By Xu Kuang

Gold Ingot Springing out from the Mountains

By Xu Kuang

“Taoyuan? Which one do you refer to?’’

“The one described in the famous poem “The Peach Blossom Spring” by Tao Yuanming.’’ Locals of Zhuxi will respond the inquirer proudly.

Taoyuan town (Peach Blossom Spring) is considered as the prototype of Tao Yuanming’s Poem “The Peach Blossom Spring” in the eyes of local residents of Zhuxi. It neighbors Zhenping town of Shanxi and Wuxi town of Chongqing. It starts at Horsehead Gorge and extends all the way to Guandu town of Zhushan. Cliffs here are steep as if being cut with axes by the God and brooks gurgle as if a fine wine bestowed by nature. Let alone the deep and quiet canyon, verdant trees and flowers, and mysterious mist in between. A bird would stop for a rest and man will feel they are entering a dreamland.

The Second Water Source Area of VOSS

Started out from Zhuxi town, passing Xinzhou town, Bingying town and Tianbao town along the country road, finally to the Taoyuan town, we spent 4 hours on the road to reach the destination---- the water source area of VOSS.

On July 5th, we arrived at Tianbao at 11:00 pm and stayed overnight there, then went towards Taoyuan at 6:00 am the next day. The mountain road was bumpy and rugged. What is worse, the mist was so thick that visibility was down to 20 meters. For safety, they stopped by the roadside waiting for a while. The hovering clouds and dense mist surrounded the mountains and we can vaguely see the outcurves of the mountains. The mist flowing among the mountains is like an ink painting. If you stepped into the mist, you would have the fantastic illusion that it seemed like walking in heaven and there would be a fairy lady to show you the right path if you needed help. After 10 minutes’ waiting, the mists cleared away and we continued our journey again.

Two hours later, we arrived at the factory site of Huabin-Voss Mineral Water. The high-end brand VOSS Company singled out Taoyuan town as its second water source area in the world; the other being in Norway.

Standing at the foot of Mount Danxia, we can listen to the crystal sound of the flowing stream. Now water pipes have been erected along the mountain lines so that the water could flow down from the top of the mountain to the factory. If you sip a drop of water from the pipes, you will be thrilled by its sweet and fragrance.

At 10:00 am on July 6th, accompanied by Zhang Weiguo, the Secretary of Communist Party of Shiyan, Chen Gang, the deputy director of Office of the South-to-north Water Transfer Project, and Yan Bin, the chairman of the Board of Huabin Group helicoptered to Zhuxi. Together they inspected on the construction sites of Huabin mineral water manufacturing project in Mount Danxia in Taoyuan.

Huabin Group is an international corporation which engages mainly in international trade, property management, sports industry, tourism and beverages.

In October in 2015, the High-end Voss Mineral Water Factory in Mount Danxia of Zhongba village in Taoyuan, was invested and constructed by Huabin Investment Corporation(China) and Zhuxi Government. The firstperiod construction would cover six hundred and fiftyseven million RMB yuan. The factory’s production capability would be three hundred thousand tons per year. It was estimated that the project will be completed and put into operation in October in 2017.

Mutual Benefits to Each Other

In March 2015, Zhang Ligang, vice chairman of Huabin Group, arrived at Taoyuan and made an on-the-spot investigation in the aspects of geological structure, water flowing rate analysis, product trafficking and the location of the factory.

When finishing, Zhang Ligang and his associates were deeply impressed by the beautiful natural scenery here. They couldn’t help proclaiming that Zhuxi was an amazing natural oxygen bar.

As a famous company enjoying worldwide reputation of wise investment both at home and abroad, Huabin Group is committed to ensuring the success of mutual cooperation of the high-end mineral water project. Liang Hekou village of Taoyuan has high-standard water sources, with large storage and high quality, which is suitable for constructing large-scale natural mineral water assembly line. Especially the favorable ecological environments make it possible for the water source here to rival the global famous brand of mineral water products, which is another key element for mutual collaboration. All this guarantees the mutual benefits.

On December 28th, 2016, the Foundation stone was laid to the construction of Huabin Mineral Water Factory.

This project is expected to render favorable social and economical benefits to the local community. Once the first stage of assembly line initiates, the factory will provide revenues of 380,000,000 yuan (RMB) to the local government, including mineral resources tax, compensation for mineral resources and water resources fee, which sum up to be 16,500,000 yuan (RMB), and the factory can offer over 200 job opportunities for local residents.

The product is of high quality, characteristic of natural mineral water. The water contains abundant mineral substances as strontium, selenium, alkali, sodium and etc.

The factory occupies an area as large as 118,162 square meters, and the floor area as large as 56,856 square meters.

Up to now, it is estimated that the construction of the steel structure of the factory has completed 68% of the total construction, 40% of the ground concrete cementing, 30% of wall constructions, and 50% of multifunctional building of living quarters and 50% of dormitory building.

Devotion to Local Charity

After making on-the-spot investigation, Chen Gang, Zhang Weiguo, Yan Bin, Zhang Ligang and their associates participated in the local Charity Ceremony entitled“Distributing Love, and Doing Charity for Individuals.”At the ceremony, Huabin Group donated 218,000 yuan (RMB) to Wacang Primary School of Taoyuan to improveschool’s facilities and help 52 students in poverty to finish their studies.Zhang Ligang, on behalf of Huabin Group, made a speech saying that Zhuxi will grow together with Huabin Group in the area of internationalization and diversified development. In the near future, VOSS, thriving in Zhuxi, will march to the domestic and international market which is the shared expectation of Huabin Group and Zhuxi people, and the success of the project will guarantee the Huabin Group’s promise of“Charity to Individuals”.

Zhang Ligang said, on May 22th, 2017, Huabin Cultural Foundation and VOSS Water Foundation will co-host a charitable auction in London, England. Then 6 paintings by children in Zhuxi and other paintings by famous artists home and abroad will be auctioned. And the money is intended to help the African children in poverty to drink clean water.

Keeping love in mind, Huabin Cultural Foundation and VOSS Water Foundation (China) would establish Love-pass Education Foundation to reward Zhuxi people.

Right now, the infrastructure as transportation, entrance road, oil and gas station, power supply system of the project is under construction.

Beautiful scenery is the gold and silver mines. Huabin Group is committed to exploiting the resources while protecting the local environment, making the factory and the water source site into tourist attractions in the future.

“桃源？哪個(gè)桃源？”

“就是陶淵明的《桃花源記》里的那個(gè)桃源。”竹溪人都會(huì)這樣告訴詢問(wèn)者。

桃源鄉(xiāng)在很多竹溪人眼中就是陶淵明筆下《桃花源記》的原型，它接陜西鎮(zhèn)平，連重慶巫溪，溯驢頭峽而抵竹山官渡，處處絕壁如斧鑿，淙淙溪水似玉液，更兼峽谷幽深，花木蔥蘢，云彩出沒(méi)，禽鳥鐘情，居住于此，宛如仙人。

全球第二處水源

從竹溪縣城出發(fā)，經(jīng)新洲、兵營(yíng)、天寶，再沿鄉(xiāng)道到達(dá)桃源鄉(xiāng)，全程約4小時(shí)。

7月5日，記者晚上11點(diǎn)行至天寶住宿，第二天6點(diǎn)半再?gòu)奶鞂毘霭l(fā)前往桃源。山路崎嶇，行至一處，前方大霧擋住來(lái)路，能見度不到20米，安全起見，下車等待。只見云闊煙深，山巒只露出隱約輪廓，霧在山間流動(dòng)，似潑墨丹青。輕輕抬足，似身處仙臺(tái)之中，轉(zhuǎn)身就能偶遇仙人指點(diǎn)迷津。10分鐘后，大霧散去，一行人繼續(xù)前行。

兩小時(shí)后，記者到達(dá)桃源鄉(xiāng)華彬集團(tuán)高端飲品VOSS（芙絲）礦泉水在建廠址，此處為VOSS品牌在全球除了挪威以外的第二處水源。

在丹霞山下便可聽見淙淙流水聲，水管沿山路已搭建完工，至源頭，水從山間流下，水質(zhì)清冽，嘗一口，一種未經(jīng)加工的天然甘甜。

7月6日上午10時(shí)，在十堰市委書記張維國(guó)的陪同下，國(guó)務(wù)院南水北調(diào)辦副主任陳剛、華彬集團(tuán)董事局主席嚴(yán)彬等乘坐華彬航空集團(tuán)的直升機(jī)抵達(dá)竹溪，在桃源丹霞山華彬礦泉水項(xiàng)目建設(shè)現(xiàn)場(chǎng)調(diào)研。

華彬集團(tuán)是一家集國(guó)際貿(mào)易、物業(yè)經(jīng)營(yíng)管理、體育文化產(chǎn)業(yè)、旅游休閑度假、功能飲料為經(jīng)營(yíng)主業(yè)的跨國(guó)集團(tuán)公司。

桃源鄉(xiāng)中壩村丹霞山高端礦泉水項(xiàng)目，由華彬投資（中國(guó)）有限公司于2015年10月與竹溪縣人民政府簽約投資興建。該項(xiàng)目位于竹溪縣桃源鄉(xiāng)中壩村，項(xiàng)目一期總投資6.57億元，達(dá)到年產(chǎn)30萬(wàn)噸高端礦泉水生產(chǎn)能力，預(yù)計(jì)2017年10月竣工投產(chǎn)。

地方互利共贏

2015年3月，華彬集團(tuán)副總裁張立剛一行來(lái)到竹溪桃源，就水源地具體位置、地質(zhì)構(gòu)造、水流量、交通、建廠選址等情況進(jìn)行考察。

考察途中，張立剛一行被該縣秀美的自然風(fēng)光深深吸引，不時(shí)感嘆竹溪真是一個(gè)讓人驚羨的“天然氧吧”。

作為一家蜚聲海內(nèi)外的著名投資主體，華彬集團(tuán)的投資實(shí)力和企業(yè)信譽(yù)深得好評(píng)，這是雙方合作開發(fā)高端礦泉水項(xiàng)目的關(guān)鍵。桃源兩河口村天然礦泉水資源獨(dú)特，水量大、水質(zhì)好，適合建設(shè)大型天然礦泉水生產(chǎn)線，尤其是良好的生態(tài)環(huán)境，使此處水源具備與全球知名礦泉水比美的實(shí)力，這是雙方合作的基礎(chǔ)。礦泉水開發(fā)項(xiàng)目可實(shí)現(xiàn)雙方互利共贏。

2016年12月28日，華彬礦泉水項(xiàng)目建設(shè)開工奠基。

據(jù)介紹，該項(xiàng)目社會(huì)經(jīng)濟(jì)效益好。在項(xiàng)目一期達(dá)產(chǎn)后，每年上繳各項(xiàng)稅收總額3.8億元，上繳礦產(chǎn)資源稅、礦產(chǎn)資源補(bǔ)償費(fèi)和水資源費(fèi)達(dá)1650萬(wàn)元，可提供200余個(gè)就業(yè)崗位。

該項(xiàng)目礦泉水品質(zhì)高，屬大型天然出露型礦泉水，有“高鍶、富硒、弱堿、低鈉”特性。

該項(xiàng)目建設(shè)規(guī)模大。廠區(qū)總用地面積118162平方米，建筑總面積56856平方米。

據(jù)了解，目前生產(chǎn)區(qū)廠房已累計(jì)完成鋼結(jié)構(gòu)總工程量的68%，地面混泥土澆筑完成40%，砌墻施工完成工程量30%，生活區(qū)綜合樓、宿舍樓低級(jí)承臺(tái)基礎(chǔ)處理完成50%。

致富不忘慈善

考察完水源基地后，陳剛、張維國(guó)、嚴(yán)彬、張立剛等參加了主題為“愛(ài)心傳遞，精準(zhǔn)扶貧”的扶貧會(huì)。會(huì)上，華彬集團(tuán)將首期投入的21.8萬(wàn)元善款捐贈(zèng)給桃源鄉(xiāng)瓦滄小學(xué)，用于改善學(xué)校辦學(xué)條件和幫助52名貧困學(xué)生完成學(xué)業(yè)。

張立剛代表華彬集團(tuán)致辭。他說(shuō)，竹溪是華彬集團(tuán)國(guó)際化、多元化發(fā)展的見證者、連接者，不久的將來(lái)，VOSS品牌將在竹溪得到延續(xù)與新生，把竹溪的好水介紹給全國(guó)、介紹給世界，這是華彬集團(tuán)和竹溪父老鄉(xiāng)親共同的期待，也是華彬集團(tuán)以實(shí)踐落實(shí)精準(zhǔn)扶貧的責(zé)任擔(dān)當(dāng)。

張立剛介紹，今年5月22日，華彬文化基金會(huì)和芙絲水基金會(huì)舉辦慈善拍賣，6幅竹溪孩子的畫作與各位國(guó)內(nèi)外藝術(shù)家的作品一起，在英國(guó)倫敦進(jìn)行競(jìng)拍，善款用于幫助非洲貧困地區(qū)兒童喝上純凈水項(xiàng)目。

為將小朋友的愛(ài)心傳遞，華彬文化基金會(huì)和芙絲中國(guó)決定將這份愛(ài)心傳遞，設(shè)立愛(ài)心傳遞教育基金，回饋竹溪人民。

此外，該項(xiàng)目的交通建設(shè)、進(jìn)場(chǎng)路建設(shè)、油氣站建設(shè)、供電系統(tǒng)等建設(shè)，均在緊鑼密鼓的進(jìn)行中。

守住綠水青山，就是金山銀山。華彬集團(tuán)還將堅(jiān)持開發(fā)資源和保護(hù)生態(tài)并舉，把工廠和水源區(qū)建成旅游景點(diǎn)。

大山里流出金元寶

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