Hunan Selects First 10 Featured Cultural Tourism Industry Towns

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On September 22, the first group of Hunan’s 10 towns with featured cultural tourism industries were announced at the 2019 China (Hunan) International Cultural Tourism Festival held in Mangshan Mountain, Yizhang County.

The towns are:

-Wenjia Town of Liuyang City, Changsha City;

-Furong Town of Yongshun County, Xiangxi Tujia and Miao Autonomous Prefecture;

-Hongjiang Ancient Commercial Town of Hongjiang District, Huaihua City;

-Tongguan Town of Wangcheng District, Changsha City;

-Pingtan Township of Tongdao Dong Autonomous County, Huaihua City;

-Zhangguying Town of Yueyang County, Yueyang City;

-Liye Town of Longshan County, Xiangxi Tujia and Miao Autonomous Prefecture;

-Taohuayuan Town of Taohuayuan Tourism Management Zone, Changde City;

-Guoyuan Town of Changsha County, Changsha City;

-Shuiche Town of Xinhua County, Loudi City.

These towns were selected based on their characteristic cultural connotations, effective brand influence, deep integration of culture and tourism, industrial development at certain scale, systematic service construction, and innovative management mechanisms. They were nominated at the municipal and provincial levels, and then underwent expert evaluation, and were finally reviewed and approved at a Hunan provincial government executive conference.

The Hunan Provincial Culture and Tourism Department noted that the building of towns with featured cultural tourism industries will be an important measure to implement a rural revitalization strategy and accelerate cultural tourism industrial growth. The comprehensive cultural tourism revenue of these towns will increase from about 10 billion CNY in 2018 to over 30 billion CNY within three years.

Translator: Yu Jiangjiang

Wenjia Town Furong Town Hongjiang Ancient Commercial Town

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Xiangxi Furong Town

Furong town is a home of Tujia and Miao minorities in the west Hunan. Furong Town has a history of more than 2,000 years, and it an ancient town where people of the Tujia and Miao ethnic people live together. It is originally named as Wangcun until a famous movie entitled “Furong Town” was filmed there in 1986.Furong Ancient Town, Furong (Hibiscus) Town is originally named Wangcun. It is an ancient town where Tujiazu people live together. Until now, in the town, pavement laid with black flagstones and ancient domestic house (mainly Diaojiaolou) are well preserved. The famous movie Furong Town directed by Xiejin is shot here. At Furong Town, you must take the local specialty,“rice tofu”It is said that the most genuine shop is in the vicinity of torii. That shop is the rice tofu shop in the movie.The scenery in the town has unique bearing. Shops with trap doors are on the both sides of five-mile street of black flagstone. Tujia Diaojiaolou (stilted house) are set up against the slope. The simple bearing of Tujiazu is very charming. In the Warring States Period,“Xizhou Copper Pillar” set as a war covenant made between the emperor of Chu, Maxifan and the King of headman remains as before. On “Xizhou Copper Pillar”, key cultural relic under state protection, more than 2300 characters are inscribed, the covenant of dismissing troops and reconciling made between the emperor of Chu, Maxifan and the King of headman in 940 A.D. is recorded. It is a precious object data of studying nation relation in ancient China. Besides, there is Wangcun waterfall which is about 60 meters high and 70 meters wide here. Walking behind the hanging screen of the waterfall is like placing oneself in a crystal palace.Translated by Sophia

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