A few days ago, the Xiangyang Municipal Transportation Bureau announced the list of "Top Ten Most Beautiful Rural Roads" in Xiangyang City in 2023, and Long (Central) Seven (Lishan) Road in Nanzhang County was on the list.
The Nanzhang section of Longqi Road is 19.12 kilometers long, starting from Tangjiazui Village, Jiuji Town, Nanzhang County, connecting with Wolong Town, Xiangcheng District, and ending at Siduhe Village, Jiuji Town, connecting with Provincial Highway 251. The construction standard is a secondary highway, and the asphalt concrete pavement is paved along the whole line. After the completion of Longqi Road, while facilitating the travel of the masses along the line, the two major tourist attractions of Xiangyang Gulongzhong and Nanzhang Qilishan Forest Park will be connected into pearls, realizing the resource sharing and complementary advantages of the two scenic spots, and providing hard transportation support for accelerating the high-quality development of all-for-one tourism.
It is understood that the construction of Longqi Road relies on the existing road environment, adheres to the concept of "protecting the environment and harmony with nature", excavates the rural culture and tourism landscape, and sets up a number of parking lots, viewing platforms, tourist stations and other facilities along the scenic road sections, and takes protective measures for the landscape such as the ancient tree and the old well of the Qing Dynasty that have ornamental value along the way. The construction of beautiful rural roads is deeply integrated with the natural landscape, with three seasons of flowers and four seasons of evergreen, and there are many scenes along the way, and the road scenery is suitable.
Longqi Road is also known for its characteristic industrial road and Internet celebrity check-in road, along which there are thousands of acres of agricultural characteristic planting, thousands of acres of forest fruits, thousands of acres of flowers and thousands of acres of lotus ponds, etc., and industrial development and rural tourism complement each other. Xiangyang Wildlife World, located on Longqi Road, focuses on characteristic brands such as "theme park, integration of agriculture, culture and tourism, and green health care", and cooperates with Gulongzhong, Tangcheng, Xiangyang Ancient City, Overseas Chinese Town and other scenic spots to create high-quality tourism routes, receiving 250,000 tourists annually, achieving a comprehensive income of more than 24 million yuan, and providing more than 300 jobs for local residents.
"Longqi Road is a vivid practice of Nanzhang County to give full play to its ecological advantages and take the road of characteristic and differentiated development, realizing the vision of building a highway, connecting the scenery along the way, driving an industry, and benefiting the people." The relevant person in charge of the county rural road construction and maintenance center said.
Source: Hubei Daily Client News (correspondent Nanrong Media, Kong Pengfei, Wu Guoping)