Linwu county: exploring Xiyaolvgu & enjoying splendid views
Exploration on Linwu Xiyaolvgu was one of the series of activities of 2012 China Hunan international tourism festival and the 2nd China Chenzhou leisure and culture tourism festival.
The series of activities were held in the core scenery of Xiyaolvgu National Forest Park. More than 300 sportsmen, painting and calligraphy enthusiasts attended the activities of 3.5kms four contests’ running, exploration travel, calligraphy and painting.
Xiyaolvgu forest park locates in the southwest Linwu county which was upgraded to a national forest park on October 18, 2000. It covers about 12441 hectares areas with 95% forest coverage, among which 4054.4 hectares are well-reserved secondary forest. Meanwhile, minority Yao has lived there for thousands of years, which enriched the forest park with Yao’s special culture.
Rucheng County: gathering in the red triangle & sharing beautiful sceneries
The 4th (Hunan-Guangdong-Jiangxi province) “Red triangle” tent festival & tourism festival as well as a sub-venue of 2012 China Hunan international tourism festival will be held in Rucheng Feishuizhai landscape from September 22-23, 2012.
It was learned that this sub-venue of the Hunan international tourism festival will be carried out with the theme of “meeting in red triangle, sharing beautiful sceneries”. Six activities are involved in this festival, such as the opening ceremony, heavy load hiking challenge, mountain bike game, stream down performance, Sishui mountain outdoor party, and scenery photography contest.
Thanks to the unique natural environment, Rucheng county takes pride in abundant tourism resources. There are over 30 scenic spots available in the county, like national intangible cultural heritage- Rucheng xianghuo dragon, Rucheng ancient ancestral hall, Jiulongjiang National Forest Park, Rucheng hot spring, national AAAA landscape- Fuquan mountain vila, quaternary ice heritage- Huangshi ice heritage, Jiangbeishan forest valley, Feishuizhai fall, south Tianshan grassland, Tianxian landscape, and so on.
Guidong county: dating with natural oxygen bar & tasting Linglong tea
2012 China Hunan International Tourism Festival & 2nd China Chenzhou International Leisure Tourism Festival was held on September 12, 2012 in Zixing city, Chenzhou, and lasts for 10 days till September 22, 2012. As one of the sessions, Guidong county held series of activities with the theme of “leisure Chenzhou, ecological Guidong” during the festival. Various of activities were held in Guidong County, such as authorization ceremonies for Santaishan provincial forest park, Santaishan scenery of Bamianshan provincial geological park, and “county with highest content of negative oxygen ions”, inauguration ceremony of national AAA tourism scenery of Santaishan park, “dating with oxygen county, enjoying Linglong tea” week, ecological tourism and ecological leisure forum, Guidong folk cultural performances, ecological tourism annual meeting of “three provinces and six counties”, etc.
Guidong county is a national ecological demonstration county for it is with well-protected plants and abundant original forest and secondary forest. The forest coverage of Guidong county is over 82% which ranks the first place of Hunan province. It is with high rate of negative oxygen ions. Meanwhile, it also has four instinct seasons but enable people with warm winter and cool summer, which is worthy its name as “natural air conditioner oxygen bar”.
Anren county: traveling Shennong’s hometown & sharing ecological beauties
2012 China Anren Xiongfengshan national forest park mountain bike cycling race was held on September 17, 2012. That was Anren’s another important measure to forge the ecological tourism industry with the theme of Shennong. It was one of the activities launched by Anren county to match 2012 China Hunan international tourism festival and China Chenzhou international leisure and culture tourism.
Anren, with a historic Shennong medicine culture, earns its fame as “hometown of Shennong & medicine city in south of China”. The ancient folk cultural activities like “Ganfenshe” and “Zhuojipo” now are listed into Hunan provincial intangible cultural heritage protection directory.
In recent years, Anren county has been focusing on the construction of city points and ecological sceneries with the feature of Shennong culture, for example, Shennongdian scenic spot, Xiongfengshan landscape, Zhouguozhen ceramics art square, etc. were finished and more than 30 million Yuan was invested to improve the scenic infrastructure, finally realizing Xiongfen Mountain as the national forest park.