracting a large number of tourists. However, the lack of infrastructure and the strong seasonality of tourism have restricted the long-term development of the industry.
In February 2025, Ren Tao, the first secretary dispatched by the Xiaolangdi Water Control Project Management Center of the Ministry of Water Resources, arrived in the village. After conducting research, he clarified the development direction and prioritized the upgrading of tourism facilities: completing the anti-corrosion treatment of 2,100 meters of wooden walkways and railings, reinforcing the cement roadbed of the Niandaozhuang group, and adding 500 meters of riverside walkways, thus laying a solid foundation for tourism development.
This year, Ren Tao has planned a series of diversified development strategies to fully build a health and wellness tourism village in the thousand-year-old ginkgo forest. In terms of infrastructure, he is promoting the restoration of local residences, improving road conditions, adding passing lanes, temporary parking lots, charging stations and camping sites, and revitalizing idle collective assets. In terms of services, he is developing local delicacies and characteristic souvenirs, and expanding experience projects such as hiking, study tours and art sketching. At the same time, he plans to attract management talents and train service and technical personnel to promote the development of mountain village tourism throughout the year, making it “beautiful all year round and always welcoming guests”, and injecting vitality into the long-term development of the industry.(Reporter Sun Xiaorui, Correspondent Li Shasha, Text and photos
