High mountains and long roads and blocked traffic were once a true portrayal of the impoverished mountainous areas in eastern Hunan and western Jiangxi. Traffic barriers make it difficult for high-quality agricultural products and tourism resources to "get out of the mountains", and also hinder the local people's pace of getting rid of poverty and becoming rich.

In Yanling County, Hunan Province, the cultivation and processing of yellow peaches account for nearly half of local farmers’ income from agricultural products. “In the past, due to the inconvenience of transportation, we had very few transactions with Fujian in terms of yellow peaches.” said Tan Zhongcheng, secretary-general of the Yanling Yellow Peach Industry Association of Yanling County. “In recent years, due to the opening of the Putan Expressway, the agricultural products in the mountains have changed. Putian Expressway, Putian-Yanling Expressway, mentioned by Tan Zhongcheng, is the connecting line of the national expressway Shenhai Expressway. It starts in Putian City, Fujian Province and passes through Fujian, Jiangxi, and Hunan. Finally in Yanling County.

Yanling's industries are developing rapidly

Yanling County is the core county of the Jinggangshan Revolutionary Base and the old red revolutionary district. Due to inconvenient transportation, it has become a concentrated and contiguous extremely difficult area in Luoxiao Mountain. With the opening of the expressway, traffic conditions have been greatly improved. The people of the county have worked hard and have overcome poverty and created a miracle of great changes in the mountains and villages. After the opening of the expressway, Yanling County fully integrated the county’s logistics and distribution resources, established a unified logistics information platform, realized the unified transfer, distribution, and management of rural e-commerce, built a three-level logistics distribution system at county, township, and village levels, and realized county-level rural logistics "Public transportation" of distribution and collection.

In 2020, the output of Yanling yellow peach will reach 51,000 tons, and the comprehensive output value of the entire industry chain will exceed 2 billion yuan. In Yanling County, as long as the yellow peach harvest season comes, whether it is county streets or townships and villages, you can see yellow peach-related stores everywhere. Now, relying on the convenient logistics network, the packaged yellow peaches can be sent to all parts of the country on high speed within 10 minutes, basically realizing that "farmers pick peaches today, customers eat peaches tomorrow".

In addition, the traffic conditions in the old revolutionary areas in Hunan and Jiangxi have been significantly improved, and fast-track tourism routes to national scenic spots such as Yandi’s Mausoleum and Jinggangshan have been opened, forming a high-grade tourism product integrating patriotic education, natural scenery, and eco-tourism. Golden tourist route. Yanling County is rich in tourism resources, rich in cultural heritage and beautiful natural scenery. The most representative ones are the national 5A scenic spot Yandi Mausoleum, the national 4A scenic spot Shennong Valley and the Yanling Red Army Slogan Museum.

In recent years, Yanling County has implemented the "tourism +" strategy, invigorated tourism resources, improved tourism quality, and multi-region tourism has blossomed, building a tourism development pattern of "panoramic, full industry, full time, and all people". "This year during the May 1st holiday, Yanling received nearly 200,000 tourists and achieved a comprehensive tourism income of 144.6 million yuan." Ye Minliang, director of the Bureau of Culture, Tourism, Radio, Film and Sports of Yanling County said, "Puyan Expressway is the happy road in our old revolutionary district. Yanling has changed from a poverty-stricken mountainous county to a tourist attraction for tourists from all over the country.” Editor/Tian Zengpeng