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The comprehensive planning outline of the Hengshan Mountain Tourism Economic Circle was revealed at the end of August, which marks the project's entering into the actual operation phase.
The circle aims to build a comprehensive tourism pattern with one mountain, one river and one city integrated harmoniously. With Hengshan Mountain as the lead, Xiangjiang River the linkage, Hengyang's urban area the center, the tourism pattern is to radiate other counties and cities in Hunan.
Its construction will integrate tourism resources of districts, counties and cities in the area, and plan tourism development in this region as a whole, forging it into a comprehensive tourism circle integrating religion culture experience, ecological leisure vacation and recreational sports. In this way, the transformation and upgrade of the tourism from "sightseeing products" to "leisure-vacation compounding products", and from Hengshan Mountain tourism's absolute leading to Hengshan Mountain tourism and city tourism's joint leading can be realized.
According to Director of the Hengyang Municipal Tourism Bureau Peng Youping, a batch of key tourism projects including the Hengshan Agricultural Leisure Sight-seeing Park and the Hengshan Bamboo Sea has already signed contracts. Besides, the development of the Hengyang section of the Xiangjiang River is developing steadily. He said that the economic circle is expected to meet International tourism service standards, with its industrial scale, structure, service quality and comprehensive profits reaching advanced level in world tourism.
Translator:Hao Jingru
Source: Hunan Official Web Portal
