Jingzhou is among the first batch of national historical and cultural cities. In recent years,with the organic integration of whole-region tourism, the beautiful country side and three villages project, Jingzhou has made some achievements in promoting the development of whole-region tourism, yet there is still a gap compared withthe advanced regions. At the two sessions earlier this year, Yang Hongjuan, member of the CPPCC, put forward the Proposal on Accelerating the whole-region Tourism Development of Jingzhou City. How was the proposal handled? Look at the report.
Jingzhou has always been "the place of military use, the capital of emperors". From 689 B.C. to 963 A.D., 34 emperors of Six Dynasties set their capital here successively.There are one famous national historical and cultural city, three famous towns and 4,077 unmovable cultural relics spots in Jingzhou, 20 museums and memorials and 140,000 movable cultural relics registered by 48 cultural expoand non-cultural expo state-owned units, ranking first in cities and states of province, and the first in the whole country.
Yang Hongjuan, memberof the CPPCC, said: "After years of accumulation, especially the rapid development in recent years, the cultural tourism industry in our city has entered a new stage of quality and efficiency upgrading from quantity expansion”.
Jingzhou, despiteits advantages ingeographic location, historical resources, and great charm, the visitors leave as soon as they finish the sightseeing because of insufficient experience and lack of interactive tourism projects. The"transit tourism" fails to demonstrate the due tourism strength of Jingzhou.
Yang Hongjuan said:"The integration of cultural resources and tourism is not high, thecharacteristics of tourism brands are not obvious, the planning is laggingbehind, the tourism transportation is not supported, the surroundingenvironment of scenic spots is still poor, and the ability of comprehensiveservices is still low. ”
By building nests and attracting phoenixes, attracting investment, anumber of big-budget cultural and tourism project have been situated in Jingzhou. Nowadays, under theancient city wall, there are three grand plays, namely Entry Ceremony, Liu Bei Marryinto and Live with His Brides Family and Guan Gong's World which are performed by professional actorsdressed up in outdoor scene. Ecological Honghu Lake, Songzi Weishui River andvarious rural natural scenic spots with their own characteristics are based onthe integration of enjoying beautiful mountains and waters with leisure,entertainment and featured cuisine, thus retaining the footsteps of tourists.
Yu Yao, vice director of TourismMarket Section of Jingzhou Culture-Tourism Committee, said: "We will makeevery effort to promote the establishment of 5A in Jingzhou Ancient City,strive to create a successful national 5A-level tourism scenic spot by 2020, and accelerate the creationof 4A scenic spot in the 800-year Chu Kingdom scenic spot in Jinan Cultural andTourism Area, Wanshou Garden, Marine World in Shashi Area, Red Beach in Honghuand Honghu Ecological Scenic Area and the creation of 3A scenic spot in Peachblossom Mountain in Shishou”.
In the next phase, "tourism plus" project will becontinually implemented in our city, which insists on "industry revolving aroundtourism, products revolving around tourism, function supported revolving aroundtourism matching, people's livelihood prospered revolving around tourism",weaves the "scattered" farmer households into a network through therural wisdom tourism and at the same time, builds a whole-region tourismpattern of "one heart, two wings, one belt and two groups" revolvingaround the city positioning focus of "one pole, two centers".