Chapter 403 399. Is Mr. Gou Gou an opera singer?
Luo Yihang’s idea was.

"We have few local specialties and are not well-known, but we can win by quantity, novelty, or even weirdness or seeming to be true but not true."

"If we collect and organize the delicacies invented by the supporting villages of the third-tier factories, we should be able to find a lot of things that can be integrated. When tourists from other places see it, they will wonder how a remote town in the northwest and southwest can have our food. It looks similar, but also a little different, which is weird."

“There are even so many weird ones like this.”

"They must be curious, and curiosity leads to interest. When they were looking for the reason, they found that it was the Third Front construction back then."

“Then there is the story.”

"There are even some weird ideas. Many of the builders of the Third Front are still alive..."

Hear the sound and know the elegant meaning.

Secretary Wang reacted immediately, "Although there are only a few third-line factories left now, and most of the workers and cadres have retired and returned to their hometowns, they must still have feelings for Tianhan. The city can invite them back to see this land where they shed their blood and devoted their youth..."

Look, how good at talking. Please come back and have a look.

Then one brings two, two brings three, senior citizen groups, nostalgic tours, and a whole family comes together.

The first generation of Third Front builders in the 1960s and 1970s were Ding Rui’s grandparents, and there were hundreds of thousands of them.

Then there is the second generation and the third generation.

Plus family members.

It should be at least one or two million.

Without saying too much, if it attracts half of the tourists every year, that would be hundreds of thousands.

What a big market.

Don’t think this number is small.

According to the figures released by Tianhan City last year, it received more than 6700 million tourists annually and had tourism revenue of 152 billion yuan.

But this is the number of people, and it does not distinguish between people from this city and other places.

If there are really more than 60 million foreign tourists, an average of 180,000 per day, there are only a few dozen hotels and thousands of rooms in Tianhan City.

Tourists have to sleep on the streets.

Looking at consumption, the average per capita expenditure is more than 220 yuan, which is obviously a short trip, and taking the children to the park on weekends is also included.

A city with a lot of foreign tourists would have to be like Chengdu, which receives 2.05 million tourists annually, has a total tourism revenue of 3085 billion yuan, and an average per capita consumption of yuan. This number is normal.

Therefore, there are quite a lot of foreign tourists in the hundreds of thousands.
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Thinking of this, Secretary Wang's face flushed slightly, and he praised Luo Yihang repeatedly, "Xiao Luo, Xiao Luo, hearing your words is worth ten years of study. No wonder you have been able to develop your career so much in just two years. You are capable, you are really capable."

No matter whether it was true love or just courtesy, Luo Yihang felt secretly happy when he heard it.

He was very modest. "No, no, I don't take responsibility. You don't have to worry about it. I just said it casually. Secretary Wang, you have to consider whether it works or not."

Secretary Wang took the opportunity to say, "I am considering it now. First, we need to find out how many specialty foods are suitable for promotion in each village and town in the city. Then, should we ask the Social Security Bureau to send text messages to retired employees and organize buses to take them there, or what?"

Luo Yihang understood immediately that Secretary Wang was only thinking about the old employees of the Third Line Factory and had forgotten what he said at the beginning about winning by quantity and the curiosity of young people and eating around.

This is obviously the big one.

I quickly reminded him, "I think what you said can be used as a tourist route. The special foods can be concentrated together, and we can find an open area to hold a food festival, even if it's open-air or with stalls. If we find that there are indeed a lot of them after a survey, we can ask each village to send people, and the city can organize it, and put them all together, which will be spectacular. It doesn't matter if there are fewer, we can repeat it, and open several stalls of the same kind. We can also put in cultural and creative products, local specialties, and souvenirs for sale. Bigger is better, more is better, and if it is done well, it will become our city's business card."

"Hiss~~" Secretary Wang took a breath of cold air. This idea was too big.

A food festival with hundreds or thousands of stalls requires a lot of manpower, material resources, venues, management, and so many other things to do.

"Is it difficult?" Luo Yihang asked.

Secretary Wang nodded. "Environment, sanitation, fire protection, public security, organizational management, there are so many things to deal with. Besides, if no one comes..."

It seems that the latter problem is more serious. I said, although it is difficult, it should be able to be solved.

Luo Yihang went to Singapore, Malaysia and Thailand in winter. He saw huge markets and night markets in both countries, with hundreds or even thousands of stalls.

Even in China, there are hundreds of stalls at the small commodity night market in Zhuang Zhengding.

As long as you want to do it, you can definitely do it.

But the fact that there is no one and no one has done it is also a problem.

Luo Yihang rolled his eyes and gave Secretary Wang a backup idea.

"How about this? At the end of September, on the autumnal equinox, it happens to be the annual harvest festival, the farmers' festival. This time we will find delicacies from various villages."

"We can hold a celebration in the name of the Harvest Festival, for a short period of time, such as three days."

"First, the villagers themselves are tourists. Second, if the effect does not meet expectations, it can be said that this is a celebration organized for the villagers, but other people can come."

"It's about helping farmers and promoting agriculture. No one can say anything."

The Harvest Festival, whose full name is Chinese Farmers’ Harvest Festival, was established in 2018 and is held on the autumnal equinox every year.

The purpose is to mobilize the enthusiasm, initiative and creativity of hundreds of millions of farmers and enhance their sense of honor, happiness and gain.

Holding the "China Farmers' Harvest Festival" at the same time can showcase the tremendous achievements of rural reform and development, while also demonstrating China's ancient agricultural-based tradition.

Secretary Wang immediately remembered the relevant instructions.

Just clap your hands gently, just short of cheering.

He immediately drew inferences from the experience, “If the effect is good, we can extend it to the National Day holiday and really turn it into a tourism promotion project.”

I like the ability to advance or retreat.

We will temporarily organize one, which may take three days at the shortest and half a month at the longest. With the hard work of all departments, we will surely be able to persevere.

The autumnal equinox usually falls on September 22nd or 23rd, which is very close to the National Day holiday.

You can use the same venue and the same things to celebrate the Harvest Festival for the first three days, and then just end it if it’s not done well.

After it was well organized, the sign was changed to National Day Tourism Festival, and there were also ready-made promotional materials.

It will be easier to transfer in the middle, as it meets the demands of the general public.

But it’s not long until the autumnal equinox.

The task is heavy.

It has to be done even if it's heavy.

Secretary Wang has been in Tianhan for almost a year and is in urgent need of taking some action.

September and October are already quite late.

Not only do things have to be done, they also have to be done beautifully.

Take the initiative to increase the stakes.

"The Harvest Festival is a good idea. Farmers have worked hard for a year, so they need some fun. We can also organize some entertainment activities, sports competitions, singing competitions, and art performances. We can also bring out our city's intangible cultural heritage projects, such as Han tunes, Yangxian shadow puppets, Duangong opera, bench dragons, and community performances. We can also sell Qiang embroidery, rattan weaving, and Zhenba Xuan paper. Oh, and organize a free clinic..."

Secretary Wang became more and more excited as he spoke.

But Luo Yihang's mind was already wandering. What was Handiao Gugu? It sounded like a play, or was it an intangible cultural heritage?
What does it have to do with Uncle Gou Gou? Could it be that Uncle Gou Gou was an opera singer?

There are very few words that can be formed by putting the two characters with the same pronunciation of "guangguang" together. It can't be "eat all, drink all, bang bang bang", right?

(End of this chapter)