China Space Station Story ｜ Longlou: Town that is lively due to the lively space

CCTV News: Since its first launch in Wenchang Aerospace launches in Wenchang Aerospace in China, it has successfully completed 18 major aerospace launch tasks. life. There is such a small town on the side of the launch field. Each space launch has hundreds of thousands of people poured in, watching the rocket's grand occasion here. Ten years have changed here. Today, I will take you to this small town that is lively because of the space, Longlou Town, and feel how the small fishing villages in the past turned into a small space town.

Hainan Wenchang Aerospace launches, the mother port of China's new generation of carrier rockets. This is one of the world's most advanced aerospace launch venues. In the future, heavy -duty carrier rockets and manned moon landing will be sailed from here.

In 2009, the construction of Wenchang Aerospace launched in Longlou Town was started. From that day, the fate of many people was closely linked with this launch site.

Mao Wanbiao, deputy director of the Xichang Satellite Launch Center: During the land acquisition, many of their people left the home where their ancestors lived and moved to a new place for the country's career. Therefore, we can't develop without their support. From the beginning to the present, we have a lot of speed and number of times. Each launch marks a small step forward in Chinese aerospace, so it is very significant.

Longlou Town is surrounded by the sea on three sides, and the residents in the town have lived fishing and planting land for generations. At that time, most of them did not know what aerospace was, and she had not seen the rocket launch. However, what makes them unexpected is that the words that they are not familiar with will make the town change upside down.

On June 25, 2016, my country's new generation of Lange Rocket Long March 7 was successfully launched for the first time. This is also the first launch task of Wenchang Aerospace launches. On the day of launch, the town with a total population of only more than 20,000 people poured into 100,000 tourists.

Zheng Qingru, a fisherman in the sea village of Longlou Town, Wenchang, Hainan: When launching, the tourists here (a lot) are all people on the beach.

The launch of this time allowed Longlou, a place that could not be found on the map with a magnifying glass on the map with the Long March VII. From then on, Longlou Town has a sharp golden signboard -Aerospace Town. That is, that year, the Zhu Ying couple who worked outside saw the business opportunities.

Wing Yingying, the owner of the hostel in Longlou Town, Wenchang, Hainan: Because we have been in Shenzhen before, and then we learned that after the aerospace settled in Wenchang, the people in our hometown also feedback to us that it was a change of change or something, so we decided to come back to start a business.

Holding the money earned by working, the couple turned over the old house in the village and started a homestay tour. From that year, the Long March 5 flew successfully, followed by the long five B flying, the long march No. 8 flying, the Tianwen exploring fire, the Chang'e running the moon, and the space station. Depending on, the business of Zhu Ying is getting better and better.

Won Ying Ying, the owner of the hostel in Longlou Town, Wenchanglou Town, Hainan: My husband often feels emotional. After returning to his own business, the most intuitive one year is of course the number of bank cards is rising, and then our business data is steadily every year. rise.

Reporter: How much annual income can be reached?

Wing Ying, the owner of the hostel in Longlou Town, Wenchang, Hainan: If it is said that it is more than 1 million, it will become more and more happy.

Huang Yuan, the owner of Hainan, Wenchanglou Town, Wenchanglou Town, Hainan: Two people run a small inn and recommend the customs and customs here here to all parts of the country (tourists) to let more people understand (aerospace) culture. The family is in this place. Living happily and happily.

Nowadays, the most thoughts of Zhu Ying couples every day is to expand the scale of business and increase tourism projects. Like Zhu Ying's husband and wife, more and more young people who are working outside have returned to their hometown to start a business. The villagers who were originally a living and fishing for fish lived on the door of the house.

Fu Chuan, the village chief of the sea village of Longlou Town, Wenchang, Hainan: (formerly) economic income is mainly fishing, and the annual income is less than 7,000 yuan.

Reporter: What is it now?

Fu Chuan, the village chief of the sea village of Longlou Town, Wenchang, Hainan: The per capita is about 780,000 yuan. With the passenger flow, our village recruited investment, and then we re -(built) in our village, the farmhouse and seafood workshop.

Like the beach village, aerospace brings out the well -off village after another. "Aerospace Primary School", "Aerospace Farm", "Aerospace Market", "Aerospace Hotel" and other aerospace elements can be seen everywhere in the town. As of now, there are more than 900 shops in Longlou Town, creating more than 5,000 employment opportunities. In 2021, the per capita disposable income of Longlou Town was 19,171 yuan, which was more than three times in 2009. Fu Guoqun, Secretary of the Party Branch of Honghai Village, Longlou Town, Wenchang, Hainan: In 2020, the average dividend of about 190,000 yuan. Driven by the aerospace launch base, Hao Shengcun has been well -off.

While driving the rapid development of Longlou Town, a large number of tourists also brought aerospace culture back to their hometown. Every time the rocket launch, a group of young aerospace enthusiasts came to Longlou. Which angle of the Rockets launch is more suitable for shooting, which is already a light car for them.

Aerospace enthusiast Xie Jixiao: This is a rocket shooting map summarized in the process of shooting the rocket in these two or three years, some of which we think are particularly suitable for shooting points.

Aerospace enthusiast Liu Qingjun: This time I asked the Tiangan experimental compartment probably after taking off from the long fifth launch tower here, flying to this quickly, when the Rockets flew to our head, you can see the Rocket Club It is very, very spectacular to pull out a long trajectory cloud.

Fu Chuan, the village chief of the sea village of Longlou Town, Wenchang, Hainan: From the launch of 2016 to the present, the number of people this time has really no way to describe it.

A space launch site changed a city and deeply affected the people living here. This year, China Space Station will be completed, and China Aerospace will usher in more than 50 dense launch. While China's aerospace industry is developing steadily, aerospace has gradually entered our lives.

Source: CCTV.com Guangzhou Daily · Xinhua City Editor: Peng Wenqiang

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