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Liangping focuses on the protection of small and micro wetlands, deeply integrates the protection and sustainable use of small and micro wetlands with rural revitalisation, explores and utilises small and micro wetland resources such as ditches, ponds, canals, weirs, wells, springs, streams and fields, and takes the lead in exploring and promoting a series of “small and micro wetlands +” such as “small and micro wetlands + environmental governance, ecological conservation, organic industry, homestay healthcare, ecological tourism, natural education”.
In terms of “small and micro wetlands + environmental governance and ecological conservation”, by strengthening the protection and restoration of small and micro wetlands such as ditches, ponds, canals, weirs, wells, springs, streams and fields, and conserving 53,333 hectares of paddy wetland ecosystem in Liangping, the rural wetland life community has been orderly built. Besides, Liangping has accelerated the digital construction of Shuanggui Lake Intelligent Wetland, built an AI intelligent monitoring system for birds and intelligent monitoring around the lake, further improving the level of refined intelligent management of wetlands.
In terms of “small and micro wetlands + organic industry”, Liangping made full use of the advantages of 53,333 hectares of paddy wetlands to cultivate organic rice and vegetables, rice fish, rice shrimp and other symbiotic wetland ecological industries, achieving “double reduction of fertiliser and medicine, double harvest of one field, and win-win of grain and fishing”. Chuanxi Fishing Village in Lirang Town built the largest ecological fishery park in Liangping by using the small and micro wetland to purify breeding wastewater, which was rated as a national AAA-level scenic spot, and was selected as the “National Rural Characteristic Industry Village of More than 100 Million Yuan” for three consecutive years.
In terms of “small and micro wetlands + homestay healthcare”, On the basis of preserving the original style of the countryside, Liangping organically integrated the small and micro wetland of paddy field with the small and micro wetland of homestay courtyard, realised the symbiosis of natural elements and humanistic customs, and built more than 100 bamboo-sea homestay groups and paddy-forest homestay groups represented by “Mengxi Tianyuan” and “Wanmi homestay”.
In terms of “small and micro wetlands + ecological tourism”, by further expanding the connotation of wetland tourism, Liangping used the unique pastoral landscape of rural wetlands, folk culture, farmhouse courtyards and other resources to strengthen the supply of tourism elements, and provided tourists with ecological tourism products that integrate “food, accommodation, travel, purchase and entertainment”. In 2023, the number of tourists receiving in several eco-tourism demonstration scenic spots in Shuanggui Lake exceeded 12 million, and the total tourism revenue reached 6.6 billion yuan.
In terms of “small and micro wetlands + natural education”, Liangping have established 8 nature education schools in conjunction with local primary and secondary schools, compiled nature education books and popular science atlas, set up more than 10 nature education courses, became one of the first batch of national forest and grass science popularisation bases, and built 36 wetland protection and education places such as Chongqing small and micro wetland characteristic schools. Combining wetland education with leisure tourism and wetland research, Liangping has embarked on a sustainable development road combining natural education and ecotourism.