The Hunan Provincial Department of Forestry announced a list of Hunan's first batch of nine ecological tourism demonstration bases on January 31.
In recent years, ecological tourism has become a hot spot for global tourism market. According to the Hunan Provincial Department of Forestry, Hunan is rich in ecological resources. The province has launched a campaign of establishing ecological tourism demonstration bases to explore tourism products featuring ecological experience, ecological education, and ecological cognition. The move further helps give full play to the role of natural heritage, nature reserves, tourist attractions, forest parks, geoparks, rock desert parks, grassland parks, wetland parks, and other tourist resorts in recreation, education, and wellness.
The air quality, surface water quality, air noise quality, and airborne bacteria concentration of the nine selected demonstration bases all meet national class Ⅰ standards. The concentration of negative oxygen ions in the air is more than 1,500 ions/cm3 .
The nine ecological tourism demonstration bases include:
Qingyang Lake State-owned Forest Farm, Ningxiang City
Heimifeng National Forest Park
Mangshan Mountain National Forest Park
Dayun Mountain National Forest Park
Jiulong River National Forest Park
Mufu Mountain National Forest Park
Suxianling-Wanhuayan National Tourist Attraction
Zhaoshan Provincial Tourist Attraction
Yuntai Mountain National Rock Desert Park, Anhua County
This article is from the Hunan Provincial Government www.enghunan.gov.cn.
Translator: Xiao Juan
Chinese source: hunan.gov.cn; official WeChat account of the Hunan Provincial People's Government