Baisha village

Baisha village

Baisha village is located in the northernmost part of Taihuyuan Town, Lin'an District, Hangzhou City, Zhejiang Province. Baisha village is located by the river at the source of Taihu Lake. It is the source of Taihu Lake water system and is known as "the first village at the source of Taihu Lake". The total area of the village is 9.4 square kilometers with 486 people. Last year, the per capita net income of farmers in this village was 8280 yuan. It is a demonstration site for international demonstration forest, a demonstration village for provincial landscaping, a demonstration village for building a well-off society in an all-round way, a civilized village, a health village, an ecological village, and a demonstration village for invigorating forestry through science and technology in Hangzhou.

essential information

When UNESCO officials visited Baisha village in 1996, they marveled at its beautiful ecological environment and put forward a new idea of developing eco-tourism. Then, the smart and simple Baisha people began to develop tourism projects such as farmhouse. Relying on the Taihu Lake source scenic spot, first-class ecological environment and beautiful natural scenery, they vigorously promoted the rural holiday tourism with "farmhouse" as the focus, and developed and built a distinctive farmhouse paradise. The average annual income of the whole village is more than 10000 yuan. It is a well-known well-off village.

Baisha village is the largest tourism characteristic village in Lin'an at present. Surrounded by layers of green mountains, the forest coverage rate has reached 97%, which has become an excellent resource for ecotourism and an excellent "oxygen bar". "Xiaojiuzhaigou" is a stream at the source of Taihu Lake,

A brief introduction to the village

Located in the northwest corner of Lin'an City, Baisha village is the source of Taihu Lake water system, 70 kilometers away from Hangzhou. The total area of the village is 32 square kilometers, and the forest coverage rate is more than 96%. Baisha village is a typical mountain village. The whole village is ten miles long, with winding valleys, undulating peaks on both sides, swift streams, clear water and stone. It has the wonderful artistic conception of "flying down 3000 feet" and "people in the depths of white clouds". At present, there are 378 households in Baisha village, with a total population of 1157 people, among which the personnel engaged in tourism services of the three industries account for more than 2 / 3 of the total labor force of the village. Since the successful development of Taihuyuan scenic spot in 1998, it has actively guided the villagers to take the road of "developing leisure tourism and experiencing leisure farming" to become rich and increase income, and made every effort to build a rural leisure resort. Through years of efforts, Baisha village's characteristic agritainment leisure tourism has become famous in the Yangtze River Delta. It has become a "national ecological cultural village", "Zhejiang provincial characteristic tourism village", "Zhejiang Provincial agritainment characteristic demonstration village" and "the most beautiful village in Hangzhou" integrating nature protection, ecological tourism, "agritainment" leisure tourism and experiencing traditional ecological farming activities. In 2010, the per capita net income of the whole village reached more than 18000 yuan, of which 65% came from the tourism industry.

In 1998, Baisha village made use of its unique ecological resources and beautiful natural environment to successfully develop the Taihu Lake source scenic spot, attracting a large number of tourists, focusing on promoting the development of the village's three tourism industries, driving 2 / 3 of the village's labor force, and becoming the biggest bright spot for Baisha farmers to increase their income. In 2010, there were 142 farmhouse operators and more than 4000 beds in Baisha village. Farmhouse operators strictly abide by national laws and regulations and carry out civilized operation. In order to further standardize the development of farmhouse entertainment, Baisha village has also set up the Taihu Lake headwaters farmhouse Entertainment Association, which mainly provides service skills training, technical consultation, service standard formulation, quality standardization, supervision of members' honest operation according to law, and provides tourists with tourism vacation, information consultation, promotion of agricultural products, and acceptance of tourists' supervision and complaints.

As a result of persisting in the warm and simple service concept, Baisha village's Nongjiale has a high reputation in the whole country, especially in the Yangtze River Delta region, attracting a large number of tourists. In 2010, Baisha village farmhouse received more than 260000 tourists, with an operating income of more than 23 million yuan.

While vigorously developing farmhouse entertainment, Baisha village two committees timely seize the opportunity of various creation activities and constantly complete the construction of supporting infrastructure. At present, there are cultural square, small park, cultural entertainment room, library, clinic, mountain goods market, etc. at the same time, the appearance of Baisha village has also been comprehensively transformed. In Baisha village, all roads, rivers and villagers' domestic waste are collected and managed by special cleaning teams. Every family has a dustbin and every group has a cleaner, which makes the mountain greener, the water greener and the environment more beautiful. Since 2007, Baisha village has invested more than 6 million yuan to start the unified wastewater treatment project, so that more than 70% of the village's domestic sewage has been effectively treated. Through a series of infrastructure construction and environmental sanitation renovation work, Baisha village not only retains the flavor of the original mountain village, but also exudes the flavor of modern leisure tourism village.

For a long time, Baisha village has been strengthening the construction of ecological civilization and spiritual civilization while developing its economy, paying attention to the inheritance and development of traditional folk cultural activities and traditional farming techniques, and making them a major attraction of leisure eco-tourism in Baisha village. In addition, sports activities such as basketball match and line dance are held every year to meet the spiritual and cultural needs of villagers. At the same time, combined with the reality of the village's development of leisure industry, a series of activities were held, such as "cool water Festival", "wild monkey Festival", "chrysanthemum Festival", open-air film and other characteristic activities, as well as source environmental protection and other educational and recreational activities, so that the concept of "green, ecological, leisure" went deep into the hearts of every villager and tourist, thus achieving ecological, economic and cultural benefits Three bumper harvests of social benefits.

When you walk into Baisha village, you can experience the wonderful artistic conception of "village in the scenery, scenery in the village, scenery moving step by step". Here, people and nature develop harmoniously, villagers watch the mountains and trees, and tourists enjoy the scenery and vacation. It can be said that the painstaking construction of more than ten years has made Baisha village present a harmonious development atmosphere of sustainable utilization of forest resources, balance and coordination of ecological environment, sustainable development of rural economy, flourishing of leisure industry, happy life of villagers, warm and honest village customs and people's feelings. The development of leisure tourism not only effectively protects the forest resources, but also makes the economic development of Baisha village in a virtuous circle. In the future, Baisha village will welcome tourists with greener mountains, greener water, fresher air and better service.

Bus routes

Hangzhou west station or Gudang bus station k598 bus to Lin'an west station, transfer to bus No.16 to Baisha village. It's about two hours' drive. Self driving: from Hangzhou West Station, take provincial road 02 to Lin'an Jincheng, and take provincial road 13 (to Anji) to Baisha village. It's about two hours by car.

Get honor

On December 25, 2019, it will be included in the first batch of National Forest Village list.

In March 2020, it will be included in the list of the second batch of provincial rural leading communities in Zhejiang Province.

Address: Baisha village, Taihuyuan Town, Lin'an City, Hangzhou City

Longitude: 119.56993103027

Latitude: 30.416160583496

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Chinese PinYin : Bai Sha Cun