In September's Heshun, the autumn sky is clean, the rice blossoms are fragrant, and in the rice field by the Yuzhou Pavilion, a background board of "Heshun Ancient Town Harvest Festival" is eye-catching. People sweat like rain busy with rice harvesting, threshing, bagging, yield measurement, the hot autumn harvest scene has become a scene of September and Shun, behind this autumn "abundant" landscape painting in the ancient town, is a story about the integration of tourism and science popularization.

The main venue of China Tourism Day on May 19 this year was set up in Heshun Ancient Town, taking advantage of the east wind, the Tengchong Scientists Forum Life Science Popularization and People's Livelihood Inclusive Heshun activity was successfully held in Heshun, Huada Group's "All Things Rice Field" landed in Heshun, and the "super species" - perennial rice was introduced for the first time and tried to be planted. On May 21, the guests attending the 2023 Tengchong Scientist Forum Life Science Popularization and People's Livelihood Inclusive and Shun activities, in the rice garden in the ancient town and next to the Shun people's house, jointly planted the super species "perennial rice", in September when the autumn breeze was cool, ushered in the harvest season of perennial rice, Tengchong Scientists Forum, Huada Wanwu, Heshun Town Government, Heshun Ancient Town Scenic Area jointly held the Heshun Ancient Town Harvest Festival, witnessing, participating in and sharing the first harvest of perennial long rice in Heshun. Hence the scene at the beginning of this article.

The "Heshun Ancient Town Harvest Festival" activity was presided over by Pu Yazeng, Secretary of the Party Committee of Heshun Town. Zhang Zhuoya, member of the Standing Committee of the CPC Tengchong Municipal Committee and vice mayor, Li Ping, deputy director of the Standing Committee of the Tengchong Municipal People's Congress, Wang Xingdong, vice chairman of the Tengchong CPPCC, Yang Jinlong, general manager of Yunnan Province of Huada Group, Liu Jianmei, business support manager of Yunnan Province of Huada Group, Yu Ze, project manager of Huada Wanwu Perennial Rice, Xie Jinwen, general manager of Yunnan Bailian Heshun Tourism and Culture Development Company and other leaders attended the event.

During the event, the guests of Huada Group popularized the knowledge of perennial rice, perennial rice is an original rice variety cultivated by using modern biotechnology, with both perennial "mammoth rice" and annual Asian cultivated rice excellent traits, after nearly 20 years of efforts by the team of Professor Hu Fengyi of Yunnan University, perennial rice has become the only perennial food crop that can be commercialized, achieving one planting, multiple harvesting, farmers do not have to buy seeds, plough fields, transplant seedlings, etc. after harvesting, saving a lot of money and manpower investment, and was selected as "Science" The Top Ten Scientific Breakthroughs of 2022 is the only selected scientific and technological innovation project in China in recent years, and the only agricultural science and technology project selected in the world in this year.

This year is the first harvest of long-term rice and Shunhou, which has extraordinary significance, as Zhang Zhuoya, member of the Standing Committee of the Tengchong Municipal Party Committee of the Communist Party of China and vice mayor, said in his speech at the event, the first harvest of perennial rice in Heshun Ancient Town. The harvest is food, but also the concrete embodiment of the transformation of the achievements of the Tengchong Scientists Forum, and a new form of integration of science popularization and cultural tourism.

Innovative products, rich experience has always been the concept of Bailian Group in the development and Shun tourism, now, relying on the Heshun science popularization base jointly built with BGI, in the form of study, pastoral and classroom science popularization, it has injected new connotation of science and technology into Heshun tourism, and this perennial rice harvest is the new achievement of Heshun scenic area in tourism + science popularization practice.

"On September 17, we will usher in the 20th national science popularization day, the theme of this year's national science popularization day is "improve the scientific quality of the whole people, help science and technology self-reliance", as a tourist attraction, a living ancient town, we will be based on its own characteristics and advantages, join hands with BGI, through the promotion of advanced agricultural science and technology, help Heshun rural revitalization, at the same time, the high-quality popular science resources and the ancient town cultural tourism deep integration, so that science popularization empowers the development of cultural tourism in the ancient town, and explores a new way of cultural tourism and science popularization. Xie Jinwen, general manager of Bailian Heshun Tourism and Culture Development Co., Ltd., said.