American Ranch

Chapter 500 Ecological Island
Li Sangui looked in his thirties, with dark skin and a strong body... He was the head of Dazhou Village on Dazhou Island.

On the island, a very old cement road.

Dazhou Island is the largest island in the Qizhou Islands. The earliest records about the Qizhou Islands were at the end of the Qing Dynasty. There was a nunnery on the island, which was built in 1865... During this period, no one took care of it for a long time. The local fishermen simply remodeled the statue of Mazu , to enshrine the traditional god of protection of the sea, so as to seek devout prayers when facing the vast sea.

The Seven Continents Islands are not well-known. In the 60s and [-]s, due to their strategic location, the islands served as defensive frontline positions for a period of time... The Seven Continents Islands, several large islands have military facilities on them, and they have long been abandoned.

The archipelago is a rocky archipelago, with towering rocks and beautiful scenery.There are many gulls and birds inhabiting, and the islands are surrounded by clouds and fog in the winter morning, just like a fairyland...

The earliest records here were inhabited hundreds of years ago.It is a pity that it is also due to the geographical location, and it has not developed in recent years.Coconut State vigorously develops tourism, and also lists the Qizhou Islands as the development scope, and the main development point is Dazhou Island.Dawei Island is also inhabited, but it is far away from the main archipelago, and it is set as a deep-sea breeding area.As for the other islands, because they are uninhabited, they have been set as natural island protection areas...

As for Wanghai Island, Bai Xiaoou got the right to develop the island and said it was a private island, but it was not.There are still a few families living on the island, but they all signed employment contracts with Bai Xiaoou.And the development of the island must also be within the specified scope and must not damage natural resources...

Qizhou Island is no better than the South Island Coconut State.Coconut State, Coconut Corridor, Chen Mo's Yunmeng Manor, and Huafeng Group's Coconut Oasis Resort all involve illegal expansion in terms of construction, but the relationship is there, and the violations are not big, and will not cause major damage to the environment. The destruction, the government fined a sum of money, just turn a blind eye...

But it is different on small islands, where the ecological environment system is fragile.

For example, on Dazhou Island, a fishermen's community was built here.The houses in the community are only rented and not sold... and a special small sewage treatment station has been built.

There is a very old concrete road on the island, the road surface is full of cracks, and weeds grow in some cracks.When you get on the pier, you can see old stone houses...Dazhou Village, behind the village are several taller mountains, the mountains are green and lush...

It was drizzling, and Chen Mo held up an umbrella for Ellie.

Ellie looked around and saw a few white birds going into the sea like arrows, catching fish and flying up...

The island was very quiet, and suddenly there was the sound of cannons being wiped from a distance...

"Let's come and play, Village Chief Li, can you be our tour guide for half a day?" Bai Xiaoou asked, handing Li Sangui a cigarette.

"no problem."

After walking through the pier, to enter the village, there is a small shop.The small shop sells paper money for incense sticks, as well as cannons for children to play with.

"How much is this small box of cannons?" Ellie asked.

"One box for three yuan, two boxes for five yuan."

Ellie paid with WeChat, bought four boxes, and handed them to Chen Xiao, Zhang Xia and Wang Xiaoqin...

Chen Mo and the others each took two sticks of incense and wanted to bring them to the Mazu Temple to burn.

Walking into the village, six or seven people in beautiful traditional Li costumes welcomed them with garlands. Among them were three beautiful girls, and the other four were aunts who looked happy just by looking at them... Behind them were men of Li nationality who used yueqin, mouth strings, sanxian, etc. Waiting for the instrument, played the music of celebration.

"It's a mistake, it's a mistake." Li Sangui stood up quickly: "The tourists from the Oasis Resort haven't come yet, these are my friends."

"Friends in village Li are our friends." The oldest aunt put a garland on Chen Mo and the others. When Chen Mo and Ellie arrived, she said, "The young man is so handsome, the little girl is so beautiful...Ah, are you going to be a mother?"

"Yeah." Ellie pursed her lips and smiled, giving the aunt a hug.

Walking into the village, it’s Chinese New Year, and there isn’t much entertainment on the island, so many people gather to play mahjong, or brag and chat in the yard with tea...

Go through the town and follow the concrete road north.On one side is a rocky mountain, on the other side is a steep cliff, and below the cliff is the sea.The waves beat against the rocks, making a clattering sound. From time to time, gulls flew up from the rocks under the cliff and sang a few times in the air.

Ellie took out all the cannons she wanted to fire, but seeing many birds flying up here from time to time, she didn't fire them for fear of disturbing more birds.

Mazu Temple is at the end of the concrete road.The temple is not big, but it is not as small as imagined.There is an archway at the gate, a very old traditional building, with the three characters of Mazu Temple on it...

After going in to burn incense and coming out, Bai Xiaoou said, "Old Mo, how do you think the scenery here is not worse than the ones abroad?"

"It's beautiful." Chen Mo said sincerely.

There is a square outside the Mazu Temple, where you can overlook the sea and vaguely see several large islands.

There is fog on the sea in the morning in winter, and several towers in the distance are looming...

"The environment here needs to be well protected, and it's best to make a long-term plan." Chen Mo said, China's population is too large, and the environment of Dazhou Island can become a new popular tourist destination with a little publicity.

Li Sangui glanced at Chen Mo: "Qizhou Island still has the ability to receive tourists. Although there are only 328 registered islanders on the island, there are many vacant houses on the island. We are also planning to find a bank loan to relocate those abandoned houses. Redesign and change it into a homestay..."

Circumstances matter, but so does money.

Without money, young men on the island would not be able to marry a wife, or they would marry into the old man's house.The young girls on the island are all married out...

Dazhou Island is the most inhabited island in the Qizhou Islands.In the 90s, the island still had a registered population of nearly a thousand.Now, the registered population on the island is only 328, and the actual resident population is only about 200.Even during the Chinese New Year, many people did not come back...

Like Dawei Island, there were hundreds of people in the eighties and 90s.Now, the registered population is only 36 people.

As for Wangshan Island, it is also a resident population, and now it has become a "private island". There are only two families living on the island...

Dazhou Island is better, after all, it is a big island, and there are elementary schools and junior high schools on the island.Tuwei Island and Wanghai Island also had primary schools a long time ago, but the population of these two islands is small, and the primary schools can no longer be opened. Children can only go to Dazhou Island to study... It is very inconvenient to go back and forth every day.The rapid population loss of the Qizhou Islands is also due to the policy of the Coconut State in the early years.The life of the residents in the Qizhou Islands is really not very good. For more than ten years, the residents of the Qizhou Islands moved out of the island to buy a house, and they could enjoy the policy of bank interest reduction... For more than ten years, the residents on the island have moved out one after another. Settled down and went to the South Island...

In fact, it is also good.With a small population, the Seven Continents Islands can preserve a large number of original scenery...

Li Sangui didn't want to see Dazhou Village go down again, so he took the route of Coconut Oasis Resort after a lot of hard work. Naturally, he hoped that the island would have as many tourists as possible...

With more tourists, the residents on the island can have more income and retain people.

(End of this chapter)