Recently, the Linwu County Autumn Tourism Festival and the National Night Fishing Competition were opened in the Longquan Mountain Villa. The festival attracted 7 teams from all over the country, more than 200 fishing enthusiasts to enjoy the mountains, rivers and fun of fishing.
Nanqiang Town, located in the southeast of Linwu County, is an important "Kouzi Town" on the border between Hunan and Guangdong and also the township with the largest agricultural population in Linwu County. The town is the hometown of leisure and the hometown of tourism, known as "the land of fish and rice and the hometown of fruit". In recent years, Nanqiang Town Party Committee and government have focused on the "agriculture" and adopted the development model of "cooperative + base + peasant household, poverty alleviation + tourism" to promote land circulation and activate land resources, vigorously develop large-scale planting of fruits, vegetables, flowers and "Xiangtang fish" ecological breeding industry, encourage large-scale planters and economically capable people to to invest in technology and funds to revitalize idle land, and drive the masses to start their own businesses and strengthen the collective economy,creating a new growth pole with leisure, tourism and competitive characteristics.
The two-day festival, with the theme of the National Night Fishing Competition and Fishing Friendship Competition, aimed to let more people know fishing, understand fishing, participate in fishing and experience fishing. More than 200 athletes from Shandong, Shanxi, Hebei, Guangdong, Hubei and other parts of the country gathered in Nanqiang to compete on the same platform. After the fierce competition of "integral race, four-strong breakthrough, four-strong PK race", He Qinghua, a native of Shaoyang, Hunan Province, won the National Night Fishing Competition (Linwu Station, Chenzhou, Hunan Province) and Xu Junliang, a native of Changsha, Hunan Province, won the friendship fishing competition.
The competition has integrated the characteristics of industrial development, filled the gaps in Linwu fishing competitions, highlighted the multi-dimensional interaction between fishing and leisure tourism, and played a leading role in the development of Linwu leisure fishery.While speeding up the integration of recreational fishery resources, accelerating the organic integration of recreational and sightseeing agriculture, building the recreational fishing brand of Linwu County, and promoting the development of recreational fishery to a deeper and higher level, the competition has further expanded the brand influence of Linwu County in building an "international standard fishing base" and effectively developed Linwu leisure fishing features cultural tourism brand. Linwu County will take this National Night Fishing Competition as an opportunity to further integrate the "ecology + culture + sports + tourism" format, strive to create fishing sport characteristics of leisure culture, and promote the development of Linwu global tourism.