Chapter 2756

After this meal, everyone rested for a while at the township government and then set off again. They were going to the village with the highest altitude in Funiu Township, Niutouyu Village. The scenery along the way was quite good, so when Luo Quanyou heard that Su Xinghui and his group wanted to see the scenery of Funiu Township, he said he would take them to Niutouyu Village.

The altitude of the Funiu Township government location was already over 1,000 meters, but the altitude of Niutouyu Village was more than 300 meters higher than the township government location. Therefore, the motorcade had been driving up the mountain along a winding mountain road.

This road could only accommodate one car. If a car was coming from the opposite direction, they would have to find a place to pass each other. However, there were no cars in Niutouyu Village, at most just a few hand-guided tractors.

On the road, the motorcade did encounter a hand-guided tractor. Luo Quanyou, who was sitting in the lead jeep, recognized the person driving the tractor and shouted, "Old Fang, wait for a while in that mountain hollow and let the cars of these distinguished guests pass first."

When that Old Fang saw it was the Township Party Committee Secretary and heard him say that these cars carried distinguished guests, he quickly drove the tractor to a recessed place on the mountain wall, cleared the road, and let the motorcade pass first.

Su Xinghui said with emotion, "This mountain road is really too hard to travel. The scenery here is truly good, but with a road like this, even if tourists want to come and play, they can't get in!"

Xing Guodong said, "Yes, if a new road could be built into the mountains, that would be great. The scenery here is really quite good."

Along the way, there were strange peaks and rocks, craggy and protruding, with forests of pine and bamboo. It was autumn and winter, so many trees had lost most of their leaves, making it look less beautiful, but one could imagine how good the scenery here would be in the spring and summer.

Su Xinghui estimated how much funding would be needed to build a road into these mountains. Prices were rising sharply now, and the mountain roads here were rugged and difficult to travel. If they were to build these dozen or so kilometers of road into the mountains into a two-lane secondary highway, it might cost tens of millions or even hundreds of millions.

Su Xinghui's heart felt heavy. It would be difficult for Yinshan County or even Baozhou City to come up with this money, not to mention that large areas of the entire Yinshan County and Baozhou City were in mountainous areas, and such mountain roads could be said to be everywhere. If they wanted to repair so many mountain roads, that would be an even more massive project.

And if these mountainous areas didn't have their roads repaired, it was estimated that they would never be able to get rich in their lifetime. The local specialties in the mountains couldn't be transported out, and if they wanted to develop the tourism industry, tourists couldn't get in. Plus, there was the annual snow-blocking of the mountains. How could they develop the economy?

Therefore, building roads was a top priority. Su Xinghui couldn't help but start thinking about how to build roads.

However, he immediately laughed at himself. He was now a Vice Mayor in charge of culture, education, and health, yet he was habitually considering the problem of road construction. Did this have anything to do with him?

In officialdom, if one did things beyond one's scope of responsibility, not only would one not receive any praise, but one would instead get a reputation for being meddlesome. Especially for a Vice Mayor like Su Xinghui who had shallow qualifications and was young, doing this might result in thankless efforts.

However, the work Su Xinghui was in charge of, including culture, education, health, and tourism, could not be carried out if the roads were not repaired. Especially for tourism, without good road conditions, tourists could not enter the scenic area at all, so what was there to talk about regarding tourism?

Su Xinghui planned to have a good talk with Cai Jianguo, the Vice Mayor in charge of the economy and transportation, after he went back. Building roads was also his political achievement, and he believed he would also consider it carefully.

Although the Funiu Township government was not too far from Niutouyu Village, just a few kilometers, because the mountains were high and the roads were dangerous, it still took everyone half an hour to drive to the village.

Niutouyu Village was in a mountain gully surrounded by two high mountains. Here, mountain gullies were called "Yu," so Niutouyu Village got its name from this.

The village cadres of Niutouyu Village had already received a call from the township government. They were all waiting at the entrance of the village to welcome these distinguished guests. Seeing the motorcade coming, they led the way and let the motorcade park on the flattest threshing floor at the entrance of the village committee.

After Su Xinghui got out of the car, he greeted the village cadres one by one. He didn't go into the village committee to drink tea, but let the village cadres lead them up the mountain. He had to go back to Yinshan County seat tonight, so he couldn't delay too long.

Niutouyu had high mountains and dense forests, and there were mountain springs on the mountain. There was a lot to see. On a mountain top south of Niutouyu, Su Xinghui also saw a steaming hot spring, which surprised him very much.

Yu Ruizhi examined the scenery here with a professional eye. He could indeed be considered a professional tourism practitioner now. The several tourist scenic areas he operated in the south were all very successful now, and it could be said that he made a fortune every day. He already had a lot of experience in how a scenic area could be successful.

He felt that Niutouyu was very suitable for tourism. It had all the elements to become a successful tourist scenic area: mountains, forests, hot springs, and thick snow in winter. It could be said to be an all-season, all-weather scenic area.

Yu Ruizhi asked the Village Fang Zhishu, "How thick is the snow here in winter?"

The Village Fang Zhishu was a man surnamed Sun who was nearly sixty years old. He laughed and said, "How thick is the snow in winter? I only remember one day in a certain year when heavy snow fell for a whole day and night. By the next morning, when we opened the door, the snow had blocked the door. You tell me how thick it is?"

Yu Ruizhi said to Yu Sister Sister Ruoqiu, "Sister Sister Ruoqiu, if there is really such thick snow, then we can build a ski resort here. There are more and more people skiing now. It would be a waste not to utilize such a good natural ski resort."

Niutouyu was indeed a very good natural ski resort. The mountain slope on the north side was steeper, and the mountain slope on the south side was gentler. All kinds of terrain were available, which were natural beginner, intermediate, and advanced ski runs. Moreover, there was a snow-blocking period of at least three or four months a year, so the operating time would be very long.

Even if the snow melted, there were other sceneries to see here, and there would be no lack of tourists. Such an all-season, all-weather tourist scenic area was really too rare.

Yu Sister Sister Ruoqiu nodded and said, "Hmm, this won't be worse than the few big ski resorts in the capital."

There were also a few ski resorts in the capital now, but in terms of natural conditions, Niutouyu would definitely not be worse than those ski resorts in the capital. Because Niutouyu had a higher latitude and higher altitude than the capital, the snow here was thicker and the snow season was longer. The natural conditions were only better.

Of course, whether a ski resort could be successful was also related to management and operation, but on this point, Yu Ruizhi and his group also had no problems.

Yu Ruizhi and his group had been in the tourism industry for several years and had many successful experiences. Moreover, their financial resources were unfathomable and their background was extremely deep. Therefore, they had all the factors for success in operating a ski resort here. It could be said that it would be hard not to succeed.