Chenzhou locates in southeast Hunan Province, where the Nanling Cordillera and the Luoxiao Cordillera interlock and the Yangtze River system and the Pearl River system diverge. It enjoys unique natural resource advantages in its 19400 square meters land. Towering Bamian Mountain, sparkling Dongjiang Lake, mysterious Mangshan primitive forest, waterfall Wangxianling, fantastic Feitian Mountain national geological park, Wanhuayan karst cave, and other splendid natural features always made people wondering why the nature is so kind to Chenzhou so that it is endowed with so many wonders. What are the secrets behind this northern latitude 25° area?
Chenzhou land
The land of Chenzhou is full of unlimited treasures, for instance, the hot spring spreading in Chenzhou cities and counties enables it to be hot spring city of China, the abundant non-ferrous reserve enables it to be the city of decoration stones and mineral crystal, the rare and wide fauna and flora enables it with multiple national natural protection zone, national forest park and the exclusive international hunting ground in south of the Yangtze River in China, and so on. Visitors were impressed with the leisure life in this city and also learned a great many of natural wonders during the trip in Chenzhou. Every trip was not only a journey of natural evolution in Chenzhou, but an ecological lesson for visitors as well, telling human beings that the natural way of coexistence with nature is to restrain their own desires in order to strike a life of happiness and perfection.
Chenzhou people
When visitors arrived in Chenzhou, they could listen to many legends of beauties there. The “Nine immortals, two Buddha, two deities” stories were teaching people to be kindhearted and trustful. All the legends showed Chenzhou people’s characteristics with the pursuit of justice, credit and kindness.
Chenzhou development
From 2010, Chenzhou municipal party committee and government concentrated the efforts on forging “city of forest, leisure city” to be the famous tourism destination. The three-year plan named “year of tourism projects construction” was implemented and 100 projects with 20 billion yuan were launched. Till the end of 2011, 16.4 billion yuan investments were fulfilled in the construction. Now 8 national AAAA tourism landscapes, one national industrial tourism demonstration zone, 32 stars- level hotels are available in Chenzhou city. Chenzhou was awarded with the first prize in Hunan tourism industry development evaluation for three consecutive years.
Now, by seizing the chance of high speed railway economy, Chenzhou is on the process of improving its tourism plan and boost the tourism industry transformation and upgrading. It will keep in popularizing the brand of “city of forest, leisure city”, establishing more tourism products, accelerating cluster development, speeding up innovation of development mechanism, and highlighting culture connotation to boost Chenzhou tourism transferred from sightseeing tour to comprehensive tourism with leisure life and participant joy.