A little corner of Hongxing, a village which is now affluent thanks to various initiatives. [Photo provided to chinadaily.com.cn]

At the same time, policies and measures -- involving land circulation, developing industry and increasing employment channels -- have greatly increased the incomes of villagers.

As a result, Hongxing village in the county, for one, has become an affluent place.

Currently, Hongxing village is continuing to improve its infrastructure. It is also implementing a number of support projects, establishing a long-term mechanism for environmental sanitation and cleaning and is striving to build an agricultural environmental park and to promote rural tourism.

In Chenjiadian village in Helong town, the residents have all moved into dwellings with modern and complete facilities from previous bungalows.

The secret behind Chenjiadian's success is that it innovated and changed its traditional agricultural industrial structure and adopted a new economic path to growth.

In 2009, it established the first company registered as an agricultural type in Nongan and now has three cooperatives and 10 companies.

The establishment of modern agricultural intelligent greenhouse in the village led to the planting of southern fruits in the north, with 1,500 papaya trees and banana trees now being cultivated. The annual output of high-quality papayas has now reached over 30,000 kilograms.

At present, relying on the intelligent greenhouse, the village has developed various tourism-related projects, with an annual income of more than 10 million yuan.

Overall, it is promoting the development of rural tourism and has also encouraged villagers to work at the village, which has played a leading demonstration role in the development of modern agriculture in the province.

Today, the fixed assets of village cooperative have reached 190 million yuan, with the village having been conferred with more than 100 honorary titles such as "national civilized village" and "China's most beautiful leisure village".

Its per capita GDP ranks first in Nongan county.

In addition, Nongan county has formed a unique pattern of tourism development and an industrial layout in three major sectors.

It has realized the organic integration of regional resources, by taking advantage of the development of all-for-one tourism and rural living environment improvements as an opportunity.