At 19:18 of October 26, the Chenzhou International Leisure Tourism Culture Festival, sponsored by the Chenzhou People's Government, Chenzhou Tourism and Foreign Affairs Bureau, Yongxing County Committee and Yongxing County People's Government, and co-sponsored by the Changlu Group, was held at the Changlu International Leisure Tourism Resort in Yongxing County. Radio and TV Chenzhou APP launched a live webcast of the opening ceremony. A total of 536.4 thousand people watched the opening ceremony.

Yi Pengfei, Vice-Chairman of the Hunan CPPCC, Municipal Party Secretary and Director of the Municipal People's Congress Standing Committee, delivered a speech and announced the opening ceremony.

Tang Bing, Deputy Director of the Resource Development Division, Ministry of Culture and Tourism, attended the opening ceremony and delivered a speech.

In his speech, Yi Pengfei introduced the development of Chenzhou's tourism and cultural industry and its high-quality tourism resources. Yi said: "We focus on the people's yearning for a better life, seize the opportunity of cultural leisure, tourism and leisure demand growing vigorously, implement the global tourism strategy, promote tourism and rural revitalization strategy, poverty alleviation and other work in-depth integration, creating a living environment and tourism environment of 'mountain in the city, city in the forest, people in the green', becoming 'the most popular tourist destination in Guangdong'. We sincerely hope that all the guests and friends can enjoy the feast and warmly welcome all guests and friends to visit Chenzhou for sightseeing, leisure and vacation, experience the beautiful landscape of Chenzhou, and feel the unique charm of Chenzhou."

After the opening ceremony, wonderful performances were performed. Li Haiying, a famous poet and songwriter, played his masterpiece "The Bending Moon" on the piano. In this work, he also used the water stage and cooperated with two orchestra performers on the main stage, the melodious sound at the scene attracting the audience.

Subsequently, young singer Liu Yizhen and Li Haiying from Chenzhou City together performed the song "silver capital, love of river", the perfect interpretation of Yongxing's "silver capital".

The representatives from all walks of life read the "South of Hunan" together, telling the Chenzhou spirit of openness, tolerance, realism and innovation.

The aerial flying performance from Changlu Art Troupe, with skillful skills and exquisite performance techniques, made the audience praised and applaud.

There were also wonderful acrobatic performances, song and dance performances, gorgeous fireworks displays and lighting shows at the party. The party was well-designed, with first-class visual effects, beautiful scenery and shocking effects, to leave unforgettable visual memories for the guests.

In recent years, Chenzhou has given full play to the comparative advantages of each county and city, scientifically integrated various resources, actively created the overall layout of industrial integration and development, promoted deep integration of culture, sports and tourism, and made efforts to develop immersive tourism to enhance the physical and mental experience of tourists. In 2017, Yongxing City received 58.855 million tourists, with a total tourism income of 45.8 billion yuan, and increase of 20% and 39% respectively. The city's tourism economic development level ranked first in the province, firmly standing in the province's tourism development front. Chenzhou tourism brand has been based in China, to the world.

As one of the organizers of this tourism festival, Yongxing County, centering on the goal of building a "leisure and vacation life base and a first-class domestic leisure tourism destination", has updated the basic elements of tourism, strengthened tourism marketing, constructed a colorful holiday resort product system and created the "1224" tourism development pattern. Hunan Changlu International Leisure Tourism Resort project, located in Yongxing, has a total investment of 9 billion yuan, the "five 100" major industrial project in Hunan Province, which was planned to take 8 years to build a comprehensive national tourist resort and well-known international tourist destination with "one corridor, six parks", such as Danxia Landscape Corridor, Hunan-Guangdong Landscape Park, Fashion Sports Park, Danshan Health Park, Wild Zoo, World Flower Expo Park, Eco-agricultural Park, etc.. After the opening of the Tourism Festival, there will be 600 thousand visitors.