Changxi Village, deep in the mountains, is beautiful, but poor. In 2004, when Dai Xiangyang, a migrant worker, gave up his promotion opportunity and returned to his hometown, bought a computer with hard-earned money and started dialing the Internet, everyone in the village said, "Is this person stupid?" Yes, thousands of dollars for computers and 5 yuan per hour for surfing the Internet were irrelevant and extravagant things for the villagers in this village at that time. Not only that, he also "intensified". Not only did he not farm, but he also bought a camera and a video camera. Every day, he either hides at home for a long time to surf the Internet, or goes out early and returns late with his camera and video camera on his back. This farmer who didn't graduate from high school started his online life under everyone's questioning. What the hell is he up to? He is busy using the computer to promote the scenery of his hometown. "I came up with this idea after migrant workers came into contact with the Internet. I want more people to know that there is such a good place as Changxi. " So, he consulted the old people in the village everywhere, carefully read the genealogy of the village left by his ancestors, and excavated the cultural connotation of the village. During the day, he traveled across mountains and rivers to take pictures, and at night, he sat in front of the computer and wrote an article introducing Changxi.

It is not easy for this farmer with low educational level to take eye-catching photos and write wonderful articles. Over the past few years, he has contributed articles everywhere and published 1200 articles in major newspapers and online. June 5438+October 2005 10, the villagers suddenly found that there were more than a dozen Shanghai guests carrying "long guns and short guns" in the village. They say that Changxi is really as beautiful as the online introduction. A few months later, several buses came to the village, and the newlyweds in wedding dresses came here to take pictures. They said that they hoped that happiness would be fixed between the charming scenery. On June 5th, 2006+10, Irish Times reporter Tang Fei made a special trip from Beijing to Changxi Village to interview Dai Xiangyang. In his later report, he wrote: A mountain farmer can use the Internet to publicize his hometown, which shows that China is striding towards the world. The sound of the keyboard broke the silence of the mountain village. In 2006, at the suggestion of netizens, Dai Xiangyang started his own blog. Flowers in spring, green water in summer, red leaves in autumn and layers of fog in winter have made Dai Xiangyang's blog hit rate rise rapidly, with a maximum of 5,800 hits a day and a total hit rate of over 500,000.

Unconsciously, more and more backpackers came to Changxi. Dai Xiangyang's mobile phone has become a hotline, not only to be a free tour guide for guests, but also to constantly answer tourists' consultation calls and arrange accommodation for guests. When he couldn't get it himself, Dai Xiangyang organized other villagers to collect it together. Last year, in Maple Leaf Red in June 5438+065438+ 10, Changxi received more than 10000 tourists, including many "foreigners" from the United States, New Zealand, Japan and Australia. In just one month, more than 200 households in the village increased their income by more than 5,000 yuan, with the least 1 10,000 yuan, and the village increased its income by more than 200,000 yuan. In order to make tourists leave a good impression on Changxi, Dai Xiangyang also set up signs at scenic spots, asking cleaners to clean the village every day. The tourists trampled on the crops in the villagers' fields, and Dai Xiangyang paid for it himself.

With more guests, tea, tea oil, dry goods and wild fruits that were originally worthless on the mountain have become hot commodities, and even the most humble sweet potato has been sold at a good price, which the villagers did not even dare to think about before. Tourists say these pollution-free specialties are the best. Inspired by this, Dai Xiangyang opened the Changxi Village Alpine Green Tea website, and sold the tea to Guangdong and Hebei through the Internet. The quality of Changxi green tea is gradually known, and more and more tea merchants go to the village to buy it. Originally, tea can only be sold for three or four yuan per catty, but now it can be sold for dozens or even hundreds of yuan according to its quality. He calculated an account for the reporter. It turns out that because the price of autumn tea in the village is low, the villagers just take a few catties to entertain guests at home, and most of camellia oleifera abel. has been on the tea tree. Now, because of the favor of tourists, at least one kilogram of tea can be sold to 40 yuan. Dai Xiangyang brought a scenic spot and a village with fire. He still has many ideas, only hoping that the villagers in Changxi can get rich.

"It is unrealistic for a poor village to get rich quickly. At first, I played computer games, and everyone in the village thought I was different. Although I know that the internet is useful now, there are only a handful of people who actually sign up to learn computer with me. But I am optimistic, because I believe that the development direction is good, because everyone will definitely benefit from it, just as I mobilized the villagers to receive tourists together at the beginning, and only two responded. "

In the second half of last year, with everyone's recommendation, Dai Xiangyang was elected as the director of the village Committee. When the new official took office, Dai Xiangyang established the Changxi Tourism Farmhouse Association to publicize the knowledge of ecological protection. Now the environmental sanitation of the village has been greatly improved, the villagers' awareness of ecological protection has been greatly improved, the bad habit of poisonous fish has disappeared, and the wood processing factory in the village has also stopped production. Thanks to Dai Xiangyang's efforts, the road hardening project from the village to the town is now in full swing, and tourists will enter the village faster.

Dai Xiangyang's idea doesn't stop there. He photographed the new things in the village and wrote them on his blog, so that other villagers in the village who went out to work could keep abreast of the changes in their hometown. He also created the "Changxi" QQ group to disclose his phone number and keep abreast of outside information. He bought three computers with his own money and sent an invitation to the whole village to teach the villagers computer operation and tour guide knowledge for free, so that they could learn more knowledge through the internet and join the team that publicized their hometown.