Digital economy

Many ancient villages across China in recent years have leveraged digital communication methods, including short videos and livestreams, to present tourists with once little-known rural scenery and local cultures, exploring a new development path that integrates rural tourism and the digital economy. According to reliable data, users of Chinese popular short-video platform Douyin visited over 150,000 tourist attractions in rural areas across the country, and created more than 60 million related short videos last year, contributing to making more villages popular tourist destinations. Tourists take photos of crops being sun-dried in flat bamboo baskets in Huangling village, Wuyuan county, Shangrao city of east China's Jiangxi Province. ( Taste all China /Zhu Haipeng) With a history of nearly 600 years, Huangling village is an ancient village "hanging" on the cliffs in Wuyuan county, east China's Jiangxi Province. The village is known for its unique tradition of "shaiqiu," or "drying colorful crops in autumn sunshine" on the rooftops of residential buildings. However, the village once declined as only 68 of more than 180 households remained there, said Cao Jinzhong, president of Wuyuan Huangling Cultural Tourism Co., Ltd. To protect and showcase the village's farming culture, the company restored the layout of the…